I've got a little list and they never will be missed.

I’VE GOT A LITTLE LIST!

I've got a little list — I've got a little list
Of society offenders who might well be underground
And who never would be missed — who never would be missed!

 aka “As someday it may happen” “The Mikado” by Gilbert and Sullivan.

  Like most people of my generation I’m not a huge fan of opera, though I do like the little operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan. I first encountered The Mikado in my junior high school music class where Mrs. Jacobson had us set through and listen to Groucho Marx in the Mikado. That one song stuck with me as it struck a chord in my soul.

   We have all felt this way at one point or another. That those annoying people who make day to day living sheer Hell should all just drop dead.

   When it was written over 150 years ago it listed people who played Banjo solos, and who shook hands with a 2 handed grasp of yours and a violent prolonged shaking, as possible fodder for the headsman’s axe. And every few years the list has been updated to include the newest forms of public nuisances.

  So here, in no particular order, is my unfinished list of those who “Never will be missed”.

1.     Those people who get to the checkout clerk and are compelled to pay with exact change. And then must dig through every available place to find 2 pennies.

2.     Those souls that hold impromptu reunions in the aisles of the supermarket and block all possible movement.

3.     Likewise those who meet old friends in the door of the place and must stop and discuss old Aunt Mable and her cat.

4.     Those lost souls that get in their cars and start the engine, put it in reverse so that the lights come on, and then feel a sudden need to dig through their possessions to find something while traffic backs up waiting for them to get the Hell out of the way.

5.     Drivers and you know who you are, who set at the light sending and checking messages until the light has nearly cycled full circle. You then gun the car through the yellow light and leave the rest to wait.

6.     People who cruise along at or below the speed limit in the inside lane of the road blocking anyone from passing anyone.   

7.     Those deaf and dumb idiots who have the base cranked up to where it makes your mirror vibrate and your vision blur as they set beside you.

8.     The imbeciles with the loud pipes that blast up and down the street in the wee hours of the morning just to see the lights come on. You know the ones that you hear coming for 10 minutes before they turn the corner with squalling tires and pipes blasting to roar off in the other direction where you can hear them fade away for another few minutes. 

9.     Idiots so focused on their phones they run you over with a shopping cart or just run into you themselves.

1.  And then there are the telemarketers who somehow clone local phone numbers so you can’t tell who’s calling you. I get at least one call a month from the local National Guard base selling some kind of credit service.

1.  Everyone who has ever been a guest on either one of those talk where the woman can’t remember who she slept with to get pregnant, and the guys all swear they couldn’t possibly be the father of a child that look just like them. (DNA don’t lie fool) What shining examples of Americans put up there for the world to admire.

 . Then there are all the owners of all those click bait website that get your attention with a hot picture and a suggestion that someone has died, then when you click for the story you get a new page with one picture of something else and one sentence about the subject. You have to click through a dozen or more pages to get a story that could have been told in a short paragraph.

1.  Lastly and I’m sorry, but people who just cannot control their children when they take them out to eat or anywhere else. When our kids acted like wild animals in public they went back in the car and we went home.

There is a long list of others out there as well but you get the idea.

Not a single day goes by when my opinion of the average human does not slip a little bit more. And keep in mind that on average that means that half of the rest of the people are even worse than that one.   

