tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75701317847735728902024-02-07T10:49:45.048-08:00AMERICANS FOR COMMON SENSECommon sense responses to the important issues of the day.Robert D Flachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06034127763662917220noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7570131784773572890.post-56414294885650247062022-11-15T02:19:00.000-08:002022-11-15T02:19:29.492-08:00THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE MUST BE DESTROYED!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjk8VgngfRJFqnmFYol-nPu8amBE3DcrLIm9_fbJzAyDPVDmwX0AHuLZncW80DFqt6o16ixnPPBi9D15V1dWmvrgWNJgGb9TQJ2fTDUwh5I43oGR06wIewR8gVapqRva64VMKTqNGQFEpGZgPR2e_jv2eHQj8zsushNJ4YO47_54spSBGpVOVvy8jF8g/s460/NO%20ELECTORAL%20COLLEGE.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="460" data-original-width="460" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjk8VgngfRJFqnmFYol-nPu8amBE3DcrLIm9_fbJzAyDPVDmwX0AHuLZncW80DFqt6o16ixnPPBi9D15V1dWmvrgWNJgGb9TQJ2fTDUwh5I43oGR06wIewR8gVapqRva64VMKTqNGQFEpGZgPR2e_jv2eHQj8zsushNJ4YO47_54spSBGpVOVvy8jF8g/w400-h400/NO%20ELECTORAL%20COLLEGE.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In
the history of our country no one individual has done more damage to America,
the American people, American values, and American democracy than Donald J
Trump – the 45<sup>th</sup> President of the United States.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Trump
has proven time and again by his words and deeds that he is a totally worthless
piece of garbage, completely devoid of intelligence and humanity, who does not
possess a single redeeming positive quality or value, and who has not performed
a single totally unselfish positive act in his entire adult life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was the most ignorant, incompetent,
corrupt, and unqualified President in US history, with absolutely no knowledge
or understanding of the responsibilities and limitations of the office of
President.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Trump
was never the choice of the American people for President.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>Trump lost the 2016 election to Hillary
Clinton by 2,868,686 (2.9 Million) votes</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Clinton received 48.18% of the popular vote and Trump received 46.09%.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Looking at the total vote for President in
2016, and the votes for all candidates, <b>10.7 Million more Americans voted
against Trump than voted for Trump</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Despite
losing the election Trump was placed in office by the Electoral College. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
Electoral College is an anti-democratic process that abandons the concept of
“one man (or woman), one vote” and the will of the people and gives the votes
of some Americans more weight and importance than the votes of others.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;">One
of the reasons for the creation of the Electoral College, as explained in “Why
the Electoral College” by Marc Schulman at HISTORY CENTRAL by Marc Schulman, is
–</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“<i>The
founding fathers were afraid of direct election to the Presidency. They feared
a tyrant could manipulate public opinion and come to power</i>.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Schulman
tells us –</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“<i>Hamilton
and the other founders believed that the electors would be able to ensure that
only a qualified person becomes President. They thought that with the Electoral
College no one would be able to manipulate the citizenry. It would act as a
check on an electorate that might be duped. Hamilton and the other founders did
not trust the population to make the right choice. The founders also believed
that the Electoral College had the advantage of being a group that met only
once and thus could not be manipulated over time by foreign governments or
others</i>.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;">So,
the Electoral College was created to ensure an unqualified candidate, like
Trump, or, also like Trump, a demagogue – a person, “<i>who seeks support by
appealing to the desires and prejudices of ordinary people rather than by using
rational argument</i>” – would never become President, to prevent foreign interference in the election of President, and to prevent poor administration of government. It clearly failed in 2016.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It
is important that the Electoral College be abolished – and the President of the
United States become elected by the popular vote – so that a dangerous,
ignorant, incompetent, corrupt, and unqualified malignant narcissist like Trump
will never again be put in the White House against the will of the people. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></p><br /><p></p>Robert D Flachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06034127763662917220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7570131784773572890.post-45696442660679859602022-11-10T03:01:00.003-08:002022-11-10T03:34:34.412-08:00TODAY'S REPUBLICAN PARTY LIES!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVcTeXyfpNIBAfO6Q3xcAoDrEUM8WIg_Aa4Lb9XQ8BKfD43duYddnG5F3jfUpFkDl1IvvtjOZO52Tn50lMlvY8h2AJOysHmfjo31fBXT9EkLTsLUy9lxrG6a6fX8pPAbpQtyiscQC4uJrf62OFSUrYaQ2GTDVigw6jPmfUPs3-H94rrsEG2RC-Q2dLCA/s240/NO%20GOP.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="240" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVcTeXyfpNIBAfO6Q3xcAoDrEUM8WIg_Aa4Lb9XQ8BKfD43duYddnG5F3jfUpFkDl1IvvtjOZO52Tn50lMlvY8h2AJOysHmfjo31fBXT9EkLTsLUy9lxrG6a6fX8pPAbpQtyiscQC4uJrf62OFSUrYaQ2GTDVigw6jPmfUPs3-H94rrsEG2RC-Q2dLCA/w400-h400/NO%20GOP.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Republicans
will NOT end inflation.</span></b></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">*
They have voted against every single recent attempt by Congress to combat
inflation.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Republicans
will NOT protect Social Security and Medicare.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">*
They have clearly indicated that if they gain control of Congress, they plan to
cut Social Security and Medicare.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">*
They consider Social Security and Medicate “government welfare entitlement
programs” and not what they actually are – a government administered defined
benefit pension plan and government administered health insurance “policy” funded
by employee and employer contributions.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Republicans
will NOT stop crime.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">*
They refuse to protect Americans, including school children, from continued
mass shootings by consistently refusing to support an assault rifle ban and refusing
to support effective and responsible gun-control legislation.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">*
They oppose holding the January 6<sup>th</sup> insurrectionists accountable for
the attack on the Capital and downplay the seriousness of the seditious insurrection.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">*
They refuse to hold Trump accountable for his multitude of crimes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Republicans
will NOT protect your freedoms or protect democracy.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">*
They want to “whitewash” and censor the teaching of true American history in
schools.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">*
They want to ban books that oppose and denounce their bigotries and prejudices.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">*
They want to force Americans to live their lives based on erroneous extreme
radical Christian fundamentalist beliefs.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">*
They want to be able to reverse the outcome of fair and honest elections that
they lose.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Streisand
sings, DeNiro acts, Republicans lie – it is what they do.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">No
intelligent and patriotic American with a conscience could possibly support
today’s Republican Party.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #1d2228; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #1d2228; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #1d2228; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #1d2228; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #1d2228; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #1d2228; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #1d2228; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #1d2228; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #1d2228; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #1d2228; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #1d2228; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p>Robert D Flachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06034127763662917220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7570131784773572890.post-79748071014713960812022-10-26T01:00:00.004-07:002022-10-26T01:00:00.170-07:00THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS NOT CONSERVATIVE!<div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">Today’s
Republican Party is </span><b style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">NOT</b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;"> Conservative!</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;"> <br /></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
