A Gringo in Rural Mexico: Believe it or not

Monday, 17 September 2012

Believe it or not

Vince Foster took a pistol, not his own, and put the barrel in his mouth, pulled the trigger and essentially blew the back of his head off. He then took a shower, put on a nice, fresh, starched and ironned white dress shirt, a nice jacket and pants combination, walked over to Fort Marcy Park, laid himself down with his head leaning onto a tree, crossed his arms over his chest, still holding the pistol, (not his own).

Several hundred thousand muslim extremists decided on the morning of the 11th of September to go down to the the American Embassy or Counsel most available, and burn, destroy, murder, and chant.."I am also Usama!" along with other meaningful epithets and admonitions. It was all spontaneous. The moderate Muslim Brotherhood had nothing to do with any of it, and in fact worked to minimise, difuse, and calm the justifiable anger of the masses caused by a"film" released many months ago. The film points out how there is a group within the Muslim faith that is so stupid and lacking in self-control and self-worth that they will insanely attack people and buildings that have nothing to do with the films. Because of that, these people feel compelled to insanely attack people and buildings that have nothing to do with the films.

It is the same disorder that affects other people who riot and burn down their own neighbourhoods when an incident occurs, is said to have occurred, might have occurred, did not occur but would have been bad if it had occurred, or because a Korean family bought the liquor store and turned it into a specialty grocery and general merchandise shop.

Huma Mamood Abendin -Weiner

referred to by (Sir Edmund) Hillary as

"a second daughter", also known as

Hillary's "body woman" during the

bloody 2008 Democrat Presidential

Primary. Huma is very important, is

a new mother of Anthony Weiner's

baby, and is (Sir Edmund)Hillary's

immediate subordinate at State.

She also has the unfortunate problem

of having her (late) father, her mother,

and her brother connected to a group of

stamp collectors known as "The Muslim

Brotherhood". Huma assured everyone

that these outbreaks were spontaneous.

     We know that what is represented in the second paragraph is especially true because (Sir Edmund) Hillary Rodham, Perpetual Queen of the Universe, and the greatest, most betterest than everybody else, said it was true.   We know it is true because Ambassador Susan Rice who serves as our Ambassador to the United Nations said it happened that way.    And we also know it is true because (Sir Edmund)Hillary's prime aide, the wife of Anthony Weiner....of late a United States Representative for a district in New York State and facebook porno-boy....is a nice Muslim girl, and a marxist, so the Secretary of State must know everything about this matter....just like she (Hillary) dazzled the markets with her clairvoyance concerning cattle futures, many years and corkscrewings ago.
    We also know it is true because the Obsolete Press continues to include statements such as ..."provoked by an outlandlish film besmirching the Prophet Muhammad". And we know that it must be true because the FBI arrested the producer/director of the ultra-minor league film yesterday, saying that he was "wanted for questioning concerning violations of parole with reference to a convictions concerning financial matters".
      It is absolutely certain that this detention had evcerything to do with the matter at hand in the Middle East, and the desire on the part of the Adminstration to....in effect....take a bow towards the rioters, and show that we are much kinder and gentler to their sensibilities as murderers and destroyers than we are to the First Amendment right of free expression in this Nation.   We know this because the FBI did assist in the framing of the White House Travel Office personnel on orders from Hillary Rodham Clinton.  Some might even think that the FBI overplayed its hand at Mount Carmel, once again on orders from Hillary Clinton and Janet Reno, or at least to curry favour with the two women and their cause of elemination of private firearms ownership.    We also know that almost any of this could be true because the Obsolete Press almost never told us the full story about any of their faourite personalities.

(Sir Edmund)Hillary is trying

a new look for her run for President

in 2016. She thinks it is more in

keeping with the image she has

developed while serving as

Secretary of State.

Believe it or not, the present provisional President of Libya is not an idiot. He knows a thing or two about Libya. He certainly could be expected to know at least as much as (Sir Edmund)Hillary, or Huma Mamood Abedin, or Susan Rice. He might not be able to corkscrew into a combat zone like (Sir Edmund) Hillary,with a flak jacket on.
That settled, we can assume that if he says, along with various other Muslim sources, that the Gringos were advised SPECIFICALLY about these co-ordinated attack throughout the Muslim and/or Arabic World...over a period of the weeks leading up to the 11th of September 2012....the 11th anniversary (...with the moon to be in scimitar display with the Star of the East accompanying...) then it is true.
We might ask...should we trust the these Arab/Muslim officials who have everything to lose by ratting out the deathly sects and gangs, or should we trust the the brilliant CIA and FBI and the very vigilant President and his NSA and the (Sir Edmund Linda Carter) Hillary of the State Department.....along with her like-a-second-daughter aide...did not know, whose records of performance are somethng akin to Fast and Furious.

