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• 1 Bg357 // Dec 31, 2010 at 7:21 am

  What?!?! Is that you Scott? You're not dead?? What happened to the daily satire we used to love so much?

• 2 ScrappleFace // Dec 31, 2010 at 12:25 pm

  Not dead…as far as I can tell…however, very active in local politics as well as PJTV…both of which are transitioning to new levels soon. Thanks for your patience. Hoping to return to satire writing in 2011.Live the Freedom,Scott Ott

• 3 Flight_Risk // Jan 1, 2011 at 7:55 am

  Scott! We love you, man!

• 4 pithandvinegar // Jan 2, 2011 at 11:19 am

  Klein understands the Constitution. He hates it for the same reason all progressives hate it.

  The Constitution stands in their way. That's why academics won't teach it and journalists trivialize and mock it. The President, who is a Constitutional scholar stated that the Constitution is a "charter of negative liberties" because it limits what government can do.

• 5 Hawkeye_R // Jan 2, 2011 at 4:15 pm

  It's not that journalists don't understand the Constitution (well, maybe some don't). But it's the fact that most journalists are liberals and could care less about the Constitution or history or tradition. They don't know where they're going, but they want "Progress"… full speed ahead!

• 6 pithandvinegar // Jan 2, 2011 at 10:43 pm

  They know EXACTLY where the're going which is what makes us say "Hey, where are we going and why are we in this handbasket?"

• 7 PsychoDad149 // Jan 3, 2011 at 12:38 pm

  'Scuse me sir, you forgot to put the word "scholar" in quotes up there, or to follow it with a little eye-rolling smiley.

• 8 Laughing@You // Jan 4, 2011 at 3:45 pm

  “It’s not that journalists don’t understand the Constitution (well, maybe some don’t).”

  Yeah, they never want to add amendments (changes) the way you true lovers of the Constitution always seem to want to do.

  Even after all the benefits of your last power grab, I guess last fall’s election has proven y’all must be right about what the “Real Americans” want.

  But, if my guess is right, the hateful and greedy loonies you’ve elected will guarantee President Obama’s re-election and put an end to any notion of “responsible conservatism” on the part of the Tea Baggers and the Republican Party.

  In the meanwhile, we can all watch to see if the orange man, “Slurs and Slobbers Alot”, can coerce anything for his “Corporatist Rulers” into law.

  This could be your last hurrah, you know?

  ET

  PS
  Sarah Palin, Repug for Prezident!

• 9 Laughing@You // Jan 8, 2011 at 7:47 pm

  A “Real American” has used one of the “Second Amendment remedies” proposed by Sharron Angle, and Tea Party activists.

  Shame on you all!

  Everthink?

• 10 camojack // Jan 10, 2011 at 2:15 am

  Well…Happy New Year!!!
  (In oh so many ways…)

• 11 Laughing@You // Jan 10, 2011 at 4:35 pm

  “The President, who is a Constitutional scholar stated that the Constitution is a “charter of negative liberties” because it limits what government can do.”

  You have “charter of negative liberties” in quotes, but it was his view of some aspects of the Warren Court; it was NOT his characterization of the United States Constitution.

  While you are twisting and distorting maybe you could do something with this one:

  “I don’t give a goddamn,” Bush retorted. “I’m the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way.”

  “Mr. President,” one aide in the meeting said. “There is a valid case that the provisions in this law undermine the Constitution.”

  “Stop throwing the Constitution in my face,” Bush screamed back. “It’s just a GD (edit) piece of paper!” - November 2005.

  Everthink?

• 12 Laughing@You // Jan 19, 2011 at 3:51 pm

  Say, where is everybody?

  This place used to be a bastion of support for Dumbyah, and later for the Tea Party.

  I remember the many “intellectual” discussions here. Discussions about the “mystery” of torture, and who was entitled to the protection of the United States Constitution, and especially the Bill of Rights.

  I believe you all finally settled on the notion that those “Rights” were reserved for “Real Americans”, but that the rights of “Real Americans” could not be limited to that “… piece of paper”, as President Bush called it.

