Drifting Without a Direction...

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            We have been wandering about inside the well-worn cranium during the past 72 hours or so, contemplating all nature of things past, present, and future.   At 03:00 hours  on a Tuesday in May after a couple of four inch cloudbursts in the span of five days, one can at least say that there has been a bit of excitement here on the Texas / Mexico Frontier.

     At this point in my life, it has become a bit burdensome to entertain a daily cascade of misery, iniquity, violence, avarice, and the steady decline of normalcy and decency.  It amazes this particular writer how deeply mired the Democrat Party has become mired in the worst forms of graft, hubris, arrogance, stupidity, and all nature of avarice.

     It amazes this particular observer of the American scene of the moment, that a woman such as Nancy D'Alesandro Pelosi could achieve such position considering her many shortcomings.   One of my favourite marks of the stupidity and lack of tact and intelligence of her less than royal highness is when she held an apparent impromptu news conference on the sidewalk outside of the Vatican.   She responded to a question from a dunce reporter about some point of Papal thinking, to which she declared,"The Pope is not well-informed about whether abortion is against church rules or not." (or something very close to this revelation by Her Highness)

     This individual, with her flurried hand and forearm jiggle-jaggle flapping while she searches through the cockroaches of her brain for "just the right word", gives a reasonable observer the sense that she is…in the Southern lexicon, "tetched" (to Yankees and other normal people, "tetched" is a Southern word which means "touched inside the head, and not in a good way").   As an Episcopalian of various generations, married to a girl for the last 50 years who is a good Episcopalian, and still at home with the Romans with about 700 years of Roman Catholic inculcation…we both almost "splooted" all our oatmeal through our noses when Her Highness reminded the gathered gaggle of reporters outside the Vatican that "… the Pope is not the final authority about these matters."

     And she is still here.  Almost daily she can roll out the most pitiful halting form of speech and blather, while her eyes dart from here to there…as if looking at spectres who are transcribing her lies.  The entire cadre of Pelosi and her posse of dolts are truly something to behold.  Thankfully, my guys and gals are by-in-large, dull and boring and correct and careful, almost always mostly to totally accurate in their pronouncements.   BUT….Whenever an Elephant misspeaks, however small the insult, ABCCBSNBCPBSETC calls for the lynch mob.

Stacey and Nancy

Sisters in the Fight for Equality and
Justice for all who just want it "free"
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   One of my favourites (pictured left)  is the woman, apparently of Georgia...Stacey Yvonne Abrams, who is postulating for Governor of said State.   She is but one of many doltish Democrat Socialist dolts, feted and honoured, esteemed and lauded, awarded and admired by all, more or less, and for whatever!!!   Especially, whatever.

      She is especially admired with her ever increasing dirty novels (numbering eight in circulation at this point) that she writes up while saving the masses from the GKOKPK.

       Miss Stacey is famous for being famous, and for always siding with those who want something for no cost to themselves.   She fully intends to run for and win the Gubernatorial race in Georgia this next time around.  Odds are about even in this matter.   Miss Nancy fully intends to run for Grand Wizard of America and San Francisco's Wonderland of befouled sidewalks and public places ruined by "Democrats for Drugs and Sidewalks" (a new Democrat PAC).

     We wonder if Miss Nancy can come up with a person to blame for the sidewalk messes in San Francisco, or if she can keep finding a place in her fancy precincts where she does not have to take serious care of where her next step might be. (WE REGRET THAT OUR 'MINDERS' HAVE DETERMINED THAT AN IMAGE or IMAGES THAT WE WERE ANTICIPATING USING TO SHOW THE DEPRAVITY AND HORRORS OF URBAN PARTS OF THE CENTRAL CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO WERE EDITTED OUT. 

       SAN FRANCISCO IS ONE OF THOSE PLACES WHERE VISITORS CAN BE ADVISED TO WATCH THEIR STEP WHEN WALKING ABOUT IN DOWNTOWN AND OTHER NEARBY PLACES.  IT IS, IN THE VERNACULAR OF MANY SOUTHERNERS AND TEXIANS REFERRED TO AS …"…IT COULD PUKE A BUZZARD OFF'N A GUT WAGON.)

       It seems so strange that all these little no-where places in the USA…in Texas…one can drive in and find civil, understated (or overstated) living situations…predictable sanitation…still a near certainty of security…still a nice home and shopping and dining set of alternatives.   Almost everywhere Miss Nancy or Miss Stacey or Miss Maxine seem to go, there are people who feel like they need to go somewhere where those three girls are absent.

REPRESENTATIVE 

MAXINE WATERS

  Child psychologists might recommend to parents

 that a quick flick of this photo will instantly

 bring a child to good order.

   Some children might require several weeks,

 or months, or years of deep therapy,

 however, in many cases.

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     We mix washes of depression and sour humour concerning this matter of watching the ruin of one of America's beauty marks for 100 years or so.  "I left my heart in San Francisco"…as the song said at one time.

