Day October 11, 2005

From Mack Reed at LAVoice.org Hey, Bob: Thought you might be interested in this – Assyman Paul Koretz has coined a phrase for opposition to the Schwarzenegger special-election initiatives (“NIX on the first SIX!”). At the prodding of one of…

This is a sugar maple, known for the bright reds in fall. We missed the peak of leaf peeper season by a week or two. Still, this tree was quite amazing, and probably even more so today.

  From the Beeb, no less Bloggers are gaining a higher profile alongside traditional news sources with Yahoo including blogs in its expanding news search system. Also, Yahoo has a new Podcast finder.

Thousands of Air Force personnel are being sent to Iraq and Afghanistan to perform low-tech roles and help the Army keep up force levels. This must be sending Air Force morale crashing to new lows, and also clearly shows how…

Disrupting Reconstruction. Attacks on corporations have disrupted (see Halliburton Targeting for more on this strategy) the pace and scale of reconstruction in Iraq. The costs of private security have added 25-35% reconstruction contracts. A second category of costs is market…