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An homage to animals.

10/31/2016

 
For all you animal lovers out there.  I are one too.  :-)
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And what about this overlooked provision of Federal Law?

10/29/2016

 
Former United States Attorney General Michael Mukasey tells MSNBC that not only is Hillary Clinton's private email server illegal, it "disqualifies" her from holding any federal office. Very specifically points to one federal law, Title 18. Section 2071.

Here's what 18 USC § 2071 says:

"(a) Whoever willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, or destroys, or attempts to do so, or, with intent to do so takes and carries away any record, proceeding, map, book, paper, document, or other thing, filed or deposited with any clerk or officer of any court of the United States, or in any public office, or with any judicial or public officer of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.

"(b) Whoever, having the custody of any such record, proceeding, map, book, document, paper, or other thing, willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys the same, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States."

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Yes, it explicitly states "shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States."

Last time I checked, the Office of the President is, in fact, an "office under the United States."  Hillary is, in a word, unqualified for holding that (or any other) office.  Period.

Regarding Hillary's e-mails and The Espionage Act...

10/29/2016

 
The Espionage Act of 1918 makes no allowance for intent.  Noodle on that.  Whether or not Hillary intended to break the law, she did.  Whether or not THE SMARTEST WOMAN IN THE WORLD™ had any desire, wish, hope, or dream to violate the law, the fact is that she did, flat-out, run afoul of the Espionage Act.  Period.  To argue otherwise is pure and unadulterated sophistry.  (Can I use the word "unadulterated" in reference to the Clintons, I wonder?  Without causing an uproar of laughter to erupt, that is?)

The fact is 18 USC 93, 793 and 1924 simply do not require intent.  But even if intent is what you Hillary supporters require, consider that the latest Wikileaks revelations in this whole sordid mess—and more recently, the repulsive Anthony Weiner's part in all of this sordid, filth-filled brouhaha—proves that Hillary did have intent.  See 
18 U.S.C. ch. 37 (18 U.S.C. § 792 et seq.).

A random thought...

10/28/2016

 
For those of you who passionately support Hillary Clinton because you fervently assert that she's The Most Qualified Person Running for President™, I humbly ask you to consider:
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Intensity of emotion isn't evidence.  Activity isn't accomplishment.

Grace and Peace.  Cheers.

A long overdue addition to this page....

10/26/2016

 
To save time, for both you and for me, please go to my landing page at WesternFreePress.com by clicking here.

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    I am a happily married middle-aged man who served his country as a nuclear-trained US Navy sailor during the peacetime years of the late 1980s.  I re-entered civilian life before the First Gulf War.  Though I trained for war as part of my military duties, I saw no combat during my service.  War games were as close to combat, and its perils, that I ever got.

    In civilian life I experienced a varied career, culminating with being a departmental Help Desk / Network Administrator / Computing Support technician in the University of Virginia's then-named Office of Development and Public Affairs. (The current reorganized / renamed department is now the University Advancement Office and University Communications.)

    I got my first taste for political writing by posting comments to other writers' commentaries on American Thinker and The American Spectator web sites.  I posted my comments under the  user name "TwoShoes."
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    I still, on occasion, post comments on those sites using that moniker.  These days, however, most of my political commentary is now posted and published on the WesternFreePress.com site.

    My Author's Page there is http://www.westernfreepress.com/author/dgoode/

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