Supposedly 16 million people who did not have health care before now have it under Obama/SCOTUS care. How many people, who did have healthcare before, do not have it now? John Roberts incorrectly thinks his job is to justify Congress’ intentions, not what the Constitution says. My friends we are in serious trouble. The real justices on the SC are time and again overruled by the socialist judges.
What is it with the Chief Justice that he is compelled to keep the ACA regardless of the constitutionality of it? The Supreme Court needs serious changes, especially in regard to the lifetime appointments. It is apparent that the Congress will never, through the amendment process, set term limits for justices. The Fifth Amendment to the Constitution is available to the people and should be one of the foremost issues in the 2016 Presidential campaign. “The Liberty Amendments” should be read by every concerned American.
When a President makes a mistake or intentionally appoints a subversive to the Court, there has to be a method of recall. Term limits might be the most reasonable change that would be acceptable to the process of the Fifth Amendment. That, in addition to a method of removal for cause or abuse are essential to the functioning of the legal system in the U.S.
The Supreme Court has twice kept the ACA alive in contradiction to the law itself. By bench legislation, John Roberts has blatantly violated his duty to interpret the law’s validity under the Constitution.
The Congress, Republicans notwithstanding, the Supreme Court, and the President are all destructive to the rights of the people and the intent of our fundamental law.
Yes, show me the way to the darkest abyss of despair so that I can atone for having been born into the Caucasian race. There is no health in me, and my inequity is caused by my chromosomes. I will praise Ba'al as I pass the graffitied welcome monument and the brave, iron-resolve stare of the face of Ernesto (Che') Guevara's statue, staring forward, ever forward to the final moment where all are equal and none can want. I and mine shall pay for our own medical services and for all those who grovel for the farthings left to me.
The book is of course sealed upon the career of the Hon. Chief Justice. He is a peculiar mixture of stupid, ignorant, arrogant, foppish, and mayonnaise. The only known reason for him to have been appointed to the Supreme Court's top seat is that someone, or several someones knew that Judge John would be "reasonable" and "progressive" in terms of helping everyone finally receive "health care".
The German hierarchy during the late 1930s could not have engineered the establishment of National Socialism better. We have the doors completely opened to the inundation of undesirables (we call them refugees now), and we have control by totally out-of-touch mega-billionaires who want to teach us how to enjoy the taste of styrofoam.
With reference to the issue about the effects and accoutrements associated with the Confederate States of America, we would like to call attention to certain differences to groups who have a catechism and who group around sinners trying to be saints. This is as opposed to groups who have no family, no order, no reasonable aims who are led by Jeremiah Wright, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and Calypso Louis the acolyte from Jamaica. It should be pointed out that where Black Folks have a long history of Churching and more than a semblance of soci0-familial order, and where the entire population is rated by visitors as the friendliest and most helpful people in America by visitors, foreign and domestic, a disaster such as the one just past at the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston does not provoke riots and looting. The Obsolete Press has had to go way, way out of its way to show that this insane act of a drunken, druggie thug (also lacking catechism) was inspired by the "Confederate Flag". In all probability he was given steady doses of ADDGTY-3 due to "hyperactivity" and "male restlessness" from primary school forward. We assume he made it at least some distance into high school but at this point, what possible difference could it make? The Black Folks of the Charleston in particular and South Carolina in general can be typified as being able to withstand the torture of being forced to endure statues, monuments, banners, and relics that recall to the viewer the images of the Old South and the episode of the Confederacy. In Ferguson, a bully Bear who, by the age of 18 could be proud of his criminal accomplishments and record, is killed by a cop in a manner that is ruled justifiable, and the result is the near destruction of a entire city by looters and rioters. Even before the Body of the Bear is buried, the various roots of his family tree and busy setting up shop to cast lots to the "Chaos Tourism" community and other undocumented shoppers so as to see how clothes commemorating anarchy could be sold profitably. Such is the case almost anywhere there is no Confederate reliquary. Charleston has (or had) the reliquary, but there are no riots. Everywhere else....there is anarchy. So much for the Obsolete Press Construct. And so much for the Brave New Republicans who did the Black Friday Christmas Shopping Door Storming Act, trampling over one another to show how much more they hated the Confederacy than the other politicians. Real class. Also a pitiable lack of understanding of the true history of the Confederate movement. They understand the issue only in two dimensions. The whole story about the North - South Inconvenience did have to do with the "Peculiar Institution", but there were scores of other fundamental disagreements between the two regions. More Later. El Gringo Veijo
We returned yesterday amid a bit of rain, some heavy, and some light. It seems as if Global Climate Change keeps changing on an almost daily basis. I did notice that Global Warming was actually taking place more during the afternoon while Global Cooling was confined to the nighttime hours and pre-dawn early morning hours. We are working on the models to see if there is a tendency that can be extrapolated into a working forecast. Then, we shall be able to tell exactly how much George Bush is to blame and how much the Confederate Flag Stress Syndrome (CFSS) plays into the matter.
We shall be trying to rest up for a few days. To-morrow we shall attempt to give a bit of a description to our last episode down at the Quinta, and perhaps even have a few pictures that we can post for you. The trip was a bit tiring due to a nagging throat - sinus problem that kept El Gringo Viejo up during the last few nights.
"Terror of 10th Street" A perfect look-alike of my first ride. And yes, Virginia, it really only had 36 horsepower. El Zorro had a Studebaker Lark with a V-8, three on the column, and over 170 horses in those days - 1963 . 64
We are treated to the New York Times yukking it up about the wild traffic history of the Pareja Rubio de la Florida. Allow me, first to gloat, and then explain. During my first years as a driver, terrorising people throughout the South of Texas, with a 36 horsepower Karmann Ghia Volkswagen.
There was a policeman who followed me up and down 10th Street which was and remains the main drag of McAllen. He pulled me over a couple of times just to do it, and then he would remind me that just because I was a "rich kid with a fancy European hotrod" that he could clip my wings faster than I could spread them.
