One reason I read every Burt Prelutsky blog posting is that he writes so many things that are fun to respond to. Not that I disagree -- far from it. You want to add detail and answer Burt's questions for him. It's like when I correspond with my friend Tony the Libertarian. It's about 15% debate and 85% sharing of information. (When we get together in person it's debate, information, and beer.)
For example, Burt wrote:
"Recently, Robert Gates garnered a great deal of attention for writing a book in which he took Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden, to task. Once you got past the totally insincere compliments he apparently felt obliged to pay the first two, he basically made a case that none of them was to be trusted. Inasmuch as I had already come to that conclusion without his prompting, my question is why he didn t resign when he first discovered the truth about them."
The answer is that Robert Gates is old Beltway Bob, the man who just wants to be important among the government elites. He would run a department for any President - George Bush or Barack Obama, George Washington or Bill Clinton, George Patton or George McClellan. I always imagine him standing on a Washington DC street corner holding a sign "Will run government department for stature".
Then there was
" In the case of (NJ Governor Chris) Christie, it shouldn t have taken the bridge scandal to open the eyes of those morons who decided he should be our answer to Hillary in 2016. It s one thing for a guy who comes off like a thug to be the governor of New Jersey, and quite another to have his rump perched in the Oval Office."
I hope that Christie learned the lesson of the media laser beam focussed on him these last few weeks. When a Republican like Christie or John McCain spends too much time in the media spotlight, it's not because the media loves them for themselves, or because they're a "new kind of Republican". It's because the media is using them to divide and damage the GOP. When given an opportunity to destroy their "favorite Republican", however, the searchlight is intensified into a laser beam, and the basking becomes the burning.
Burt finished with this:
"Speaking of schools, the Civil Rights office in the Department of Education thinks it s because of racism that black and Hispanic students are suspended or kicked out of schools for disciplinary infractions far more often than white kids.
Just curious, but has it occurred to these bureaucratic pinheads that the lack of discipline might somehow be the result of illegitimacy rates that show that 72.3% of black kids are being raised by unmarried women, 53.3% of Hispanic kids and only 29.1% of white kids?
I grant that 29.1% is nothing to brag about. That is until you compare it to what s going on in the minority communities, where the overwhelming majority of males have gone AWOL, leaving it up to all those terrible white bigots to support their women and children.
But I expect it s too much to ask that people who are being paid to spot civil rights infractions ever bother looking into the actual source of the problem. After all, as the schools, the media and left-wing politicians keep insisting, members of minority groups must never be held responsible for their problems.
Besides, it s so much easier and a lot more fun to simply holler Racism! in a crowded theater."
To this I just shout "Amen!!"
To Fox News: Put this man on the air! The world has seen enogh of Karl Rove!
To everyone else: Subscribe to Burt Prelutsky's newsletter. It's a good source of information and a great source of fun, and don't we need THAT in Obamamerica?
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