agenda of today’s Republican Party is directly contrary to the basic underlying
core principles of Conservatism – individual freedom and limited government.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <br /> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
primary tenet of Conservative politics is the belief that the government should
have minimal involvement in the personal and business life of the citizen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today’s Republican Party, and its agenda, is
controlled by the extreme Christian fundamentalist so-called “Evangelicals” of
the repressive and racist Religious Right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Religious Right wants the government to dictate how citizens should
live their lives.<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Banning
abortion, opposing homosexuality and banning same-sex marriage, banning
contraceptives, banning books, censoring and “whitewashing” the teaching of
history and science are all federal and state policies and programs of today’s
Republicans. These are <b>NOT</b> policies and programs of Conservative politics.<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;">True
conservatives have absolutely <b>NO</b> voice in today’s Republican Party.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No true conservative could support or vote
for the candidates and agenda of today’s Republican Party.<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Courier New;"> </span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
Robert D Flachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06034127763662917220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7570131784773572890.post-4568449130176383362022-10-24T01:31:00.001-07:002022-10-24T01:31:36.492-07:00WE MUST MAKE SURE THERE IS NEVER ANOTHER PRESIDENT LIKE TRUMP EVER AGAIN!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5w8C2-LbIE9EMbVLQMo4wgEGm1x4xy0HnRAGWU-VfVnfRVf--4-4-ySFuwu9SMOcr_Lo7fb2M8QtfHh0VIRhLXbA5B7HX4MNTagMBIfyi8LmeA9aXBhCqx3W5Dm5Zv7iywl0JCPx1aeN2NMgLZn0rVFEeSmvr73FV3JzYT58zVoFaNkFet8I3j02lPw/s630/NO%20TRUMP%203.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="630" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5w8C2-LbIE9EMbVLQMo4wgEGm1x4xy0HnRAGWU-VfVnfRVf--4-4-ySFuwu9SMOcr_Lo7fb2M8QtfHh0VIRhLXbA5B7HX4MNTagMBIfyi8LmeA9aXBhCqx3W5Dm5Zv7iywl0JCPx1aeN2NMgLZn0rVFEeSmvr73FV3JzYT58zVoFaNkFet8I3j02lPw/w400-h400/NO%20TRUMP%203.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;">We
seemed to have forgotten about a lot of issues that arose during the disastrous
Trump Presidency.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;">Once
the Democrats take control of both houses of Congress in November they need to
work on the following legislation -</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;">1) Repeal
the Electoral College. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Clinton won the 2016
election by about 3 Million votes - but the outdated Electoral College put
Trump, a self-absorbed demagogue who was the worst President in US history, in
the White House.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;">2) Require
all candidates for President and Vice President in the general election to make
public at least the most recent 3 years of federal income tax returns in entirety
(all forms, schedules and attachments).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;">3) Require
all Presidents and Vice Presidents to divest themselves of all business and
investment holdings and place proceeds in a blind trust before taking office.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;">4) Forbid
the federal government and any federal agency from paying an entity for goods
and services that is at least 50% owned, either directly or indirectly, by the
President or Vice President, or a family member of the President or Vice
President – spouse, parent, child, sibling, or a person similarly related to a
child or sibling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And require the President
or Vice President to pay back to the federal government from personal funds any
such payment discovered after it has been made.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;">5)
Codify the ability to indict and prosecute a sitting President or Vice
President for any federal or state crime.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And clearly forbid a sitting President from pardoning himself or members
of his immediate family for any crimes, or pardoning any person for any crime
directly linked to an abuse of office or crime for which the President has been
accused.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;">We
must NEVER allow another President like Trump to be put in office or to be able
to abuse the office as Trump did, and MUST make sure all future Presidents are
held fully accountable for their crimes and abuses as soon as they are discovered
and identified.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;">TAFN</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><br /></span></p>Robert D Flachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06034127763662917220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7570131784773572890.post-31226944122503456622022-07-25T03:58:00.002-07:002022-07-25T03:58:36.984-07:00WHAT I BELIEVE - ROBERT D FLACH<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
thought it might be helpful for those who are interested in understanding the
thinking behind my posts and comments on social and other media, and a good and
helpful personal experience, to identify in detail my political beliefs and philosophy.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;">*
First and foremost, I very sincerely believe that in the history of our country
no one single individual has done more damage to America, the American people,
American values, and American democracy than Donald Trump.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Opposing, denouncing and disavowing Trump has
absolutely nothing to do with partisan politics – it is about patriotism.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;">*
I am not a “card-carrying” member of the Democratic Party or Republican Party
or any other Party.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the past I have
voted for Democratic, Republican and third-Party candidates in various elections,
based on the issues and the individual candidates.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However. I will never again for the rest of
my life vote for any Republican candidate in any election at any level unless
there is a drastic change to the leadership and agenda of the Republican Party.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;">*
The application of strict libertarian/conservative beliefs and of strict communist/socialist
beliefs are both based on the false assumption that all individuals are honest
and enter each transaction and relationship with complete honesty and
integrity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course, we all know this
is not true.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The government has the
right, and obligation, to enact restrictions and regulations to protect
individuals from dishonesty and harm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And the government must recognize that the rights and freedoms of the
individual citizen are just as important as, if not more important than, the
rights of the “state”.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Winston
Churchill is credited with saying, “<i>If you’re not a Liberal at age 20 you
have no heart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you’re not a
Conservative at age 40 you have no head</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I believe to be effective and successful a government needs both heart
and head.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;">*
I firmly believe that my current financial and social position is the direct
result of the actions and decisions I have made in my life, both good and
bad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do not blame the wealthy, “the
man”, illegal immigrants, minorities, liberals, conservatives, or anyone or
anything else for my current situation or my lack of wealth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I believe I, and I alone, am personally
responsible for my current situation and take full responsibility for my
actions and decisions – as should everyone.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
do acknowledge that other groups of individuals may have faced more, and
different, obstacles than I have as a WASP growing up in northeast America, but
history is full of stories of individuals with a variety of “handicaps” successfully
overcoming obstacles of all kinds.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;">*
It is not the responsibility of the government to “redistribute wealth” or provide
guaranteed income or welfare benefits to citizens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, it is beneficial to society for
government to provide appropriate benefits and assistance to families with
dependent children (for the benefit of the children), veterans and individuals
with physical and mental illness and disability.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;">*
I believe that government has a fiduciary requirement to be fiscally
responsible with the money it raises via taxes, fees and other sources.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like a family or a business, it should spend
and borrow judiciously.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;">As
the Concord Coalition states - “<i>Fiscal responsibility is essential to
creating a better, stronger, more prosperous nation for the next generation.
