SEATTLE: Machinists slam Boeing’s 777X contract proposal.

The unemployment line in Seattle is about to get a bit longer....

AUTUMN LEAVES V: Here's today's picture of the leaves no longer on the trees in our yard. We've had some rain and high winds; and the difference between this week and last week is dramatic.

Like last week, here's a shot taken from the front porch. The leaves are gone. Gone, gone, gone. When it rained (lightly) Thursday, every raindrop that hit the ground brought two leaves with it.

Here's an expanded version of the picture above. Note that most of the yard has been cleared, except at the bottom left. That is what the whole yard looked like early Friday morning before I started blowing leaves.

Winter is arriving.

FIRST JUAN WILLIAMS; now Mara Liasson.

On the bright side, NPR seems to have learned its lesson with Juan Williams.

THANKS, MR. PRESIDENT: Former MSNBC Host’s Health Plan Cancelled, New Plan Costs 3.5 Times More.

I'm sure he's pleased to have gotten out of that 'substandard' plan he used to have....

MAY THE FARCE BE WITH YOU. Spinning furiously.

VIRGINIA'S NEW STATE MOTTO: "BS FIRST"

Linked from Twitchy.

WHO KNEW? It turns out windmills only work when there is wind.

THREE TESLAS burn inside of six weeks. There's a Tesla here in town. I understand the fire trucks follow it everwhere it goes.... And with a street sweeper in front of it....

TEXAS GUBERNATORIAL WANNABE WENDY DAVIS: I'm totally pro-life ... outside the womb.

THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR: Why Classical Schools Just Might Save America.

Which is why school vouchers are also so important, as I'm reminded of Instapundit's oft-repeated question: "Is it child abuse to send your kid to public schools?"

RISK FACTOR: What really happened during the ObamaCare rollout? Short answer: an unmitigated disaster. Having spent nearly 20 years as a systems engineering integration contractor, I concur.

Read it all.

FOUR ... total number of ObamaCare enrollments in Delaware.

More than a month after the launch of Delaware’s health insurance exchange, officials report only four Delawareans enrolled for insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act.

As of Wednesday, Delaware’s marketplace guide organizations reported four enrollments, 31 enrollment applications completed and 218 accounts created for possible enrollment.

Four community organizations were hired to provide marketplace guides, using a $4 million federal grant.

That's, um, let's see now ... uh, roughly $1 million per enrollee. It would've been cheaper by far to buy each a Platinum plan at, say, $15,000 each.

ADDED: Five more in Washington D.C.

Big win for HealthCare.Gov.

PRESIDENT ASTERISK: "I'm sorry".*

*(you believed me.)

BYRON YORK: The simple question that will determine Obamacare's fate.

Have we become a nation of takers or providers? I fear it's the former.

WENDY DAVIS TELLS COURT: That mean newspaper hurt my brain! Impossible. First there has to be a brain to hurt. If, on the other hand, it were her ego....

ACTUALLY it's the first anniversary of the 68-hour workweek.

Or more. With enough part-time employment you might still be able to make a living.

OVERSTATED, BUT NOT BY MUCH: Ender’s Game is Already a Reality for the U.S. Military.

DEMOCRATIC SENATORS complain to Obama about Obamacare.

Obama offered reassurances that the crippled website would soon be operational, and promised to pump up the volume of the pro-Obamacare public relations.

Obama “discussed ongoing efforts to ramp up communication and education outreach to consumers who have received or might receive letters about how their individual market plans might be affected.”

To talk about fixing it is to fix it: makes you feel warm and fuzzy all over, doesn't it?

THE AMERICAN PROSPECT: An argument for 'kludge'-ocracy.

CRUZ-HATING: It begins.