Thanks for the chuckle Burt, after starting to compute my taxes for this year I really needed it.

The other day my die-hard democrat father-in-law impressed on me that Obama went to Columbia and Harvard. I asked him if he knew how Obama got in, what were his grades and how he paid for that elite education. Look on face: Priceless

And then reminded him that Obama is not our first black president (regardless of what anyone wants), but in fact our first mixed race president. Either one doesn't matter to me, but lets get it straight who he is.

Burt

Many of us saw this guy coming with his "Yes We Can" without a qualifying noun.

I posted some time back, that the Marine Corps does not discriminate. Short of going into it I will say I'am not a Racist. I Don't like his White Half either. With the list of his credit's, I'am more concerned with his Math grades than his qualifications's. I'am tired of hearing the phrase "after 400 years of oppression" the Black man has a chance. Give me a break, these people have had more opportunity than any other race to progress themselves. Howard Cosell was fired for saying the Black Man was bred for athletics. I have yet to see any great Black Historians other than the ones listed in the History book for Inventions they made and contributed to mankind. All the political pundit's and reverend's can find something else to cry about, and realize that the Democrat Party is responsible for their plight. They have been kept down and under their control for so long they can't break away from the hand-out's etc. A joke about the Black people is a racial slur, but against the white people is considered the truth. I will stay with the joke being a joke. Because I'am American Indian I especially like the one about-- what do you name a child who is half indian and half black? RUNNING DUMMY.

Burt,

Perhaps the worst travesty of civil rights has been the shunning of the best and brightest blacks in this country (Sowell, Williams, Parker, my new favorite, Allen West, et.al.) by their own race, who are instructed how to think by race-baiters like Sharpton, Jackson, Wright, and Farrakhan. Any dissention from the racist left ideology automatically brings a charge of "Tommin' for the white man". As much as it chaps my hide to be constantly called a racist, I can't imagine how it must be for Thomas Sowell to be called "Uncle Tom". Even Bill Cosby, for crying out loud, was attacked by blacks for speaking the truth. Pathetic.

Thanks, Burt, for showing me the correct spelling of "schlemiel". It's such a useful word in the current administration.

If only the office of POTUS were occupied by a stupid, foolish, bigoted, incompetent would he be the worst president in the history of the United States.

Instead the occupant of the oval office, barry soetoro, is a naked Marxist who hates America. He is actively waging war against every American citizen. He is a treasonous dog who repeatedly commits crimes against the country, openly aiding and abetting our enemies and destroying our sovereignty. He is working diligently to destroy our economy even as he steals trillions of dollars to enrich himself and payback his friends and supporters.

A "schlemiel" like that belongs back in his native Africa - preferably serving some wretched "war lord" in Somalia.

It is refreshing to see the likes of Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, Erik Rush, & Star Parker on the forefront of illuminating the untruths that propagate within thier race.

I like the other examples you mention as I can strongly disagree (hate) their ideals as well...Schumer & Waxman...both always jackin' with my guns...Barney Frank...messin' up my home equity...Sharpton, Jackson, Wright, & Farrakhan...smoke screens, malice, & lies toward their own kind that always have whites on the defensive...and, of course, Nancy (We have to pass this bill to see what's in it.)Pelosi...she's got to be the dumbest bimbo on record to think we don't see through her profound arrogance.

As for Ayers, I read "Rules for Radicals" back in the 70's and as I thought it was an interesting book, yet senseless as to why anyone would want to follow the practices proposed in the Alinsky models. Fresh from the Viet Nam war, I understood this was the greatest country to live in and if you disagreed with the foundations this society was built upon, you can quit trying to change it and exercise your freedom to leave it.

Well, so far I can't say that I disagree with any of the comments posted, but I am keeping in mind that it's early yet and "Dan" hasn't shown up yet.

Burt

Many of you simply do not get it. The fact is that this country has been "acquired" by corporate interests. We no longer have two parties. We have one party with two right wings that serve the likes of ultra-wealthy and global corporations.

Lastly, many of you should understand that the drug addict Rush Limbaugh is lying to you and he is rotting your brains. You think you are well-informed when in fact you are puppets on a string.

Cheers!

Naming Jane Fonda as one of the 100 most important American women seems proof enough

BHO is half white, 3/8 Arab and 1/8 black. So if anything his ancestors on his father's side were not slaves but slave traders.

Burt,

One thing I don't like about your columns is that you sugarcoat everything!!!

I have heard the term "schlemiel" used before, but what is its exact meaning?

Keep it up!

I obviously spoke too soon. But instead of Dan, we have Vinnie from Indy (does he think that rhymes?)dispensing the Kool-Aid.

Blue Collar Mike: A schlemiel is a dunce, a dummy, a mental dwarf; easy to spot because he conveniently identifies himself with a (D) after his name.

Burt

"A schlemiel is a dunce, a dummy, a mental dwarf; easy to spot because he conveniently identifies himself with a (D) after his name."

Clever...if there was a "Like" button next to this, I'd click on it!

Schlemiel - name followed by (D) or "from Indy".

Burt, gotta agree with Mike - you should just tell us how you feel and not worry about offending anyone - of course you will always offend the schlemiels, but the truth hurts.

