THIS WEEKEND
Quit bellyaching about there not being anything to do here. There are two really great events this weekend and you can still manage to squeeze in the Satan Bowl or watch Auburn get its well-deserved coast. FIRST:

Locally its Greek Fest, which runs from today until Saturday at 50 S. Ann Street at (where else but) the Greek Orthodox Church from 11 am to 10 p.m. No excuses. Even if it's just to get some take out. The food is great. SECOND:

You need to be in Pensacola's Seville Square this weekend for the mother of all local arts events the Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival!. (Sorry Fairhope, but it's true.) Live musicians, Parrish Performing Arts Stage, Heritage Arts area, Children’s Arts Festival, etc.

9-6 on Friday and Saturday, November 2 and 3.

9-4 on Sunday, November 4

(Daylight Savings Time starts Nov. 4)

Children’s Festival Hours: Saturday & Sunday 10-4

From the Desk of Donald Rumsfeld . . . - washingtonpost.com

ANYWAY, HE GOT THE FLAKES PART RIGHT
In a series of internal musings and memos to his staff, then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld argued that Muslims avoid "physical labor" and wrote of the need to "keep elevating the threat," "link Iraq to Iran" and develop "bumper sticker statements" to rally public support for an increasingly unpopular war. The memos, often referred to as "snowflakes," shed light on Rumsfeld's brusque management style and on his efforts to address key challenges during his tenure as Pentagon chief.
(WASHINGTON POST)

progreso-weekly.com - Toward a ‘citizen's revolution’: President Correa's 21st-Century socialism

MEANWHILE, BACK IN THE AMERICAS
On Sept. 30, elections were held in Ecuador. The Alianza País organization won more than 70 percent of the votes. The runner-up received barely 7 percent. The foundations for the construction of a new Constitution, according to the Alianza, will be "21st-Century socialism," a type of socialism that "is not the socialism that had rooted its responses in manuals. We don't start from dogmatic visions. If we write a manual, it will be for the purpose of changing its pages every time we need to. It will be corrected constantly, because we do not believe in a definitive truth. Our task will be a permanent construction of democracy. That's how 21st-Century socialism must be constructed."
(PROGRESO WEEKLY)