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ScrappleFace : CARTOON: Framers Labor to Craft Comprehensible Constitution

Tue, 1 Feb 2011 00:34:27 +0000

“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

ScrappleFace : CARTOON: Framers Labor to Craft Comprehensible Constitution

Tue, 1 Feb 2011 00:32:41 +0000

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!

ScrappleFace : Retiring SEIU Boss Stern Wants More Time with The Family

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 23:04:00 +0000

"Short-sided"? Did you catch that? Is that anything like "short-sheeted"? Maybe we can ask Senator Byrd about that -

ScrappleFace : State of the Union Speech Pivots to Employment Reform

Tue, 2 Feb 2010 05:48:24 +0000

“Whenever we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.”

-- Thomas Paine (1737-1809) ; from Common Sense (1776)

ScrappleFace : Obama: Coakley Victorious if Brown Gets Less Than 60%

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:42:55 +0000

“Be wiser than other people, if you can; but do not tell them so.”

-- Lord Chesterfield (Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield) ; letter to his son, dated November 29, 1745

ScrappleFace : Obama: Coakley Victorious if Brown Gets Less Than 60%

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 19:47:37 +0000

Thought for the day :

“The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.”

-- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)

Big Government : State Needs More Revenue? Why Not Tax a Tax?

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:28:57 +0000

Randyl2: Thumbs up! Now my advice for those who die, (Taxman !) Declare the pennies on your eyes. (Taxman !) 'Cause I'm the taxman, Yeah, I'm the taxman. And you're working for no one but me. Taxman !

Big Government : Thursday Open Thread: Hostage Edition

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:56:48 +0000

Ah, but wait! You thought the last time was fun? Wait ‘til they have nukes ! Tick ... tick ... tick ... Grandmas sit in chairs and reminisce Boys keep chasing girls to get a kiss The cars keep going faster all the time Bums still cry "hey buddy, have you got a dime" And the beat goes on, the beat goes on Drums keep pounding a rhythm to the brain La de da de de, la de da de da

Big Government : Evidence-Based Health Care Reform? Lessons From Massachusetts

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:59:48 +0000

“I am a good liberal...” Oxymoron ...

ScrappleFace : Reid Adds 'Skin Lightening Therapy' to Health Reform Bill

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 04:39:18 +0000

... and that is just a scratch on the surface: plenty more where that came from. But for right now, it's gonna stay there. Just exactly how that all fits in with an earthquake 219 years later is another question.

ScrappleFace : Reid Adds 'Skin Lightening Therapy' to Health Reform Bill

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 04:29:00 +0000

Just for the record, the "Haitian-pact-with-the-devil" story is not an invention of Pat Robertson. A brief excerpt taken from another blog ... On August 14, 1791, a group of houngans (voodoo priests), led by a former slave houngan named Boukman, made a pact with the Devil at a place called Bois-Caiman. All present vowed to exterminate all of the white Frenchmen on the island. They sacrificed a black pig in a voodoo ritual at which hundreds of slaves drank the pig’s blood. In this ritual, Boukman asked Satan for his help in liberating Haiti from the French. In exchange, the voodoo priests offered to give the country to Satan for 200 years and swore to serve him. On January 1, 1804, the nation of Haiti was born …

Big Government : Harry Reid: Obama 'Light-Skinned' 'with No Negro Dialect'

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 01:13:50 +0000

“I mean, you got the first main-stream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy … ” ~ Joe Biden, describing Barack Obama, in an interview (dated February 4, 2007) with Jason Horowitz of The New York Observer.

ScrappleFace : C-Span Ban Protects Private Health Information

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 00:43:39 +0000

Turn, turn any corner. Hear, you must hear what the people say. You know there's something goin' on around here, that surely, surely, surely won't stand the light of day. And it appears to be a long, appears to be a long, appears to be a long time, yes, a long, long, long, long time before the dawn. -- David Crosby

ScrappleFace : Obama Main Street Tour Reveals Shocking Ignorance

Mon, 7 Dec 2009 14:25:42 +0000

“It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.” ~~ G. K. [Gilbert Keith] Chesterton (1874-1936) ; in The Cleveland Press ( March 1, 1921 )

ScrappleFace : [Trifecta] Debunking the Green Goon Squad

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:13:29 +0000

“We are all entitled to our own opinions. None of us are entitled to our own facts.” ~~ U.S. Senator for New York Daniel Patrick Moynihan ( 1927-2003 )

ScrappleFace : Obama Marks Election Anniversary with Sabbatical

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 20:17:48 +0000

“People deserve the government they get, and they deserve to get it good and hard.” -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)

ScrappleFace : U.N. Passes Resolution Changing Human Nature

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:30:30 +0000

“‘An eye for an eye’ only ends in making the whole world blind.” -- Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)

ScrappleFace : Scott Ott Challenges Opponent on Budget Shell Game

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:12:11 +0000

¡ Libertad o Muerte ! ¡ Viva la revolución ! ¡ Viva Ott !

ScrappleFace : ACORN CEO Orders Review of Brothel Consulting Division

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:59:32 +0000

Tolerant lefties? Like the ones who threw Oreos at Michael Steele When he was running for a Senate seat? Or like the ones who call any male black conservative "Uncle Tom"?

ScrappleFace : ACORN CEO Orders Review of Brothel Consulting Division

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:51:43 +0000

"From little ACORNs mighty oaks do grow." - American proverb