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Abigail Austen transitioned ten years ago. At the time she became the British Army's first transgender officer.

Recently she and her fiancé traveled to the American South attempting to glean the state of the American transgender community in these times.

And she reveals a recent visit to the far-right dominated, notoriously anti-trans states, which support the Republican candidate, left her so traumatised she was unable to leave her home for two weeks.

The worst election in my lifetime, arguably the worst, most corrupt election in US history will end tomorrow, Tuesday, November 8th, and one of the two most despised candidates in our history will be installed as President.

This article written by Ken Silverstein that was posted at Zerohedge is a must-read IMO.

I was considering writing on a similar topic and am relieved that I needn't bother; I don't think anyone could surpass this essay on the shortcomings and compromises of "journalists" and formerly reputable entities in this election cycle. This is his opening sentence:

If you want a laugh, go watch the Election Focus Group they ran on 60 Minutes last night. Frank Luntz said he has been doing these for 30 years and has never seen anywhere near this level of anger and disillusionment.

This is the one I would write:

The Secretary And The House Keeper

Imagine if you can, a Secretary of State, married to a former POTUS, so indolent and so mechanically incompetent that she literally cannot print an email or an addendum to an email and must have all messages requiring printing forwarded to a presumably loyal and trustworthy servant who just happens to be from a politically volatile country.

No, I can't keep up. It's not possible, is it, that I am watching a panel on Wolf Blitzer discussing Comey's latest letter and a member of the panel, David Gregory, is simply identified as "CNN Political Analyst" without any mention that he just happens to be the husband of a lead attorney for Clinton in this whole fiasco? He's the husband of a MAJOR PLAYER and he's acting like some impartial analyst?

FROM HEAVY ARTICLE:

Director James Comey said Sunday in a new letter to Congress.

The case was made active again in late October when new emails emerged on devices used by longtime Clinton aide Huma Abedin. The emails were found during the FBI’s investigation into allegations that Abedin’s estranged husband, Anthony Weiner, sexted a teen girl.

The left-right paradigm that we've lived with for generations is over.
No longer are Democrats the liberals and Republicans the conservatives.
Consider these policies.

Free Trade

Harvard

The polls say the race between Clinton and Trump is narrowing. But as we all learned this year in the Democratic primary, the polls mean nothing when you vote in states that have electronic voting a/k/a e-voting machines and the manner in which those votes are tabulated.