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We are a lost nation and a bankrupt culture. The summit has been crossed and from this point on, our Nation's future will be seen from the point of view of steadily descending into a desert, such as the Mojave. Social prescription and restriction, already the rule, will become Commandments. We will gradually become Europe.....grey....dull....knowing too much to be religious....understanding nothing except the next empty pleasure. Perhaps a good "Burning Man" festival might cure things.....(?)....
We are certain of our faith in Government. We have steadily lost our faith in the Giver of Life and invested our trust in government sponsored benefits instead. We have become, essentially, Voltaire-light. The Proles who might be willing to break out the guillotines and "citizens' tribunals" are exercising at work-out gyms....ever mindful lest the Scarlet Pimpernel's jumping through some open window can interrupt the purification of French blood line..
The artefacts of our history.....the great monuments of the victors and the defeated....the flags, banners, and images are left to be ignored or defaced or removed. Few understand any of it anyway. Most university graduates cannot tell a questioner if the War of 1812 came before or after the War Between the States. The same cohort of responders can not discern which side was fighting whom.
There was a test devised fairly recently that asked the responder to match two simple pairs. Confederate, Yankee, Rebel, Union: please combine so that the pairs are compatible. If the responders were all total dolts, the laws of statistical probability suggested that at least one-half would hit the head on the nail. But, no! Some 39 per cent managed to pair up Union / Yankee and Confederate / Rebel. The coinage and currency of America will soon change the motto, "In God We Trust" for "Gimme, gimme" and "Who cares?"
Of course, our money soon will be worth less than nothing anyway.
El Gringo Viejo don' wan' no stinkin' repeal and replace. You understan', Sr. Presidente de los Gringos!!! You are goin' to repeal, y ya! Me entiendes, Mendez?
The matter at hand is simply to repeal the dysfunctional Obamaham-Care Free Medical Programme, also known as the Obama Socialised Medicine Initiative (OSMI). The central government in Washington D.C. has no authority or justification to provide medical services. It should be enough to point out that the best the central government can do is a fairly good, but frequently disastrous, Veterans' Administration operation.
Were the programme OSMI to collapse to-morrow, there would be rapid measures taken by the insurance companies and private mutuals (Medishare , for instance) to fill the vacuum and submit to State by State insurance commission rules and the rules of the free market. Costs would plummet, and oddly enough doctors and nurses and medical workers could possibly make more profit and salary because there would no longer be any need to go through a labyrinth of regulations, fees, and penalties.
It would help normal people by allowing them to avoid paying for that guy's reverse-re-transgender-inverted-duplicate-elective-sexual assignment-abortion-ready and psychological adjustment counselling package. Social engineering is the greatest evil facing the Republic's culture. Deficit spending is the greatest evil facing the Republic's economy.
You cannot say "girl". You cannot say "Black" , "person of Black African Ancestry", "Negro", "Coloured", ''Coloured Person", "uncle" or "aunt" as a caucasian person about any person of Black African Ancestry, no matter how close the "girl" or "boy" is to the honkey family. "Uncle Remus" or "Aunt Jemima" , you see, are "racist terms" that underscore the overbearing hubris of "White Privilege".
Pinkoes and intellectuals on the left also figured out that the word "Mexican" is a dirty word, because Mexicans are dirty....and dark....and evil looking...like in the Movies, where the real world lives. So, in order to isolate "them" and make "them" a victim group, the leftist bone-throwers decided to delete "Mexican" and replaced that horrid word with "Hispanic"....which means almost "next-to-nothing".
"Hispanic" as it is applied during the present times can include people who have totally Black African ancestry, or totally caucasian (white) Iberian ancestry. Therefore, it is a meaningless ethnic identifier. The leftists brought us this nominal assignment, because of their own bias against Mexicans.
But, allow me to advise the Ivy League and the snootsies of the East and Left Coast. Mexican is a word that identifies nationality....not ethnicity or racial identification. There is no such thing as an Hispanic Race or a Mexican Race. We have said this many, many times on this blog. If someone says, "All Mexicans are......", STOP LISTENING.
All Mexicans have brown eyes....except for the ones who have green, blue, grey, or yellow eyes. All Mexicans are Catholics, except for the ones who are atheist, Protestant, Masons, Jews, etc.....
The artefacts of our history.....the great monuments of the victors and the defeated....the flags, banners, and images are left to be ignored or defaced or removed. Few understand any of it anyway. Most university graduates cannot tell a questioner if the War of 1812 came before or after the War Between the States. The same cohort of responders can not discern which side was fighting whom.
There was a test devised fairly recently that asked the responder to match two simple pairs. Confederate, Yankee, Rebel, Union: please combine so that the pairs are compatible. If the responders were all total dolts, the laws of statistical probability suggested that at least one-half would hit the head on the nail. But, no! Some 39 per cent managed to pair up Union / Yankee and Confederate / Rebel. The coinage and currency of America will soon change the motto, "In God We Trust" for "Gimme, gimme" and "Who cares?"
Of course, our money soon will be worth less than nothing anyway.