The choices we make today -- or fail to make -- will determine what kind of
future our children and grandchildren inherit 20 and 40 years from now</i>.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;">*
In addition to exercising fiscal responsibility the government must also
exercise responsible stewardship of our country’s lands, waters, minerals,
timber, air, and all other aspects of the “environment”.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;">BTW
– I fully believe in science, whether it involves global warming, virus and
disease prevention, or whatever.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;">*
A healthy and well-educated populace is beneficial to and important for the security
and the future of both the individual citizen and the state.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The government should provide or enable
universal access to free or reasonably priced health care and to continuing
education and “pre-Kindergarten” education opportunities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;">A
well-educated and intelligent electorate is especially important for the
continuation of our freedom and democracy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In the past few years, we have seen the danger and damage that ignorant
and “under-educated” voters can do.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;">*
Social Security and Medicare are not discretionary government welfare or “entitlement”
programs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Social Security is a
government-maintained employee retirement plan and Medicare is a
government-maintained employee health insurance plan – both paid for by
employee and employer contributions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;">*
The government does not have the right to prohibit, restrict or inhibit the
sexual relationship or activity of two freely consenting adults who are both fully
capable of freely consenting.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;">*
Marriage is a legal contract.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
government does not have the right to prohibit, restrict or inhibit the ability
of two adults capable of free consent to enter into a marriage contract based
on their sex or sexual orientation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nor
should it restrict or inhibit the free and equally consented dissolution of a
marriage contract.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;">*
The strict separation of Church and State, as outlined in the Constitution, is
a foundation of American democracy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every
American has the right to worship and believe as he or she so chooses – or to
choose not to worship or believe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
government cannot force anyone to choose one religion and set of beliefs over
any other, or to choose any religion or beliefs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No specific religion, sect or church can
dictate government policy or legislation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The specific religious beliefs of a religion, sect or church must never
be legislated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;">If
the religious beliefs of your chosen sect or religion tells you that abortion
is wrong – don’t have an abortion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If
the specific religious beliefs of your chosen sect or religion tells you that
homosexuality and same-sex marriage is wrong – don’t practice homosexuality and
do not marry someone of the same sex.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But you cannot force someone with different religions beliefs, or no
religious beliefs, to act in accordance with the specific religious beliefs of
your chosen sect or religion – and most definitely not via legislation or
government regulation.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;">America
is not a “Christian country”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
greatest threat to the future of America and American democracy today is the
Republican Party because it is totally controlled by the repressive so-called
“Evangelicals” of the extreme Christian fundamentalist “Religious Right”, whose
agenda is directly contrary to the true teachings of Christ and contrary to
true conservative policy.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;">As
an aside, while I acknowledge and appreciate the “good works” performed by
legitimate organized religion and genuinely religious individuals, I truly
believe that in the history of the world more evil than good has been done in
the name of a god, God or religion.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;">*
I believe the 2nd Amendment has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the unrestricted
right of an individual to own and carry any kind of gun.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
Amendment reads – “<i>A well-regulated Militia being necessary to the security
of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be
infringed</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>U.S. Supreme Court Warren
Burger, nominated to the Court by Nixon, correctly observed - “<i>The real
purpose of the Second Amendment was to ensure that state armies – the militia –
would be maintained for the defense of the state</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The state militias that existed in the time of
the Revolution have since been replaced by state police, the National Guard and
the US Armed Forces.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>State militias no
longer exist – so the Second Amendment is obsolete and has no application
today.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
believe no individual of any age has a need or a right to own and carry an
assault weapon or an AK-anything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is
not needed for hunting, target practice or protection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The one and only purpose of an assault rifle
is in its name – to assault.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And ownership
of a “normal” gun or rifle must be treated in the same manner we treat
automobiles and driving.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109102805;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Another aside – while it is
true that guns don’t kill people, people kill people, people with guns kill a
lot more people more quickly and efficiently than people without guns.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;">*
I believe the one and only purpose of the Tax Code is, or should be, to raise
the money necessary to fund the government.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Tax Code should be fair and equitable and treat all taxpayers
equally, be consistent and treat specific conditions, situations, and
activities the same in all instances, and encourage savings, investment, and
growth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It should not be used for social
engineering, to redistribute income or wealth, or to deliver social welfare and
other government benefits, to encourage or discourage certain economic decisions
(other than savings, investment, and growth), or to provide exclusive benefits
for specific industries, business activities, or classes of taxpayers.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
government should not “punish” ambition, entrepreneurship and success.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do not believe the answer to all our
problems is to excessively tax the rich simply because they can afford it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do not believe in a “progressive” tax rate
schedule.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I believe every American
should pay his or her “fair share” of taxes – but if it is fair for a person
with net income of $50,000, after appropriate deductions, to pay, let’s say,
10% of that income in tax then a person with net income of $1 Million or $10
Million or $100 Million of net income should also pay 10% in tax.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The person with millions in net income is obviously
paying more tax than the person with $50,000 of net income, but not
disproportionately so. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;">*
Bill Clinton said in a television interview given after leaving office that the
difference between his and the Democratic Party’s world view and that of then
President Bush and the Republican Party was that he and the Democrats believed
America should work and act together with the other nations of the free world
whenever possible and act independently only when it was absolutely necessary,
while Bush and the Republicans believed America should act independently
whenever possible and work with other countries only when absolutely
necessary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I support the world view of
Clinton and the Democratic Party.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Your
thoughts?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></p>Robert D Flachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06034127763662917220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7570131784773572890.post-73701150305119282112022-01-20T06:20:00.000-08:002022-01-20T06:20:16.950-08:00HEY MAGA MORONS - HERE IS THE TRUTH<p style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; text-indent: -0.25in;">Hey MAGA morons and other Republicans – here
is the truth:</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 0.3in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">ü<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">TRUMP
LOST THE 2020 ELECTION – BOTH THE POPULAR VOTE AND THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE VOTE –
IN A FAIR AND HONEST ELECTION.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>THE ONLY IDENTIFIED
ELECTION INTERFERENCE AND IRREGULARITIES WERE COMMITTED BY REPUBLICANS IN
SUPPORT OF TRUMP AND BY TRUMP HIMSELF.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0.3in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">ü<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">TRUMP
ALSO LOST THE 2016 ELECTION BY ABOUT 3 MILLION VOTES IN A FAIR AND HONEST ELECTION.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0.3in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">ü<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">TRUMP PURPOSEFULLY
INCITED A SEDITIOUS ATTACK ON THE CAPITAL ON JANUARY 6<sup>th</sup> IN AN
ATTEMPT TO REMAIN IN POWER.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0.3in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">ü<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">GLOBAL
WARMING IS REAL.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0.3in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">ü<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">THE
COVID VACCINATIONS ARE SAFE, LEGITIMATE, EFFECTIVE, AND EFFICIENT.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0.3in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">ü<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">A
BUSINESS, ORGANIZATION OR GOVERNMENT UNIT HAS A RIGHT TO REQUIRE CUSTOMERS,
CLIENTS, MEMBERS, AND EMPLOYEES TO WEAR MASKS TO PROTECT THEIR CUSTOMERS,
CLIENTS, MEMBERS, AND EMPLOYEES.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 0.3in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">ü<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">A SCHOOL
DISTRICT HAS A RIGHT TO REQUIRE STUDENTS, TEACHERS AND OTHER EMPLOYEES TO WEAR
MASKS TO PROTECT THEIR STUDENTS, TEACHERS AND OTHER EMPLOYEES.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.3in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">ü<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">BLACK
LIVES, BROWN LIVES, YELLOW LIVES, AND RED LIVES MATTER JUST AS MUCH AS WHITE
LIVES.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.3in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">ü<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">TODAY’S
