tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-131008342024-03-05T16:23:50.378-08:00Burlington Area ProgressivesA site devoted to issues of public concern in the area of Burlington, Wisconsin, across the United States, and in the world at large.Stephen D. Sullivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03113498534825448148noreply@blogger.comBlogger578125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13100834.post-17645904049085568292022-01-05T11:23:00.004-08:002022-01-05T11:23:57.016-08:00<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I read my latest edition of the Atlantic Monthly just about cover to cover in fascinated horror at the threat to freedom and our republic posed by the traitors and cowards that run today's Republicon Party. You should too, because the January 6 2021 violent insurrection continues today in slow motion, in DC and across the states, and is an even bigger and growing threat to the land of the free. Only this time it's not on the steps of our Capital, it's on the steps to your ballot box. Yes you should, that is IF you consider yourself to be a patriot who wants there to be a free world to keep on rockin' in!</span></span></p><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="bbt07" data-offset-key="91n0i-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="91n0i-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After my reading I mailed my copy to the Badger State's Assembly Speaker Robin Vos with the following note:</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="bbt07" data-offset-key="bejal-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bejal-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="bejal-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="bbt07" data-offset-key="5rsp6-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5rsp6-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="5rsp6-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">"Speaker Vos,</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="bbt07" data-offset-key="e092a-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="e092a-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="e092a-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">I read this edition just about cover to cover and reflected on it as a citizen of Wisconsin and the American Republic. I also reflected on it as a son and grandson, with regard to the legacy passed down to us and as a father and grandfather, with respect to the legacy we will pass down. I hope that you will consider doing the same.</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="bbt07" data-offset-key="bg47c-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bg47c-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="bg47c-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Sean Cranley"</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="bbt07" data-offset-key="fbhuj-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fbhuj-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="fbhuj-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="bbt07" data-offset-key="9u027-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9u027-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="9u027-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">I'm skeptical that he can look beyond himself, his cancerous cohort and their lust for power at the cost of all America is supposed to stand for. But it's worth a try.</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="bbt07" data-offset-key="7gif4-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7gif4-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="7gif4-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="bbt07" data-offset-key="5joi-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5joi-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="5joi-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Of course the cover article: January 6 Was Practice - Trump's Next Coup Has Already Begun is required reading. But the Editor's Note A Party , and Nation, in Crisis? I've never read that all the way through. I did this time.</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="bbt07" data-offset-key="7oqd8-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7oqd8-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="7oqd8-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="bbt07" data-offset-key="dqs9l-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dqs9l-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="dqs9l-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">What the GOP does to it's Dissenters is about a Freshman Michigan congressman with integrity. Need I say more?</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="bbt07" data-offset-key="7toup-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7toup-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="7toup-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="bbt07" data-offset-key="f7f0v-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="f7f0v-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="f7f0v-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">The Great (Fake) Child-Sex-Trafficking Epidemic article can't possible tie into the Trumpublicons right? WRONG!</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="bbt07" data-offset-key="9291g-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9291g-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="9291g-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="bbt07" data-offset-key="8ictu-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8ictu-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="8ictu-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">When the Myth of Voter Fraud Comes for You. What the GOPsters need scapegoats and enemies to fuel the resentment and outrage? Say it ain't so!</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="bbt07" data-offset-key="1p3hl-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1p3hl-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="1p3hl-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="bbt07" data-offset-key="5j18p-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5j18p-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="5j18p-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">What Happened to American Conservatism?</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="bbt07" data-offset-key="8p61n-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8p61n-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="8p61n-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Are We Doomed?</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="bbt07" data-offset-key="cs17a-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cs17a-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="cs17a-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Beware Prophesies of Civil War.</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="bbt07" data-offset-key="fdrbm-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fdrbm-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="fdrbm-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">The Kleptocrats Next Door</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="bbt07" data-offset-key="8l3i5-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8l3i5-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="8l3i5-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="bbt07" data-offset-key="2sput-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2sput-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="2sput-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">All, ALL link back to Trump and the cowards and traitors that are the officials in his putrid political machine. Get yourself a copy or don't say I didn't warn you! </span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="bbt07" data-offset-key="amva6-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="amva6-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="amva6-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="bbt07" data-offset-key="2dqe3-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2dqe3-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span class="py34i1dx" style="color: var(--blue-link); font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/">https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/</a></span></div></div>Sean Cranleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09170723474238012805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13100834.post-62548771372727972402021-07-02T07:14:00.001-07:002021-07-02T07:32:20.381-07:00Is America a Racist Country?