  And now we have Miss Nancy and that horrid hag Maxine Waters who actually shrieks to her minions to destroy, damage, and hurt people. Her BLM lackeys (most of whom are Caucasian) love to try to intimidate people who are being comfortable and enjoying a moment in public settings…a civil saloon, a nice restaurant.  Maxine is a wizard in the art of unleashing her BLMs mobs on unsuspecting folks trying to relax whenever she can fit it into her schedule.

     We have been given to understand that Maxine may be going to have some financial conflicts and other problems involving improprieties, although these rumours and rumours of rumours seem to remain, to this point, just rumours.

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The American Military - A Communist Front Organisation?

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     This should be a happily brief note to the OROG community and the other followers who seem to be bunched up in the northeastern part of the United States and western Europe, and to some extent in Japan and South Korea.  Odd.  Perhaps I should send some advisories to Australia and and New Zealand about our radical policies.

     We have been increasingly concerned about the new head of the Department of Defense, a fellow by the name of General Lloyd T. Austin III, recently confirmed to his office after being named by President Biden.   Normally, these matters come and go…perfunctory things that require procedure and process.

Lt. Gen. (retired) Lloyd T. Austin, III

Secretary of Defence 

United States of America

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     This time, however, we have had that unwanted unease that suggests something is amiss.  It is sort of a cat's intuition when there has been no sound…or a dog, asleep, suddenly opens his eyes, but does not move…as he sniffs something that interrupted his sleep.  The brief advisory to Lieutenant General (retired) Lloyd T. Austin, III by the President and his people was a classic demonstration of how a hand and a glove can fit so well at the first fitting.

    To wit:   The following paragraph can provide some guidance to the things to come from the Department of Defense.   For so long as imbeciles such as the present holder of the Office of the Presidency of the United States of America and  his cadre hold sway in of the rudder of the Ship of State, we must expect the worst in our construct, deployment, and application of our military.

Main article: Stand-Down to Address Extremism in the Ranks

Shaken by concerns of possible right-wing radicalism among the troops, incoming Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on February 5th announced that every single unit of the United States military; Active, Reserve, and Guard would be required to stand down within the next 60 days in order to conduct sensitivity training. The training will last at least one day and will be focused around discussions including the importance of the oath of office; a description of impermissible behaviors; and procedures for reporting suspected, or actual, extremist behaviors.^{[67][68][69][70][71][72}

     We are not actually stretching a point, because there are several analysts, observer, and interested parties mixed up into this matter.   Your humble servant tends to minimise but not ignore a peculiar characteristic about the good General's service.   To be sure, on the surface, the General is a man of almost constant service up until a few years ago.  In a way, his image is made bright and positive because of that length of service and the attaining of the rank of Lt. General…which is about as high as a soldier can go.

     There were very, very few who ever attained the rank of five-star general.  My recollection calls out this group for muster:

     (1)  General Henry H. Arnold       

     (2)  General Omar Bradley

     (3)  General Dwight David Eisenhower

     (4)  Admiral William Halsey, Jr.

     (5)  Admiral Ernest King

     (6)  Admiral William Leahy

     (7)  General Douglas MacAurthur

    (8)  General George Marshall

     (9)   Admiral Chester Nimitz  

     Three men were endowed with honourable five-star status based upon their 

service before the rank had been recognised or even proposed.  They are:

     (a)  Admiral George Dewey

     (b)  General George (Black Jack) Patton

     (c)   General George Washington

     My sense is very much that the Good General (retired) Lloyd T. Austin will be at the ready to assure that all left-handed albatrosses who wear ballet outfits when they are pregnant will be given adequate lectures about not discussing any positive material concerning Robert Edward Lee, and that homosexual, reverse re-transgendered bionogribsticklers are given first positions in the lo-cal, non-fattening, dietetically correct cellophane December Holidays turkey-vinyl, food-like substance celebration.   Remember…no names or assignment of purpose for "Holidays" of any kind.

     The idea of having a celebration with holes punched in it should be repugnant to all.

     We are in for a ride, folks.

EL GRINGO VIEJO…

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The Roaches Run when the lights are turned on…suddenly...

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    We watch from our somewhat removed area in the bleachers, seeing all manner of things that are good and things that are bad.   As one travels to the destination ahead, it seems clear that good has has been diminished and ill has been allowed to flourish.

     We have gained much comfort.   But I remember well that we were very comfortable at one time when we lived in a rambling house in the country that had electricity.  And since natural gas was available in abundance, although it cost $1.79 per month to use, we could cook without a second thought.   Electricity was a different matter.   Sometimes they wanted $5.53 per month…just because we had electric lamps, and a fridge…and a radio or two…it was all so complicated.