It was always my ardent wish that he could learn a different line, but it was always the same. I had a few incidents from 1964 through 1970, none for a speeding offense over 5 miles over the limit, and a couple for much less. Two incidents with a couple of different drunks totalled one Karmann and hurt a Corvair pretty bad. But, since 1970...now 45 years....El Gringo Viejo has not had a traffic citation of any kind. The better three/quarters has had only one, and that was at a newly established speed zone being used as a convenient trap for drivers overly familiar with the route.
In any regard the smearing of Marco Rubio was a sight to behold, gushing forth from the New York Times, word-for-word from a broadside prepared by that favourite turncoat among the marxists, David Brock. The NYT reporter seemed willing to serve as a kind of convenience, printing the article about how during 19 years Marco Rubio was a clear and present danger to mankind because there were all these high-speed, double-parking and incongruent registration tags on vehicles, etc. Jeannette Dousdebes Rubio has a majority of the moving violation citations...which altogether, moving and documentational and parking violations all assembled come up to fewer than 1 citation per year person. And some were dismissed!!
Next, since this did not work even on the stupid and the low-information voter types, the next "scandalous revelations" about Marcos's family will be the story about Marco Rubio's drug trafficking brother-in-law. No kidding....it is very old news....nowhere near as bad as Hill and Billary's siblings who are veritable criminals, tried and convicted in various cases.
Hillary's brother is again newly involved bit of nefariousness. He is in fact in a totally suspect gold mining concession agreement in Haiti...a place where Billy Jeff has been so very active with his foundation, restoring normalcy after the Great Earthquake. The entire project is a kickback to the Clintons and a rip-off to the Haitian people of their national patrimony.
Of course, 99% of the devastation remains and the quality of life in Haiti remains the lowest in the Americas. The Clinton Administrations in Little Rock and Washington, D.C. were easily the most corrupt political in the history of the Republic. In spite of that, the Obsolete Press of the United States and the world in general, seem content to accept the Clintons as the necessary price to pay if one truly wants to forward abortion, perversion, totalitarian socialism, corruption, and American decay.
This is pretty disgusting. No edification is necessary except to say: This is another example of how Obama has infected all branches of Government and the damage may not be reversible.
“(1) Zivotofsky v. Kerry
Date Filed: June 8, 2015
Case #: 13–628.
KENNEDY, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which GINSBURG, BREYER, SOTOMAYOR, and KAGAN, JJ., joined. BREYER, J., filed a concurring opinion. THOMAS, J., filed an opinion concurring in the judgment in part and dissenting in part. ROBERTS, C. J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which ALITO, J., joined. SCALIA, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which ROBERTS, C. J., and ALITO, J., joined.
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW: The Constitution grants the Executive Branch alone the power to determine national policy on the status or recognition of foreign sovereigns.
Petitioner's son was born in Jerusalem and Petitioner requested that the son’s place of birth be listed as “Israel.” The American Embassy refused to grant the request because of the Executive Branch’s policy to not acknowledge any country’s sovereignty over Jerusalem. Petitioner sued, arguing that the Foreign Relations Authorization Act (FRAA) §214(d) permits the son’s place of birth to be listed as “Israel” on his passport. The FRAA grants authority to the Secretary of State to list the place of birth for a US citizen born in Jerusalem as “Israel.”
The D.C. circuit found this statute unconstitutional because it conflicts with the powers granted to the Executive Branch in the Constitution to determine the status of foreign sovereigns. U.S. Supreme Court affirmed, reasoning that this national policy determination is granted to the Executive Branch because of the Reception Clause, combined with the Article II foreign policy powers. The Court held that this power is both exclusively and conclusively delegated to the Executive Branch and Congress does not have the authority to require contradictory foreign policy.”
Of course, if in fact there are two points that allow this wide discretion on the part of the Executive, there are several more that point to the ability of a sovereign, be he/she foreign or domestic to perceive of him/her self in a rational way that can reasonably be considered truthful.
An Israeli born in Jerusalem can obviously declare such to be the case, if in fact he is an Israeli born in Jerusalem. As well, there are obviously several, even many, places where an Israeli could have been born in Jerusalem. And it is indisputable that Jerusalem is within the effective territory of Israel, and it is also indisputable that, being in the control of the Israelis, it is materially and spiritually in better condition than were it to be under the control of the dual mafias of Hezbollah and Hamas.
Wherever seated, in Congrefs or in Court or in the halls of Colleges and Universities laden with undeserved tenure or World Councils , this matter of the Leftists always seeking to either kill, humiliate, injure or denigrate the Jew is a sad commentary on the moral bankruptcy of the Left...worldwide.
We urge the OROG to read Justice Thomas's concurrence and affirmation arguments. In that he both concurred and dissented, his vote would have been (and was, I believe), counted as a dissenting vote. Chief Justice Roberts wrote a very strongly worded paragraph in his dissent included below. We do urge a reading of the entire summary of the dissent, it is mercifully brief:
"Resolving the status of Jerusalem may be vexing, but resolving this case is not. Whatever recognition power the President may have, exclusive or otherwise, is not implicated by §214(d). It has not been necessary over the past 225 years to definitively resolve a dispute between Congress and the President over the recognition power. Perhaps we could have waited another 225 years. But instead the majority strains to reach the question based on the mere possibility that observers overseas might misperceive the significance of the birthplace designation at issue in this case. And in the process, the Court takes the perilous step—for the first time in our history—of allowing the President to defy an Act of Congress in the field of foreign affairs.
I respectfully dissent...."
We concur and agree with the Chief Justice in that, even if it were the United Kingdom, Mexico, Canada, and Japan telling us not to recognise Jerusalem as a true entity within the nation of Israel, the United States and the individual Israeli(s) concerned, coupled with the facts - not fantasies - on the ground trump the majority's arguments in this case. There are other arguments, but please read the brief summary of dissents.
We are starting to prepare for a departure to Central Texas....the San Antonio area for two or three days. It will be something of a family get-together. There will be considerable linear relations and collateral as well. The numbers will swell finally to nearly 100 by the time all the babies are counted.
In order to cut down on the crowding into a spacious home and standing around uselessly while the poor host and hostess run ragged, we intend to help out and then get out. We shall stay fairly nearby in the City of Castroville, an important small town coming from deep into the historical period of Texas....even into its time as an independent Republic.
