A Gringo in Rural Mexico: Oooops! That Billy Goat knocked down the Million Kilowatt Dam

Friday 20 December 2013

Oooops! That Billy Goat knocked down the Million Kilowatt Dam

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It has been about 200 years or so (1989) since this writer informed a highly placed Republican operative that there was a loud-mouthed political commentator who was saying things that many thought had been banned on radio or television. Further, he was saying such things on a live, three-hour nationally syndicated radio programme. The highly placed political operative expressed some interest in this new conservative commentator. I advised him that the fellow looked like a twin of my Uncle Billy, foolishly thinking that such information might further whet his interest in the issue.

El Gringo Viejo and his boss, along with five other small businesses, gathered up 1,500 USD each, and paid local talk-radio station to engage the "Rush to Excellence Show" to come down in person to entertain the rubes in fly-over country. Our area was then, and remains, the last area in Texas with the contamination of having a welfare-based, elected Democrat Corruption Factory totally in place.

El Gringo Viejo was busy being a successful entrepreneur in those days, with several small businesses balanced on a razor blade. Of course, he had his wife to do the unimportant stuff, like most of the work and raising the children.

The show, called "Rush to Excellence" came to town, filled the largest venue in town with well over 1,000 people...all paid, and was a great success. The tickets my wife and I bought for the important Republican personage, who truly was a highly placed Republican activist, went for naught, because he did not appear. My mother and my wife went to the private reception with the private tickets since we have been among the five sponsors. Since the important Republican personage chose not to attend, I decided to say to hell with it and remained at the helm of the businesses for the day and night.

John G. Tower
Senator for Texas

     This lamentation is not so much, "Poor Me" as it is to remind folks that what is considered impossible, planetarily challenged, or ridiculous by people who are convinced of their own infallibility...can frequently wind up being a force that cannot be resisted.   The important Republican personage who had much success in his political objectives, discounted the suggestion of a person he knew to be his inferior in all matters.   That highly placed operative was an enemy of Karl Rove, especially in those days, but a good friend and cadre-member of Jimmy Baker and King George the Ist.  He was also a member of the inner circle of John G. Tower.   Odd combination, except that Karl in those days was very abrasive in his enforcement of the will of the Country Club element of the Texas Republican Party (King George I), Jimmy Baker was a good boy and tried to at least act like he was listening to whatever rightwing crazy might have found his way accidentally to the chair on the other side of his desk.   Baker could look interested even as he would look furtively at his Rolex.

    This same operative also declared in 1980, during the Republican primaries, that the nomination of Ronald Reagan would result in a re-run of the Goldwater / Johnson election of 1964....and, in a way, perhaps he was right.   Sociologically, the Republican Primaries of 1976 and 1980 did more to finally establish a viable Republican Party in Texas since Reconstruction than any other impulse or influence.    Reagan won both primaries overwhelmingly.
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    Another answer to, "What does this mean?   What are you trying to say?" is the following:

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Tower, Baker, and King George the Ist were all highly respected and successful Republican State and national personalities. Each conservative, each well plugged in to the "reasonable, able to reach across the aisle type Republicans". Each was also kicked in the teeth by the Democrat National Socialist welfare-state elitists.

We hope that it gave them pleasure to have served as useful floor-mats to the Ameribolshie cause. Tower was denied an appointment as Secretary of defence because he drank too much??????? Because women chased him around the desk? Sam Nunn was to judge John Tower....?????? What a bunch of slugs...when a Sam Nunn, a prissy, arrogant snip who could almost always vote left and then trundle back to South Carolina and extoll the wondrous goodness of the Conservative Philosophy. Sam Nunn, who could do more hand in glove games with crony capitalists looking for government subsidies than even the Chappaquiddick Kidd. Gag. And, please do not even get the Gringo Viejo started on all the filthy, unwashed, Occupy Wall Street Black Pots calling the shiny copper kettles of Baker and Bush names because they had a bit of tarnish. Perhaps Jimmy and King George the Ist, being elitist progressives, prefer to be door mats to fellow elitists than to truly keep company with people who are the salt of the Earth.

