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Between the things that liberals say and the things they do, it's nearly impossible not to be overwhelmed by a tsunami of fatuousness.
For instance, Greece and Spain, two nations that have destroyed their economies through socialistic entitlements, should be delighted that the EU, meaning Germany, seems willing to bail them out if they'll only change their spendthrift ways. Instead, like spoiled brats, they balk at making any concessions to reality. They are perfect examples of ingrates biting the hand that over-feeds them.
Everyone knows that where the mass media is concerned, if it bleeds, it leads. The exception is when violence is done by blacks to whites. If you went by TV and newspapers, you would think it was 1812 and that it was blacks who were nearly always the innocent victims of inter-racial brutality. The truth, as is often the case where the media is concerned, is the reverse.
Things at the Department of Justice are even worse. There you have an attorney general who refuses to even consider indicting black thugs for intimidating white voters or for placing a bounty on the head of George Zimmerman.
One wonders if people like Al Sharpton, Louis Farrakhan and Jesse Jackson, actually believe the racist, anti-American, swill they endlessly spew, why, like Marcus Garvey and Moses, they don't lead their followers to the promised land. It needn't be Africa. It could be closer to home; say, Canada or Mexico. Understand, I'm not saying they should. I'm just saying that if I honestly believed that America was as evil as they've claimed for the past four decades, I'd sure as heck be packing my bags, just as my various grandparents did when they ran, respectively, from Czar Nicholas and Joseph Stalin, and just as millions of others have fled from the cesspools of Hitler's Germany, Mao's China and Castro's Cuba.
Along those lines, this being an election year, you will see Obama and a great many other Democrats, who spend three years out of four bloviating about separation of church and state, bribing black pastors to give up their pulpits for campaign speeches and photo ops It was Ben Stein who said, "Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they're insured, but not prove they're entitled to vote in our elections."
Jay Carney insists he never tells lies because if he did, he'd lose credibility with the Washington press corps. What's more, he actually said it with a straight face. The irony is that the Washington press corps lies as much as he does, and if he and they didn't lie on a daily, sometimes hourly, basis, they'd all be unemployed.
Hillary Clinton told us not that long ago that Syria's Basher al-Assad was a reformer. Prior to that, she told Israel to stop building homes in Jerusalem. She also insisted that it was against America's interests for Canada's Keystone oil pipeline to be constructed. Not to be outdone in the BS competition, Barack Obama told Iran that it has a right to a peaceful nuclear program. With dingbats like that in charge of our foreign policy, it's no wonder that Obama prefers focusing attention on domestic issues, including the comatose economy.
Speaking of he who must be sent packing, I recall that in 2008, Democrats claimed it was dirty pool for Republicans to refer to Obama's middle name during the campaign. So imagine my surprise when I heard Obama, in a speech to an Arab/Muslim group, say, to thunderous applause, that without their help in his last race, "Someone named Barack Hussein Obama would have had a particularly difficult time being elected!" So, apparently, only he has the right to use the "H" word in public.
But nothing about Obama can shock me at this point. After all, he's the putz who told Dmitry Medvedev to let Vladimir Putin know that after this election, he'd be more flexible. How much more flexible he could be when he has, at Putin's insistence, already denied Poland and the Czech Republic a missile defense system and vowed to decimate our nuclear arsenal is a scary question. What I do know is that Putin is the former head of the KGB, and that's a job that looks even worse on a resume than ex-community organizer.
Here in L.A., the ACLU is bringing a lawsuit because they insist that because of the way the districts are drawn, Latinos are under-represented on the City Council.
My question is, when exactly did the United States become so Balkanized that various groups are entitled to quotas, not only when it comes to education and employment, but even representation? Our national motto used to be e pluribus unum; from many, one. Now we print our ballots in a hundred different languages, and asking that the foreign-born acclimate themselves to the American culture is regarded as bigotry.
In the wake of the Supreme Court's deciding that ObamaCare is constitutional, Nancy Pelosi seriously suggested that it had less to do with John Roberts than with Ted Kennedy. Pelosi shared the news that Kennedy is in Heaven and that he used his divine powers to guide the Supreme Court.
Even for Pelosi, that's a bit of a stretch. After all, from everything I've heard, Heaven, unlike the U.S. Senate, actually maintains standards.

24 Comments
BlueShadowII in Texas
Monday, August 13, 2012 at 4:46 AM
Just returned from a cruise in the Med including stops in Italy, Spain, and Greece. Anybody surprised that Germany is disliked in all three?
We were also told of an excellent Greek restaurant that was closed (at the height of the tourist season) because it was too hot.
Burt Prelutsky in North Hills, CA
Tuesday, August 14, 2012 at 2:11 PM
Blue Shadow, of course I am not the least bit surprised that Germany is universally despised by those whose bacon it has saved. Now Germany knows how America feels.
Burt
Doktor Riktor Von Zhades in Western KY
Monday, August 13, 2012 at 7:18 AM
RE; Jackson, Sharpton et al
I suspect the main reason they don't up and leave is because, not only would it be unprofitable for them to leave, but neither Mexico, or Canada would have them within their borders, and certainly no put up with their nonsense.
Tex Horn in Texas
Monday, August 13, 2012 at 10:10 AM
When I shoot my shotgun, pellets spread and spray. Good job of shotgunning all the idiots on the left, Burt.
KN in Arkansas
Monday, August 13, 2012 at 10:45 AM
Burt's choke was a improved cylinder on that shotgun. Outstanding article.