It will be our intention to post a few pictures of the town upon return to the Lower Rio Grande Valley. Then, almost immediately we are heading down to the Quinta Tesoro de la Sierra Madre, our little bed-and-brunch / hideaway on the edge of the Sierra Madre in the Mexican interior. We shall be taking down an important personage in terms of the extended families, a person who has considerable experience travelling and working in Mexico.
With reference to such things, the Mexican by-elections have just passed, largely without the predicted disorders. This writer did not think that there would be any significant disorder, save for the indisciplinate places we have covered before: the Ayotzinapa - Chilpancingo mess in the State of Guerrero, and the Tale of the 43 "Students" for instance. Beyond that, many were surprised at how sedate the processes were and how heavy the vote was. This will not be what is reported, of course, but it is what happened.
It should be pointed out that the State of Guerrero, when all was said and done, after all the stupid, violent, ruinous protests, voted Centrist...for the dumbo Partido Revolucionario Institucional - PRI....the party of the much maligned (and perhaps somewhat deservedly) President Pen~a Nieto. The wise ones and even some polls were indicating that it would be a tough row to hoe for both the President and the PRI. But, lo and behold, the stodgy, creaky "centrist" party (mainly liberals and big-business magnates such as Carlos Slim) held onto a slim majority of the Chamber of Deputies in the Congress, with the help of a bit of a globbing on of the small splinter "Green Party" into the "mix".
The conservative, private sector party, the Partido de Accion Nacional - PAN maintained its second place position in both the upper and lower chambers, while the old Partido Democratico Revolucionario...essentially a hot-pink Marxist-populist demagoguing engine...shrank down into single digits. It was led into the abyss by Andres Lopez Obrador, (the "Harold Stassen of Mexico"), the much-revered- by-the-international-press piece of tree fungus who is probably as insane as Nancy Pelosi and Wasserman-Shultz.
It was an 85 on the scale of 100, by this writer's feelings and sensibility. The left will commence, as they frequently do after such a debacle, to eat their own children. The Army and Naval Infantry will be more intent and intense, having received a de facto endorsement from the electorate, and perhaps the Rightwingers can get their heads out of the bucket and figure out how to put together the skilled blue-collar middle class, the old upper-middle class, the professionals, the small proprietors, and a swath....perhaps the majority....of the wealthy industrialists and agriculturalists into a posture that can re-install them into the Presidency again. A First in 150 years in Mexico:
One oddity is that after see-sawing back and forth for various terms, both the PRI and the PAN were turned on their heads by an Independent candidate for Governor of the State of Nuevo Leon. The OROGs will remember that Monterrey and its surrounding, adjacent communities....totalling about five million people and its State, Nuevo Leon is the industrial and social powerhouse of Mexico. It is decidedly rightwing, and progressive in the correct sense of the word. Every week, it is said, the Metroplex takes,"...two steps back and three steps forward....someday we should arrive where we are going." By international standards, the metroplex is solidly a majority mix of blue-collar and white collar forms of some kind of middle-class socio-economic position. It has a huge wealthy group, perhaps 10% being in millionaire status by American measure.
Governor elect of Nuevo Leon State of Mexico JAIME HELIODORO RODRIQUEZ CALDERON receiving a congratulatory call from the President late Sunday night past.
In any regard, Jaime Heliodoro Rodriquez Calderon, a successful presidente municipal of Villa de Garcia, an adjacent-to-Monterrey city/county on the far north side of the metroplex, postulated for Governor and parlayed his image as a rough cowboy the way to the Governor's throne. He is a very literate, almost eloquent if a bit profane at times, blustery fellow who seems to genuinely hate corruption and cartels and 'pandillas' (juvenile gang). His nickname is "El Bronco" or the un-broken horse, or wild horse. In personality and charisma people state that he seems to be channelling the spirit of Pancho Villa. If he is remotely adequate as governor, and most people think he will certainly be at least that, he might possibly be lost at mid-term in a run for the Presidency. We must remember that Nuevo Leon is essentially a different country, with a fairly large hinterland that extends well beyond the State's frontiers. Truth be known, that if it were not for the oil and gas industry in Texas, the San Pedro - Monterrey cultural and industrial complex would essentially strategically own the four counties composing the southern tip of the Republic of Texas. The Monterrey metroplex, for example has about four per cent of the population of Mexico but generates about 50% of the tax receipts for the Secretaria de Hacienda of the Central Government in Mexico City. Billion dollar factories going in and billion dollar re-builds and expansions of existing industries are third page news in the Monterrey metroplex.
The turn-out for this election was more like a Presidential level trek to the polls by the body politic. There were lines aplenty. Every County in the State of Nuevo Leon reported record by-election participation. El Bronco gained almost exactly 50% of the "votacion". The PRI and PAN both took about a quarter of the pie. And...there were no challenges to the outcome.
We shall seek more information and have pictures to render the OROG community upon our return after this visit to our little place and various points of interest in our humble little area. More Later
On the left - lying, self-consumed snip On the right - frumpy, self-consumed hag
The (Sir Edmund) Hillary on the left spent her renowned commencement address at Wellesley lambasting the "establishment" in general and certain personalities in particular, including United States Senator present in the audience that fine day, Edward Brooke III, a Black man, and also the first popularly elected person of black African ancestry to the United States Senate....a Republican. The second, of course, is another Republican by the name of Tim Scott, who is much more conservative and quite a bit Blacker, as would be expected of a Senator from South Carolina, of course.
Senator Ed Brooke (R) United States Senator Massachusetts 1966 - 1979
The frumpy - self-consumed - hag - Hillary is that great frumpy hope for all women who lost out, who wake up hating themselves and blaming men and "things in general" for their misery, who know that the lottery ticket and/or bingo card they are drawing has been marked as a loser by "some man" who is in charge ''somewhere". They love (Sir Edmund) Hillary because, no matter how much she and Billy Jeff steal, no matter how many lies they tell, and no matter how much false posturing they do or destruction they cause, at least someone is getting away with something and it must be hurting the same people who hurt "me". In Conservative Sociology it will probably be known soon as the Sandra Fluke Psychotic Group Syndrome.