REPUBLICAN PARTY NO LONGER REPRESENTS TRUE CONSERVATIVES AND “TRADITIONAL” REPUBLICANS.</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.3in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">And, oh yes, one more thing –</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 0.3in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">ü<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">IN THE
HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY NO ONE SINGLE INDIVIDUAL HAS DONE MORE DAMAGE TO
AMERICA, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, AMERICAN VALUES, AND AMERICAN DEMOCRACY THAN
DONALD TRUMP.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: .3in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: .3in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: .3in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: .3in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: .3in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: .3in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: .3in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: .3in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: .3in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: .3in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: .3in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></p>Robert D Flachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06034127763662917220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7570131784773572890.post-18171105019140327562021-11-24T01:48:00.002-08:002021-11-24T01:48:21.349-08:00ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFcC7ph9gQ9FWrbilkPUGnbWq_KZL3mdTSDoHvIWmmaXepXp48dXL8ITk-2czPX7AzNoA4HBbq0gu-d1GICIXajba5jEr2wAvLDDQG5x4dT4nWeBadnctHukTKa3pvWe59dHfyRDgMR6YO/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="332" data-original-width="498" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFcC7ph9gQ9FWrbilkPUGnbWq_KZL3mdTSDoHvIWmmaXepXp48dXL8ITk-2czPX7AzNoA4HBbq0gu-d1GICIXajba5jEr2wAvLDDQG5x4dT4nWeBadnctHukTKa3pvWe59dHfyRDgMR6YO/w400-h266/image.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">No
individual of any age has a need or a right to own and carry an assault weapon or
an AK-anything</span></b><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is not needed for hunting, target practice
or protection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The one and only purpose
of an assault rifle is in its name – to assault.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Conservative
icon Barry Goldwater once said (highlight is mine) –</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">“<i>I've
never used an automatic or semi-automatic for hunting. There's no need to. <b>They
have no place in anybody's arsenal</b></i>.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;">We
must totally ban <b>all</b> assault weapons. It
should be illegal for an individual to purchase, own and carry an AK-47, an assault
rifle, or any such weapon, or anything that converts a traditional rifle into
an assault weapon. Upon passage of the
ban legislation the government should begin a program to buy back all currently
held assault weapons. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">The
Second Amendment to the Constitution has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do
with a citizen’s personal right to carry any kind of gun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Conservative
former Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Warren Burger, nominated to the
Court by Nixon, has observed –</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">“<i>The
Gun Lobby’s interpretation of the Second Amendment is one of the greatest
pieces of fraud, I repeat the word fraud, on the American People by special
interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime</i>.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">He
explained –</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">“<i>The
real purpose of the Second Amendment was to ensure that state armies – the militia
– would be maintained for the defense of the state</i>.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">The
state militias that existed in the time of the Revolution have been replaced by
state police, the National Guard and the US Armed Forces.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>State militias no longer exist – so <b>the
Second Amendment is obsolete</b> <b>and has no application today</b>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">The
sale, purchase, and use of guns should be regulated just as automobiles and
boats are regulated – as <a href="http://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/second-amendment-does-not-guarantee-right-own-gun-gun-control-p-99 " target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Burger suggested in 1992</span></b></a>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">I believe -</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">*
All gun owners must have a valid license, which must be renewed every year. The
initial issuance of a license must be based on a thorough and comprehensive
background check.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">*
To get a license a person must pass a written test and a “practical” test. Gun
licensees must demonstrate they know how to properly operate and maintain a
gun.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">*
Underage individuals must not be allowed to own guns.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The minimum age for a driving license is
usually 17, but the minimum age for owning a traditional gun should be 18.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">*
Gun owners must be required to have insurance similar to auto insurance.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">*
We must title and tag each gun at point of purchase, so each gun is registered
in a local data base and law enforcement can know if a person is stockpiling an
excessive number of guns.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">*
Guns must be inspected at least every other year.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">We
have had too many mass shooting tragedies not to act.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>The Republican Party must acknowledge that
American lives are more important than political contributions</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></p>Robert D Flachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06034127763662917220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7570131784773572890.post-2830630742887736692021-11-19T04:48:00.000-08:002021-11-19T04:48:32.417-08:00TODAY’S “RIGHT-WING” ARE NOT TRUE CONSERVATIVES!<p><span style="font-family: courier;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;">Today’s
extreme “right-wingers” have no concept of true conservative philosophy and
should NOT be called “conservatives”.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: courier;">The
political agenda of the so-called “Evangelicals” of the religious right is
contrary to true conservative policy.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;">Abortion,
homosexuality or same-sex marriage are NOT conservative issues – they are religious
issues.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;">The
ability OF an individual to own an assault rifle or AK-47 or the like is not
part of the Second Amendment protection – and an assault rifle ban is perfectly
allowable under any interpretation of the Second Amendment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Protecting an individual’s right to own an
assault rifle is NOT a true conservative policy.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;">Nobody
can doubt that Barry Goldwater was a true conservative.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here are a few of his quotes-</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;">“I've
never used an automatic or semi-automatic for hunting. There's no need to. <b>They
have no place in anybody's arsenal</b>.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;">“Religious
factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people
connected to them recognize that <b>religion has no place in public policy</b>.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;">“The
great decisions of government cannot be dictated by the concerns of religious
factions. We have succeeded for 205 years in keeping the affairs of state
separate from the uncompromising idealism of religious groups and we mustn't
stop now. <b>To retreat from that separation would violate the principles of
conservatism and the values upon which the framers built this democratic
republic</b>.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;">“I
am a conservative Republican, but I believe in democracy and the separation of
church and state. <b>The conservative movement is founded on the simple tenet
that people have the right to live life as they please as long as they don't
hurt anyone else in the process</b>.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;">“I
am frankly sick and tired of the political preachers telling me as a citizen
that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in A, B, C, and D. Just who
do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to
dictate their moral beliefs to me?”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;">“A
woman has a right to an abortion. <b>That's a decision that's up to the
pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the Religious Right</b>.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;">“<b>The
conservative movement, to which I subscribe, has as one of its basic tenets the
belief that government should stay out of people’s private lives</b>.
Government governs best when it governs least – and stays out of the impossible
task of legislating morality. But legislating someone’s version of morality is
exactly what we do by perpetuating discrimination against gays.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;">“You
don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to
shoot straight.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;">“Everyone
knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time
of Julius Caesar.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;">“The
big thing is to make this country quit discriminating against people just
because they're gay. You don't have to agree with it, but <b>they have a
constitutional right to be gay. They're American citizens</b>.”</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><br /></span></p>Robert D Flachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06034127763662917220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7570131784773572890.post-65338969949937210962021-11-17T02:15:00.001-08:002021-11-17T02:15:19.448-08:00THIS I BELIEVE<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihZxV0RdfOHL0y4Z19TAGcOzXoVIGcTaUPcdVcEOMspqR3dmG-7IjEvAlP2wYV0kuINVJxYuhifoz3pCNtP_VIe5SDOfoitlvgoihCHtofMxy1gSGBmqV9oFPkUaOTOx0geMu5R1hjBX6Q/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihZxV0RdfOHL0y4Z19TAGcOzXoVIGcTaUPcdVcEOMspqR3dmG-7IjEvAlP2wYV0kuINVJxYuhifoz3pCNtP_VIe5SDOfoitlvgoihCHtofMxy1gSGBmqV9oFPkUaOTOx0geMu5R1hjBX6Q/" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Every
single Republican in Congress who does not vocally recognize and acknowledge
that the January 6<sup>th</sup> attack on the Capital was a traitorous and
treasonous terrorist attack - no different than the 9/11 attacks - and not just
an attack on the Capital building but an attack on American democracy,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">AND</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">does
not vocally denounce EACH and EVERY person who instigated, facilitated and
participated in the attack and insist that ALL be prosecuted and punished to
the full extent of the law, as terrorists and traitors . . .</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">MUST
be vilified and voted out of office ASAP.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">They
