tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39095195627692685692024-02-18T23:13:44.081-06:00A Gringo in Rural MexicoThe voice from the Sierra Madre Oriental
and the entrance to our
Quinta Tesoro de
la Sierra Madre
David Christian Newtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02486433908063462273noreply@blogger.comBlogger1876125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3909519562769268569.post-64460919502016599782022-05-31T21:13:00.002-05:002022-06-01T09:09:54.529-05:00monitor opinion page, McAllen, Texas - article by David Christian Newton
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David Christian Newton
<privatouring@gmail.com>
Letter to THE MONITOR:
Over the years, and not so long ago, this writer sent various
commentaries to the Monitor, almost always carrying a message of
conservatism and self-sufficiency that served well for the person
who cared for him, or her, self. During the times leading up to
the present, I have been pleased with her clear form of expression
and her dedication to self-control and limited government.
She was, and remains, a person who is committed to avoiding
being a person looking for an easy ride or a person who feels
entitled without justification. She is obviously a self-provident,
contributing citizen. Lamentably, there are those come those who
ridicule or discard those who are committed to self-sufficiency
and positive citizenship.
Her most recent submission to the discussion about the the value
of self-support as opposed to being supported by public assistance is
another excellent pronouncement about the value of self-sufficiency
and avoidance of public assistance,or worse, criminal activity.
It is clear that those of us who prefer self-sufficiency and who
avoid the allure of sponging "free money" are taking the high-road,
realizing nothing has value if it is not earned. The invading of
other peoples' nations while demanding support might seem easy enough
in a nation such as the USA. However, it is not reasonable to arrive
into a place such as Texas and expect and require alimation, shelter,
and other basic services.
The fact is there are large bodies of humanity who think that arriving
without permission into the United States is a heroic or reasonable
accomplishment. The payment by "coyotes" or other forms of criminal
method of entrance into the United States of America and places such
as Texas are and frequently a one-way entrance into public assistance
and a frequent opening to an uncomfortable and compromised life
compromised life-situation.
My almost certain conclusion about the scores of thousands who are arriving
with baby-in-the-belly, or fleeing one kind or another of oppression, or who
thinking that he or she can establish themselves as some kind of a person who
is a free-standing, self-sustaining person. The issues and settings of those
arriving before these times are very much different from today's challenges.
I was born in 1947...the third and last birth by my parents. on a 25 acre tract
on a gravel road that connected about 40 feet from a concrete highway that connected
up with another highway that led to a place called Edinburg. The times were
different obviously. Good and bad things have had their way, and I could tell
tales about that area that would bore people to death for hours.
We appeciate your time and interest.
David Christian Newton
privatouring@gmail.com<div class="blogger-post-footer">Thanks for your time and interest. Please email questions, comments, complaints, or praise!</div>David Christian Newtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02486433908063462273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3909519562769268569.post-54392117537182706332021-11-24T10:55:00.011-06:002022-05-20T03:26:22.900-05:00Now is the time for all good dogs and cats to act normally...<div class="blogger-post-footer">Thanks for your time and interest. Please email questions, comments, complaints, or praise!</div>David Christian Newtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02486433908063462273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3909519562769268569.post-65465728081704443602021-10-27T15:46:00.005-05:002021-11-01T05:07:36.415-05:00A TIME TO RETURN TO DUTY - PART TWO<p> <span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b><i>A TIME TO RETURN TO DUTY</i></b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">continued from our preceding entry</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">..</i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"> Relying upon the intelligence and integrity of the writer of the newspaper report concerning </span></i><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>what is regarded as essentially a shutdown of the Rio Pecos, one could reliably take the writing and use the material for kindling. The article essentially points out that the Rio Pecos is either dead or dyeing or both. The article was somber and authoritative and perhaps even believable. However, one must remember that throughout the world there are people with many degrees, much experience, all nature of ideas, analysis, and best interests at heart that reassure the human race that The End Is Near.</i></span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i> I mean…everybody knows it. Doctor Fauci </i></span></b></span><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">couldn't be either that wrong or that deceptive</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">he's a nice little old man who is just trying to help the poor and the downtrodden.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> BUT</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">there is a little problem as we move along. The drought and shortage of water in the </i></b><span><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">subterranean areas in West Texas has been a bit severe, but it has also been confined to a relatively small area. It is also a river that can "pick it up and dump all over you and your ranch" or it can enter into an eight to twenty month "dry-spell" and pick up one-tenth or less than what the Good Lord allocates to the rainfall in the Pecos River (in Texas ) area, that being 15 </i><i>too</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> 24 inches per year. There have been times </i><i>when</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> there was little or no rain in that area for 12 to 20 months.</i></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;"><span><b><span><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> The massive Lake </i><i>Amistad that has depths in some places as deep as 400 - 500 feet, and it fed primarily by the Rio Grande and the Rio Concho which comes in a ways upstream from Mexico</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> </i></span></b></span></span><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); color: red;">The Devil's River is a smaller course, running generally North to South, and feeding into the Rio Grande, and that flow is relatively steady and spring fed</i><span style="color: red;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><i>…</i></span></span><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); color: red;">although it is much smaller than the catchment areas </i><span style="color: red;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><i>of the other mentioned sources.</i></span></span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><i> And, to draw the noose tight, we can be sure that Gabriel will blow his horn some time in the very </i></span></span></b></span><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b><i>distant future. The regular and irregular rains, the regular and irregular springs will fill and feed the 200,000 square miles of that part of Texas (and New Mexico) drained and fed by the various aquifers and surface carriers.</i></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> Thanks one and all for your time and interest. We are trying to get </i><i>back</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> in the saddle again</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">and apparently our response has been been than I thought it might be. Thanks to everyone!!!</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b><i>________________________________</i></b></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Thanks for your time and interest. Please email questions, comments, complaints, or praise!</div>David Christian Newtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02486433908063462273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3909519562769268569.post-77941409592625919592021-10-25T21:04:00.030-05:002021-12-18T22:35:18.151-06:00A TIME TO RETURN To Duty…Madness and Imbecility Runs Amuck <div class="blogger-post-footer">Thanks for your time and interest. Please email questions, comments, complaints, or praise!</div>David Christian Newtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02486433908063462273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3909519562769268569.post-25702898542047400522021-08-26T16:03:00.007-05:002021-12-19T07:15:33.843-06:00We return to the Field of Combat and Contention<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;"> <i style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-weight: bold;">Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Perhaps I am not the good man needed for these times, but we shall try. As an entry and aside, we have been in a jumble of extremely compressed action, taking care of large and small problems and projects during the past couple of months or a bit more.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> We dawdled and procrastinated, helped and sweated, felt inadequate for not doing things better</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">and so forth. Cats to </i><i>feed</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">, dogs to re-assure, lawns front and rear and both sides to mow and nurture</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">all rewarding and challenging, especially when one is normally disposed to hanging around, whining and moaning, and grumbling </i><i>about</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> the political situations</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">in Texas</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">in Washington, D.C., and with our friends and enemies throughout the planet.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">WE TIRE OF </i></b><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b><i>IMBECILES:</i></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> During the past few years, </i><i>and</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> especially during the last four or five years, we have been witnessing one of the most ridiculous assaults without punishment ever to afflict the Republic of Texas and its surrounding political entities. For instance</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">during </i><i>the</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> months of October and November, 2021 the number </i><i>of people detained and processed by the Texan and American authorities totaled in excess of 350,000 humans, of all imaginable ages, races, ethnic types, and citizenship.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> It was left to people in the southernmost </i></b></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Thanks for your time and interest. Please email questions, comments, complaints, or praise!</div>David Christian Newtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02486433908063462273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3909519562769268569.post-66312859275339327022021-08-01T06:54:00.004-05:002021-08-24T03:05:24.122-05:00A Clarion Call<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> This is a bit off my route, but it is something that must be circulated throughout the common law, Judeo-Christianic, free enterprise world. The below cited woman styled what this writer must consider to be a classic re-statement of the obvious.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> Our problem for the nation, as it is for Texas, is that we must struggle to remain viable in the face of decadence and the abandonment of Holy Creeds and proven successful codes of social and moral </i><i>conduct. </i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> Business conduct, social </i><i>activity, the rearing and guiding of children and the pre-adult individual obviously must depend upon that which is dependable…and honest…and straightforward.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> There have been several contributors to our local newspaper here in McAllen, Texas and it is fairly certain that a tenth or more of the one million people who maintain an orbit in and around Hidalgo County of Texas probably review the commentary provided by the McAllen Monitor on a regular basis. I do not wish to delve into the transformation of the culture and social complexion of Hidalgo County, for it is far, far too complex</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">as it pertains to the past, present, and future</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">to discuss within the structure of this missive.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> Suffice to say that Hidalgo County became an official entity back in the early 1850's. Places </i><i>such as McAllen, Edinburg, Weslaco, Mission, and Mercedes (please forgive the failure to mention the many-score villages, towns, and cities that also form much of the population of this County) back in pre-War Between the States, the Maximilian / Benito Juarez War of the early 1860s, and all the subsequent activity since make a patchwork quilt of a complexity never imagined by those of us born in the 1930's - 1960's in Hidalgo County. That part of Texas, at the very frontier with Mexico and the Rio Grande, has witnessed all but incomprehensible changes and forms of common and extremely advanced commercial, agricultural, and industrial activity. It is an awesome metamorphosis in my lifetime.</i></span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span><i> We render now the submission of one Hortencia Camargo, a contributor to the McAllen Monitor newspaper. She is one of several observers and analysts in this area, very astute Latins of one or two generations on up into 20 generations in this part of the North American Continent, who have committed to the Free Enterprise, Judeo-Christian approach to cultural viability. Without further droning forth, we present Hortensia Camargo's view of Hidalgo County and essentially the World in very few words…all gilt in wisdom and glistening in silver.</i></span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">_______________________</i></span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">AMERICA IS A JOKE</i></span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b><i>Hortensia Camargo</i></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span><span><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> President Biden is </i><i>burning</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> the candle at both ends. The near, near future will clearly show Biden and his supporters that money and resources truly do not grow on trees. The endless </i><i>stimulus checks, blanket loans, and strain on America for Americans, plus the blanket cost of living tab for the entire world simultaneously will cripple America. Small businesses will fail, taxes will be raised to try to support this ridiculous grab for "free everything" in the name of feel-good and warm-inside sentiment.</i></span></span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span><span><i> Have you ever boarded a plane? There is a reason they clearly instruct you to protect and secure yourself in case of an emergency before you help your neighbour. Why? Because when you are both weakened and compromised, the chance of you both perishing are almost guaranteed. That's America and its neighbours.</i></span></span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span><span><i> Right now the burden of keeping American citizens afloat and the entire influx of illegal aliens will eventually affect all of us. It'll be with higher taxes, major crime, an uptake in COVID - 19 infections and variants, lack of resources, overpopulated schools and congested classes, more colonias, inflation, lack of medical resources and ICU beds, and…eventually Social Security will be attacked to help foot the bill.</i></span></span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> Each and every one of us will feel the horrific effect of the absolute worst and first quasi-communist socialist </i><i>president</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> ever, Joe Biden. He has created the most </i><i>volatile</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> economy America has ever seen. Awe, but like children: all </i><i>the</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> candy your heart desires looks extremely attractive, but America must accept that it will come with rot and a world of pain.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> The American Dream is no more. Hustle, drive, ambition, creativity, </i><i>entrepreneurship and capitalism are gone. The current system puts fear in its citizens to excel. The famous income tax return pie-in-the-sky keeps the masses purposely trying to not excel and to instead settle; to live not to lose instead of living to win.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i> To-day, parents literally teach their kids how to get an income tax return and not pay taxes.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i> And, Oh! critical race theory is totally racist. If there were white-only, groups, advocacy centres, and organisations, society would be up at arms. Yes, racism still exists today but the new colour of abused victims is white.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i> To truly end racism we must collectively accept and acknowledge that all races face it every single day. Being White in America to-day is almost a crime. Don't let certain movements and organisations fool you…racism is racism, regardless of colour.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i> Biden's America is a joke. The entire country is being pandered to. It is insulting and sad. </i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i>HORTENCIA CAMARGO</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i>McALLEN, TEXAS</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i>__________________________</i></b></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Thanks for your time and interest. Please email questions, comments, complaints, or praise!</div>David Christian Newtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02486433908063462273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3909519562769268569.post-2748699854978509732021-07-23T18:09:00.005-05:002021-10-29T05:23:00.526-05:00Mired…as the world continues in a fog...<p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); color: red; font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">_________________________</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); color: red; font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); color: red; font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Mired and no recourse to cure anything:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); color: red; font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><i> </i></b></span> <span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Sunrise, sunset…Sunrise, sunset…seems to be our situation at this time. We were rather much put into dry-dock about a year ago when, for a number of reasons, there was a necessity between the three major powers of North America to restrain cross-border visitation for business, pleasure, or just milling around. Mexico, Canada, Texas, and the United States determined that people could fly to Cancun and have a good time, but they could not drive or take a ground conveyance …this in spite of nearly five first-class busses per hour come in and departed to and from McAllen, for instance, connecting the southern tip of Texas with scores of destinations in Mexico.</i></b></span></div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><i> While dull and travelled over and over again, it was somewhat of a purifying experience to either go down or come back to and from our places in Texas and our place down in the middle of Nowhere, Mexico where we have our little mud hut. Each month would pass by, first with Trump declaring draconian migratory regulations that essentially did nothing beyond increasing the number of illegal aliens entering in to Gringolandia, and extending the ban, month by month. The day before yesterday was the most recent, and it extended the ban to travel terrestrially into Mexico to 31 August 2021.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><i></i></b></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgATxsk2WY6-Q1WUP_Kq5msfIT_UJ6HvdRjcAscfO3yyeHdk4oUx7ufM79dOJm77k2fdExWdWjh-gj2r9UEDPdv-Wb6kNgXqA9lbuRVYy6-cywVFQWS6db9xP8-R2n1AB9OIpg2Po-gEMY/s549/map-yucatan-peninsula.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="394" data-original-width="549" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgATxsk2WY6-Q1WUP_Kq5msfIT_UJ6HvdRjcAscfO3yyeHdk4oUx7ufM79dOJm77k2fdExWdWjh-gj2r9UEDPdv-Wb6kNgXqA9lbuRVYy6-cywVFQWS6db9xP8-R2n1AB9OIpg2Po-gEMY/s320/map-yucatan-peninsula.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> <span style="color: red;">Where my son-in-law and daughter hang-out,<br />on the eastern side (Caribbean)...<br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">__________________________</span></b></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><i> Similar constraints are imposed on people coming into the Texas or the United States, if entering via ground transportation. People crossing either direction on the border have to have "justifiable cause" for entering the other country. My children, </i></b></span><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">interestingly, like to take a run to the east coast of the the Yucatan Peninsula</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Cancun</i><i>…</i><span><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Cozumel</i><i>…Tulum and such places; they like the adventure of swimming with the non-violent sharks who seem to relish providing "horse rides" for the tourist. Even the more aristocratic porpoises seem to like interaction with the tourists, and the treatment of the beasts seems to be quite benign.</i></span></b></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><span><i> All in all, it seems confusing and counterproductive, but tourism in Mexico </i></span></b></span><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">along their thousands and thousands of miles of interesting and impressive coastlines business is still relatively good. Mexicans with credentials and a "</i><i>legitimate</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> purpose" still come into the frontier of Texas to do business purchasing and export / import business. My understanding is that Mexicans with an active and valid visa can still go to Port Isabel / South </i><i>Padre</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> Island as before.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> We can also suggest that the Peninsula of Baja California has </i><i>steady Gringo and foreign business, and there are even significant developments for permanent Americans and foreign investors in various places in that part of Mexico. Mazatlan and a score of other places along the Pacific Coast still pack in the airline arrivals and hotels and cottage-village places in that area.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><i> But…in the main body of the country, pointless touristic milling around is still either prohibited…more or less…seemingly dependent upon the moment. It is all rather peculiar. Perhaps things will normalise back into the abnormal to which we were accustomed.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Later to-day, and during the morning to-morrow, we shall be writing up a bit about the horrid invasion that the George Soros and Co. have thrust upon Texas and the southern part of the United States as well as all the rest of the places that have been cleared by the Bidenites to allow into the United States of America without permit or permission that normally had been required. The matter is one of definitive jeopardy for the reasonable people to understand as a distinct danger to the Texas Republic and the </i></b><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b><i>strength of the United States of America.</i></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b><i>More soon.</i></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b><i>EL GRINGO VIEJO</i></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b><i>______________________________</i></b></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Thanks for your time and interest. Please email questions, comments, complaints, or praise!</div>David Christian Newtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02486433908063462273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3909519562769268569.post-61937272758414512202021-06-26T14:18:00.004-05:002021-10-22T03:24:03.391-05:00A Social / Cultural / Historical Review and the Probable Future of Texas<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b><i>_________________________________</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><i></i></b></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2rHWNcDOhG-jNMc_coko7gTL-K-tF50ECfBVH2MbKVW90PObjJKyMs7Awj45jTVWOnYC6Qt3kbXiNnLX7B8HCG7u-5GkqjzIPIhyGFj-2PrGXmkJZ2kbbD_tBKKA4kcTxOZPeuN0-pGk/s1280/social.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="1280" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2rHWNcDOhG-jNMc_coko7gTL-K-tF50ECfBVH2MbKVW90PObjJKyMs7Awj45jTVWOnYC6Qt3kbXiNnLX7B8HCG7u-5GkqjzIPIhyGFj-2PrGXmkJZ2kbbD_tBKKA4kcTxOZPeuN0-pGk/w320-h160/social.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;">These are interesting, even if treacherous, times. Two or<br /> three dynamics converge to reasonably visit concern<br />about the assaults that might well be underway against<br /> the American Union.<br />________________________________ </span></i></b></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><i> We look over the pandemic that has beset us, not the one about the Martian Flu that the Red Chinese ghouls worked on over in the fable'd Wuhan Institute of Virology, but something that might be related, but less noticed.</i></b></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><i> During the past several months, the European, Japanese, and American economic engines have been impacted by medical and social problems emanating from Red China. For a period of about four…perhaps three and a fraction of years…in an isolated district (if anything in Red China can be isolated any longer) known as Jiangxi there are two communities, Wuhan and Huba, where substantial agricultural and chemical research is conducted. While it was considered to be something of a glorified advanced research complex designed to help feed the 1,500,000,000 Chinese populace (one hundred and fifty billion human beings), something else seemed to persistently whisper…"This province is a factory for death…please go away".</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><i> It is very difficult for many humans to comprehend the social and cultural patterns that can be encountered in various parts of the world. One could review the writings of a fellow by the name of David Southerly who did considerable study and analysis of the impact of Mao upon China, published in 1994. It points out that perhaps the most peculiar of all governments is that of the Red Chinese government and the forever haunting image of Mao tse tung, the father of democracy with no freedom. It is probable that Chairman Mao, during his time of service to the people of Red China, caused the extinguishment of over thirty or </i></b></span><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">forty million humans lives</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">or quite possibly more</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">many more. Some studied and reasonable estimates have reached beyond 100, 000, 000 (one-hundred million souls).</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><span><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> To be sure, many reliable analysts have reasonably placed the </i><i>direct and precise numbers of humans liquidated, murdered, executed, tortured to death, etc. by the order of Mao, as noted above. It could well have measured well beyond 100,000,000 souls. Essentially, Mao was as warped and vicious as any self-indulgent tyrant. He was committed to literally scores of cultural cleansing efforts as irrational as our "Curse of the Global Warmingcooling" asininity that our Euro and American elitist marxist "climate experts"strut about …and warning the unwashed about the End of Times just around the corner. </i></span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><span><i> One can point out that at least the Global Warmingcooling nuts are not as destructive and perverse as was Chairman Mao. They are simply trying to install themselves into the worldwide driver's seat so as to control what people will do in terms of eating, sleeping, social organisation, the colour of </i></span></b></span><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">traffic signals at intersections, the prohibition of requiring people to associate pink with girls and blue for boys, calorie counting for </i><i>disadvantaged roller skaters, and all that important stuff.