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THE OVERRUNNING OF AMERICA
part of the overall plan to drive America into
the magnificence of open sewers and favelas
with millions of naked, filthy pre-primary
school babies
________________(and you guessed it: It's your fault)________________________
NOW, AND as inspired and compelled by El Zorro, a much more somber matter. To wit:
Yes, these official sounding agencies are actually officially endowed, recognised, integral parts of the official Churches inferred by their titles. They operate as contractors for and with the United States State Department, working in league with the United Nations, and other repellent organisations, insidiously involved in the quest to destroy both the United States and Israel. Yes, Virginia even the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. None of the "immigrants" or "refugees" represented by these organisations as "new residents" in the United States....especially into Texas.... are Arabic ancestried Jews or Christians. Almost all are not "moderate" Moslems....in that they believe in Sharia as a law superior to English / American Common Law and Constitutional Law forged through interpretive precedents. Almost all believe that the killing of apostates, heretics, and infidels is probably necessary, and the killing of all homosexuals and adulteresses and un-married but betrothed maidens who are "soiled" is honourable.
Aiding the above named Agencies are their localised, on-the-ground, Acorn-type community "service" placement facilitation workers who are dedicated to globbing these very probably rabidly anti-American people into our midst.
It is the same as what they did during our immediate past Summer of Discontent when 60,000 women with very small children, along with perhaps as many as 8,000 Mara Salvatrucha (perhaps the world's worst and most bloodthirsty thug-gangmembers). They trundled up from Honduras and Nicaragua and Guatemala and El Salvador. They were invited, quite literally, by elements within or endorsed by the United States government. Radio and television programmes in Central America gave repeated and detailed instructions about how to seek out and surrender to United States Immigration and Border Patrol officers, and ask for refugee status for their children.
They were escorted, tended to, fed, given clothes, sheltered, given transportation by the agencies listed above and by common citizens who felt move to provide Samaritan Acts. None or few of these people ever said even so much as a thank you. They were never reluctant to complain and/or ask for "more" or to complain about the colour of the new pull-over T-shirt for the four-year-old child she had lugged up from bowels of Honduras.
They are now being helped by "immigration attorneys" to file complaint after complaint about their treatment by the authorities, the quality of their free food, their free accommodation, their free transportation to places from whence they will probably never be extracted....all of which places are in the United States. It was easy to note by the fact that many of the "madres solteras" had salon nails and other indications that they were not "refugees" in any sense save for the desire to be in a place where they could be paid for having babies.
Most of them will be "stabled" by criminal elements who are also from the girls' own home countries. They will be "milked" for percentages of their AFDC, WIC, food stamps, and Housing subsidies, all conducted by teen-aged spawn of Hell, full of MS-13 and Santa Muerte tatoos. They might even be forced into prostitution or, if luckier, to tips-only work as bar-maids in dive-saloons. It just the way it is.
That will be success for the above named groups and agencies. Their mission is to foist the quagmire caused specifically by the NON-IMMIGRANT type entrant into this Republic. They are not the Mexicans of the previous-Amnesty and Pre-War-on-Poverty period when the arrival of Mexicans was actually a positive thing for the American fabric. These people from last Summer, in their 85 - 90 per cent, were not Immigrants....they were barnacles. Digestive tracts and reproductive systems.
And once again....the agencies listed above are the complicit interface inducting the obviously unqualified into the country. Their "start-up" money is given by good or complicit people who are members of the sects, denominations, and groups listed above in the form of tithing or the alms-basins of their offertory. Greater money comes back to the denominations' and sects' upper tier administration....to the Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church of America, for instance and she then uses that money to fight, not poverty and suffering, but to pay expensive lawyers who are fighting Parishes and Dioceses who wish to retire from the "greater" Episcopal Church and join the North American Anglican Union....or stand as independent Anglican Dioceses. That is actually what is going on...that, and the destruction of American traditionalism.
We leave you with that, and thank you for your king attention and patience.
You all can thank El Zorro, Mrs. Corcoran, and others for trumpetting these realities for all to hear.
The image of (Sir Edmund) Hillary talking authoritatively about anything raises questions immediately. We watched, and there were really no surprises. She managed to touch all the bases. To wit:
Dedicated to that "first revolutionary" LUCIFER
(1) According to Rules for Radicals she did as ordered. Always accuse the opponent of actually doing what it is that you as a radical are doing. Do this especially if the opponent is, in truth, not doing what you are accusing him of. This cynical admonition by Saul Linsky is something this final distillation of arrogant totalitarians have taken to its final refinement.
While on the one hand pushing ACORN (and later re-incarnations thereof) thugs....mainly barely one-half step above homeless druggies....to do "voter registration recruitment" (?), they accuse Republicans of being openly attempting to "...keep people from voting." ACORN and Sons, famously signed up scores of thousands of Mickey Mouses, Marilyn Monroes, John Smiths, and so forth. They were, and still are, actively involved especially in large cities and around universities where "students" could pick up a few extra bucks, turning in voter's registrations to the County Registrar. At times the error rate for the cards was over 90%.
ACORN and the Sons of ACORN would assure the authorities that the errors were "accidental" and sometimes due to the plain inexperience, lack of intelligence, or the fact that they could only pay minimum wage. ACORN "deputy registrars" were charged and convicted on many occasions. Reasons? Offering registrants cigarettes, cocaine, marijuana, money, and/or sex for registering to vote.....you know....citizenship things. But ACORN and Son are just part of the hideous, purposefully deceitful mess. Another small but significant part of the issue is described below.
Strangely, we find that almost everywhere an area where probable Democrat voters are found in concentrations of 90 per cent or more of the precinct, registration is also found to be almost totally registered. At times there are more registrants than even the most recent census can verify the number of voting age adult citizens.
Frequently, on voting days, precincts in some heavily Democrat and leftist strongholds manage to vote over 100% of the registered electors represented on the precinct rolls. Such phenomena are not all that rare, although they are known as Miracle Precincts. Ask (Sir Edmund) Hillary about this, and she would certainly respond that she has never heard of such a thing.
