Marcus Tullius Cicero in 42 BC:
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.”

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For the first time ever I am selling something on this blog (besides my view of the world, that is).
There is now a link to "Krans World's Profit Center" over on the right side. This will take you to my on-line store where you can buy various articles that will communicate themes I hold dear to my heart (and/or find funny).
Right now there is just a sticker that expresses the view on the new banner. I have included a $0.51 mark-up over the basic cost of the sticker. Yes, that IS a 20% profit... but it's also only tad over fifty cents. I will use any funds so gained to defray my postage costs as I begin my letter-writing campaign to try to find out why, exactly, our Republican House Members that voted for HCR63 (the non-binding resolution of non-support) did so (and whether or not they can sleep at night).
Watch for some T-Shirts and bumber stickers soon...