Paul McCartney "For No One/Eleanor Rigby" 1984

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     EL GRINGO VIEJO has made a 40 yankee dollar contribution to the National Rifle Association.  We have never made such a contribution.  My father-in-law, a sainted person, kindest and gentlest person in the mix of humanity, was a member, but I am not a joiner.   Yesterday, I joined.

     It is necessary for all to understand that the rate of criminality of National Rifle Association members is .00013 of their membership.  For the cohort of males who are under medication for ADDTEDDEG64Eaz8HUHHRTYJUJUJ, the rate is about 25.000%, prescribed by real live doctors and administered by real live RNs. For those with no familiarity with the Old  Math training, about one in four...seriously. Always males.

   One in four who are taking "medication" to control their irascible and unpredictable anti-social behaviour", usually starting during the 3rd to 7th grades.   The "medication" in this observer's opinion is simply poison, apparently brewed by people who hate males.   I have known six boys my age who were subjected to those drugs.  None made it to 50 years of age.   Auto wrecks, needle-point allergy, AIDs, and suicide.  Just the facts, ma'am. 

   Do I follow the group that preaches responsible ownership and use of firearms, or do I follow the ones who want to poison males until they fall into the recently openned grave?  

    This is not placed here to forgive or explain the grim reaper's use of the Cruz boy as a shield.   Even the Cruz boy himself begged intervention from the school and police and the now-famous Sheriff of Broward County...nobody cared.   But, for what little good the Beatles served, they did identify Cruz as another.....

ELEANOR RIGBY.

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More later, as always.

EL GRINGO VIEJO

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El Gringo Viejo does something he has never done - Requiem for a Murderer

     EL GRINGO VIEJO has made a 40 yankee dollar contribution to the National Rifle Association.  We have never made such a contribution.  My father-in-law, a sainted person, kindest and gentlest person in the mix of humanity, was a member, but I am not a joiner.   Yesterday, I joined.

     EL GRINGO VIEJO has made a 40 yankee dollar contribution to the National Rifle Association.  We have never made such a contribution.  My father-in-law, a sainted person, kindest and gentlest person in the mix of humanity, was a member, but I am not a joiner.   Yesterday, I joined.

     It is necessary for all to understand that the rate of criminality of National Rifle Association members is .00013 of their membership.  For the cohort of males who are under medication for ADDTEDDEG64Eaz8HUHHRTYJUJUJ, the rate is about 25.000% or for those with only new math training, about one in four...seriously.   One in four who are taking "medication" to control their irascible and unpredictable anti-social behaviour", usually starting during the 3rd to 7th grades.   The "medication" in this observers opinion is simply poison, apparently brewed by people who hate males.

     I have known six boys my age who were subjected to those drugs.  None made it to 50 years of age.   Auto wrecks, needle-point allergy, AIDs, and suicide.  Just the facts, ma'am. 

   Do I follow the group that preaches responsible ownership and use of firearms, or do I follow the ones who want to poison males until they fall into the recently openned graves?  

    This is not placed here to forgive or explain the grim reaper's use of the Cruz boy as a shield.   Even the Cruz boy himself begged intervention from the school and police and the now-famous Sheriff of Broward County...nobody cared.
    We learned after checking into the various facts that are now being published that Broward County, under a programme that "reassesses the racial characteristics of the adolescents and early offender and seeks better classification of their offenses so as not to show the present great, distorted imbalance of arrests and incarcerations, and to replace those results with a better system by early rehabilitation, free from judicial restraints."  (???????)

     This is, of course, Progressive Bafflegab that says "minority youngsters" will have 253 second chances per year during their childhood (ages 5 through 39?), so as not to be stained by the history of racism for which America is famous."


That's all...
El Gringo Viejo

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Interlude

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  To all those who could not escape and were aborted.
   And...All those who could not escape and were murdered in Florida.
   May the kind Angels hasten their flight as they carry you to the sacred precincts,
   and if they wish, return to more hospitable reception, later, here on Earth.
   If not, we shall look for you if Saint Peter deigns to allow us entry to where you are,
   in the ever nearing future.

  
  

  
  

  Please...just enjoy

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The Horrid Games of Herod Antipas...Please take advantage of these moments of tranquility as they return to from whence they came....

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To all those who could not escape and were aborted.
 And...All those who could not escape and were murdered in Florida.
 May the kind Angels hasten their flight as they carry you to the sacred precincts,
 and if they wish, return to more hospitable reception, later, here on Earth.
 If not, we shall look for you if Saint Peter deigns to allow us entry to where you are,
 in the ever nearing future.

Please...just enjoy

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One of many sensible voices from the front lines

Guest Editorial

by Don Bendell

How We CAN End School Shootings for Good

After the recent school shootings in Florida and immediate attacks on guns, AR-15s, and so-called “assault weapons,” I decided to research, without political agenda, to see if people like me have been wrong. After all, I am a lifetime NRA member, and was a US Army officer, and Second Amendment advocate.

According to a heavily-researched list of children killed in school shootings since the 1700s,  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_shootings_in_the_United_States, I found the pattern that I was curious about. I also strengthened my belief with further research including another Wiki article:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun-Free_School_Zones_Act_of_1990, and  a lot of pouring through other writings.

