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President Obama, early in his first term on December 13, 2009 famously said in an interview with CBS that "I Did Not Run for Office to Be Helping Out a Bunch of Fat Cat Bankers on Wall Street." Yet, as one of his last official acts as President that is exactly what he did by allowing federal loan guarantees of junk derivatives based on securitized mortgage backed rental properties. Now he’s in the news again for a receiving $400,000 to give a speech to Wall Street bank!

Gender may be the earliest identity and social category to emerge in development, research suggests, and acquiring knowledge about one's gender is considered a critical part of early childhood development.

It's not a done deal. It's probably a negotiating tactic, but it's something no Democratic president would ever do. Trump could forever turn the Rust Belt red with this.

Turkey has bombed northern Iraq every once in a while for decades.
This is different.

May 1 is International Workers Day, a day of reverence for the 90%. Buy nothing. And shake an upraised fist in the general direction of privileged, Democratic Presidential turd, Grover Cleveland. He's the reason people around the world celebrate Labor Day on May 1, in rembrance of the Haymarket Affair, but you don't. It's a day for pursuing peace and remembering the bloody struggle that had to be fought (still does) simply to avoid needless workplace deaths and injuries. (I post this essay today so that you can purchase anything you may need in advance of May 1.)

If you don't know about the Haymarket Affair, your ignorance is no accident:

Many antiwar and anti-imperialism proponents and activists have lamented the state of the sheeple, the acquiescent Americans, the complicit comrades of copious crimes against humanity.

Yes, it's that time of year when mothers (and grandmothers) are honored. True, it is a holiday based on crass commercialism, but it also affords us here at c99 the opportunity to help our friends who sell online. Take a gander at what's available, please: Caucus Catalog

Some say that the left right paradigm is over that politics needs to be based upon reality, usually by people to whom an ideology is an anathema.

Ideology
a set of beliefs or principles, especially one on which a political system, party, or organization is based:

This is flabbergasting to me. Maybe I've lost touch with what's happening around the country at our schools. I know the pigs don't do this where I live. I've got kids and grandkids, I'd know about it.

Buried deep in a recent L.A. Times news article was this gem.