Scarier than any Stephen King novel, scarier than the latest economic forecasts, scarier even than the prospect of another Obama term (well, almost), comes the latest news from my spies in Gotham City.
Friday evening police were called to a Sioux Falls apartment building because a juvenile reported a strong odor emanating from a neighbor's apartment. Investigators discovered the body of Jamie Lee Wounded Arrow, a 28-year-old transgender woman. She reportedly had been stabbed to death.
Ms. Wounded Arrow was an Oglala Lakota who grew up on the Pine Ridge Reservation.
A vigil was held outside the building on Saturday evening.
We need justice and we will get it.
I’m still in shock. I keep thinking she’s going to text me or come up here.
I always judge myself more severely than everyone around me. She made me feel like I could be myself.
--Franklin Whiting, Jr, friend and neighbor
I am so over this whole "hacked" debacle.
I live with and around people who could not reason their way out of wet paper bags, who when anything presented outside of the "News" of the day, just don't believe it. Even with clear evidence. I am so frustrated and angry that all the same things that predicated "Weapons of Mass Destruction" and "Saddam Hussein helping Al-Qaeda" are occurring and that opinion is treated as fact yet again.
Again I have to turn outside of the US bubble to actually get some sense.
Personally I read with mouth agape this intelligence defying piece by Paul Krugman that was heralded by many as a deep insight and was surprised that many on the left did not give it the ridicule it deserved.
"All problems must be solved through dialogue, through talk. The use of violence is outdated, and never solves problems."[61][62]
When government officials engage in illegal or improper acts that lead to a conviction, that conviction should be reconsidered. In the case of Leonard Peltier the misconduct of the FBI prevented him from getting a fair trial. He has spent many years in jail even though there were serious problem with the case against him. President Obama has the power to let this 72-year-old man spend his last few years with his family.
The parliament of Denmark, on New Year's Day voted in favor of removing the stigma from being transgender..."separating them from association with words such ads 'problem,' 'disorder,' or dysphoria.'"
Words matter. It was very important that terms like “incongruence,” “disturbance” and “problem” were left out of the code title used by the country’s medical community to track care.
The change makes it a code instead of a diagnosis.
--Linda Thor Pederson, LGBT Denmark
Is this the real reason our government lied to us about Russian hacking? To ensure complete control over the outcomes of future elections.
The Department of Homeland Security on Friday declared the electoral system as "critical infrastructure," the latest in a series of eleventh-hour responses to alleged Russian election-season hacks.