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><span><i> The shambles left by Chairman Mao, after many "Great Leaps Forward" has brought Red China to that point that it has a remarkable military that could possibly put together several great reviews of hundreds of thousands of smartly uniformed military people, marching and mixing along with a few hundred tanks, and trucks pulling hundreds of missiles "capable of reaching America and the Sun"in important patios in Peking. The control group in Peking frequently reminds the people of Planet Earth that Peking can also menace the nation of India, Nepal, and several other much smaller adjacent countries that don't count anyway. Peking will use them finally to clean toilets for the Poobahs, and to provide blood and human organ transplants and corporal members when Poobahs and/or their children and mistresses lose an arm or leg or lung or something.</i></span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><span><i> The Red Chinese engine of horrors can buy the allegiance of American and other capitalists who seem to like to hang around with marxist and degenerate "revolutionary liberators", but their true nature is such that they are actually afraid of taking on entities such as Hong Kong, Taipei, even Viet Nam, and a score of other entities that cloud the disorder of the highly ordered and controlled nation known as the "Peoples' Republic". The diplomatic / military forte' of the Red Chinese is the continuous spying and infiltration of places near and far in relation to the Chinese psychotic addiction to the desire to infiltrate, subvert, ruin, and compromise other cultures and systems.</i></span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: red;"> It boils down to the proverbial contest between good and evil. Granted…the Gringos are not "all goody-goody, religious, and pure" but the Red Chinese "uppers" and leadership group that controls their 1,400,000,000 people have no souls. The compulsion to control and subvert the round-eyes and other lower-level forms of humanity</span><u><span style="color: red;"> is the main reason for living</span></u><span style="color: red;"> as far as the Red Chinese control group is concerned.</span></i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b style="color: red; text-align: center;"><span><i> _________________________</i></span></b> </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><span><i> There was a time when this observer thought that the Republic of Texas could become something so legendary that it would be able to endure until the exhaustion of the Sun. Such notions start in the minds of people who receive their first lessons about reality from the Tooth Faerie and El Zorro. Sorry, Santa Claus is too religious to mention, and we fear that such a thing as a religious measure has become too dangerous to bring into the public arena. But, here we are, having to recognise that the intestinal fortitude of the Texian population now has to support a population that has become "more realistic", and drawn from areas that have turned into Hell Holes.</i></span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><span><i> Several hundreds of thousands…becoming millions…have transferred to the Lone State State for various reasons…mostly because it is cheaper than than hanging around in New York or California. Massive numbers of people from Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador and roughly 223 other important nations have directed their populations to go to Texas and the United States so as to help the American People. We have long since reaped the harvest of people who have moved into Texas and then begin to point out what is needed in order to bring Texas up to "Standards". We have recently been "Ocasio'd " by Her Majesty when she came to the Border to express "solidarity" with the "prisoner children" who had been detained in cages after being chained to the inside of said cages.</i></span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="color: red;"></i></span></span></b></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9JYvkQqTraN5oCFpdM9YbyglAwLSmXpoXlMMkEy7kiAGndWqoJ-XyJ-3LbziAvOpBGlt2voCjCKXXMHATfvchXLQo6wN-4qKspjMXSOuZJDHiIpubL934NkIUY5nvan2LYtKzE2J2X1M/s274/220px-Ilhan_Omar%252C_official_portrait%252C_116th_Congress_%2528cropped%2529_A-2.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="274" data-original-width="220" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9JYvkQqTraN5oCFpdM9YbyglAwLSmXpoXlMMkEy7kiAGndWqoJ-XyJ-3LbziAvOpBGlt2voCjCKXXMHATfvchXLQo6wN-4qKspjMXSOuZJDHiIpubL934NkIUY5nvan2LYtKzE2J2X1M/w161-h200/220px-Ilhan_Omar%252C_official_portrait%252C_116th_Congress_%2528cropped%2529_A-2.jpg" width="161" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Ilan Abdul Ahi Omar</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Congresswoman for</span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Minneapolis, Minnesota</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">_________________</span><br /><br /></i></b></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><b><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="color: red;"> Of course, she and her herd of commie cows and ignorant know-it-alls were unaware at that time that the children had been detained long before and under the orders of the </i><span style="color: red;"><span><i>god-force Father Saint</i></span></span><span><i style="color: red;"> Obamaham. Said saint, who lives now near the precincts of the Kopechne Bridge in a land known as Massachusetts, is writing about the </i><span style="color: red;"><span><i>further</i></span></span><span><i style="color: red;"> details about how many joints he smoked when he was of some age or another.</i></span></span></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><i style="color: red;"> Rumours concerning Omar (the Angel of Revenge), and a re-elected Democrat Congresswoman </i><span style="color: red;"><span><i>from a</i></span></span><span><i style="color: red;"> district where several score of my forbearers are buried in downtown Minneapolis, lamentably are all true. Such a strange metamorphosis, one could think, when a communist, nihilist, </i><span style="color: red;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><i>Islamite</i></span></span><i style="color: red;">, atheist, anti-American </i><span style="color: red;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><i>strike force</i></span></span><i style="color: red;"> radical, culture-destroying psychopath can barge into a Nation as generous as the United States, and immediately set about to destroy everything that made life worth living. Things change. Times change. But insanity, arrogance, and proud stupidity seems to prosper when one considers the banality of the Ocasios and the Ilan </i><span style="color: red;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><i>Abdul</i></span></span><i style="color: red;"> Ahi Omar League of mental and social degenerates.</i></span></span></span></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><i>_________________________________________________</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><i>AS AN INTERESTING ASIDE:</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><b><span><span><span><span><i style="color: red;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; font-size: large;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkTjpR8PI7LXdobQzYvQf6ukBvJP_I4MVSCNaoT3T0dKNilCmyFY624iZcV4PbTx267L_LrXHYEWrtrlbMF54dSf5p3mQu0RzA4S3AocPnY4PAd6pW_c9re1UuCd4U6HiXU9NZn1JFpdM/s480/washburn-memorial.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="343" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkTjpR8PI7LXdobQzYvQf6ukBvJP_I4MVSCNaoT3T0dKNilCmyFY624iZcV4PbTx267L_LrXHYEWrtrlbMF54dSf5p3mQu0RzA4S3AocPnY4PAd6pW_c9re1UuCd4U6HiXU9NZn1JFpdM/w286-h400/washburn-memorial.jpeg" width="286" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>THIS IS THE WASHBURN</i> <i>EXPLOSION<br /> MONUMENT. </i><i>SEVERAL SCORE KILLED<br /> AND INJURED BACK IN MAY OF 1878.<br />___________________________________</i></b></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"> It was in 1878 when the Washburn - Christian Mills milling explosion occurred. It was said that the </span></i></span></span></span></span></b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">echoes and reverberations down the Mississippi River </i><i>endure forever.</i></span><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); color: red;"> A great-grand uncle, Charles Christian, was the manager of what was then the largest flour grinding operation in America. The Washburn side of the ownership was mainly political, as demonstrated by the fact that Mr. Washburn, the majority owner of the operation, had been elected Governor of Wisconsin a couple of times before changing his path to become a magnate of industry. He was successful in both </i></span><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">endeavours, in </i><i>spite</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> of the disaster that literally tore the innards out of the industrial sector of Minneapolis in 1878.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> My great-grand Uncle, John Christian, was a partner in the business, and the "man on the ground" because he was the day-to-day administrator of the huge flour milling operation.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> At that time the idea that grinding seeds into </i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">powder-like flour could become literally an explosive problem. Until that point, folks who were using advanced </i><i>processing</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> equipment had experienced the sudden flaming of freshly ground flour when the grinding gears overheated due to lack of hub-lubrication.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> The Washburn </i><i>event, however, was due to a spontaneously free-floating powder of a very fine grade…which, when static electricity moved through a certain density of powder that floated almost undetected in the atmosphere inside the "Washburn A" milling factory, and when very low relative humidity ruled the moment…an explosion of absolute catastrophic effect could…and did...occur. Almost immediately the Washburn - Christian people set about building everything up bigger and better. Within a calendar year the overhaul and reconstruction were accomplished.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i> Poobahs throughout the industrial bases of the United States howled about defective planning, lack of concern for the poor workers, the uncaring nature of the big operators and so forth until two Minnesota University scientists, one named Peckham, the other Peck took up the challenge of solving the explosive characteristics of flour powder. These men performed exhaustive research and testing and concurred with my great-grand uncle John Christian. The new factory would have forced air ventilation!!</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i> Finally, we need to point out that there were various metamorphosises as the years went by. The Washburn organisation steadily </i></span><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">recovered, and then began to disperse finally in the northern parts of Illinois, adopting the name of General Mills, while the Christian people moved into banking and real estate operations, generally remaining in and around the original "Minnesota" venues. And now we return to that which is at hand</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">______________________________________ </i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><i><br /></i></span></span></div></b><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span><span><span><i style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Alexandria Ocasio made a fool of herself </span></i></span><span style="color: red;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-size: medium;"><i>that</i></span></span><span><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="color: red;"> time (again) in front of the cameras, so she went back to New York City with her covey of imbeciles and declared her new victory. It will be years before the city crews will be able to sweep up and tidy the Rue de Broadway because of the </i><span style="color: red;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><i>hundreds</i></span></span><i style="color: red;"> of millions of rose-throwing, cry-for-happy trans, women, unpersons, leftists</i></span><i style="color: red; font-size: large;">, foodstamp poisoning recovery patients, volunteer shoplifters, </i><i><span style="color: red;">and</span></i><i style="color: red; font-size: large;"> people who like to wrap their headscarfs so tightly that their senses fail (something called </i></span></span><span><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span><i>nirvana</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">).</i></span></span></span></span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span><span><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> We shall close this commentary by reminding myself that Biden and Cl</i></span></span></span></span></b><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b><i>amella have no idea what should be done, what is being done, what ought not to be done, what planet they are on and such matters. The Republic is in serious danger due to pervasive lack of interest on the part of the vox populi, an unwillingness of the Big Operators to wean themselves from the opiate of Red Chinese Communist thugs who see Americans as a supply of replacement organs for the Upper Commies and their children and mistresses.</i></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b><i> It becomes necessary by the hour and minute to refresh our relations with the smaller nations in the Far East, and to re-awaken the old-line </i></b></span></span><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">reliant souls</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">New Zealand, Australia, and the like. The other small island nations and the Japanese must guard us and our friends, as we do the same in return in order to defend ourselves from the maniacal nations such as North Korea and the PRoC and the ghouls who are addicted to their addictions and who deal in the </i></b><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">morbidity of The Poison Trip (chemical addictions)</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">now compromising almost one in every ten humans aged 13 or more...who live upon the Planet Earth.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">More Later.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b><i>__________________________________________</i></b></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Thanks for your time and interest. Please email questions, comments, complaints, or praise!</div>David Christian Newtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02486433908063462273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3909519562769268569.post-87308224938247837312021-06-07T11:32:00.010-05:002021-06-14T15:22:10.804-05:00Can Camalalala Pull the Hat Out of the Rabbit???<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b> ___________________</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i>We wrote several pages of commentary about the Vice-President and the President and suddenly there was a clickityclik and a black screen. We are waiting to see if there will be another such event…I put in over 10 hours on the other posting that…simply evaporated before my face. Perhaps that (my face) was the problem, so I am using sunglasses no so as to not scare the computer and its </i></b></span></span><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b><i>screen.</i></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> We do have enough edginess to justify a bit of psychotic withdrawal syndrome and a couple of nightmares after seeing a sudden screening of Maxine Waters and/or (Sir Edmund) Hillary Rodham faces suddenly flashing on the television screen. </i><i>That was the accidental "return to service" when my television decided to join the Electric Age again.</i></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> My overly acerbic rant about Kamela going to Guatemala and Mexico was snide and childish, but it was really funny. At least we had the opportunity to see </span></span><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Kampala-la-la exit her Air Force 2's Air Force 2 (after the first Air Force 2 developed in-flight hiccups and had to return to somewhere near Washington, DC to pick up </span>another<span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> Air Force 2 that replaced the Air Force 2 </span>that<span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> could not continue to a destination that did not matter to neither host nor visitant, anyway.</span></span></i></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><b><i><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"></span></i></b></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifsxxxN48_AjXqJXOVB65HUHlzCWxIhKs2LTQotSRZXq67Po-zL1gCvEcU5nOK7G0HU0K5vFv7BvJsOT1Q9x_YhVUMXrAr6Clq0KwtlWCeSp25XjPLzfDvdePI8PhdlbVwwJubVc3oitA/s2048/rawImage.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="color: red;"><b><i><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifsxxxN48_AjXqJXOVB65HUHlzCWxIhKs2LTQotSRZXq67Po-zL1gCvEcU5nOK7G0HU0K5vFv7BvJsOT1Q9x_YhVUMXrAr6Clq0KwtlWCeSp25XjPLzfDvdePI8PhdlbVwwJubVc3oitA/w320-h213/rawImage.jpg" width="320" /></i></b></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><b><i><span>Kamalalala in better times<br /></span><span><span> <span> _______________</span></span></span><br /></i></b></span></td></tr></tbody></table><b><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="color: red;"><span> <span style="font-size: medium;"> The best part of that event was when Camela stepped out with her black mouth-mask when there was a simultaneous blast of tropic wind that blew </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;">Kampala's </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;"><span>black hair over her face, complementing the black mask. As she descended she either was unaware that she was blind or she thought there was something wrong with her contacts or whatever, but her face remained totally covered by her hair and mask during the entire descent. It was a pleasantly degrading and somewhat humiliating "entrance </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); color: red;">enchante'" by her highness.</span></span></i></b></div></b><p></p><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;"><span><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> I spared everyone by forgoing the </span>nearly<span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> eight-page bomb I was going to drop early this morning. This was mainly because I could not figure out how to restore the text after the almost insig<span>nificant break in the flow of electricity</span></span><span>…</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">much less than a second. It was </span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">weird, and only one person mentioned anything about it on the radio this morning. It apparently did not affect but very few terminals</span>…<span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">.perhaps only mine and five or six others.</span></span></span></i></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><i><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> And the answer to the question in the title above</span>…<span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">.??? The answer is no.</span></i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b><i>EL GRINGO VIEJO</i></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b><i>__________________</i></b></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Thanks for your time and interest. Please email questions, comments, complaints, or praise!</div>David Christian Newtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02486433908063462273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3909519562769268569.post-34887572209865473892021-05-26T03:45:00.010-05:002021-08-26T16:00:51.215-05:00Drifting Without a Direction...<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i>________________________</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><i> 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 </i></b><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b><i>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.</i></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b><i> 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.</i></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b><i> 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 </i></b></span></span><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b><i>revelation by Her Highness)</i></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> 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</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">in the Southern lexicon, "t</i></b><span><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">etched" (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</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">we both almost "</i><i>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."</i></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> 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</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">as if looking at spectres who are </i><i>transcribing</i><span><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> 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</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">.Whenever an Elephant misspeaks, however small the insult, ABCCBSNBCPBSETC calls for the lynch mob.</i></span></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"></i></b></span></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKP4PkXwTMZEWFdE6PlZ00bG6a1Lc5ju7IBST0IQdDBbMmr_CWqNHxY0VzxDLuhU6e4d71aPc2KqjXA0eWI4xYMkrDTL1znlEbjCNeGtgRVRrVMRaNXs-FGMWh2ba0xKBygNdcs4YmhzU/s440/Nancy_Pelosi_meets_with_Stacey_Abrams_%2528cropped%2529a.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="352" data-original-width="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKP4PkXwTMZEWFdE6PlZ00bG6a1Lc5ju7IBST0IQdDBbMmr_CWqNHxY0VzxDLuhU6e4d71aPc2KqjXA0eWI4xYMkrDTL1znlEbjCNeGtgRVRrVMRaNXs-FGMWh2ba0xKBygNdcs4YmhzU/s320/Nancy_Pelosi_meets_with_Stacey_Abrams_%2528cropped%2529a.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: red;">Stacey and Nancy<br /><br />Sisters in the Fight for Equality and<br />Justice for all who just want it "free"<br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">_____________________________</span></span></i></b></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> 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</i></b></span></span><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> 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</i></b></span></span><b style="color: red;"><i>.</i></b><div><b style="color: red;"><i><br /></i></b></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="color: red; font-style: italic;"> </b><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><i> 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.</i></b></span></div><div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span> Miss Stacey is famous for being famous, and for always siding with those who want something for no cost to themselves. She fully </span></span><span style="color: red; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span>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).</span></span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: red; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></i></b></div></div></div></div><b style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> 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.</span> (</span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">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. </span></i></b><div><b style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;"> SAN FRANCISCO IS ONE </span></i></b><b style="text-align: justify;"><span><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">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.</span><span style="color: red;">)</span></i></span></b></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></span></div><div><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><i><span> </span></i></span><span style="color: red; font-style: italic;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"> 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.</span></span></b><div><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLPfn17VxH2LdTJSZnlPOzXR5tgDjsFWmN7FW4bLiUaOOBjVmBkL0pyed3FYjUHl3KFcr1A505QO1a7w_uHgxIPLn9PgzSq4VAh9I4dFdmPxmroD1gnDsS6SlNHmY00peqhqngDr5ishQ/s248/images-14.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="203" data-original-width="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLPfn17VxH2LdTJSZnlPOzXR5tgDjsFWmN7FW4bLiUaOOBjVmBkL0pyed3FYjUHl3KFcr1A505QO1a7w_uHgxIPLn9PgzSq4VAh9I4dFdmPxmroD1gnDsS6SlNHmY00peqhqngDr5ishQ/s0/images-14.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: red;"><i>REPRESENTATIVE </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: red;"><i>MAXINE WATERS</i></b></div><span style="color: red;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Child psychologists might recommend to parents</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><i> that a </i></b><b><i>quick flick of this photo will instantly</i></b></span></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><i> bring a child to good </i></b><b style="font-style: italic;"><i>order.</i></b></span></div><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i> Some children might require several</i></b><b><i> weeks,</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i> or months,</i></b><b><i> or</i> <i>years of deep therapy,</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i> however, in many cases.</i></b></div></span></i><i><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">_______________________________________</span></i></b></div></i></b></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> We mix washes of depression and sour humour concerning this matter of </i><i>watching</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> the ruin of one of America's beauty marks for 100 years or so. "I left my heart in San Francisco"</i><i>…</i><span><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">as the song said at one time.</i></span></b></span></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span><b><span><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> And now we have Miss Nancy and that horrid hag Maxine Waters </i><i>who</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> actually shrieks to her minions to destroy, damage, and hurt people.</i><i> 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.</i></span></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span><b><span><span><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> We have been given to understand that Maxine may be going to have </i><i>some</i><span><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> financial conflicts and other problems involving improprieties, although these rumours and </i><i>rumours</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> of rumours seem to remain, to this point, just rumours.</i></span></span></span></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span><b><span><span><span><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">________________________________</i></span></span></span></b></span></span></p></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Thanks for your time and interest. Please email questions, comments, complaints, or praise!</div>David Christian Newtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02486433908063462273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3909519562769268569.post-59930210787755979842021-05-20T11:53:00.003-05:002021-05-22T05:17:40.827-05:00The American Military - A Communist Front Organisation?<p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><i>_____________________</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><i> This should be a happily brief note to the OROG community and the other followers who seem to be bunched up in the </i></b><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">northeastern </i><i>part</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> 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.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> We have been increasingly concerned about the new head of the Department of Defense, a fellow by the </i><i>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.