She probably has not heard about the "false stories and myths about voter fraud" that occur here in southernmost Texas. Just during the past two election cycles....mainly concentrated in the Democrat Primaries...which are really pointless due to the fact that the winners will ultimately either be sent to prison or driven out of office by some kind of scandal....women known as ''politiqueras" (poh - lih - tih - KEI - rahs) trundle about where ever there might be very old and incapacitated women. These women will first be told that "I am here to help you vote." And the politiquera will engage the old lady in some polite and banal conversation, moving all the while to that point where the old lady will be told that the politquera is really busy and she needs to have the old lady ".....sign right here on this line".
The little old lady has probably been through this before, and knows what is going on. She also has a bit of fear in her as it concerns the politiquera. They become quite insistent to even threatening, rough, and finally physical when they think the little old lady is not going to sign.
What is the important document? It is a request to the County Elections Officer to mail, to the little old lady below named and endorsed, an Absentee Ballot for the election of such and such date. If the little old lady hasn't been too much of a problem, the politiquera might throw a five dollar bill on her bed. If she "gives up" some names then the politiquera might be disposed to give the little old lady 20 dollars or maybe an "extra" (stolen or found)Lone Star Card with thirty or forty dollars left on it.
If the little old lady holds out, there is, at times, physical violence. At other times the politiquera might threaten that she "knows" about the illegal paper work in her legal alien petition or naturalisation papers false information or any number of hocus pocus dragons that she can employ to terrorise the hapless little old lady. Frequently we might be talking about a little old lady who is 80 - 100 years old, maybe 75 -110 pounds, frail in health being confronted by a woman who is essentially a saloon-madam type, big - around 200 pounds, and perhaps 33 to 60 years of age. Frequently the politiquera has her "chauffeur" or helper, who might be a large male.
It is not a good time for a femme sole should a politiquera put that woman in her sights. Little old men are also assaulted in the same manner. They know that the politiquera will be coming by to check on their mail, and once again the document will be signed....at which time the politiquera herself will fill out the ballot in the "correct" manner.
The politiquera will always assert in court that she is "helping" the little old men and ladies vote....but sometimes, and increasingly...even the Democrat District Attorneys have begun to tire of the game. It became sadly humorous when during the last couple of sessions, United States Postal Service letter carriers have been found offering ballots for sale that have been sent out to legitimate (or otherwise) requests to the county's Elections Registrar's office. Price per ballot? From $5 to $20, depending upon how close the election seems to be.
So, (Sir Edmund) Hillary....ye of the s l o w s p e e c h and stern condemnations of people who have done no wrong in this issue....just shut up or shut down....what moral grounds do you have....? You and your party pride yourselves for only one thing, a process: .....buying votes with other peoples' money and using that money to enslave people into a system that all but requires them to continue to vote for you so that they can .....live....! Gag.
It is the old game. Democrats commit serious second and first degree felonies like (Sir Edmund) Hillary so often does, and they are applauded. Tom DeLay uses a common accounting and processing operation to transfer funds, openly, and Ron Earl has to charge him with Money Laundering. Three expert attorneys testify that they advised DeLay that his manoeuvre was absolutely legal, and finally, after the fourth try, Ron Earl, Travis County District Attorney obtains a conviction from a mentally retarded jury and a dunce of a pinko-Democrat Judge. After a long process, the entire proceeding is overturned, and Ron Earl has become not only an historical figure, but also a forgotten one.
(2) We noticed that (Sir Edmund)Hillary had that paragon of intelligence and commitment to public service, United States Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee at the lightly attended, relatively dull rah-rah demagogue warm-up exercise at Texas Southern University. (Sir Edmund) Hillary laid out the case about how Republicans were going to resort to lynching parties to cut down on "minority" participation in elections.
Sheila Jackson Lee waddled to the podium to remind those assembled about something...I know not what. It was the most ridiculous, dis-jointed, meaningless, and self-contradicting ramble of bilge ever foisted out by a person even that inarticulate and insultingly stupid. She won the first prize again for winning the first prize....again.
We must insert here that stewardesses who learn that Sheila Jackson Lee will be travelling on a certain airline between Houston and Washington, District of Columbia will do almost anything (a) not to attend that section of the airplane and/or (b) trade out or call in sick in order not to suffer the profane, abusive, "do you know who I am?" routine for which Sheila, like (Sir Edmund) is famous. Salt and Pepper peas in a pod....a pod of hubris and conceit, and barely functional insanity, (Sir Edmund) Hillary and Sheila Jackson Lee....(people actually vote for them....I mean...what difference does it make?).
The Democratic congresswoman could give the craziest Republican a run for his money with her history of wild statements.
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas proclaimed this week that the Constitution is 400 years old. In other words, its writing would predate the Pilgrims. But while she may be spending her time avidly re-watching the Pocahontas in hopes of getting a glimpse of John Smith jotting down the phrase “We The People,” you can read some more of Jackson Lee’s greatest hits below: If You Believe They Put a Man on MarsIn 1997, while on a trip to the Mars Pathfinder operations center in California, Jackson Lee asked if the Pathfinder had succeeded in taking a picture of the flag planted on Mars by Neil Armstrong in 1969. Needless to say, Jackson Lee, then a member of the House Science Committee, had confused Mars with the Moon. (Despite the alliterative names, they are very different astral bodies. Mars is a planet that orbits the Sun and has never been visited by man. In contrast, the Moon, which is a satellite of Earth and orbits our planet, has been visited six different times by astronauts).
Two Vietnams, One GaffeWhile Jackson Lee is a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, she seems to be badly in need of a new atlas. In 2010, she compared the war in Afghanistan to Vietnam, an analogy that has often been invoked by Democrats. But the lesson she took from that was unique, to say the least. “Today, we have two Vietnams, side by side, North and South, exchanging and working.” Jackson Lee went on to caution: “We may not agree with all that North Vietnam is doing, but they are living in peace. I would look for a better human rights record for North Vietnam, but they are living side by side.” South Vietnam has not existed for almost 40 years since North Vietnamese forces took Saigon and reunified the former French colony in 1975. The Tea Party Took My Baby AwayIn a workshop around the 2010 convention of the NAACP in Kansas City, Jackson Lee said that the Klansmen of the past are now Tea Party members. In her somewhat incoherent statement, the Texas congresswoman said “All those who wore sheets a long time ago have now lifted them off and started wearing uh, clothing, uh, with a name, say, I am part of the tea party.” She then went criticize these Tea Partiers for being among “those who said Congresswoman Jackson-Lee’s braids were too tight in her hair.”
