Election day. I waited in line for a half hour this morning but will have to return after work. A lot of people voting.

Either way it goes, I can only hope that it will soon be over. It's been a trying exercise to find reliable news feeds the last few weeks. I had to resort to Al-Jazeera's website to get a full transcript of Osama's video the other night. If you read the entire transcript it tells a much different story than the soundbites on the major news networks. A couple of days ago, zero news came out of Iraq. For the whole day. The only newsworthy items were provided by the brits. That's curious don't you think? The next day the Iraqi news continued as normal. Kidnappings, uprisings, roadside bombs, ambushes, you know - the regular stuff...

Also curious is that it's 3PM here on the west coast and there are no exit polls. Zip, zero, zilch, nada. Everybody learned the last time around. Nobody will stick their neck out and declare that anybody is winning anything.