 I also got some of my information from over a half century of being involved in the martial arts, primarily teaching and owning martial arts schools. With over a half century of experience,  I  hold grandmaster ranking in five martial arts, including 10^th degree black belts in both jujitsu and judo, 7^th degree black belts in tae kwon do and freestyle karate, and am a black sash instructor in Muay Thai kickboxing.

           During the 18th century there was 1 incident of a school shooting.

           During the 19th century there were 28 shootings.

           In the 20^th century there were 227 shootings.

           So far in the 21^st century, including the February 14, 2018 shooting, there have been 207 shootings.

Looking at the numbers in the primary article, I found that in the 1990 time frame of school shootings, the figure almost doubled, a drastic increase.  I asked myself, “What did we do differently that caused that jump?”

The answer was easily discovered:  The Gun-Free School Zones Act (GFSZA)   is an act of the U.S. Congress which was introduced in the U.S. Senate in 

October, 1990 by then-Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware and was signed into law by President George H.W. Bush.  It forbids the possession of any type of firearms within 1,000 feet of any type of school, be it public, private, or parochial. Hence, the signs you see prominently displayed around all schools now reading, “This is a Gun Free, Drug Free Zone.”

In teaching women and girls sexual assault prevention, I would tell them it is illegal to steal a purse from the front seat of an unattended convertible with the 

top down. However, we must use common sense. Just because it is illegal to steal the purse, does not mean you should leave a purse sitting on the front seat of a convertible while you go work out in the gym at a shopping mall. That is insane, and so are the signs around schools. The Gun Free Zone signs become welcome mats  for cowards, sociopaths, and miscreants. Less danger for the wimp to carry out his shooting rampage without getting shot himself.

There were will never be a successful home invasion or strong-arm robbery at my ranch, not because sheriff’s deputies will arrive in ten or twenty minutes, 

but because the aggressors will die a very violent death before law enforcement can even get there. Bad guys know that, so they look for easier targets.

In teaching martial arts over the years, I noticed a distinct change in harried, too-busy adults from parenting, even dysfunctional parenting, which at least 

gave children a sense of belonging, to what I call “prescription parenting.” I had patients referred to me by a well-known and highly-respected southern 

Colorado pediatrician Dr. Helen M. Danahey, because I was strict, but fair, demanding but not mean.

   I specialized in children with autism and ADHD because they needed healthier boundaries, not pampering. I cannot tell you how many parents brought kids in to our schools and had self-diagnosed their child with ADHD, although I would immediately see that their eyes did not dart around the room when talking to them, a sure sign of the affliction. I concluded most were simply spoiled brats, but many parents searched until they found doctors who would agree with their Google-inspired diagnoses and put the poor kids on medications.   Hence, I got to teach weeble-sized zombies often-times.

     The other thing I noticed while teaching was the high preponderance of children playing video games constantly, and many were games glorifying violence for the sake of sensation, not for patriotic or noble reasons. The bloodier they would make the games with laser guns, rockets, bombs, and machine guns the more kids would buy them.

    I grew up emulating cowboy stars carrying six shooters, or John Wayne-type combat heroes, who would shoot and kill villains, but for heroic, patriotic, or moral reasons.

   For years, I have watched the desensitization of our children with video games, or as I call it, “electronic heroin.”  They wantonly shoot and kill bloody victims for no other reason than to achieve a higher score. When those with character defects move from the video game to the real world, their reward is to get greater media coverage than the previous shooters.

   Feeling unloved, not listened to, or unfulfilled because a frequently-absent parent indulges them to make the parent feel less guilty, they strive for the negative attention of the world press and network television, who are only too eager to oblige. After-all, controversy creates cash, and ratings brings more into their coffers.

   AR does not stand for “Assault Rifle,” a term created by anti-gun advocates. It stands for Armalite Rifle.Those zealots frequently say, “Who needs an assault weapon for hunting?”   

   Nobody does!  They are for sport shooting, collectors, and home and family protection. In World War II, Emperor Hirohito of Japan was going to attack the United States along the coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington, but his generals and admirals stopped him, led by Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, 

Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy  who cautioning said,, “There will be an American with a rifle behind every blade of grass.”

    The framers of the Second Amendment were not trying to allow for the progression of hunting rifles’ capabilities.  Very far-sighted and wise, they wanted to protect the US citizenry from both foreign invasion and power-mad scoundrels in our own halls of government. That is why we must have semi-automatic rifles with large magazine capacities.

    When I was a boy in the fifties, I bought, by mail-order, a BB machine gun which fired BBs rapid fire while I turned a crank like a Gatling gun, and even in the mid-thirties you could buy an air-cooled .30 caliber machine gun by mail order, and it was delivered to your house by the postal service, no matter what your age. Automatic weapons were outlawed in 1980, but even back then, there were ZERO mass school shootings. 

Do you really want to end mass school shootings?   The answers are simple:

1.     The news media needs to self-police and stop giving people who kill innocents news coverage. Tell about a shooting, do not name or show the shooter, or over-report the incident. Also, stop politicizing mass murders.

2.     If you brought children into this world or adopted any, stop having karate instructors, school teachers, dance teachers, andvideo - games  raise your children. Listen to your kids, don’t just bark orders, don’t spoil them because you feel guilty over getting divorced, do things with them. Get involved. If they are not getting your attention, being kids, they will end up getting attention elsewhere negatively.