So, if we have to believe it or not: El Gringo Viejo would believe a well spoken Muslim, President, speaking sadly, almost confessing to the errors of elements of his own people, seriously, with sincerity, at incredible risk to himself and to his family, and to his friends, and to members of his political alliances, being precise as to his conclusions, and employing only fact, deliberation, reason, and evidence on film with date and timer to substantiate his thoughts and conclusions Such is a thing of reason. We cannot believe our Secretary of State not her subordinates.
We cannot believe our own President, nor his appointees, because this administration has been very successful in throwing the Pakistani doctor under the bus...the Yemeni counterspy under the bus....the Seals under the bus...the secrets about our ability to land people on a kidnapped freighter afloat in a distant sea, via parachute, under the bus...along with scores of other indiscretions in order to inflate an empty suit that stands by an empty chair. It is only fair that we should believe the people who are telling the truth and disbelief the ones who are still trying to tell us that a trailer to a film caused the concerted, 21 nation chaos and death....on the 11th day of September, 2012. If we do not believe the President.... I presume we are racists, again. Agreed?

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       We have a choice....Believe your president who is a compulsive, chronic, pathological liar.  We can believe the Secretary of State, and/or her husband, also compulsive, chronic, pathological liars.   We can believe the entire Cabal of Reid, Pelosi, Susan Rice, Huma, Corzine, (list goes on into infinity) cartel of National Socialists and the Obsolete Press, or we can believe our own eyes and ears.

      This administration has been especially brutal, on the one hand, in allowing information to leak out that jeopardises the health and well-being of reasonable Arab/Muslim persons and their families, and on the other hand blaming the rest of the Cosmos for any reversals to the image of his Cult.   It has, as in the case of the Carter Administration, sacrificed leaders who are not perfect for replacements who are worse.
      The Shah of Iran was not a Saint.   But he was not a devil.   A professor of applied jackassism lectured once on the To-day Show that the Shah had 3,000 political prisoners in his dungeons.   He had to go!   He left and went to die in Mexico....in Cuernavaca...and everything in Persia became perfect.   Now there are only 200,000 political prisoners, and homosexuals are hanged.    Anwar Sadat was not a Saint, but he brought the Egyptian military up to the point to where it could at least stand up to the Israelis a little more reasonably, and then signed an agreement...re-instating that peculiar and particular relationship the Egyptians and the Jews have had back to well before the time of Moses....(beginning with Abraham actually)....and then kept his and Egypt's word concerning the agreement.   Mubarak did the same.    Does anyone think that the Egyptian people will be better off berid of the strongman and turned over to the Muslim Brotherhood?
      Bush and the incredible American and allied military ridded Iraq of a real monster, and established a clumsy order towards the establishment of a common law nation.   Obama has solved that problem by withdrawing suddenly, and leaving much of our second tier hardware there on the ground.   No cat...lots of mice.
    Then, it's Afghanistan's turn;   the President decides to establish a date-certain exit point.   Bad Muslims start counting days, good Muslims say....Muhammad is going to kill me and my family when the Gringos leave.....We'd better get out Dodge or change sides now.    El Gringo Viejo is not very, very, very intelligent but he does think that the good Muslim has been left in the lurch and the bad Muslim....the one who shoots prositutes in the head with an AK47 in the middle of the soccer field for half-time entertainment....has been left in charge.
    So, one can assume that Obama will do whatever he thinks will make him look good for a few moments.    Obama will count on the Obsolete Press and the stupidity and ignorance of a broad mass of dullards who can still vote or respond to opinion polls in any remotely coherent manner (and who want free Obamastash goodies) as he continues to crunch the bones of the people he steps on in order to advance to his position in front of the teleprompter.

With gratitude for having a State Department and White House who have answers to all questions, we remain even more grateful for your continued interest.

El Gringo Viejo

Click to visit our little Adobe Hideaway…

This is our rustic, but very comfortable place, out in the rural area to the northwest of Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas…the State's Capital. From a bustling city of 400,000, we placed our domicile a bit more than 20 miles into the scenes of mountains, citrus groves, spring-fed creeks and rivers with crystal clear waters, and an abundance of bird species that make veteran birders shake their heads in wonder.

We are all but adjacent to the venerable Hacienda de Santa Engracia (about 500 yards away), which dates to the 1720s and has ancient structures still in use, very elegant, and mystical in many ways. It has operated as a guest hotel since the 1970s.

