Sorry Harry, but you just ain't got no class.

    The recently deposed Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, also recently referred to the remuda of Republican potential candidates to the presidency of the American Union as "losers".   A real headscratcher.

 

Let us see, here's a GOP short list:

 

     Governor Bush                         winner

     Governor Christi                     winner

     Governor Huckabee               winner
Governor Jindal                           winner
Governor Martinez                      winner

    Governor Sandoval                  winner

     Governor Walker                      winner

 

 

     Businesswoman Fiorina        winner

     Neurosurgeon Carson             winner

 

     Texas - US Senator Cruz         winner

     Florida - US Senator Rubio   winner

     Kentucky US Senator Paul    winner

 

 

     Hillary Rodham   -  lying, elitist, arrogant, marxist hypocrite who associates only with wealthy crooks and cronies of the leftist, crony-capitalist Solyndra class of maggots and parasites, with plenty of blood-on-the-hands, mendacity, and avoidance of reality to fill any private room at the Obamacare Psychiatric Facility for washed-up, useless old political crooks.   Perhaps she can get a room next to you Harry....and you can laugh about how you told everyone that you had it on good authority that Romney paid no income taxes for ten years.   Neither of you two is good enough to even earn the title of "loser".....corrupt, self-consumed parasites....is close....still not good enough, but this is a "family blog".

 

El Gringo Viejo

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How to tell when the press is lying.....And how to remember that Valerie Jarrett is a Persian by birth

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  We were almost pleased when we saw the article come up on the national news on an Obsolete Media outlet.  It was predictable....similar to the "A video insulting the Prophet Mohammed caused rioting that resulted in the burning of facilities and casualties among the embassy and consular staff."    But we could rest assured that an element of the truth would be used to defame and deface the truth.

     El Zorro has commented upon these things four or more times over the past couple of years and El Gringo Viejo has commented perhaps a few more times, since the issue  is one of my specialties, concerning political extremists operating in Mexico. The issue is that  nexus between and among Islamic nutcases, and the unapologetic co-operation with communists, atheists, nihilists, and anarchists.  Some want money, others want to kill heretics, infidels, homosexuals, adulteresses, while still others want to practice their medical art's specialty of female circumcision, and, there is always the cohort that simply wants "Death to America".  

     They have come together, whether the Obsolete Press wishes to acknowledge the fact or not.   The have come together, whether the Federal Bureau of Investigation / Valerie Jarrett unit wishes to admit it or not.   They have come together whether or not the "knowledgeable and reasonable" people wish to recognise the fact.    I shall simply say, Red China, al Qaeda, ISIS, Chavez/Maduro/Venezuela, Fidel/Raul et.al./ Ortega-Nicaragua, et.al./ Eastern European arms dealers, and of course what is left of the "cartels" in Mexico.   It is a deadly, horrid stew.

     And before we strut around too much, even FOX News has been performing at a C- level in this matter.

     To begin, an article aired yesterday by an element of the Obsolete Media showed a nice young reporterette-woman on the Mexican side of the international boundary pointing out how ridiculous the idea of ISIS personnel being shepherded by "cartel"-people is.   As she pointed out, and I agree,(paraphrasing)"Look this is just a working class community, trying to build itself out of necessity.   Look there goes a group of high schoolers with their shovels, rakes, and plastic bags to clean the streets.   Look there is a man teaching his and the neighbourhood children how to ready-mix cement for spot repairs on curbs, your house, and whatever, and look there go school-girls with their school-books laughing and carrying on."

      And do you all know what?   She was correct.   It is a typical working-class scene in Mexico where something is being made out of nothing and where PATERNITY is being practiced by thousands of real men, and where a working class semi-disaster is being changed sociologically in one or one-and-a-half genererations, without obtuse direct welfare, into a blue-collar middle or even upper-middle class social establishment.