</i></b></span></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4KTpYPpD58V-MgIZU6QXkMwrJfkla0ewfDsgpNeXWco4UcbhWI4_qeV_utHUu4mRD4PrUuVHmXlfNvoQ2v42Rz1pHIqeWmaJK0soWghlgtaZLI4TI6cjmhCO5ZxTYPk2eTB7Fe5OhHp8/s599/Defense_Secretary_Lloyd_J._Austin_III_%252850885754687%2529.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="599" data-original-width="479" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4KTpYPpD58V-MgIZU6QXkMwrJfkla0ewfDsgpNeXWco4UcbhWI4_qeV_utHUu4mRD4PrUuVHmXlfNvoQ2v42Rz1pHIqeWmaJK0soWghlgtaZLI4TI6cjmhCO5ZxTYPk2eTB7Fe5OhHp8/s320/Defense_Secretary_Lloyd_J._Austin_III_%252850885754687%2529.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><b><i>Lt. Gen. (retired) Lloyd T. Austin, III</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><b><i>Secretary of Defence </i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><b><i>United States of America</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><b><i>_______________________________</i></b></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span><b><i> 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.</i></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span><b><i> 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.</i></b></span></span></p><p></p><h4 style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Extremism_in_the_ranks"></span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em; margin-left: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-right: 0.25em;"></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lloyd_Austin&action=edit&section=10&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" title="Edit section: Extremism in the ranks"></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-left: 0.25em;"></span></span></h4><div class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable" role="note" style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 1.6em;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">Main article: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand-Down_to_Address_Extremism_in_the_Ranks" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Stand-Down to Address Extremism in the Ranks">Stand-Down to Address Extremism in the Ranks</a></span></b></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span><b><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;"></span></b></span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">Shaken by concerns of possible <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Right-wing">right-wing</a> 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 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oath" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Oath">oath</a> of office; a description of impermissible behaviors; and procedures for reporting suspected, or actual, extremist behaviors.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-67" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Austin#cite_note-67" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;">[67]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-68" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Austin#cite_note-68" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;">[68]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-69" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Austin#cite_note-69" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;">[69]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-70" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Austin#cite_note-70" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;">[70]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-71" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Austin#cite_note-71" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;">[71]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-72" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Austin#cite_note-72" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;">[72</a></sup></span></b></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: inherit;"> 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, </i><i style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">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</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"><i>…</i></span><i style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">which is </i><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"><i>about as high as a soldier can go.</i></span></b></span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: inherit;"> There were very, very few who ever attained the rank of five-star general. My recollection calls out this group for muster:</i></b></span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: red;"><span><i style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: inherit;"> (1) General Henry H. Arnold </i></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: red;"><span><i style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: inherit;"> (2) </i><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"><i>General</i></span><i style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: inherit;"> Omar Bradley</i></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: red;"><span><i style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: inherit;"> (3) General Dwight David Eisenhower</i></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: red;"><span><i style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: inherit;"> (4) Admiral William Halsey, Jr.</i></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: red;"><span><i style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: inherit;"> (5) Admiral Ernest King</i></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: red;"><span><i style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: inherit;"> (6) Admiral William Leahy</i></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: red;"><span><i style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: inherit;"> (7) General Douglas MacAurthur</i></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: red;"><span><i style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> (</span></i><i style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: inherit;">8) General George Marshall</i></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: red;"><span><i style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: inherit;"> (9) Admiral Chester Nimitz </i></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: red;"><span><i style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: inherit;"><br /></i></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: red;"><span><i style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: inherit;"> Three men were endowed with honourable five-star status based upon their </i></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: red;"><span><i style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: inherit;">service before the rank had been recognised or even proposed. They are:</i></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: red;"><span><i style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: inherit;"> (a) Admiral George Dewey</i></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: red;"><span><i style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: inherit;"> (b) General George (Black Jack) Patton</i></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: red;"><span><i style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: inherit;"> (c) General George Washington</i></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: red;"><span><i style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: inherit;"><br /></i></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"> 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.</i></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"> The idea of having a celebration with holes punched in it should be repugnant to all.</i></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"> We are in for a ride, folks.</i></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"><br /></i></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">EL GRINGO VIEJO…</i></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">_____________________<br /></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Thanks for your time and interest. Please email questions, comments, complaints, or praise!</div>David Christian Newtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02486433908063462273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3909519562769268569.post-84584871144009106232021-05-07T04:12:00.002-05:002021-05-07T04:15:53.655-05:00The Roaches Run when the lights are turned on…suddenly...<p style="text-align: center;"></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i>_______________________</i></b></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i> 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.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i> 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.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i> 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.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i> 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</i></b></span><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b><i>…</i></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i>_____________________</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i> 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.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i> 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. </i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i></i></b></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIMd7bNtEGKh4bl0DTaw4FnGHs-6KDfpxVZnpgWORj_hoV1roQ5SG-JaOwyiXD3VHXLu-eZdyWvJn8l85Z0rSL8-dQcQlaQF_kV8ClTVoHfPbMj4oU4n5NQhp740q4juZ1fdyKMgCcpyk/s310/images-8.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="163" data-original-width="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIMd7bNtEGKh4bl0DTaw4FnGHs-6KDfpxVZnpgWORj_hoV1roQ5SG-JaOwyiXD3VHXLu-eZdyWvJn8l85Z0rSL8-dQcQlaQF_kV8ClTVoHfPbMj4oU4n5NQhp740q4juZ1fdyKMgCcpyk/s0/images-8.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span><span style="color: red;">Alexandra Ocasio Cortez</span><br /></span></i><span><i><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: red;">She is</span><span style="color: red;"> proof that there are people who are<br /> absolutely</span> <span style="color: red;">clueless but believe they know<br /> everything over the sun. </span></i><br /><i style="color: red; font-size: small;">_________________________</i></span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i> 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.</i></b></span><p></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i></i></b></span></div><b><div style="color: red; font-family: georgia; text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="font-size: medium;"> 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.<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip-eVB4nbmH1pkgiTHaq7tsTx4oPqpfKXp1f6R3dPhSz_l_3-b6WPsyaTuUuzLPuJxlhQh2GgDAwzLljuWUk_mYboqN5Su6rBXznCAa9nKlioGVoEY0U0TsGTdebZU_hyphenhyphen_23otU1KOkLg/s1068/Uyghur-Woman-1-1068x684.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="684" data-original-width="1068" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip-eVB4nbmH1pkgiTHaq7tsTx4oPqpfKXp1f6R3dPhSz_l_3-b6WPsyaTuUuzLPuJxlhQh2GgDAwzLljuWUk_mYboqN5Su6rBXznCAa9nKlioGVoEY0U0TsGTdebZU_hyphenhyphen_23otU1KOkLg/s320/Uyghur-Woman-1-1068x684.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>While all Uighurs <br />don't look like this, many do.<br /> There are many tribal people still who<br /> are attractive, intelligent, and independent<br />with an array of colours and raiment. There<br />are perhaps 20,000,000 mainly in western<br /> China.<br />_____________________</i></b></span></td></tr></tbody></table></span></i></b><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i> 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</i></b></span><b><i>.</i></b></div><div style="color: red; font-family: georgia; text-align: justify;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjasm0X7qGwcJGsbY2ngonyGJQGQcPRVgvJ5vDBQh9JPtARbVuY1uKPgphlSbxNAXSdZTITgoF1X-MNdPKAL-mdEOalT3EE_ho_2Kt6VShSZ7_72yZI_XohN2iWySwCcSvsKRGYYjBUDto/s1000/e1214929e8724600ba4483d015d70f31_18.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="562" data-original-width="1000" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjasm0X7qGwcJGsbY2ngonyGJQGQcPRVgvJ5vDBQh9JPtARbVuY1uKPgphlSbxNAXSdZTITgoF1X-MNdPKAL-mdEOalT3EE_ho_2Kt6VShSZ7_72yZI_XohN2iWySwCcSvsKRGYYjBUDto/s320/e1214929e8724600ba4483d015d70f31_18.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b><i>Recently "released" detainees detained<br />without warrant by Red Chinese authority.<br />It helps this writer to allow the readers to<br />see how heterogenous these Uighurs are.<br />__________________________</i></b></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><b><i style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"> </i><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">While the above comments and observations might border on the frontier of Fantasyland, we are facing a cadre of people </i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><i>dedicated</i></span></span><i style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"> </i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">to the proposition of controlling everyone else's lives. To that mass of people</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">the ultra-leftists</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">the consumptive totalitarians</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">there is no greater mission than </i><i>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".</i></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i><br /></i></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_fQ2RsrP0JxkL1CF_z5kCna9JI2w_tiui6PCubfS-zg8ha6htov_31hNTwbIKNEAA1emJ8sZvqDJDJ024LrBAWTMa2nxvy22br9kj26FJ0FGdFjncF74RC6wmXKwvQpTPq2d9bm3pT3k/s293/220px-Khotan-mezquita-d03-2.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="293" data-original-width="220" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_fQ2RsrP0JxkL1CF_z5kCna9JI2w_tiui6PCubfS-zg8ha6htov_31hNTwbIKNEAA1emJ8sZvqDJDJ024LrBAWTMa2nxvy22br9kj26FJ0FGdFjncF74RC6wmXKwvQpTPq2d9bm3pT3k/w300-h400/220px-Khotan-mezquita-d03-2.jpg" width="300" /></a></div> 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 </i></span></span></b><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><i>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.</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> 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</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">or even a Synagogue. Images such as the </i><i>above</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> chapel remind the writer that the Koran has more references to the Nazarene than to the founding force of the the Islamic </i><i>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.</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><i> 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) "</i></span></span><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>apparatchnik</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">".</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><i> </i></span></span></div></b><div aria-level="3" class="co8aDb XcVN5d" role="heading" style="font-family: "Google Sans", arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 12px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Synonyms & <b>Antonyms</b> of apparatchik</span></b></div><div class="RqBzHd" style="padding: 0px 20px;"><ul class="i8Z77e" style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="TrT0Xe" style="list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">camp follower</span></li><li class="TrT0Xe" style="list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">flunky</span></li><li class="TrT0Xe" style="list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">(also flunkey or flunkie),</span></li><li class="TrT0Xe" style="list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">hanger-on</span></li><li class="TrT0Xe" style="list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">henchman</span></li><li class="TrT0Xe" style="list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">lackey</span></li><li class="TrT0Xe" style="list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">lickspittle</span></li><li class="TrT0Xe" style="list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">minion</span></li></ul><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="color: #202124;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36);"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="color: red;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36);"><br /></span></span></div><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i>We are </i><i>being</i><i> called to a higher calling at these moments. Perhaps during the the afternoon we can continue our stream of doubt, conclusions, and </i><i>observations</i><i>. Please check in to-morrow.</i></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i>EL GRINGO VIEJO</i></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i>_____________________</i></b></div></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Thanks for your time and interest. Please email questions, comments, complaints, or praise!</div>David Christian Newtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02486433908063462273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3909519562769268569.post-27075769626623755712021-04-23T00:59:00.008-05:002021-05-16T18:39:10.304-05:00The Mire Being Fomented by the Agents of Anarchy<p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i>______________________</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i> There is advantage and disadvantage to being a geezer. On the one hand, time has run out and the geezer will be gone sooner than later. And, on the other hand, if the geezer is still somewhat in control of his or her faculties, considerable understanding can be enjoyed by the geezer simply because of years of learning and experience.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"> The ancient petition of the following words;</span></i></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><i>Almighty Father, Grant unto to me the serenity to accept the things I </i></span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span><i>cannot</i></span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span><i> </i></span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span><i>change,</i></span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span><i> the Courage to change what things must be </i></span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span><i>changed, </i></span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span><i>and further,</i></span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span><i> Grant me the Wisdom to know </i></span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span><i>the difference,</i></span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span><i> </i></span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span><i>one from</i></span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span><i> the other.</i></span></span></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><i>________________________</i></span></span></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b><i>?</i></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b><i>(THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE IS LAMENTABLE GIBBERISH.</i></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b><i>PLEASE CONTINUE WITH A WRY SMILE. )</i></b></span></span></p><h1 class="title" style="-webkit-hyphens: manual; caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: Georgia; font-size: 1.95552em; line-height: 1.2141em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 100%;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><i>Arctic warming and diminishing sea ice are influencing the atmosphere</i></span></h1><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><i>________________________________</i></span></div><p style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; max-width: 100%;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><i>The researchers of the Institute for Atmospheric and Earth system research at the University of Helsinki have investigated how atmospheric particles are formed in the Arctic. Until recent studies, the molecular processes of particle formation in the high Arctic remained a mystery.</i></span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; max-width: 100%;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><i>During their expeditions to the Arctic, the scientists collected measurements for 12 months in total. The results of the extensive research project were recently published in Geophysical Research Letters.</i></span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; max-width: 100%;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><i>The researchers discovered that atmospheric vapors, particles, and cloud formation have clear differences within various Arctic environments. The study clarifies how Arctic warming and sea ice loss strengthens processes where different vapors are emitted to the atmosphere. The thinning of sea ice enables more iodine emissions while broader open waters enable more emissions of sulfur-containing vapors.</i></span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; max-width: 100%;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><i>Higher concentrations of vapors result in a higher amount of particles. This on the other hand will lead to more clouds, which can—depending on the season and location—either slow down or accelerate the Arctic warming. Detailed knowledge of these processes is crucial in order to understand the consequences of global warming</i></span><span style="color: #1b1b1b;">.</span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; max-width: 100%; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: red;">_________________________</span></i></b></p><p style="max-width: 100%; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: red;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px;"> It struck me that this announcement</i><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27);"><i>…</i></span></span><i style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px;">certainly a clarion </i><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27);"><i>harbinger</i></span></span><i style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px;"> of bamboozleglubflap, which always announces the interception of inversion seasons from tropical to </i><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27);"><i>treadle</i></span><i style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27);"> Singer Sewing machines and </i><span style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27);"><i>back to</i></span><i style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27);"> cuckoo clocks</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27);"><i>…is</i></span><i style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27);"> solar powered, of course.</i></span></span></b></p><p style="max-width: 100%; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27);"> Soros Universal and the Free Democratic Communist Red China are making the offer </i><i style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27);">at this time to allow you to send an organ for transplant to the Red Chinese oligarch of your choice, and you </i><span style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27);"><i>can</i></span><i style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27);"> do this for only $999.99 (am. cur.) per organ. In order to make this offer possible, it is </i><span style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27);"><i>required</i></span><i style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27);"> that the donor use an organ of his/her own body or of the body of one of your offspring, preferably under the age of 13. </i></span></span></b></p><p style="max-width: 100%; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27);"> The campaign is known as "Organs Across the Pacific". Now back to Helsinki Institute for Atmospheric and Earth system research?</i></span></span></b></p><p style="max-width: 100%; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27);">__________________________</i></span></span></b></p><p style="max-width: 100%; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27);"> We return to other events and considerations that happen to be wandering in the recesses of what little is left of my poor old debilitated brain. Thanks for staying in!!</i></span></span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> Let us now travel to Hennepin County, Minnesota. </i><i>Minneapolis…the life's blood of a significant portion of America's geography and industrial output. My family, in the ancient times, moved among the shakers and doers, dealing in considerable development of industrial production and huge efforts to produce millions of tonnes of wheat and other grains in what should have been nearly impossible weather characteristics. To be short, they were part of the Washburn - Christian Mills which over the years gradually became a company now known as General Mills.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i></i></b></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDnf9GOZgHNw3Ys78FvsWLT_rPzmJCdjfJHVot7lmG8Kg3thw3hXIDQvFP591SjnYXafH5N1-XRBzkgIAP3bQhJ7ZAw0oHE_LKMp4NofMRJuOlFO4eMIRKerzV7_UTcEbqwgRgLGn_RQ8/s1200/800px-Millers%2527_Monument%252C_Lakewood_Cemetery_2016-09-17.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDnf9GOZgHNw3Ys78FvsWLT_rPzmJCdjfJHVot7lmG8Kg3thw3hXIDQvFP591SjnYXafH5N1-XRBzkgIAP3bQhJ7ZAw0oHE_LKMp4NofMRJuOlFO4eMIRKerzV7_UTcEbqwgRgLGn_RQ8/s320/800px-Millers%2527_Monument%252C_Lakewood_Cemetery_2016-09-17.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;">This is the monument that<br />commemorates the Washburn<br />Mills Explosion of<br /> 2 May 1878 -<br />Sunset Cemetery and Grounds<br />Minneapolis, Minnesota<br />_______________________</span></i></b></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i> The Washburn folks, along with the Christians, decided at one time to establish a special place for employees of the Washburn - Christian Mills where folks could bury their departed. A special section was also set aside in the elegant and manicured cemetery for the poobahs and socially elevated types associated with Washburn - Christian Mills in the beginning and continuing ahead for many years. To make a long story longer, many of my people who emigrated into the United States from Britain during what was then the colonial period moved through Massachusetts and New York and other places as they obtained considerable wealth and position in their industrial and agricultural pursuits.</i></b></div></span><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i> My great-grandfather Peter Bonesteel Christian and my grandmother are interred in the aforementioned cemetery which to-day is essentially menaced by the despicable decay and social malaise that is the city of Minneapolis. The elder Christian was interred there in the late 1920s and his daughter (my grandmother) followed in the mid-1930s. I never had the chance to see or know them.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i> My father took his mother up to her family people in Minneapolis, riding in baggage all the way up, and in compartment back down…a matter of about one week, according to his remembrance. He was given an opulent apartment above a five car garage within the confines of a very large mansion and formal grounds. He met with none of his family, only servants, and a servant took him to the train when the time arrived to head back to southernmost Texas. </i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i> My soul suffers from knowing that good and great people managed to prosper and establish legacies in the area of Hennepin County, Minnesota and the entire State of Minnesota. Even though the family of my grandmother had little or no use for my father or anything associated with "…the people down there…", I can still lament that a fascinating and complex State in the American Union has been steadily reduced during the past three to five years to a declining, atrophying and increasingly pointless political subdivision.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i></i></b></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP3ej3dzmGUu7FhOAIHQiLt-Gh-1XW_PXBsiaUAPpiorv3soYFPSi4fJTN-X54fHiT7mqbd1JdXF4ysdlMvmUnTmynXno43VQ9b2DrL00NzXYrJhLQqIv6vC7dsx3UsRhF5LqcZ5s1HfM/s1024/c2j8qf77iuozjhd5f1b1.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="705" data-original-width="1024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiP3ej3dzmGUu7FhOAIHQiLt-Gh-1XW_PXBsiaUAPpiorv3soYFPSi4fJTN-X54fHiT7mqbd1JdXF4ysdlMvmUnTmynXno43VQ9b2DrL00NzXYrJhLQqIv6vC7dsx3UsRhF5LqcZ5s1HfM/s320/c2j8qf77iuozjhd5f1b1.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The best bet for New Age and Marxist engineers, building<br /> another, final perfect society and culture. I mean, like<br /> who cares if the toilets don't flush and the traffic lights<br /> don't function, etc.?