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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (231155)	4/30/2005 2:39:15 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1571929

Ted, girls go ga-ga over Brad. Unlike us shallow guys who only care about what Angelina is(n't) wearing, girls like to go deeper into the lives of their boy-toy idols. ;-) Girls may go ga ga over Brad but only the 14 years are worrying whether he's making it with Angelina or not......them and the over 25 who don't have a life. BTW what's with T. Cruise going out with taller woman? I understand he's short but he looks even shorter when he goes out with the likes of Holmes or Kidman. ted

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (231155)	5/2/2005 2:06:12 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571929

This was inevitable..............btw Art Torres is about as slimy as they come. ************************************************8 Schwarzenegger's Star Dipping as Californians Feel Its Singe By DEAN E. MURPHY Published: May 2, 2005 SAN FRANCISCO, April 30 - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger made a prediction in January in a speech proposing changes to the way public pensions are managed in California, the state budget is balanced, legislative districts are drawn and teachers are paid. "The special interests will run TV ads calling me cruel and heartless," Mr. Schwarzenegger, a Republican, told lawmakers. "They will organize protests out in front of the Capitol. They will try to say I don't understand the consequences of these decisions." Mr. Schwarzenegger's prediction about his detractors has come true in every respect, but so has something that he did not foresee four months ago: the larger-than-life governor has been brought down to size. His popularity has plummeted, and he has retreated on some proposals, like the ones on public employees' pensions and redistricting. Now his Democratic opponents "see blood in the water," as one Democrat characterized the situation, and they are taking on Mr. Schwarzenegger with new determination. On Friday, they seized upon statements he made praising the so-called Minutemen volunteers in Arizona who patrol the Mexican border for illegal immigrants. President Bush has described the volunteers as vigilantes, but Mr. Schwarzenegger said he would welcome them in California because "our government cannot secure the borders and keep our country protected." Art Torres, the chairman of the state Democratic Party, accused Mr. Schwarzenegger of exploiting fears about illegal immigration, a historically divisive subject in California, to divert attention from his problems as governor and to appeal to his conservative supporters. "We don't need an Austrian Minuteman," Mr. Torres said in a reference to Mr. Schwarzenegger's native country. Two opinion polls released this week showed that the governor's approval rating had dropped below 50 percent for the first time since he took office in November 2003.** The surveys reflected months of protests against Mr. Schwarzenegger by nurses, teachers, police officers and other public employees. "The mainstream has turned on him," said Rose Ann DeMoro, executive director of the California Nurses Association, whose members have hounded Mr. Schwarzenegger because of his opposition to a state law that requires more nurses in hospitals. The governor has publicly brushed aside the slide in the polls, saying Thursday on Sean Hannity's radio show that his critics "have not been successful at all with their mission because taking the poll numbers down didn't make me more vulnerable." Mr. Schwarzenegger said he would continue to collect signatures to qualify several of his proposals for a vote in November, no matter the political toll, and he did so on Saturday at a diner in Lancaster. "They're lying to the people," Mr. Schwarzenegger said in the radio interview. "And they're trying to convince the people that my reforms are no good because they feel that that will be destructive to them because they want to keep the power, and they want to keep spending money." Mr. Schwarzenegger's famed charisma continues to play well with many Californians. But even with the benefits of his Hollywood celebrity, which also gives him a friendly platform on talk radio and other news media, the new polls reveal that Mr. Schwarzenegger is not immune to the fallout of a sustained public beating. Some of his Republican allies acknowledge as much, though they insist there is no sense of panic. "Sometimes you go through turbulent air, and sometimes smooth air," said State Senator Abel Maldonado, a Republican, who is pushing some of the governor's education proposals in the Legislature. "Right now, it's no secret there's some turbulent air." Several weeks ago, Mr. Schwarzenegger suspended his plan to place before the voters a measure that would have converted the state pension system to private accounts. His decision came after law enforcement groups mobilized against the proposal because it would have deprived public employees of death and disability benefits, something Mr. Schwarzenegger said he never intended. nytimes.com