Our little place rests on three and a fraction acres, fronting on the Rio Corona, which is lined with over-1,000 year old cypress trees. The nearby Sierra del Cautivo…a major segment of the overall Sierra Madre Oriental that dominate most of eastern Mexico, lies to the west by about three miles. guards the many springs that maintain the almost perpetual flow from those heights (up to 12,000 fasl) while our place is situated right at 1,000 feet above sea level.

Give us a call, come by and visit…it is truly a different venture in the most positive sense. We can be reached by our email - privatouring@gmail.com - which is our preferred method of communicating.

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What is an OROG?

Once a person lands on our page, that individual becomes a member of the Order of Readers of the Old Gringo, (OROG). There are no dues or assessments to pay, no meetings, no requirements. We are not associated with the KKK, the WCTU, the French Masons, or the Global Warming Glacier

Protection Committee.

We do have a distant connection with the Knights of the Golden Circle and hold the maps to the internment sites of 34 tonnes of Confederate Gold, and 1,000 tonnes of Mexican Imperial Silver (bar and coinage) derived from the collapse of the Reign of Maximillian von Hapsburg, Emperor of Mexico (1863 - 1867). I think we can remember where we put it.

All kidding aside, we are acerbic, but we do not bite. We do believe in our antiquated philosophy, but we try to not impose our quirks and beliefs so far as to be disrespectful.

El Gringo Viejo

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Wise Words

Communism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Winston Churchill

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Be sure you are right, then go ahead.

I bark at no man's bid. I will never come and go, fetch and carry, at the whistle of the Great Man in the White House, no matter who he is.

I told the people of my district that I would serve them as faithfully as I had done. But, if such was not to be, then you may all go to Hell, and I shall go to Texas!

David Crockett

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And on and on it goes. The more the Government gives away, the more it takes, and the less Americans do for themselves, until finally, like Europe, there is nobody left to do anything, and there is nobody left to pay for, the nothing that is not done.

And, yes, Virginia, there truly is a Santa Clause, and he and Mrs. Clause and their helpers care greatly for the good children of the Planet. So long as there is happiness, kindness, charity, generosity, and the Spirit of Fellowship, Santa Clause will be there, representing those noble things, and he will always move in a spiritual way so as to provoke humankind to goodness.

El Gringo Viejo

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“There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.”

Booker Tallaferro Washington

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It is impossible to make a poor man rich by making a rich man poor.

Abraham Lincoln

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El Gringo Viejo: a fair description

Life for El Gringo Viejo began on the Texas-Mexico frontier, near McAllen, Texas literally on a real, live farm. The farmer, as one might imagine, was his father, who had moved with his parents from Gwinner, Sargent County, North Dakota in 1915 - 1916 period, down to the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas. (And yes, Virginia, that is the way Sargent County is spelled.)

His parents farmed in an area close to the new community named after its founder, called Ed Couch, in Hidalgo County of Texas. My grandfather is buried in the Weslaco Municipal Cemetery about 10 feet away from his friend, Ed Couch.

After studies, and a stint in the 1st Cavalry, 12th Regiment (mounted), Headquarters Squadron of the United States Army...riding warhorses back and forth along the Rio Grande from the late 1920s and early 1930s. He did not speak much about his service, but we determined that he apparently made rank of 1st Lieutenant.

El Gringo Viejo's Father established his farming and citrus grove-care operation just north of McAllen, Texas. Mother was a housewife and a professional woman....a learned, eloquent, well-read woman.

They were educated people, my father winding up as a Superintendent of a major school/facility of the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation in Austin, Texas after a twenty year career in education at the secondary level. He had degrees in History, Psychology, and Education Administration.

El Gringo Viejo is the last of three children, all males. Number one was Milton Birchard, Jr. who was born in 1936 and died in a vehicular incident in 1988. He was narcoleptic. He held a doctorate in geography from Louisiana State University and was head of the Department there for a good while.

Number two is Norman Francis, who was born during the WWII situation in 1942 and became an important Republican political engineer and fundraiser. He served as Executive Director of the Republican Party of Texas during the late 1960s and early 1970s and as Senator John G. Tower's immediate Executive Assistant. The Senator is the Godfather of Norman's first son.

Norman died at age 77 in Austin, Texas and I was one of four eulogists who was chosen to speak at his en memoriam at the Austin Club in downtown most Austin…within sight of the State Capitol.

It was a personal duty and very rewarding

in every way.