<br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">___________________________________</span></span></i></b></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i> The events during the last few weeks point clearly to a group of people who have no concern about truth, honesty, self-respect, self-reliance…it has become a cultural quagmire. As in the case of New York, and Washington, and Washington, D.C. , and Portland, and etc. etc. etc. the Duchies fall, collapsing on their own weight and degeneracy, their socialism and ridiculous efforts at establishing Nirvana through marxism and graft.<br /></i></b></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i> One watches and listens to the four </i></b></span><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">imbecilic women who pontificate and blame and bleat and blather without end about the shortcomings of the United States</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">AOC, for instance, has never spoken a truthful or coherent paragraph, to my knowledge, ever. She and her cadre, and the Biden / Camela team, along with the entire gaggle of third-string - p</i></b><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">laylike marxists who form the Cabinet put in place by Uncle Joe can easily take up residence in any nice </i><i>psychiatric</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> facility out in the country</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">and end their days </i><i>reforming</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> their anthills </i><i>and</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> beehives according to their likings. Perhaps Uncle Joe could possibly give us some accounting concerning how much Red Chinese lucre his son kicked "upstairs" to dear old dad. But we must move on. </i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"> <a href="https://youtu.be/RjsLm5PCdVQ?t=138" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/RjsLm5PCdVQ?t=138</a> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"></i></b></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLTyhrR1gs7ZtoNgzpTiFOEk8TFC1FcywU_aWscaExMccNrwqtoOeSVyHo3X5sgh82E7FUvfL_O_xKMI1rWGUj1fjIWHQ40j2ti9P1vAwU8LZbu7aUV5hYODEAEcvOKEiHpSDdpCpDAII/s2048/Greta_Thunberg_time_01.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1368" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLTyhrR1gs7ZtoNgzpTiFOEk8TFC1FcywU_aWscaExMccNrwqtoOeSVyHo3X5sgh82E7FUvfL_O_xKMI1rWGUj1fjIWHQ40j2ti9P1vAwU8LZbu7aUV5hYODEAEcvOKEiHpSDdpCpDAII/w134-h200/Greta_Thunberg_time_01.jpg" width="134" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><b><i><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br />Greta Thunberg</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">_________</span><br /><br /></i></b></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br /> Now comes this pitifully deranged child, Greta Thunberg, who has been foisted into the </i><i>consciousness</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> of the masses</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">with her </i></b><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">soliloquy of absurdity that seems to come out with some form of socialist blather stating something like</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"THIS TIME there really will be global warming and cooling, and floods and droughts, and everything; and you old geezers have forced us to suffer all the time and everything</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">and you geezers made it happen so as to kill all the children and right thinking people</i><i>…and</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> the proof is the fact that all of America was inundated once because all the water went away and now its coming back again and you old people killed everybody all the time."</i></b></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> It's almost enough for us to start up a full time broadside publication again, like the years past. Back then, of course, I had the OROGs who would forward ideas and </i></b></span><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">commentary</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">OROG being an anagram for Order of Readers of the Old Gringo. All who were and/or are members of the OROG, you hereby remain members in good standing in perpetuity!!</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> Please </i></b></span><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b><i>forgive my somewhat less than precise depiction of Thunberg's arrogant, insipid, pointless, and mendacious monologues. Her particular excesses are products of her own, and of her handlers.</i></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b><i>__________________________________</i></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b><i> My excesses are a form of sad humour, that essentially bilge out until the saloon closes, and the lights go out. Some of my grumpiness is due to the very recent loss of one of my three remaining "Best Buds". I shall be somewhat recovered in the coming days, and I appreciate the patience of our membership. There will be more to come concerning this topic in the next few weeks.</i></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b><i>Oh!! And, I have no handlers.</i></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b><i>El GRINGO VIEJO</i></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b><i>_________________________</i></b></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Thanks for your time and interest. Please email questions, comments, complaints, or praise!</div>David Christian Newtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02486433908063462273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3909519562769268569.post-29579694285996499032021-04-16T17:29:00.009-05:002021-05-11T04:40:24.694-05:00Texas, Canada, and Mexico - three nations, one-sixth the number of Red China's population, but substantially more GNP than Red China.<h1 style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: red; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"> _____________________________</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="color: red; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="color: red; text-align: justify;"><i><span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"> It is truly remarkable. Throughout the capitalist and supposedly largely </span></span></i></b><b style="color: red; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><i>free market we take for granted the Europeans, Japanese, </i><i>most of</i><i> the New World, folks from Singapore, Hong Kong, etc. and assume that our institutions are, can we say, </i><i>malleably</i><i> permanent. Changes are made, sometimes we return to previous processes, and things can rumble along as the big-rigs thunder through the night, carrying billions and trillions of dollars worth of goods, from California to the New York Highlands.</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><b><span><i> But, there are conditions and exceptions, as we know. And how do we fashion a relation between one nation that is totally totalitarian and the other is marginally, at least, a free enterprise adherent? Suddenly, now, we have found a new game in town. It has been facing us since the evacuation of the Free Chinese under Chiang Kai Shek from China to the Island of Formosa…to-day known as Taiwan. Now we have a brutal, no-conscience morality, communist, dictatorship </i></span></b></span></span><span style="color: red;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><i>strutting about as if said dictatorship is the Number One Rooster in town. That brutal, murderous, soul-less entity is dedicated to active numerous propositions. To wit:</i></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><i><br /></i></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"> (1) Hate round-eyes, hate Orientals who are friendly with round-eyes. Love Mao Tse Tung, adhere to the Red Chinese National Anthem - "Oh! How I love to carry dung to the dung heap for Chairman Mao", regard other races and ethnicities as sub-human, and…do everything to upset every apple cart in the market anywhere possible.</span></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;"><span><i> (2) Use American children as organ donors, and suck in Roundeye Capitalists to first become investors and partners in Red Chinese business and projects, and then become organ donors for keeping geriatric Red Chinese poo-bahs alive</i><i>…</i><i>forever. One must admire a nation that has 1,300,000,000 (1.3 billion) citizens producing almost six trillion dollars worth of value added. </i></span></span><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); color: red;"><span>It compares to the Republic of Texas, the United States of Mexico, and Canada. The only small problem???</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">_________________________</span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: red;"><span><span><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: georgia; font-size: small; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="464" data-original-width="398" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhftPKMjyB6HpE_6tnZvzC9lFbUzVHLGkmbIWnBp-RlabvD2rIlmlXSVvvSaFh8nc9wyLTo9mtXuKRyYuZXJSBYYE3EkezU6IJoxKgDLT0aESIF_AR8_tDfomeZVLTEl-A3igXFMGFvxOU/s320/unnamed-6.jpg" /></span> …….The three named nations…all in the tier of the highest 15 nations produce around seven trillion dollar in economic activity drawn from a population base of 210,000,000 souls…</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); color: red; font-style: italic;"><span><span>including the Texian hero of all time, The Lone Ranger and his magical white mount Silver. </span></span></span><span><i>Onto, the noble Indian sidekick. and protector and his horse, Sergeant had a lamentable name, which translated from the Spanish to " silly, mentally dull".</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><i> Which brings to mind the Canadian Sergeant Preston of the Yukon and his Wonder Dog King and his wonder horse Rex who frequently would assist in quadruple bypass operations for heart patients who happened to be short on funds!!! The dog "King" also made a killing in the Stock Market just before the collapse of 1899 on the Stock Market (never trust anything inside of the city of New York). </i></span><i> </i></div></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br /></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ1KBqu9M9OeWE1aNaHU2iitrxEYOPG3wzuS1jiItGD8Kpq3N8mHx6cJRaR0LIlo2pci_Knqq07qR2YKJz3wXxa6lPlMZRyTjVVY5SFGLqbupvL4shF0DXprKuGYNaXH4fTd8XeiTsi3Q/s400/The-Lone-Ranger-and-Tonto.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="314" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ1KBqu9M9OeWE1aNaHU2iitrxEYOPG3wzuS1jiItGD8Kpq3N8mHx6cJRaR0LIlo2pci_Knqq07qR2YKJz3wXxa6lPlMZRyTjVVY5SFGLqbupvL4shF0DXprKuGYNaXH4fTd8XeiTsi3Q/s320/The-Lone-Ranger-and-Tonto.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> Everyone knows that The Lone Ranger was and remains an icon forever. He was a friend to all good people and an enemy of all bad people. He even had a hood ornament named Tonto, whose name in the Spanish had the unfortunate translation into the English of "silly, mentally dull" from the Spanish. The Lone Ranger and his trusted Indian Friend each had horses that could understand nine languages and perform analytical quantum physics problems in their sleep.</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> We finish our efforts for the evening with the reminder of another brilliant defender of his nation.</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: georgia; font-size: small; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="523" data-original-width="400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDSWTIrLJ_bQwgvDt6TYDvpRNqxZEgaVOrOJQ5dlDKAXUB8nG7-XGYt8ManUV96EkK1Tza00YP5WEJHYHEvXhvlD5-QDcwmeGaYpqgeiRjUBV9GVR2UkYFb5iT24zokkNyApiiYhE2pPA/s320/BattleofPuebla2.jpg" /></span><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> This would be, of course, the person of a 30 year old Cavalry General leading a Mexican Army…of around 7,000 well and not-so-well trained and equipped soldiers (mainly Zapotec Indians and National Guardsmen)…meeting and defeating a thoroughly trained, well-led, well-fed, well-mounted French Infantry, Artillery, and Cavalry numbering around 32,000 moving up to take the important city of Puebla…the front door to the City of Mexico, their next stop. Ignacio Zaragoza Sequin, Commander in Chief…was born a Texian, not far from Goliad.</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> He was also the nephew of his Uncle Juan Sequin, one of the great liberators of Texas against the horrid tyrant Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna…who was defeated in 1836 the same way Gen. Charles de Lorencez would be defeated by Juan Sequin's nephew, Ignacio Zaragoza Sequin.</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br /></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">More later.</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">EL GRINGO VIEJO</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">_____________________________</i></span></span></div></h1><div class="blogger-post-footer">Thanks for your time and interest. Please email questions, comments, complaints, or praise!</div>David Christian Newtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02486433908063462273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3909519562769268569.post-52182298073099238152021-03-17T06:08:00.010-05:002021-04-14T14:58:14.818-05:00Madness, Arrogance, and Ignorance: Hallmark of the Left<p style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">__________________________</span></i></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; font-style: italic;"> We review on a daily basis the comings and goings of the issues </span><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>surrounding the cascade of "migrants" inundating the frontier between Mexico and the United State of America. It has become patently obvious that the worldwide consensus of the elite billionaire socialists is absolutely and totally committed to the debasement and total ruin of the American Experiment.</i></span></span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i> The tension that exists in America is that of the group generally dedicated to the desire to be cared for by a benevolent, all-knowing government in conflict with dreamers and the self-sufficient and free-enterprise risk-takers who believe in a ridiculous thing like a Great Ordering Power such as the Lord God Yahweh. It is an obvious dichotomy for which there is no resolution. </i></span></span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b><i> There will always be those who wish to be taken care of and those who require to be obeyed. Texas is one of those places where a large majority of the citizenry wishes to be left alone, desiring to make their own way. Efforts to destroy the peculiar Texian ethos have been underway for scores and scores of years, with lesser and greater effect.</i></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> Texians of the old school tend to remain ruralists even when found ensconced in large cities. Marxists are </i><i>dedicated</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> to making a definite honeycomb wherein people are assigned to the proper cell of the honeycomb where they labour to the Anthem, "Oh! How I love to carry dung to the dungheap for Chairman Mao!". The guiding hands of Marx and Engels</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Hitler and AOC</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Stalin and Pelosi are certain that they can guide the unwashed into the proper stall where the proles can make left-handed horseshoes from mud that is approved by Michelle and (Sir Edmund) Hillary.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> At times the George Soros Choir rises to the occasion to forward the march to the enslavement of the masses. The general American populace falls for the </i><i>siren song of the left…that convinces the dull and undiscerning that a good and benevolent government will provide all nature of human pleasure for the dull and undiscerning. That song, of course, is the hypnotic lure into a poverty of the soul, where the "masses" are ordered what to do and who are given that which the elites deign to render.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i>_______________________</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i> We enter into an analysis of the onslaught of the thousands of people arriving, again, to the frontier which is the demarcation of where Mexico and Texas separate and join simultaneously. This time it is a bit more serious, in that a new government has been installed in Washington, D.C. The folks are arriving without benefit of process of any kind. They are frequently conducted by people who steal their belongings and money and at times their children.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b></b></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin4bcCmhj8ywhi-p90ghh7s3yvyoOUYAFJTFtl4Hrz9e1R75mSrX6qK_rXPNUPp3O_zQx4q7-EqzK4eap5kPDLz8hscVre1hBdD4XiAw6BAKdwcfOxVM9tZUvFgAYlihu_GNQMP9xwTWo/s250/250px-Cuilapa-Barbarena_volcanic_field.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="250" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin4bcCmhj8ywhi-p90ghh7s3yvyoOUYAFJTFtl4Hrz9e1R75mSrX6qK_rXPNUPp3O_zQx4q7-EqzK4eap5kPDLz8hscVre1hBdD4XiAw6BAKdwcfOxVM9tZUvFgAYlihu_GNQMP9xwTWo/w640-h430/250px-Cuilapa-Barbarena_volcanic_field.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><b><i><br />Guatemala is perhaps one of the top ten most beautiful nations</i><br /><i>on the Planet. The scene above shows also the </i></b><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">verdancy and stunning</i><br /><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">crops that are taken from the avocado and mango orchards and the hundreds </i><br /><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">of thousands of acres of tropical vegetables and fruit that feed the country and</i><br /><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">other places </i><i>that</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> demand the excellent fare provided </i><i>by the volcanically rich</i><br /><i>soil. The year-round growing season helps, although we must note that there</i><br /><i>are hurricanes from the Caribbean that slow things down a bit.<br />___________________________________________________</i></b></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i> The people come from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador generally, although thousands come from other places in Latin America, as well as many other countries around the world. Some eighty percent come out of the first three countries, and almost every one of those are woefully unprepared for life in the United States. Large percentages of them are people with a checkered social history, including criminal records and slight literacy. Tens of thousands, over the last twenty years, have been residents of scores of penitentiaries in the fifty States of the American Union. Many of those have been "repeat offender tourists", slipping back into Gringoland at the first opportunity.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifuvdEiy_fWXT6yUsCyz5aFKmM3tYfoHvodOIfzXrHlYz6oh-NTK8pH5ioP4QdBKaMA63dwmANo_S76jGFAzAOKb9NCxYAVZAGecYYAdUcLA_Y3jgpLtFBRAfjupvxwsacE2A3oH8GBcQ/s400/5bc8ce6148838.image.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifuvdEiy_fWXT6yUsCyz5aFKmM3tYfoHvodOIfzXrHlYz6oh-NTK8pH5ioP4QdBKaMA63dwmANo_S76jGFAzAOKb9NCxYAVZAGecYYAdUcLA_Y3jgpLtFBRAfjupvxwsacE2A3oH8GBcQ/s320/5bc8ce6148838.image.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="color: red;"><i>This is a relatively normal-looking "caravana"</i></b></div><span style="color: red;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i>a poorly chosen word for what one sees in this</i></b></div><b><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i>photograph. A "caravana" can be 50 or 5,000</i></b></div><i><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i>and they all start out damning America, hating</i></b></div></i><i><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i>their own countries, almost totally limited in</i></b></div></i><i><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i>terms of blue collar or white collar proficiency,</i></b></div></i><i><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i>often illiterate or semi-literate. At times women</i></b></div></i><i><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i>carry babies or little ones that are borrowed or</i></b></div></i><i><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i>even kidnapped, thinking they can increase</i></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i>their chances of crossing into the USA. They</i></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i>have the hubris to demand to remain in the</i></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i>USA when </i></b><b><i>they finally arrive in Gringolandia</i></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i>while hundreds of thousands and millions</i></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i>of others had to pay many shekels and years</i></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i>of study and qualification to gain citizenship.</i></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>__________________________</i></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></i></b></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i> We receive our share of Arabs from many of those nations, as well as hundreds, at times thousands, from Red China and other places the Orient. </i></b></span><b><i><span style="font-size: medium;">The violence among the "immigrants", once again must be pointed out. Many of those heading north are going to positions with the Mara Salvatrucha Trece </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">(MS-13)</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> from the Honduras and the Guatemala gang known as Callejon-18 </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">(callejon {kah-yeh-HOAN} is a word meaning 'large alley')</span><span style="font-size: medium;">.</span></i></b></div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"> These bloodthirsty goons have the practice of murdering their mothers or one of their sisters, for instance, in order to prove their </i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><i>fielty</i></span></span><i style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"> to the </i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">group. </i><i>Sometimes they are ordained in Central America, sometimes they "come of age" in Gringoland, but almost all have dedicated their allegiance to Satan.</i></span></span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"></i></span></b></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpSmkLWwDi4ZLkLYWUkBFLwORMbDys4Tztj4DOK6C-m65azllPng2xkSbvnPP7NNFKtDDYe51y2xZNNd4aR5H0uSilxyVZRsAwMjnDn2vKJpZ_5hUtw9w8igJ-Shd7pxxSB26wGXG2vWs/s780/180402002659-mexico-migrant-caravan-exlarge-169.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="438" data-original-width="780" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpSmkLWwDi4ZLkLYWUkBFLwORMbDys4Tztj4DOK6C-m65azllPng2xkSbvnPP7NNFKtDDYe51y2xZNNd4aR5H0uSilxyVZRsAwMjnDn2vKJpZ_5hUtw9w8igJ-Shd7pxxSB26wGXG2vWs/w320-h180/180402002659-mexico-migrant-caravan-exlarge-169.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Upon seeing a </i><i>crowd</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> such as this, it is most</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> <br /></span><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">probable that 30 </i><i>percent</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> of the males in the<br /> scene have an "</i></b><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">archivo criminal"(record).<br />It is</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> </span><i>lamentable…..but true.<br />___________________________</i></b></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i> One can only imagine the agony of people who have filed into an American Embassy and begun the process of applying for Americans citizenship, which is a dreary and difficult and expensive matter fraught with bureaucratic dullness and sloth. In Mexico City there are times when one can see a very long line of folks lined up around the block, waiting to enter the American Embassy. The thing is, many of those in the line are not applying for services or information, they are holding a place in line for a particular Jose or Maria.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i> These folks are frequently attorneys who process their own business, and have their own line-holders, nowadays using computer communication and hand-held at the same time in order to stay abreast of how close the client has moved towards admission into the American Embassy entrance. It is actually a well-disciplined madness that functions well…although I am given to understand that a new American Embassy is either being built or soon will be finished, in order to replace the old worn-out Embassy.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b><i>_________________________</i></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><b><i><u>OKAY, GRINGO VIEJO, what is your big cure-all suggestion???</u></i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b><i> We accept the challenge, without hubris or high-handed self-assurance.</i></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> (1) All efforts to enter the United States of America by persons considered reasonably to be citizens of the Republics of Honduras, San El Salvador, and Guatemala is to be prohibited. Only under the most profound urgency involving a matter of life or death of an innocent can entrance be tolerated, and even that only for the length of time allowing a cure and </i><i>recuperation</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> (2) <span> </span>Beginning 90 days after the inauguration of the next Republican President of the United States, a series of projects will be put into action that </i><i>will</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> result in the following initial actions:</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> (a) Medical assistance will be placed in clinics and hospitals so as to advance </i><i>and</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> initiate basic medical services. This would require approximately 10,000 doctors and specialised nursing and medical technology professionals.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> cost - 5,000,000,000 AmCur.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br /></i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> (b) An immediate overall analysis and deployment of repair operations pertaining to the conditions and upgrading of all major primary and secondary highways. A reasonable effort will be made to repair and maintain the </i><i>tertiary</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> road conditions of the rural areas with locals working in concert with American and Central American military engineers and blue-collar specialists.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">cost - 7,500,000,000 AmCur.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> (c) An immediate overall analysis and deployment of concerning all matters pertaining to early childhood education. All primaries (K - through 6) must be refurbished, and local women of high degree and competence who will provide a varied and locally tolerated diet for such children who are in </i><i>attendance</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">. Men with culinary experience will certainly be considered for such duty as well.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> Simultaneously, all children will be accepted at the primaries, which will have a time-tested curriculum which will include a foreign language and which will include basic and intermediate science and mathematics. Native Spanish and social studies will be </i><i>included as well. A principal and a steward with assistants will be in place and will be remunerated.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b><i>cost - 7,500,000,000 AmCur.</i></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b><i> <span> <span> <span> <span> (d) Simultaneous and compulsory American and allied </span></span></span></span></i></b></span></span><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); color: red; font-family: georgia;">military units, including air, ground, and marine actives, will be integrated with units of the native troops who can </i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><i>achieve similar military levels of performance to the American standard. Such a task is nowhere near impossible.</i></span></span></span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><i><span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> cost - 7,500,000,000 AmCur. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></span><i><br /></i></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><i><span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> (e) The careful and tactful integration of Mexican forces on the southern frontier of Mexico, working in co-ordination with the American, allied, and domestic forces on land, sea, and air. Mexican air co-ordination with American air patrols in the Caribbean and Gulf has frequently been very praiseworthy in the matter of drug smuggling, especially out of Venezuela. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><i><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span><span>cost - 24,000,000,000 AmCur</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><i><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> (f) Total cost to the taxpayers</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">a little less than </i></span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i>50 billion dollars. Joe Biden's tribe of ghouls and marxists is calling for over 2,000,000,000,000 (two trillion) dollars just to get started on his vote buying madness and dash into the quagmire of marxist socialism.</i></span></span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i><br /></i></span></span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i><span> (3)<span><span><span><span><span><span><span> After three years, tourism and visitation passport for visitation to the United States by citizens of the three nations recognised in this publication (Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala) will be favourably considered to those with excellent social and professional records. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span><i><br /></i></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><i><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>___________________________</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><i><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span></span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> The above recommendations are done at a crummy little </i><i>typograph with a crummy little screen and a Mickey Mouse internet connection, at four o'clock in the morning. I know these people fairly well, and have live among and around them for over 70 years. My grandmother and my great grandfather pull my genes back about 150 years in matters including on-the-ground living, owning property, succeeding, etc. in Mexico, for instance. Many people regard me…and certain of my closest friends and associates…as a reliable and studied and experienced individual concerning things Mexican and further South.</i></span></span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i> With that, and the silly little fantasy put together in less than 50 minutes, I shall retire to my coffee machine for my second dose of the day.</i></span></span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i>EL GRINGO VIEJO</i></span></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i>________________________</i></span></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i>Estimados huespedes:</i></span></span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i>We are increasingly at the whim of </i></span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i>either our own equipment or from agencies that have the ability to corrupt the information we are happily typing up. The prep page looks great and then I post it, but lo and behold…the uniformity of page presentation and various details of the design of the publication are askew.</i></span></span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i>I fix it, and within two or three visits by our followers (or new visitors) are greeted with alignments in the text that are out of place, and even "disappearances" of text…a phrase or two, and at times two-thirds of a paragraph.</i></span></span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i>We also have pictures that, after placement, suddenly either disappear </i></span></span></b><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">or increase in </i><i>scope from a nice little kitty to a huge Bengal tiger, so to speak.</i></b></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQCiLkVdeBmCp3EmYS6eAgHK7GgwblDO8EV4c7d5hLgP3Gs0jdtxzaUNxMIpdKKQ8B4Wk831eiUM3Igy1hQ5f_1p1Zv5qEUFQbsyGB9vUOnobZYclLOTIaFO55TjnRgurq2xezHQmHWOo/s350/Manga_de_Clavo._Foto-Hugo_Fernandez_de_Castro%252C_julio_2014.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="263" data-original-width="350" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQCiLkVdeBmCp3EmYS6eAgHK7GgwblDO8EV4c7d5hLgP3Gs0jdtxzaUNxMIpdKKQ8B4Wk831eiUM3Igy1hQ5f_1p1Zv5qEUFQbsyGB9vUOnobZYclLOTIaFO55TjnRgurq2xezHQmHWOo/w400-h301/Manga_de_Clavo._Foto-Hugo_Fernandez_de_Castro%252C_julio_2014.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i>See if this little scene of an old, abandoned</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i>well suddenly turns into huge picture of two</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i>or three bricks of the aperture of the well.</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Usually it works fine, but sometimes it looks</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i>like an earthquake hit the photo.</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Right now, as I am typing, it is behaving</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i>like a nice gentleman…we'll see how long </i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i>that might last.</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Thanks for your time and willingness</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i>to listen.</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i>__________</i></b></div><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Thanks for your time and interest. Please email questions, comments, complaints, or praise!</div>David Christian Newtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02486433908063462273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3909519562769268569.post-40100105221194625862021-03-17T03:58:00.002-05:002021-03-17T03:58:41.854-05:00Another nail in the coffin of a corrupt Democrat Election<h1 class="title" style="-webkit-hyphens: manual; caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: Georgia; font-size: 1.95552em; line-height: 1.2141em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 100%;"><i><u><span style="color: red;">BREAKING: Judge Rules MI Sec. of State Benson Directed City Clerks to Ignore Signature Matching Law on Absentee Ballots in Nov. 2020 Election</span></u></i></h1><p style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; max-width: 100%;"><i><u><span style="color: red;">After countless irregularities in the 2020 election and questions that arose due to the handling of ballots, counting of ballots, and absentee ballots, a Michigan judge has ruled that Michigan’s Secretary of State <strong style="max-width: 100%;">did in fact direct city clerks to ignore signature matching law on absentee ballots in the 2020 election. </strong>However, the ruling appears to be too little too late to have any effect on the fantastically mismanaged 2020 election that <a href="http://www.hereistheevidence.com/" style="max-width: 100%; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">millions of reasonable Americans do not trust</a>.</span></u></i></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; max-width: 100%;"><span style="max-width: 100%;"><i><u><span style="color: red;">State Court of Claims Judge Christopher Murray has ruled invalid Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s guidance issued to Michigan clerks in early October that instructed them to presume the accuracy of absentee ballot signatures.</span></u></i></span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; max-width: 100%;"><span style="max-width: 100%;"><i><u><span style="color: red;">Because Benson did not go through the proper rule-making process when issuing the guidance, clerks do not need to comply with it for future elections, Murray ruled last week</span></u></i></span><em style="color: #1b1b1b; max-width: 100%;">.</em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: Georgia; max-width: 100%; text-align: center;"><em style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>C H E C K M A T E</b></span></em></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-family: Georgia; max-width: 100%; text-align: center;"><em style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>________________________</b></span></em></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Thanks for your time and interest. Please email questions, comments, complaints, or praise!</div>David Christian Newtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02486433908063462273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3909519562769268569.post-8590744232427106502021-03-14T15:05:00.006-05:002021-03-18T03:29:43.229-05:00A Soliloquy: Wandering Around in the Fog…a Knight Without Armour in a Savage Land<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">____________________________________</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">We watch the swirling and buffeting of the events of to-day, and lamentably, I neither see nor feel the Joy in Mudville. It seems quite evident that America is steadily swirling into the abyss. Much of the populace would like to have "free money", and these folks will learn that there is nothing quite as expensive as "free money".</i></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br /></i></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> Another racial / ethnic grouping resents that the "white folks" don't like real people who speak Spanish or some other language, don't like for those folks to speak foreign languages. Then we have one hundred or so mega-billionaires who could buy all the European nations at one whack, should they wish. These folks are particularly obnoxious because they </i><i>have</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> no real </i><i>allegiance</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> to anyone or anything </i><i>beyond</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> having, being happy, and looking </i><i>askance</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> at lesser human beings. They are particularly enchanted with the idea of forming </i></b></span></span><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b><i>neo-capitalist linkages with countries such as Red China, which seems to be their favourite comfort zone.</i></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGrOsFfNGjK2vmJehG4lgOVesR9dgQXzLrXC6IkXrqIuYI1wWG2NkFZJxctztvPkazuDVSgvmqyKirptmKOmqMsF6dQf2oLcvOP7Oc2Oncimz3htZYMtaLLAmaiMXKHqGUeEVAXYRxDCI/s280/HGWT19.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="220" data-original-width="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGrOsFfNGjK2vmJehG4lgOVesR9dgQXzLrXC6IkXrqIuYI1wWG2NkFZJxctztvPkazuDVSgvmqyKirptmKOmqMsF6dQf2oLcvOP7Oc2Oncimz3htZYMtaLLAmaiMXKHqGUeEVAXYRxDCI/s0/HGWT19.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><i><b>Richard Boone aka - played Paladin</b></i><br /><br />_________________</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></i></b><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Your humble servant is a Paladin character, although considerably content with the idea of having a wife who is my human superior, and children and </i><i>granddaughters who are complex, brilliant examples of humanity. And yes, Virginia…I have no grandsons.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><span><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> As a Paladin-like character (a </i><i>Knight</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> without armour in a savage land) it has been my pain and pleasure to have failed miserably at some things, succeeded massively at others, neglected talents that should have been developed, and refined works for self and others that ranged from well-done to amazing.</i></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><span><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br /></i></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><span><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> Watching the scenario now presented by the ever-changing, steadily degrading sociological rot, my </i><i>soul has become increasingly troubled. To think…one wakes up in </i><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; font-style: italic; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixGBsmxmVczVKMzWF0F5dvEg1ABtaJQZOMZWbk3Su4OL0bMDGQ0XNLIeC3oH6_MXmqmVcPgzggahN768rnKCsPB4tcoIhWAcsODQbBh18x8YVPtxGldSdWmwXoIKYOyUKz4OmAtY-qMpA/s732/Clark_Gable_-_publicity.JPG" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="732" data-original-width="575" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixGBsmxmVczVKMzWF0F5dvEg1ABtaJQZOMZWbk3Su4OL0bMDGQ0XNLIeC3oH6_MXmqmVcPgzggahN768rnKCsPB4tcoIhWAcsODQbBh18x8YVPtxGldSdWmwXoIKYOyUKz4OmAtY-qMpA/w251-h320/Clark_Gable_-_publicity.JPG" width="251" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><b>Clark Gable, aka - Rhett Butler</b><br />__________________</span></td></tr></tbody></table><i>the morning learning that Dr. Seuss is a scumbag and a racist. We are already aware that Gone With the Wind is a racist movie…I think it was Joy Behar who advised me of such. The Southern movie audiences at the time of the release swarmed the theatres to marvel at the incredible cast…choosing Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) and Mammy (Hattie McDaniel) as the top performers. McDaniel won the Oscar that year for Best Supporting Actress, becoming the first Black African descent person to make the "Big Four" in the Academy Awards.</i></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><span><i> Truth be </i></span></b></span><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><span><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">known, Hattie McDaniel was castigated and howled against by the "urbane" and ever-judgemental leftist cheering-section in the metropolitan venues. Why?...</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> because Miss Hattie had perfectly played the role of a Negress in command essentially of an entire large Southern plantation, who bossed everyone around quite well. Her ability to control, to a large extent, the head-strong self-absorbed Scarlet</i></span><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">a spoiled, rich White plantation princess was especially well executed and well noted by everyone.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="color: red; font-size: large;"><i> We insert this example of the hyperactive condition that </i></b><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><i style="color: red; font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">continuously spurs the shallow</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="color: red; float: left; font-size: large; font-weight: bold;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSQWUVU8Wrps_4lIu1A0UCjny5hibIlflDN5notTAxsPzE7qYIfJR7fl4Hj6Oik7j4LzDDLTHMlU0i1EtdbCIiziRomXU9fQ7iRNI4f3KoeHKAog-3LGBMIkLieQ4RbUIgoxZ-dxiVVc4/s1024/gone-with-the-wind-hbo-max.jpg" style="clear: left; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><img border="0" data-original-height="820" data-original-width="1024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSQWUVU8Wrps_4lIu1A0UCjny5hibIlflDN5notTAxsPzE7qYIfJR7fl4Hj6Oik7j4LzDDLTHMlU0i1EtdbCIiziRomXU9fQ7iRNI4f3KoeHKAog-3LGBMIkLieQ4RbUIgoxZ-dxiVVc4/s320/gone-with-the-wind-hbo-max.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">Mammy lectures Scarlet<br /></span>______________________</i></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>and hollow leftists</i><i>…</i><i>especially the wealthy ones</i><i>…</i><i>when they put on airs about how they are more sensitive to the issues affecting the downtrodden than the middle class and poor-rich slobs who live "down there somewhere". (poor-rich are folks whose family has 10 million dollars on hand, or less) </i></span></b></div></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> On the left, one can see the scene wherein Miss Mammy gives Miss Scarlet a straight-faced, factual instruction to her charge that she </i><i>can't</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> tighten the </i></b><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">waistband any more, because, "You done had a baby, Miss Scarlet, and you'll never have an 18 inch waist again". That line caused all kinds of laughter, perhaps because Scarlet, while very important to the times and the movie's construct, was seen as a </i><i>forever scheming woman who made a fool of herself over the aristocratic "Ashley".</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><i> She played a generally self-absorbed twit. Later in the film she settled for Rhett Butler, who was more of a cad such as your humble commentator. (This writer still believes that this movie is the greatest film ever produced. Sound track included </i></b></span><span style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://youtu.be/6qr25F9t6Es">https://youtu.be/6qr25F9t6Es</a> <span style="color: red;">)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"> <i><b><span style="font-size: medium;">___________________________________</span></b></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><b><i style="font-family: inherit;">We move along, hoping we have convinced many of our growing number of readers that we are not desperately mad. But, it is necessary to throw down the gauntlet and demand reason from those who have eschewed the usefulness of true reason and worthwhile thought. The constant drumming of the words racist, racist, racist, and the poor, the poor, the poor has come to the point of being less than a dull pretension. The fact of the matter is, the United States of America remains the most productive and the most distributive in terms of general wealth on the Planet.</i></b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i style="font-family: inherit;"> America would be more wealthy and more productive if the such things as Aid to Families with Dependent Children and Food Stamps were to be cancelled in the next thirty days. All assistance to the poor or the down on </i><i>their</i><i style="font-family: inherit;"> luck or victims of calamity should be a private matter, initiated by close people and not by Federal </i><i>and</i><i style="font-family: inherit;"> State programmes </i><i>that essentially encourage "membership" in some kind of Public Welfare Association.</i></b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i style="font-family: inherit;"> The guidance of leftist politicians, and lamentably, ostensible members of the rightwing of the American political scene, elected and appointed officials, especially in Washington, District of Colombia, merrily go on their way, ever extending the National Debt. There is no way that any country can spend its way to prosperity. Subsidies of salaries, </i><i>businesses, banks, schools, and the like are poison designed to enslave, in our case, the common American people…numbering some 330,000,000 souls.</i></b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i> We now have the return of an inundation, again. And yes, we are aware that the first sentence prompts a </i></b></span></span></span><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">redundancy</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">because </i></b><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">we are living a redundancy. A perfect storm is forming. The Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States, a certifiable dolt, is attempting to establish a national rule without the restrictions that had been put in place during </i><i>the</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> construction of the </i></b><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b><i>Constitution of 1787. That document has survived for lo, these many years with few concrete amendments. It was designed to allow the greatest latitudes of discretion to be left to the various States of the new Union. </i></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> We are moving quickly into a new Constitutionality that is quite brief, and which will authorise daily arbitrary changes in laws and rules without the permission of the governed. These statements seems ridiculous, but if one stands back and looks carefully it will be quickly understood that all rule</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">within the next eight to ten years</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">will be arbitrary, endorsed by a small gaggle of power elite, similar to communist Red China, and making the United States essentially a dull, grey, sad, rotting and rusting dump like Russia.</i></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br /></i></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> For </i><i>those who might resist these predictions as being probable, please </i></b></span></span><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">consider that entire cities inner areas are put to the torch and looted now as a common event. Perpetrators are almost never detained or arrested. Those who are handcuffed and transported very frequently are quietly released and bonds cancelled. This has occurred in Chicago, Portland, Seattle, Detroit, and </i><i>scores</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> of other places.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> The crassness, arrogance, and hubris demonstrated by the "protestors" during these events is nothing short of flabbergasting. The national media</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">television and major newspapers</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">blame Republicans for everything and lament that racism forces people to destroy downtowns anytime and anywhere. This is not racist </i></b><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b><i>cant, it is something that has become part of the "American Way of Life". Peoples' businesses and abodes destroyed while druggy stoners and thugs cheer and hoot and chant and dance.</i></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-size: large;"> We face again the renovation of the hordes of people coming up to the Rio Grande and other places on the border between Mexico and the United States. The Official American Press refer to them as "migrants", but they are not "migrants". They are invaders. Most folks </i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">think that these "migrants" come from Mexico, but the fact is that </i><i>they </i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">actually come from all points </i><i>imaginable</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span> on the Planet. The three leaders, however, are Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras in Central America. These three nations with <span>a population combined of 35,000,000 people are found adjacent and/or relatively close to Mexico.</span></span></i></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: inherit;"> For several years now, it has become a reality with hundreds, then thousands, then scores of thousands coming up to barge into the United States, </i><i style="font-family: inherit;">especially</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: inherit;"> coming through Texas, and of course, Arizona and California. For various reasons there are relatively few "migrants" who choose to make their break into New Mexico. This year has </i><i style="font-family: inherit;">become</i><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: inherit;">a particularly heavy traffic march because Joe Biden was elected President and the word went forth that the time had come to go to Gringolandia and plop out a baby on American soil, or whine and moan about the treachery and danger about living in northern Central America, and I am looking for my children who were kidnapped, etc. etc."</i></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: inherit;"><br /></i></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><b><span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> As it turns out, of course, over </i><i>thirty</i></span><span><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span> percent of the males (age fifteen or more) have criminal records. Many have been deported from the United States on several occasions. The women have children, sometimes not their own, and others come with a b</span>elly full of baby. Few have completed high school, and many have not even completed primary in the native country. This writer's blood boils when he sees the famous nun talking about what noble work they are doing on behalf of the "refugees". She is helping</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> people who will become hapless clingers to whatever welfare they can dredge up in the towns and cities of their destination. If they are allowed</span> to continue on after crossing the Rio Grande, for instance, </span></i><i style="font-size: large;">they</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-size: large;"> receive an entry permit, and then they are put on a bus to Topeka</i><i style="font-size: large;">…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-size: large;">or some such place where ostensibly there will be family or close friends who will receive them. The individuals are required to return to the place of original entry and submit to a hearing to determine if that applicant is qualified to remain in the United States. Very few, about 15%, ever come to the required proceeding. They have "become invisible". They will be found, however, in delivery rooms at various hospitals, plopping out babies without benefit of shekels.</i></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><b><span><span><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-size: large;"><br /></i></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><b><span><span><span><span><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-size: large;"> Another small problem that the "friends and helpers" of the "migrants" fail to mention in their propaganda messages is that the whole system from Central America to the border is wrought with danger of the highest order. Cartel people kidnap and hold for ransoms and frequently simply liquidate a dozen or a score or more of inconvenient "clients". A </i><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>couple</i></span><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-size: large;"> of years ago, </i></span><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-size: large;">in a rural area near San Fernando, Tamaulipas, about 50 </i><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>miles </i></span><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-size: large;">south of McAllen, the Cartel people stoked up on weed and began taking advantage of the women and finally </i><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>took</i></span><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-size: large;"> measures that wound up killing 75 "migrants" in a ranch compound off of the main highway. A lone wounded survivor walked to the City of San Fernando, about eight miles away, and encountered the Mexican Army compound, and reported the massacre. The next morning the Mexican Army personnel searched out and surrounded the eight or nine miscreants who failed to surrender and suffered the consequences. Autopsies </i><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>indicated</i></span><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-size: large;"> that they were full of drugs and alcohol.</i></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><b><span><span><span><span><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-size: large;"> It is my opinion that there is nothing humanitarian to help people across the Rio Grande when in fact those same people are most likely going to wind up in very unpleasant straits. The thundering blather </i><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>by the Democrat Ghouls about how "Trump didn't help the Migrants!!! Trump kept children in chains (actually photos and episodes that pertained to the Obama regime's rule), Trump was dividing nations, Trump is a bigot" continues to this day.</i></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span><span><span><span><i style="color: red; font-size: large; font-weight: bold;"> </i><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="color: red; float: left; font-size: large; font-weight: bold;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8Xj1WPbNZ12zikcDfXDwMpIdpMJFPsnH3OGcmImpUaQX4Hjqz8dhNzi6ly6oBezMxzjTMzcgjJOtCUrZziZBbG1jceKsw1ZrRvj5CmFIIIKGbXMvcSobltJvUQRgGYfDdvUPb-5DIgho/s1024/2019-02-16T184543Z_50553149_RC168C64B4F0_RTRMADP_3_USA-TRUMP-1024x660.jpg" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); clear: left; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><img border="0" data-original-height="660" data-original-width="1024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8Xj1WPbNZ12zikcDfXDwMpIdpMJFPsnH3OGcmImpUaQX4Hjqz8dhNzi6ly6oBezMxzjTMzcgjJOtCUrZziZBbG1jceKsw1ZrRvj5CmFIIIKGbXMvcSobltJvUQRgGYfDdvUPb-5DIgho/s320/2019-02-16T184543Z_50553149_RC168C64B4F0_RTRMADP_3_USA-TRUMP-1024x660.