On the Coming (Wisconsin) State Supreme Court Election

This Tuesday, February 21, Wisconsin will have

a primary election which will feature four candidates

for a seat on your favorite Peasant's state's Supreme

Court, a seat being vacated by retiring Justice Patience

(Pat) Roggensack, a longtime stalwart conservative 

jurist. Two liberals on one side of the primary ballot,

two conservatives on the other. 

The liberals are offering two candidates for the primary:

Milwaukee County Judge Protasiewicz and Dane County

Circuit Court Judge Everett Mitchell, two far-left 

judges with histories of being soft on crime to the point

of being enablers for criminals in their counties. 

Furthermore, Protasiewicz has telegraphed in a few

interviews how she would rule on certain cases, such

as abortion, and has been telling people she meets on

the campaign trail of her "values" and how they would

guide her on the bench (?!). Although she claims that 

she "can't tell you what I will do on any particular case",

Protasiewicz has given very strong hints, almost dead

giveaways on how she would rule on certain cases i.e.

abortion (she has mentioned her support for legal abortion

and her desire to eliminate the 1849 state law which makes it 

illegal to perform an abortion at any trimester of pregnancy

except to save the life of the mother) and on criminal cases.

That is a major no-no, a cardinal sin, for a judge and certainly

for a state supreme court justice! And if she wants to legislate,

she should instead run for a seat in either the Assembly or 

the Senate!

Don't expect her to leave then-Gov. Scott Walker's Act 10

reforms standing either should she get elected. Her blabbing

about all this, along with her strong left-bent political 

makeup disqualifies her as a suitable candidate, and 

as a fair and impartial justice as she would legislate rather 

than adjudicate, abiding by her own whimsey. Her lefty

primary opponent is another Madison extremist who 

is so "woke" that he is unconscious to the logic and the 

boundaries of the law; Judge Everett Mitchell is so far to 

the left that he makes Judge Protasiewicz look like 

SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas and is not expected 

to pose any significant challenge to Protasiewicz in 

the primary. 

On the conservative side former State Supreme Court Justice

Daniel Kelly will be vying to win the primary and the general 

election coming in April to return to Wisconsin's highest court.

His primary opponent will be the sudden rising star Waukesha

County Circuit Judge Jennifer Dorow, whose recognition has 

been on a rocket ride since her no-nonsense manner of conducting

her court and maintaining its decorum during the trial of the 

bloodthirsty raging maniac who intentionally ran down several 

participants in Waukesha's Christmas Parade in 2021, killing six

and injuring many more. When the smoke cleared Dorow sentenced

the defendant to six consecutive life sentences with no parole.

In this age of super-leniency for criminals, this sentence was very

welcome news, inspiring some to convince Judge Dorow to run for 

the to be contested for seat on the Wisconsin State Supreme Court

and she declared herself a candidate.

Now, I am more familiar with ex-Justice Kelley and his judicial 

philosophy and his record. Also (full disclosure here), I know 

him socially, and we are friends. That said, I am very much impressed

with both candidates and shall be voting for Kelly in the primary.

However, if Dorow emerges as the winner of the conservative

primary, I would have no qualms about voting for her in the general

election; either candidate would serve Wisconsin well as a state 

supreme court justice. I give the edge and my primary vote to Kelly

as he was on the court before, having been appointed to the high

court by Gov. Scott Walker to fill a vacated seat for the remainder 

of the term left by the retiring justice who held it. Dorow would also

be a fine justice and like Kelly would follow the law rather than 

political whimsy. I therefore endorse Daniel Kelly, and we'll see 

how the primary shakes out. Of course, you know who I will 

endorse on April 4 if Dorow wins on February 21.