     Problem:

      

      (1)    Even while they were filming and she was going sound-on- camera, an attractive young woman, probably well built, went by.  Why does El Gringo Viejo say "probably" ?   She was dressed one step up from a burqa, with long skirt hitting between ankle and ground, and with a habib correctly wrapped about her head area....no hair showing.   She covered her face a bit as she went by the field of view....while any  Mexican girls between the ages of 10 and 80 would probably welcome the chance to be "on-camera". Why would such a girl be in the scene....especially by accident? Statistical probability, anyone?

     (2)   The community named by the Mexican Army and Federal Civil Police after they had actually gone in and found more than reasonably convincing evidence of a presence of ISIS personnel....never was called the site of the corpus delicti.  It is known by everyone there that the camp of the "coyotes" or "cartel coyotes" if one wishes, is about 9 miles to the west-southwest of this community.   It was picked up by night-time helicopter reconnaissance and "CIs" involved in the trafficking of illegal entrants into Gringolandia.

     (3)    There have been several of these places encountered in various parts of Mexico.   The Army and Naval Infantry....it is our understanding....has been somewhat vigorous in the searching out of Middle-eastern personalities with Mattel-Passports.    As we have pointed out, it is easy for a Middle-eastern person to become lost especially in large urban areas in Mexico and almost anywhere in the northern half of Mexico....due to the Andalusia-factor in the racial/ethnic complexion of many if not most Mexicans, especially in the north.

   

     (4)    Please be aware that these are not the brayings of bigots.  Remember please, that El Zorro knows....first hand....the nature of insertion of insurgency as a rule of strategy.   Please understand that El Gringo Viejo has literally scores of year of study, generations of background, and a kind heart towards the Mexicans.....This is not the braying of bigots.

     This is the snorting, whinnying, and hoof-scratching of the horse of El Zorro because there is a snake in the corral. When the night is quiet and the foals are backed  up against their mothers and the stallion is watching sleepily at the tranquil scene....he does not hoof-pound and snort.

     My money, based on years of experience and direct contact is to trust the word of the Mexican Army.   They punish their own wrongdoers by courts martial, and they speak directly to an issue until their words are changed by politicians or "journalists", and they have always dealt with me and mine honestly.   Besides, the same "journalistic" agencies and personalitites who now begin to pooh-pooh these silly things, were toot - tooting their horns about its existence when George Bush still lurked around in the White House.

     Billy Jeff Blythe's "Eagle's Talon" anyone?

Thanks as usual.

El Gringo Viejo

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Rumination about Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna - as we move towards San Jacinto

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     Remember this name the next time you have to use the information operator when making a phone call: Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón .   That is the name of the individual who brought us this set of legends, myths, histories, horror, and inspiration.

     During the initial stages of the Battle of the Alamo, James Bowie and William Barrett Travis butted heads more than a few times.   Travis was itching for a fight, found one, and did not know what to do after that.   He played a bad hand the best he could, perhaps.

     Bowie was a very conflicted person.  Desperately ill with what was probably tuberculosis, subject to bouts of recurring depression due to life's losses which had been truly dreadful, sometimes sober if early enough in the morning, he also had contempt for Travis's contempt for the Latin element of the Texian population.   Bowie was much a home in the Mexican/Spanish environment and was a well-received member of that body of the population in San Antonio and elsewhere in Texas....of people of all social levels and conditions.

     This led to the last argument between Travis and Bowie.  When the main body of Centralist forces had taken up their first positions, upon arrival in San Antonio de Valero, three officers rode up to the main entrance of the Alamo's compound, and the lead officer, a Captain Batres,  read an order of surrender.   Travis responded by firing a round from the huge 18-pounder that had been installed....accounts vary whether its load had been anything beyond a charge and some wadding.

     Bowie was not impressed with that kind of braggadocio, and determined as co-commander of the fort to send an officer to the Mexican Colonel Almonte by the name of Engineer Captain Green Jameson who was accompanied by a representative from Travis by the name of Captain Albert Martin (Alberto Martinez?).   The men queried of Almonte about the terms of an honourable surrender and withdrawal.

     Captain Batres, responded thusly, and in writing:

"I reply to you, according to the order of His Excellency, that the Mexican army cannot come to terms under any conditions with rebellious foreigners to whom there is no recourse left, if they wish to save their lives, than to place themselves immediately at the disposal of the Supreme Government from whom alone they may expect clemency after some considerations."

