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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (355709)	10/22/2007 6:22:33 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578289

Ted, > Well, the article said "at the current pace"...... Yes, I saw those words in the article, but they never defined how they arrived at that "current pace." Yes, they did define it: "Nearly 1 in 6 roll-call votes in the Senate this year have been cloture votes. If this pace of blocking legislation continues, this 110th Congress will be on track to roughly triple the previous record number of cloture votes — 58 each in the two Congresses from 1999-2002, according to the Senate Historical Office." ____________________________________________________________ My guess is that they looked at a burst of cloture votes that happened in the most recent week or two and "concluded" that the pace will continue. As if Congress ever was that productive. The slow pace was under the GOP.......the Dems are much more productive.....after all, they are making the GOP work nearly a 5 day week.....you've seen the GOPers complaining, haven't you? ;-)

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (355709)	10/22/2007 6:25:02 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1578289

I hated the Santa Anas and fire season. ******************************************************* U.S. fires cloak Mexico border cities in ash** Mon Oct 22, 2007 5:34pm ET By Lizbeth Diaz TIJUANA, Mexico, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Raging wildfires in Southern California cloaked neighboring Mexican cities in a fog of suffocating ash on Monday, shutting schools and businesses and a major U.S.-Mexico border crossing. The normally bustling city of Tijuana, just 20 miles (32 km) from San Diego County, where seven fires burned, virtually closed down as residents stayed indoors and those who ventured out walked around with paper masks over their mouths. A thin gray ash covered houses and cars and blotted out the sun in the Pacific port of Rosarito and the city of Tecate, where U.S. and Mexican officials closed the busy border crossing. "You can feel the heat of the fires from here. There's ash everywhere, it is falling like rain," said 33-year-old secretary Lorena Morales, who ran out to the pharmacy to seek anti-allergy medicines for her children. The world's busiest land border crossing between Tijuana and San Diego remained open but many motorists sat uncomfortably for hours in the heat with their windows up and without air-conditioning to prevent ash coming in, witnesses said. Southern California is in the midst of its driest year on record after rainfall just a fifth of average levels. Authorities ordered at least 250,000 people to flee their homes on Monday because of the wildfires, which destroyed hundreds of buildings. © Reuters 2007. All Rights Reserved. today.reuters.com

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (355709)	10/22/2007 8:07:08 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578289

This is terrible....never once did they have to call out the Nat. Guard when we had fires. I knew people in North County SD......they must have had to evacuate. What's happening in the OC? Wildfires sweep southern California, troops called Mon Oct 22, 2007 7:50pm EDT By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Fast-moving wildfires roared across California on Monday and engulfed large swaths of San Diego County, where 250,000 people were told to evacuate as state officials called in National Guard troops. More than a dozen fires, driven by gale-force winds, burned out of control across the drought-stricken southern half of the state, quickly charring about 200,000 acres, killing one person and injuring a number of others. With fire crews and state emergency services overwhelmed, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said 1,500 National Guard troops had been summoned, including 200 from the Mexican border, to help with firefighting, evacuations and crowd control. "This is a tragic day for San Diego County and for California," Schwarzenegger said. "As you know, 250,000 people have been evacuated." The fires also closed major state highways, schools and businesses and sent plumes of thick black smoke drifting across much of the state, blotting out the sun. "We live on a mountain and there is only one way out," said Janice Edmunds, 47, who fled her San Diego County home. "We could see flames coming over the hills in Escondido at 3:30 in the morning and we started packing." Local radio reports said 13 people had been treated at a major San Diego burn center. One person was killed on Sunday by a fire near the Mexican border. Two fires that merged north of the city of San Diego and scorched 18,000 acres prompted authorities to order 250,000 people evacuated from an area roughly 12 square miles encompassing clusters of upscale communities, ranches and country clubs. Continued... Page 1 \| 2 \| 3 Next Page reuters.com