...and selling us down the river?

Here is an excellent overview of a situation getting almost no media coverage, but which down the road will surely impact our global competitiveness. If you have any money invested in small and medium-sized public companies, you ought to read this.

I have discovered a must-see photo essay which seems to explain what really happened this morning to PNACer Bill Kristol in Indiana. Warning! the images may be quite disturbing to the squeamish.

Although there was an earlier Diary on this event, even better quality photographs of the horror are available here

Like many people when I first got 'Net service (about 7 years ago), I spent alot of time  reading about and trading stocks during the breathtaking stock mania of that time. All in all I didn't do so badly in '99 & '00. Even after the bottom fell out in '01, I said to myself "it coulda been worse, much worse".

Hans Blix appeared at Princeton last Tuesday, a summary appearing in Sunday's Times (of Trenton ). A quarter of a thousand people braved the ice and snow to hear his lecture "Weapons of Mass Destruction, Terrorism and Security." I wish he would've spoken this bluntly about the Bushi'ite regime being "divorced from reality" before the election when he appeared on MTP etc.

Its about time somebody did this type of polling. Check out the
Zogby Cell Phone Poll

"Polling firm Zogby International and partner Rock the Vote found Massachusetts Senator John Kerry leading President Bush 55% to 40% among 18-29 year-old likely voters in their first joint Rock the Vote Mobile political poll, conducted exclusively on mobile phones October 27 through 30, 2004."