Showing posts with label Rule of Law. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rule of Law. Show all posts

Thursday, August 02, 2018

YIKES!








Could Barack Obama Become President again as Speaker of the House?
Posted on 8/2/2018, 6:45:41 AM by Jim Noble

The XXII Amendment to the Constitution says, in part, "No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once."

Notice what this Amendment prohibits: "No person shall be elected to the office of the President". It says it twice.

Notice also what the Amendment does not say: "Any person having served blah, blah, blah shall be ineligible to the office of the President".

If the Democrats take the House and elect Obama as Speaker, and then manage to remove the President and Vice President (by whatever means), would Obama's succession to the Presidency happen by him "being elected to the office?"

I don't think so.

The Amendment only prohibits a third term that happens as a result of an election (which, BTW, is not in the Constitution to begin with).


A Freeper (Jim Noble) asked that very question. Bear in mind that the ruling party can elect anybody Speaker.  I'm a longtime advocate of using this rule to give Sarah Palin, or Ann Coulter the job.  That would be legal, but I'm not sure of this gambit, although I seem to remember  that, at the end of  the Clinton Terror, there was similar talk about a Speaker Willy.

Friday, September 15, 2017

You'll kill who?




I'M MAD AS HELL!
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Richland Township police say that William Robert Dunbar of Berlin, Pennsylvania was on duty at the Army National Guard Training Center when he allegedly said, “If someone pays me enough money, I will kill the vice president.”

Witnesses contacted both the superior officers and local authorities to report what they overheard. In fact, Dunbar supposedly made the offer at least twice.

My immediate  take was to recommend that Dunbar be tried by a military tribunal, found guilty (duh), and exectuted. 
Sigh.

This isn’t the first time a disturbed individual has threatened to harm the president, vice president, or successors to the presidency. These are crimes under the federal statute 18 U.S. Code § 871. The law states that whoever “knowingly and willfully” writes a document or mails a “written document containing any threat to take the life of, to kidnap, or to inflict bodily harm… or otherwise makes any such threat against the President, President-elect, Vice President or other officer next in the order of succession to the office of President, or Vice President-elect, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.”

That means that no one can make such boasts without facing serious criminal punishment. Many conservatives wonder if the number of kooks have increased because of the constant propaganda displayed by leftist news outlets.

The major networks and many “talk” shows continually promote the idea that President Trump colluded with Russia or that he is somehow racist, both of which are false. That sort of daily indoctrination, which is also fueled by the education system, can have a dangerous impact on people who aren’t mentally sound, or who don’t have the ability to apply logic to what they hear. [FULL]

Friday, February 24, 2017

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ASIDE

I don't think there is much argument here  about the desperate need to turn progressive judges upside down (ahem).  Here's a way to make sure our arguments are constitutionally rock solid. 

I'm thinking maybe we participants can have a weekly jam session here, where we can discuss the hard parts and confidentially gossip about what happened at the weekend keg party. 

Sunday, July 31, 2016

Oh Yeah? Prove it!


 







Friday, February 19, 2016

Crimestoppers





Ron Metzger - Works for me



This week, Captain Clay Higgins with the St. Landry Parish Sheriff's Office is asking for the public's assistance in identifying a burglary suspect.

"The man is an accomplished burglar," said Higgins. "He knows when to strike, he gets in and out fast, and he avoids cameras. He appears to know where to go in each business, so we believe he visits the places he hits as a customer… before the burglary."

Anyone with information on the burglaries is asked to call St. Landry Parish Crime Stoppers at (337) 948-8477.
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Lord knows, you can't  disagree with Captain Higgins.  That said, I do see a bit of political opportunism in his self promotion videos.  Sheriff  Joe Arpaio, who he seems to be emulating, gained his notoriety after the Arizona press focused on his tough treatment of convicts under his "care."  He said Picayunishly. 

Friday, February 13, 2015

Godless and In Charge



 







CNN Talkinghead: 'Our Rights Do Not Come From God'

CNN anchor Chris Cuomo debated Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore over rights and marriage, particularly regarding the recent kerfuffle over same-sex marriage in the Heart of Dixie. When Moore explained that marriage is a matter of law and rights that come from God, Cuomo vehemently disagreed.

"Our rights do not come from God, your honor, and you know that. They come from man," Cuomo insisted.

Later he added, "That's your faith, that's my faith, but that's not our country. Our laws come from collective agreement and compromise."

What utter hogwash. As Moore aptly noted, the Declaration of Independence is the law of the land, and it begins, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed..."

But Cuomo isn't just mistaken. He and his deceased father, Mario, and his brother Andrew, former and current governors of New York, hold a typical leftist view that government and not God creates rights. Therefore, those rights are subject to the whims of politicians because, as Chris Cuomo insisted,

"Times change. Definitions change." Such views are dangerous and completely antithetical to the foundation of our country.

