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To: Rande Is who wrote (43033)	12/9/2000 7:23:03 PM
From: Shroom37	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 57584

Rande, You mentioned you were saddened about how partisan powers can bring down an army of attorneys with which to drive the courts into rulings they don't wish to make. I to am saddened, but for a different reason. I've been away from my comp for a few days and just got done reading all the posts here at Home. Unless I missed it I didn't find one post about the great Americans that gave their all at Pearl Harbor on Dec 7th. Hopefully I just missed it. I didn't watch TV all day and night on the 7th, but I did do a bit of surfing and saw no mention of it other than on the History Channel. Very sad. Then yesterday we have Barbara Walters et al falling all over themselves doing pieces on John Lennon. I've got nothing against John, his is a tragedy that is all too often played out in our county, but I do think it would have been nice if the main stream media would have mentioned the men and woman who died to insure the rights we now enjoy. Perhaps I'm overly sensitive about this because my father was stationed at Sub Base Pearl Harbor on the 7th, but I do feel that it would not hurt any of us to take a minute to give thanks for the sacrifice these brave folks gave on our behalf. It might also be nice if we could find the time to send off an email to the major media organizations and remind them that it's a major slap in the face to the survivors and the families of those who didn't survive, to ignore this important event in our history. God Bless you and yours, Marc

To: Rande Is who wrote (43033)	12/10/2000 1:40:13 PM
From: ZJOHN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 57584

Hi Rande, I completely agree with your comments about the whole election system. It is truly biased to only being able to elect a Democrat or Republican. It would be nice to have a third or fourth party actually have a chance to win. But if this was a totally true democracy, it would have another choice added for none of the above. Many people don't vote because they don't want any of the candidates who are running. Why shouldn't they be able to vote for none of the above. So if the majority voted for none of the above, they would have to come up with new candidates. That way all the people in America would truly be able to say, yes my vote actually does count. I also feel that all citizens should have to vote, that way everyone vote would really count. It is a computer age now, so why don't they just assign every voter a number and password and have him vote through the Internet. That way all votes would be counted fairly and accurately. Everyone can get access to a computer nowadays. Through schools, libraries, personal computers. All they would have to do is come up with a computer program to do this or get a standard voting machine to be used in every state such as the ones used in NY state that have levers that can only be used once to vote in each category. Thanks zjohn