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>A small multi-family cemetery, very near the<br />Rio Grande</i> <i>not far from McAllen, Texas<br />with interments dating back into the<br /> latter 1800s.<br />__________________________</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></div><i style="color: red; font-size: large; font-weight: bold;"> What is certain is that strong</i></span><i style="color: red; font-size: large; font-weight: bold;"> fences make good neighbours. I am not a big fan of the M</i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><i>illion</i></span></span><i style="color: red; font-size: large; font-weight: bold;"> Mile steel fence</i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><i>…</i></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><i style="color: red; font-size: large;">it seemed unnecessarily rough on the vegetation, wildlife, and frequently the sawing of houses, historic cemeteries, and properties into two sections (literally). One thing was certain, however, and that was that the Cartel people and other "malcreantes" had to face very difficult alternatives in areas where The Fence was functioning. It required a lot of rethinking, and cost a lot of time and money, in order to deliver their commodity of </i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><i>habitual</i></span></span><i style="color: red; font-size: large;"> ruin and death to the American public.</i></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span><span><span><span><span><i style="color: red; font-size: large;"> The Mexican military liked the wall, and while it is not stated, there were many, many passively and/or informally co-ordinated actions by American Border Patrol, Texas River Patrol, and the Mexican Infantry. These matters are simply not mentioned, and co-ordination as a matter of fact is generally a matter of both sides helping someone who is drowning in the Rio Grande (Mexican formal name is Rio Bravo del Norte) or who is tangled in a river weed mess</i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><i>…</i></span></span><i style="color: red; font-size: large;">also a really bad way to croak.</i></span></span></span></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span><span><span><span><span><i style="color: red; font-size: large;"><br /></i></span></span></span></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span><span><span><span><span><i style="color: red; font-size: large;"> Another thing to remember </i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><i>about</i></span></span><i style="color: red; font-size: large;"> all this commotion is that Mexico received and gives out very poor public relations. There </i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><i>it plenty to complain about in Mexico, there are ridiculous political </i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">posturings, long-delayed projects half-constructed, incessant argumentation on the floor of the Mexican Upper and Lower Houses of Congress, and State governments with </i><i>mono-cameral congresses that bicker and bray, yet succeed in much significant State-level advances.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><i> But all in all, Mexico functions pretty well…not perfectly…but pretty darned well. Good restaurants, from the very humble to the regular nice place, and places where one would not be surprised to see business magnates from around the world..and Mexico, and </i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">other Important People. There is a lot of diesel and gasoline of good quality (actually much of the high-test fuel comes in from Exxon in a trade). Mexico exports </i><i>medium-</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">low and medium-high quality oil to Exxon and Exxon refines the high-test for significant PEMEX gasoline, and also keep for themselves a certain radioactive mineral that is used various advanced applications.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><span><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> Perhaps some day there will be no more Cartel stuff</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">nor rapacious, psychopathic corruption amongst so many of the middle and high ranking bureaucrats and elected official. I shall resign for the moment from the screed and allow the sane people to return to their sane activities and productive natures.</i></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><span><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br /></i></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><span><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> There will more to come in short order.</i></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><span><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br /></i></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><span><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">EL GRINGO VIEJO</i></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><span><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">_______________________</i></span></b></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Thanks for your time and interest. Please email questions, comments, complaints, or praise!</div>David Christian Newtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02486433908063462273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3909519562769268569.post-4822127111201931272021-03-05T02:02:00.004-06:002021-03-06T04:00:46.174-06:00About Ruben Navarrette, Jr. - The Improbable Commentator<p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>____________________________</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><b><i></i></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="775" data-original-width="1920" height="129" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpwgeisdo9fYk5Ydbn5hlE3Qahf_qiVRWrUWqV4ZDaCa9W2zVWPfXt7H04Jp_G9MsLRQeSaj1J4aE_RYDMmN-JzQxsW-lmXc2xbTXQiIp3JbtZhKBnjXqYSSEPrUoxJZ8rltNRVN7NVS0/w320-h129/navarrette_ruben.jpg" width="320" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><b><i>__________________</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></span></div><span><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="color: red; font-family: georgia; text-align: left;"><i> A person of very advanced intelligence, Ruben Navarrette, Jr. , is a well-known commentator concerning cultural and </i></b><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); color: red; font-family: georgia; text-align: left;"><b><i>political matters, and routinely takes a broad-brush stroke to make his points, both pro and con. He is among the most intelligent among the leftward observers in print at this time, and in this place.</i></b></span></div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> My grumpiness about Sr. Ruben is not so much that he is a leftward sort, although one must wonder how anyone as intelligent as he can possibly still sit on the left side of the Forum. I </i><i>also</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> think that he dwells pointlessly about ethnic issues by supposing that only the Latin cohort of the human race suffers the </i><i>ignominy</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> of bigotry, racist frictions, or the pain of being disregarded by people of lesser intellect and social finesse.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> But, all in all, even though this writer has said, perhaps 30 or 5o times, "This is </i></b><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">the last time I shall waste my time reading Ruben's anti-gringo huffing and puffing bilge"</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">it is necessary to stop and think about Ruben's world view. Enter the issue of Ted Cruz heading down to </i><i>Cancun</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> while "everyone" in Texas was suffering! How dare Ted Cruz use his prestige as a Senator in the Congress of the United States, leaving all the proles, peons, and oppressed in the cold and snowy wastelands of Texas</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">with no electricity.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> We recall the episode, now a bit more than a week past, when even in the areas around McAllen, Texas bitter below-freezing temperatures, a little sleet, a little snow, essentially closed </i><i>down</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> well over half of the </i><i>magic</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> Lower Rio Grande Valley. Broken pipes, no electricity, no gasoline, no grocery stores, etc. etc. Strangely enough, my wife and I went through the five days without one power failure</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">only about one-fifth of the </i></b><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">population in Texas </i><i>could say that when all was said and done.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><b><i> Our children and grandchildren in the central part of Texas had snow ranging from six to twelve inches…and a week's work of sub-freezing weather. It was a major league gut-punch for the entire Republic of Texas. Ted Cruz enters our commentary at this point. Ted had a daughter who was going down to Cancun in Mexico where several of her gal-pals were also heading, along with a various mommies and daddies. It had been programmed several weeks or months before.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><b><i> So, Ted told his progeny…"I will take you down there, maybe hang around, because with this weather, nothing is going to be going on!" And off he went, fulfilling a promise that had been made earlier, and leaving behind what was essentially a "freeze-frame" in almost the entirety of Texas. Once arriving in Cancun, Ted picked up information from people in Texas that things were going from bad to worse. Leaving his daughter with known responsible friends and a gaggle of daughters of various parents present, he decided to return to Texas.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><b><i> All of this was interpreted by the abominable, mendacious pseudo-journalists' cabal who howled for several days about how Ted Cruz turned his back on the suffering masses back in Texas while Ted twinkled fine white sand through his toes while he fed the porpoises by hand. None of that happened, of course. His manoeuvre was essentially and down-and-back trip. </i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><b><i> Mexican telephone service stayed functional…a bit </i></b><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">moreso than many areas in Texas, and nothing happened by Ted's hand that affected anyone negatively. So, as a matters as predictable as the sunrise, the cabal of ''journalists" who commonly mislead the public about matters </i><i>pertaining</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> to conservatives and/or Republicans had their field day of </i><i>mendacity</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">. </i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> And</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">so</i><i>…who comes forth to set the record straight? Ruben Navarrette, Jr. is told by his buds that he should bash Cruz for a Cancun trip…other friends of Ruben say </i></b><b><i>condescendinly that he should choose his friends, "more carefully". Ruben Navarette responded, "…Thanks for the tip. But you do you. And I'll do me. My readers don't pick my topics, and my followers don't choose my friends."</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> So, I sum up. You're a good man, Ruben. I'd prefer that you use your magnificent brain within the Republican and/or conservative field</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">but however the pie is sliced</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">you are a good man, and I shall return to reading your columns.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">EL GRINGO VIEJO</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">David Christian Newton</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">______________________</i></b></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Thanks for your time and interest. Please email questions, comments, complaints, or praise!</div>David Christian Newtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02486433908063462273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3909519562769268569.post-31696581753583873392021-03-04T05:48:00.002-06:002021-03-04T05:48:24.779-06:00Of the International Frontier and All Things Biden, etc.<b><i></i></b><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i>________________________</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b><i> We are sitting around at 02:22 on a chilly morning on the border at the final southernmost point of the Republic of Texas, trying to assemble some order in what little is left of my inclination to think with clarity. We are now adrift with a Captain of State who is intellectually adrift, under the full control of marxist analysts who are <span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">valiantly committed to turning the United States of America into a socialist-democratic anthill.</span></i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b><i> It is apparent that the newly installed President is something different from the Vesuvius prone previous Head of State. One could suggest by whispering to a close friend, " Methinks our king be daft" and hope that the new Vice-Head of State, a woman totally dedicated to banality of thought, word, and/or deed, can somehow keep the Ship of State from the striking the iceberg. We lament that she is hopelessly incompetent and self-absorbed, as well as being a full-time hater of she sees as the Imperialist American construct. She is an example of a person born to title and position who is totally </i></b></span><span style="color: red; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b><i>vacuous and self-absorbed to the extreme. Like (Sir Edmund) Hillary Rodham, she is a convenient democratic marxist. Like Ernesto (Che) Guevara, she is good for causing destruction but knows nothing beyond self.</i></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> Our peculiar leader who can barely stumble through a paragraph of bolshy-blather without trailing off into a lecture about how </i><i>many</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> tiddlywinks it takes to build a shoe-horn. The critical observer</i><i>…and there are a few of us who still have not been assigned to the gulag…can readily deduce that the Ship of State is being administered by a small cabal of "democratic" socialist cultural engineers who a sure of their ability to establish a perfect society and culture, once and for all. A goodly number of these engineers are multi-mega-billionaires who know perfection and how to achieve and maintain perfection.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b><i> Most universities and colleges are now lined up to handle and enforce the task of training marxist bees of the hive how to think, what to think, when to think, and how to nod knowingly when Maxine Waters says whatever Maxine says. If there is doubt, one need only review the brilliant and incisive opinions of Bernie Sanders, who is a brilliant socio-cultural engineer in his own right. We have watched and listened to these howling dunces during the "transition" of Uncle Biden assumption of office.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b><i> For instance, and this is an example of the entire construct of the Biden - Democrat - International Intellectual Cabal: We watched a person explain on the imbecile news networks (ABCNBCCBSPBSETC) that the matter of the people coming up to and across the border between the United State of America and the Estados Unidos de Mexico is not a serious matter. The wise ones agree there are matters of concern, but all matters pertaining to extra-legal entry into the United States from other countries of origin for the purpose of remaining in the United States is a matter that Uncle Joe and Auntie Kamala can easily resolve. With assistance from the magic Wonder Girl - AOC they Joe and Kamala and (Sir Edmund) Hillary can make everything perfect simply by wrinkling their noses</i></b></span><span style="color: red; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b><i>…</i></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><i style="color: red; font-family: times;"> </i><span style="color: red; font-family: times;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><i>…</i></span></span><i style="color: red; font-family: times;"> but a couple of days ago...a rickety van with room for seven people including driver just happened to be carrying over thirty people. Some estimates were up to forty persons. </i></b><span style="color: red; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b><i>The van had loaded up somewhere near the USA - Mexico border and took off to destinations of wonder and </i></b></span><span style="color: red; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b><i>opportunity and Disneyland and free food and free money and free medical services, ad infinitum. The only problem was that the van was a rolling wreck looking for a place to have a wreck. A loaded tractor-trailer long-haul truck essentially broadsided the van, killing 13 - 14 people. Some pieces had to be reassembled, and we are not </i><i>talking</i><i> about the van. Thirty or more people were counted, while another at this writing had died in a hospital somewhere near the event. Some </i><i>observers</i><i> indicated that there were a few passengers who blended into the crowd and evaporated.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> Daily, nightly, we receive from three hundred to one thousand trundling Third-Worlders who cross the Rio Grande solely along the frontage of ONE TEXAS COUNTY, HIDALGO in daylight and dark via </i><i>rickety</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> jerry-rigged rafts and inflatables that have as many air-leaks as passengers. People of all sorts touch land somewhere on the Texas side and begin their trek, preferably to where they can be detained by the Border Patrol and/or at times now Hidalgo County Constables. Why do they want to be "caught"? It is simply because the cumbersome and purposeful task of the leftwing "do-gooder" requires that all these folks who have jumped the line for (a) obtaining a tourist visa, (b) a petition for employment of seasonal or permanent visa, (c) a petition for </i><i>educational</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> visa, (d) a petition for immigration and citizenship in the United States, or (e) various other legal ways to enter the Republic of Texas and/or the United States of America. All the petitions mentioned here are things Mexicans and others have to pay in terms of hours and hours and days and months, and for the Citizenship path, years.</i></b></span><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="color: red; font-family: times;">This is the fact. Those are the facts. We are receiving scores and hundreds of "unaccompanied minors", sometimes five or six years old</i><span style="color: red; font-family: times;"><span><i>…</i></span></span><i style="color: red; font-family: times;">most are middling teenagers, some a adults trying to pass for teenagers. The number of these minors who are sexually abused, sold into unpaid labour, or farmed out to "employers" who pay $2.00/hour under the threat of turning the undocumented over to the Immigration</i><span style="color: red; font-family: times;"><i>…it is a Hell beyond Dante's inferno, and it goes on daily. Medium-sized and large metroplexes are filled to the brim with these people. A very few somehow manage to find a few </i><i>manoeuvres</i><i> that allow them to come out into the light and participate in a normal, lucrative, and beneficial way. But they are a very few.</i></span></span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: times;"><span><i> And, every night and sometimes all day, Hidalgo County…and thirteen other Counties fronting on the Rio Grande / Rio Bravo receive a hundred…three hundred…a thousand more people who will soon be wrapped in the comfortable </i></span></span></span></b><span style="color: red; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">rebozo of free everything. And for every new baby, there will be massive outlays of "public" money. And the half who fall into the paths of iniquity will become slaves to mafia-like slave masters. These are not fanciful dreams and tales of a Mexican-hating gabacho</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">these are actual facts that I have lived, my wife has lived, our parents and many generations have lived, our children have lived. The County of Hidalgo, for instance, is a bustling place, probably one million people live here</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">and thirty per cent of that number are on substantial</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">very substantial public assistance.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: times;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> It is one of the ways a woman can come into the United States or Texas after having been visited by a miraculous </i><i>thing called "being pregnant". Frequently these women have no idea how this happened, but it really does not matter. According to the law and standards of the United States and Texas, a woman who bears and delivers a baby on Sacred Soil of Texas delivers a citizen of the United States and Texas. And since the baby has no method of fending for him/her self, the practice has always seemed to be that the mother will remain with the baby, permanently. These are the rackets.</i></span></span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: times;"><i></i></span></span></b></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ2MskhIOHjNlrWYi60MEGjUuIfDDx9WIE_KdKpwDZ3CftsZIZroQl2WgyfDdx_cUbi1Tz7AvyBUg_BbrNf2Na0MiksT-S7Aa6W5hnxEmV8foGpuVyUIEemOrVxlpRc4B11lKYe4dMlGc/s282/images-7.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="179" data-original-width="282" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ2MskhIOHjNlrWYi60MEGjUuIfDDx9WIE_KdKpwDZ3CftsZIZroQl2WgyfDdx_cUbi1Tz7AvyBUg_BbrNf2Na0MiksT-S7Aa6W5hnxEmV8foGpuVyUIEemOrVxlpRc4B11lKYe4dMlGc/w320-h203/images-7.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><span><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-size: small;">These are the faces of the famous gangs, now advanced<br /></i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-small;"><i>organised criminal businesses</i><br /></span><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-size: small;"> Membership estimates range from a quarter-million</i><br /><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-size: small;"> to one million"members". Scores of thousands</i><br /><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-size: small;"> are found in American and Mexican and Central</i><br /><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-size: small;"> American jails. There is a super-overload of MS-13</i><br /><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-size: small;">and Mara Salvatrucha in jails </i><i style="font-size: small;">thoughout Central<br /></i><span style="font-size: x-small;">America</span><br /><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-size: small;">_________________</i></b></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: times;"><i><br /> Many folks might be surprised to know that the great majority of these people swarming the border, night and day, 400 days per year are not Mexican. The northern Central American grouping of "El Trio de Tristeza" (The trio of sadness) are Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. The second or third greatest number of "refugees", "immigrants" and other such noble titles who come from those countries are </i></span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: times;"><i>gangs. These are well-known, well organised, as soulless murderers, thieves, rapists, and the like.</i></span></span></b><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: times;"><i> It is said that to be a member of gang a candidate must suffer a beating, and/or he must kill his mother or sister. In every gaggle and grouping of people who are apprehended at the border, there will be…almost always…people who are fleeing neighbours or relatives who are associated with these "gangs". In the attempt to escape them, they will almost certainly be dealing with these gang members no matter where the "migrants" wind up hiding in the United States. And the gang members will take their Mafia-like portion.</i></span></span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: times;"><i> In order to shorten this missive, it should suffice to declare with all certainty, that the "New Flood" of these gang members, and other unqualified "immigrants" began with the arrival of the new President of the United States. At a time when the Mexican authorities had begun to take very seriously the "transmigratory" nature of these people coming up from Central America, and yes, to a lesser degree now from Mexico, the change brought on by the last election in the United States was a disaster for the American scene. We, on the frontier suffer it most, perhaps…but the degeneration of the degraded old cities, especially in the northeastern sectors of the United States will or already has deteriorated many…perhaps most…of those urban areas.</i></span></span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> As what occurred with Rome so shall it be with the United States of America, if we do not re-establish some since of regularised domestic discipline concerning the entry and exit of people who are not beneficial to the national interests of the United States of America and the Republic of Texas. The previous President, for all his huffing and puffing, swagger and over-statement recognised this situation and had made significant progress in the matter. He also "grew" in my opinion in the respect for the Mexican people</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">and for the people of Texas. We suggest that all remember the last election in 2020, when the heavily Latin counties of the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas had an almost 50/50 turnout of Latin voters pulling the Republican lever</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">an unheard of percentage for this area. </i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">We retire for the moment, </i><i>and we</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> </i><i>appreciate</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> your patience and interest.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">EL GRINGO VIEJO</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b><i>_____________________________________</i></b></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Thanks for your time and interest. Please email questions, comments, complaints, or praise!</div>David Christian Newtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02486433908063462273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3909519562769268569.post-86199286138831494882021-02-26T00:00:00.002-06:002021-02-28T14:07:27.599-06:00We Move Along to Speak of the Passing of Rush Hudson Limbaugh, III - <div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"> RUSH HUDSON LIMBAUGH, III</span></i></b></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"> A Legacy, a Presence, a Monumental Contribution to America</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDpa9Na2IT1HfhKzx02DvseUhnWwfF4zULtk5DK3X5zuU4K1TDdtGY8rT0VyCbC7x7wZgZD77310lGLFwBfNuoFcqwzD-FvscatMRo1faZ3BA75Ntl-yYqAImFf6SnIOJ-SvOc3IP0_h4/s243/images.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="243" data-original-width="207" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDpa9Na2IT1HfhKzx02DvseUhnWwfF4zULtk5DK3X5zuU4K1TDdtGY8rT0VyCbC7x7wZgZD77310lGLFwBfNuoFcqwzD-FvscatMRo1faZ3BA75Ntl-yYqAImFf6SnIOJ-SvOc3IP0_h4/s0/images.jpeg" /></a></div></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"> ________________________________</span></i></b></div><div><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"> We join in these moments with the many who included Rush in their orbit of life. He was a pleasant family presence during his early years, born of a good line…fathered by a heroic World War II combat pilot father and an ancestry of distinction and accomplishment dating back many generations. It is well that we consider his place of birth, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, a place that is distinctive because of its setting of profound normalcy.
Rush's people were always given to service and sacrifice. Interestingly enough, during the War Between the States, his family took the Confederate side, although they were decidedly anti-slavery. Their cause was to protect the local control and self-reliance that is commonly encountered to this day among many people of the South.</span></i></b></div><div><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"> More on this will be recounted as we revere and contemplate the reality of this magnificent presence in the American panoply.