  I remember too, how often y’all used to bring up that “Tree of Liberty” defense plan of yours, and how you planned on using it to violently overthrow any government, constitutionally elected or not, if your exalted ones on radio or television declared it un-American.

  So, come now folks, Obama is still a black man, Barney Frank is still gay, and Harry Reid is still soft spoken. So, let’s hear it from you!

  I’m sorry, I was a little to direct during my last stay here, and Scott took away my posting privileges; but until he pays the Intense Debate bill, or takes the trouble to otherwise get rid of me, I will share my thoughts with you from time to time, how often depends pretty much on your meds, (or Scott’s).

• 13 Laughing@You // Jan 19, 2011 at 3:56 pm

  … Everthink?

• 14 JamesonLewis3rd // Jan 20, 2011 at 10:15 am

  Scott, I'm looking forward to your return to ScrappleFace.
  Totally enjoying Trifecta in the meantime.

• 15 Laughing@You // Jan 20, 2011 at 12:52 pm

  Brownnose

• 16 Laughing@You // Jan 21, 2011 at 2:20 pm

  CNN Poll: Sarah Palin’s unfavorable rating at all time high.

  Sassy Sarah is “Unfavorable” with 56% of Americans. This number does not include those too indifferent to offer an opinion, and it fails to note that the majority those polled believes she is a complete disgrace.

  This said, most believe she best represents the Tea Party movement in America.

  Everthink?

• 17 Laughing@You // Jan 26, 2011 at 12:38 pm

  “… the very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United States….Men like John Quincy Adams, who would not rest until slavery was extinguished in the country.”
  - Michele Bachmann (An Oral Roberts University Law School graduate).

  Amazing, simply amazing! Who says y’all are dumb? Who says y’all distort the facts, and pervert history? Who says yer emotionally unstable?

  Those “lying” Democrats, that’s who!

  Everthink?

• 18 Laughing@You // Jan 27, 2011 at 12:54 pm

  Dear Saintly Sister Sarah,

  Take off yer Coonskin Cap, and sit a spell.

  Now darlin, President encouraged Americans to “Win The Future”, but he never said, “WTF”!!

  You do know what WTF stands for, don’t you?

  Well, big time prezidental candidates, like yourself, don’t talk like “Trailer Trash”!

  So next time yer tempted to let rip with a “WTF”, stop!

  Then and ask yourself “WWJD”.

  OK now, put on your pelts and bandoleers back on, and take it down the road, and “sin no more”, yuh hear.

  Everthink?

• 19 ChileSerrano // Jan 29, 2011 at 12:15 pm

  Scott: Nice to see you here again. Hope to be reading more satire from you in the future.

• 20 RockSaltAndNails // Jan 29, 2011 at 6:58 pm

  My, my, E.T. — you certainly are persistent!

  Just one problem. They still can’t see your posts. They don’t even know you’re here.

  This is the Limbo Of The Lost. Enjoy your stay.

• 21 Laughing@You // Jan 30, 2011 at 4:31 am

  RS&N

  Really? Are you sure, … cause I can see’em without even logging in.

  Everthink maybe it is you who lives in an alternate universe. That might explain a lot of things.

  Say, you’re not some kind of spooky thing are you? You’d better watch out, or I’ll have to get me some holy water or something.

  Everthink?

• 22 RockSaltAndNails // Jan 30, 2011 at 5:42 am

  Well. yes ET, I am sure - not that I’m going to even try to explain the situation to you. But hey - If you think you can get their attention, by all means scream as loud as you want! Good luck -

  And don’t waste your time on holy water, ET - or garlic - or exorcisms.

  Guess who’s laughing now, ‘everthink’ -

• 23 Laughing@You // Jan 30, 2011 at 3:49 pm

  RS&N

  I guess I’ll just keep on “crying in the wilderness” as the spirit moves. After all, spooky or not, at least I have you.

  So tell me, how long have you been wearing your baseball cap backwards? Maybe I can at least help to get the glare out of your eyes.

  Oh yeah, check SiteMeter.

  Everthink?

