Scott Ott gets into his pickup this morning and feels like singing.

Three guys who have great attitudes!

Pick one

Scott Ott posted a multiple choice problem for his Facebook followers to solve:

Choose One...
A. It is possible to post to Facebook without starting a fight.
B. It is NOT possible to post to Facebook without starting a fight.
C. This makes me SO angry!
D. You are what's wrong with this country.

If he didn't exist, the Trumpians would have had to invent him!

Political chameleon

Protect the Constitution...or protect the institution?

No more need to hide, Hillary

"It's a good thing we still have a free press that's willing to stand up for the right to silence free speech!"

Utopia coming soon to a city near you

It's not the easy way, but it is the effective way to better your lot in life

Scott Ott has a wonderful piece at PJ Media about Booker T. Washington.

These United States of America were built by men like Booker T. Washington — at first by their muscles, under compulsion, then later by their minds and hearts, freely given.

He quotes from Washington's book Up From Slavery:
"I early learned that it is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him..."

“I have learned,” he said, “that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.”

Read more here.

Yesterday I wrote a post defending Saul Alinsky. I wrote the post to counter some of the negative things I read about him by conservative pundits. It is guilt by association: because Obama and Hillary use some of Alinsky's tactics to promote their own rise to power, when the truth is that Alinsky was trying to empower people who were exploited and discriminated against.

Booker T. Washington had a better approach: teaching people to read, to take individual responsibility for their lives, and not to wallow in victimhood.
Update: Here is the moving video of Scott telling us about Booker T. Washington:

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The Scott and Grace show

If you are a regular reader of this blog, you know I admire Scott Ott. Here he is with his 25-year-old daughter Grace, "fixing the world one conversation at a time."

How to become and remain miserable

Don't you even dare to start to think there might be a sunny side of the street. Scott Ott can help you get and stay miserable in the midst of a land of opportunity and plenty.

Right wing Christian sticks up for the Commie heathen

Scott Ott notes that the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo is run by atheist left-wingers, and Scott explains why we right-wing Christians support them.

Charlie Hebdo, the magazine attacked this week by heavily-armed Hell-bound Muslim jihadists, was run by Left-wing atheists who reveled in lampooning all religions and politicians who aren’t sufficiently socialist.

Yet despite the heathen commie content of Charlie Hebdo, those of us in the Right-wing echo chamber have offered full-throated support for their right to express their despicable views, even if they do it with tasteless, often ribald, satire. (The fact that I use the word “ribald” proves that I’m the kind of stick-in-the-mud who should despise Charlie. What’s worse: I write ScrappleFace.com, which I bill as “family-friendly satire.” Ick.)

But you see, Right-wing evangelical wackos like me tend to be people of principle. True principles, by definition, must enjoy universal application. We believe in a free marketplace of ideas where, ultimately, the truth will come to light — if not in this life, then in the one to come.

We support free speech rights unconditionally — regardless of what we think of the message. If we disagree with the viewpoint or method of expressing it, the remedy for bad speech is more speech, not censorship by statute or scimitar (or presidential bullying).

Please read the whole thing at the link above.

Climate Breakthrough: World Unites Around Agreement to Agree Later On

Now this is satire

Using "enhanced" tactics on terrorists

Scott Ott remembers 9-11, and has this to say about the "enhanced" tactics used on those who wanted to or did attack us:

Out of a clear blue sky, stock brokers and janitors rained.

Contorted bodies approached terminal velocity in wind-whipped business suits.

Forced to decide between the slow agony of fire and the sudden — O, God I hope it’s sudden –slam against cement, they laid out upon the atmosphere, wishing for the whisper of angel wings to whisk them ever upward.

Yet.

Plummeting.

Now, put yourself in the shoes of the CIA director, or of the interrogator in the field.

If you thought you had even a small chance of stopping another attack, what “enhanced” tactics would you not try?

What moral code would impede you from your utmost exertion to quench the flame…to catch the falling man?

Damn them in hindsight, if you will.

I cannot.

In their best efforts, I hear the whisper of angel wings.

Read more here.

Will Ted Cruz need 24-7 Secret Service protection?

Do Boehner and McConnell fight Obama just like Obama fights wars?

Got your excuse ready?