<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I never heard the term Critical Race Theory until about a month ago, when I became aware of the indoctrinated Cult of Con members whining about it on the anti-social media. So I decided to find out what manner of propaganda the Rightwing Rubes were being fed now.</span></span></p><div data-block="true" data-editor="ft3l0" data-offset-key="b0p5-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="b0p5-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Turns out it's really just a term for the study of institutional racism in the United States, a thing we ALL learned a little about in grade school (Civil War, Jim Crow). But also a subject the great depth of which I've learned much more about in recent years (the GI Bill, redlining, neighborhood covenants, etc.). Institutional racism in this country is undeniable, no matter what you call it and if that truth offends your lily-white sensibilities then suck it snowflake.</span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="ft3l0" data-offset-key="ehhsr-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ehhsr-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="ehhsr-0-0"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="ft3l0" data-offset-key="1oeao-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1oeao-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="1oeao-0-0"><span style="font-family: arial;">So is America a racist country? Unfortunately, the answer is a resounding YES! But that doesn't make us exceptional, it makes us unexceptional, just like most all the other countries on the planet. Is there an exception? I can't think of one.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="ft3l0" data-offset-key="36vbo-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="36vbo-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="36vbo-0-0"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="ft3l0" data-offset-key="altsm-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="altsm-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="altsm-0-0"><span style="font-family: arial;">Look at what every single colonial power did to the indigenous peoples of their colonies. Look at what the Israelis are doing to the Palestinians, what the Chinese are doing to the Uighurs, the Burmese to the Rohingya, the Turks to the Kurds and the Armenians, the Sunni to the Shia or vice versa in the Muslim world. War on Drugs & Incarceration Nation anyone? I could go on and on around the globe and back through history.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="ft3l0" data-offset-key="d7k66-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="d7k66-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="d7k66-0-0"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="ft3l0" data-offset-key="361lb-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="361lb-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="361lb-0-0"><span style="font-family: arial;">The fact is that among human societies everywhere, the dominant group with the power will marginalize any group within it's grasp. So, if it makes you feel any better, the shame of racism shouldn't be assigned to your country, it belongs to your species.</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="ft3l0" data-offset-key="1sdtu-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1sdtu-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="1sdtu-0-0"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br data-text="true" /></span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="ft3l0" data-offset-key="1di6u-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1di6u-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="1di6u-0-0"><span style="font-family: arial;">What DOES make America exceptional? It was founded not as a nation state (based on race), but as a notion state (based on ideas). And striving for that notion that all men are created equal makes America perhaps the best chance for achieving a diverse society within an inclusive and functioning representative democracy that is the human race's best hope for Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. Or we can continue to wallow in our exclusive racial/religious/you-name-it <span style="font-size: 15px;">identities, continue to practice marginalization and destroy our Republic. It's up to you America.</span></span></span></div></div>Sean Cranleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09170723474238012805noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13100834.post-90896218925661704592020-10-26T05:06:00.004-07:002020-10-26T05:11:07.116-07:00Trump Leader of the Free World? Don't Make Me Cry!<p>Astonishingly, in the last week or so I have heard several commentators refer to Trump as "Leader of the Free World". This would be laughable if it wasn't so sad. But there is no leader of the free world anymore and there hasn't been one since Obama walked out of the White House and the America First Trumpladyte slithered in.</p><div data-contents="true"><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="5k1ed" data-offset-key="9f0sh-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9f0sh-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9f0sh-0-0">To be sure, George W. Bush did great harm to our standing in the eyes of our fellow democratic allies, but it was still redeemable and that's what they saw hopefully in president Obama's steady hand on the tiller. But now that the American People have shown that they're ignorant enough to elect an ignoramus like Trump once, they know that we're just foolish enough to do it again and even if Biden wins this election, the specter of another selfish Republicon winning will be in the forefront of their thoughts for a generation when it comes to establishing any long-term commitments to the international order in cooperation with the U.S.<br /><br /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="5k1ed" data-offset-key="5bru5-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5bru5-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5bru5-0-0">And who has stepped into the breach and is playing Trump, Pompeo and the rest of the betrayers of our hard won leadership in the post WWII world? China. It's China that is shaping the international order of the 21st century, not the United States of America. And what is China's primary goal in these efforts? To make the world not only safe for dictators like Xi Jinping, but to make the case that one party dictatorship's like China's are better models of government than democracies like ours and those of our allies.<br /><br /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="5k1ed" data-offset-key="1ubsp-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1ubsp-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1ubsp-0-0">So don't be foolish enough to think of Trump as the leader of the free world. In fact, if we're collectively naive enough to let him foul the White House for another four years, not only will we never lead the free world again, we won't even be in it!