More...

Well, they are the people whose governing principle is "Just make shit up and sign it."


Tuesday, December 02, 2014

Hoyer and Boner Tap Dance on the Constitution




                               

At a press briefing on Tuesday, House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD) said that President Obama had "broad authority" to take unilateral action on immigration but failed to directly answer a question asking him where specifically the Constitution authorized President Obama to unilaterally decided not to enforce immigration laws.
CNSNews.com asked Hoyer: “The Constitution requires that the president ‘take care that the laws be faithfully executed.’ Where specifically in the Constitution does it give the president the power not to enforce immigration laws against 5 million violators of that law?”

Hoyer did not point to any specific provision of the Constitution, but said that Obama had authority because "president have broad authority to deal with implementation" of immigration law. [Hoyer Doesn't Say] 


The very question we've all been axing since Holder and Obama attacked Arizona for ENFORCING  immigration laws.



But what the hell does it matter when BOEHNER NEGOTIATES TERMS OF SURRENDER TO KING BARACK'S EXECUTIVE AMNESTY?

Friday, October 10, 2014

Department of Injustice

Police State         


Department of Injustice
KNOCK KNOCK
WHO'S THERE?

EVERYONE ON THE FLOOR EVERYONE ON THE FLOOR ... 

(Successive secret-police chiefs were themselves executed by Stalin, or, in the case of the infamous Beria, by Stalin’s successors, in the only step they could agree upon before a rending struggle for power between themselves.) The United States certainly has not plumbed these depths, but the allocutions are just as nauseatingly excessive and obviously extorted by terror in sentencing — psychological, as opposed to physical, torture.
I was one of those who warned of the criminalization of policy differences in the Watergate affair, but unfortunately the inexplicable and uncharacteristic mismanagement of the whole tawdry sequence of events by President Nixon made it relatively easy for his enemies to drive him from office. It was bound to be an intoxicating experience, and beneath the confected sanctimony of many of the Watergate principals in the media and law enforcement, the joys of the assassin were evident. Ben Bradlee, editor of the Washington Post, whose notes reveal that he distrusted Woodward and Bernstein’s Watergate reporting, was audibly rubbing his hands with glee at the prospect of going over the same ground again in the piffling Iran-Contra affair of 1986.


  • The infamous Ted Stevens affair has already been exposed as fraudulent withholding of evidence by the prosecutors, but only after the seven-term senator narrowly lost his bid for reelection and one of the prosecutors committed suicide. The protracted persecution of long-serving New York Senate leader Joseph Bruno has been another glaring example of the political corruption of the bench and the prosecutors. Most recently, the harassment of Republican governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin by the Democratic district attorney of Milwaukee, the pursuit of conservativecommentator Dinesh D’Souza, the partisan indictment of Governor Perry of Texas for exercising his veto right, and the antics of the IRS
  • In the assault on Governor Scott Walker, Democratic district attorney John Chisholm’s long-running criminal investigation of the governor and his entourage ended in 2013, and has been followed by a criminal investigation into the most prominent individuals and organizations that support the governor, expressing concern about improper collusion in support of the governor’s political, if not statutory, offense, which was to curb rapacious and irresponsible public-sector unions. This is a John Doe investigation (so called because it is a blind search into whether a crime was committed at all, and if so by whom — a procedure certain to lead to abuse).
  •   The pursuit of Governor Don Siegelman of Alabama was always dubious, and the long persecution of the former House majority leader, Tom DeLay of Texas, has finally collapsed as the scandalous abuse of a partisan prosecution service that it always was.]
[Full Department of Injustice]

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Friday, October 03, 2014

IRS Obamacare Rule


In his decision, U.S. District Judge Ronald White ( George W. Bush, 2003 ) concluded Tuesday that the IRS rule altering the Obamacare law and providing billions in subsidies is "arbitrary, capricious and abuse of discretion":

"The court holds that the IRS rule is arbitrary, capricious, and abuse of discretion or otherwise not in accordance with law, pursuant to 5 U.S.C.706(2)(A), in excess of summary jurisdiction, authority or limitation, or short of statutory right, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 706(2)(C), or otherwise is an invalidation of the ACA [Affordable Care Act], and is hereby vacated. The court's order of vacatur is stayed, however, pending resolution of any appeal from this order."

In September 2012, Oklahoma was the first of several states to challenge the legality of an IRS rule that caused billions in subsidies to be paid out, despite Congress having never authorized those payments.

Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt hailed the state's victory in its lawsuit challenging the implementation of the Affordable Care Act:

"Today's ruling is a consequential victory for the rule of law. The administration and its bureaucrats in the IRS handed out billions in illegal tax credits and subsidies and vastly expanded the reach of the health care law because they didn't like the way Congress wrote the Affordable Care Act. That's not how our system of government works."