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case, the absence might be a month or more, O’Hara said. Commissioner Aspinall has announced that for the next day, all riders will receive helium balloons with smiley faces on them as they come through the turnstiles. He also says he will meet again with O’Hara. COMMISSIONER ASPINALL’S MESSAGE As President Obama did when the oil spill happened in the Gulf, I am cutting my vacation here in the Bahamas short and coming home. I will personally deal with all sorts of things. On another matter, the Board will consider an offer from an up-island casino developer to turn the Subway System into a giant underground Indian-controlled gambling casino. Considering all the different entrances we have along our 65-mile route, it seems quite do-able if everybody goes along with it. Money talks, after all.
short distance. However, if the island is a microcosm of America, and I believe it is, there is hope yet. As much as we all complain locally and nationally about the government, if anyone challenges our patriotism, they’d better be prepared to have their heads knocked off! A Nazi colonel once told his troops that he didn’t understand how the American soldiers, who were the worst trained and undisciplined men that ever wore a uniform, could, when cornered, be the most deadly of fighters. A congressional aide told me, that one handwritten letter counts as much as the opinions of 1,500 people to a member of Congress, an e-
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