Buck McKeon rises to the occasion - El Zorro informs!! Attention all, please!

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Zorro at Mosinguy.com	12:41 PM (1 hour ago)
to me

The House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon (R-CA) rejected the Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) for 2014.  DoD is required to submit a QDR every 4 years to Congress.  It is supposed to make recommendations that are “fully independent of the budget submitted to Congress by the president”.  It is also required to create a 20 year plan.  This is the first quadrennial report that has been rejected in recent history.

 

The following is a statement by the Chairman rejecting the QDR, and rightly so:

 

"I appreciate the work that has gone into this QDR. A rigorous analysis and debate that takes place every .four years as the review is put together should be immensely valuable to planners and senior commanders. Unfortunately, the product the process produced this time has more to do with politics than policy and is of little value to decision makers. For that reason, I will require the Department to re-write and re-submit a compliant report. In defiance of the law, this QDR provides no insight into what a moderate-to-low risk strategy would be, is clearly budget driven, and is shortsighted. it allows the President to duck the consequences of the deep defense cuts he has advocated and leaves us all wondering what the true future costs of those cuts will be. No QDR is perfect, but I have been disturbed that the review has become less compliant as time goes on. The QDR has legal standards to meet for a reason. They were designed to guide Congress and the Commander-in-Chief as we make tough choices about resources and security. The information produced by the review process could be immensely valuable, but is often withheld from those who need to understand it most. In the coming days, I will introduce legislation intended to reverse this trend. The legislation will require DoD to re-write and re-submit a compliant QDR for FY14, and could be considered on its own or incorporated into the National Defense Authorization Act. In the coming days, 1 will consider what measures could be added to such legislation to ensure a prompt and compliant rewrite."

 

This information was made available to El Zorro in an armed services bi-monthly report made available to active military and veterans.  Some information in the bulletin is prohibited from being reprinted without permission; however, the above is a public statement by the Chairman.

 

The President and the Senate have become a renegade collaboration that have to be brought under control.  The only foreseeable way to do that is to get rid of them, preferably through election.  Unfortunately, we cannot wait for elections.  Other measures have to at least be considered.  The House of Representatives passed the "Executive Needs to Faithfully Observe and Respect Congressional Enactments of the Law Act" (Bill: H.R. 4138 copy) which is step in the right direction. This bill still needs to be approved by the Senate and that seems highly unlikely with Harry Reid in the hen house.



El Zorro

 

GOP - Please Stay Out of the Way

It is necessary to re-take ground and never yield it back.  Insanity, dysfunction, adulation of the perverse and degenerate, corruption of both soul and silk purse, have been forwarded into the centre of the culture as the new default iconic position for the American Culture of the 2100s.   It is Madness.

     Fools in abundance vote for a charlatan who fits the template of a devious, state compromised press.  Illogic among the "conservative class" leads them to nominate moderate candidates because they are the only ones who can win.  We are lectured by Gen. Colin Powell, who declares that only a moderate who can attract the centre of the American political spectrum can win a national election.  And then, after so instructing the hoi polloi, he campaigns for and votes for Barry Soetoro, the nephew of Uncle Omar and Auntie Zietuni.    Why?   Because Barry is black....and it is Colin's greater obligation to be true to his race than to his country.....as so stated by the good General.

     For those of us who are white and who support Black people over White people because the Black person's political orientation is more in focus with our philosophy, we do not do such in order to feel good about ourselves.  We do so because it is best, in our very valid opinion, for the State,  nation, and locale.    That is how we think;  and the guy who tells us that we must nominate losers because they are the only ones who can win...but that he will vote for the pseudo-black man because he is black.....is truly a wondrous, perfect example of arrogant intellectual dysfunction.   Arrogance served with fine herbs and broken glass.   Sorry, General, but we want tuna that tastes good. 

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      The recent by-election in Florida's 13 U.S. Congressional District is a case in point.  The national party apparatus, and the Obsolete Press made certain that everyone knew that the former Lieutenant Governor...a nice lady, holder of the required Golden Coathanger Trophy, a certifiable leftist and person fully willing to put your money where her mouth is, was a double digit favourite for this by-election.

     The GOP consultant class and the Party itself went out of its way to point out that the Republican opponent was a nobody, he did not even believe in Climate Change or Global Warming, he was insensitive to women's issues, and he had been recently divorced and had remarried to a girl 14 years his junior.  There were rumours that he had driven around with a dog in a cage on the roof of his station wagon.   And, of course, he had not renewed his subscription to Queer Nation or condemned Chick fil a, or Duck Dynasty.   They could prove that he had not quilted anything into the AIDs quilt.   And, they pointed out that he was running against a "moderate" Democrat, more reasonable and professional, with 10,000,000 USD of backing from the DNC.