are not fit to hold national public office.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They have totally abandoned their oath and responsibility to protect the Constitution.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><br /><p></p>Robert D Flachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06034127763662917220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7570131784773572890.post-49931773403015748742021-11-09T05:32:00.000-08:002021-11-09T05:32:29.192-08:00WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED THESE PAST FIVE YEARS?<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Here, in my opinion, is what we have learned from
the Trump debacle.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;">30+-% of Americans have apparently historically been
ignorant and/or racist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Trump
presidency emboldened and empowered these racist morons, turning them into an
actual organized voting bloc.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;">While this 30% is a minority of Americans it is a
majority of Republicans – because Trump’s core cult of ignorant racists, which
includes bigoted extreme fundamentalist alleged “Christians”, tends to
gravitate toward more right-wing politics.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The remaining actual intelligent and true
conservative “traditional” Republicans when added to the majority of Democrats adds
up to between 67% and 70% of Americans, which is why 2/3 of Americans, a
majority, have always opposed Trump and his lies and nonsense, and oppose the
policies and beliefs of today’s Trump-embracing Republican Party.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Clearly the greatest enemy of America, American
values and American democracy is today’s Republican Party, which has observed
that a majority of its current members are ignorant racists and </span>consistently<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> panders to </span>their<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> ignorance and </span>bigotry<span style="font-size: 12pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></p>Robert D Flachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06034127763662917220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7570131784773572890.post-40312540258040251932021-10-28T03:58:00.000-07:002021-10-28T03:58:23.420-07:00I WOULD NEVER HIRE A MAGA-MORON<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjihOM5bpr1WeM-WEO21dpmvAm_mvyoyY9F965A2Fg8sXQ_Etczzcb2F17PDFer1dmCr_sJVHVtaRib8iBU-4xawOX6_V50y3pg4e05qojNAiy9Q3CYV_gCBHYgXWVmGO4XO6-1jmnu4yMT/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1037" data-original-width="1348" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjihOM5bpr1WeM-WEO21dpmvAm_mvyoyY9F965A2Fg8sXQ_Etczzcb2F17PDFer1dmCr_sJVHVtaRib8iBU-4xawOX6_V50y3pg4e05qojNAiy9Q3CYV_gCBHYgXWVmGO4XO6-1jmnu4yMT/w400-h308/image.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Trump is an ignorant, incompetent,
racist, and totally self-absorbed dictator wannabe who is totally devoid of conscience,
humanity and integrity and who does not possess a single redeeming positive human
value or quality.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There is no intelligent, rational,
legitimate, or acceptable reason why any American would listen to, believe,
support, and vote for Trump or support today’s Trump-embracing Republican Party.</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">No person with a brain and a
conscience who cares anything about America and Americans could ever listen to,
believe, support, and vote for Trump or support today’s Trump-embracing
Republican Party.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If a person listens to, believes,
supports, and would vote for Trump and supports today’s Trump-embracing
Republican Party it raises very serious concerns about the intelligence,
competence and judgement of that person, and their ability to properly perform
anything other than the most basic of jobs.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I would certainly not want a person
who listens to, believes, supports, and would vote for Trump or supports today’s
Trump-embracing Republican Party operating on me, or designing a building for
me, or representing me in court, or cooking a meal for me, or preparing my books
or tax returns.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And I would certainly not hire a
person who listens to, believes, supports, and would vote for Trump and supports
today’s Trump-embracing Republican Party for any position that requires any
degree of intelligence, competence and judgement.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Robert D Flachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06034127763662917220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7570131784773572890.post-70281917309397965762021-10-14T06:36:00.003-07:002021-10-14T06:36:56.484-07:00THE DEFINITION OF HYPOCRITE<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5J4jdvh30QXwTrjCRxVjAj9gOtnIJD0XGMUdZryg8PCDlyXGPa63Ej9shmk0JrzxjTQjaarp3enYk9jJyUioGzJ43cOFM3NKhu_ik7wr5oW_BrZWOUHWXsxHvsIvz2jPFWIav7HGqoBGy/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="759" data-original-width="699" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5J4jdvh30QXwTrjCRxVjAj9gOtnIJD0XGMUdZryg8PCDlyXGPa63Ej9shmk0JrzxjTQjaarp3enYk9jJyUioGzJ43cOFM3NKhu_ik7wr5oW_BrZWOUHWXsxHvsIvz2jPFWIav7HGqoBGy/w368-h400/image.png" width="368" /></a></div><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="dttext"><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #303336; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .15pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">hypocrite – noun</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="dttext"><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #303336; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .15pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">1. a person who pretends to have virtues, moral
or religious beliefs, principles, etc., that he or she does not actually
possess, especially a person whose actions belie stated beliefs.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="dttext"><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #303336; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .15pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">2. someone who tells people to not do things they
themselves do or insults people for doing the same things they do.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="dttext"><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #303336; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .15pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">3. a leader or elected official of the current
Republican Party.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="dttext"><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #303336; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .15pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">4. a so-called “evangelical” of the religious
right.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="dttext"><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #303336; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .15pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="dttext"><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #303336; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .15pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="dttext"><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #303336; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .15pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="dttext"><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #303336; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .15pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="dttext"><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #303336; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .15pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="dttext"><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #303336; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .15pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="dttext"><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #303336; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .15pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="dttext"><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #303336; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .15pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="dttext"><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #303336; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .15pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="dttext"><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #303336; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .15pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="dttext"><span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #303336; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: .15pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"><br /></span></span></p><br /><p></p>Robert D Flachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06034127763662917220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7570131784773572890.post-85829456820051677122021-10-13T01:00:00.006-07:002021-10-13T01:00:00.161-07:00THE TRUTH. THE WHOLE TRUTH. AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH. PERIOD<div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt;">Any person who actually listens to, believes,
supports, and would vote for Trump the man is either ignorant, racist, has no
conscience, or, like Trump himself, all three.<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt;">Period.<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt;">There is absolutely no intelligent, rational or
legitimate reason for anyone to support Trump the man.<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt;">This has nothing whatsoever to do with political
philosophy, policy or partisanship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Trump
has no political philosophy or beliefs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Trump
is only in politics because of his pathological need for attention, adoration
and power, and, of course, to line his pockets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Trump’s sole belief and philosophy is “Trump is great and Trump is good”.<br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt;">Trump does not care about America.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Trump does not care about the American
people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The one and only thing Trump
cares about is Trump.<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt;">Period.<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt;">Opposition to Democratic, liberal or progressive
politics and policies is not a legitimate reason to support Trump.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you oppose Democratic, liberal or
progressive politics and policies you should support a “traditional” Republican
or a true conservative candidate.<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt;">The only political candidate anyone who cares
anything about America, American values and American democracy should support and
vote for is one who publicly and vocally opposes, denounces and disavows
Trump and his lies.<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">If you are not part of the solution you are part of
the problem.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">If you support Trump the
man you are either very, very </span>naive<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> or very, very stupid, and you are part of
the biggest problem in, and threat to, America today.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt;">Period.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div>
Robert D Flachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06034127763662917220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7570131784773572890.post-78872950545729314592021-10-11T01:00:00.018-07:002021-10-11T01:00:00.170-07:00AMERICA IS NOT A CHRISTIAN COUNTRY!<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt;">America is </span><b style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt;">NOT</b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt;"> a Christian country.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;">America is <b>NOT</b> a religious country.<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In America the separation of Church and State set