Burt Prelutsky in North Hills, CA
Tuesday, August 14, 2012 at 2:15 PM
Tex: Thanks. And I aimed low, as the old saying goes, because they might be riding ponies.
Burt
Ragweed in West Virginia
Monday, August 13, 2012 at 11:50 AM
BUrt - You not only hit the nail on the head, you hit it so many times that there is no head left. In the upcoming election we can only hope that there will be no Left, left.
Keep it up, and please accept the offer when the Romney camp wants to hire you.
Burt Prelutsky in North Hills, CA
Tuesday, August 14, 2012 at 2:17 PM
Ragweed: Accept their offer? I've been begging for it. I must say, they seem to be doing okay without my help, but you know how kids are...they all think they can do it on their own.
Burt
rab in jo, mo
Monday, August 13, 2012 at 2:30 PM
The Europeans had better watch out when Germany gets tired of their leeching and decides to call in their markers. Bad things happen when the Germans get riled up... just ask the French.
Brian in Newport News
Monday, August 13, 2012 at 2:50 PM
Perhaps this time, instead of military conquest, Greece, Italy and the others will simply allow their countries to be foreclosed on by Germany...
Burt Prelutsky in North Hills, CA
Tuesday, August 14, 2012 at 2:18 PM
rab: I made the same point in an article a couple of months ago. Their collectors make the Mafia's look like choir boys.
Burt
Paul Couch in NC
Monday, August 13, 2012 at 3:28 PM
Burt, you do know of course that Pelosi can channel Susan B. Anthony and others. So why the hell can't she channel that lying bastard Kennedy?
Burt Prelutsky in North Hills, CA
Tuesday, August 14, 2012 at 2:21 PM
Paul: I was stumped for a minute, trying to figure out just which Kennedy you had in mind. Not having read the article in a few days, it took me a while to realize you meant Ted.
Burt
Howard Last in Wyoming
Monday, August 13, 2012 at 5:10 PM
Kennedy in heaven, I don't think so. And he won't be able to practice his underwater driving either. The only good part, Mary Jo will not run across him.
Burt Prelutsky in North Hills, CA
Tuesday, August 14, 2012 at 2:23 PM
Howard: In a way, it's too bad that Kennedy and Mary Jo aren't in the same venue. It means she can never offer him a lift.
Burt
WTD in Arizona
Monday, August 13, 2012 at 6:52 PM
"Heaven maintains standards" And unlike the Congressional Ethics Committees, the heavenly standard is not "whatever"
Clark in Columbus, Ohio
Tuesday, August 14, 2012 at 1:39 PM
Burt,
I found a misspelling in your article, a rare rest, indeed! You were grousing about the ". . . Washington press corps.". I think you meant "Washington press corpse," which would indicate the usefulness of this group of sycophantic group-think-era. It would also bring to mind BO's idiocy in referring to a dead US Marine.
Death rays to them all!
Clark
Clark in Columbus, Ohio
Tuesday, August 14, 2012 at 1:40 PM
A rare DEED!! Not rest. Idiot spell check . . . Or errant fingers.
Clark in Columbus, Ohio
Tuesday, August 14, 2012 at 1:42 PM
Yet another correction. group-think-era s/b group-think-erS. Sorry. C
Burt Prelutsky in North Hills, CA
Tuesday, August 14, 2012 at 2:29 PM
Clark--Guilty as charged. And I'm generally such a good speller.
Burt
Merry Colin in Arizona
Tuesday, August 14, 2012 at 2:37 PM
Great heading Burt for all those who think you meander. Of course we all know who those mental midgets are!
Burt Prelutsky in North Hills, CA
Tuesday, August 14, 2012 at 5:52 PM
Merry--To be fair, I do meander and I can see where that might annoy some people, including some conservatives. But the truth is, there are so many things that I wish to bellyache about that, even writing three articles-a-week, I can't cover everything. Besides, I find that I tend to lose interest along the way when I try to read an entire article devoted to a single topic, and I certainly don't want to risk boring myself.
Burt
Honest Abe in North Carolina
Wednesday, August 15, 2012 at 10:54 AM
Burt, I am so thankful you are on our side. The Democrats, as elsewhere, are frantic here in North Carolina to the point Michelle and Joe have been here more times than she has gone overseas shopping. The way the local (liberal) newspapers are using their editorial page to peddle their pablum to influence the minds of the weak is hilarious. A regular bunch of liberal ex-college professor knuckleheads write in almost weekly to tout the mythical virtues of Obama and his new world order. One wrote the other day to express his disgust Mr. Romney's trip to Israel would spark their unilateral destruction of the Iranian A-bomb making plant. He scares the weak-minded reader with the notion this could result in "Amageddon". I refrain from responding to such garbage so as to not let anyone sane know I read this stuff and my words would be wasted anyway. The point I see,and you will, too, is the author purposely does not comprehend the more likely scenario of an equally destructive Armageddon started by Iran on Israel. God save us from such fools.
Burt Prelutsky in North Hills, CA
Wednesday, August 15, 2012 at 12:23 PM
Honest Abe: I guess there's no reason to think that professors wise up after they retire. After all, after being evicted from the White House, Jimmy Carter certainly didn't.
I would suggest you stop reading that rag, though. It only encourages them. By this time, you know what sort of bilge they're going to spew. At least when such left-wing lunkheads as Alan Colmes, Leslie Marshall, Geraldo Rivera and Juan Williams, show up on Fox, I am able to fast-forward through their segments.
Burt