Burt, you`re in rare form.A fantastic piece.Obama may have trouble coming up with 10,000 engineers though if we keep funding planned parenthood`s abortion factory.

Richard Ryan

Lamar,Missouri - Birthplace of Harry S Truman

Sorry Burt, don't have enough self control to put myself in a coma; the second that incompetent's mouth opens I MUST turn to a different channel or stop the video feed. I used to make a point of READING the text of his speeches but now they are more like boring books on composting---full of slimy stuff and sh!t. I simply CANNOT listen to him lie, deceive, and parade without finding every cuss word uttered by the best "drunken sailor" coming from my mouth. He disgusts me like no other person can.

Burt,

Rare form, indeed.

I love ya, man. You are the best. You are Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams with extraordinary witticism.

Keep the zingers coming.

billc

"53 % are just acting uppity"

"gall of the teachers union and to their shameless cohorts in the Democratic Party"

"Mayor Bloomberg wasn't looking to punish the immigrants; instead, he was looking to raise the curve of Detroit's classrooms and improve the city's illiteracy rate"

"first in line at the buffet table"

"having foxes in charge of prosecuting crimes against poultry"

"other 9,500 engineers would be paid to be passengers"

Burt, excuse me for a bit of a thread jack here, but you 'calls it as I sees it' straight forward essay I just read prompted me to ask if you'd read Lloyd Marcus' essay on "Are We Over the Black Thing Yet?" I clinked on the name link for Lloyd Marcus to read his essay in full in Monday's Patriot Post. Boy, am I glad I did! What a wonderful breath of fresh air from a black conservative who tells it like it is...alot like Thomas Sowell. Now THAT would be a strong ticket! I am a white conservative, not that it matters a whit and the very point of Mr. Marcus' essay. Media mish mash has us painted as believing that it DOES matter when actually most people have left that old dog in the yard and quit kicking it. Media plays the "guilt" card as well as it does the "race" card. Well, I'm over it.

As an aside in the Comments section was a link to a Anglo Saxen's note to his European ancestors forgiving them of their tyranny over him...tongue in cheek and perfect.

Good stuff from a black conservative. Can't agree more. http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/07/campaign_2012_are_we_over_the_black_thing_yet.html

In the comments, of which there are several good ones is a link from a white guy to his European brethren "forgiving" them for their oppression. http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/wew/gift.html

Again, I hope you don't mind the intrusion here in Comments of the above essay of yours. You seem quite comfortable rambling from topic to topic in your essay or "opines", so I've taken the same liberty here.

I'd love to hear your opinion on Mr. Marcus' subject matter. Thanks, EH

billc-- Ain't he a hoot?

Now we all have to do our best to get his writings on the Drudge Report list and back on TownHall, along with any others we can find. Please readers---promote Burt wherever and whenever you can. Contact the editors often. We need to spread his words!

Never a dull thought, laced with humor, and such obvious common sense has got to appeal even to the Democrats! After all, they are all "victims" of this right thinking man... nothing makes a liberal feel more justified in explaining their idiotic ideas "for all the victims" of conservatives. Plus, I LOVE when Burt kicks their butts in response to their moronic postings!

Merry: Bless you. I have no idea how Drudge decides whom to place on his list, but it would be a swell place to land. Perhaps then Fox would invite me on and Bob Beckel could do his napping elsewhere.

BillC: Until I read your list, I hadn't been aware that I had so many good lines in the piece.

Eric H: I have not read the article. I do read some of the other writers, but not a lot of them. For one thing, I rarely read those pundits with whom I'm sure to agree, unless I have reason to believe they'll entertain me. Between doing my own writing and responding to those readers who write to me directly--not to mention commenting on this string occasionally--I spend far too many hours every day on the computer. If I started reading all the articles people think I should be reading, my wife and my dog would soon begin to think that I had disappeared into the Federal Witness Program.

Regards, Burt

Burt,

I graduated from Michigan in '62, and still have many old friends in the Detroit area. When I was in those parts, Detroit had the highest per-capita income in the country.

Over the span of my lifetime, our "best and brightest" have managed to completely ruin this country. We went from the shining city on the hill to dogpatch.

D.

Unfortunately, I also can't stand to watch or listen to this ****ing idiot when he comes on T.V, and I automatically change the channel. Also, as a retired military member, I can't get past being completely insulted whenever he gets off Air Force One and salutes the miltary escort at the bottom of the stairs. This bozo hasn't earned the right to salute or be saluted by the military.

Burt: Another good one! The hits just keep on coming.

I grew up in Pittsburgh during the 1950s boom and saw it devolve into a second-rate city when other countries started to produce cheaper steel. I understand how Detroiters feel. I guess that after the unions destroyed the steel and auto industries, the workers all got government jobs.

rmbion & DavidMac: I have no doubt that the Dems and the unions ruined your two cities, but for what the libs have done to the entire state of California, they should be taken out and shot. Between regulations, taxes and the red carpet they've laid out for illegal aliens, they have bankrupted what used to be the most prosperous state in the union. They have also managed to destroy an education system, K through college, that people used to boast about, with good reason. Those days are long past.

JAC: I suffer the same pangs when I see the jackass coming down the ramp. It doesn't help when I realize that, at a cost to taxpayers of about $140,000-an-hour, he has been flying around the country attending campaign fund-raisers.