forth in the Constitution is absolute.<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;">America equally welcomes members of <b>all</b> religions
and those with <b>no</b> religion.<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">No one religion, </span>denomination<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> or sect, or its
specific beliefs, is preferred over other religions, denominations or
sects.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">And the religious are not
preferred over the non-religious.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And most definitely <b>the specific religious beliefs
of an individual religion, denomination or sect must NEVER be legislated.</b><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>Legislating specific religious beliefs is especially
contrary to conservative political philosophy and policy</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The basic fundamental tenet of conservative
political philosophy is limited government, and the protection and maximizing
individual rights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>True conservatives
believe that the government should have minimal involvement in the personal and
business life of the individual.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
so-called “evangelicals” of the “Christian right” want the government to tell
individuals how to live their lives.<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Religious beliefs may motivate involvement in
politics as a practice of good citizenship and a way to help one’s fellow man
(or woman), and the religious can preach the gospel, or their version or
interpretation of the gospel, to those who will listen, but <b>the religious
cannot force those of different beliefs, or no beliefs, to live their lives
according to the specific individual beliefs and rules of their specific
religion, denomination or sect</b>.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
Robert D Flachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06034127763662917220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7570131784773572890.post-32501040988087174972021-09-06T04:13:00.001-07:002021-09-06T04:13:40.493-07:00AN INTERESTING PERSPECTIVE<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;">This is an interesting perspective - one I had not thought about before. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;">It appears to be an accurate explanation of the true hypocrisy of the so-called "pro-life" position of the Evangelicals of the Religious Right. </span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGN_o-HuqUNXjhUWz6g9s_HAvS_yCMn9O2185rAK63KqQBpwyse2P80clo9jYQH0TKyAz9MHQcV66bvG8fNgbxWBoY0NGAvSQy4-T3ee5RRENTfCxaOcPg1WPLMa87Dsf23oFfPIKYwtrl/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="960" data-original-width="671" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGN_o-HuqUNXjhUWz6g9s_HAvS_yCMn9O2185rAK63KqQBpwyse2P80clo9jYQH0TKyAz9MHQcV66bvG8fNgbxWBoY0NGAvSQy4-T3ee5RRENTfCxaOcPg1WPLMa87Dsf23oFfPIKYwtrl/w448-h640/image.png" width="448" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Robert D Flachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06034127763662917220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7570131784773572890.post-90807295315557815062021-09-03T07:49:00.002-07:002021-09-03T07:49:22.857-07:00CALLING A SPADE A SHOVEL<p><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Supporting and defending the MAGA moron terrorists who attacked the Capital and downplaying the January 6th attack is no different than supporting and defending Al-Qaeda and downplaying the 9/11 attacks.</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">According to federal law
–</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">“the term ‘domestic
terrorism’ means activities that—</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">(A) involve acts
dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United
States or of any State;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">(B) appear to be
intended—</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">* to intimidate or
coerce a civilian population</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">* to influence the
policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">* to affect the conduct
of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; an</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">(C) occur primarily
within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">A terrorist is a
terrorist. And a terrorist leader is a terrorist leader. Osama Bin Laden sent
Al-Qaeda terrorists to carry out the 9/11 attacks and Donald Trump sent his
MAGA moron terrorists to attack the Capital on 1/6.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">The difference between
Bin Laden and Trump – Bin Laden’s actions are to a degree based on ideology,
but Trump’s actions are solely based on personal self-interest.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></p><div style="animation-name: none !important; 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background-color: white; color: #65676b; flex-grow: 0; flex-shrink: 0; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; transition-property: none !important; width: 7px;"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Robert D Flachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06034127763662917220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7570131784773572890.post-36159675922551506842021-08-19T03:09:00.000-07:002021-08-19T03:09:42.828-07:00AIN'T THAT THE TRUTH!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrfcdTkBOicHSksgXcIA7OGYlgEoNRnnOm2FxfpkZuJsGzYizjkujxfhBpHGOhNE1JqvzvGozuhlKytf59Xe56Vn4BB__pS23hcZRsJJAsdLhtU88JXBm6rBPqghxjpqByyikfC9fzbZjT/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="298" data-original-width="640" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrfcdTkBOicHSksgXcIA7OGYlgEoNRnnOm2FxfpkZuJsGzYizjkujxfhBpHGOhNE1JqvzvGozuhlKytf59Xe56Vn4BB__pS23hcZRsJJAsdLhtU88JXBm6rBPqghxjpqByyikfC9fzbZjT/w400-h186/image.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div style="tab-stops: 129.75pt; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">hyp·</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Cambria Math",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math";"></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">o·</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Cambria Math",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math";"></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">crite | \ ˈhi-pə-ˌkrit<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <br /> </span><o:p></o:p></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <br /></span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">1: a person who puts on a false appearance of
virtue or religion<br /></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">2: a person who acts in contradiction to his
or her stated beliefs or feelings<br /></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">3: a member of the Republican Party.<br /></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span></i><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Republicans are among the first to call for Democrats
to be held accountable for each and every indiscretion, impropriety or just
plain bad act.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Democrats join in the
call for accountability for their fellow Democrats.<br /> </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">However, Republicans can do anything to
anyone at any time and as often as they want and Republican leaders and Republican elected
officials refuse to criticize or hold them accountable - allowing these offenders to continue their offenses without
sanction or punishment.<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">The Republican Party clearly believes that
only Democrats should be punished for unethical, immoral, illegal, unconstitutional,
or just plain bad acts or behavior.<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Case in point - every single "bad
act" that has ever been committed, or been accused of being committed, by
any politician in my lifetime, and for which political careers have been
destroyed, has been gleefully and unapologetically committed by Trump many,
many times with complete impunity.</span></div><div style="tab-stops: 129.75pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></div><div style="tab-stops: 129.75pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></div><div style="tab-stops: 129.75pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></div><div style="tab-stops: 129.75pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></div><div style="tab-stops: 129.75pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></div><div style="tab-stops: 129.75pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></div><div style="tab-stops: 129.75pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></div><div style="tab-stops: 129.75pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></div><div style="tab-stops: 129.75pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></div><div style="tab-stops: 129.75pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></div><div style="tab-stops: 129.75pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></div><div style="tab-stops: 129.75pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></div><div style="tab-stops: 129.75pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></div><div style="tab-stops: 129.75pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></div>
Robert D Flachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06034127763662917220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7570131784773572890.post-75003878117068092212021-08-03T02:36:00.008-07:002021-08-04T02:32:57.197-07:00THE TRUMP VIRUS<div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRp80J9t9htXT7MOAWCVEOW9B5FoIJu1iOctPqN8thCvxvf2lpSxBcjLffODxrUBDeXFDU91zVu4jvESMjA-ZIR6uhQTYugu67y-Gy5uRGHCmb01QfV4bNQTaaKG5oAqEOGFne0rpcx41x/s630/THE+TRUMP+VIRUS.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="630" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRp80J9t9htXT7MOAWCVEOW9B5FoIJu1iOctPqN8thCvxvf2lpSxBcjLffODxrUBDeXFDU91zVu4jvESMjA-ZIR6uhQTYugu67y-Gy5uRGHCmb01QfV4bNQTaaKG5oAqEOGFne0rpcx41x/s320/THE+TRUMP+VIRUS.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><span style="font-family: courier;"><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;">COVID-19 is
not the only new virus infecting Americans today. There is also the Trump Virus.</div><o:p style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div></o:p><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;">While many
people are calling coronavirus the “Trump Virus”, because of his complete
incompetence in handling its outbreak, the Trump Virus is actually a separate disease. The Trump Virus attacks the brain cells,
totally stripping its victims of all intelligence.</div><o:p style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div></o:p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The spread of the Trump Virus seems to be especially high among leaders of the Republican Party and elected Republican legislators at all levels – federal, state and local.</span></span></div><o:p style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div></o:p><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;">The most
severe victim of the Trump Virus is Rudy Giuliani. The disease has turned the man once known as “America’s
Mayor” for his leadership after the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center into
a complete blathering moron – the second biggest idiot in American politics
today.</div><o:p style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div></o:p><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;">You may think
I consider Trump himself to be the biggest idiot in American politics today –
but he is only #3. The biggest idiot in
American politics today is Marjorie Taylor Greene. But she is not a victim of the Trump Virus –
she comes by her ignorance naturally. </div><o:p style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div></o:p><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;">It is not