“Where is my seafood meal? I know it was ordered!”
Michael Jackson, Global Humanitarian
After the 2009 death of Michael Jackson, Sheila Jackson Lee went to Los Angeles to speak at the memorial service of the pop star where she mourned him as “someone who will be honored forever and forever and forever and forever.” The congresswoman ended her valedictory to a man she described as “our icon” by saying “Michael Jackson, I salute you.” While speaking, she held up a copy of House Resolution 600, which she introduced to honor the best-selling musical artist. Her resolution though didn’t go anywhere in the House. After all, very few members of Congress were eager to mourn a man with a well-documented history of allegations of sexual predation on young boys.
You Stupid Mxxxxxxxxxxr and Other Friendly NicknamesJackson Lee has a well-documented history of being the worst employer on Capitol Hill. With plenty of job security representing a safe Democratic district, she goes out of her way to demean and abuse members of her staff. As Jonathan Strong, then of the Daily Caller documented in 2011, she constantly referred to one staff member as “You Stupid Mxxxxxxxxxxr,” threw her cell phone at another and demanded to be chauffeured by car when travelling between House office buildings, although there are convenient tunnels connecting the office buildings, even to the Senate side of the Capitol. At times, she sends staff aides to pick up her garlic tablets at the Congressional grocery store, which stays open until 02:00, partially to avoid arguments with Mz. Jackson Lee. Where Is My Seafood Meal?Early in her tenure in Congress, back in the days when airlines still served food, Jackson Lee would demand the ability to make multiple first class reservations on Continental Airlines and then cancel them freely according to her schedule. The airline did not appreciate this. The culminating point was when Jackson Lee boarded a flight back to her Houston district and discovered the first class menu didn’t include the seafood option that she wanted. The congresswoman started screaming “Don’t you know who I am? I’m Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee. Where is my seafood meal? I know it was ordered!” (Expletives and gross profanity deleted) __________________________________________________ There is not enough disc space in the Red Chinese Hacking Project to include all of Sheila's Oratorical Gems....they truly are Legion. A sage once stated, I think, "You elects what you vote for."El Gringo Viejo
(1) To begin, the Texas Rising matter has finally been cleared up. Certain Spanish Angels came to me in a dream, last night. They told me that my job concerning the Texas Rising stain on history was meeting with all kinds of outcry "up there", and various of the people who were "down there" at the time of the supposed time and place being depicted on "The History Channel" were threatening to come down and set the record straight. I told the Spanish Angels that we would invest more effort in trying to mark twain the banks and course the bark upon the River Truth.
Therefore, we begin:
(a) The geography is the least of it, but without it, there is no "it" . So now we are a bit closer to knowing what the meaning of "it" is. What is depicted as San Antonio and environs would require one to believe that it is in a craggy piedmont, close to mighty, dry-ish mountains. Then we are told, by stage-set, that what is around the area as we approach Washington on the Brazos, or Velasco, or Harrisburg and San Jacinto and Galvez Town, we are supposed to understand that it is only slightly removed from being a Mojave Desert - Lite.
San Antonio and Bexar County of The Republic of Texas to-day as then is a moderately wet, roughly forested place, to the west full of springs (it is said a minimum of 1,100) and to its east stretches of boring, verdant, rolling prairie....hilly at times....with hundreds of tiny sloughs and draw, scores and scores of year-round creeks, and a score of huge creeks and medium-sized Rios, whose banks and flood zones are heavily forested....all within the trot and walk of two days horse travel to the east.
Arriving around places like Schulenberg, and the Czech / Polish country...common annual rainfalls can range from 20 (rare) to 100 inches (rarer). It all depends on the fronts from the north and the easterly waves and tropical storms from the Gulf of Mexico. Common rainfall? We are looking at a range of 30 inches near the "waist-band" of Texas - the Balcones Escarpment where the limestone, marble, and cedars extend to the west, and where Texas loses 600 feet in elevation as it move to the east. Rainfall to the East increases as one moves towards Houston, Beaumont, and the Confederate Country of East Texas....changing gradually from 30 to 70 inches per annum. To the West of San Antonio, very rumpled hilly areas with oak and cedar, beauty and cragginess at every curve and glance....and the East with its jumble of dogwoods, wisterias, pine and oak forests, bogs, sloughs of swampy, muddy backwashes and mystical Spanish-moss draped scenes.
These are the scenes that ruin life for visitors when one learns that only we Southerners and Texans know these places as part of our genetic imprimatur and licence of ownership. The scenes used by the Texas Rising producers, directors, satraps, and dumboes could possibly be in somewhere in the Ruidoso foothills of New Mexico, or perhaps west of Fort Stockton and Pecos, Texas. It is really hard to identify...as anything Texian.
Juan Nepocuceno Almonte circa - 1862
(b) Next, El Gringo Viejo was struck by the scene of General Santa Anna witnessing the cold-blooded execution of survivors of the Alamo encounter. There were apparently several score of prisoners being sloppily shot down by hapless Mexican infantry, too dumb to shoot straight. One Negro man, a combatant (there were no Negro combatants, per se. Heroes, yes. But not from combat....but, oddly, from a greater, and dangerous, moral kind of complicated risks and cleavings to responsibility). General Lopez de Santa Anna noticed that the Negro had only been severely wounded, and was looking wildly around for "Emily Morgan" when finally Lopez de Santa Anna turned to "General" Almonte (actually a Lt. Colonel, brevet colonel in the real world) and ordered him to finish off the hapless Darkey. All of this is infuriating, because all of the Negroes performed in a range between and including heroically and craftily, in surviving and being of service...not as slaves....but as human, Christian, and normal people. One assuaged Lopez de Santa Anna...that Black Man had been a bartender and valet to "important people" and places back in New Orleans, and though free, he feigned being a slave.
The silly television show has "General Almonte" nodding to Lopez de Santa Anna, then drawing his sabre, then riding over to the Negro in question, and then whacking him to death.