    The emissaries returned to the Alamo and informed the commanding duo.   At that point, Travis and Bowie together ordered the firing of the 19-pounder once again as a sign of defiance. 

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     All of this ploughing over ploughed ground is somewhat necessary as we approach Lynch's Ferry in the bayou country far removed to the east from the limestone Balcones Escarpment and its beautiful, wondrous land of 1,100 Springs, Lost Maple forests, cedar brakes and its occasional Indian raids.

     The urgency of any and all of this was brought forth by the fabled and horrid Sacking of Zacatecas during the past April - May of 1835.   It was at that time that Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna went forth with a Centralist army of 4,000 well-supplied, selected professional, solidly trained soldiers, heading for a place named Zacatecas.   Besides having the fame of being a tremendous silver and gold producing area, the capital also had the distinction of being the highest provincial capital in all the Americas (8,500 fasl)  and the holder of the honour of having the finest examples of Baroque and Rococo architecture in the New World.   It also had a troubling characteristic of supporting the Mexican Constitution of 1824 and the States' Rights, and other individual and common law recognitions held in that document.
     Oddly, the small in population but wealthy State had a well supplied and trained militia.  The Governor moved to the relative lowlands of Zacatecas State to encounter the Centralist army led by Lopez de Santa Anna.   It seemed like a reasonable encounter of two armies of essentially the same size.
      Governor Francisco Garcia was an honest man who spent his military budget on matters and things that pertained to the military.   Very fine Brown Bessie British muskets (.75 calibre) and the dependable Baker rifled musket (.60 calibre) were carried by his troops.  A capable cavalry, complete with the dreaded lancer companies, stood ready to do their famous sweeping flank attacks.

Catedral de Zacatecas
XVI - Century masterpiece

      Garcia had little training in terms of battle tactics, however. Lopez de Santa Anna had considerable successful experience, and little compunction about utterly destroying....totally destroying....any enemy.   Before two hours were done, over one thousand Zacatecas effectives were dead or dying.   Before twenty-four hours were passed, all four thousand of the militia would be dead save for those who could lose themselves in the crannies of the red cantera  "singing limestone" of the areas where the grasslands met with the sharply rising mountains.
      The City of Zacatecas had the teachable moment about why it was not nice to toy with Antonio Lopez.   He authorised, against the wishes and advice of his staff, a period of 48 hours of suspension of military order.   Rape, murder, theft, vandalism, wanton depravity of all kind was  practiced by a large minority of Lopez de Santa Anna's troops.   A detail was put into place, and the wealthy backers of the Zacatecas militia were put in charge of burning the bodies of their friends, relatives, servants, their dead horses, mules, donkeys, and oxen and to begin the general clean-up required so as to accommodate the occupying "Administrative Military Authority".
     This is not Texian propaganda.  This was purposeful institutional terrorism and it is what set the tone for what was good and bad in terms of the Texian resistance to the Centralist movement under Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna.  When ecclesiastical authority found out that their Champion had permitted the rape and pillaging of nuns and convents, it iced over relations with the Church.  The good bishops and pious learned that the liberal republicans of the 1824 Constitution would have been a better bet than a pseudo-conservative who was actually a self-possessed dictator.

     Texians....all of Texas....knew about this within a week to ten days after its occurrence.  That is why they fought as hard as they did.

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More later....as we begin to finish preparations and move suddenly to the south at that Y - intersection not far from Buffalo Bayou and the swampy bottoms of an insignificant little watercourse named Rio San Jacinto.
El Gringo Viejo

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Old News is new news....El Zorro rides in from the moonlit shadows

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      The interplay between EGV and El Zorro is almost a spooky, twin-psychic-spiritual thing that is impossible to understand.  It has gone on for over fifty years, and speaks to the fact that, in truth, a man will have only one, or at the most three friends, in his lifetime.  Sibling status is not a choice, whether by natural means or adoption, that is something that is foisted upon a child, and it should, in fact, be respected.