• 24 LoneScrappler // Jan 31, 2011 at 8:32 pm

  Well, the Constitution may be incomprehensible to the MSM, but it seems that at least one or two judges still understand it!

  Happy New Year, Mr. Ott! Glad to see that you, and Scrappleface, are still here, and possibly more satire coming in 2011. Must confess, I’m curious: where the heck is everybody else? When I chose my screen-name, I wasn’t hoping that it would become literally true if I just waited long enough! Ten comments posted in 4 weeks? Back in the day, there would have been more comments posted here in an afternoon! Is this the result of our new ‘civility’ policies, I wonder? As I recall, the Old Folks used to say: “If you can’t say something good about [...], don’t say anything at all.” Is that what has happened here? If this is ‘civility,’ I say, bring back angry, finger-in-your-eye, foaming-at-the-mouth partisanship!

• 25 LoneScrappler // Jan 31, 2011 at 8:34 pm

  “These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.”

  ~~ Thomas Paine (1737-1809) ; from The Crisis, December 1776

• 26 Laughing@You // Feb 1, 2011 at 4:43 pm

  “These are the times that try men’s souls.”

  Never was this more true!

  These times were heaped upon the American People by a corrupt administration which served its own “base” at the expense of the people who elected it.

  That “base” was comprised entirely of the very wealthy. This base has profited greatly from the losses of other Americans.

  These losses were not limited to our fortunes of our people, but the lives of the best of our youth.

  Now, as for many years, they point to those less culpable. The whip up the fearful and superstitious, having long ago convinced them that it is “Americanism” to sacrifice for the wealthy in hope of getting “the crumbs from the table”.

  They divide our people by promoting the belief that the freedom of all is a threat to some. If that is true, the “some” threatened are those which should be punished in the first place.

  The propaganda that stirred the gullible and ignorant, with lies and distortions, in the last election promised jobs.

  The primary concern of voters in the last election was JOBS. Republicans promised JOBS!

  But, they have yet to offer a plan to expedite the creation of JOBS. This is beginning to look like President Nixon’s “Secret Plan” to end the Vietnam War.

  I know, the stuff the Republicans are wasting time with now is important to wingnuts, but it is NOT to the electorate. More than that, they will have to take small children hostage to repeal the new Health Care Law.

  The majority of our people are watching.

  Everthink?

• 27 Laughing@You // Feb 17, 2011 at 12:58 pm

  Was Dwight D. Eisenhower a liberal?
  Blue Works Better ^ | By Manny Goldstein at Sun

  I am constantly amazed (and annoyed) when the Right claims that the US has been hijacked by the Left over the past few decades. This is utter nonsense - the actual evidence indicates that we’ve moved far, far to the Right.

  Consider the case of Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th President of the United States (1953-1961), Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during World War II, and a Republican. Funny thing is, by today’s standards, Ike would be a flaming liberal, to the Left of all recent serious contenders for the Democratic Party presidential nomination.

  Ike on Taxes First, a quick definition of earned income vs. capital gains.

  Earned income is income made from a job.
  Capital gains, in contrast, is money made from the appreciation in value of something one owns (assets such as stocks, property, art, …), rather than money earned from a job.

  Average folks gets most of their income from their jobs, and thus the tax rate on earned income is most important to them. Rich people get most of their income from the appreciation of assets, and thus the tax rate on capital gains is more important to them.

  Earned Income Tax: Ike’s Time vs. Our Time
  The highest tax bracket on earned income today is 35%. During Ike’s administration, the highest tax bracket was 92% in 1953, and 91% thereafter [1]. Yes, taxes on the Rich were almost three times higher under the Republican Eisenhower compared to our current President, or compared to the Democratic administration of Bill Clinton!
  Capital Gains Tax: Ike’s Time vs. Our Time

  It is considered to be almost the gospel today that capital gains should be taxed at a far lower rate than earned income. Today the maximum capital gains tax rate is a whopping 15% on assets that have been held for at least a year since purchase. This is why the middle class, who are dependent on earned income, effectively pay taxes at a higher rate than do the wealthy.

