John Burtis
John Burtis is a former Broome County, NY firefighter, a retired Santa Monica, CA, police officer. He obtained his BA in European History at Boston University and is fluent in German. He resides in NH with his wife, Betsy. Older articles by John Burits
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Our halcyon days
September 17, 2026
In the history of the United States of America the stakes have never been higher should our losses hustle our public and private downfall;
Close Calls
August 20, 2026
I loved fighting fires in those busy days & nights of my technicolor youth. I seemed to be tireless then, but not so much any more, deep in my dotage. Betsy is happy that I’m no longer awakened by the tones. I guess in a guarded retrospect, so am i;
The Final Fire
August 17, 2026
But we were safe. I threw my arm around my little brother’s shoulder and gave him a quick squeeze. I then plopped down for a quick blow with my hot sweaty head in my hands
Knock, Knock! Criminal Aliens Calling
October 13, 2024
So, are we supposed to just play pinochle while waiting for one of these violent illegal immigrant criminals to smash their way into our homes while we’re dozing as these wandering ne’er-do-wells play “Knock, knock, who’s there?”
Just The Facts
October 12, 2024
When will the frustrated American electorate finally realize that the liberal coddling of the increasingly violent criminal element, provides one leg of the three legged stool--other two legs being the voting dead and illegal aliens
Sure as shooting
June 28, 2024
But you never will know when UFO’s will enter your life, but they’ll change it. Just as sure as shooting.
Podesta occupies the “twin canoes”
February 4, 2024
John Podesta, erstwhile Clinton data miner and lackey is poised to step into the highly buffed brogans, noted for their extreme over pronation and what wags call “twin canoes"
The last stops on their broken trolley
December 20, 2023
In years to come, we may come to view the Obama and Biden duumvirate as the final stops on their broken trolley car trundling us into the future
John Kerry - lab meat, mayonnaise farms and his new carpet
December 6, 2023
John Kerry still at large and working to destroy our values and nation while further distending his ego and reputation while doing the bidding of Biden’s new Soviets
The ongoing inanity of the Biden Democrats
December 4, 2023
In the aggregate, in our own growing worker’s paradise, the rules and the number of ubiquitous commissars, like John Kerry, are already greater than those once found in Joe Stalin’s utopia
Where have you flitted to, Henry Rogers?
December 3, 2023
I am saddened that this overly tiresome and damaging hoopla is rewarded at the alma mater of Martin Luther King
What’s the cost, Mistah Speakah, what’s the actual cost?
November 23, 2023
Battle for the soul of America is found on the Medicare front where the costs of the ads is unknown but the results represent another nail in America's coffin. What's the actual cost? Indentured servitude comes to mind
Where in the hell are we going in America?
November 10, 2023
America's racist birds
How many more, Mistah Speakah, how many more must die?
October 19, 2023
Perhaps the DOJ, under that great leveller, jokester, Merrick Garland, could cajole a few FBI operatives from the dry hole of the hated Donald Trump and investigate just how in hell US electronic components show up in downed Iranian drones
No Sympathy for this Devil
October 9, 2023
Today, with Antifa, BLM and the mobile street thugs who can strip a department store, a pharmacy or a boutique shop to the bone in two or three minutes, we need no sympathy for this devil
Our super cooperative Secret Service refuses to tell Congress or any of us who Auld Joe sees and who visits him in Delaware or Lake Tahoe, where Joe freeloads in a billionaire's house on the lake
First they came for my cook top
August 28, 2023
it is hard to fathom just far backwards we've come and how far the Biden gang wants us to keep retreating economically, socially and politically
Democrat see, Democrat do
August 25, 2023
Thanks to the unconstitutional antics of the big boys, Joe Biden and Merrick Garland, the little southpaws like Michelle Wu have begun punching above their weight
How rich does a rich man need to be?
August 25, 2023
Personally, I’ll take a Hebrew National all beef frank with a bit of mustard and relish in a toasted split top bun with a slice of American cheese anytime before I’ll consume Soylent Bill Gates' so-called laboratory grown “meat"
The coming electoral theft
August 21, 2023
Uncle Joe Biden's hacks will be counting our votes, massaging their numbers and insuring that the power crazed authoritarian neé communist Democrats cling to power, in order to destroy everything American and erase our history
Sun, Earth, Neptune and the Arsenal of Truth
August 21, 2023
Fallacious ongoing nattering of John Fawbs Kerry and Greta Thunberg and the Sun's effects on Neptune
Merrick Garland, the Department of Justice tovarisch in our present day judicial Potemkin village, who was selected, numerous wags say, to insure that the money continues to flow to the Bidens,
Army of the damned
June 26, 2023
Will the Biden cabal, backed by such obsequious defense system savvy solons as Maggie "the Magster" Hassan and "Bomb 'em back to the Stoneage" Jeanne Shaheen, who distrust simple and quick Republican led victories because they resulted in few killed
Live Science sells out
June 11, 2020
• Live Science sells out
• Antifa and BLM are not science
• They're not math except for $400,000,000 in damages
• Antifa and BLM are not science
• They're not math except for $400,000,000 in damages
What’s Up Doc?!
April 23, 2020
Lady Gaga called the Doc a "superstar" during the One World concert designed to prop up the rotten borough that is WHO. Do entertainers, actors really have any conception about this guy Doc Tedros and his checkered history?
Pity the Democrat voters
April 18, 2020
We’ve regressed
February 2, 2019
If you jump in too deep in this mass murder business, someday a bigger, stronger and saner group will come knocking. "Liberal" America is not immune in the least.
The Hidden Hand
September 19, 2018
The hidden hand has given the orders and moves on
Remarks by Mr Hamzeh Daoud, your Resident Assistant
July 23, 2018
I am writing to register both my concern and my fear about the violent writings one of your resident RA’s, a Mr Hamzeh Daoud
Great fizzling Blue Wave of 2018