     But when a couple of fellows can stumble through the years and, almost 100% of the time, hit a bull's eye about when to communicate, when to opine, when to chastise, when to congratulate, etc.  then one can assume that the word friend is well employed.

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     A recent probative uncovering of that which both El Zorro and EGV have been decrying, both directly and peripherally, gives us more confidence than pause.  This recently made discovery by a command level officer of the Mexican Army and his Praetorian Guard, an elite group of counter-insurgency troops who have been filtered repeatedly for competence, patriotism, morality, and combat skills has shaken the foundations of Mexico City and Washington D.C.   It is so profound that no detailed reporting is being done.

    Couple that with an equally competent detail of the Federal Civilian Police (whose father is the Mexican Army and whose mother is Mexico) who accompanied the "olivos" above mentioned, it is forensically clear and not debatable that elements of the degraded cartels in and around the Juarez / El Paso metroplex have been co-ordinating and assisting in the passing of ISIS saboteurs and murderers into the United States.  We point out that these are the types who proved beyond any doubt that the Obama/Holder/Jarrett gun-running into Mexico managed to indirectly kill over 1,300 innocents during cartel violence in Mexico.  (1st degree manslaughter anyone?   Depraved indifference in the death of a person, anyone? Anti-Hispanic, anyone?)

     It is more than probable that original contacts have been made between the two entities in Cuba, Venezuela, and to an extent, Nicaragua.  By entities, we mean those generally associated with what is known as "cartel" people, and those generally associated with Islamic radical murder and sabotage.   These contacts have been rumoured since well-before the 2013 period, although they would not have been the first contacts between New World drug and human traffickers and radical Islamic groups.  Those contacts have been extant since the turn of the century.

     All of this is preambulatory to what was disclosed, very openly and officially, by the Mexican Army several days ago, upon the Diario Oficial del H. Congresso de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos (What we call the "Congressional Record").   The Army has been threatening for the past two years or so to "go public" and they have.

     Hillary Rodham Clinton, John Kerry Heinz, Valerie Jarrett, and all the company of Lucifer's Court have known this information very probably in much greater detail than either El Zorro or EGV.  But their solution to such a matter would be to release a few hundred terrorists from Guantanamo or blame George Bush and/or a video disrespectful to Mohammed.   Barry Soetoro would neither have known or cared, even after finding out about any of it in the New York Times and MSNBC, three months after the fact.

     Various members of the U.S. Congress....those who head as chairmen or co-chairmen any number of Congressional Committees and sub-Committees....would have knowledge of much or all of these bits of information coming out of Mexico.

     Some of the gossip and rumour that circulates around the Iguala farce and the "students'' who attended the "government normal school for teachers" is that ISIS "liquidation technicians" working with the very minor-league New Generation "cartel", allies of the pro-communist mayor of Iguala and his wife, the pretendrix  to the crown of the governorship of the State of Guerrero, did-in the troublesome "43 martyrs".    The "martyrs" who are being lamented during a ridiculous, illogical shake-down, fund-raising tour through the United States at this time were all students who desired to be put into an internship that essentially meant three years of austerity and peonage to "professors" of the "normal".  These are the "education professors" who were and are totally dedicated strike-force communists.   A pox on the Secretaria de Educacion Publica for having allowed funding to the ridiculous "normal" college for almost a generation, now.

     But the saying that bees are drawn to clean and flies are drawn to .....filth, is absolutely true.  ISIS and communists and drug/human traffickers are all flies of the same open sewer.   They are as is the Occupy Wall Street and ACORN ilk.   The left and the nihilists never stop trying to destroy and they will ally with the Devil or ISIS or any agency to forward any activity that will destroy America as a Citadel of Free Will, Liberty, Morality, and Free Enterprise.