    She lost.  He won.  So it was necessary that Karl Rove come and remind everyone that Jolly, the Republican, won because he assured the electorate that he was more interested in "fixing the Obama Socialised Medicine Initiative (OSMI)" than in repealing it.   That, of course, is absolutely not true...but, in the words of another famous moderate and reasonable pol..."....at this point, what possible difference could it make."

Onward....Repeal, Rescind, Eviscerate the OSMI!

El Gringo Viejo

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El Zorro weighs in....Preposterous? I don't think so.....

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                                                        DMZ and Ben Hai River Area

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A form of the Arch de Triomphe
at the old point of division between
North and South Viet Nam.
(perhaps in the background the OROGs can
see the Red Army massing, look carefully.

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Not a lot of information but a (preposterous?) theory:

     It occurs to me that Malaysian 777 crashed on an island that keeps moving and the dead survivors have to keep pushing a button to keep themselves and the island from exploding into nothing.

     Okay, okay....more seriously but still only a thought inside the little grey cells:   it or something similar is a possibility:

 
To wit -

      The plane was commandeered by the pilot who lastly informed us that everything was just fine.  Then the plane took a westwardly turn toward Vietnam where the pilot changed the voice channel to an encrypted one and said in Chinese, “I will be coming in on runway 3L from southwest, please clear for landing” (or some such instruction request).
     The plane landed and promptly pulled to a remote hanger at this Nha Trang International Airport (formerly Cam Ranh Air Base).  All passengers were loaded on busses and shuttled north up Highway One quietly and unnoticed.

 

     Okay, nutty but who is to say the passengers are accounted for alive… somewhere.  I wonder what negotiations are going on between China, (communist) Vietnam, and our inept government regarding this mystery. 

 

Waiting for the shoe to drop I am,

 

                    El Zorro

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     There is a bit of tongue in cheek, perhaps.  But the scenario that El Zorro points out takes place within an area with which he has considerable familiarity.  The distances, fuel consumption, talent/skill requirement for the pilots, and the facilities that might be available to detain and attend to a group of people who had "suffered" a real live hijacking....(hospitals, doctors, food, bathing facilities, re-orientation, and repatriation with country and family...) are all available in this area.

    The pilots of the Malay airplane could be accused by the Red Chinese of hijacking the Chinese patrons on the plane for the purpose of extortion....when in fact there might have been personnel from the Peoples Liberation Army (Red Chinese Army) who "hijacked" the airplane by  previous arrangement, and flew it to Cam Ranh AFB.  The purpose would have been to show the world that Red China can apprehend terrorists and save passengers, but the real reason is to take possession of a real live 777 for some kind of cloning.  The Red Chinese certainly have some 777s in their remuda of airplanes, but perhaps this one, with its very latest RR engines held a particular interest for Peiping.

     All of the above could be why the Red Chinese are causing attention misdirection with their press releases and petty arguments with the Malays.  Relations are not good with any of the "tropical neighbours" of the Dragon Nation.  Japan, of course, is regarded as a sleeping 1,000 tonne scorpion by the mainland Chinese.   So, all of this could well be just a lot of theatre scripted by the Red Chinese government to cover a multi-purpose incident that would provide a clone plane, a bit of recon, and a chance to strut around with some braggadocio in the neighbourhood.

    So, along with other :kooky" interpretations, including El Gringo Viejo's?

El Zorro's little scenario seems quite plausible and rational.  Something bigger and more bizarre than what was originally thought at the time of the "went missing" advisory, is certainly underway.

El Gringo Viejo

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Just to Pass the Time - a lamentation

      There were two things that rattled around in El Gringo Viejo's brain...a lot of hollow area there...and both had to do with water, tragedy, and a couple of names that were the same but different.  Ed FitzGerald.    One is Edmund FitzGerald, the ill-fated iron-ore carrier that went down in heavy seas one November not long ago on Lake Superior (Gitchigumee) with the loss of all hands (29 souls aboard).   The other is Edward FitzGerald who translated and studied the works of Omar Khayyam to the benefit of European and New World readers of fine things.  Below is a study of an old Persian wise man with his light of truth, his ''magic carpet'' of inspiration, and the epithet below, that seems strangely appropriate for this issue about the Malaysian Boeing 777.  Truly, as of yet, the Earth knows naught, and the Ocean mourns what is a massive loss of souls, we hope now in a better place.
Perhaps, who knows?  They might be on an island somewhere.   Below is the Anthem by Gordon Lightfoot about the ore carrier.  His song is almost a journalistic account of the disaster.  The people in that part of the Lake and along that transport route will never forget...not the event...nor the song, so long as there are those who heard that incredible announcement on Detroit radio stations that night, 10 November 1975.  "We regret to announce that authorities are confirming that the Iron-ore carrier, the Edmund Fitzgerald has sunk to-night, with the loss of all hands.  There are no survivors." 

