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This is of course a false choice poll. One could just as easily question the integrity of every member of DV for associating with a site that has a post-RV tax strategy that some consider shady. We are talking about allegations, after all. As Z pointed out the real question here is whether Scooter deserved the lack of respect that was shown him throughout this ordeal. My answer is an emphatic NO!

A conditional apology is not an apology. It's a weasel looking for a way out of the hole he dug for himself. drox I agree with much of what you said. However chuckst3r wasn't the only problem here. Adam should have slapped him down but instead he seemed to be encouraging this punk in taking Scooter to the woodshed in a public forum which was very disrespectful IMO. Scooter never endorsed anything that the B H guys or Rudy were selling that I am aware of. And I'm sure that Scooter was aware of the fact that Rudy had been banned from DV. He obviously had made the determination that Rudy wasn't the boogieman that he was being made out to be. That's his call, and I think it's very presumptuous to say that Scooter was clueless about the concerns that many had about Rudy. Whether you agree or disagree with Scooter's choices I think the selfless work that he has done has earned him a lot more respect than he was shown in this episode.

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Scooter's not coming back folks, and I don't blame him. His countless hours of research and freely sharing with the DV community were rewarded by allowing a punk to stalk and harass him in multiple threads, on his profile page, and perhaps even via email. Like the old saying goes ... no good deed goes unpunished.

Chuck (aka chuckst3r) is an obnoxious smartasss punk. There's a right way and a wrong way to address these issues. Taking somebody of Scooter's stature to the woodshed in a public manner was the wrong way. Badgering him on his profile page was the wrong way. Why he was allowed to harass Scooter the way that he did is beyond me.

Well said, Asiegel674. There is a right way and a wrong way to address somebody of Scooter's stature. Acting like a smartass punk lecturing a man old enough to be your dad with far more credentials and respect is of course the wrong way.

Happy trails, Scooter. I hope we can still have a post-RV get together. Well chuckst3r I hope you're happy.

I don't look anything like John Edwards. I just started using his mug shot as my avatar the other day as a joke. It's starting to creep me out though so I think I'm going to change it again.

Sorry, I forgot to post the working links. Link 0 Link 1 Link 2 Link 3 Link 4 Link 5 Link 6 Link 7 Link 8 Link 9 Link 10

This was posted on PD this morning and I thought it was a good read. The woman who posted it is called Juni. She's an attorney and a friend of marcuscurtis.

Whether you claim to be a prophet or not, if you say that you received a revelation from God and it doesn't pan out you're a false prophet in my book. Do you think in the Old Testament that if somebody said "Thus saith Jehovah God .... " and it doesn't happen they could fall back on the excuse "well I never claimed to be a prophet ... I was just prophesying". Yeah, right. Try to fend off the stoning sentence with that. It's like Bill Clinton's lame excuse that oral sex isn't sex or that "it depends on what the definition of 'is' is".

I'm sure that he did. He's a lawyer after all. He knows the process. And he's a politician so he knows that the mug shot will be made public. The last thing he wants is an ugly scowl on his face in a mug shot going viral. It's very common for politicians to smile for the mug shot camera to avoid looking sinister. Check out Tom Delay's mug shot. Sorry, dinarmmama. I guess I assume that everybody follows these stories as closely as I do.

Thanks John. As long as famous people keep providing such entertainment material I'll keep taking advantage of it.

Why would Obama need to sign off on it?