We could easily drone on about Rush's ancestry and family, and certainly we should touch on those things, but we must remember the seemingly awkward social movement of Rush in his younger days. While his family was and is an historical fixture in Cape Girardeau and elsewhere, and while they were well-to-do and comely and accomplished in many, many ways…Rush was not the prettiest face or figure in town. Intelligent, yes. Good deportment, pretty much. Great student? When it was necessary.</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"> His daddy, beyond being a combat was an accomplished attorney,was also a P-51 combat fighter pilot during the Second War, was a famous attorney in Missouri. Judges and all nature of accomplished relatives abounded among his his kith and kin. But Rush was always that guy who looked at a different horizon all during his "growing up years". He had a "pace-car brother" in the sense that David was serious and goal oriented like the rest of the family. He was also a "looker" and socially adept person. He has become quite the author among other accomplishments…but such is a hallmark of the Limbaugh lines since their arrival to Pennsylvania Colony from eastern Germany in the 1730s.</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"> Rush, at a very early age, began to take seriously something already becoming outdated…something called "AM radio". He was, according to all who commented, an affable boy and one who caused few problems, if any. His biggest problem when growing up was his weight. David was slender and comely, while Rush was…shall we say "big". Still a nice looking boy, but…big...and round.</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"> But, he kept on fiddling with silly AM radios.
He tried his hand at University, and lost interest in the first year. He actually landed jobs at places of his first interest, radio stations! He became a platter-master and did the whole microphone thing, but he frequently left the owners consternated about his helter-skelter programming performance. It is said by some that the audiences liked Rush's "off-the-wall" microphone routines, but the bosses were not impressed. Unfortunately for them, they would lament letting Rush walk out the door.</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"> </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"> He did a stint as in sales and other stand-up jobs for the Kansas City baseball team, and then one day the Sun broke through the fog…but before Kansas City, Rush landed behind a microphone where he could do social and political commentary. He found his correct place in the field of giving ulcers and curing sociopolitical despondence. He was behind a microphone speaking to a large audience, every weekday…taking calls, and generally hobnobbing with the real world. In Cape Girardeau he warmed a microphone after leaving college.
Then, he went on to bigger and better things at WIXZ in McKeesport, Missouri and later to Pittsburg with the big audience on KQV radio. These venues were rewarding but Rush always seemed to wrinkle the brows of his bosses…and his services at the two stations were relatively short. He went back to the homestead, muttered and kicked cans, and then one day picked up a job at the Kansas City Royals operation.</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"> Sales, even hobnobbing and public relations with fans was a wonderful fit for his gregarious ways. He might have been the fellow you saw adjusting the microphone by the mound for the singer of the National Anthem in about fifteen minutes. And…after football…Rush loved baseball, especially good baseball, and big crowds at the ball game.</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"> ________________________ </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"> Many are familiar with these notes about Rush and how he swam against the current to finally be able to do what his calling had required. There have been and still are numerous excellent radio announcers and commentators. But it must be stated that when the Rushmore of Radio Luminaries is carved into some important mountainside, Rush Limbaugh will have to be the first one and Paul Harvey will be the other first one.</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"> My venture with Rush began in the later 1980s. I informed my middle brother( El Gringo was the last born 1947, Norman the second 1942, a truly iconic mover and shaker in the Republican Party of the Republic of Texas, and Milton was the firstborn - 1936) that he (Norman) needed to come down to McAllen because the greatest personality in Radio in America had agreed to a full scale rally as the "Rush to Excellence" at the McAllen Civic Centre known as the "Rush to Excellence" rally. His show was pure Republican cavalry charge and folksy humour.</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"> My wife and I had, perhaps overly energised, gone in with three other sponsors to pay everything up front, and provide a gay old time for the Faithful in the McAllen and Rio Grande Valley area. At the very latest moment, my brother who had been the AA to Sen. John G. Tower, and who had been the executive director of the Republican Party of Texas for several years declared that he wasn't going down to McAllen to listen to a nobody from Nowhere, Missouri.
This was the brush off that caused a schism that never actually healed.</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"> This was the brother who had founded the Associated Republicans of Texas…a grassroots mobilisation organisation geared to the election of local and county level Republicans across Texas. It became the Death of Democrat Hegemony in Texas.
One can imagine my grumpiness and haughty sense of being abused, but at least the rally was massively successful. A convention hall that could hold 1,800 seated people wound up with standing room only and people in the back, and hundreds gathered in standing room only, outside listening to Rush's jokes and lectures via loudspeakers.</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"> It took about 40 minutes for all the vehicles to manage their way out of the very large parking lot. My mother and my Godmother attended and were truly stunned at the size of the crowd and the grandeur Rush Limbaugh had brought to the Republican effort deep in Democrat territory.
My wife and mother had gone earlier as guests of honour to the special mid-day luncheon at the fancy penthouse level of McAllen's tallest building (16 stories of the McAllen State Bank building), and passed a very pleasant time. During those moments pictures were taken, and the ones with Rush, Diana, and my mother were interesting because it revealed that Rush bore a distinct resemblance to my mother's youngest brother, William Grant Neal. We still have that photograph somewhere in our heaps of paper in some storage facility somewhere.</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b> My mother was stunned, in any regard, having come down for the event from Austin…and to see her grandchildren in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. She would divulge to her other son in Austin that he had missed a chance to have seen the man…"who will become the most important conservative commentator in a America…mark my words." As was normal, my mother was largely correct about this and most everything else.</b><b> </b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"> So, from 1989 on until recent days, 24 February 2021, my wife and I, and several million other Rushies have been left without our voice of reason. Our bulwark of willingness to stand for the common law and to fight against the scourge of socialism just left at an age far too young.</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">_____________________________</span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></b></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNWk1TOtFMUlEBDg4m0td7jscPpo66uJJI9QCVsVg2QBwAcFZrwwptdqAYKornkPH0rpeM75LHmd6egf0dKLCxWaLT-rhpVpPSiPm6wVcQ1KgkbpevApWStaALFKx_dSdlNEOhcP0V2DQ/s576/Gates+of+the+Quinta.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="576" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNWk1TOtFMUlEBDg4m0td7jscPpo66uJJI9QCVsVg2QBwAcFZrwwptdqAYKornkPH0rpeM75LHmd6egf0dKLCxWaLT-rhpVpPSiPm6wVcQ1KgkbpevApWStaALFKx_dSdlNEOhcP0V2DQ/s320/Gates+of+the+Quinta.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><b><i>The portals of the Quinta Tesoro<br /> de la Sierra Madre<br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="display: inline !important; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody style="display: inline !important;"><tr style="display: inline !important;"><td class="tr-caption" style="display: inline !important;"><span style="color: red;">_______________________________</span></td></tr></tbody></table></span></i></b></b></div></i></b></span><b style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-style: italic; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;"> </td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span></div></span></b></b><b style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="display: inline !important; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody style="display: inline !important;"><tr style="display: inline !important;"><td class="tr-caption" style="display: inline !important; text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">The above photo of our little adobe hideaway deep in rural Mexico, where several hundred folks have
visited, stayed, hobnobbed, and birdwatcher
in one of the very best birding places in the
Hemisphere. I can remember always trying to be close by my radio, during the early weekday afternoons, listening to Rush's monologues. Our little adobe place is a jewel of a place, and I was so pleased that, although we are 200 miles into the interior, the little station in McAllen/Edinburg, Texas could stretch its 5,000 watts to San Engracia, Tamaulipas. Perhaps being up against the Sierra Madre mountain range helped.</span></i></b></b></td></tr></tbody></table></span></i></b></b></div></b></td></tr></tbody></table></span></i></b></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"> The setting, the myriad numbers of birds and species of birds, a crystal river 125 yards away lined by 1,000 year old Sabinos (150 feet high cypress trees)…maybe a cold beer with my neighbour with the lime Hacienda next door…and Rush railing on the radio, nailing every dumbo Democrat failure and lapse of character and/or moral fibre…it was and is an amazing experience. </span></i></b></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></b></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"> The reader has endured a considerable amount of the tales of the Quinta Tesoro de la Sierra Madre our little hideaway in the Santa Engracia area of central Tamaulipas State. We have suffered few pins and needles and our accomplishments have been many enjoyed. We relished the large and forceful of these times with Rush Limbaugh seemingly always present in the background. Our businesses, with our families' losses and gains…has all been very interesting.
</span></i></b></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"> </span></i></b></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"> During all of this commotion several years back, your humble servant was winnowing through some papers my mother had left behind. Among some of the letters was a lengthy note from a first cousin of my mother. Although he was living in Alabama, he was actually in the cultural orbit of southeastern Tennessee, around Winchester and such places. This letter had been shown to me once or twice and it was of some interest concerning the Chisolm, Chisholm, Chism, and Chisms dilemma. My mother's mother was a Chism or a Chisum depending on the cousin who was testifying.
It was and is all very interesting and complicated. There was a lot of begetting and begetting.</span></i></b></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"> For instance my maternal grandfather was one of 12 who survived, and such was the nature of things in the area around Winchester, Tennessee in those times. My mother was one of four, one girl and three boys being birthed from 1913 through to 1941…by the same couple. Imagine…southeastern Tennessee is a strange place…lots of anti-alcohol people, but some of the best whiskey produced in the world. Substantially anti-slave, but ferocious Confederates in battle.</span></i></b></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></b></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"> But steadily my research, along with a very distant cousin in Connecticut, began to fill in a lot of blanks concerning my descent from the Ancestors of the Old World and the New World. This relative was the brother of my Newton grandfather from back in the early 1860s. A lot of my father's line began to really reach back into the really distant past, and then my mother's genealogy gurus piled in as well. Lo and behold…we found a nice German girl…in Franklin County, Tennessee who told her daddy that she had a nice Anglo (English-speaking) boy who was interested in meeting her family. This would be around 1830.</span></i></b></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"> The boy was named Asa Grant…a cousin of a guy who would later wind up wearing a blue uniform and always having a scruffy beard. The girl's nickname was 'Meli', short for "Amelia". And her surname was…...Limbaugh, essentially drawn from the blood of many generations of people from Saxony, in deep eastern Germany.</span></i></b></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></b></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"> Peter Limbaugh, the father, was third generation American, but still very German. He had brothers and a father who had continued to the west and settled at a place that would come to be named Cape Girardeau, Missouri. All lines of that family were competent people, prosperous, and hard-working.
And so, according to my genealogical advisor, Rush Limbaugh and I are Ist cousins, three times removed. And finally, sparing all in the audience any further anti-climactic or pointless conjecture, you know why my Uncle Billy looked very much like his kin, a fellow named Rush Hudson Limbaugh, III…
My Uncle Billy left at a very young age…51, from pneumonia. My eldest brother left at the same age, nearly the same time.</span></i></b></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></b></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"> Not long ago, my middle brother left to be with the Angels, and I was given the honour of having delivered the Eulogy at the elegant Austin Club, block or two from the impressive and imposing Capitol building in downtown Austin, Texas. Several hundred gathered to hear three other friends and me remind the folks of my brother's legacy of establishing much of what became the Republican Engine in Texas, and the subsequent "Republicanisation of Texas" during these times</span></i></b></b><b><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">.</span></i></b></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"> <span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span></i></b></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><b><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i> And now Rush is gone…along with all forbearers of the Newton, Christian, Neal, and Chism (Chisholm) tribes as they relate to me. It has been quite a ride.
Thanks one and all for putting up with this recounting…but it was an interesting episode in the panoply provided by Texas, and our little place in NoWhere, Mexico.</i></span></b></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><b><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i><br /></i></span></b></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><b><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i> EL GRINGO VIEJO</i></span></b></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><b><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> _______________________
</span><b></b></b><b><b><b><i></i></b></b></b></b></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Thanks for your time and interest. Please email questions, comments, complaints, or praise!</div>David Christian Newtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02486433908063462273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3909519562769268569.post-13444150544195169572021-02-14T17:58:00.003-06:002021-02-23T03:47:32.354-06:00RACIAL CONTROVERSY AND IMMIGRATION!!! The mainstream media reminds you what to think<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><i> ___________________</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><i>(UP DATED: At the risk of revealing my paranoia, we have noticed that over the past 18 months or so, peculiar changes occur in our texts after publication. We have also noticed that other parties, with whom we might communicate now and then, have taken note of such events. We have tried to follow, somewhat religiously, normal compliance with rules of grammar and spelling, although we confess to "Britianicising" our parlance, just for the fun of it.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><i style="color: red;"> Our concern, however, is simply that we actually re-read, proof, seek correct spelling when in doubt, and attempt to punctuate phrases and construct to the best of our ability. Increasingly, we notice that invariably there are amendments to our text. For now, I shall chalk it up to voltage variation</i><span style="color: red;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><i>…</i></span></span><i style="color: red;">a small problem down </i><span style="color: red;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">here in retro-reality Texas.</i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: red;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> We certainly doubt that the minions of (Sir Edmund) Hillary Rodham and His Majesty Father Obamaham are playing "dancing puppets", although there are others much more intelligent such as John Kerry who commonly flies three hundred and eighty five billion miles a week to inform us dolts that there is climate change because of Republicans.</i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><i style="color: red;"> Thanks for your attention. Please excuse the overreaching comparisons and </i><span style="color: red;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><i>exaggerations.</i></span></span><i style="color: red;"> </i></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><i style="color: red;">_________________________________ </i></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><i> <span style="font-family: georgia;">We had the misfortune to read a little notice in our pitiable local </span></i></b></span><b style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>newspaper wherein the Associated Press laments that someone named Chris Harrison, who hosts something called "The Bachelor" has been driven from his position and has been forced to resign from his "position", apparently because of a position that he assumed without having been fully sanitised by the Powers of Rightness and Wrongness, Inc.</i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i> It seems that he confessed to "Excusing historical racism" and therefore was requiring himself to fall upon his sword. Lamentably it seems that the hapless loon was so stupid as to allow or be in the presence of someone who said something that had something that might have, in a convoluted way, implied or </i></span></b></span><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">construed something that had something to do </i><i>with wearing a</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> formal gown that was designed for a formal ball in some Southern precinct, and all for a scene about a formal ball scene</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">you know</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"an antebellum plantation themed ball" type of formal ball scene.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> Worse, of course, was the fact that the silly girl, Rachael Kirkconnell as an actress, was so wantonly arrogant and unconcerned about the irremediable damage that had been caused by her wearing a costume that was made to be worn by an Indian girl. Mr. Harrison, at first, was extremely disappointed that Miss Kirkconnell was condemned by all the right people because of her offensive aggression against Native Americans' sensitive senses. As the minutes passed however, Mr. Harrison learned that his insensitivity had caused further insensitivity that </i><i>resulted</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> in what is known as "Insensitivity Meltdown Insensitivity Syndrome (ISIS)".</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> Literally hundreds and thousands of ambulances were seen throughout</i><span><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> this Solar System that is so terribly enfeebled by simultaneous plagues of simultaneous</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> Solar System Cooling and Solar System Warming (SSC and SSW). And now this</i></span><i>…</i><span><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">when will they ever learn? Where are the Kingston Trio singing lecturers now</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">when we need them?</i></span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span><i>_______________________</i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"> Next we have something that also might throw another log on the fire of this Solar System. To begin, we have the scene of a newly elected President of the United States issuing suddenly Orders of a Royal</i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><i>…</i></span></span><i style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">bypassing </i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><i>anything</i></span></span><i style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"> like a participation by a Chamber of Deputies, a House of Lords, a Congress of Congressmen, or perhaps a Senate of Senators. This is, perhaps, a welcome event to some, but to others who are used to some kind of </i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Congressional / Executive / Judicial branches of government arrangement</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">along with certain sovereignty of the various States composing a nation </i><i>such</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> as the United States of America, it is troubling.</i></span></span></span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span><i style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"> </i><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">We have a fellow who somehow managed to win an election for the Presidency by hiding in the 8th story basement of his B</i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><i>lunderbunker</i></span></span><i style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">. That he won a nationwide election against a huffing and puffing hufferpuffer is laudable</i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><i>…</i></span></span><i style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">or </i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><i>not.</i></span></span><i style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"> It is, however, a bit strange that a certifiable incompetent could reel off 40 or 50 Executive Orders</i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><i>…</i></span></span><i style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">without benefit of clergy, Congress, Sir Edmund Hillary Rodham's permission, or even a telescope or an out-of-date cellular telephone.</i></span></span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"> True enough, all of the "Executive Orders" were Peron and/or Castro like gestures</i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><i>…</i></span></span><i style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">devoid of consultation, debate, and/or analysis. We can at least point out that Biden managed to issue more Executive Orders that the previous five Presidents before him</i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><i>…</i></span></span><i style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">during their first three weeks or so. </i></span><i style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"> <span style="font-size: medium;">We mean Biden's issuances were greater than all five COMBINED!!!!</span></i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span><i style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Suffice to say, Biden's "Executive Orders" were </span></i></span></b><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">vacuous, ill-timed, ruinous as in the events pertaining to the transcontinental gas line and certain other acts, but</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">whose counting? Everything will be a lot better after we summon enough life-boats for 300,000,000 people.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">More Later. Thanks for being here when it counts.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b><i>EL GRINGO VIEJO</i></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b><i>__________________________</i></b></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Thanks for your time and interest. Please email questions, comments, complaints, or praise!</div>David Christian Newtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02486433908063462273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3909519562769268569.post-89810533030936151072021-02-10T20:57:00.010-06:002021-02-12T14:54:05.202-06:00GRUMPY OLD MAN THINGS <div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i>___________________</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i><br /></i></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="color: red;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> A recurring bother has almost but not quite caused me to stop listening to </span></i></b><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">fancy-doozy television broadcasters and broads who are also casters when they are reading their scripts. They call it news, you humble servant calls it something else. Newspapers at all levels</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">weeklies, dailies, regionals, nationals, etc., and the radio - television folks do this, apparently everywhere in this solar system.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> When a </i><i>dumbo holds up a bank and drives fifty miles over there somewhere followed by fifty three automobiles with flashing lights and police identifiers naming sixteen different communities and counties…the dumbo should pull over and get ready for a lecture. He might as well take out his driver's license that hasn't been up-dated for nine years. His excuse will be that he </i></b><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b><i>couldn't get a new one while he was in prison last time.</i></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> All of that is reasonable. The 103 officers who just ran the guy down, probably saving his life and those lives of several others, can head for their favourite diner and tell Myrtle Lou and Candi Ann all about the adventure. They, We </i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> I </i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> all are happy no one was injured or killed.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> On the evening news</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">and in to-morrow's front page, however the news will come out. The </i></b><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">black and white print</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">maybe a photo of the dolt and his costabularian custodians carry the news. There </i><i>will</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> certainly be said or entered in to the newspapers the </i><i>following, "…and he appeared before the magistrate for preliminary hearing at booking. After the interview in the court, the judge…"…gave the defendant a bond of 30,000 dollars…".</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> SCREAMBLOODYMURDER!!!!!</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> The dumbo who was detained was </i><i>not</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> given a stick of chewing gum, a Holy Rosary, or a B-52 bomber to drive home</i><i>…or the hot date he always wanted with Hillary Clinton. HE WAS GIVEN A HOLDING TANK IN THE HOOSEGOW!!!</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> <u>He was NOT "given a bond", as an award for his fancy driving for which he gained seven </u></i><u><i>citations</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">, two of which were felony grade!!</i></u></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> To guarantee his appearance in court at the time appointed, and much l</i><i>ater, during the days after detention, perhaps an attorney can arrange for the necessary release bond that will satisfy the conditions of the court as well as the bonding agency.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i> Sometimes a bond setting can take a couple of hours, for minor </i></b><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">matters, for </i><i>instance, but for more serious crimes, haggling can take a month sometimes if the case is particularly cruel or depraved.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i> The the judge, the prosecuting attorney, and the person being charged with the serious misdemeanour or felony will come so an agreement about the terms, and this is called a "setting" …it is not "giving" a dumbo or an innocent arrested guy a bond.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><b><i> The News people should then say or write, "</i></b></span><b><i style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">Judge Garcia set bond at 25,000 dollars due to the fact that there were also outstanding warrants against Daryle Dumbo concerning arson incident in the County Hospital's first-floor restrooms. The cost to repair that damage appears to be well over one million dollars, and Mr. Dumbo was the only person to enter and was the seen </i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><i>leaving the restroom area</i></span></span><i style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"> on security camera less than two minutes before the fire alarms began ringing."