Just love your stuff Burt! Keep it comin' --- it keeps us non-Kool Aid drinkers firm in our beliefs that there really are more of us than we think AND it just enrages the left. Don't you just love to see the deer-in-the-headlights look when you refute a liberal's argument with FACTS he can't deny? Now, we can get that same sense of satisfaction from Vinny and his ilk by simply scanning his short drivel. (I have to ignore the long tirades...blah, blah, blah.) Just love that you are one of the very few authors who is always willing to converse with your audience!

Marine almost got it right, but got Howard Cosell mixed up with Jimmy the Greek. Cosell, during a play, said, "Look at that little monkey go!" and he said it affectionately. I was never a big Cosell fan, but he never should have been fired for that.

billy: I guess I just can't help letting my softer side dictate my writing.

Merry: Thank you. I honestly don't know why other writers are so reluctant to engage in discourse with their readers. It's nothing personal, though; they also snub me on those few occasions I have written to them. Apparently it is not just the left that is populated with elitists, but at least we have fewer of them.

SJvet: You are right, of course. It was Jimmy the Greek, not blowhard Cosell that Marine had in mind.

Regards, Burt

Good essay Burt. I toohave been a big fan of Sowell et al for a long time. And, having raised successfully my white kids in a mixed ethnic neighborhood during the Civil Rights era, racial war seemed to be history (except for the endless reverberations from the likes of Sharpton and Jackson) that was, until Obama came along.

Question, was your schlemiel reference just a figure of speech, or did somebody, who should know better, actually say that?

True Black Insight

"There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs-partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.”

Booker T. Washington.

Need this gentleman say more???

Need the White Race here in America say more???

Get off the Jackass Drawn Slavery Wagon of the Past and get on the Jet Plane of the Present and Future of Freedom!

Stop living in the past. Don't forget it but don't live there your entire life. Stop picking at that old scab/sore. Let the damn thing heal and move on with your lives. If not, all you're doing is wasting your lives away for nothing and wallowing in bitterness and hatered.

The Past is---History!

The Future is a---Mystery!

Live for now. That's why it's called the ---Present!

It's a Gift. Don't waste it. You'll only get one shot at it.

The White folks in America have bent over backwards to "Level the playing field" for the black community in America. (Think About It!)

Instead of whinning for more and more, how about just a small...Thank You!"

Our response would most likely be..."You're Very Welcome!"

Unti this happens, we will continue to hate and harm one another and regress rather then Progress!!!

And ya can't live like that for very long!

J.J.B.JR.(USN.RET.)

Burt, thanks for putting the theme song to "Laverne & Shirley" in my head. Schlott's beer, anyone? LOL

Vinnie is typical of the Leftist conspiracy theorist k00k who actually believes the Democrats have been taken over by RIGHT-wing extremists. That's because they see the likes of Pelosi and Obama shoveling tax dollars at corporations like AIG and due to the Left's astoundingly obtuse and dysfunctional understanding of economics they actually think that's evidence of RIGHT-wing bias. It never occurs to them that corporations can be LEFT-wing. Guess they never heard of AOL, Google, or the entire mainstream media.

Hey Vinnie, the MSM routinely puts Leftist ideology ahead of profits because to them the religion of Progressivism trumps the need for survival. They would rather go out of business for pushing ideological lies than enjoy prosperity for telling the truth. Welcome to Earth.

TomDLew: Someone actually said that the Japanese attacked us at Pearl Harbor because we A-bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Even I couldn't make up something that ridiculous. Well, actually I could and often do, but not this time.

MichaelSSec: How did I manage to stick the "Laverne & Shirley" theme song in your head? If I did so, it was unintentional. I never even watched the show. But now that I know I possess mind control over you, send me money.

Svengali Prelutsky

FWIW: As a Jew (one of the smallest minorities in the world yet never identified as a minority nor beneficiaries of affirmative action) I'd like to offer these colloquial definitions from my childhood:

A schlemiel is a person who, while carrying a bowl of soup, trips and spills it.

A schlimazel is the hapless jerk who ends up wearing the soup spilled by the schlemiel.

Which is the current occupant of the Oval Office? I think he's the schlemiel and for the past two years and the next two years we're the schlimazels.

James L. Bilenki Jr.: Sir , you have definitely spelled it out correctly. I've never heard it put so simply and direct.I know a few black folks that for all it's worth have never in my presence shown any sign of color in their character and have respected other people as people and not a race. It's a shame.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous

than sincere ignorance and consciencious

stupidity.---Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

(1929-1968)

Nealstar: I, too, heard that description in my youth. It might have been Sam Levenson who came up with it. In any case, I think your analysis is right.

Burt

One of the comments referred to the Kendonesian Usurper as a "treasonous dog". I can't recall any act of treason against either Kenya or Indonesia; to commit treason against the United States, one must first be a United States citizen. Prove it, Barry.

Burt, you easily manage to tweak the noses of the race baiters without sounding like a bigot. They need it because enough is enough. Maybe we all should muster the courage of the politician the other day who boldly answered the NAACP's insipid charge he did not do enough in celebrating MLK Day by telling them to "kiss my butt!"

Hi Burt,

If you'd like me to serve as devil's advocate on your posts, feel free to write me an email---I assume you can see my email as I have to submit it to comment here.

Best,

Dan