<br /><br />Please read this very informative article by the great foreign affairs writer Anne Applebaum:<br /></span><span class="py34i1dx"><br /><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/11/trump-who-withdrawal-china/616475/">https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/11/trump-who-withdrawal-china/616475/</a></span></div></div></div>Sean Cranleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09170723474238012805noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13100834.post-49626232641704339482020-10-23T06:30:00.001-07:002020-10-23T06:30:20.067-07:00Vos' Legislative Dictatorship<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdqlqCQNRR0B522m7YpqrjqlEyTqvCv6BspFfEMsbhRnqn02GFnq87fg7zHLqU0emXf4BsPTRbRohqrT3RGd5fVGFDclQFquA8D07oGMng7UZELyuNe-f5D9DBlhvhW4npvkQ5/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="182" data-original-width="277" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdqlqCQNRR0B522m7YpqrjqlEyTqvCv6BspFfEMsbhRnqn02GFnq87fg7zHLqU0emXf4BsPTRbRohqrT3RGd5fVGFDclQFquA8D07oGMng7UZELyuNe-f5D9DBlhvhW4npvkQ5/" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div data-contents="true"><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="b0apm" data-offset-key="cj05-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cj05-0-0"><span data-offset-key="cj05-0-0">Robin Vos has betrayed our Republics, that of Wisconsin and of the United States of America and he must go. In 2011, he and his so-called Republican co-conspirators imposed a legislative dictatorship on the people of Wisconsin for a decade. Through grotesque gerrymandering, Vos has destroyed representative democracy in the Badgered State, inflicting one-party rule Vlad Lenin would have been proud of, that need not heed the will of We the People.</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="b0apm" data-offset-key="ejpf5-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ejpf5-0-0"><span data-offset-key="ejpf5-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="b0apm" data-offset-key="aj5cq-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="aj5cq-0-0"><span data-offset-key="aj5cq-0-0">In both 2012 and 2018, the GOP retained a strong grip on both the state legislature and our congressional delegation despite losing the overall vote to Democrats. It’s estimated that in this tightly split purple state, Democrats would need to get at least 57% of our votes to have even a small chance of winning control. Gavel in and out Vos knows this and therefore, feels no need to act for our welfare or be responsive to the will of the electorate.</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="b0apm" data-offset-key="debs4-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="debs4-0-0"><span data-offset-key="debs4-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="b0apm" data-offset-key="bmdg1-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bmdg1-0-0"><span data-offset-key="bmdg1-0-0">Founder John Adams said that the representative assembly “should be in miniature, an exact portrait of the people at large”. If the founders had meant for the people to have a say in their representation only every ten years, they would have prescribed that elections be held only once a decade. Through his self-serving and power worshiping authoritarian actions, Vos has broken faith with the people of Wisconsin and the very foundation of our state, our country and our democracy and should be relegated to the trash bin of history. Vote Joel Jacobsen November 3rd!</span></div></div></div>Sean Cranleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09170723474238012805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13100834.post-50692298309514953042020-10-21T04:59:00.002-07:002020-10-21T04:59:23.044-07:00Echoes of the Election of 1876?<div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNOugwaglJPbJKM65YNbRvYSGpjbXPB2tlF42P-7ypuYodL7hAQR-672X9yNHTF8hu6rMsZauU2dp9aDB1i16TFvsnXWpdT7kgNl_TA2s-_kzXLh01lCAcw4WLjAipzXEc2i8m/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="771" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNOugwaglJPbJKM65YNbRvYSGpjbXPB2tlF42P-7ypuYodL7hAQR-672X9yNHTF8hu6rMsZauU2dp9aDB1i16TFvsnXWpdT7kgNl_TA2s-_kzXLh01lCAcw4WLjAipzXEc2i8m/" width="154" /></a></div></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I accept the reality of coincidence, but not of omens. And that's good because I just finished reading the historical novel 1876 by Gore Vidal. It was kind of a slog as the author spent the bulk of the book setting the real social, socialite and political landscape in our centennial year, at the dawn of the gilded age in New York and Washington DC through the daily activities of the fictional protagonists.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I'm glad I finished though, because unbeknownst to me the book culminated in the presidential "election" of 1876, where the totally power hungry and corrupt Grant Administration and his (already no longer Lincoln's) Republicon Party used deceit, falsified returns from swing states and dueling sets of electors to throw the outcome into Congress.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">NY Gov. Samuel Tilden won both the popular vote and the electoral college and was the rightful winner. But Republicons in several states submitted alternate returns and then sent alternate sets of electors for the electoral college. An extra-constitutional commission including members of Congress and the Supreme court ultimately handed power to the loser of the election, OH Gov. Rutherfraud B. Hayes.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Totally not an omen, couldn't happen today as we still have two parties with honest actors, integrity, respect for our democratic norms and traditions and strongly committed to our Republic, majority rule and the peaceful transfer of civil power that has been the hallmark of our democracy since George Washington willing stepped down. Yeah, just a coincidence!</div></div>Sean Cranleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09170723474238012805noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13100834.post-767064386794007422020-10-19T06:45:00.002-07:002020-10-19T06:45:34.489-07:00Open Letter to the Moronisphere<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpKQp0ylQVS-BHMoWNvGduBjQIk0ZhJ-MCjEbRFhx1xvFtNPxS-PtJ0W4Jkk4aBcqozd_4IetGu575fNFgCgFQlsO8K7GxPd_AedLnMLcB2pdasrc2aEq-yHi6EV5SH2j4KWbq/s310/Moronisphere2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="163" data-original-width="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpKQp0ylQVS-BHMoWNvGduBjQIk0ZhJ-MCjEbRFhx1xvFtNPxS-PtJ0W4Jkk4aBcqozd_4IetGu575fNFgCgFQlsO8K7GxPd_AedLnMLcB2pdasrc2aEq-yHi6EV5SH2j4KWbq/s0/Moronisphere2.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>To all you morons out there running around willy nilly, putting yourselves and others at risk in the middle of a global pandemic and crying for getting things back to normal and re-opening the economy, Ain't Gonna Happen! Because you can't do it without us and we're not playin'.</p><p>For an economy to grow you need everyone participating to the extent of their abilities. There's a ton of us here, watching your antics, shaking our heads in disgust at your foolhardy selfishness and doing our best to keep ourselves and our circles safe, by limiting potential exposure to the virus and you idiots to extent possible and practical. We're not living in fear, we just refuse to be stupid and selfish.</p><p>And you know what? We're keeping our powder dry. We're not going out and spending our money at bars and restaurants or travel or vacations, etc. and we're not going to as long as you chuckleheads keep this nonsense going. Furthermore, the more you morons keep fueling the surge in cases, the more people will see the wisdom of our ways and folly of yours and join us in our prudence, further lowering participation in the economy and extending the downturn.