     So, finally, are El Zorro and EGV surprised?   No.   Only the surfacing of the story at this moment is a bit surprising.  El Zorro saw first and second hand the manoeuver of pushing children and women to the front of a demonstration line or a skirmish line by Cong or NVA....he is not surprised by depravity.   El Gringo Viejo has seen the sub-Comandante Marcos types, and incessant, permanent, protests and demonstrations  against whatever some weed-stoned "leader" woke up and decided would be the capitalist offense du jour....and he has seen the dull, stupid marchers chanting senseless slogans for 10 kilometres down the Paseo de la Reforma, blocking traffick during rush hour on the busiest boulevard in Latin America, protesting for pensions for old beat up prostitutes.   And, he has seen the extreme upper-middle class snots with essentially free matriculation at the world-class Universidad Autonono de Mexico grimly accompanying the other marchers, chanting Gringos no! El Pueblo si!  Fuera Oligarcos!! with dilated pupils during the afternoon hours.

     So, the idea that Barry Soetoro and Company would leave the frontiers of the United States, both south and north, largely un-defended, only underscores the commitment that the Soros-Alinsky drones to destroy America from within.  Every measure, accommodating the Persians, kissing the feet of a brutal, murderous dictators such as Fidel & Raul Castro Ruz, overthrowing Mubarak, abandoning the victory in Iraq, stabbing the Eastern Europeans in the back, and the general turning away from any reasonable foreign and domestic policy that might be coherent and sensible all makes sense.  The failure to defend the issue at Benghazi is the background smoke behind the Mexican Army general officer releasing the information about how rotted out the official American will to defend itself has fallen.

     Please know that O'Reilly does not know or understand.  We are on our own.  This matter could be the unravelling of the Republic.  There is some irony, perhaps, as we enter into the week of the coming Battle of San Jacinto and the establishment by force of arms of the Republic of Texas by defeating one of the more capable Mexican generals....that we find ourselves being warned with the flapping of a brilliant red cape in our very faces by another Mexican general officer, acting as would a friend and brother.

Hello?  Watson, is that you?   Please, bring your revolver.  The game's afoot!

El Gringo Viejo....with more than a little push from El Zorro, honourably discharged, Sergeant, United States Air Force,  Viet Nam Theatre, two combat tours.   Pray first for America, pray more especially for the Republic of Texas.

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Yesterday, Marco Rubio, and (Sir Edmund) Hillary & Company

Huma (wife of Weiner who was given over to revelatory
 pictures of "self" so to speak.)  His wife is well-known as
 the number one"body-man" for HRH (Sir Edmund)
Hillary whois pictured above in a somewhat
 complimentary
 photo.  They were last photo'd at the Chipotle
Restaurant in Whocares, Flyover, USA with
with HRH (Sir Edmund) in sunglasses.)

     

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     It is a pleasant task to watch GOP candidates Cruz, Paul, and Rubio speak coherently and cogently concerning their viewpoints and intentions.  It is such a chore to try to listen to a beat-up, mendacious, self-consumed old hag regurgitate a score of focus-group vomited-up phrases meant to impress the low information / low intellectual capacity dolts who want something for nothing.  But listening to well-spoken, competent, relatively young men point the way to the path to the Shining City on the side of the Mountain, and assign the task to achieving that destination to each of us, instead of some national-socialist commissar, is wonderfully pleasant.
     One has to understand the lament of the Ernesto (Che) Guevara-pullover shirt wearers, the one-bath-per-month crowd, the leftist trust-fund-babies who can't navigate an Oldsmobile over the Bridge Over Chappaquiddick.   For them and all the Aunt Zietuni - Uncle Omar - Sandra Fluke types who want my daughter and granddaughters to pay for Sandra's birth-control alternatives, and who volunteer to remain as barefooted "single-moms" tied to the bed-posts of AFDC and (Sir Edmund) Hillary's sceptre and a letter promissory from Huma Weiner, please understand that we want everyone out there to fly.
    Ah!, mais non! We want them to soar...and not grovel like beggars with extended hand to a government that demands  their servitude.