  In Ike’s day, capital gains were not treated differently from earned income, so the rich paid 91% tax on capital gains. From 91% to 15% - another reason why it’s good to be rich!

  Note that in 1955, in the middle of Ike’s presidency, the typical (median) family paid less than 20% in all taxes [2]. By 2003, the total of all taxes paid by a typical family had more than doubled, to almost 40% of income.

  So in Ike’s day, the rich paid a lot of taxes, the middle-class paid a little taxes, and somehow it all worked out.

  But Did Ike Want To Tax The Rich?

  You might be curious as to whether Ike actually wanted such a high tax rate on the Rich, or was somehow forced into it by, say, a Democratically-controlled Congress. It turns out that when Ike ascended to the Presidency, both houses of Congress were indeed controlled by a single party - the Republican party. Republicans controlled the Presidency, the House, and the Senate - they could have done anything they wanted. And some in Congress did pressure Ike to roll back taxes on the rich, but he held the line, saying:
  “We cannot afford to reduce taxes, reduce income,until we have in sight a program of expenditure that shows that the factors of income and outgo will be balanced.”

  Ike on Defense Ike was one tough hombre, the toughest of the tough. As Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, he had led millions of troops to take back Europe from the Nazis, and he got the job done. An astonishing feat, an honest “Mission Accomplished”. Ike was President during the early part of the Cold War - a war where our opponent had actual weapons of mass destruction pointed at us. Let’s see some of the things that Ike had to say about war, the military, and… Halliburton. Would Ike’s views be considered to be Liberal or Right-wing today?

  On the military in general “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms in not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense.”

  On the Iraq War “All of us have heard this term ‘preventative war’ since the earliest days of Hitler. I recall that is about the first time I heard it. In this day and time… I don’t believe there is such a thing; and, frankly, I wouldn’t even listen to anyone seriously that came in and talked about such a thing.”

  On Halliburton “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
  The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”

  Ike on the Labor Movement We’ll let Ike speak for himself on this one:
  “Only a fool would try to deprive working men and working women of their right to join the union of their choice.”
  ” . . . Workers have a right to organize into unions and to bargain collectively with their employers, and . . . a strong, free labor movement is an invigorating and necessary part of our industrial society.”
  and while we’re at it:
  “Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. Among them are H. L. Hunt (you possibly know his background), a few other Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid.”

  Ike and Socialized Medicine

  In 1960 Eisenhower signed into law the Kerr-Mills Bill, generally considered to be the forerunner of Medicare. For the first time, Kerr-Mills provided for government payment of medical bills of 70% of citizens aged 65 and older. When was the last time you heard of even a Democrat suggesting an expansion of socialized medicine?

  Ike And Unilateralism Eisenhower knew the value of working closely with allies, and specifically of working out problems peaceully through the UN. While the Right would have you believe that the UN is some sort of recent liberal plot to displace the US, the reality is that the UN grew out of the alliance of 26 nations forged to fight the axis powers in WWII. Eisenhower was, in effect, the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe for the United Nations. For example, when President Truman announced the surrender of Germany he said “General Eisenhower informs me that the forces of Germany have surrendered to the United Nations”.

  Here, again, are Eisenhower’s own words:
  “The world must learn to work together, or finally it will not work at all.”
  “If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order. ”

  “The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give, it to them.”

• 28 Laughing@You // Feb 18, 2011 at 11:35 am

  Say, all you fiscally responsible Repugs,

  I saw all y’all out there with yer signs, and yer tea bag hats, and them “Don’t Tread on Me” (Gadsden) Flags last summer.

  You was all a yellin’, screamin, and spittin’ about the deficit, and the national debt because Rush, Glen, and them others told you to, “git out there and act the fool”.

  So, of course, when I saw this I thought of you.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_by_U.S._presidential_terms

  But, don’t let it slow yah down.

  Everthink?

• 29 JamesonLewis3rd // May 20, 2011 at 10:11 am

  Belated congratulations to Scott Ott!
  Posted by Moe Lane (Profile)
  Thursday, May 19th at 9:30PM EDT http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/2011/05/19/belat...

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