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Okay everyone, here it is; I'm no doubt repeating it from a comment I've made here earlier. Now it gets its own diary. Anyway:

1) The government starts a car company.

2) The car company makes only electric cars which will come with their own solar panels.

3) Everyone who owns a fossil-burning car gets an offer. You can trade in your fossil-burning car for an electric car at no charge.

4) At some point the gas pumps are shut off.

Jill Stein didn't get invited to the first presidential debate, but the Green Party candidate is still hoping to cause a stir.

In the hours before Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton take the stage, Stein and her supporters plan to hold a "Let Jill Debate" protest and subsequent "People's Debate."

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/jill-stein-protest-debate-228593#i...

Seattle Children Hospital will open a clinic providing care to transgender youth on October 4.

The clinic, which will serve patients up to 21 years of age, will offer puberty blockers, hormone therapy, mental health support, and group discussions.

As many of you are well aware, Keith Scott, a father of seven was shot and killed by Charlotte police on September 20, 2016.

(originally published in Feb 2015 as A Very Long Way from Galt's Gulch. I'm republishing this in response to a conversation happening in ek hornbeck's diary Why Corbyn Will Win)

Please watch the embedded video from Storm Clouds Gathering.

I spent Thursday and Friday night watching live feed of the protest in Charlotte and the supporting protests in Atlanta, also following twitter, and FB feeds of supporters of the protests and the general flow of "commentary" on twitter, you-tube and so on. I would like to share my observations:

Is the government of the United States "theirs" or "ours" ?

That's it. Pretty simple really. If the government is to truly be "of" the people, "for" the people, and "by" the people, i.e OUR government, run on our behalf and with our consent, then some safeguards have to be put in place to ensure that outcome. Principle among those safeguards are two major guidelines - Transparency and Accountability.

2 Class action lawsuits were filed after the 2016 Democratic Primary alleging the DNC was not impartial. This week, the DNC responded to one of the suits.

**BEVERAGE ALERT** Put down your coffee

Predictably, the DNC is seeking to dismiss the suit as without merit. And their rationale is that all of Bernie Sanders' supporters knew the DNC was biased toward Clinton and they donated anyways! We should have known the revolution was for suckers!

Much like the presidential race, Democrats were practising their touchdown dance just a month ago because they would soon be winning the Senate. Let's just say that the hubris has moderated.