Tuesday 29 October 2019

Songs - Traditional - On Top of Old Smokey

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Please forgive the ancient and unpleasant prelude to the
 topic of this transmission
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The image of a Saturn-based Mr. Whangdoodle who arrived in
 Washington, District of Columbia in the year 1235,  via a
 Clydsedale-team of 12 which was towing a flying saucer.
  
His personal telephone number is BR - 549  (Hee-Haw people
 will understand). Do not reveal this telephone number to
 anyone unless they ask for it.

For lack of any intelligence or moral bearing, and for being
a chronic pathological liar, he was awarded by the Democrat
National Committee the position of Chairman of the Impeachment
Committee of the House of Representatives by Nancy Pelosi.

We regret allowing the picture below to be accessible, perhaps, to very
young children who might happen to see the image, although it does
show Mrs. Pelosiperhaps at her best.



These two above pictured individuals managed to pick up American
citizenship in spite of being extraterrestrials.
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1.   Ridin' My Thumb to Mexico:

        During my last stay down at our place in Nowhere, Mexico there were many challenges.  Strong localised storms broke out, causing the loss of  many medium sized limbs and many of the older cypress, mesquite, and ebony trees-limbs…all well over 200 years old (some of the cypress trees down at our Rio Corona are 1,300 years old).   Perhaps six inches of rain fell at our place over a two day period…some other areas had 12 to 15 inches.
   It is thought that in the medium-ranges of the mountains to the west there was as much a 20 inches of rain in less than 48 hours.   Closer to the high reaches…Cerro Pen~a Nevada (Snowy Peak)…which is officially calculated at a little less than 12,000 feet…estimates of snow went as high a 24 inches (some analysts consider the elevation figure is too lowestimating its elevation at 13,000 feet).  The Pen~a Nevada is visible from our place, thirty miles distant, and there was considerable snow on "On Top of Old Pena Nevada".

     But I digress.  Your humble servant did his best to help and to organise a formal clearing of the roads and trails in our little community and adjacent places (about 10 square miles).   The Comision Federal de Electricidad (CFE) did have people out fairly quickly to restore power (14 hours) and certain elements of the Army came out quickly…medical and active soldiers with rifles AND shovels.  Things were pretty much survivable to even pleasant by the weekend…cable TV and all.

     My neighbour, the "hacendado" de la Hacienda de La Vega, came over to work about three hours on our new telephone "processor".  It is a table telephone connected to a land line, but which assigns calls to certain people, who are registered with it, to their cellular telephone in the event that those people are not in answering distance to the stationary "home  phone".    It all seemed too complicated…and the 1,600 pesos is a bit of a let-down…but our friend and neighbour is a brilliant engineer (all kidding aside), and he solved several installation challenges, leaving the apparatus totally functional.
     As a side note, the telephone mentioned above has South Korean, Mexican, and American patents and bloodlines.  As Yogi Berra said one time long ago, "Who'd a thunk it?"

(For newcomers, "hacendado" in the legal sense during these times means only that that person with the title is the owner of all that land you see before you…when you are arriving from afar.)

  In the 1700's through the first third of the 1900's the Hacendados were essentially Patriarchs of Duchies…Dukes at the least if not minor Princes in the  Spanish colonial social order.  Even female aristocrats carried the titles if abandoned by death or lack of progeny.   It was a different time.
      There was one "ranch" in Chihuahua State that was almost as large as the entire State of Chihuahua, back in the 1800s and well into the 1900s…interesting, when one considers that Texas is barely the double of the size of the State of Chihuahua, Mexico's largest State.

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2.   Andres Manuel  Lopez Obrador (AMLO)  -  Ridin' His Thumb to Who Knows Where:
   
     We have observed as carefully as possible, but with little judgementalism, that the President of Los Estados Unidos de Mexico (formal name of our Southern Neighbour), that he is a mentally-impaired dolt who stumbles over phrases…grants himself long pauses for a speaker (4 to 12 seconds)…who changes topics in mid-sentence, then searches the audience in the expectation that they missed the applause cues.


     Don Andres was truly elected to the Presidency of the  most powerful and influential country on the planet.  The Centre and the Right did not force upon Mexico the endless marches and meaningless chantings of leftist slogans of three or four million dullards and communist activists, marching and blocking the elegant…very elegant…Boulevards and tourist points of international interest of common Mexicans and Gringos and all foreigners;  for six to eight months.    Imagine the gutters and sidewalks filled with litter and unmentionable matter.



Downtown Mexico Cityon a nice dayabout 300 days
per year, now.   Imagine this rotunda surrounded by as
 many as three million dull, snail-brained dumbos every
 month for six to twelve months.
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    You all may have noticed that the PRI's (centrist old party)  Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon - 1994/2000, and Vicente Foxx Quesada of the National Action Party (read - GOP), and the one who followed, also a "conservative republican", Felipe Calderon Hinojosa…were all centrists or right-wingers, reasonable people of argument and agreement…all aggressive ("too many bulls in the corral" is the saying in Texas from days gone by…) but all putting Mexico first…after a fashion.

    While it is true that AMLO is a certified pinkoan ex-governor of the  extremely leftist State of (Tabasco), he has done really nothing worthy of comment in terms of the normal leftist agenda.
     He did say that he would travel only by commercial airliner and he moved out of the Presidential Offices at a place surrounded by highly-crack Mexican grenadiers and riflemenand some really, really, really excellent military bands.
     Instead, AMLO has opted for a "normal" apartment and a regular date with the private doctors who always pronounce him to be "in perfect health". 
     
     AMLO has promoted the notion of a Mexico City - Oaxaca - "Maya Regional" train that would connect all the way to Merida, Yucatan…perhaps even Cancun with trains of first-class and deluxe.  The route being proposed includes Tabasco State…which is AMLO's home territory.
    He is also toying with the idea of a "Panama Canal Railroad" that would link Puerto Angel on the Pacific Coast with Veracruz on the Coast of the Gulf of Mexico.   This rail line would probably be involved in Asian - European freight work…and perhaps a passenger line. 

    He also caused to be sold or de-commissioned the "Air Force One" and "Air Force Two", standby elegant jets normally apportioned to the President and/or Cabinet Secretaries.  Now AMLO travels on busses or on common commercial airplanes or in tourist limousines normally used to pick up daughters of foreign kings and poobahs from the Airport in downtown Mexico City.        
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FUTURE COMMENTARY IN THE DAYS AHEAD:    
    The times of the Terraza - Creel families passedbut not by much.   After all the revolutionsPancho Villa (wildly misrepresented), and the Gringo intervention (1916), and all the losses suffered by the Haciendas by the Central Government's "Agrarian Reform" of the 1930s…one might think that there would a bit of charity…and the first among those needing charity would have been "the wealthy".
     We shall try to explain a bit about the arcane and complicated Mexican proprietary land ownership system.

More later
EL GRINGO VIEJO
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