Now, I’m going to try to make something humorous, fit the nonsense which goes on in D.C. on a continual basis, and especially those who hold high office, and have absolutely no qualifications for it, or for than matter, even holding it. Let the chips fall where they may.
I was a fortunate kid. My parents sent me to probably America’s finest private school, Sidwell Friends, in Washington D.C. I loved it and we did a lot of Gilbert & Sullivan operettas, which stick with me to this day. I was playing DVD’s of “Trial By Jury,” “HMS Pinafore,” “Pirates of Penzance,” and “The Mikado,” last week and was pleasantly surprised at my memory of a lot of the lyrics and music. Gilbert & Sullivan, were well aware of the stupidity and wastefulness of the 19th century British government. Their operettas made wild fun of the government, and the public loved it. It makes me wish that some composer would do the same here, because the current, idiotic D.C. Gang, is ripe for such a comedic spoof, even if the lyricist used Sullivan’s music. Examples of the Gilbert & Sullivan comedy are: (Remember these are cute songs with chorus coming in at times. I am quoting the words. A DVD with both operettas on it is by Opera Australia, and can be bought on E-bay for about $13, or new from Amazon for $20. The songs and humor will last you for ever! Both operettas are only 130 minutes).
In “Trial By Jury,” a girl is jilted by a guy who promised to marry her, and she sues him. In the end, she marries the judge, but the way the judge got to be a judge is hilarious, and can easily remind one of today’s judges or other public figures. Here’s how he became a judge. After a preliminary song about how he was a poor barrister, living on bread and water, and figuring he would never get to address a British Jury, he apprenticed to a rich attorney, and ’fell in love’ with his elderly, ugly daughter. He continued the song…”The rich attorney, he jumped with joy, and replied to my fond professions: “You shall reap the reward if your pluck my boy, at the Bailey and Middlesex Sessions. You’ll soon get used to her looks ,” said he, “And a very nice girl you’ll find her. She may very well pass for 43, in the dusk with the light behind her.” The rich attorney was as good as his word, and the briefs came trooping gayly, and every day my voice was heard, at the Sessions or Ancient Bailey. All thieves who could my fees afford, relied on my orations, and many a burglar I’ve restored to his friends and relations. At length I became as rich as the Gurneys, and an incubus I thought her, so I threw over, that rich attorney’s elderly, ugly, daughter. The rich attorney, my character high, tried vainly to disparage…. And now, if you please, I’m ready to try this breach of promise of marriage.” He concludes with, “Though all my law be fudge, yet I’ll never, never budge, but I’ll live and die a judge, and a good judge too.” Of course the chorus repeats the jingles a couple of times after each sentence, to give it mirth, as with all Gilbert and Sullivan operettas.
“HMS Pinafore,” is a huge ridicule of the British Navy. There is a great switching of characters, with the captain’s daughter married to a crew member, etc, but the big cheese is Sir Joseph Porter, who tells us how he came to be Ruler of the Queen’s Navee. Here’s part of his method. He started out as an office boy to an attorney’s firm. “I cleaned the windows and I swept the floor, and polished the handle on the big front door. I polished the handle so carefullee, that now I am the Ruler of the Queen’s Navee. As office boy, I made such a mark, that they gave me the post of a junior clerk. I served the writs, with a smile so bland, and I copied all the letters in a big round hand. I copied all the letters in a hand so free, that now I am the Ruler of the Queen’s Navee. In serving writs, I made such a name, that an articled clerk I soon became. I wore clean collars and a brand new suit, for the pass examination at the institute. That pass examination did so well for me, that now I am the Ruler of the Queen’s Navee. Of legal knowledge I acquired such a grip, that they took me into the partnership. And that junior partnership I weaned, was the only ship that I ever had seen. But that kind of ship so suited me, that now I am the Ruler of the Queen’s Navee. I grew so rich, that I was sent, by a pocket borough, into Parliament. I always voted at my party’s call, and never thought of thinking for myself at all. I though so little, they rewarded me, by making me the Ruler of the Queen’s Navee. Now landsmen all, whoever you may be, if you want to rise to the top of the tree. If your soul isn’t fettered to an office stool. Be careful and be guided by this golden rule: Stick close to your desks, and never go to sea, and you all maybe Rulers of the Queen’s Navee.”