My arrival was in 1947, and I was destined to confound my parents and all those around me. Educated entirely in public schools in McAllen, skipping the third grade, and stumbling out of my high school in the upper 90% of a class of 606. I

attended and graduated from Southwest Texas State University (now named Texas State University, unfortunately), being one of the few conservatives to graduate out of the School of Sociology, although my treatment at the hands of my tormentor-professors was not so unpleasant in those days. Emphasis of studies were social demography, and Latin American Affairs with a concentration on Mexico's history and current political evolution, with a minors in History, Geography, and Political Science.

El Gringo Viejo is one of the old, unreconstructed high-church Episcopalians. Politically, he is very fundamentally conservative. He prefers Baseball to football, and considers that baseball with a designated hitter for the pitcher should be called "poofy-ball". Favourite major league team of all times? The Brooklyn Dodgers of the 1950s. It will never be the same again.
El Gringo Viejo's father was born to a Hudson Valley-type girl and a man who had lost two older brothers who served in the Pennsylvania 96th Regiment of Volunteer Infantry during the War Between the States.

The surnamed line (Newton) originated from East Anglia, not far from a place called Washington in northeastern England. They came into Boston Harbour, Massachusetts in 1642 (the 1st voyage of the Mayflower had overbooked), and settled there and in Maine as well as spreading out to Vermont, New York, and Pennsylvania, over the generations for the first 220 years.
Another batch of folks, mainly Anglo, settled in the middle Hudson Valley. There was another group of Celto-Teutonics types from Saxony and Prussia, establishing and settling along the Hudson River from around what is Catskill County northward to Duchess and Rennselaer Counties around a place named Red Hook. The main group came in during the early 1650s.

My mother's people were another English line of long-term Southern and Tennessee people, from the Eastern part of that State, who originally came in during the 1660s through Virginia and North Carolina, and finally into Eastern Tennessee, settling in and around a county to be named Franklin, and helping to establish the city of Winchester. Almost all of these people originated from southwestern England, near the frontier with Wales.

Only recently did we verify that she had many people involved in the service of the Confederacy. One died in northern Mississippi, another Captain Asa Grant, 2nd Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry, was severely wounded and succumbed to his wounds finally in 1869, and another hung around in an Ohio POW camp (Camp Chase) for about 13 months, while three others were either wounded or died in action, including David Limbaugh, Lieutenant, 42 Tennessee Infantry. Another five made it through relatively unscathed.

Almost all were, oddly enough, related to the great-grand uncles and gggg-grandfathers down to gg-grandfathers of Rush Limbaugh. The gggg-grandfather came into the Colonies in the early 1740s from a Prussia and Saxony background, and served in both civilian and military capacities to the Continental government and Army. He was the XO of a Militia Battalion of 3,000 Pennsylvania effectives. They honed their military readiness under the supervision of Gen. von Steuben and someone named Washington at some place called Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.

A grandson of his, Isaac, settled in Tennessee after the War for Independence against King George III. So Rush and I share grandfathers, four generations deep on the American Continent.

It should be stated here that were I to be called to declare, my allegiance would still be with the Southern Cause, although I bear no rancor against those who feel the same about their instinct to maintain the Union. Oddly enough, both my mother (a Southerner) and my father (a true Yankee by blood) believed that we would have remained closer if we had separated, and each side gone the ways of their own yearning, but amicably.

The last of the English (El Gringo Viejo's) line came during the time between the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. They left County Wicklow, where they had been involved, apparently, in that peculiar Anglo - Scots/Irish practice of making whiskey by the use of peat for fuel. They were also involved in the business of production and processing of various types of grains as well as the production of whiskey, gin, and beer. By their surnames one would know that, while coming out of Ireland, they were actually English, one with the surname of Christian and the wife, Webster. They had, in fact, married in Christ's Church Cathedral, Anglican, in downtown Dublin in 1796. They landed in New York, set up shop in the City among previously arrived relatives, and then in Albany. We have some record that this Christian who married the Webster had actually lived in the colonies, but travelled several times back and forth between the Spirits businesses in England and Ireland and the New World. They wound up as the generations progressed in and around Minneapolis (St. Anthony) & Saint Paul, Minnesota, and Racine, Wisconsin. My particular line went from New York to Alabama, then North Carolina, and then Wisconsin to join up with the rest of the extended family, finally in Minnesota, before the War Between the States.