</p><p>Here in the once great Republic of Wisconsin, we've become the nation's premier virus breeding zone thanks to you cretins and your so-called "leaders. The Badgered State is now ruled by a Gerrymandered Republicon Legislative Dictatorship that needn't and doesn't give two shits about the will of the people or even our very lives. The Gavel-In-Gavel-Out Authoritarians have taken zero action in the months of this pandemic to stem the tied of spread. They have stymied any prudent actions by the reasonable Governor and the Department of Health Services to protect the people of the Badgered State, not by taking action themselves, which they could do, but by using their weaselly lawyers & Robed Judicial Hactivists on their Extreme Court. And these sniveling little cowards, afraid to be seen doing the right thing, have been encouraging you idiots to run out and save their economy, while they are in hiding!</p><p>But you don't have to keep playing stupid for this futile and deadly losing cause. This pandemic and the economic disaster it's ushered in with the help of the Trumpublicons will not end until there is a vaccine that is effective and administered widely enough to bring the spread under control. The economy will not recover until then and there is no reason for there to be tens of thousands of excess deaths in the meantime because of your antics. Because, like I said, you can't do it without us and we ain't playin'!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWt-CZv5qbRt-ozF0QO8mT4zCSZikZw7o6CS216ZniMYmf-Pv1Sm-gJINad2fyrSr5WDFtZffUN6xxCbqMJiUwXYVTPATBbj9TieO-N3tUw5XRcuf0oSh2YZVF-CdNpNSjCdsl/s299/Moronisphere.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWt-CZv5qbRt-ozF0QO8mT4zCSZikZw7o6CS216ZniMYmf-Pv1Sm-gJINad2fyrSr5WDFtZffUN6xxCbqMJiUwXYVTPATBbj9TieO-N3tUw5XRcuf0oSh2YZVF-CdNpNSjCdsl/s0/Moronisphere.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Sean Cranleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09170723474238012805noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13100834.post-50072850736108542212020-10-08T09:18:00.005-07:002020-10-08T09:18:58.391-07:00Black Lives Matter - Not about your Ancestors, but the Here & Now!<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8yjWGhxG-ZhJ-uEA_O2_tV0k9K7UxUI2bWXp-35okOA8BMDjZjf7HruJjCJbSyDMnVgXU93kLu3DO3LC37drDqwbgm4ntjKX2xXF3bGGKKOviEfnv4ydv3vDny3FmyRiVCUZX/s246/BLM.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8yjWGhxG-ZhJ-uEA_O2_tV0k9K7UxUI2bWXp-35okOA8BMDjZjf7HruJjCJbSyDMnVgXU93kLu3DO3LC37drDqwbgm4ntjKX2xXF3bGGKKOviEfnv4ydv3vDny3FmyRiVCUZX/s0/BLM.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p>I keep seeing the "I/my ancestors didn't own any slaves and you can’t fix history" argument in response to Black Lives Matter, so I feel like I have to say something because I find it to be a completely bogus and disingenuous line of reasoning.</p><div data-contents="true"><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4cvcb" data-offset-key="5g9ln-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5g9ln-0-0">First of all, while history is important for sure BLM is about what’s happening and keeps happening right now. This sort of “reasoning” also seeks to ignore many of the reasons for the problem of racial injustice we still face today and to falsely absolve people of their responsibility to be part of the solution. It's really not just about what you or I or our families did or didn't do. That's a self-centered perspective.</div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4cvcb" data-offset-key="102di-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="102di-0-0"><span data-offset-key="102di-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4cvcb" data-offset-key="5g55t-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="5g55t-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5g55t-0-0">It IS about what OUR government legally sanctioned in the past, what's still tolerated now and the ongoing problems that persists today because of that history and because of current on-going conditions.</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4cvcb" data-offset-key="40l76-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="40l76-0-0"><span data-offset-key="40l76-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4cvcb" data-offset-key="8caua-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8caua-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8caua-0-0">The end of slavery was in 1865, 155 years ago and was followed by the LEGAL Jim Crow era of disenfranchisement, segregation and lynching that sort of, but not really, ended in the 1960s with the civil rights and voting rights act, which was just gutted by the so-called conservative Judicial Hacktivists on the U.S. Extreme Court.</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4cvcb" data-offset-key="6ph8a-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6ph8a-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6ph8a-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4cvcb" data-offset-key="9qt3g-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9qt3g-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9qt3g-0-0">Racism is still alive and well in the brains of too many Americans and the effects of that and 400 years of oppression still strongly impact the lives of every black American alive today through the wealth gap, the achievement/opportunity gap and in the fact that they have to repeatedly have "The Talk" with their children, especially their boys about how to be very careful in public to avoid being abused or killed by police. Which just keeps happening anyway. It's an outrage!</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4cvcb" data-offset-key="blvu8-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="blvu8-0-0"><span data-offset-key="blvu8-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4cvcb" data-offset-key="6un94-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6un94-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6un94-0-0">One metric I heard several years ago and which is probably worse now after the great Recession and Covid 19, both of which disproportionately impacted minorities, is the net worth of American women. The average net worth of a white woman is over $40K. For Hispanic women, it's $1 and for black women it's ZERO. That's no accident, that is the result of government policy, OUR government. Through red lining, black were relegated to certain neighborhoods, largely in old parts of inner cities. Because they could not get home equity loans, they had great difficulty upgrading and maintaining their houses, which fell into disrepair and lost value. Covenants went with houses forbidding white owners to sell to blacks. How's that for Freedom? You couldn't sell the house You OWNED to who you wanted to and they couldn’t buy it! Blacks were excluded from social Security when it first came out.</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4cvcb" data-offset-key="59fr3-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="59fr3-0-0"><span data-offset-key="59fr3-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4cvcb" data-offset-key="4d707-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4d707-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4d707-0-0">A lot of black soldiers served overseas to defeat fascism in WWII (only to see it rise today at home). And did they get the benefits of the GI Bill? NOPE! While their white fellow veterans got the benefits to go to college and buy houses in suburbs, building inter-generational wealth and the middle class, black Vets weren't eligible. So instead of building equity and taking upwardly mobile jobs, they paid rent to build landlord wealth and took low skill dead end jobs.</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4cvcb" data-offset-key="f1fn9-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="f1fn9-0-0"><span data-offset-key="f1fn9-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="4cvcb" data-offset-key="b5nfu-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="b5nfu-0-0"><span data-offset-key="b5nfu-0-0">One could literally go on and on with examples like this. History isn't past, we live with it every day. The gist is that our government and our society did these things, the adverse effects are on-going and as citizens of a Republic (so far) we are ALL responsible for resolving these injustices.