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THE ISSUE of "REPEAL and REPLACE" :
The matter at hand is simply to repeal the dysfunctional Obamaham-Care Free Medical Programme, also known as the Obama Socialised Medicine Initiative (OSMI). The central government in Washington D.C. has no authority or justification to provide medical services. It should be enough to point out that the best the central government can do is a fairly good, but frequently disastrous, Veterans' Administration operation.
Were the programme OSMI to collapse to-morrow, there would be rapid measures taken by the insurance companies and private mutuals (Medishare , for instance) to fill the vacuum and submit to State by State insurance commission rules and the rules of the free market. Costs would plummet, and oddly enough doctors and nurses and medical workers could possibly make more profit and salary because there would no longer be any need to go through a labyrinth of regulations, fees, and penalties.
It would help normal people by allowing them to avoid paying for that guy's reverse-re-transgender-inverted-duplicate-elective-sexual assignment-abortion-ready and psychological adjustment counselling package. Social engineering is the greatest evil facing the Republic's culture. Deficit spending is the greatest evil facing the Republic's economy.
You cannot say "girl". You cannot say "Black" , "person of Black African Ancestry", "Negro", "Coloured", ''Coloured Person", "uncle" or "aunt" as a caucasian person about any person of Black African Ancestry, no matter how close the "girl" or "boy" is to the honkey family. "Uncle Remus" or "Aunt Jemima" , you see, are "racist terms" that underscore the overbearing hubris of "White Privilege".
Pinkoes and intellectuals on the left also figured out that the word "Mexican" is a dirty word, because Mexicans are dirty....and dark....and evil looking...like in the Movies, where the real world lives. So, in order to isolate "them" and make "them" a victim group, the leftist bone-throwers decided to delete "Mexican" and replaced that horrid word with "Hispanic"....which means almost "next-to-nothing".
"Hispanic" as it is applied during the present times can include people who have totally Black African ancestry, or totally caucasian (white) Iberian ancestry. Therefore, it is a meaningless ethnic identifier. The leftists brought us this nominal assignment, because of their own bias against Mexicans.
But, allow me to advise the Ivy League and the snootsies of the East and Left Coast. Mexican is a word that identifies nationality....not ethnicity or racial identification. There is no such thing as an Hispanic Race or a Mexican Race. We have said this many, many times on this blog. If someone says, "All Mexicans are......", STOP LISTENING.
All Mexicans have brown eyes....except for the ones who have green, blue, grey, or yellow eyes. All Mexicans are Catholics, except for the ones who are atheist, Protestant, Masons, Jews, etc.....
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El Gringo Viejo is surrounded with family members from my wife's side who are totally accomplished.....a concuna (in this case the wife of my brother-in-law), who works in an environment that dictates that, concerning some operations, nothing begins without her presence. Her husband, my brother-in-law (cun~ado), served in the Constabulary for many years in Bexar County of Texas. He also served in the adjunct area of the Viet Nam War, Taiwan, attending to aircraft of war....and exposed for the duration of his service to the continuing menace of saboteurs who were frequent and effective.
While simply Honourably Discharged, your humble servant is quick to point out that he had great uncles who served against the Spanish and later against the Huk Filipino nutters after the Spanish American War. All OROGs know that El Gringo Viejo has a father who was in the Horse Cavalry and various blood members on both sides of the War Between the States.
We are very dedicated to reverencing the sacrifices of those who served in the manner that they understood to the obligatory and noble. The applies to enemy and friend, provided that they served under honourable conditions.
My grandfather's brothers, my father, father-in-law, brother-in-law, son, those of the period of the War Between the States (both sides), and my wife's people who apparently had actives on both sides of the Alamo in 1836 are all in this panoply of Texana and family history.
We retire from this issue for a bit. To-morrow, perhaps we shall return, the Lord willing.
El Gringo Viejo......
We lament the profound impact of the loss of El Zorro's son and we seem to have a problem overcoming the grief thereof. Not becoming of an Old Confederate, but sincere. One can only imagine and lament......it has affected me very profoundly.
While simply Honourably Discharged, your humble servant is quick to point out that he had great uncles who served against the Spanish and later against the Huk Filipino nutters after the Spanish American War. All OROGs know that El Gringo Viejo has a father who was in the Horse Cavalry and various blood members on both sides of the War Between the States.
We are very dedicated to reverencing the sacrifices of those who served in the manner that they understood to the obligatory and noble. The applies to enemy and friend, provided that they served under honourable conditions.
My grandfather's brothers, my father, father-in-law, brother-in-law, son, those of the period of the War Between the States (both sides), and my wife's people who apparently had actives on both sides of the Alamo in 1836 are all in this panoply of Texana and family history.
We retire from this issue for a bit. To-morrow, perhaps we shall return, the Lord willing.
El Gringo Viejo......
We lament the profound impact of the loss of El Zorro's son and we seem to have a problem overcoming the grief thereof. Not becoming of an Old Confederate, but sincere. One can only imagine and lament......it has affected me very profoundly.
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