The Evening Blues - 9-20-17
Submitted by joe shikspack on Wed, 09/20/2017 - 3:18pm

Transgender people are often referred to as mentally ill. People who do that will no doubt point to the suicide attempt rate in support of their assertion.
If you haven't seen it yet, you won't believe it:
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz9PNoecNxU]
After listening to Trump's terrifying bellicose and contradictory speech to the UN which will have more support across the US than many would care to admit. Contradictory in the sense of choosing our enemies and our allies alike.
Egypt is heavily invested in Libya's on-going civil war.

Yeah, I know, I put in a cute comment about arendt's use of "Mr. Burns" -- standard academic writing would have been "Burns" or "Ken Burns." Apologies to arendt.
It is now apparent that Mr. Burns is completely minimizing the CIA's role in Viet Nam. That role was even more prominent in the years before the commitment of US troops in 1964. But you would never know it from Mr. Burns.
Here are four examples of that minimization:
1. Rufus Philips
The Kurds of Iraq are about to vote for independence and Baghdad is not happy.