Is it getting cold again? Do the Democrats want another Cold War

  I clearly remember the Cold War era. I remember all the discussion of how evil the Soviet Union was and how they meant to carry out Khrushchev's promise  "We will bury you !". He made that promise while standing in front of the cameras in the United Nations main chamber and a full meeting of the UN. He even took off a shoe and used it the strike the podium for emphasis. 
  I remember the anti communist fears of those days, and I remember the Cuban Missile Crises when I stood in the school playground with a group of chums looking at the sky and discussing whether you would see a missile coming in before it exploded.   
  And I remember how after John Kennedy the Democrats began to move to the left and preached how we should accept and learn to live with the Communist governments of the world. 
  After all, "Better RED than dead." 
  From then on the Democrats became the party of a friendly hand toward the USSR. They changed though when a Republican tried to reach out in friendship. When Nixon ended the Vietnam War the Democrat controlled congress de-funded the peace accords. When the Reagan administration pushed the Soviets to try and de-stabilize their economy Senator Ted Kennedy, the brother of John Kennedy of the Missile crises, contacted the Russian ambassador to assure him that there were enough democrats in the Senate to block anything Reagan tried to do.  When the Soviet Union collapsed these same people suddenly cried out about the hardships being placed on the people in those countries. 
  Where were their voices before that?
   I spent 22 years in the military and served in Vietnam. For most of that time all we trained to fight was the Soviet Union and always in Germany. So deeply was the fear of them ingrained that even after the collapse we trained to fight them.
  Then came Glasnost. We started to talk about mutual concerns and the walls came down.
  We began to invest in the former USSR and it seemed that the Democrats now began to talk of fear toward what was fast becoming an ally.
  I hope McCain's fears are based on his life in the Cold War and not some political plan to use the Russians as a Boogy man to scare the rest of the country.
  Below is what someone else thinks about what is going on.
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Lavrov vs. McCain: Is Russia an Enemy?

Home  Commentary  Lavrov vs. McCain: Is Russia an Enemy?

Patrick J. Buchanan February 28, 2017 at 6:54 am 0Commentary, Lead Stories

  The founding fathers of the Munich Security Conference, said John McCain, would be “be alarmed by the turning away from universal values and toward old ties of blood, and race, and sectarianism.”

McCain was followed by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov who called for a “post-West world order.” Russia has “immense potential” for that said Lavrov, “we’re open for that inasmuch as the U.S. is open.”

  Now McCain is not wrong. Nationalism is an idea whose time has come again. Those “old ties of blood, and race, and sectarianism” do seem everywhere ascendant. But that is a reality we must recognize and deal with. Deploring it will not make it go away.

  But what are these “universal values” McCain is talking about?

  Democracy? The free elections in India gave power to Hindu nationalists. In Palestine, Hamas. In Lebanon, Hezbollah. In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood, then overthrown in a military coup welcomed by the world’s oldest and greatest democracy. Have we forgotten it was a democratically elected government we helped to overthrow in Kiev?

  Democracy is a bus you get off when it reaches your stop, says Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, autocrat of Ankara, a NATO ally.

  Is freedom of religion a “universal value”?

  Preach or proselytize for Christianity in much of the Islamic world and you are a candidate for martyrdom. Practice freedom of speech in Xi Jinping’s China and you can wind up in a cell.

  As for the Western belief in the equality of all voluntary sexual relations, in some African and Muslim countries, homosexuals are beheaded and adulterers stoned to death.

  In Nuristan Province in U.S.-liberated Afghanistan this month, an armed mob of 300 besieged a jail, shot three cops and dragged out an 18-year-old woman who had eloped with her lover to escape an arranged marriage. Beaten by relatives, the girl was shot by an older brother with a hunting rifle and by a younger brother with his AK-47.

  Afghan family values.

  Her lover was turned over to the husband. An “honor killing,” and, like suicide bombings, not uncommon in a world where many see such actions as commendable in the sight of Allah.

  McCain calls himself an “unapologetic believer in the West” who refuses “to accept that our values are morally equivalent to those of our adversaries.”

  Lavrov seemed to be saying this:

  Reality requires us here in Munich to recognize that, in the new struggle for the world, Russia and the U.S. are natural allies not natural enemies. Though we may quarrel over Crimea and the Donbass, we are in the same boat. Either we sail together, or sink together.

  Does the foreign minister not have a point?

  Unlike the Cold War, Moscow does not command a world empire. Though a nuclear superpower still, she is a nation whose GDP is that of Spain and whose population of fewer than 150 million is shrinking. And Russia threatens no U.S. vital interest.

  Where America is besieged by millions of illegal immigrants crossing from Mexico, Russia faces to her south 1.3 billion Chinese looking hungrily at resource-rich Siberia and Russia’s Far East.