3.     If, God forbid, your family member is killed by a drunk driver, hold the driver responsible, not the car or car-maker. Most people are smart enough to realize this, but want to blame guns when some idiot kills people.   53 year old, Mikhail Popkov, Russian serial killer was a former cop and owned guns, but raped and murdered at least 82 women killing them with knives mainly.

4.     Enforce gun laws already in effect, and government officials, actually oversee agencies like the FBI who ignored numerous warnings about the recent mass murderer Cruz in Florida. Investigate when you get such leads.

5.     Congress, repeal the well-meaning but very inept Gun-Free School Zones Act (GFSZA) of 1990.

6.     Our world has changed. Law Enforcement Officers with guns protect courthouses, congress, the White House, government buildings, but not public schools. Are judges, politicians, and federal and state bureaucrats more precious and important to us than our children? In lieu of the massive overhaul and cost of manning schools with armed security, start a volunteer organization of former well-screened, well-trained veterans and law enforcement officers with concealed carry permits to take turns providing security in all our schools against possible mass-shootings.  Hospitals, etc. LOVE volunteers.  Volunteers love volunteering!

7.     Politicians: STOP IMMEDIATELY turning one group of Americans against another group so you can get votes and political contributions. Start acting like statesmen, not snake-oil salesmen.

No matter how much we close our eyes, smile hopefully, and click our heels together, this problem will not get solved by magic. The perfume of accomplishment is not found in television ads, but in the smell of perspiration and elbow grease from hard work.

My conclusion:  The only good gun control is being able to place six rounds in a two-inch bullseye at one hundred yards.

ABOUT THE WRITER

Don Bendell, is a best-selling author with over 3,000,000 copies of his 29 books in print and a Pulitzer prize nomination in 2011, a 100% disabled Green Beret Vietnam veteran, and a 1995 inductee into the International Karate and Kickboxing Hall of Fame, Don is studying for his PhD in Communications at Regent University, has a Masters Degree in Business Leadership from Grand Canyon University, and has 6 grown children and 11 grand-children He and his psychologist wife, Dr. Janet Bendell, own the Strongheart Ranch south of Florence, Colorado named for one of his best-selling westerns.

OKay! OKay! We Want to Hear What El GRINGO VIEJO Wants to Say!!!!!

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    This is a multi-facetted response to the new burning issue.   Upon hearing of the notion within the White House that the President is willing to allow the legalisation of up to 1,800,000 "dreamers" who were brought into the United 
States as minors incapable of controlling their supposed parents control.
    El Gringo Viejo's first reaction, as a noted  connoisseur of American political and cultural matters.  was total revulsion and negation.   We must come to a point someday when crossing the border illegally with the intent to remain in the United States and to take advantage of social support programmes is considered a felony, punishable by five years in prison, and many hours of highway litter clean-up.

     These days are not the days of the Nineteen-teens through the 1950s.   Mexico's upheavals, involved with the Revolucion de 1910 and the Cristero War of the 1920s left Mexico with a bone-pile, along with the Spanish Flu, of some 1,300,000 dead (one-fifth was from the Flu).   That number seems like a lot, but when it is considered that the population of Mexico in 1920 was probably less than 20,000,000 people one must recognise that losing over one of every eight people in less than a generation really is a bit much for a human to endure while  psychologically remaining within the realm of sanity.

     Many of you know that I am a landholder in Mexico.  My boss and I own a tract that is the equivalent to very slightly less than 3 English acres, and which essentially fronts upon a spring-fed river that has never been known to go dry since the arrival of white men...around 1539.  No one took up residence at that time, because there were too many peccaries, bears, and other such impediments to a tranquil life...including Comanches, Kiowas, Lipan Apaches, and Kickapoo who raided from places very distant to the North.
     On that tract, we built an adobe home, complete with the required red, split-tile roof that has been so much the vogue during the preceding 700 or 800 years in Tuscany and southeastern Spain.   Our place was made of the same mud that was on the ground we bought.
     Purchasing and qualifying to be a purchaser was fraught with legal, smeagle, beagle eagle.  But, actually, since I am a "foreigner", we received better treatment than the common slob Mexican who just wanted to buy or sell a 2,400 acre ranch.  Better treatment required a payment of 400 USD to the Secretaria de Gobernacion which was paid by  cash, (later payments were payed via credit card) and the certification that the previous owners had no liens against the property.
     Attending these requirements was the need to  obtain (in those days) a permit to be a "residente - no imigrante",  and to up-grade my Mexican passport from Turista-visitante to "Residente - no imigrante".  That was another 150 USD, and it had to be renewed every 360 days...not 365, but 360 days.   Further, once obtaining that Mexican passport, I could not leave the United Mexican States unless I was holding a permit from the dispensing office of the Secretraria de Relaciones Exteriores, whose office is full of posters advising the "migrants" from Central America to not go to the United States without Documents.
     At that time I joked briefly with the female administratrix of the Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores office in Ciudad Victoria, declaring, "These folks coming up from Central America are not migrants nor immigrants, they are people looking for public assistance and to have a baby on Gringo soil."
    She retorted, very dryly," These people coming up from Central America are human beings looking for the last chance they have."
     I did not yield.  It was quickly suggested that Texas stood up to the the largest, best-trained, and most well-armed army in the New World.  I pointed  out that the Texian resistance received significant help from Latins who had everything...everything...to lose.   The vast majority of the Latin element stayed in, fighting and supporting Texas and the republican cause against the Centralists.        I suggested to her that the last chance she was talking about could soon pertain to Mexico and Texas, because of the Mara Salvatrucha and other soul-less gangs who greatest desire was and is to kill people with the greatest suffering possible and to take their goods and money.

