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Men behaving badly

About a week ago "comic" Lil Duval was asked on the radio program The Breakfast Club what he'd do if he found out a woman he had a relationship with was transgender.

This might sound messed up, and I don’t care. She dying. I can’t deal with that.

--Lil Duval

When cohost Charlamagne Tha God told him "you can’t go around killing transgenders," he did not back down:

Know your enemies: the global food cartel

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matters/2011/jun/...

Note that most of these companies are privately owned, no stocks sold means no need for disclosure of anything, no matter how misleading the prospectus.

Here I thought Louis Dreyfus was a French soldier wrongly accused of treason back in the late 19Cth.

Doing an End Run Around the DNC Lawsuit?

Well, hello, mighty C99!! If anyone is interested, there's a note on "where the hell has Luna been?" below--but trust me, this is way more important than moi. For now, I absolutely had to (reset my password, it's been that long) come out here and share some DNC-lawsuit-related thoughts amongst the fine denizens of the only blog I really trust at this point....

A humble attempt at Fortune Telling.

I'm not usually very good at predicting the future. I mean, I can see trends, and sometimes my brain works faster than I'm conscious of, resulting in gut feelings. But for some reason, today I feel like making a few very specific predictions about the next 3 years. Feel free to chime in with what you think as well.

Hell, it will be funny to look back on this in three years and be amazed at how crazy I thought the future would be.

Honor, Code, Loyalty

We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline.

Today is the anniversary of the United States Coast Guard (in Lego) but I'm not here to talk about that.

Instead I want to discuss heroism.

Admiral Paul F. Zukunft, Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, has personally informed each of the 13 Transgendered (that we know of) members of his service that he will not enforce Trump's tweeted orders to dismiss them.

"I will not turn my back. We have made an investment in you and you have made an investment in the Coast Guard, and I will not break faith."

Identity Politics And Litmus Tests

I'm reading a lot of reaction to the push back by Abortion Rights activists against the policy articulated by Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Ben Ray Luján not to withhold financial support from anti-Choice candidates (which I wrote about Monday), most of it from Corporatist Institutional Democrats and their centrist sycophants.

Their argument goes something like this-

"Hey you Hippies, you said you wanted us to get serious about the 'economy stupid' so we made up this crappy slogan 'A Better Deal: Better Skills, Better Jobs, Better Wages, Papa John's' and slapped together some tepid and ineffectual 'reforms' that don't bother our Plutocrat paymasters much and to prove our sincerity we're abandoning all that 'Social Justice' stuff that pisses off the angry white male Trump voters.

Remember, we're the less evil ones."

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