The Earth could not answer nor the Seas that Mourn


(From the Rubaiyat through Omar Khayyam to Edward FitzGerald)
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     When the Malay airliner went missing El Gringo Viejo told his better three-quarters that there was something fishy about the whole thing.   He should have written it down at that time and followed up on the event, hour-by-hour.  But, she and I know that my pontificating and posturing had been done and probabilities expressed, etc.

An almost perpetual oil leak from
HMS Royal Oak, sunk in the English
Channel by a German kliegmariner
U-boat on the English coast in 1939.
HMS Royal Oak is still leaking, as
are scores of other craft from the
various wars and storms.

     My notion was that if  it had continued along the general proximity of the coast of Viet Nam, then it would have been seen by literally hundreds of thousands of villagers.  When the oil slicks were shown on television, I knew that those slicks had nothing to do with any plane crash.   They were, in all probability, small-medium fishing boats or little paquet craft that sank in a storm or other difficulty during their delivery of goods and groceries to the village stores.  Those vehicles will leak oil for years, and they are great places for fishing.  Their leaking bones  are quickly identifiable even to a novice such as El Gringo Viejo.

     At this point every piece of flotsam and jetsam will be associated with the plane crash and the possibility of finding "survivors" on some isolated island like the Bounty's crew grass-shacking up on Pitcairn in the middle of the Pacific Ocean after their mutiny against Captain Bligh.  Our calculations quickly determined that the plane could have been conducted to a place, not quite as far as the Gobi, but certainly into the Mu La Desert which is familiar territory to the Weegers, a pan Arab - Mongolian - Ind0-European race of people who inhabit some of the starker areas of Sinkaing Province of Red China.   A one-shot chance at landing a 777 Boeing could be attempted at Sri Lanka, although headwinds would have had to been nil, due to the increased kerosene consumption required in flying at 4,000 feet in such an aircraft.  A reasonably skilled pilot could do it, with a bit of luck.





Captain Christian and Captain Bligh wish

 each other a Bon Voyage as HMS Bounty

 heads for Pitcairn Island and the recently

 retired Captain and his crew begin their

 Indian Ocean odyssey.



    

     Although it does not fit well into a movie script, people like El Zorro, for instance, flew into the Laos - Cambodia extra-theatrical zone of American combat and surveillance back in the heaviest time of action of the Viet Nam War.  There are areas where one can imagine that the never ending green never ends, forever.  In those areas there are large clearings that have been done by various economic and military interests.   Even the Thais and the French had widely-known "secret facilities" in those precincts.  The Brits, Aussies, and Americans had essentially rough and ready air bases.



       The Weegers (yes, we know, Uighuers - for their dialect of Turkish language used in Western China)  would have all of those places that could handle a 777 in any semblance of a "controlled crash" (all landings are controlled crash landings, it is just that some are done better than others)....from which most if not all parties could ostensibly survive.   It would not be a miracle...remarkable maybe, but the authorities in the Vatican would not have to burn any midnight oil trying to figure out if there had been anything beyond natural human skill and a bit of good luck to take a plane down in some well chosen site and have all survive.  No miracles to test or gather evidence to prove and /or disprove.

    I keep going back to Sri Lanka, in any regard, because it has a real live place to put 14 wheels and 370,000 pounds of airplane down with less luck and more skill and experience.   And the fact is that the 777 in its various configurations is known to be the long distance champion in all commercial air service.

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 Our shoe/boot size is 14AAA, or as my mother would tell the other ladies, "My last son has very aristocratic feet".  Perhaps it is because of that that I feel an affinity to my fellow Sasquatch,  the 777.

More later.

El Gringo Viejo

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Portent of Victory - Please Republican RINOs, stay out of the way

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     If El Gringo Viejo's ego is too overly large, then this request is certainly too much for the pompous, self-impressed  RINOs who think that the Republican Party is 99.90% Them and 0.10% Others, composed of the 60,000,000 small proprietors, skilled blue-collar and technical people, the professionals, the artisans, the housewives / home-schoolers, the snake-handlers and foot-washers, Paladins and saddle-tramps, curmudgeons, and cat-lovers and lovers of the lesser animals.

    Any nominal Republicans who have ever said, "Well, what we need to do is keep the good parts of the Obama Socialised Medicine Initiative (OSMI) and tweek  the bad parts so that it can be both fair and functional.".....must choose between being spayed AND neutered and sent to a "home", or the iceberg cruise remedy for old Eskimoe women.