     Yes, Virginia, I knew your question before it was asked.   Was it something like "Uncle Gringo Viejo, you said that Jorge Ramos was a scum-bag and a cad because he gave Father Obamaham a break on the Fast and Furious Lie.   But now, Jorge Ramos has stabbed Harry Reid right in the gut over the Romney-Pays-No-Taxes-Lie as you noted, but now Jorge has even pointed out the head-scratcher-for-pinkoes-canon of "Tea Partiers, Conservatives, and Republicans hate Mexicans and Negroes and Eskimoes and homosexuals" is a lie.  Jorge pointed out, live and in colour, that the Republicans already have two heavy-duty Latin candidates who have declared for the GOP nomination to candidacy for the Presidency....both of whom are being taken seriously across the board."

 

     I know, Virginia, but there is still the hurt...even when Geraldo Rivera or Juan Williams leave the national-socialist plantation and speak so as to make sense....El Gringo Viejo remembers their purposefully fuzzy thinking or misstatements that caused damage to the Conservative cause....a cause that benefits all humanity because of it dedication to equal protection before the law.

    But, yes, Virginia, it was noted, and a large positive mark was placed by Jorge's Record of Eternity.   To this date, not even Barbara Walters has such a mark. 

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Thanks, as always, for your time, attention, and kind understanding.
El Gringo Viejo

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El Cid (Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar)

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EL CID - The Lord
Perhaps the greatest Theatre-scale
Commander in Spanish History

     We have long marvelled at the person and accomplishments of Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar.   He led Muslim armies against Muslims and Christians, and Christian armies against Christians and Muslims and it all must have been very confusing.  He lived during the earliest part of the 2nd Millennium, was born as a lower level aristocrat, and developed fame as a brilliant tactician and strategist in military matters.  He was so great that they had to employ Charlton Heston to play the biographic and Sophia Loren as Jimena, his wife.

     Part of the lore about Rodrigo is that, after his death, enemies of the great city-state of Valencia laid siege to the walls.  The people went and exhumed the venerated body of Rodrigo, strapped him into his armour, mounted him up on a warhorse similar to his beloved deceased Bavieca, and followed the unlikely pair out to meet the siege.  They did so successfully, proving that even after death, El Cid could conquer any foe who was moved by ill motive.

Tomb of the Warhorse Babieca
at the Monastery of San Pedro
de Carden~a

 

     All of this brings to mind what we are watching now play out upon the political stage, minus the romance, bravery, and mythic glow.  Certainly Billy Jeff Blythe, as white-trash, and (Sir Edmund) Hillary as a deranged shrew do not make a good stand-in for Rodrigo and Jimena or Charlton and Sophia.
     We are watching something similar play out, however.   We have a bunch of underlings lugging out the body of a cold hearted, soul-dead, blob of self-absorption and conceit and strapping on the body's iron battle-pants-suit for one last great attack.   The Big One....The Final Act.....The Vindication.
      Hordes of lackeys and foot-soldiers charge forth to vanquish the unqualified and common nobodies.   Billions of shekels will be thrown into the effort while the Enemies of Women's Issues and Progress will marvel and fall aside at the radiance of the mounted menace with her battle sword held high to threaten the neck of anyone who doubts her power.   After all, with a curdling battle cry like, "Que diferencia, a este punto, se puede hacer?"   You know, something really inspiring.

      This is what this heroic  58th "roll-out" of the re-newed  and re-improved (Sir Edmund)Hillary 9.01Hagtash@twittercorkscrew seems to smell like.  We remember her "listening tour" when she "ran" for the United States Senate from New York.  She said she was going up-State to solve the problems brought on by free trade in that area.  Governor Cuomo has built on her successes there by prohibiting frakking and other petroleum exploitation in that otherwise oil and gas rich State.   After (Sir Edmund)Hillary's successes only about 10% of the counties in New York are studying methods by which they can secede from the State of New York and join the State of Pennsylvania.
     One laughs through the tears.   El Gringo Viejo has a score of generations of people buried in those places, along the Hudson, down in Montrose, up in Red Hook, Duchess County and Albany and such places.   After Hillary and Cuomo, they got up and moved their graves to Texas, I think.

Pray for the Republic.   More later.
El Gringo Viejo

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