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As more and more of Trump's "brilliant" tax reform plan is revealed one thing has become obvious:

This plan was designed with billionaires in mind.

Surface to Air Missiles (a/k/a/SAMs) are not weapons that any reasonable person would wish to see provided to the extremist Sunni Jihadist militias fighting in Syria.

My Xmas gift (new computer) has arrived and it's going to take some time to set up. So the time in my morning when I create new has vanished today. I instead share the following first published yesterday.

Take a look at this chart.

The changes in this country regarding income inequality since 1980 are a direct consequence of the policies, acts, bills, and other actions created and taken, or not taken, by our representative government during the 1980 to present time period and some years prior.

In the race to the bottom of the most awful presidential election in U.S. history, one of the most potent reasons for losing the White House, as noted by Jazzenterprises, was Killary's loss in part due to running as Obama 2.0.

"The first casualty when war comes is truth."
Hiram W Johnson

Governments and the media lie to get us into wars.
Once the war is started they lie to get us to support it.
These are not controversial statements.

Today is another horrible anniversary in US history: the legal lynching of 38 Dakota Sioux. This was ordered by President Abraham Lincoln. The Minnesota Uprising had begun because agents of the federal government refused to honor the treaties and wouldn't give the promised food rations to the people. Some left to find food, and they (and others who had done nothing at all) were brutally punished for it.

Reuters is telling he story of Penel Patterson.

Jodie Patterson's 3-year-old, Penelope, was brooding and angry until one day she asked her child what was wrong. Penelope, who was assigned female at birth, was upset "because everyone thinks I'm a girl," but he said he was really a boy.