Sunday, January 24, 2021

U.S. Constitution: Impeachment ... Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.

The word Impeachment is mentioned six times.

https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript 

Article I.

Section. 1.

All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.

Section. 2.

... The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.

Section. 3.

... The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When sitting for that Purpose, they shall be on Oath or Affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present.

Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States: but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law.

Article II.

Section. 1.

The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America...

Section. 2.

... The President ... shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment...

Section. 4.

The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.

Article III.

Section. 1.

The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour, and shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services, a Compensation, which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office.

Section. 2.

... The Trial of all Crimes, except in Cases of Impeachment, shall be by Jury ...

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Tuesday, January 19, 2021

"Knock on Any Door" to find a nutcase.

A QAnon ‘Digital Soldier’ Marches On, Undeterred by Theory’s Unraveling

Valerie Gilbert posts dozens of times a day in support of an unhinged conspiracy theory. The story of this “meme queen” hints at how hard it will be to bring people like her back to reality.
By Kevin Roose Jan. 17, 2021
nytimes.com

A friend wrote to me saying that a friend knew the subject of this article and asked my opinion. My reply:

I had to stop reading so that my head won't explode. This reeks of the junk that made me stop reading the Times. If it's all so obvious, why does the writer need to tell us that in every paragraph? He just keeps pounding that narrative. Hey, I'll draw my own conclusions. Just provide facts.

"Like any movement its size — which is almost certainly in the millions, though it is impossible to quantify" What?

This lady has too much time on her hands. I feel like I slipped into an alternate universe. It looks like the USA but isn't. Even the sports leagues are part of it. Who cares about her? Why even write this? There's an old movie:

"Knock on Any Door" 1949

Nuts abound, especially if they can get 15 minutes of fame, which is assured since we all have access to each other online. Who would have thunk it 25 years ago when the web started?

Ignore TV and "papers". Journalism is dead and it's not coming back from the grave. We all need to find alternate sources, made increasingly difficult by large communication and technology companies acting in concert to limit access to alternate ideas.

I should post this ...

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Citizen President Trump: the government we deserve. Thursday, September 6, 2018

Monday, January 18, 2021

Abraham Lincoln: "With malice toward none with charity for all ... to bind up the nation's wounds ..."

In two days Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. (Joe Biden) will take the oath of office as president. Rather than reciting words written for him by people half his age, he would do well to embrace the words of the second inaugural address by Abraham Lincoln in 1865 at the end of the Civil War. A war, not a riot.

https://www.nps.gov/linc/learn/historyculture/lincoln-second-inaugural.htm

"With malice toward none with charity for all with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right let us strive on to finish the work we are in to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan ~ to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."