So whatever your ancestors did or didn’t do, you don’t need to feel guilty or absolved. It wouldn’t do a bit of good anyway. What you should do that WILL do good is to stop making excuses, know the history, see the current conditions that have resulted with clear eyes and take responsibility as a citizen of our republic and demand the change that’s need once and for all, so that we can stop this endless cycle of inequality and injustice.</span></div></div></div>Sean Cranleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09170723474238012805noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13100834.post-13938266212249200392020-09-02T07:15:00.004-07:002020-09-02T07:15:58.257-07:00My Dear White Friends<p><span style="background-color: white;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi18-tDnFISDxcWGz-L1ziMJcC8rmQx9ZXHf1dlCs1EwZhgrmkhEHXvqLhipjZ9-tMGV2f9SdUNWUZ8TgGkMygdUdXj10sq2maUvGUVOdV-Z7jljMgqBxZ_qp6StxRScxYdcOv/s251/White+Riot+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="201" data-original-width="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi18-tDnFISDxcWGz-L1ziMJcC8rmQx9ZXHf1dlCs1EwZhgrmkhEHXvqLhipjZ9-tMGV2f9SdUNWUZ8TgGkMygdUdXj10sq2maUvGUVOdV-Z7jljMgqBxZ_qp6StxRScxYdcOv/s0/White+Riot+2.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px;">Rosewood Massacre</span></div><br /><span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px;">My dear white friends, yes violence and destruction are egregious, counter-productive and wasteful crimes, no matter who perpetrates them. But if you don't understand why they happen, not just here, not just now, but across the world and throughout history, then you need to get a better grasp on human nature.</span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px;">And if you think that you would behave differently under the same circumstances with the tables turned, then you need to stop patting yourself on the back and g</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-size: 14px;">et a better grip on reality.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; margin: 6px 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Furthermore, if you believe that these events are the result of the characteristics of a particular group of humans and not the result of the conditions that they have been subjected to by other humans for 400 years and counting, then you're being extremely foolhardy and exhibiting the flawed "reasoning" of racial prejudice. 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Republican Party is rushing toward holding that “distinction” too. This degeneration
is no longer about political opinions or ideologies, it’s about values.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The GOP has lost its mind, sold its soul and
exposed its depraved values. Their actions and inactions demonstrate that they
value only one thing, money/power, flip sides of the same coin and they have
thwarted representative democracy, our very Republic, in their morbid quest.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Here in the Badgered State we have laws, written and voted
on in secret by far away corporations, and imposed on you by Vos and Fitzgerald
without attribution. They’ve passed numerous laws taking away local control. Gross
gerrymandering makes majority vote rule meaningless, the Republicans still
control the legislature. They suppress voters, betraying the very foundation of
our Republic. And they got the judicial hacktivist stacked extreme court to
place the economy above our pandemic threatened lives, ruling absurdly that our
constitution prohibits our government from protecting its citizens, its first
and foremost function. That’s what kangaroos do. They even lame-duck limited
the power of our governor when they objected to the choice We the People made.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">At the federal level, the GOP has backed every un-American,
authoritarian play of a cult figure who embodies the seven deadly sins and exhibits
zero counter-balancing virtuous values. Their tax cut for the rich proved they
don’t care about debt or deficits. Law & order? Please, he’s surrounded himself
with felons, corrupticons and pedophiles and if you’re the president’s pal your
pardoned.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The final evidence of this party’s degeneration to golden
calf idolatry is their insistence on sacrificing our children on the altar of
their moneygod. It’s not about education, it’s about daycare and pandemic prone
parents being pressed back into service for fun, profit and Trump’s re-election,
the prospect of which represents the final republican nail in the coffin of our
republic. I never believed they were really pro-life, but this is proof
positive and it begs the question, “Republicans, have you no decency!”</p></div>Sean Cranleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09170723474238012805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13100834.post-5658956815727928512020-07-25T06:26:00.001-07:002020-07-25T06:26:52.557-07:00Pandemicized America's Healthcare Bankruptcy<div>
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In the middle of this pandemic Americans are losing their jobs and therefore, their healthcare and getting sick on top of that atrocity. That isn't happening in Non-Shithole Countries. Here in the Badgered State, our so called representatives refused to take the medicaid expansion, costing the state millions and denying Wisconsinites healthcare. So much for "fiscal conservatism" and "pro-life". That didn't happen in Non-Shithole States.</div>
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Decent countries care about their people and provide affordable healthcare to All. You want me to honor the flag? Be THAT Country!</div>
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We were in a housing crisis Before the Pandemic. 11% of black renters are evicted every year in America, where on average there are 3.6 million eviction cases per year. Now we face the worst economy since the great depression and the moratorium on evictions is about to expire with no meaningful help in sight.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;">Yesterday an Aussie white supremacist pig committed the worst act terrorism in New Zealand's history, killing 49 Muslims who gathered to pray! And who is the immigrant who has done the most damage our democracy here in America? Rupert the Murdoch, another Australian Immigrant!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;">The Murdoch didn't use a gun, he used his wealth as a weapon against Our Republic. He bought his U.S. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;">Citizenship for $100,000 from the Reagan administration. Who turned around and eliminated the broadcasting fairness doctrine, which allowed Rupert the Murdoch to start the GOPropaganda cable network FuxSnooze.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;">And look at the pathetic state our country now. Swaths of the populace are hateful and ignorant enough to think that the racist dork, Trumplestiltskin is the solution to their problems, when in fact of their ills stem from the obscene democracy killing wealth of billionaires like Five-Deferments-Donny and Rupert-the Murdoch, warping our values, our economy and our representation. And it all started with Ronny, Rupert and the FuxSnooze Ooze of propaganda, and boy do they fucking </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; text-align: justify;">Snooze!</span></div>