With that, I ask that you, my fellow Badger Staters, to vote for  

whoever the winner on the 21st will be, come the general election,

regardless of how you feel about the winning candidate. We can't stay

home in April and let a radical judge be elevated to the highest court

in the state, a judge who will set us back in terms of what we have

accomplished when we elected Gov. Walker to two terms, took

control of both chambers of the state legislature, and elected a 

conservative majority on the state's high court. We hold a 4-3 majority

there, and its vital that we all show up at our polling places to elect

a conservative to take over from a retiring conservative and keep

that razor-thin judicial majority to protect our gains and the fruits 

of those gains, the quality of our lives which has been enhanced

by them. Either Dan Kelly or Jennifer Dorow would make a fine,

fair, and constitutional justice, so let's not have any pointless feuds 

as to which if them is the "true" conservative, or who is tougher 

on crime. Let's instead save the fight for our foe whom the 

lefties will nominate on the other side of the primary as that

would be more conducive to our winning the contested high court

seat and therefore keep our majority on the state's top court.

If we fight each other, then the radicals win by default.

Please vote in both the primary and general elections. If you can,

vote early; that is, vote on an early voting day. If enough of us do

that, then we won't have to hurry down to our polls to vote despite

whatever schedule for the day some of us might have, or brave 

inclement winter weather and resultant dangerous roads to get

there. 

My fellow Wisconsinites, the future of our state is in our hands.

MEM

NOTE: The Peasant erred! Just today (2/20) I learned that the primary

will have the top two vote-getters out of the four candidates advance

in an open primary format to the general election in April. 

All the greater importance and all the more reason to get over to the 

polls and vote for either of the conservative candidates! It's a two-step 

process to elect a conservative to succeed retiring Justice Roggensack 

and preserve the precarious 4-3 conservative majority on our state's

top court!

Best of all possible outcomes: That we cast enough votes to place 

former Justice Kelly and Judge Dorow in first and second place in 

the primary so that the two conservatives will face each other in

April and Judge Protasiewicz will be shut out of the general!

This would also send a powerful, unmistakable message to all

left-wing activists in Wisconsin that we want fair, non-impinging,

constitutional rule of law upheld by a state supreme court which

will not dilute our freedoms, our prosperity, nor our own values

(get that, Judge Protasiewicz?).                                              MEM

Up Up and Away in My Great Big Spy My Great Big Spy Balloon!

Recently our country had the experience of having a large

white balloon visit our air space; in fact, it visited quite a bit

of it. The inflated visitor flew over Northern Japan, then 

northward to Alaska's Aleutian Islands before heading sharply 

south, then east, across the continent before flying again through 

U.S. air space, flying over the Rockies, the Great Plains, 

Missouri, and on to South Carolina. The balloon, it turns out, 

is from China and was made to look like a weather balloon.

The Chinese government claimed to the United States that 

it was indeed their balloon and was merely a weather balloon,

and had blown off course. But consider this:

Television footage filmed in the Japanese city of Sendai showed

a balloon-like object attached to a cross, which seemed to have 

propellers turning as the balloon moved along through the sky.

The Sendai Weather Bureau's officials reported that it appeared 

just before dawn and hung for hours at the location where it was 

spotted, until clouds came and obscured the view of the object.

Sendai and its surrounding area just happens to be the home of

four bases of Japan's National Self-Defense Force: Camp Sendai, 

Camp Kasuminome, Camp Tagajo, and Matsushima Air Base.

And what some would call "the kicker" is that a photo published

by Reuters shows a large white balloon that looks ironically like

the Chinese balloon that crossed the U.S. not long afterward. 

Furthermore, as it has made a rather definite flight path coming 

from China, it is certain that it was controlled via technological 

means by the flight engineers and other tech staff. This would 

also explain the balloon's having stopped in the sky at least once,

all the while holding its position.

The Pentagon and the intelligence community in the U.S. said 

that they determined that the balloon was a part of a Chinese

espionage effort, in which (get this!) three such balloons had

entered our air space in years past, at least one during the

Trump Administration years. General Glen Van Herck, North 

American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) 

commander as well as of the U.S. Northern Command, 

said this week "The U.S. didn't even detect those balloons at the

time." Huh???

Gen. Van Herck went on to say "That's a domain awareness gap 

that we have to figure out. But I don't want to go into further 

detail." If all this doesn't make you shake like a leaf all through

the day, or to lose sleep at night, then perhaps nothing will! 