known whether Jim Jordan is a victim of the Trump Virus or if he has always
been a moron.</div><o:p style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div></o:p><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;">Similar to
Taylor Greene, and perhaps Jim Jordan, the millions of MAGA morons that make up
Trump’s core cult of ignorant racists, who cheer Trump’s every lie at rallies,
are not victims of the Trump Virus. They
have always been morons.</div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span></div>
Robert D Flachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06034127763662917220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7570131784773572890.post-18089310679416669662021-05-24T02:16:00.007-07:002022-08-15T03:36:24.936-07:00THE NO GOP PLEDGE<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbGzB8fImVgsqZgj1e_FoucPHqtHkG6zMI8C14sXre32eLECW3CTneB9UZP18SFjV4AinmKRwIDRwQtoLGntjtd0y09CzIAY8UvxZIh3Nke-CGWr9JWRmwQzu6zzEoCEXn32EFqyMU2sq5/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="260" data-original-width="268" height="389" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbGzB8fImVgsqZgj1e_FoucPHqtHkG6zMI8C14sXre32eLECW3CTneB9UZP18SFjV4AinmKRwIDRwQtoLGntjtd0y09CzIAY8UvxZIh3Nke-CGWr9JWRmwQzu6zzEoCEXn32EFqyMU2sq5/w400-h389/image.png" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="font-size: medium;">I
pledge to NEVER vote for ANY Republican candidate for ANY office at ANY level –
local, state or national – until the Republican Party officially opposes,
denounces and disavows Donald J. Trump, his lies, "Trumpism", and the agenda of the racist and repressive "Religious Right".</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Trump
is ignorant, incompetent and totally self-absorbed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The one and only thing Donald J. Trump cares
about is Donald J. Trump.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is completely
devoid of humanity and integrity and does not possess a single redeeming
positive human quality or value.<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">In
the history of our country no one individual has done more damage to America,
American democracy and American values than Trump.<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Support
and defense of Trump is unacceptable and indefensible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Supporting and voting for any candidate who
supports and defends Trump is unacceptable and indefensible.<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">By
embracing Trump and the Religious Right, the Republican Party has abandoned all integrity, honor and credibility
and has abandoned true conservative and traditional Republican policy and
values.<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">__________________________________________<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Signature<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Courier New;">Please
print, sign and mail the NO GOP PLEDGE to your local, state and the national
Republican Party offices.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></span></div>
Robert D Flachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06034127763662917220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7570131784773572890.post-18855874564638010342021-02-16T03:11:00.000-08:002021-02-16T03:11:01.597-08:00THOSE WERE THE DAYS<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDa_qjiFQuFn2qPvJBvyM97VLfn6Wt5IW_rgusHulJ3AAXMIEcTKUqGMrRcURxWfDUneRIrAvsjC2SCCRjCXA84hqCfWv59IVbUtCg47E-mQU4V_wgEDiy2WVfbeaYBCydjnWlABdJDifY/s474/THOSE+WERE+THE+DAYS.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="86" data-original-width="474" height="73" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDa_qjiFQuFn2qPvJBvyM97VLfn6Wt5IW_rgusHulJ3AAXMIEcTKUqGMrRcURxWfDUneRIrAvsjC2SCCRjCXA84hqCfWv59IVbUtCg47E-mQU4V_wgEDiy2WVfbeaYBCydjnWlABdJDifY/w400-h73/THOSE+WERE+THE+DAYS.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p></p><div style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Prior
to Newt Gingrich becoming Speaker of the House – which was when the seeds for
the ultimate destruction of the Republican Party were planted – Democrats and
Republicans differed on policy issues.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was conservative policy vs liberal policy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One Party did not consider the other Party to
be enemies of each other or of the American people or of democracy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Members of Congress could rationally discuss
and debate policy and they could actually compromise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There
was not the severe partisan divide that exists today – when, to be honest, we
have seen the Republican Party truly become the enemy of the American people
and American democracy.<br /></span><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And
both Parties, with of course come exceptions, ultimately put county and the Constitution
above Party – something the Republican Party no longer does.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <br /> </span></span><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">To
be fair, over the last about 30 years both Parties shared blame for the
partisanship divide.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had consistently said
in the past the Republican Party could introduce legislation that would without
a doubt ensure world peace and American prosperity and Democrats in Congress would
vote against it simply because it was proposed by Republicans – and vice versa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before the Trump debacle when discussing Congresspersons
I would always refer to them as “the idiots in Congress”.<br /></span><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I
applaud President Biden’s hope to return to some form of rational, legitimate
and civil political discourse – but worry that it will be very difficult to
accomplish without a complete turnaround and a return to integrity, ethics and
belief in true conservative values by the Republican Party.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <br /> </span></span><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A
look back at some history from my childhood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The following is from the official Republican Party Platform of 1956 (the
highlight is mine) -<br /></span><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“<i>While
jealously guarding the free institutions and preserving the principles upon
which our Republic was founded and has flourished, the purpose of the
Republican Party is to establish and maintain a peaceful world and build at
home a dynamic prosperity in which every citizen fairly shares.<br /></i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We
shall ever build anew, that our children and their children, without
distinction because of race, creed or color, may know the blessings of our free
land.<br /></span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><b><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We
believe that basic to governmental integrity are unimpeachable ethical
standards and irreproachable personal conduct by all people in government. We
shall continue our insistence on honesty as an indispensable requirement of
public service. We shall continue to root out corruption whenever and wherever
it appears.</span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">”<br /><o:p></o:p></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As
we learned recently, <b>today’s Republican Party no longer believes any of this</b> –
especially the highlighted portion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With
too few exceptions today’s Republicans clearly openly embrace and enable
unethical, dishonest and corrupt politicians.</span></div><div style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div><div style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div>
<br /><p></p>Robert D Flachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06034127763662917220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7570131784773572890.post-51819676351695278982021-02-10T22:37:00.005-08:002021-02-10T22:38:11.709-08:00THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS A CULT<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4zEboIE5dOQPQ2UHSXjnlYrwRuyG0JB_pwSgdy_2xXHLZErTEL-mM8giRJTqFWh5LvbWMe6wrfnKdkV23Twl0Kp1URhWA1J4PnUy3rW6ZhWTcWskuGvnNH_EQ3F8LzdnKjpeusagkuDA1/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="800" data-original-width="783" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4zEboIE5dOQPQ2UHSXjnlYrwRuyG0JB_pwSgdy_2xXHLZErTEL-mM8giRJTqFWh5LvbWMe6wrfnKdkV23Twl0Kp1URhWA1J4PnUy3rW6ZhWTcWskuGvnNH_EQ3F8LzdnKjpeusagkuDA1/w392-h400/image.png" width="392" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt;">The
Republican Party no longer represents and supports truth, justice and the
American way.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The
Republican Party no longer represents and supports true conservative values and policies.</span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The
Republican Party represents and supports lies, corruption, bigotry, and fascism.</span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The
Republican Party represents and supports the selfish personal interests of one ignorant,
incompetent, delusional, dangerous, and totally self-absorbed man.</span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The
Republican Party is no longer a credible or legitimate political party – it is
a cult.</span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">True
conservatives and traditional Republicans must totally abandon the Republican
Party - just as the Republican Party has TOTALLY abandoned them.</span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A
new political party that is actually based on true conservative values and
policies – one that rejects, denounces and disavows Trump and “Trumpism” and
the bigotry and repression of the so-called “evangelicals” of the religious
right – must be formed.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Perhaps called
the Liberty Party.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div></span></div>
Robert D Flachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06034127763662917220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7570131784773572890.post-25002628707697631832021-02-05T02:29:00.005-08:002021-02-05T02:31:56.719-08:00THE GREENE SLIME<div style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt;">I
am not talking about a 1968 Japanese-American science fiction movie, but the
2021 deplorable and despicable Republican Congresswoman.</span></div><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Why
shouldn’t members of Congress he held responsible for what they have said and
done before being elected?</span></div> </span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Being
sworn in as a Congressperson does not automatically make a person more
intelligent, honest or sensible, or suddenly make them grow a conscience.</span></div></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">If
a person was a moron and a bigot before being elected to Congress, they are
still a moron and a bigot after being sworn in.</span></div></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Past
words and deeds identify whether a person has intelligence, judgement and
character – qualities needed by members of Congress (although, sadly, too many Republican
members of Congress apparently do not possess them).</span></div></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">If
the Republican Party is willing to accept totally worthless pieces of excrement
like Marjorie Taylor Greene “under the umbrella” it must publicly and
officially denounce every one of her past words, posts and deeds. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">And Green must be required to publicly
denounce her past beliefs and apologize to the American people and the targets
of her malicious words, posts and deeds or be shunned by and removed from the