Great Ruler of the Cosmos, please close Washington, District of Columbia down and turn it into an outdoor museum of monuments and parks. Give each man and woman who compose the entire adult Washington, D.C, population 100,000 (USD or equivalent in lottery tickets). This includes Miss Flukie, and the entire Congress, the bureaucracy both local and extended, and city administration. They shall each be given family plan tickets for a plane, AMTRAK, or bus ticket to another Continent, or Detroit, New Orleans, or Chicago. There, each might feel at home in a place where he/she can recover from his/her illness, injury, disability, or particular psychological damage from being hurt by meanie-poo words, comfortably reposed back into a friendly natural environment.

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     The following entry is drawn from the "making the rounds" electronic mail that is sent every so often by the Texas Nationalist Movement. The word continues to circulate.   It is no longer the 7 beers and 2 margaritas fuelling the fantasy.   Sometimes it doesn't even require one beer to draw reasonable "what if's" and "We can't keep on like they are doing in Washington."

     A particular Tea-Party United States Representative recently recanted his condemnation of the movement by coming back to the same group he condemned as traitors to the United States to ask for their support in the up-coming re-election campaign.

     We are not traitors.   So long as the Republic of Texas remains within the self-imposed condition of allowing itself to be within the union of the several sovereign States composing the United States of America, we agree to abide by those laws and regulations that seem pertinent to us. Various of the other laws and regulations are being contested formally within both the court system of the Republic of Texas as well as the United States of America. In several cases, recently, the Cause of the Republic of Texas has found relief and redress in significant cases related to central government injury to the people of the Republic of Texas.

    So without further ado, and referencing that Billy Goats really do knock down million kilowatt dams we submit:

Radio Host: Texas Most Likely To Secede

Dave Mundy

With high schools around the nation preparing to hold graduation ceremonies soon, the state of Texas has laid claim to a class honorific: "Most Likely to Secede."

Radio host Dennis Miller and columnist Mark Steyn gave a light-hearted nod to the idea of a breakup of the United States during a discussion on Miller's radio show Thursday, with Steyn acknowledging that the independence movement in Texas is no joke.

The two were discussing what might happen if the tide of socialism washing over the United States remains the prevailing political driving force in Washington, and Miller said getting away from socialism wouldn't necessarily involve moving to Australia. He suggested instead moving to Texas, which would be "the first place to push back against it."

"If I ever do flee, don't think fleeing has to involve you going over to Alice Springs or something," Miller said. "I'm going to Texas because that'll be the first place that pushes back. They're not going down the tubes with this country if this country decides to go down the tubes. I really think I'd head for Texas."

Steyn, a columnist for the conservative National Review, said that Texas could well turn out to be the leader of a Soviet Union-style breakup because the independence movement there is a "serious" one.

"I think you're right there," Steyn said. "The idea that all 50 states are going to be content to slide off the cliff in a kind of haze and a drone of sort of soporific princess fluffy-bunny socialism is completely false. I mean, there will be — you're going to have serious secession movements if some of this stuff isn't turned around, not just in Texas."

The Texas Nationalist Movement is the primary independence organization in the state and membership in the organization has exploded in recent months. County-level TNM groups are now active in more than 100 of the state's 254 counties, and leaders of the TNM are expecting even more new members once a series of broadcast and print media ads begin reaching the public. The TNM has already indicated they will again be fielding candidates for local, county and state offices in the coming election cycle.

The subject of secession often reminds many Americans of the Civil War, and many progressives who otherwise spend much of their time denigrating the armed forces threaten that a move toward independence by Texas or other states would prompt another civil war. The Texas Nationalists pointedly embrace the belief that their movement is wholly political and that independence can be accomplished at the ballot box, not on the battlefield.

Perhaps with that in mind, the comedian Miller offered a suggestion.

"It would appear at times when civil war might be inevitable," Miller replied. "Why don't we get together right now and agree to do it by paintball so nobody gets hurt. Why don't we just have a big liberal-conservative — meet at the Mississippi and have a big paintball game so we can get this figured out?"

Story at the Daily Caller: http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/16/steyn-warns-of-serious-secession-movements-video/

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This is not a fair warning for what is to come. The is an observation of that which has already arrived.

El Gringo Viejo

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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.