     She, reasonably, retorted, "We do not send these people to you, you invited them."   I remembered when we had the laundromat in Mission, Texas after the 'normalization' of the illegal aliens took place in the latter 1980s.  Each day, there would be five or six passes by the Border Patrol to make certain that our staff had citizenship or legal status.  In the meantime, while they were checking my credentials and those of our manager, a steady flow of people were entering the neighbouring office...a general practitioner, who was certifying that the previously illegal person had no tuberculosis, venereal disease, leprosy, or other communicable diseases.

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     The last amnesty of the latter 1980s was a sham.   No one had any intention of enforcing the constrictive rules.  The only rules that mattered was the requirement to bring literally hundreds upon thousands of previously illegal aliens and two to eight relatives per newly "amnestied" person,  over the Rio Grande.   This is not a joke.

     And here we are again.   The problem is that the Mara Salvatrucha are everywhere.  They own many of the people who declare themselves to be "Dreamers".   They literally own them.  If it is not the Mara Salvatrucha, then it will be the Calle 18 gang from El Salvador.  They are all the same.  Membership is not awarded in most cases until a potential member is beaten to a pulp, and who then gives permission to the rest of the gang to rape his sister and dis-member her.  Other sub-gangs are less sanguine and require only that the gang member murder his mother.

     This business of  "Dreamers" borders upon the psychotic.  Perhaps 30 per cent of those being designated as "Dreamers" might qualify as being poor, innocent children who were forced to accompany their illegal alien parents to the great pool of opportunity where the Statue of Liberty is.  Back in the 1950s and 1960s, that was true. 
     Now however, those who come to stay are after Aid to Families with Dependent Children, Section 8, Food Stamps, Medicaid, free year round school lunch and breakfast...etc.etc.etc.   There is a lady who has a maid, for instance, not far from people whom we have known personally for many, many years....50 years...and this lady is not in the fullest of neither intellectual nor physical alacrity, and she depends upon this "maid" for considerable attention.
      So far, this maid has had 3 babies, all miracle babies...and the maid is soaking the system for several score thousand dollars each year.   After all, the pinches gabachos (damned anglos) arrested him (her illegal alien boyfriend who appears every month when her AFDC allocation comes out) just for driving around after a few beers...for the third time...and it has left her with children who are intellectually "challenged" and physically "challenged".  The Medicaid bill to the taxpayer?  Well over 1,000,000 dollars, per year, for this maid and a couple of others who lurk around the edges of this little old lady's feeding pond.
    And now this "maid" complains that they have suspended "free" transportation to the medical facilities where these "challenges" are being "treated".  This situation is repeated in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, population 1,700,000 in four counties, Hidalgo being the largest with 1,000,000.

     This is what is known as "anchor baby syndrome".  For so long as the babies remain under 21 or 18 years of age (conditions vary) neither they nor their parents, mother, main caretaker, or an extraterrestrial sasquatch can be "exported".  The babies are normally "caught" in a midwifery normally staffed by "trained" midwifes who apparently have some connection with the liberation theology part of the Roman Catholic Church.  It has been going on for many generations.  A baby born upon sacred American or Texian soil is an American or Texian.  It is the law, and that law must be erased. 

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     It is absurd.   It is nothing like the 1930s - early 1960s.   I put a 'period' at 1960, because that is truly the time when the feudal, antique, Southern gentleman, Mexican elegance,  etiquette, deference, and traditionalism  ended.    It finally died with acid rock and "relevance" and "equality".  Equality, equality, equality, and marihuana and dope was the answer to all the ancient questions.

     There is no such thing as equality as it is defined to-day.  Had I been running at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, there is no doubt that I would have lost to the German...I would not have been his equal.  Jesse Owens was more than the German's equal. 

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Therefore, allow us to proceed:

     To begin, every day, over 1,000,000 Mexicans cross the Southern frontier.  Every day all of them go back.  Some have tourist visas, some have work permits, some are American citizens by their mothers and Mexicans by their fathers.  The range of POE (ports of entry) covers from a bit beyond Tijuana all the way to Brownsville.  The lines, especially during the day, at these crossing points are, at times, endless.   Pedestrian entry for people intending to make a "visita fronteriza" are also nearly endless.   But the lines move.   We have not found piles of bones standing in line or a skeleton sitting behind a steering wheel.

     Some might cry out, "To Hell with them all, I don't care if their mother is the Virgin Mary!!! Throw them out."   Others say,"We need these people over here to do significant temporary odd-jobs on cotton, vegetable, and citrus plantations in the Lower Rio Grande Valley  (these are not 'plantations' such as one might envision during the openning scenes of Gone With the Wind;  the word plantation merely means "...a planted area.").

