Barack Obama's Democratic Administration has successfully overseen the restarting of the Cold War.
Ukraine. Arms to Baltic States. NATO . You could name other actions.
The Cold War lives, long live The Cold War !
Good Morning, 99%'ers! 
This evening's music features Chicago blues sax player A.C. Reed. Enjoy!
A.C. Reed - Reedman's Boogie
The Taliban used the lunar eclipse during a nighttime assault to storm a provincial capital in Afghanistan. Kunduz is Afghanistan's fifth-largest city.
It was the biggest Taliban victory since 2001. It's also very familiar.
Erica Maison is the mother of five children in Detroit. One of her daughters is a transgender girl named Corey.
Erica told BuzzFeed News that Corey was always feminine, even from the time she was very young. “She loved to dress in high heels and dresses. In public she wore boy clothes — I just assumed she might be gay.”
When Corey was in the fifth grade she was bullied so badly her mother made the decision to pull her out of public school and begin homeschooling. It wasn’t until Corey was 11 years old that the mother-daughter duo came across a video of transgender YouTuber Jazz Jennings and everything suddenly clicked. “She said, ‘Mom, I’m just like her, I AM a girl.’
Once she was at home and free to be herself, Corey started gaining confidence and began dressing like a girl in public — which wasn’t always easy.
Her hair was still very short, and she still looked like a boy. People would give her dirty looks, and take pictures of her with their cell phone cameras. They would laugh, and point, and stare. I told Corey, ‘Every time someone points their phone at you to take a picture, you turn and smile and strike a pose!’ That really boosted her self-esteem. I wanted to teach her to turn anything negative into something positive.
--Erica Maison
Good morning 99percenters!
Morning news dump and music by the Doug Kershaw, The Ragin' Cajun.
Will TTIP Get Terminated? Negotiations Falter as Europe Balks
As EU-US trade talks flounder, France doesn't rule out 'an outright termination of negotiations'While public opposition to the TransAtlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)—the massive proposed "trade" deal between the European Union and the United States—has grown steadily since negotiations started two years ago, new signs suggest that official government backing is also faltering across Europe.
Of the precious few baseball players who's impact stretched beyond the boxscore, Jackie Robinson is the most remembered.
However, the one baseball player who's impact nearly changed the sport itself has been almost totally forgotten.
This evening's music features the King of the Delta Blues Singers, Robert Johnson. Enjoy!
Robert Johnson - Me and the Devil Blues
Marla Krolikowski was better known at her workplace as Mr. K. Mr. K. was a teacher at St. Francis Preparatory School in Fresh Meadows, Queens for 32 years before a complaint by one lone parent about the teacher's feminine appearance caused administrators to go ballistic.
Mr. K, for as long as we have known him, has always donned several gold hoop earrings, dyed hair, fashionable (but appropriate and professional) clothing, and well-manicured nails. This was never an issue amongst his students or their parents until that one student’s mother complained to the school.
His long track record of spectacular teaching seemed to carry no weight when a lone parent complained about his ‘feminine’ appearance back in 2011.
--Cristina Guarino, former student
Krolikowski was fired from her teaching job for "insubordination" in 2011, but fought back.
Marla Krowlikowski collapsed on September 20 and was taken to Nassau Communities Hospital, where she died. No cause of death has yet been determined. She was 62.
Perhaps it was a broken heart.
Monday morning open thread 09/29/2015 (possibly the last evah)
Agenda:
1) Watch world end, or maybe not. Check am talk radio to see.
special birthdays
Ben E. King, Koko Taylor