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Sean Cranleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09170723474238012805noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13100834.post-59471355392783636842019-02-15T05:48:00.002-08:002019-02-15T05:48:18.420-08:00Impeach THE National Emergency!<br />
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The response of the Democratic controlled House of Representatives to Donald Trump Declaring a Fake National Emergency should be to immediately move to begin impeachment proceedings for his misuse of presidential authority!<br />
<br />Impeachment proceedings should be started TODAY, the same day that Trump commits this new atrocity on our Republic. If the Democrats don't use the authority handed to them by the American People last fall in the face of this outrage, they are not doing their jobs and they don't deserve to keep them!<br />
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I have been of the opinion that we needed to wait until Robert Mueller finished his job and issued his report. I Was WRONG! Besides, we may never see Mueller's report.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/03/impeachment-trump/580468/">Please read the article linked here by Yoni Appelbaum in the latest issue of the Atlantic Monthly - Impeach Donald Trump.</a><br />
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The author lays out a rock solid case for why the constitutional solution the founders gave us needs to be enacted NOW! It's a long, deliberative process, which is why it needs to begin right away. In short, starting the impeachment process will do three things:<br /><br />1) Set up congressional committees and investigations into all of the suspicious activities that surround Trump and his circle with the power to subpoena witnesses and documents, hold public hearings and bring disinfecting sunlight to the Trumpian realm.<br />
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2) Force Trump and all his inner circle to lawyer up and focus their full attention on defending themselves and their actions and away from their disgusting, un-American agenda. Remember when the Fellowship of the Ring attacked Mordor drawing Sauron's full attention away from his goal of finding the one ring? Yeah, Like That!<br /><br />3) Grab the news agenda away from Trump the Twit and his ability to thumb-twist the news cycle craft the narrative and deflect attention to suit his self-serving needs.<br />
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Declaring a National Emergency to raid funds appropriated by Congress for other purpose to build a monument to himself, based on a stupid campaign promise, that Mexico was supposed to pay for, Not Us, is BRIDGE TOO FAR! <br /><br />Our Republic Cannot allow him to get away with this! Please read the article and then take what action seems best to you!Sean Cranleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09170723474238012805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13100834.post-19976131343432360242018-09-05T19:49:00.001-07:002018-09-05T19:50:32.584-07:00NYT Insider Resistance Op Ed Stupid on Many Levels<div data-contents="true">
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<span data-offset-key="edr6b-0-0">A) Why would you alert the Toddler Trump that there are "Adults in the room" foiling his impulsiveness? His narcissistic paranoia will now result in the purging of all said adults who've been putting the brakes on his crazy train!</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="f1qdn-0-0">B) Why would you think that invoking the 25th amendment would cause a constitutional crisis? The 25th Amendment IS The Constitution!</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="jqjv-0-0">C) You know what IS a Constitutional Crisis? Subordinates not carrying out the president's orders!</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="1bsf4-0-0">D) Trumpy's already nutty nutty two shoes! Do you really want to send him flipping completely over the edge with the nuke football in reach! Seriously what do you thing the Trumpladyte cares about more himself or the planet?</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="dv280-0-0">E) All you so called principled people who have resigned or are staying on to pad his room have totally abdicated your responsibility to tell congress and the American people the whole truth about what's going on in OUR house and why you chose to quietly resign or chose to stay and secretly defy executive authority so that we could Constitutionally Impeach his @$$ouliness!</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="cems4-0-0">Oh and by the way, fuck your so called "bright spots" of "effective deregulation, historic tax reform and a more robust military", none of us riffraff out here get any benefit from the repetition of all that Elitist Enriching Cult of Con Fucking Nonsense!</span></div>
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Sean Cranleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09170723474238012805noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13100834.post-20279575045689144492018-07-20T05:34:00.001-07:002018-07-20T05:35:46.819-07:00Trumpski Treasonovich is WWWalker on Stupidity Steriods!<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="fdjmm" data-offset-key="d20ca-0-0" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
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<span data-offset-key="8b4s7-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span data-text="true" style="font-family: inherit;">Bushyboy was fucking awful, but the awful stupid shit oozed out every few days or so. We're down to every few hours now!</span></span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="8b4s7-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span data-text="true" style="font-family: inherit;">I blame, in part, Wrong Way Walker and the Badgered State Corrupticons. They came up with this Blitzkrieg assault on decency and democracy. Do so much damage so fast that the public and the opposition start reacting to one atrocity and before that gets rolling, there's another one and another one and . . . then they don't even know what to . . . wait a minute . . . what happened exactly?</span></span><span data-offset-key="1djp2-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span data-text="true" style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="447qq-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><span data-text="true" style="font-family: inherit;">Am I giving the Trumpladyte too much credit? Probably, after all he IS a Fucking Moron! Not there's anything wrong with that!</span></span><br />