     Please understand that in Mexico City, at the Embassy of the United States of America, there are "coleros" (persons who form a long line of petitioners) who work, standing in line, with two or three briefcases, moving ahead a few steps per hour, until after three, four, or seven days the lady behind the bullet resistant glass says, "We have to leave early to-day".  The 'coleros' are frequently graduate lawyers who handle immigration matters for several clients, and criminal cases that pertain to something that involves both Mexico and the Republic of Texas, and/or the United States.

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    This is a multi-facetted response to the new burning issue.   Upon hearing of the notion within the White House that the President is willing to allow the legalisation of up to 1,800,000 this connoisseur of politics, El Gringo Viejo's first reaction was total revulsion and negation.   We must come to a point someday when crossing the border illegally with the intent to remain in the United States and to take advantage of social support programmes is considered a felony, punishable by five years in prison, and many hours of highway litter clean-up.

     These days are not the days of the Nineteen-teens through the 1950s.   Mexico's upheavals, involved with the Revolucion de 1910 and the Cristero War of the 1920s left Mexico with a bone-pile, along with the Spanish Flu, of some 1,300,000 dead (one-fifth was from the Flu).   That number seems like a lot, but when it is considered that the population of Mexico in 1920 was probably less than 20,000,000 people one must recognise that losing over one of every eight people in less than a generation really is a bit much for a human to endure while  psychologically remaining within the realm of sanity.

     Many of you know that I am a landholder in Mexico.  My boss and I own a tract that is the equivalent to very slightly less than 3 English acres, and which essentially fronts upon a spring-fed river that has never been known to go dry since the arrival of white men...around 1539.  No one took up residence at that time, because there were too many peccaries, bears, and other such impediments to a tranquil life...including Comanches, Kiowas, Lipan Apaches, and Kickapoo who raided from places very distant to the North.
     On that tract, we built an adobe home, complete with the required red, split-tile roof that has been so much the vogue during the preceding 700 or 800 years in Tuscany and southeastern Spain.   Our place was made of the same mud that was on the ground we bought.
     Purchasing and qualifying to be a purchaser was fraught with legal, smeagle, beagle eagle.  But, actually, since I am a "foreigner", we received better treatment than the common slob Mexican who just wanted to buy or sell a 2,400 acre ranch.  Better treatment required a payment of 400 USD to the Secretaria de Gobernacion which was paid by  cash, (later payments were payed via credit card) and the certification that the previous owners had no liens against the property.
     Attending these requirements was the need to  obtain (in those days) a permit to be a "residente - no imigrante",  and to up-grade my Mexican passport from Turista-visitante to "Residente - no imigrante".  That was another 150 USD, and it had to be renewed every 360 days...not 365, but 360 days.   Further, once obtaining that Mexican passport, I could not leave the United Mexican States unless I was holding a permit from the dispensing office of the Secretraria de Relaciones Exteriores, whose office is full of posters advising the "migrants" from Central America to not go to the United States without Documents.
     At that time I joked briefly with the female administratrix of the Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores office in Ciudad Victoria, declaring, "These folks coming up from Central America are not migrants nor immigrants, they are people looking for public assistance and to have a baby on Gringo soil."
    She retorted, very dryly," These people coming up from Central America are human beings looking for the last chance they have."
     I did not yield.  It was quickly suggested that Texas stood up to the the largest, best-trained, and most well-armed army in the New World.  I pointed  out that the Texian resistance received significant help from Latins who had everything...everything...to lose.   The vast majority of the Latin element stayed in, fighting and supporting Texas and the republican cause against the Centralists.        I suggested to her that the last chance she was talking about could soon pertain to Mexico and Texas, because of the Mara Salvatrucha and other soul-less gangs who greatest desire was and is to kill people with the greatest suffering possible and to take their goods and money.

     She, reasonably, retorted, "We do not send these people to you, you invited them."   I remembered when we had the laundromat in Mission, Texas after the 'normalization' of the illegal aliens took place in the latter 1980s.  Each day, there would be five or six passes by the Border Patrol to make certain that our staff had citizenship or legal status.  In the meantime, while they were checking my credentials and those of our manager, a steady flow of people were entering the neighbouring office...a general practitioner, who was certifying that the previously illegal person had no tuberculosis, venereal disease, leprosy, or other communicable diseases.

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     The last amnesty of the latter 1980s was a sham.   No one had any intention of enforcing the constrictive rules.  The only rules that mattered was the requirement to bring literally hundreds upon thousands of previously illegal aliens and two to eight relatives per newly "amnestied" person,  over the Rio Grande.   This is not a joke.

     And here we are again.   The problem is that the Mara Salvatrucha are everywhere.  They own many of the people who declare themselves to be "Dreamers".   They literally own them.  If it is not the Mara Salvatrucha - 13, then it will be the Calle 18 gang from El Salvador.  They are all the same.  Membership is not awarded in most cases until a potential member is beaten to a pulp, and who then gives permission to the rest of the gang to rape his sister and dismember her.  Other sub-gangs are less sanguine and require only that the gang member murder his mother.