      For the eons of time that your humble observer has been a humble observer, we have taken note that each great technological leap ahead, matters have become a bit more complicated and expensive with each leap.   With each leap to greater pleasure the miseries intensified for some reason.  A song written by boy born of Russian immigrants, steeped in Jewish tradition,  seems to sum it up for me at times…"I Got Plenty of Nuthin' "…from Porgy and Bess…a Negro Anthem.   But that was yesterday…and yesterday is really gone.

     Jews, Russians, Negroes…it must be purely an American thing…it was certainly a masterpiece in the Arts…and to think that George Gershwin died at the age of 38 of a brain tumour, a couple of years after the brilliant "Porgy and Bess" presentation.  But I digress…

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     During the period that marked the changed from a Trump administration to a George Soros administration most of the American populace took a ho - hum attitude and continued on their appointed rounds.   There was some jubilation when Dopey gained the presidency   and there was lamentation among those who followed the enigmatic orange-haired phenomena known as Mr. Orangehair.

    During the last campaign the oppressors, who have have strived for generations to develop a multitudinous mass of dullards and shysters combining forces.  There have been previous versions and attempts foisted upon the electorate and we continue lurching into the theatre of what we call "elections" but now with greater mendacity and ardour. 

Alexandra Ocasio Cortez
She is proof that there are people who are
 absolutely clueless but believe they know
 everything over the sun. 
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           The fact of the matter is, there are a lot of people who do not have the intellectual armament to vote in any intelligent manner. There are literally millions of people throughout the United States who are voting who could not identify the difference between a Supreme Court and a parking meter no matter how much they have been bribed.

       We have been assuming for the past several years that people with college educations are educated and are qualified to attempt to discern the difference between an apple core, an appendectomy, and a dichotomy. It's still a bad assumption.

While all Uighurs
don't look like this, many do.
  There are many tribal people still who
 are attractive, intelligent, and independent
with an array of colours and raiment.  There
are perhaps 20,000,000 mainly  in western
 China.
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  But folks working with their hands and brains without stopping in between to read modern educational tomes are probably better off in many ways.  Traditionalists tend to remain traditionalists as one might imagine…but unfortunately, those folks will not be around after the next four or five generations.  The Sons of Chairman Mao will lead them off to the plantations of the Uighurs.   George Soros might still be alive in that future time then, prolonging his life by the consuming of various livers and hearts of volunteers like Uighurs and Australians and Americans and others, while governing from the 5th moon of Saturn while he counts his lucre, and feeds on stardust for dessert.

Recently "released" detainees detained
without warrant by Red Chinese authority.
It helps this writer to allow the readers to
see how heterogenous these Uighurs are.
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     While the above comments and observations might border on the frontier of Fantasyland, we are facing a cadre of people dedicated  to the proposition of controlling everyone else's lives.   To that mass of people…the ultra-leftists…the consumptive totalitarians…there is no greater mission than to line up all  the little people and make them do precisely what is ordered at every corner and on every page and at each command.   The fellows above-pictured pertain to a group that the central Red Chinese governing cadre had under their control and detention, until having been liberated by "extracurricular elements among the Uighur citizenry".

     It should be pointed out that various nations bordering and/or close by those areas having Uighurs, tend to accommodate folks looking for a way out of China.   One must understand that in western China there is almost constant harassment being served up by Red Chinese military and constabulary.  As a little fluff on the icing, we like to point out to folks a quirky thing about the Uighurs in western China concerning the architecture of the holy places where services are held.

     What your humble servant wishes to point out is how similar the little "Mohammedan Church" looks like a little downtown "Anglican  Church".  Actually, it could have passed for a Methodist or Baptist church…or even a Synagogue.   Images such as the above chapel remind the writer that the Koran has more references to the Nazarene than to the founding force of the the Islamic religion, Mohammed.   If they had their Stars of David (Saturdays), Crucifixes (Sundays), and (Fridays) Holy Crescents…the clerics could roll their eyes and send the sextants up to change the symbols as per the day of the week.  Think of the efficiencies and savings and increase in attendance by the faithful…not to mention tourists who could choose their visit so as to take advantage of this or that religious and/or cultural event taking place that particular day or days, depending upon one's flight arrival or departure time.

     And yes, Virginia, your writer is making a sour and silly comment in the above paragraph, but when one ponders the possibility, perhaps it would be a good idea after all.  Anything that would confound or cause consternation among the Communist Chinese apparatchniks would be appreciated in these precincts.   Below, please find words that might adequately orient the reader concerning what meaning the word "apparatchik" or (for Russians) "apparatchnik".

 

Synonyms & Antonyms of apparatchik

• camp follower
• flunky
• (also flunkey or flunkie),
• hanger-on
• henchman
• lackey
• lickspittle
• minion

We are being called to a higher calling at these moments.  Perhaps during the the afternoon we can continue our stream of doubt, conclusions, and observations.  Please check in to-morrow.

EL GRINGO VIEJO

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