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Sean Cranleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09170723474238012805noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13100834.post-18878933157730030642018-04-12T05:33:00.000-07:002018-04-12T05:58:40.716-07:00Pall gets More Family Time - We get LESS!<div data-contents="true">
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<span data-offset-key="8ckja-0-0">My Wife was just forced to full time at work because of Pall Ryand and the rest of his @$$oul pals and their incessant attack on our healthcare. So she lost her day off. The day off that she used to help her Mother, that she could have used to help my Mother, the day she might have taken care of a future grandchild, the day she did things for our Family and for herself. This is a concrete and highly negative impact to our family from Pall and the "Family Value$ Folk$"! And we're just one among Millions.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="79u5t-0-0">Why was she FORCED to do this? To put me on her employer's healthcare plan. Because in Republicon America we must be shackled to our master's plans for our health and retirement, if it's offered at all. </span>The extra money will be slightly nice, but as a social worker, my Wife doesn't make that much anyway, because working to help people is not a valued endeavor in America, so it's definitely not worth the loss of family time, especially because it will eat into my work time, which is most of our income. This is already adding stress to our lives, and her having to pay this price for my healthcare is naturally raising marital tensions. But hey "Family Value$"!</div>
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<span data-offset-key="dhhd-0-0">Obamacare (ACA) has been a good option for us. Two of my children and I went on Obamacare (ACA) in 2013 when my former employer eliminated health insurance. Obamacare was cheaper and better anyway and I was able to continue working there, which was my preference, rather than changing jobs just for insurance. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="cmude-0-0">Now I've been able to be self-employed for 2.5 years because of Obamacare, but apparently that type of enterprise isn't of sufficient value to the GOPsters for them to come up with a a viable solution to healthcare in this country. On the contrary, these racists have been hell bent on destroying this healthcare option for millions of Americans that was first implemented by MA. Gov. Mitt Romney and was hatched by the conservative Heritage Foundation. Never mind that, the Black, Indo-Kenyan, Secret Muslim did it and so it must be eliminated despite the collateral damage to millions of Americans. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="op67-0-0">So we can't be secure in the idea that Obamacare will be there for me next year (even though just as many people signed up this year as last despite the Trumpadyte's efforts). Hence my wife having to sacrifice her time for my physical health and our financial well being while the opportunity existed.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="a2ko2-0-0">So while Pall Ryand will be spending MORE time with his Family, WE will be spending LESS with ours. Thank you very fucking much you piece of Crap! </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="1pbtj-0-0">Now go cash in on your many @$$oul connections Pall, while we continue to struggle and adjust and hope we can keep our heads above water long enough to get to retirement age in the coming decade or so. Think of all the $300 bottles of wine in your future now! At least you won't be around to fuck that up too, you Debt Piling, Wealth Worshiping Idolator!</span></div>
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Sean Cranleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09170723474238012805noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13100834.post-90939998288693869662018-03-09T10:20:00.000-08:002018-03-09T12:11:56.173-08:00Mark Twain was Right About Social Media<br />
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Mark Twain is reputed to have said; <span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">"A lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." Ironically it was not Mr. Clemens, but someone named </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Charles Haddon Spurgeon.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> That made it no less true then and all the more salient today with the Twits and the FaceFooks. </span><br />
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<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/03/largest-study-ever-fake-news-mit-twitter/555104/">According to an MIT study of Twitter</a>, falsehoods travel at light speed (up to 100,000) shares, while the truth slinks along on the solar wind (1,000).<br />
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I'm not on Twitter thankfully, so I can't comment on the propensity for propaganda on that platform, but I would be astounded if it's worse than the FaceFooks. And since all my snowflake friends in the Cult of Con have unfriended me to avoid confrontations with facts, I don't see much of what constitutes FaceFook "news" over on that side of the aisle anymore. But if it's anything like that which is passed around by my liberal friends (and I know from past experience that it's worse) then we are a nation divided less by the truth and more by lies. For example, <span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I'm seeing many of my liberal cohort on the FaceFooks poo-pooing Russian meddling because HILLARY! DNC! a "logic" that fails to recognize that two things can be true simultaneously, but salves the need for self-reinforcement. But hey they're in "good" company with FuxSnooze, Five Deferments Donny and the Trumpladyte horde!</span><br />
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According to a <a href="http://www.journalism.org/2017/09/07/news-use-across-social-media-platforms-2017/">Pew Research Center survey</a>, 67% of Americans get news from social media, with FaceFook by far accounting for the lion's share. One cannot successfully run a Republic on falsehoods and still promote the general welfare, so We the People are in deep trouble. If we don't wake up and get some media savvy we're screwed!<br />
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<li>If it's from a partisan source, it's almost certainly not the Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth;</li>
<li>TV is a good source for news about the weather;</li>
<li>If it sounds too weird to be true be very skeptical;</li>
<li>If it's on social media be very very skeptical;</li>
<li><a href="https://www.theonion.com/">Newsferyoos.com is NOT a credible source of information!</a></li>
<li>And for Cripe Sakes double check the veracity of information to avoid spreading crap around the interwebs and polluting the "brains" of your fellow Americans. It's your patriotic duty!</li>
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My wife Jackie is being forced against her will into the decision to work full time. By her employer, me, finances? Nope, by the @$$ouls who own and operate the Republicon Party and the complete uncertainty that they've created in the healthcare market place. So Jackie is probably going to have to give up her Friday's off so that she can add me to her employer's plan at an affordable rate. <br />