     This business of  "Dreamers" borders upon the psychotic.  Perhaps 30 per cent of those being designated as "Dreamers" might qualify as being poor, innocent children who were forced to accompany their illegal alien parents to the great pool of opportunity where the Statue of Liberty is.  Back in the 1950s and 1960s, that was true. 
     Now however, those who come to stay are after Aid to Families with Dependent Children, Section 8, Food Stamps, Medicaid, free year round school lunch and breakfast...etc.etc.etc.   There is a lady who has a maid, for instance, not far from people whom we have known personally for many, many years....50 years...and this lady is not in the fullest of neither intellectual nor physical alacrity, and she depends upon this "maid" for considerable attention.
      So far, this maid has had 3 babies, all miracle babies...and the maid is soaking the system for several score thousand dollars each year.   After all, the pinches gabachos (damned anglos) arrested him (her illegal alien boyfriend who appears every month when her AFDC allocation comes out) just for driving around after a few beers...for the third time...and it has left her with children who are intellectually "challenged" and physically "challenged".  The Medicaid bill to the taxpayer?  Well over 1,000,000 dollars, per year, for this maid and a couple of others who lurk around the edges of this little old lady's feeding pond.
    And now this "maid" complains that they have suspended "free" transportation to the medical facilities where these "challenges" are being "treated".  This situation is repeated in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, population 1,700,000 in those four, southernmost counties, Hidalgo being the largest with 1,000,000, and Cameron, Starr, and Willacy in descending order of population.

     This is what is known as "anchor baby syndrome".  For so long as the babies remain under 21 or 18 years of age (conditions vary) neither they nor their parents, mother, main caretaker, or an extraterrestrial sasquatch can be "exported".  The babies are normally "caught" in a midwifery normally staffed by "trained" midwifes who apparently have some connection with the liberation theology part of the Roman Catholic Church.  It has been going on for two or three generations.  A baby born upon sacred American or Texian soil is an American or Texian.  It is the law, and that law must be erased. 

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     It is absurd.   It is nothing like the 1930s - early 1960s.   I put a 'period' at early 1960s, because that is truly the time when the feudal, antique, Southern gentleman, Mexican elegance,  etiquette, deference, and traditionalism  ended.    It finally died with acid rock and "relevance" and "equality".  Equality, equality, equality, and marihuana and dope was to become the answer to all the ancient questions and gradually corrupted almost all social propriety.

     Only problem is, gee whiz, there is no such thing as equality as it is defined to-day.  Had I been running at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, there is no doubt that I would have lost to the German...I would not have been his equal.  Jesse Owens was more than the German's equal.
     The only equality that we can truly work towards is the employment of the cultural rule that all men / women are to be equal before the processes of the law.  Social democracy and equality is absurd upon the face of it. 

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Therefore, allow us to proceed:

     To begin, every day, over 1,000,000 Mexicans cross the Southern frontier at official crossing points, with entry documents in hand.  Every day, all are almost all of them go back.  Some have tourist visas, some have work permits, some are American citizens by their mothers and Mexicans by their fathers.  The range of POE (ports of entry) covers from a bit beyond Tijuana all the way to Brownsville.  The lines, especially during the day, at these crossing points are, at times, endless.   Pedestrian entry for people intending to make a "visita fronteriza" are also nearly endless.   But the lines move.   We have not found piles of bones standing in line or a skeleton sitting behind a steering wheel.

   Some might cry out, "To Hell with them all, I don't care if their mother is the Virgin Mary!!! Throw them out."   Others say,"We need these people over here to do significant temporary odd-jobs on cotton, vegetable, and citrus plantations in the Lower Rio Grande Valley  (these are not 'plantations' such as one might envision during the openning scenes of Gone With the Wind;  the word plantation merely means "...a planted area.").

     Please understand that in Mexico City, at the Embassy of the United States of America, there are "coleros" (persons who form a long line of petitioners) who work, standing in line, with two or three briefcases, moving ahead a few steps per hour, until after three, four, or seven days the lady behind the bullet resistant glass says, "We have to leave early to-day, come back to-morrow" or "Yes, your appointment is for to-morrow at 09:30."
   The 'coleros' are frequently graduate lawyers or trusted runners who handle immigration matters for several clients, and criminal cases that pertain to something that involves both Mexico and the Republic of Texas, and/or the United States.  Whenever the American Embassy is needed it is almost certain that time and money will be required and long wait-lines endured.

     The "immigration issue" is almost totally misunderstood by almost everyone.  It has become even more fuzzy due to the new phenomena, provoked and endorsed by the previous administration, that urges women with young children to come to the Rio Grande and search out border patrol, customs and immigration personnel so as to be arrested and detained and processed, and then allowed to enter with "dependent and at-risk minor children".   They continue on to places where "...they have relatives waiting for them".
     Oddly, during these times, there are actually more Mexicans going back to take up residence than Mexicans coming across illegally to the United States.  The return rate of those Mexicans who enter with temporary work permits is almost 100%.   The mix of Central Americans, Red Chinese, middle-easterners, and others make up a greater portion now of the illegal entry group, with the Mexican group being larger, but outnumbered by the aggregate of the other groups.   This has been the case since about six years ago.

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     So...here we are.   The average slob like me, or  1st Lieutenant Jose Garcia who came over from Mexico during the middle of World War II and volunteer for the American Army, who fought long and hard, with only three or four "minor" wounds;  a Bronze Star, and then a Silver Star, two Purple Hearts, a French commendation, and an Honourable Discharge.  All that gained him the opportunity to accept or deny the offer of American citizenship when he was mustered out in 1947, and decided to take the offer of American Citizenship.  He was buried in Reynosa at the public cemetery, because he felt that a person should return to the soil that birthed him.   Or maybe he was buried at McAllen's old staid and still elegant Roselawn Cemetery....or wherever.  The thing is Jose Garcia should never be, and  cannot be refused entry.
  People coming to take advantage of "social safety nets" and income transfer / vote buying schemes should be deported upon arrival.  People coming to drop an "anchor baby" should have the baby removed and placed for adoption, and the mother deported to some very distant corner of her country of origin.