Republican Conference and the Republican Party and forced to resign.</span></div></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Democrat
Al Franken was forced to resign from Congress for one childish and unacceptable
joke in his past.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A Republican Congressperson
should not avoid the same penalty for multiple past ignorant, bigoted,
malicious, and unacceptable words and deeds simply because she is a member of
Trump’s core cult of ignorant racists, and holding her accountable would offend and alienate the rest of the cult.</span></div></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It
must not be easy, or acceptable, to be Greene.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We have a Green Party – we do not need a Greene Party.</span></div></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div></span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">By
being more afraid of “offending” and alienating Trump’s core cult of ignorant
racists than offending and alienating true conservatives and traditional
Republicans the Republican Party has announced to America and the world that it
is officially the Party of ignorance and racism.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div></span></div>
Robert D Flachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06034127763662917220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7570131784773572890.post-5899694407607245372021-02-03T02:17:00.000-08:002021-02-03T02:17:45.753-08:00THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH, AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga0LoWqkeLv7xlGE5a6_XKzvieqaicejRxGwSlwRTXHwfx82D21-mHL1kMitX1uYC4k3vEOt9OIRK56OS26lIHcD09uzKMS5ypA7ApOcPHJjMB-0yQ1sDVNSdtd3O8E-H8n6_9kn8PEJKj/s630/NO+TRUMP+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="630" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga0LoWqkeLv7xlGE5a6_XKzvieqaicejRxGwSlwRTXHwfx82D21-mHL1kMitX1uYC4k3vEOt9OIRK56OS26lIHcD09uzKMS5ypA7ApOcPHJjMB-0yQ1sDVNSdtd3O8E-H8n6_9kn8PEJKj/w400-h400/NO+TRUMP+3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Trump,
everything he says, has tweeted, and does, and everything he represents is in
direct contradiction to true conservative, traditional Republican and
legitimate Christian beliefs and values.<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Trump as
the “voice” of the Republican Party is like a meat-eater heading up a
vegetarian society.<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">There is no
intelligent, rational, legitimate, or acceptable reason for any American to
support Trump.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Trump the man is
ignorant, incompetent, totally self-absorbed, and completely devoid of integrity,
honor, character, ethics, morals, and humanity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He does not possess a single redeeming positive human quality, and has never
performed a single totally unselfish positive act in his adult life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <br /> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Anyone who
actually listens to, believes and supports Trump is a moron and/or a racist
and/or has no conscience.<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">By refusing
to publicly denounce and disavow Trump, and hold him accountable for his multitude
of “sins”, the Republican Party has totally abandoned all integrity, honor and
credibility, and all conservative beliefs and values, and should be abandoned
by true conservatives and traditional Republicans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <br /> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Every
Republican in Congress who has supported and enabled Trump during his
Presidency must be voted out of office.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Republican candidates, for any office at any level, who do not publicly
denounce and disavow Trump must be aggressively opposed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Republican candidates, for any office at any
level, who have consistently opposed and denounced Trump and “Trumpism”, and
continue to openly oppose and denounce Trump and “Trumpism”, should be
aggressively encouraged and supported. </span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></div>
<br /><p></p>Robert D Flachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06034127763662917220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7570131784773572890.post-47765872197897364642021-01-28T00:16:00.000-08:002021-01-28T00:16:26.250-08:00WE MUST NOT FORGET<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTOR1MGdQJ3mAGY0IQo6kkKD3WHSvN6kSxnVlva_Lovlrnld_8uYU-xgnKU2Vf7w_WVrqet2AItEYHa0BMh_xGtcxzny0HBXf-rgaVWMFD5gsSXjxVJ4-AHF4JB4YpVX7iLZ9qULq4kasC/s460/NO+ELECTORAL+COLLEGE.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="460" data-original-width="460" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTOR1MGdQJ3mAGY0IQo6kkKD3WHSvN6kSxnVlva_Lovlrnld_8uYU-xgnKU2Vf7w_WVrqet2AItEYHa0BMh_xGtcxzny0HBXf-rgaVWMFD5gsSXjxVJ4-AHF4JB4YpVX7iLZ9qULq4kasC/w400-h400/NO+ELECTORAL+COLLEGE.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p class="yiv2892747026msonormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Courier New";">While dealing with the pandemic is obviously the current top
priority of the Biden Administration, once COVID is behind us Joe and the
Democrats must deal with the issues that arose during the Trump disaster.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv2892747026msonormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv2892747026msonormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Courier New";">These include –<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv2892747026msonormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv2892747026msonormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Courier New";">* Repealing the outdated Electoral College.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The popular vote must be the only
determination of who wins the presidential election.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If
there had been no Electoral College there would have been no Trump presidency –
Hillary got about 3 Million more votes in the 2016 election than Trump.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv2892747026msonormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv2892747026msonormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Courier New";">* Passing legislation <b>requiring </b>candidates for President
and Vice President to make at least 5 years of tax returns public.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv2892747026msonormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="yiv2892747026msonormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Courier New";">* Passing legislation <b>requiring</b> the President and Vice
President to totally divest themselves of (i.e. sell off) all business interests
and other investments – putting their cash in blind trusts. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="yiv2892747026msonormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Courier New";"><br /></span></p><p class="yiv2892747026msonormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Courier New;">We can never assume that a presidential candidate, or an elected President, has any basic integrity or honesty - or even intelligence. Trump obviously had no integrity, no honesty and no intelligence. </span></p><p class="yiv2892747026msonormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Courier New;"><br /></span></p><p class="yiv2892747026msonormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Courier New;"><br /></span></p><p class="yiv2892747026msonormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Courier New;"><br /></span></p><p class="yiv2892747026msonormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Courier New;"><br /></span></p><p class="yiv2892747026msonormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Courier New;"><br /></span></p><p class="yiv2892747026msonormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Courier New;"><br /></span></p><p class="yiv2892747026msonormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Courier New;"><br /></span></p><p class="yiv2892747026msonormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Courier New;"><br /></span></p><p class="yiv2892747026msonormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Courier New;"><br /></span></p><p class="yiv2892747026msonormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Courier New;"><br /></span></p><p class="yiv2892747026msonormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Courier New;"><br /></span></p><p class="yiv2892747026msonormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Courier New;"><br /></span></p><p class="yiv2892747026msonormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Courier New;"><br /></span></p><p class="yiv2892747026msonormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Courier New;"><br /></span></p><p class="yiv2892747026msonormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Courier New;"><br /></span></p><p class="yiv2892747026msonormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Courier New;"><br /></span></p><p class="yiv2892747026msonormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Courier New;"><br /></span></p><p class="yiv2892747026msonormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Courier New;"> </span></p><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Robert D Flachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06034127763662917220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7570131784773572890.post-32534551003861019832020-08-03T02:43:00.010-07:002020-08-03T02:47:19.046-07:00WEAR A MASK!<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><font size="5"><b><span style="font-family: "courier new";">DON’T BE AN ASSHOLE AND A MORON LIKE TRUMP.</span><span style="font-family: "courier new";"> </span></b></font></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><font size="5"><b>WEAR A MASK!</b></font><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "courier new";"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuyqWnIpj48sPKP_5Gqo5W6uPf8tmQeJWYpA2r6ObaG_AKFtxgUI_T05vGv2NjQXbBgKbn2PEsmvjL74fXmLtvGF0GaNTjQu88Sqmso2TdCxcR5xqw_2hA8RG15tisQ0zxVLJkr_brbJED/s2048/COVID+MASK.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuyqWnIpj48sPKP_5Gqo5W6uPf8tmQeJWYpA2r6ObaG_AKFtxgUI_T05vGv2NjQXbBgKbn2PEsmvjL74fXmLtvGF0GaNTjQu88Sqmso2TdCxcR5xqw_2hA8RG15tisQ0zxVLJkr_brbJED/s640/COVID+MASK.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "courier new";"> </span><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: "courier new";">THE CHOICE WHETHER OR NOT TO WEAR A MASK IN PUBLIC HAS <b>ABSOLUTELY</b> <b>NOTHING</b>
TO DO WITH YOUR RIGHTS OR FREEDOM AS AN AMERICAN.</span><span style="font-family: "courier new";"> </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><font size="5">WEARING A MASK IN PUBLIC IS YOUR <b>OBLIGATION</b> TO YOUR FELLOW
AMERICANS TO PROTECT THEM FROM HARM.<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><font size="5"><br /></font></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><font size="5"><br /></font></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><font size="5"><br /></font></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><font size="5"><br /></font></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><font size="5"><br /></font></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><font size="5"><br /></font></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><font size="5"><br /></font></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><font size="5"><br /></font></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><font size="5"><br /></font></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><font size="5"><br /></font></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><font size="5"><br /></font></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><font size="5"><br /></font></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "courier new";"><font size="5"><br /></font></span></p><br />Robert D Flachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06034127763662917220noreply@blogger.com0