The Good Ship Obamacare undergoes a bit of
tweaking during its lift-off, providing over
500 Billion minorities, the Children, and the
LGEBWZODH community with free health.
Kathleen Sibilius called it a
"very successful send-off....a
 real blast."

     As we have stated here 42,540 times, it is absolutely, totally mandatory that the entire OSMI be overturned, rescinded, repealed, and abolished.  Letter, word, sentence, paragraph, page, article, front cover and rear.  All of it.  One hundred (100) per cent.   It will have meant over 9,337 acres of forests in the United States and Canada were destroyed for nothing.   It will somewhat denigrate the sacrifices that (Sir Edmund) Hillary Rodham Corkscrew has made for hundreds of years,  for the women, and especially for the children, and most especially for the minorities for whom "she ain't no way tired".....and everything.  Especially everything.  Oh! The Humanity......!

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      And think of everything that Barry Soetoro wanted to give to the Middle Class....for free.....and the subsidies....free money....free....when the millionaires and billionaires have so much and will not share with the hungry, SSI, SS - disability, AFDC, Section 8, Lone Star Carded, Head Started, WIC, Medicaided....and school breakfasted, lunched, snacked, summer mealed!   Oh! the Humanity!!

      It is simply not fair.   The government really should give people things for free.  For instance, where are my birth control pills?

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    But we diverge, as usual.   What the Forces of the Cosmos hath put together, please....let no RINOs rend asunder.  For every one moderate that the RINO can convince to lower himself to vote for a Republican, we can deliver three hairdressers, four teachers, two mechanics, three snake handler/foot washer mix-breeds...and about nine other motley Tea Party nutters.

    For every "Hispanic" that the country clubbers can cajole into voting Republican because we can "give" him/her "more"....we can deliver 10 Latins, powered under their own steam,  who consider themselves Americans first...or Texans first.... and do not want anything given except a clear path to his/her self-derived prosperity and spiritual fruition!!

     So, esteemed RINOs,  please stay out of the way.   Keep your official Gerald Ford "Whip Inflation Now" buttons in the back of the third drawer of the highboy....try not to pop with pride as you drive past the hundreds of empty Bob Dole ADA hankeydap parking spaces that are never used except by food stampers, who usually can leave a few pampers behind as a momento, or the Romney proposal of "fixing Obamacare" so that it can look more like the disaster in Massachusetts.  John McCain...well...he speaks for himself, and I honour his service.   Even voted for him....and Palin.  Voted for all of them actually.   Tired of anaemia as a political diet.  No more tofu...no more skimmed milk....no more lite beer.    The battle is joined.   The Sumpter shots have been fired,  and the Democrat front bencher was defeated by a Republican back bencher in the Florida US House of Representatives by-election.   Why?   Because he was a better candidate with the better ground game.

More Later!

El Gringo Viejo

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Fifth Amendment begins its march to the Constitutional Convention - The first shoe drops in Georgia

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/03/first_state_passes_article_v_convention_of_states_resolution.html

     This is our last effort to try to post this.   It has strangely been taken down twice now.  Click onto the linkage to review what El Zorro and Mark Levin and others have been proposing for considerable time now.

     That proposal is a Constitutional Convention designed to limit the powers of the Central government to those matters previously designated in the Constitution, and the distribution of the powers mentioned in 10th Amendment back to people or the Several States as described in said Amendment.   This proposal also calls for limits on the terms of service for people serving in the legislative precincts of the Central government's congress.

      The movement has started to take concrete form with the passage of this act in the Georgia legislature.   My understanding is that these matters, according to the 5th Amendment, are affairs of each State's legislature, House of Burgesses, or the legislative authority as composed in that State.  It is not to be an affair of the judiciary or the executive of those States.

     There will be a fairly quick following of suit by the Southern States, and probably even a majority of the Mid-Western States.  From there it will be up to the remainder to determine if they wish to be people in control of their own destinies or if they genuinely want to continue on the path to national socialism, with its attendant welfare-state dependency, crony capitalism, and labour union thuggery.

    That said, please check onto the link.  We need to understand that if the Republicans take over the Senate during the coming November elections, and then take office in January of 2015 and begin talking about "fixing" and "improving" the Obama Socialised Medicine Initiative (OSMI) there will be an explosion of ire equivalent to the period just before the outbreak of the War Between the States.  At that point there will be massive movement, reinforcing an already growing disposition among large numbers of mostly sane Texas favouring withdrawal from the present Union.

     This was an original thought by El Zorro several years ago, and the action has begun.  There are undoubtedly several score thousands of cousins of El Zorro and Mark Levin.  The path that they point out is one of very few correct paths remaining to us, and El Gringo Viejo endorses it, equally as the re-establishment of the Republic of Texas.  Study and commit.

El Gringo Viejo

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