This is urgently important work, detecting and identifying what

may fly even near, let alone through, our air space, and our military

made little or no effort to do so! What gives?

So the U.S. failed to detect the first three of these balloons at the 

time that each breezed over the country, didn't determine that they 

were part of a Chinese espionage effort until some years later, and

that the sighting of this fourth balloon was not treated as an urgent

warning; it was initially sighted in late January. The U.S. opted to,

rather than report it as a matter of urgency, instead observe the

balloon and collect intelligence on it. And because of the course 

the balloon was on, in addition to the cross-like apparatus attached

to the balloon, U.S. military officials determined the craft to be on

a spying mission. 

So why is it that our NORAD don't seem to be effective in detecting 

these balloons, especially given how large they are? Civilians 

spotted the balloon in the sky where it sailed on its route! 

And, President Biden wasn't even notified about the balloon until 

January 28, when it crossed over Montana. To his credit, he ordered

the balloon to be shot down, which our military did, just off the

coast of South Carolina. The military retrieved its remains from 

the sea to study it for further intelligence information. 

One could say better late than never, but in this case our lateness 

could have had far more serious consequences. And no sense 

castigating President Biden or recent past presidents for the 

glaring deficiencies in our military's detection effectiveness,

as they apparently have cropped up within its leadership and 

were not reported to our recent commanders-in-chief. 

And the Chi-coms are undoubtedly laughing themselves 

silly.

A big CYA by the military, don't you think? Anyway, pleasant dreams! 

MEM

Time Crunch

Your neck-deep in various commitments Peasant 

apologizes to you, my fabulous readers, for not

being able to be with you with a fresh post this week.

A bunch of things snuck up on me (as if I didn't have 

enough on my plate already!) . However, I shall be 

back next week. Thank you for your forgiveness and 

understanding! 

MEM      

Birthday Reflections of Gratitude and Love

Today is Thursday, February 2. Your bouncing baby Peasant

made his debut in this life on another Thursday, February 2;

exactly sixty-five years earlier. And I am busy celebrating!

I have much to celebrate. I nearly didn't get to this milestone

thanks to a heart attack just a couple of weeks after my 

sixty-third birthday. I was told by my doctors and nurses that

I beat the odds that fateful night. I have made a big recovery

since I was stricken. So I am certainly in a celebratory mood,

and am so very grateful for every day that I rise, and for 

having made it to two birthdays so far since I gave the Reaper 

the slip.

I have begun to get together with friends and family, and will 

continue to do, continuing to celebrate my sticking to this 

life and all whom I care about, and that includes you, my 

wonderful readers! Today your grateful Peasant is taking

time from the political happenings to stop and smell the roses

before they are placed on my resting place, which apparently 

won't be for a while. I am grateful for my friends and family,

and certainly for every one of you, my grand readers. And I 

am thankful for this blog which brings us all together each

week. I am also thankful for living in a grand and wonderful 

country where I am free to express my observation and opinions

without fear of revenge, retribution, arrest, or threats of violence.

I am thankful for my friend and landlady who found me in 

a much-weakened state and called for an ambulance even though 

I told her that I didn't need to go to the hospital, that all I needed

was a good night's rest (which would have been a mighty long rest!).

I am thankful for the cardiovascular team at Froedtert Hospital

in Milwaukee who put me back together again, so to speak.

And I am thankful for my family and friends who took care of

my dear cat Brownie and of things at home for me when I 

could not and would not be able to for a few more weeks to 

to come, as well as for their get well cards, gifts, visits 

in person and on the phone, and their prayers. 

And I am thankful to Jesus, whose heavenly intervention was most

instrumental in my holding onto life when my grip was most tenuous.

We shall resume business next week. Meanwhile, keep warm and

remain of good cheer. 2023 is going to be a most wonderful new year

for us all! Thank you all for your readership and warm wishes.

The latter are most certainly reciprocated.

MEM