The Time Line of entry of all lines of my children's blood ancestry on their mother's side in the New World begins in 1578, when Spaniards of mixed Hebraic and Iberian peoples, and others of ancestry from Portugal, Galicia, and southern Spain entered into what was to become Monclova and Saltillo, Coahuila. They are brought under the auspices of the Explorer, Conquistador, and Colonizer Jose Luis Carvajal y de la Cueva, with elements settling in Lampazos and Cerralvo (Nuevo Leon), in Palofox (Texas), and Revilla (Tamaulipas) on the Rio Bravo.
Also, the Count of the Sierra Gorda, Col. Jose de Escandon brought another group of mainly Spanish, Portuguese, and Azoreans in the early 175os, settling along the Rio Bravo (Grande), and then on the north (Texas) side, spreading up to what is now Yorktown, Texas (near and southeast of San Antonio de Bexar, more or less) before and during the Texas Republican period.

My children and theirs are qualified to join the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Sons of Liberty, The Sons of the Grand Army of the Union, The Sons of Confederate Veterans, and the Daughters of the Confederacy. By my side they are 16th generation English Colonial - American and 6th generation Texian. By my wife's side, my children are 23rd generation northernmost New Spain, Texian, and American. Isolating Texas alone, my grandchildren are 15th generation Texian.

LIKE?

Cats, and then dogs.

Fishing, even a bit of bird watching, now and then.

Really good music..antique, old, 1950s and early 1960s rock and roll, classical - Hayden, Mozart, Beethoven, both Strauses, and many others, African tribal sounds en chorus, Mexican bolero...mariachis when they play out-of-doors, some country and quite a bit of the old western (Sons of the Pioneers, the Texas Ploughboys, Marty Robbins "Gunfighter Ballads, for instance.), even some of my own piano works, bagpipes, Enya, marimba, Caribe.

The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess always seemed to me to have been, and remains, a true masterpiece of Americana.

Well maintained Firearms, smooth running small equipment, old autos that respond to repair and upkeep and keep going. Used to have BMWs and so forth, but being old helps tone things down a bit.

Antiques, and antiquities...Meso-American archeology...and religious history. Formal religious services among the Orthodox..as in Anglican, Roman, Orthodox and Conservative Jewish services and celebrations. Hard to find, now.

Overnight radio, rightwing talk radio until it becomes overly tedious and repetitive.

Weather and climate.

And strangely during the past few years,cooking. Not just barbequeing...but actually dishing up gourmet-type stuff...and gardening to a purpose.

We grow a lot of our own spices for our little bed and breakfast and we specialise in flowerng plants, bushes, and trees that attract bees and literally hundreds of species of common to extremely rare birds to our place.

Lifelong Republican, honourably discharged - United States Army (conscripted).

Now drifted into the position of favouring the amicable withdrawal of Texas from the American Union. My grandchildren are 15th generation Coahuila/Texas by my wife and 8th generation Texas by me and my will is to have them answer for the debt of Texas and not for the debts incurred by the National Socialists who have taken possession of the central government in Washington, D.C.

DISLIKES?
Any kind of socialism...bolshevik, national, marxist, social democratic, Trotskyite, progressive, ....and any kind of socialist.

The Ku Klux Klan and such types who figure that they have to hate somebody because of how he/she was born. They are just role players, resucitated by the Communist Party USA in the 1920s, whose members are fueled by a well deserved sense of inferiority.

And almost all social activism.

Almost all labour union officers and almost all labour unions. (There are some exceptions.)

Public assistance of any kind. All welfare and/or charity should and must be privately handled in order to avoid the trap wherein we have fallen, that being the multigenerational slide into the abyss of forlorn hopelessness that is government slavery and dependence. That slide is cheerfully supported by politicians who love to buy votes with other peoples' money.

Lotteries operated by governments.

Litter, filth, graffiti, gangs, and waiting in line for people using food stamps whil'st they argue with the cashier about how they "need" this or that to be covered...when they have three carts with 450 USD of snacks and things we cannot afford because we are in an 'upper income" category.

Church reformers who want to change my church instead of them going to another church and just leaving me alone.

Medications for boys who are over-active, and medications in general.

Lite beer, lite Coca Cola, fat-free, lo-cal, artificial sugars and sweeteners, anything marked "healthy" on food packages, sugar-free, margarine, and driving 23 miles to buy gasoline over there because it is 2 cents per gallon cheaper.

Any government programme designed to help anybody; 94% of the time the programme winds up morphing into some kind of monster. Then liberals and do-gooders will propose another programme, twice as costly, to cure the ills caused by the first cure-all.

Officiousness, and the term "non-profit", as if there is some kind of moral superiority in the failure to produce wealth.

Physical abuse of an animal, an extraterrestrial, a child, slave, woman, or anything like a tractor or power tool, firearm, sewing machine, or an auto, etc.
Loud and/or sharp noises, especially when such noises have no particular purpose.

Wasting anything, from paper towels to Clorox to cake and cookie batter...anything. And....waiting in a line.