More later...there is so much to say...so many currents in the turbulent waters...

EL GRINGO VIEJO

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Potpourri of Current Events and Opinions - Mexican political news, and other worthwhile things

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1.

    These are the times that try men's souls.   We touch a bit on the immediate issue of "gun control" and "assault weapons" and firearms that are "fully semi-automatic", and the trundle of the mindless "students" who are going to lecture people whose minds are essentially closed, made-up, and acting as if they are listening.

     We accompany them in their grief, however real it might be.   I was there in the middle of the Tower Sniper episode, 1 August 1966.  It is now an event long-forgotten, when the centre of Austin, Texas was frozen in time, space, and unreality.  Nineteen dead, 40 or so wounded.   My participation in all of that was in being there and involving myself, very peripherally.

     Sears and Roebuck absolved themselves and all America of this horror by discontinuing sales of firearms in their stores.  Little matter that they had a very fine line of pistols and rifles under the tag of Ted Williams  and J.C.Higgins, equivalent say to a good old Ford pick-up or Chevrolet Impala...good, solid pistols, rifles, and shotguns.   Sold at a good price.

     There were calls then to abolish private ownership of firearms, especially among...you guessed it...leftist intellectuals and "social justice" workers.  The answer to that was the equally banal, but more accurate statement of, "When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns''.

     Now come the "students" who are most in grieving.  Their task is clear.  They must shame us into the new religion of the World of Perfection Produced by Human Hand.  They are more enlightened, they know more than the "old people with old ways", and they have the permanent solution to "gun violence".

    None of the "students" spoke before or after about the fact that previous to the event in Florida, over 200 mainly black children were killed in the "community" in straight-out gangland insanity since the beginning of this year.


2.
     The Mexican Presidential elections coming up on the 1st day of July of this year will have repercussions throughout the intermingled, industrial world.  They have become complicated by peculiar alliances and already fuzzy proposals.   This is important to us, as reasonable Gringos,  because the Mexicans are our neighbours, and because their Gross National Product is the same as countries such as the Republic of Texas, the Dominion of Canada, and the Dump of Russia.   Mexico, for instance, has States with counties, any one of which produce more value in a quarter than the "peoples' republic of Cuba" produces in a year.   Canada or Texas are in that same category.   Mexico, for instance, with a population of 124,000,000 produces more than sub-Saharan Africa with a population of 1,200,000,000.
    
    Normally we have the marxist Partido Democratico Revolucionario (PRD - nutcase commie-lite), the Partido de Accion Nacional (PAN - centre right, composted from a mix of right-wing crazies such as your writer and the middle-class and upper-class), and the decrepit, again failing Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI - mossback, thuggish, 'centrist', 'reasonable', 'realistic', slightly to totally corrupt, original government party from the post revolutionary period until the years from 1919 to 2000).

Ricardo Anaya Cortez (PAN)
Coalition candidate for the
Presidency of the United
Mexican States

      Now, we have to mix into this mess the fact that there are very strange arrangements and mixings of philosophies being thrown at the electorate.   
     My party, were El Gringo Viejo a Mexican, would obviously be the National Action Party (PAN) because it is most like the conservative wing of the Republican Party in Texas.  But this time the PAN has made a considered alliance with the Revolutionary Democratic Party (PRD) and promises to fold into the overall PAN plan of governance some of the PRD's platform, such as an allocation of a basic amount of survival money for the most marginalised in the Mexican population.
  The PAN keeps its basic thrust upon improving education and business conditions and protecting the concepts of common law and private ownership of this and that.   It is a fundamentally private-sector type party and believes that the best form of "welfare" is eleemosynary - private generosity given directly by those "who have" to those "who have naught".

An 'arriero' with a column of very apt and noble
donkeys (burros), taking supplies to somewhere
around the Grand Canyon, 1956

    Ricardo Anaya Cortez (PAN) is a "realistic" candidate who will do anything, not to "win" but rather to keep the keys to the Presidential Palace and to Los Pinos Presidential Compound.  He, therefore, has made truck with friends, neighbours, and even enemies in order to keep some form of natural and common law hovering over the Republic of Mexico.   Anaya is generally regarded a s being good for the long run, but "too young" to understand what he is getting into when dealing with the maggots, vermin, and serpents who dwell within the intestines of the "burocracia" (Of course, that word means 'bureaucracy', but it is spelled differently, depending on the occasion.  At times, one might see it spelled 'burrocracia' {governed by Burros} ).

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Jose Antonio Meade Kuribrena

    One of Anaya's opposition from the old moss-back Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) is a fellow by the name of José Antonio Meade Kuribreña who is a very talented, multi-party public servant, well-educated, family man.  Señor Meade is respected, thought to be impeccably honest, and as dull as an old pewter knife.

     To his credit, almost everyone who is familiar with the man is certain that he is impeccably honest, but also willing to order the annihilation  of the cartels, MS-13, and other fountains of social depravity and organised crime.