Gilbert and Sullivan’s operettas are just so neat, playful, and all so true with their bashing of the British ’establishment,’ and with Sullivan’s clever music, that I find myself singing the stuff to myself all the time since I watched the DVD’s. Surely you can see the reason they were so popular then, and even so now. Why can’t someone use Sullivan’s music, and write lyrics to slam today’s nonsensical bureaucrats, courts, and officialdom?
Iraq & The Kids
Obama is ’sending 300 troops in to help.’ OK people, how long will it be before we need to bomb the ’enemy?’ The ’enemy’ is merely Sunnis taking back their nation. They’ve slaughtered a few, but that’s common with Muslims, who regard life as much as stepping on a bug. Think about every news item, every roadside bomb, bombs everywhere, and every kind of murder and madness in the world today. Is it Christians? Jews? Catholics? Mormons? Hindus? Buddhists? Shinto? No, it’s Muslim, or Islam, which are the same. There is as much chance of stopping the Sunnis, as putting the tooth paste back in the tube. Let them have their country. It was taken from them by Shiites. Who cares? The “ISIS” started in April of 2013, and has been responsible for the thousands of Shiite deaths by bombs. Where was the CIA – (Can’t Identify Anything)? Fox News quotes and has guests daily, such as, McCain and other retired (retarded?) military, with never a high rank it seems, who are trying to get a war started, and it’s disgusting. ISIS started with a few hundred men, and as they went to various towns, townspeople joined them, because they were Sunnis. They were glad to be rid of the Shiites. The Sunni repossession army roared on, picking up thousands on the way. All they’re doing, is running the towns and cities like they want, which is different than the way Shiites ran them. Should we care? When hundreds of thousands of blacks in Africa were killed by a competing tribe a few years ago, it was cruel, but also ridiculous. Let them do as their stupid minds say they must, but leave us out of it. Maybe in Africa or a Muslim land in the future, the Wombats will fight against the Mombats, if there is such a combination, but WHO CARES? I wrote endless columns, trying not to get us into Iraq, and Afghanistan, but to no avail.
The kids which are streaming across the border in Texas, near Big Bend National Park, are being fed, clothed, and flown to various places in the US. WHY? Why not just send them back to Mexico, which sent them across the Rio Grande to The United States? Just float or fly them back to Mexico. I am really sorry that Honduras, Guatemala, and other seamy places are cruel and violent. I’m sorry that gangs rule in the places of their origin. Really sorry! But I can’t change that, and I don’t want their victims here with their diseases. Around the world, every single day, thousands of children are killed, assaulted, raped and abused. Maybe millions. Catholic kids have been abused by their priests for decades, and Muslin women by the millions and hundreds of millions are abused, raped, and used as sex slaves. I don’t want them here. Let’s let America be for Americans, PERIOD!
The IRS Scandal
Give me a break! Never has there been such a cover-up. Lois Lerner takes the 5th, and even the hard drives were conveniently thrown away? The IRS has a contract with a private company to store its records. What have they to say? Did all their records also disappear suddenly? Six hard drives all crashed at once? My computer is solid state and a lot older than I am sure the IRS has, and I have no hard drive to crash. Hard drives are almost ancient. Did they really have hard drives, or is this more lies? Would the IRS forgive someone in an audit, if they said their hard drive crashed? Did the dog eat the homework? Citizens have to save their records for seven years, but the IRS can lose all of theirs simultaneously, in a few minutes? Democrats and their liberal buddies will do anything they can to thwart the continuing Tea Party popularity and efforts to reign in the runaway federal government, with its endless handouts, free cell phones, free this, free that, and ’help’ with utilities, free food, and the list is endless. The $2 trillion the IRS takes in in taxes only pays for the handouts, and does not cover interest on the debt, or even government expenses, which are catastrophically huge and endless. “Oh these are compulsory because the law says they have to be given.” Nuts. Repeal the laws. Let those who are sucking the life out of us and debasing the dollar, starve, kill each other, or be killed by homeowners when they break in. The increasing dread citizens have of the feds have is reflected in the fasct that “homeland Security” has purchased hundreds of millions of rounds or ammo, and millions of guns. They know that the ’homeland,’ (us) have a quarter billion guns in our homes, and no other nation in history has had that. Had they had guns, they wouldn’t have been squashed by the Gestapo or KGB maybe.