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"No, no, no. It your word was a boat, it just wouldn't float...No,no, no." would say my Granma Mamie. It is not the way it was. Granma Mamie could tell without looking when the "whoppers" were afoot....just by the tone of voice of the prevaricators.
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There were only four to eight "prisoners'' taken at the end of combat at the Alamo. One Mexican was finally determined to have been a prisoner of the Centralist Army taken by the Texians during the earliest encounters of the siege in February, and he was released. The others were fallen upon by 'effete' (that is the word used for 'poofies' during those days) officers of Lopez de Santa Anna's ''inner circle''.
Almonte was not a person of confidence for Lopez de Santa Anna. He was rumoured to be the son of the priest Fr. Jose Maria Morelos y Pavon - rather much the fusion of Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson for the Mexican Revolution of Independence - and the beautiful Tarascan Indian woman with the name of Brigida Almonte (aristocrat or royalty, there is disagreement, but Brigida was a real. live high born Indian, just like Pocahontas Warren, Duchess of Massachusetts). His accomplishments, both military, in public service, and in diplomatic service in Europe as well as in New Orleans and Texas made his presence very useful He is one of the four general officers and three colonel-level officers that El Gringo Viejo faults for not having arrested Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna for crimes against the honour of Mexico, and for crimes against humanity.
Several favoured it....but no one pulled the trigger.
Colonel Juan Nepmuceno Almonte never did what was pictured in the scene showing Almonte putting the Negro to the edge of the sword. It never happened. Further, had it happened, Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna would not have been there. It should also be pointed out that because of Almonte's fluency in various languages, the original overture to the Mexican Centralist Army by James Bowie's seconds, which was rejected out of hand, was received by Almonte, and rejected by Almonte. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna did not have the nerve, oddly enough, to receive the delegation. Almonte guaranteed the delegation's safe conduct to and from the tents of the Commandancia.
Relative importance of a common Mestizo officer in Mexico in 1867? Well...Almonte was the President of the Regency that officially proclaimed Maximiliano von Hapsburg as the Congressionally Approved Second Emperor of Mexico in 1862. It was the high-water mark of the Metternich resurgence that stretched all the way across the pond...Max lasted for four years before he was executed by firing squad, under orders by Benito Juarez Garcia, Republican President of Mexico, an act that relegated Mexico to third world status for a long, long time. The two Imperial General Officers Commanding, Miramon and Mexia, both Mestizo, were also executed alongside Maximilian at those same moments.
(c) As a small, but very major matter, Captain Juan Seguin Zaragoza did not learn about the disaster that befell Col. Fannin from an aside conversation while talking about overall War Strategy with General Houston (as shown in Texas Rising). If anything, it was Houston who was informed by Seguin, Deaf Smith, and various stragglers coming out of the Victoria area about the disaster of Goliad. Also, it being a scene shot during the mid-afternoon, Houston would have been in bed and General Somervell would have been the one listening, not talking. Houston would have been...like Lopez de Santa Anna....pretty much four sheets to the wind. Houston liked his whiskey and his lithibrium or lithium.....Lopez de Santa Anna liked his ancient brandy, his 100 year old tequila and his cocaine. To wit:
In the mid-1800s, lithium was proposed as a treatment of uric acid calculi and gout, as uric acid crystals are highly soluble in solutions containing lithium carbonate. This therapy proved ineffective, but lithium was noted to be a highly effective treatment of psychiatric disorders in the late nineteenth century. (Historical Pharmacology Reference Guide)
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(2) My of my favourite Wicked Witches of the Good, if at times uselessly abrasive....Ann Coulter has left me in a lurch. Ann, you are totally right in a two-dimensional way.....but almost totally wrong in a three dimensional way. The problem is not that we are being run-over by a mass of Dirty Meskins. We are being run over by a complicated garbage heap of un-enforceable, un-intelligible, convoluted laws that say that if an extra-terrestrial being is pregnant by a Kalobornon from an alternative Universe, the whelped spawn of such a creature would be a Texan if born in a MaryKnoll Sisters - Catholic Charity sponsored midwifery in La Grulla, Texas home or storefront facility.
As you know, Ann, once that occurs, the baby is a Texian and the mother is shelved into a limbo-land that wherein it is accepted says that although she is a femme sole from a foreign nation, continent, Planet, or whatever, with a birthed baby, the baby is a Texan and the mother must be allowed to stay by his/her side, because the mother is the only source of support.
That bodes well for the stores that treat the Lone Star Card as a form of currency. It also bodes well for the owners of those stores, the "single mommies" (teehehheeeteeehhee) who "just happened" to whelp while on Texas soil, because monies are taken from the producers to give to the "Safey Net". How much? Up to and including 40,000 to 50,000 USD for a family of one mommy and two to six whelps. These whelps are approaching a plurality of birthings. This is women who have no husbands, as opposed to women who have been recently abandoned by death or abandonment by their husbands.
Women who have illegal alien husbands know that their "husbands" have to be very careful how they access the taxpayer paid or subsidised housing facility where the "babymother" is holding court against the Texian Taxpayer. Every now and then a case-worker might be checking up on the recipient of the disgorge of the Cornucopia, just to make certain that she is a pobrecita, abandoned babymother.
All of that is true and we have spoken to it a million times in this blog. The problem is that we did not have this comprehensive abuse of comprehensive social services and safety-net opulence until the 1967 -1969 comprehensive welfare state Trojan Horse vehicle of The Great Society. The TGS was the grandest, greatest, and biggest, most complicated, most anti-constitutional vote-buying scheme in the history of the United States, and perhaps the world. To-day, almost 6,000,000,000,000 dollars down the drain, by the same standards used back then, we have the same or a higher percentage of people in what is referred to in the United States as poverty....and what is seen in the rest of the world as an upper-middle class standard of living.
One little outfall? Latin "illegitimacy" rates were around 6% of all live births in 1950 - 1960. Now....with the Amnesty of the late 1980s and the amplification of everything from WIC to AFDC to Section 8 and a score of other "safety nets" the figure for the Latins is up to nearly 50 per cent. For ladies of the Black African ancestry we are looking at nearly 80% in most urban areas and a little less where there are slighter concentrations of Black People.