     His problem might be that he is overqualified for the job, and that he might lack the spittle and spat to fight for the "centrist majority".   His family is not of the "Soap Opera (telenovela)" quarter of the elite Mexican society such as the present Mexican Presidente.   They are more mundane, real, self-qualified, unimaginative, educated,  intelligent, etc.   El Gringo Viejo, although he is not my preferred candidate, regards him as a Felipe Calderon Hinojosa type...just a plain, poor-rich, smart, good guy.
     In terms of the coming election, his Anglo / Celtic surname, Meade, will neither help nor hurt him. Why?  Because there are Mexicans who would love to have a long episode of dull and boring English / American Common Law.  There are others, of equal numbers, who absolutely, never, under no condition would never vote for him unless he would sign a Will and Testament that ..." ...the afore-declared, being of sound mind and body, stipulates and directs the entirety of my Estate of nearly 300 years in the family be awarded to my  new wife, Maria Feissima Gordota de Maximiliano y de la Vega, aged nineteen, totally incompetent, but willing to hold a texting device until Death do her part."

     He is known as one who would argue to the floor-mat with Trump but be able to wrest an accord, as would Anaya-Cortez.

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     Thence cometh the problem.   The new "PARTIDO MORENO"...the party of the "brown".   It has nothing to do with being "brown", but it appeals to the people who wish to choose that they are downtrodden, and they also want to follow one of  "their own".   It comes from wealthy and upper-middle class urbans who want a reason to hate their parents.  It is founded upon the ire of people who hate other people who have "more".  
   Problem?  Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is another of the typical demagogues, a white man,  who shovels millions of shekels into the Beignk du Ouplatra and then strut around as Saviours of the Poor.  Liberation Theology, anyone?   Millions of dollars channelled through the capillary-like labyrinth and manipulated by people like Marc Rich who embezzled over 200,000,000 USD and was convicted, but then pardoned by Billy Jeff Blyth during the last minutes of Billy Jeff's presence in the horribly contaminated White House.

     For instance, nobody particularly interesting....Yassir Arafat and his bleached-blond, very un-Muslim "wife", Frida and Diego, the Ortega brothers, the Castro-Ruz brothers, Hugo Chavez, Maduro, the Mitterand establishment, Planned Parenthood which specialises in 'free money' from the stupid people who pay taxes...etc.  They all use off-shore banks to hide the money that evaporates.  They all have homes in gated communities in the United States and Europe, where they can escape the Hoi Polloi and rub shoulders with important people like Madonna and  

While El Gringo Viejo is a partisan, he is not a liar.  Andres is not giving a
 "nazi salute".  This is the posture a person takes when he/she is giving
 a pledge in the official Latin world.  It comes from the Roman
 period, and is designed to point a person'ssoul to the
 people he/she is addressing as an assurance that
 his/her commitment is true, certain, and given
 freely, without coercion . 

     Andres mastered the art of demagoguery has since become a travelling salesman for selling  false dreams.   He assures everyone that their problems are brought on by the Gringos, by Trump, by the Rich, by the Church, and of course by the people who raise prices during the early morning hours.
    He is a pitiful little man, waiting for his chance behind the podium, to lecture a crowd of one million, like Nuremberg, and be a dictator, haranguing the gathered about the evils of the Jews, the Church, the Rich, etc.
      The last election he lost for the Presidency of Mexico (his second defeat), for instance, his zomboid followers sealed off the most important Champs Elysee boulevard in the New World...the fabled Paseo de la Reforma in Mexico City.   Traffic count?...perhaps 100,000 per hour (or more).   His sycophants, desperately seeking something for nothing, occupied the main plaza in Mexico City for 18 months after the last election and shut down traffic, as they set up their "puestos"  (small restaurants and garage-sale businesses on top of 5 miles of a 16 lane boulevard; a disaster in the centre of a city of 23,000,000). 

    Known affectionately as AMLO, this is the next Maduro / Chavez / Ortega waiting for the chance to demagogue Mexico back into the 18th Century.  One can simply look at Venezuela  /  Colombia and see the difference that the marxist or nazi system (Venezuela) compares poorly to the imperfect nation next door...and that is because Colombia knows what happens when drug traffricking and marxism mix.    Venezuela is in shambles, and Colombia, next door,  is prospering in its own way.

     AMLO wants to bring Bernie Sanders Economics to Mexico, after Mexico went through the same thing from 1920 through the year 2000, just like the hated "official party" (PRI) prescribed to cure the ills of Mexico.  Mexico improved, in spite of, not because of the prescriptions of the PRI's socialist and national socialists and labour-union strangulation.

      We must hope that AMLO's fortunes and high scores in the "encuestas" (polls) will begin to moderate and finally collapse as they did during the other two times he ran.  To-m0rrow, we shall analyse a bit about the enigmatic Vicente Foxx Quesada, who seems to love to spit in the face of Trump and the Americans who rooted for him when he won the presidency of Mexico in the year 2000...breaking the PRI's hold on power that had lasted 70 years.   Not bad for a ranch boy who had been a Coca Cola delivery truck driver in Guanajuato back in the 1960s.   We wish that he would just keep his mouth shut...especially when talking to people on American television who equated him to Satan not so long ago.

More later.  Thanks for staying in.
EL GRINGO VIEJO

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