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To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (748818)	9/9/2006 7:23:46 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

House moves to Kill $40 Billion agricultural business. <Must be an election coming! Washington is starting to FOAM OVER with self-serving, hypocritical clap-trap!) ----------------------------------------------------- US bans horse slaughter for meat From correspondents in Washington September 08, 2006 07:18am Article from: Agence France-Presse news.com.au THE US House of Representatives has overnight voted to ban the slaughter of horses for human consumption, which could bring an end to a $US40-billion industry exporting horse meat to Europe and Japan. By a vote of 263-146, the House voted to amend the Horse Protection Act, yielding to animal rights activists and average American horse enthusiasts for whom the animals are best enjoyed at the racetrack or on the riding trail. The law would "prohibit the shipping, transporting, moving, delivering, receiving, possessing, purchasing, selling, or donation of horses and other equines to be slaughtered for human consumption and for other purposes." The legislation was co-sponsored by more than 200 members in the 435-member House. Opponents fear that the bill could make it more difficult to humanely dispose of thousands of aging or infirm horses each year. Some 90,000 horses were slaughtered last year in three US plants which the legislation, if also passed in the Senate, could force to be shuttered. Almost all of the meat is for foreign consumption, as most US states have outlawed the sale of horse meat. Most of the horse meat is shipped to Europe and Japan, where it is seen as a lean alternative to beef. The bill will go to the Senate for consideration, but probably not before Congress recesses for November's midterm elections.

To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (748818)	9/9/2006 7:32:09 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

Arnold says sorry to get out of Latino 'hot' water nydailynews.com LOS ANGELES - Caramba! Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger apologized yesterday for saying that Latinos have "hot" tempers due to a combination of "black blood" mixed with "Latino blood." The red-faced governator's racially charged remarks were taped during a meeting with his top aides last year and published in the Los Angeles Times yesterday. Schwarzenegger set forth his bizarre racial theory while discussing the temperament of Republican state Assemblywoman Bonnie Garcia, who was born on the lower East Side to Puerto Rican parents. "She maybe is Puerto Rican or the same thing as Cuban. I mean they are all very hot. They have, you know, part of the black blood in them and part of the Latino blood in them that, together, makes it," he said. Schwarzenegger yesterday called Latino and African-American legislative leaders to apologize and offered a public mea culpa - with Garcia by his side - at an event in Santa Monica. "I just want to say I am sorry," he said. "If I would hear this kind of comments in my house by my kids, I would be upset. Today when I read it in the papers, it made me cringe." Garcia let him off the hook. "Governor, there is no need to apologize." She said she has a running inside joke with Schwarzenegger about her "hot-blooded Latina" personality. Michelle Caruso