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Five days ago Brandi Bledsoe, a 32-year-old transgender woman, was found dead on a driveway in Cleveland in only her underwear with plastic bags over her head and hands.

The body was discovered by a 5-year-old boy who was out riding his bike with his 12-year-old brother.

Police have disclosed that Brandi suffered head trauma. They also initially misgendered the victim.

Her death is a suspected homicide, but the medical examiner has not offered an official ruling on how she died.

Investigators will take her transgender status into consideration in the investigation. The investigation is in its early stages and it's too early to determine of motive for Bledsoe's death.

--Cleveland police spokesman Jennifer Ciaccia

What better way to provide an assist to a much unloved and mistrusted candidate than to ramp up the war drumming right before an election? I thought Hillary would have the Donald down for the count by now, but I guess she still needs a little help from our soon to be former POTUS. So guess who's coming to dinner and some war planning?

All I can say is that they don't pay State Department spokesperson John Kirby enough.
[warning: awkward moment]

The problem for Stumpf is that his thievery was too easy to understand.

Brian Rood is an assistant professor of psychology at Augsburg College in Minneapolis.

After I transitioned I applied for a job there in the Department of Mathematics, but they said they had no openings at the time.

Finally, John Podesta, Hillary Clinton's campaign chair, and head of The Podesta Group, one of the largest lobbying and "public affairs" firms in the United States world, with a reported income from lobbying efforts in the United States alone in 2014 just short of $12 Million, has deigned to answer questions

ANTIWAR.com has reprinted an article that gives a very good overview of the horrible mess that America's war mongers have visited upon the Syrian people over the past several years.

I have to admit I was somewhat surprised at the identity of the author, David Stockman, a name that is very familiar to those of us who were around during the Reagan Era.

Stockman was widely perceived to be the most sane of the Reagan Team when it came to understanding that you cannot balance the budget when you are cutting tax revenue at the same time you are increasing military spending dramatically. It appears David has come around quite a bit since the time he willingly served the most unhinged Cold Warrior of his time: Ronald Reagan.

I'd Love to change the world
But I don't know what to do,
So I'll leave it up to you.
"Ten Years After, I'd Love to Change the World, 1971"

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