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[Timeout]

When you have a chance, please tell me about the McClintock supporters you reference in your tag line.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Thank you for the URL. I was going nuts. I kept looking under Jeanne Cards with the dog's name of Chetly.

Anyway, I am getting threatening and nasty emails from McClintock supporters since I support a candidate that can win. I am also getting really insulting posts to me.

So I made that my tag line, and suddenly all the McClintock supporters have left me alone, and I am getting emails from Arnold people saying that they have also gotten the threatening emails. Mostly stuff about not being a true conservative, I am an abortionist, I don't support Jim Robinson, and a hypocrite if I ever vote for a career politician.

Very childish stuff.

[Iowa Granny]

How did all these people get your email address?

[lodwick]

I forgot all about Jacquie's outstanding cards. CRS syndrome I guess...

[lodwick]

Unlike some politicians who refuse foreign donations, McClintock was delighted to accept some financial help from out of state.

If I had to place a bet on the election, I'd have to go with Cruz by a shocking margin.

Cheers all.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Freepmails.

[lodwick]

[Timeout]

I was at my neice's house today when we heard some friends of hers (a couple) have been approved to adopt TWO Russian babies, 6 and 10 months old! What a happy day!

[mountaineer]

Howdy, all. Long day driving to and from a funeral in several horrendous thunderstorms. Thankfully, it was dry and sunny during the graveside service.

[mountaineer]

Redheads are special! Women who have red hair have an innate ability to tolerate more pain than other people.

While testing the painkilling drug pentazocine, researchers from McGill University in Montreal discovered that the same gene that gives women red hair and fair skin also plays a role in the body's natural pain suppression system. However, it doesn't work for male carrot-tops. Redheaded women can tolerate more pain than anyone else, including men with red hair and men and women who do not have red hair. The others all had a similar and much lower tolerance to pain than flame-haired females.

"While we believe pain is the same in all women of all hair colors, our study shows women with red hair respond better to the painkilling drug we tested than anyone else--including men," lead researcher Jeffrey S. Mogil, a professor of pain studies at McGill, said in a news release.

Why would the gene that gives red hair and fair skin--identified as Mc1r--work differently in redheaded men and women? Mogil told Reuters that men and women are using different pain pathways. "If they were using the same pathways, then the redhead gene would have the same impact for both sexes," he added.

When we experience pain, our bodies attempt to dull the discomfort by releasing natural substances that are similar to medications like morphine. The gene Mc1r influences the pathway through which the body doles out those naturally occurring painkillers in women.

The research could affect how doctors prescribe pain medication, since it's clear that genetic differences impact how well a drug will work for individual people. The study findings were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

http://channels.netscape.com/ns/news/package.jsp?name=news/redheadedpain/redheadedpain&floc=wn-nn

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Isn't that weird? I have heard about redheads and pain and it's true.

The other weird thing about redheads is that we naturally smell like babies. We lack the oil in our skin that tends to 'turn'. Redheads are used in France as perfume testers.

[lodwick]

Interesting how even in this little group, life on this earth goes out, and new life comes in...it's happened so often in our family that I can almost predict it.

Best wishes all.

[lodwick]

Big ups to all redheads.

[Timeout]

Quote from Hillary regarding the EPA air quality reports on Ground Zero after 9/11:

August 28, 2003
"I know a little bit about how White Houses work. I know somebody picked up a phone, somebody got on a computer, somebody sent an e-mail, somebody called for a meeting, somebody, probably under instructions from somebody further up the chain, told the EPA, 'Don't tell the people of New York the truth,' and I want to know who that is."

Hmmmmm. Sounds familiar.

Is Hillary's tin ear showing???

[Timeout]

Daniel Weintraub, Sacramento Bee, writes an excellent thumbnail analysis of the recall campaign:

Arnold staked out a whole host of positions on non-economic issues in a radio interview today, and, as we thought, he is all over the board. He's generally pro-choice on abortion but doesn't support late term procedures. He's for regulating military style semi-automatic weapons and for background checks. He's against drilling for oil off shore, and he is for domestic partnerships but not gay marriage. He supports keeping marijuana legal for medicinal purposes.

He is, on all these issues, as close to the California mainstream as you can get. He is also, on these issues, a near carbon copy of Gov. Gray Davis, except perhaps on late-term abortions. He is not in sync with a majority of the Republican Party, which is why this race is ideal to him, with its winner take all result.

The difference between Arnold and most leading California Democrats comes on taxes and spending. He wants to try to balance the budget while cutting taxes, while Democrats (and most independent analysts) say that can't be done. He would tend to oppose laws that add new mandates to employers while Democrats tend to favor them.

His differences with McClintock, on the other hand, are on the social issues: McClintock opposes abortion rights and gun control, and domestic partnerships. But the two agree on most economic issues.

It would appear, then, that Arnold is heading straight down the middle between Cruz and Tom, agreeing with Cruz on most social issues and agreeing with McClintock on most economic issues. Significantly, he also opposed granting driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, a proposal that Cruz and Gray support but which I doubt has very much backing among the broader electorate.

This election will show once and for all if there is a viable middle in California politics.

[mountaineer]

Hillary's projecting again. Memories of the 900 FBI files?

[BigWaveBetty]

It should be legal to punch car salesmen. ;-)

[mountaineer]

WITH Howard Dean sprinting away from the rest of the Democratic presidential candidates, Sen. Hillary Clinton can now relax and start planning for 2008 - confident that Dean will go down in flames. "Dean is McGovern without the folksy charm," said one observer, referring to George McGovern, the Democrat who carried only one state (Massachusetts) against Richard Nixon in 1972.

"This is going to save us a lot of money," said a Democrat who normally makes substantial campaign contributions.

Dean is the most liberal of the Democrats in the race and the most outspoken against the U.S. liberation of Iraq. But, according to a Zogby poll of New Hampshire voters, he is 21 points ahead of his closest rival, Sen. John Kerry, and pulling away.

The numbers are even more surprising since Kerry is from neighboring Massachusetts. "He's New Hampshire's third senator," said one Democrat. Page Six

[BigWaveBetty]

Must now change my shirt, wet from drooling.

[mountaineer]

Harrison Ford staged an attack on foreign soil yesterday, but his target was George W. Bush. Ford is the latest Hollywood celebrity to dump on the Prez, joining Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn, among others, in criticizing America's adventure in Iraq.

"I am very disturbed about the direction American foreign policy is going," Ford said in Madrid yesterday. He's in Spain promoting his U.S. box-office flop "Hollywood Homicide," co-starring Josh Hartnett.

"Something needs to be done to help alleviate the conditions which have created a disenfranchised and angry faction in the Middle East," he said. "I don't think military intervention is the correct solution. I regret what we as a country have done so far." [That's right, Harry, the Islamic terrorists are really reasonable people, if we'd just buy them a Coke and a smile, they'd stop killing people]

The 61-year-old actor also used his closeup to rail about crises in domestic policy. "I'm very troubled by the proliferation of arms," said Ford (who refused to discuss his relationship with girlfriend Calista Flockhart). [There's no proliferation with her stick-figure arms! Oh wait, he meant something else]

"So many people in the United States carry guns. I'm sure gun laws should be strengthened in the United States. I just don't know the correct mechanism." [What a complete and total idiot. Maybe the characters he portrays should stop using guns in his movies, if they're so terrible?]

Perhaps Indiana Jones will. Ford says a script for the fourth installment of the franchise has "come a long way." "If we can get to be happy with the progress of the script, we'll start shooting in the summer of 2004," he said. Just in time for the election. Indy for Prez, anyone? Daily News