Reflections From a Murky Pond

Protests involving Israel’s right to defend itself and its people from Muslim savagery vary greatly depending upon whether the protests are against Israel’s existence or for it. The differences are easy to spot.

Sadly, since the anti-Israel “protestors” mostly cause havoc in Democrat-controlled zones, they’re treated as is if they were as peaceful and proper as the pro-Israel demonstrations. It’s fast reaching the point when Americans will have to take matters into our own hands and exterminate these vermin root and branch in such a manner as to have a long-lasting “chilling effect” on such things as would support our enemies, both foreign and domestic.

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Once Again Valentine’s Day

So, once again it’s Valentine’s Day, the consumption-based holiday that “enjoys” the most ambivalence from the American people. I’m not a big fan of it myself, but thinking outside the box of chocolates does make this day of enforced trappings of romance more palatable. Case in point – here’s 48 examples of better gifts for couples than candy and flowers. 😉

The report is in and published. Special Counsel, Robert Hur – who happens NOT to be White – has determined that Joe Biden did in fact willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen, and that these classified materials included: marked classified documents about military and foreign policy in Afghanistan, and notebooks containing Mr. Biden’s handwritten entries about issues of national security and foreign policy implicating sensitive intelligence sources and methods.

Special Counsel Hur also concluded that, despite this, Biden should not be charged with any crime or wrongdoing, partially due to the DOJ’s longstanding rule against prosecuting a sitting President, and partially due to Biden being “innocent” due to mental disease or defect.

We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory. Based on our direct interactions with and observations of him, he is someone for whom many jurors will want to identify reasonable doubt. It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him-by then a former president well into his eighties-of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.

We conclude the evidence is not sufficient to convict, and we decline to recommend prosecution of Mr. Biden for his retention of the classified Afghanistan documents.

— Robert K. Hur, Special Counsel

In a nutshell, Mr. Hur’s report and recommendation to his boss, AG Merrick Garland, that, irrespective of any longstanding proscription against prosecuting a sitting POTUS and a similar – only once violated… by Garland – longstanding precedent of not prosecuting a former President or Vice President for mishandling classified documents from his own administration, there’s no point of bringing charges against Biden because a jury is likely to acquit him on the grounds of his failing mental state.

My Take On This Farce

One, there was no legal or law enforcement point in this investigation in the first place. If The DOJ, by it’s own rules, can’t prosecute a POTUS and precedent has, with one politically motivated exception, always been to simply recover the mishandled materials from former POTUS’s and not charge them, the only reason for the report was to create a more palatable reason for doing exactly nothing. And that is exactly what Hur did; he stated the case that Biden wouldn’t be convicted by jury due to reasonable doubt of his mental ability to willfully violate the statute. That lets Garland and the DOJ “off the hook” for not indicting Biden.

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It’s The Year Of The Wood Dragon

It’s the Lunar New Year, specifically the first of a year of the Wood Dragon. So, here’s 75 examples of the best way celebrate the holiday. 😉

These days, it’s actually pretty damn easy to identify the UN and it’s subsidiaries. They’re all either actual Islamists or those who pander to them or use them as proxies against America and Israel.