Arthur Chrenkoff has a look at two weeks worth of good news from Iraq.

Amendment 36, a proposal to allow proportional distribution of Colorado’s electoral votes has passed its first legal hurdle today. A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against the measure, citing jurisdictional reasons.

Here’s a view of the Electoral College as determined by the traders at Tradesports.

The United States Marine Corps is updating its supply chain and logistics system.

The Corps announced it had begun the process of replacing five aging supply systems with software made by Oracle. The plan–Global Combat Support System-Marine Corps/Logistics Chain Management (GCSS-MC/LCM) program Block I–will retire a mix of mainframe and client server technologies, some of which have been in use since the 1970s. Replacing them will be elements of Oracle’s E-Business software package, including the software maker’s supply chain planning, procurement, logistics, maintenance and service applications.

Napoléon is often credited with saying, “An army marches on its stomach.” That maxim is truer than ever today; although, it is necessarily broader, since the modern military depends not only on food; but also, on fuel and ammunition as well to function effectively. Our military could not function efficiently without its incredible supply system. It is good to see that it is being modernized, just as the weapon systems are. After all, what good does that fancy JDAM do you, if you can’t get it to the right airfield?

Yesterday, palmOne announced the Treo 650. Here’s a link to a video and an early review of the new device.

Looks like palmOne kept the form factor the same as the Treo 600. Some of the changes include:

• 320x320 high-res screen

• Removable battery

• Faster processor

• Built-in MP3 player

• Improved camera (mirror for self-portraits; captures video; works in low light)

• Supports IMAP or POP email

• Bluetooth

James Lileks comments on the (now disappeared) Guardian column which called for the assassination of President Bush.

The original article contained this last paragraph:

On November 2, the entire civilised world will be praying, praying Bush loses. And Sod’s law dictates he’ll probably win, thereby disproving the existence of God once and for all. The world will endure four more years of idiocy, arrogance and unwarranted bloodshed, with no benevolent deity to watch over and save us. John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr – where are you now that we need you?

Now, the entire article has been replaced with this semi-apology.

…[H]is closing comments were intended as an ironic joke, not as a call to action - an intention he believed regular readers of his humorous column would understand.

Oh, I see now, it was only a joke–oh, okay, ha, ha, silly me.

UPDATE: The entire column has been reposted by William Teach at Pirate’s Cove.

And I thought the brownshirts were supposed to be Republican.

C-SPAN cameras captured spouse Elizabeth Edwards making the startling comments to a supporter during a Kerry Campaign Town Hall Meeting in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Supporter: Kerry’s going to take PA.

Liz Edwards: I know that.

Supporter: I’m just worried there’s going to be riots afterwards.

Liz Edwards: Uh…..well…not if we win.

From Drudge Report (includes a link to an audio clip of her comments).

Jim Geraghty of Kerry Spot thinks it was “a typical, off-the-cuff, unthinking comment”.

Via KerrySpot, here’s a powerful ad from Americans for Peace Through Strength, which uses Ronald Reagan’s own words, criticizing Walter Mondale in a debate in 1984, to compare John Kerry with Mondale.

I think Kerry opened himself up for this kind of attack when he invoked Reagan’s name in the first Presidential debate this year. (The ad begins with footage of Kerry’s comments from the debate.) It was foolish of Kerry to mention Reagan, since he opposed Reagan at just about every opportunity. Nuclear freeze? Contras? (Where his famous Seared in my memory line came from.) Any new weapon system?

Here’s an editorial from the Daily Telegraph making the case for President Bush’s re-election.

So who gains if Bush loses? The Labour Left, of course, and the political power of the European Union, the Guardian readers who have been writing magnificently counterproductive anti-Bush letters to the voters of Clark County, Ohio, and every twerp who says with a trembling lip that Mr Bush and Mr Blair have “blood on their hands”; not to mention every corrupt, undemocratic, “pragmatic” government in the Middle East that longs for a return to stasis.

But some rather more fearsome people gain too, such as the man who said of Americans in a document discovered earlier this year “…these are the biggest cowards of the lot, and we ask God to allow us to kill, and detain them, so that we can exchange them with our arrested sheikhs and brothers”. He is Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and it is probably he who killed Ken Bigley. Such men believe they have already changed the government in Spain; they will claim at once that they have done the same in the United States. They will be right.

And who loses? Iraqis about to have real elections of their own for the first time, Afghans who have already voted with more than expected success, Iranians trying to assert their own democracy against its clerical corruptions. And us. What one can see in each twist of the Iraq story - don’t send the US Marines into Fallujah, don’t send the Black Watch to help the Americans, do give in to Ken Bigley’s kidnappers - is exactly what is meant by defeatism, an actual longing to lose. Whatever you think of the war, why would you want that?

Last month, there was speculation around the web about Google web browser. This month, the speculation has turned to a Google branded instant messaging client. See InsideGoogle for more information.

On a related note, Google fixed a security issue related to Google Desktop Search. Athough, the hole might not be entirely patched.