The Evening Blues - 8-21-17
Submitted by joe shikspack on Mon, 08/21/2017 - 3:46pm

Just noticed that CNN put this out an hour ago. Watched it online.
Afghanistan: 16 years, thousands dead and no clear end in sight https://t.co/QkPcMdmJbX #news #latest pic.twitter.com/pWPOD9U70g
You've probably heard by now about Google's "War against fake news" that just happens to target left-wing web sites.

The United States has a Nazi problem.
The white race has been "radicalized".
Do you know who's to blame for this?
You guessed it - Putin.
The first round of NAFTA renegotiations happened this week, and they have a very familiar feel.
Despite promises in March by US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer (USTR) that the negotiations would be transparent, the USTR now considers the documents and negotiations “classified” and they’ll be cloaked in secrecy.
Harrison Browne retired from hockey at the end of 2016. The only openly transgender athlete to play a professional team sport went out a winner as his Buffalo Beauts won the Isobel Cup.
Wikipedia sums up his career:
One definition of a politician is someone who sees which way the wind is blowing and goes in that direction. OTOH, it is possible to sail against the wind. Methods for doing this are called tacking or beating. However, even these methods one cannot sail directly into the wind. (BTW, the whole essay is one big nautical analogy. You have been warned.)
State regulators in California have penalized Health Net $200,000 for violating antidiscrimination laws by denying coverage for transgender people seeking gender reassignment surgery.
I should start by saying I was wrong and Bernie Sanders was right: waiting for the repeal Obamacare battle to finish before introducing a Medicare For All bill was a good move.
Why? Just look at how public opinion on health care shifted this year.

