October 31, 2004

Vote on Monday if you can

The reason is because if you vote on Monday - you've voted. If you vote on Teusday then you might run into Republican dirty tricks that might prevent you from voting. You might only have an hour lunch break and the Republicans hold you up to long and you can't vote. Or - there's just long lines.

By voting early you not only get to vote - but you are not in line Teusday so someone else can vote too. As they say - vote early and often. Especially this year.

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Truly Not Concerned

Letter to the Editor

What does Osama bin Laden and President Bush have in common? In 2002 Bush said, "I truly am not that concerned about him." Apparently Osama bin Laden, in his televised address, is telling the world that he is truly not that concerned about Bush either.

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Osama's Hidden Message

Letter to the Editor

Many people are speculating about if the Osama bin Laden tape has a hidden message in it. What is bin Laden trying to do? Bin Laden is telling America that he won the battle against Bush. He is showing that he is alive, he is healthy, he is strong, that he is confident, that he is in control, that he is still a threat, and that he isn't afraid of George Bush. He mocks President Bush for reading "My Pet Goat" giving him more time to kill Americans. He is confirming Bush's statement that Bush is truly not that concerned about him.

Bin Laden is asserting that he is powerful and that Bush doesn't scare him. His message is - Bush has failed and that Bush is a weak leader. And the sad thing is - Osama is correct.

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Here's the simplified version of Osama's measage:


Hey Bush

I won - you lost!

You are a moron!

You are weak and stupid!

America is Weak!

Look at me!

I'm out there - I'm free!

I'm laughing at America.

You want me - bring it on!

And - bin Laden is right! Bush really is a weak moron. In 4 more years bin Laden will still be free.

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What does Osama Tape Mean?

Letter to the Editor

There is a lot of debate about what the Osama bin Laden tape means. But what do we know for sure from it? Some of the things I see is that OBL is clearly alive, he's free, he's looking very healthy and relaxed, and he's clearly not worried about President Bush. Is the reason that Osama is doing so well have to do with President Bush saying, "I truly am not that concerned about him"? Osama killed 3000 Americans and got away with it. If bin Laden feels save and America doesn't - it's it time to elect a different president that will make Americans feel safe and be concerned about bin Laden?

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Election Superstitions

Letter to the Editor

There are a number of superstitions that people have about who will win the election. Some people believe that it depends on if the Redskins win their last home game. Others might believe that it depends on if the stock market is up or down - or if you fail to win in a state that has voted with the winner a number of times. But I have my own superstition about who will win the election - and its something that you can do something about. The person who will win the presidency is (usually) the person who will get the most votes on Tuesday. Your future is in your hands and how you vote or if you fail to vote will make a difference to your future. Please vote.

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Steven Hawking to lead election protest

Stephen Hawking, Britain's most eminent scientist, has become the latest prominent opponent of the Iraq war by agreeing to take the lead role in a ceremonial protest to coincide with the United States presidential election.

Peace protesters will gather in Trafalgar Square at 5pm on Tuesday, where they will read out the names of 5,000 Iraqi men, women and children known to have died in the conflict.

The full death toll was put last week as high as 100,000.

Playwrights Harold Pinter and David Hare, actress Juliet Stevenson, the Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, and relatives of British soldiers killed in action in Iraq have all agreed to take part.

Professor Hawking, the author of the best-selling book A Brief History of Time, is wheelchair-bound as a sufferer from motor neurone disease. He recorded a message on Friday that will be broadcast at the start of the rally.

The oldest protester in Trafalgar Square is likely to be a fellow scientist, the Nobel Peace Prize winner Sir Joseph Rotblat. In the 1940s, he resigned from his job developing the world's first atomic bomb on moral grounds.

Sir Joseph, who will be 96 on Thursday, said: "In this nuclear age, we simply cannot allow others to start military action unless everything else has ... been tried and has failed."

The rally comes at a time when its organisers from the Stop the War Coalition have been embroiled in controversy with one of its biggest backers, the giant public sector union Unison, which has links with the Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions, (IFTU) whose general secretary, Subhi al-Mashadani, spent more than 10 years in prison under Saddam Hussein.

Unison leaders were appalled when Mr Mashadani was barracked and jostled at a London conference two weeks ago by left-wing delegates who accused him of being a stooge for the US and British governments. The row is threatening to become an issue inside Unison, where an election is taking place for the post of general secretary - the most powerful job in the trade union movement.

Left-wing activists in the union are trying to unseat the current general secretary, Dave Prentis, for being too close to Tony Blair.

Jon Rogers, the left-wing challenger, has accused two of Mr Prentis's senior advisers, Maggie Jones and Nick Sigler, of trying to split the union from the anti-war movement. Ms Jones, who is Unison's policy director, is a former Labour Party chairman and is expected to become Labour MP for Blaenau Gwent at the next election.

Mr Sigler, who heads the union's international department, worked for many years at Labour Party headquarters.

"It is not in the best interests of Unison for circumstances to arise in which it can appear that our union is being used as a vehicle by the Labour Party leader-ship to sow division in the anti-war movement," Mr Rogers claimed in a letter to Mr Prentis, leaked to The Independent on Sunday.

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