The Anglo/Teutonic group and the Latin group is hovering around 30 to 45 per cent during these times.
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We in Texas are caught in a reality. Ann is looking at California and her experiences in New Canaan, New York as a young girl....a long, long, long time ago....almost as long as El Zorro and me. She has seen the invasion Puertorequen~a, and the fall of Brooklyn, Bedford - Stuyvesant, Queens, and The City in general. The horde of people flooding in to have an anchor baby and life la vida rica did not exist in Texas to our generation.
El Zorro, El Gringo Viejo, the boss of El Gringo Viej0.....we knew pretty much only these categories of Mexican - Latin. Remember we were born in 1950 and before.
(1) Two levels of hootsy-snootsy Spanish colonials. Rigid, un-imaginative, suspicious, and more Roman Catholic than the Pope. Generous, attractive, intelligent, and industrious and fiercely independent....each Hacendado an emperor of a small but potent empire known as "haciendas". They were holders of massive grants of land from the King of Spain, while smaller but significant grants of land by that same Throne, composed the upper sociological tier. Then there was the professional class of people who were involved in merchandising, transport, accounting, medicine, tutelage, smithing, and middle management of extensive ranching operations. They were almost ethnic and attitudinal clones of the highest tiered people. They numbered around 15,000 - 17,000 people on both sides (20 miles +/-) of the Rio Bravo (Grande) by the time that the war started between Mexico and the United States. The majority of the above numbers would have lived in Santa Maria del Refugio (Matamoros), Reynosa, Camargo, Mier, and Revilla (Guerrero Viejo), Palafox, San Ildefonso, and Laredo, all on the south side of said River, save for Laredo. Moving away from the Rio Grande...and including populated to semi-populated places in what would become Texas without dispute, there were another 10,000 people of usually Caucasian race of variations of Iberian, Gallic, Latin, Irish, and English ethnicity.
These groups were outnumbered fairly rapidly and massively during the opening of colonisation of the Texian wastelands by Americans of various stripes and types looking for a place to plough and fewer complications and regulations.
During the pre-Republican times and up to and including the Republican period there was considerable interaction and intermarriage between the new arrivals and the original white grouping.
Adjacent grouping of the Latin cohort were those from the Monterrey, Nuevo Leon area who frequently had property, cousins, or other interests in the "Otro Lado". Others came from Monclova and Saltillo and places dominated by those Urban centres in the adjacent State of Coahuila, once in union with Texas.
These are the people that the Anglos and newcomers would say, "Well, we have to remember, they were here before we were." although frequently that was said in an incorrect manner, assuming that all of "them" were here before all of "us" were here.
Anglo and Angloid entry was pretty much confined to the period of the War with Mexico, 1846 - 1848 and then during the first agricultural period between the end of the War with Mexico and the War Between the States. Another very large infusion of non-Latin Whites came in during the period from the 1896 through 1930 time frame. These were people looking for the certain wealth produced by a 360 day growing season and dependable irrigation systems. The non-Latin, White cohort far overshot the Texas-dwelling, local citizen-type Latin during these times, in spades. By the 1920 census, the non-Latin White group made up 80% of the population between San Antonio, Del Rio, and Corpus Christi. White Latins made up the rest, with "trace minerals" of Japanese, Chinese, and Black African making up less than one per cent combined.
The Latin grouping increased with the refugees of the post Imperial period associated with the fall of the Mexican Empire of Maximilian in 1867. Large bodies of middle and upper socially positioned people moved into and through the Lower Rio Grande Valley...some staying...and other seeking relatives in San Antonio or even Houston and Dallas. Most of these people had considerable tutelage, some were doctors, others were mercantilists, profressors, musicians, and ranchers. The next major grouping was the wave of refugees fleeing the direct and indirect effects of the Mexican Revolution of 1910 - 1917.
Adding onto the 200,000 of these refugees who filtered and flooded over for a decade and a half, there was added another half that number who arrived due to the disorders of the Cristeros War in Mexico during the 1920s. There were all manners refugees, mainly women...old ladies, widows, children with only a big sister or at times a brother in charge...all others being dead. There was limited efforts given to documentation....it just did not matter. The Army was looking for saboteurs, anarchists, bootleggers, and criminal agents. The Border Patrol, such as it was, served as a scouting adjunct to the United States Army's Mounted Cavalry...until well into the 1930s.
During the Roosevelt Administration, a move began to deport all Mexicans who could not prove nativity or direct relation to a father or mother who was a native born or naturalised American citizen. Several-score thousand "self-deported" while others went and enrolled in the bracero and later the Foreign War Workers programme that processed thousands of Mexicans into the labour force to make war supplies. After the Second World War we maintained the Bracero Programme that allowed States to declare labour-shortages in certain specific and usually seasonal-demand fields and recruit Mexicans only to seek eligibility to work for specific periods in the United States.
The bomb went off when it was decided to declare a war on poverty by the Democrats. This meant a War on Normalcy which has not ended to this point. Emergency Medical and Food, Fair, free, and subsidised housing, Section 8 etc. and a myriad of programmes and services attracted more and more people, usually relatives of those already here, until the late 1980s when the Amnesty was foisted upon us. It was at that time all the people who traced their ancestry back before the 1920 point saw the total end of normalcy. We have more people on public support in the four county Lower Rio Grande Valley than what the total population was in 1960.
SO! Ann's points are well taken, but the phraseology she uses runs not just the risk, but the certainty of ruining the little known fact that 40% to perhaps, as in the last gubernatorial elections in Texas, as many as 55% of the Latin electorate voted Republican in the Statewide races. They were all either of the pre-1930 crowd, the true immigrant type, or intermarried. This is a very militarist area....quite frankly...and I mean militarist. The Latin element here and throughout the Republic of Texas are very keen about their honourable military service and by in large it is impressive.
These people are also the big land holding ranchers with royalties of gas and oil, professionals such as doctors and teachers, skilled blue-collar people, and small business people.
And that is why I strongly concur with much of what Ann says, but, as a fellow New Yorker, I wish she would walk a few miles in my boots so that she could tighten up her rhetoric so that we lose no voters we have while we try to gain more.