  The China that is pushing America and its allies out of the East and South China Seas is also building a new Silk Road through former Russian and Soviet provinces in Central Asia. With an estimated 16 million Muslims, Russia is threatened by the same terrorists, and is far closer to the Middle East, the source of Sunni terror.

  Is Putin’s Russia an enemy, as McCain seems to believe?

  Before we can answer that question, we need to know what the new world struggle is about, who the antagonists are, and what the threats are to us.

  If we believe the struggle is for “global democracy” and “human rights,” then that may put Putin on the other side. But how then can we be allies of President el-Sissi of Egypt and Erdogan of Turkey, and the kings, emirs and sultans of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait and Oman?

  But if the new world struggle is about defending ourselves and our civilization, Russia would appear to be not only a natural ally, but a more critical and powerful one than that crowd in Kiev.

  In August 1914, Europe plunged into a 50-month bloodbath over an assassinated archduke. In 1939, Britain and France declared war to keep Poland from having to give up a Prussian port, Danzig, taken from Germany under the duress of a starvation blockade in 1919 and in clear violation of Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points and the Danzigers’ right of self-determination. In the two wars, 50 million to 100 million died.

  Today, the United States is confronting Russia, a huge and natural ally, over a peninsula that had belonged to her since the 18th century and is 5,000 miles from the United States.

  “We have immense potential that has yet to be tapped into,” volunteered Lavrov. But to deal, we must have “mutual respect.”

  Hopefully, President Trump will sound out the Russians, and tune out the Beltway hawks.

Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of the new book “The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority.” To find out more about Patrick Buchanan and read features by other Creators writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators website at www.creators.com.

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If God is real, he must feel like most parents do at times.

 Have you ever watched as one of your kids made a bad decision? In spite of your arguments they are steadfast in their choice and will go ahead in spite of all you say. That must be how God feels now. He has tried and tried but we just will not listen.

  I am not a Muslim but I can see why so many are joining that religion.

  Today the AP reports that the Pope is concerned about the number of priests and nuns who are leaving the church. He blames it on a society that doesn’t respect commitment.  It also mentions that in many countries where the Catholic Church has traditionally been strong the number of young people choosing a life of service has fallen drastically.

  I do not think he understands that he and his policies may be part of the problem.

  There has always been a belief that God is unchanging and forever. “As He is today, was yesterday, and shall always be.” God and his teachings and laws are supposed to be forever just as is his mercy and forgiveness. That is the way it has been described by the various religions that follow the Jewish-Islamic-Christian God. God is unchanging and his laws are set down in the various Holy books. Man cannot change these laws and teachings, just to suit current fashion and societal whims.

  And yet today we demand that God’s words be set aside in the name of Social Justice. Even the Pope himself has stated as much. But the Pope is not God. And he has not the power to re-write God’s words.

  In a time when most religions are losing faithful Islam is growing. Why?

  Islam is unapologetic about God’s word. It is firm in the word being the final answer to all questions. And this unyielding position sets it apart as an anchor in a world of uncertainty. As people march in the streets demanding the Catholics and other Christian sects turn their back on the Holy texts and accept a more PC way of seeing people you see few willing to march against Islam. They know these faithful will not be swayed.

  Where Christianity has become a religion of extreme tolerance and turning the other cheek it has become less and less attractive in a world of uncertainty. How can you turn to a God for help if he keeps changing his mind and going back on his word? How can you trust a God that ignores his own commandments? This is part of why Christians are so looked down on today they are selling out their own God. 

   A Pope who advocates changing the church to attract members is selling out a promise of Heaven and blessings to get a few more faces in the pews. He is damning souls to gain tithes.

   The church was made by man to worship and praise his God. To join a church that you do not agree with is stupid at best. Better to look for one that suits your beliefs, or better yet chose to learn and follow the tenets of the church you have chosen, because any church that is willing to ignore the words of its own God to suit current social whims is not going to save you.

  There is a reason that there is a “Highway to Hell” and a “Stairway to Heaven”.

  It gives you an idea of the traffic flow in each direction.