ugh! and mike doesn't even have mcs like I do. smelling anything like dryer
sheets, perfume, smoke  from any source cigs, barbecue... it all gives me
awful sore throats and headaches, I even gag when I get into a car with
those fragrance trees. 

Kat, i do see your point. But do you have actual data to show that people
who have disabilities have higher innsurance costs? I know diabetes can get
expensive, but are there others that are expensive?   

I have some interesting news; I will be getting some micro-enterprise help
because a man who also serves as a commissioner, works at the cerebral
palsy center in oakland, he has just written a grant to use some newly
formed policies to help some of us start our own businesses, because many
of the cp center clients can't compete for competive jobs, even though they
may know computers and be able to use computer programs. (they might move
too slowly, or whatever) So I will be getting help in writing a business
plan, (so I can keep my medi-cal, in home services, etc) and I'll learn how
to market my stuff at my web site, as well as training in Corel painter. I
will be a mentor to some of the folks there. this  will be done using
Assembly bill 925  Get it? 9 to 5?)  and a governor's task force to end
disincentives to work. I have written to gov S twice, telling him we want
to work, but that many employers won't hire us, and that there are too many
disincentives like the ssi rules, in home support rules, etc. Perhaps my
letters helped? who knows?

Mag  

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> [Original Message]
> From: Kathleen Salkin <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 3/12/2006 8:23:48 PM
> Subject: Re: Second hand smoke (was Re: CNN Breaking News)
>
> I agree with you 100% on that, Mike.  And I don't know if those are  
> the same as you're talking about, but I can't stand those Indian  
> cigarettes, bindis, I think they're called.  They stink something awful.
>
> I think I recall when I was at uni, the campus bookstore actually  
> sold flavored chewing tobacco.  The thought makes me shudder now.   
> When I worked for the local VA regional office back in the 1970s, I  
> worked alongside a guy who would spit tobacco into his Coke can all  
> day.  It got so bad I had to ask my supervisor to move my desk to the  
> other side of the room.
>
> My boyfriend still tells of the summer job he had whilst in high  
> school at the the local med school, where the lab super would spit  
> tobacco all over the lab and made him clean it up.  To this day,  
> David will not be in the same room with anyone chewing tobacco, and I  
> can't blame him.
>
> Kat
>
>
> On 12 Mar 2006, at 21:48, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>
> > I'm a bus rider, having to take three buses to work and back to   
> > home.  I
> > have to run at some points, going from one bus to  another, and the  
> > most
> > irritating thing I have to put up with is people  smoking these new  
> > type of flavored
> > cigarettes. It really turns my stomach.   They don't even have to  
> > be smoking it
> > at the time.  The smell lingers on  their clothes.  Try being on a  
> > bus,
> > standing room only and that is the only  smell you're breathing.   
> > Cigarettes are
> > bad, cigars are worse but these new  ones out now and extremely  
> > horrible.
> >
> > Walk away  before I finish what you started. Face to face I will  
> > put you in
> > your place. End  this game before I finish what you started. Face  
> > to face
> > everything will  change.
> >
> > "Stand Up" by Trapt