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To: cosmicforce who wrote (11832)6/27/2004 1:17:36 PM
From: epicure  Respond to of 20773
 
So true. I think that is one of the biggest things about the movie, and it has nothing to do with Michael Moore, and everything to do with the people of this country, and their desire for harder hitting news.



To: cosmicforce who wrote (11832)6/27/2004 8:54:57 PM
From: epicure  Respond to of 20773
 
We were just talking about this- I'm glad Arnold is changing this:

Stray cats, dogs escape the budget ax
Money-saving plan to kill animals sooner draws howls of protest -- governor relents
sfgate.com.

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"By day's end, Schwarzenegger, whose family owns at least one dog, took a break from budget negotiations to say the whole thing had been a big mistake.

"I wanted to tell you that I have reinstated the six-day waiting period for lost animals," he said.

Cutting the act, he said, was mistakenly put in his January budget, which was put together quickly after he was elected. It's not clear why the mistake was not discovered earlier.

Asked what caused his announcement Friday -- public pressure? memories of the childhood pet pigs back in Austria? -- he ended a whirlwind day with the simplest of answers:

"My daughter called me," the governor said. "