Burt

Another spot-on column, Mr. Prelutsky. Barack Obama, who is looking more and more like a protege of Mad Magazine's infamous Alfred E Neuman, doesn't have a clue, never has, never will. The only reason he appears to be angry at the moment is because all this deficit work (aka "leading from behind") is interfering with his tee times.

Jim Staudt: You're right. When he tells Joe Biden to do something, he expects Joe to get it done.

Burt

Here is a quote by Abraham Lincoln: "Prosperity is the fruit of labor. Teach economy. That is one of the first and highest virtues. It begins with saving money." Funny how Dishonest Barack looks to Honest Abe when he can help him, but fails when Abe's words could help the county.

Ol'Joe: No kidding. Sort of like the way Joe Biden looks to Obama. Early on, he made fun of Biden, acting as if his V.P. was his personal mascot; now, he makes him the administration's point man when it comes to the economy.

Regards, Burt

Burt---you are getting me in trouble. My wife thinks I'm doing one of those on-line chat things or something. Being in Minnesota I can actually sympathize with Michigan. We are in a shut-down mode and I don't see any difference, except there aren't any orange highway department trucks with people sleeping along the roads. Hope it keeps going for awhile longer, maybe our Gov. will get the drift, but I think he may be related to Sen. Al Franken so thats out. We sure can produce them can't we? After forty-plus years of working in three different unions, I'm ashamed, and I apolagize fror my miss guidence. I didn't really agree with the unions, but you can't change them, just limit them. I have only voted for a Dem. once in my entire voting career, and that was a mistake I truly 'am sorry for. Now I don't know how they can get her(Klobachar)out. This is the first time in forty-plus years that Minnesota has had a Repub. legislature. I hope the Tea Party can come up with somebody to beat her. As for Barry, I would rather watch grass grow than listen to him. Our entire Govt. body is like a babys diaper, they need to be changed regularly, and usually for the same reason.

A good essay today Burt, you have a way of bringing my blood to the boiling point! I try not to look at the emporer without clothes but he's everywhere.

The national media is nothing more than a court of jesters who take themselves far to seriously. I hope the CIC does not flub another Medal Of Honor presentation with his off the cuff pontificating.

Bloomberg cannot buy everything he wants, and he can't keep the smart ones from the inner cities from moving into the suberbs for better jobs, schools, safety, for a better life. Into the void we should welcome the immigrants who view the USA as the land of opportunity and freedom. We need this transfusion of new ideas and hope they bring. I think we are becoming apathetic and cynical, and that's what keeps the so many Americans away from the polls. I believe the candidate who really believes in the greatness of the American people and can communicate that greatness, like Reagan did, has the best chance to be elected. We have to get out of this foggy malaise as soon as possible.

I look forward to your essays, thanks

Mike Echo: I'm glad you like my work. I am hoping that Rick Perry will turn out to be the candidate who can remind America that she remains the last best hope of mankind.

MARINE: It's not easy for me to sympathize with you because I live in California, where the governor is Jerry Brown and nearly every member of the state senate and the assembly would remind you of Al Franken.

Burt

Burt;

The whole piece is great, not to mention the 1st & last sentence; both are gems.

However, Rick Perry talks tough & then retreats when action is required - re: illegals. That reminds me of Gingrich. Of course, should Perry be the nominee, he's got my vote. Just as MichaelSSEC said so eloquently recently, he'd vote for an ingrown nail against "O"; Amen. We the people are letting this impostor get away w/ high crimes & misdemeanors, even treason. No wonder he acts like an emperor (naked or otherwise): Princeps legibus solutus est...

Burt & Robert of Prague, are you aware that Perry is a Bilderberg Group member? Think New World Order.

I wonder where those 10,000 engineers a year will come from.China,India,Russia, Pakistan.Or maybe another third world country.Your guess is as good as mine. One thing I don't have to guess about is they won't becoming from the United States.High schools and colleges would have to teach their students math.And i'm pretty sure math like science and history are no longer taught.Educators would have to have an actual background in those subjects and not in just anger management,sex ed.conflict resolution or baby shower 101[for pregnant 12 year olds]just to name a few of the useless things that one can get credit for.Or a degree in.This is what our elites call an education.I would call it something quite different.Semper Paratus

Goes to show just how much Mayor Bloomberg knows. Detroit is alreasdy full of immigrants of the Muslim persuasion, so much so that next election has a referendum to name change city & state from Detroit, Michigan to Detroitabad, Michiganistan:'}

@enemaofthestatisquo - I know (hope) you are being facetious, but for the unelightened, Detroits majority minority population is black followed by Hispanic next. Detroit has a small Arabic population, though I can see how you would think that just by driving down Warren Ave, and seeing just about every businesses sign in Arabic.

(1) Great column, as usual. Couldn't ask for bvetter.

(2) I propose a new designator for BHO: "Occupant" (as in the address you see on the junk mail you receive. More formally, he could be called "Current Resident, 1600 PA, Ave".

(3) Biden - you mean the guy who can't count to 21 without dropping his trousers? The fact _he_ would become President if Occupant were impeached is the only thing that keeps me from advocating that course of action. Occupant's "high crimes and misdemeanors" (look up the report of the House Judiciary staff from '73) would include mis-, mal- and nonfeasance in office.