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<br /> For 7 years the GOPsters have been sabotaging and vowing to repeal and replace the ACA/Obamacare, which allowed us to affordably continue to insure our family when my former employer dropped coverage in 2013 and I then became a self-employed business owner in 2015. I suppose I could give up my business and my freedom and go crawling to an employer to get health insurance, is that what the Republicons want?<br />
<br /> For 7 years they never bothered to come up with a viable replacement, just a piece of crap slap to the poor and elderly and taxcut blowjob for the rich. The Dems wanted to label it Trumpcare, but that's not fair, he has absolutely no idea what's in it and doesn't care. It's really the prick Pall Ryand's mean little wishlist that has now failed because there are a handful of Republicans who actually give a shit about the people they're supposed to represent.<br />
<br /> So now they're just going to try and repeal and not replace Obamacare and send us back to the pre-ACA era with the corporate death panels, the pre-existing conditions, the crappy plans that you find out don't do what's needed precisely when you need it and the spiraling premiums. And so my dear wife will spend an extra day every week against her will, sitting at a computer in an attempt to keep a little safety net beneath us in case one of us gets sick or injured. Nice job @$$ouls!<br />
<br /> Now you're going to have to come up with some other way pay off your sponsors and step on the necks of the poor. But you have succeeded in one sense, repealing Obamacare is estimated to kick 18 million Americans off of health insurance. I know that's 6 million short of your goal, but I'm confident you'll come up with a way. Hey, another Great Republicon Recession would do the trick!<br />
<br /> You @$$ouls are the greatest threat to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for our family. Eat shit and die.<br />
<br /> Peasantly Yours,<br /> CorpSerf ID# IMNFD1-ONURFD2</div>
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Sean Cranleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09170723474238012805noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13100834.post-61732244802340155592017-02-22T05:56:00.000-08:002017-02-22T05:56:01.706-08:00Question for Conservatives<div data-contents="true">
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<br />Stephen D. Sullivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03113498534825448148noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13100834.post-10134521874252048812016-12-13T04:42:00.001-08:002016-12-13T04:42:14.932-08:00Trump's @$$oul Affirmative Action PlanIn keeping with Trump's @$$oul Affirmative Action Plan to fill top spots:<br />
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One of OUR planet's premier @$$ouls, your next secretary of state?<br />
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EXCERPT: "The (climate change) fear factor that people want to throw out there to say 'We just have to stop this,' I do not accept."<br />
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Fear? Of course! Why would anyone in a low lying coastal plain fear a rising tide? Why would anyone surviving on barely arable land fear an expanding desert? Why would anyone dependent on glacial melt water for drinking and irrigating their crops fear the permanent and complete melting of the mountain glaciers they've depended on for time immemorial? They'll simply adapt.<br />
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Read More Here: <a href="http://burlingtonareaprogressives.blogspot.com/2012/07/plutannosaurus-rex.html">http://burlingtonareaprogressives.blogspot.com/2012/07/plutannosaurus-rex.html</a>Sean Cranleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09170723474238012805noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13100834.post-6440883744184946502016-10-29T08:53:00.000-07:002016-10-29T08:53:30.956-07:00To My 3rd Party Voting Friends - Vote Hillary!<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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Stephen D. Sullivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03113498534825448148noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13100834.post-86770126519779179102016-10-06T05:34:00.002-07:002016-10-06T05:34:11.739-07:00Your Puritanical "Principles", More Important that the Planet?<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="12ih5" data-offset-key="deec4-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #4b4f56; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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Sean Cranleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09170723474238012805noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13100834.post-51960679276462127932016-09-10T08:35:00.002-07:002016-09-10T08:36:32.391-07:00Patriot or Nationalist?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">A patriot is like a good parent. Good parents love their
children unconditionally, but they have no illusions that their children are
perfect. They have no problem with disciplining their children or having others
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">A nationalist is like a bad parent. Bad parents love their
children unconditionally. And they may have no illusions that their children
are perfect or have a problem with disciplining them. But they go ape shit if
anyone calls their children to account when they've done wrong. Because
"What? Not my Child!" Unevolved and Totally Tribal!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">I saw this when I had to take one of my kids to the police
station over a stupid prank for which, thankfully, they were caught. The
officer laid out the charges and then asked if he had the right party, to which
we both answered "yes". The officer was clearly surprised at this. I
thought that was a shame and very revealing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Nationalism is Racism's just as dangerous, but surficially less
revolting cousin. Subjects dared not criticize Nazi Germany. Subjects dare not
criticize China or Russia or North Korea! But Citizens of America should never
feel subjugated! Oh, and by the way, there are many patriots who suffered for
our freedom. But only a fool would die for an F’ing Flag.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">So Colin Kaepernick, in a way that hurts no one (even Packer fans),
calls out America for its racist wrongs. Wrongs that it has made great progress
on and should be proud of, but on which it OBVIOUSLY still has a long way to
go. Like good parents, Patriots understand / tolerate that. Like bad parents,
Nationalists go ape shit on the interwebs!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Be a patriot, don't go FaceFook Apie!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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