There was a vigil last evening for Annabel Montoya, the East Los Angeles transgender teen who was intentionally run down by a vehicle in Monterey Park on around 2:30 am on Saturday April 2. Police have said that Annabel may have been beaten before being run down.
The 16-year-old Annabel is currently in a medically induced coma in the ICU at County-USC Medical Center.
Remember when Ted Cruz promised to carpet-bomb ISIS?
Tuesday April 10, 1906
San Francisco, California - Police Attack Protest of Workingmen
I'm a recent refugee here from DK. I had relegated myself to lurk status over there, not commenting since 2013 and not posting a diary since 2011. I enjoy a political argument as much (if not more) than anybody, but I enjoy principled debate, where the exchange of ideas is paramount, not the exchange of personal insults, which is what DK has degenerated into over the years.
The pundits are all abuzz about whether or not Bernie Sanders has a "path to victory" in the Democratic primaries. Handicapping the horse race in all its minutiae from "the true math" to speculation over superdelegates and the size of campaign war chests fills the airwaves and plugs the tubes of the internets.
They are talking, largely, about a victory within the arcane electoral rules set up by the parties, but they are generally studiously ignoring the elephant in the room - the struggle of the 99% to achieve political and economic power.
Underneath all of the bloviating and rhetoric, power is what the so-called insurgent candidacies are really about.
In the latest round of Bill Clinton playing whack-a-black, I choose to disagree with the assessment of some Hillary supporters who feel Bill Clinton was unfairly treated after his reaction to a few Black Lives Matters (BLM for short) protestors, which included his impassioned defense of the policies he put in place to be "tough on crime" back in the nineties.
The little seen world of global weapons trade ... is about to be exposed.
Monday April 9, 1906
Boise, Idaho - George H. Shoaf Reports for Appeal to Reason
By now, everyone that's been paying attention knows of the Panama Papers and the scandal that has erupted across the globe.
FYI, this diary has also been crossposted over at Daily Kos: http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/4/9/1513067/-Taibbi-Why-the-Banks-S...
