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It's been a tough year for the agency tasked with monitoring internal dissent.
First was the Shadow Brokers leak.

I intended to do this only once a week, but today I'm feeling that I must do something. Peace is not a goal that can be relegated to the back burner, and while my gifts do not lie in inspiration or opposition, I can at least provide intelligence to bolster those at the front line.

C99, if I may.

native, who last posted here on Nov. 7, is our "ranchmate", having lived out here with us for years. On Nov. 17 he received a sudden and unexpected diagnosis of an untreatable metastasized cancer and has entered Home Hospice Care here at our home. He has declined very rapidly, is still conscious and somewhat coherent, but is mostly sleeping now.

Wall Street giant Morgan Stanley sounded the alarm yesterday.

File this one under D for 'Duh':

This isn't an easy story to tell, but I've been up all night thinking about why the stories linking sexual predator Matt Lauer to alleged sexism toward Hillary at a political forum 14 months ago were resurrected yesterday, and why they bothered me so much I felt compelled to write about it. And last night, a nasty twitter exchange with a Clinton supporter made me understand why.

Almost everyone other than Republican voters knew this was the case, but it rarely gets admitted by a Republican politician in public.