</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i>___________________ </i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i><br /></i></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"> </i><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">Now, turning to people who seem to like to talk with their mouths and not their brains, we always seem to </i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">have an entertaining episode when we listen to leftists, the demo-commies, the "liberals", the '</i><i>democratic</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> socialists (a contradiction of terms , to be sure), and all those who lecture me because I take </i><i>exception</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> to the idea that some brain-dead </i><i>galoot who is 6' 8" and 240 pounds is playing against one of my granddaughters in…say…a varsity basketball game.</i></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i> Those five girls will probably never break 5' 9", one of them might break 5' 1o" even though they all seem like their height might make a run for it. Your chronicler is 6' 2".</i></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i> The 6' 8" brain-dead galoot decided last summer, perhaps, that he is a "transgendered" brain-dead galoot and he learned from his advisor, M. Mysterectess that in fact this 6' 10" Gerbix is a transgenderess.</i></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i><br /></i></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i> It is fairly certain that sometime before my demise, we will have the Translympics and no one will watch.</i></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i>____________________</i></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> Finally, and for good purpose, it is necessary to bellyache about the stupidity and utter blather almost all Democrats muster, especially </i><i>when</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> they attempt to wax eloquent. They also demonstrate a certain je ne </i><span><i>sais </i></span></b><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b><i>quoi - perhaps a sense of demonstrating great posture and emphasis being co-mingled with blithering bilge that could bore a baboon and a bug biter at the same bell. Amazing, Grace.</i></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> While </i><i>they</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> dig up old Trump again and drag him down to the gallows again and hang him, </i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">we shall see if the knot slips again. So, please allow me to finish with this quiet entreaty for the sake of the readers. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court would normally preside over a matter of a high official, such as a President, in office during his term or held position. </i></b></span></span><b><i style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">The present Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. somewhat less than politely refused to serve because he felt that it was imbecilic to find a President guilty when that President is not the President. These proceedings were strictly made as a type of medicine designed to help deranged people believe the bilge that is being </i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><i>issued</i></span></span><i style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"> forth from the "prosecution" before, during, and after this "court </i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><i>proceeding". </i></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="color: red; float: left; font-size: large; font-style: italic;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdKxYnCxlp2_hFkk4Ka_IXSXDFZAUGyK8kZpUNY4AsEPM4pz8nXXXBDA_wYV_OpvELWxjXGPSydYNJg36m2FPsTeC8rq1CqKj-f9WHqNCPR_AVgaGcRJNCIyHzkT2TP51OEV0SuxNyu9E/s2048/adam-schiff.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdKxYnCxlp2_hFkk4Ka_IXSXDFZAUGyK8kZpUNY4AsEPM4pz8nXXXBDA_wYV_OpvELWxjXGPSydYNJg36m2FPsTeC8rq1CqKj-f9WHqNCPR_AVgaGcRJNCIyHzkT2TP51OEV0SuxNyu9E/s320/adam-schiff.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Adam Schiff<br /><b><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Mr. Mendacious is just one of his <br />many titles.<br />His image appears here for no<br />particular reason<br /><br />______________________________<br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span></b><span style="text-align: justify;"><b><i> What is being described by the For instance, the "judge" of this proceeding was referred to as the "Chief Justice" on </i><i>several occasions by overdosing reporters and even members of the "Prosecution". Simple errors, and perhaps I am small for ridiculing simpletons who make simple errors, but the first impeachment was a </i><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>d</i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i>og and p</i></span></span></b></span><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><b><i>ony show. </i><i>doing what has become, apparently, a warm-up for this second dog and pony show.</i></b></span></td></tr></tbody></table></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /> Adam Schiff, above and people such as Patrick Leahy are actually two of the more acceptable members involved in this new Impeachment and Judgement process. After all, Schiff, as one among many nincompoops, can pour out barrels of sludge about all the info he has on Trump dealing with Putin, and a person has to admire that kind of pointless, slobbering, an bellowing.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><b><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-size: large; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifTio2AcWnqGbFu-Z5BBDILqQF0FIuFjHHy-niusy6bcjUfFqJkmvC7hD41AG-z3ZmaC0gc379Phxw9cYpRi2GmPdl9xTUrsUOaUtlYe0xEovQ1nKU9hGPIwUTBE1AKA3xpNThnrRroe4/s240/300065-200px.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifTio2AcWnqGbFu-Z5BBDILqQF0FIuFjHHy-niusy6bcjUfFqJkmvC7hD41AG-z3ZmaC0gc379Phxw9cYpRi2GmPdl9xTUrsUOaUtlYe0xEovQ1nKU9hGPIwUTBE1AKA3xpNThnrRroe4/w267-h320/300065-200px.jpeg" width="267" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><i><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Patrick (Leakey) Leahy<br /></span></b></i><b><i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">United States Senator<br />presides over the Trump<br />re-lynching presently<br />_______________________<div style="text-align: justify;"></div></span></i></b></span></td></tr></tbody></table><i><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> Poor Mister Leahy…affectionately known as "Leakey Leahy", is the judge of overseer of the proceeding. He is so named because of his habit of passing around top secret and highly sensitive material. It's the kind of fellow Democrats would like to have at the helm of such an important pair of people as incoherent and deranged as Nancy Pelosi and Chucky Schemer, who brought this matter forward.</span></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i> En lieu of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the good Senator Leahy is given this very delicate task and ever so important charge with the premise that it not leave the room, unless Leaky Leahy approves…secretly.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i> His age and his lack of honor and good sense combine to make him a nincompoop similar to Mr. Schiff, and approximately ninety per cent of the entire Democrat Congressional consist. So we can expect a one sided settlement that results in nothing because to convict in this matter, as we all know, it will require sixty-seven votes, and such an event is very, very improbable.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i>__________________ </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i>More later. Thanks for the attention of all. We have appreciated the renewal of old friends and we are enjoying a peculiar increase in European, Japanese, and Latin-American following as well!!</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i>El GRINGO VIEJO</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i>_______________</i></b></span><b style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i> </i></b></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Thanks for your time and interest. Please email questions, comments, complaints, or praise!</div>David Christian Newtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02486433908063462273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3909519562769268569.post-53951647452811249472021-02-05T19:59:00.004-06:002021-02-23T03:44:29.672-06:00Legacy of a Hero - A brief story about the life of Henry Clay Reeves Davis<p style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"> Writer's explanation:</span></i></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"> This entry in the seemingly never ending roll-out of commentary by your humble writer is of particular </span></i></b><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">importance. What I considered </i><i>to be a high honour and complement, an individual of high note, and deservedly so, gave me the charge to write a few notes concerning what would be good words or short phrases to describe one of the very most important figures in the establishment and impulse of progress in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas. As a Texan, it was not only my pleasure but certainly my obligation to render opinion to this man who is a direct descendant of Henry Clay Reeves Davis - Man of Adventure, Man of Noblesse Oblige, and Man of Humility</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>_______________________</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></i></b></p><pre style="line-height: 1.45em; max-width: 100%;"><div style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"> Allow me to just point out a few views Henry Clay Davis gives my "inner understanding" </span></i></b><b style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">of that incredibly fascinating individual.</span></i></b></div><b><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: red; font-family: georgia; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></b><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"> I. </i></span></b><b><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;">Adventurer</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span style="text-align: left;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"> The first notion I had was the title of Adventurer. Any person who would have </i><span style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>travelled</i></span><i style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"> from the refined and </i></span></span></b><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><i>established place such as Kentucky, striking out </i></b></span></span><b style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;">for a wilderness such as Texas had to be a person who would </i><span style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>have</i></span><i style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"> be willing to endure discomfort, adapt to different races and ethnicities never before encountered, eat strange concoctions, endure weather and climatic extremes, and so forth</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>…</i></span><i style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;">to the extent that most people of that time preferred frankly to "stay home". Much is said about those who pressed westward, it is true. But the fact is </i></b><span style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: red; font-family: georgia; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><i>that the huge majority of people in America at that time were satisfied where they were.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="text-align: left;"><div style="display: inline; text-align: justify;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"> Therefore, I would classify any person who travelled from </span></i></b><b><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Kentucky into the wilds of Texas, considering all of the challenges and changes to be confronted, and to stay in Texas successfully…would certainly qualify that person as an adventurous soul.</i></span></span></b></div></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="text-align: left;"><div style="display: inline; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><br /></i></span></span></b></div></b></div><b><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;">* An "Adventurer" is </i><span style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>the</i></span><i style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"> person who qualifies for the title, not so much</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>by wandering around and having personal fling. The adventurer is a person who a history of taking that chance, and striving for that goal that proves a man (or woman) worthy of </i></span></span></b><b style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i>being known as an "Adventurer" because of accomplishment of a positive goal. It is not a task for </i><i>one</i><i> who relaxes upon his experiences of little import and less accrued success.</i></span></b></div></b></pre><pre style="line-height: 1.45em; max-width: 100%;"><div style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">* Henry Clay Reeves Davis went from Georgia to Kentucky...then into the</span></i></b></div><b><div style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-style: italic; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">essentially unknown and unpredictable area little known or understood</span></i></b></div><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><div style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-style: italic; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">during those times. Texas was foreboding, marauding and fierce Indians of various nations, a foreign type of government was the source of law, and the certainty of information was largely shrouded in misty portraits.*</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"> Its description could have been styled as the old story about the four blind men trying </span></i></b><b><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;">to identify a camel by the touch of their fingers. The truth of the conditions in Texas had to be experienced and not </i><span style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>fantasied</i></span><i style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;">.</i></span></b></div></span></b></pre><pre style="line-height: 1.45em; max-width: 100%; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">* As one studied the nature of Henry Clay Davis, it was apparent his</span></i></b></div><b style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">"adventurous nature" always seemed to have purpose. He was the kind of man who understood that adventure was a matter of gaining knowledge, and taking great risks with one's life and lucre. And...in my opinion...a true adventurer values his / her life and lucre while conquering and adapting to different challenges of geography as well as the cultures*</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i> Henry Clay Davis certainly had positive impact upon his companions and associates as well as upon his possessions and upon the land wherein he dwelt.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"> _______________</span></i></b></div></b><b style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">*II. Noblesse</span></i></b></pre><pre style="line-height: 1.45em; max-width: 100%; text-align: justify;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"> Equal to the title "Adventurer", my impression of Henry Clay Davis
is of a person who carried a streak of "Nobility"...of service and deference, even as he was striving to establish a significant presence in his new settings. We do not include the pretentious presence that reveals only a shallow sense of formality by watching men with "flair" and "courtly manners". <br />
* Henry Clay Davis found himself involved with people of his own
kind...people of a Southern culture which included non-Southern people who </span></i></b><b style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">enry Clay Davis developed a comfortability with people of his own stripe as well as others of different ethnicities and races. Many folks might have thought that Davis must have been a good </span></i></b><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><i>student and learned Spanish from books and stern schoolmarms. But such was not the case!</i></b></span></span></pre><pre style="line-height: 1.45em; max-width: 100%; text-align: justify;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: red; font-family: georgia; white-space: pre-wrap;"> * His mother was actually a lady by the name of Catarina Regdon de Fuerte who married Amos Davis early in the 1800's. Amos lamentably died at a very young age, but thankfully he had the opportunity to bring forth a son about whom we write at this time. La </i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;">Señora Catarina came to America as an indentured servant, although it was noted </i><span style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>that</i></span><i style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"> she was obviously well-schooled and poised in the nature of civility and manners. It was said that she came from a good family but had left home to avoid an arranged marriage she did not want.</i></span></b></pre><pre style="line-height: 1.45em; max-width: 100%; text-align: justify;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: red; font-family: georgia; white-space: pre-wrap;">* When she married and subsequently bore this remarkable son, she taught him the elaborate and educated Spanish that she herself spoke as well-studied and </i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;">exhibited the style of a person who </i><span style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>was</i></span><i style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"> well cultured. She taught her son the language of her native Spain and it is certain that she was also polylinguistic.</i></span></b></pre><pre style="line-height: 1.45em; max-width: 100%;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">* Therefore, one might assume, and correctly so, that Henry Clay Davis </span></i></b><b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">took the choice of going to Texas at a time that many folks would have thought the area to be </span></i></b><b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">too dangerous. While in Texas, Davis quickly learned the ropes and the best route to adventure and prosperity. He joined the formal militia...an army so to speak, and was involved in engagements with the likes of the Comanche, Kiowa, Kickapoo, and Apache among others.</span></i></b></div></span></i></b></pre><pre style="line-height: 1.45em; max-width: 100%; text-align: justify;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"> * His flexibility caused him a few problems as well as considerable solutions. For </span></i></b><b style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">instance, during the Winter of 1842, and during the Somerville expedition, chasing General Adrian Woll back to Laredo on the Rio Bravo (Grande), the Texians learned quickly that they had made an error in judgement. The town was fairly active and it was heavily garrisoned with Mexican reserves. It was also within one to three days of over 1,200 active infantry and cavalry, leaving the Somervelle's overall command structure grossly at the disadvantage.</span></i></b></pre><pre style="line-height: 1.45em; max-width: 100%;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"> * During the time there on the Rio Grande, Davis had occasion to become involved in a fight of sorts wherein he had called down some Texian</span></i></b></div><b style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">soldiers who were harassing Mexican soldiers and civilians while hanging</span></i></b></div><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">around uselessly, with no orders of any import, he determined to abandon the pointless hanging around in Laredo. He struck out, heading downriver along the course of the Rio Grande (Rio Bravo del Norte to the Mexicans). </span></i></b><b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">One thing led to another, and finally, after learning about the supposedly perpetually verdant farms downriver, he struck out, heading east. </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"> </span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"> * He was actually moving, alone and once again, totally surrounded by literally thousands of regular and national guard type Mexican soldiers of mediocre to excellent order. These soldiers were spread over six or seven Texas- sized counties. </span></i></b><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i>Davis considered his "jaunt" just a self-guided tour of the Rio Grande downstream. He was </i><i>leaving </i><i>and heading downriver to see </i></span></b><b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">what he could see.</span></i></b></div></span></i></b></pre><pre style="line-height: 1.45em; max-width: 100%;"><b><div style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">* Simultaneously, a ranking Texian officer, Col. Tom Green and a body of</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">some 300 effectives, </span></i></b><b style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">began a drive down the Rio Grande, looking for some kind of worthwhile </span></i></b><b style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">fight. It was apparent that </span></i></b><b><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Henry Clay Davis had parted company with the Texian armed forces at a propitious moment…being two weeks removed from the Tom Green Folly.</i></span></span></b></div></b></pre><pre style="line-height: 1.45em; max-width: 100%; text-align: justify;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">* Riding alone, and well outside of the military Zona de Trequa </span></i></b><b style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">(temporary treaty zone), Davis was in jeopardy. Somewhere between Camargo, Mier, and a place named San Felipe de Jesus de China (to-day known as China) our friend Henry Clay Davis was </span></i></b><b style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">detained by a column of Mexican cavalry. </span></i></b><b style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">He was transferred to a town named San Fernando, centre'd in the very middle</span></i></b><b style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"> part of the State of Tamaulipas. (All of this area had been part of Nuevo Santander Province </span></i></b><b style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">the later stages of the Spanish Colonial times).</span></i></b></pre><pre style="line-height: 1.45em; max-width: 100%;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;">* San Fernando had significant Mexican lancers, artillery, and infantry and Henry Clay Davis wound up there with his "escort". It was the Mexican military's </i><span style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>reconnaissance</i></span><i style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"> that the Texian rump-group coming into Mier, back up on the Rio Grande (known as the Rio Bravo del Norte to the Mexicans), had </i></span></b><b style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">assaulted various small towns as they went down the Rio Grande.</span></i></b></div><b style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">* It wasn't long, however, before the Mexican military learned that the</span></i></b></div><i><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">Texians had engaged Mexican Army units in the city of Mier, about 80 miles downstream from Laredo. During a bitterly cold Christmas battle, lasting about two days, the Texians, numbering 303 actives, were reduced by one third (depending on the counts). It was a catastrophe caused by arrogance and, frankly, by the Texian military leadership.</span></i></b></div></i></b></pre><pre style="line-height: 1.45em; max-width: 100%; text-align: justify;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">* The remainder were made prisoners of war, and trekked to the dreaded Castillo Perote, deep into the distant mountainous precincts in Vera Cruz State. The location was not far from the precincts of the famously notorious Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, the general and politician who famously tormented the Mexican condition for many years. </span></i></b></pre><pre style="line-height: 1.45em; max-width: 100%; text-align: justify;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"> * Luckily for </span></i></b><b style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">Henry Clay Davis the Mexican military authority admonished the "wandering soul" and ordered him to return to </span></i></b><b style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;">where Camargo is to this day and to continue back to Texas. As the days and </i><span style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>months</i></span><i style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"> would go by, Henry Clay </i></span></b><b style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">Davis did return, but in keeping with his nature, he took careful note of the people and *the settlers, their activities and crops and all such things that entertain a man with a lively eye and discerning ability of observation. His capture had turned out to be, truly, a blessing in disguise.</span></i></b></pre><pre style="line-height: 1.45em; max-width: 100%;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">* This trek back to the north caused a series of events to be put in place. Davis passed by the mouth of the San Juan River where it emptied into the Rio Grande. Davis thought deeply about making a regional complex with river transport, large stretches of tillable, fertile land and great extensions of rangeland fit for both rough and fine cattle. Manufacturing could be brought in due to the ready ability of the population to learn mechanics and such. Almost all were literate in Spanish, and a significant number could speak, read, and write English as well.*</span></i></b></div><b style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">
<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">* Incredibly enough, the War with Mexico beginning in 1846 and ending in </span></i></b><b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">1848 crossed over the </span></i></b><b><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i>lands and peoples Henry Clay Davis had been considering forming into his great new Garden of Eden. His idea included the development of a commercial centre tying together two nations and essentially forming a North American entity that would rival Europe's complexity. Davis had also </i><i>fortuitiously </i><i> married a woman with a considerable dowery, named Hilaria de la Garza Falcon. She held several large "porciones" (extensive "long-lots" sometimes exceeding 10,000 acres or more).</i></span></b></div> </span></i></b></pre><pre style="line-height: 1.45em; max-width: 100%; text-align: justify;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"> * All the porciones fronted on the Rio Grande, mainly on the Texas side of the river. </span></i></b><b style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">The watercourse had an almost permanent flow, helped a bit by the </span></i></b><b style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">tributary from Mexico named the Rio San Juan. Davis began almost immediately building a family as well as changing the land known as Carnestolendas (Shrove Tuesday) into an urban and agricultural centre</span></i></b><b style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"> almost overnight.</span></i></b></pre><pre style="line-height: 1.45em; max-width: 100%;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">* Luckily, with the Mexican - American War underway, most of the</span></i></b></div><b style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">activity passed on through, with the American forces winding up marking time in Monterrey, having suffered a blunting by Mexican forces just beyond Saltillo. </span></i></b></div></b></pre><pre style="line-height: 1.45em; max-width: 100%; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;">* With the peace treaty in place by 1848, the bellicosity came to an official end, the area around </i><span style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Carnestolendas</i></span><i style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Rio Grande City - Camargo complex) could worry about bandits and political "generals" like Juan Nepomuceno Cortina </i></span></b><b style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">Gosencochea, ...or just "Cortina"</span></i></b><b style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">(b. 1824 - d. 1894) in the vernacular of the locals. He styled himself a "general" and at times was actually commissioned by proper Mexican authority, more or less. Henry Clay Davis was integral in the effort to neutralise the volatile trouble-maker.</span></i></b></pre><pre style="line-height: 1.45em; max-width: 100%; text-align: justify;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">* My oldest brother, and I, his helper, spent much time Starr County back in 1965 taking advantage of interviewing </span></i></b><b style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">various of the old timers. </span></i></b><b><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;">It is said that Cortina came to the home of Davis, and threatened his </i></span></b><b><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;">wife Hilaria, declaring that </i></span></b><b><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;">he was going to kidnap her. Hilaria ran him off, some said with her pistol, and it is said, she did so </i></span></b><b><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;">lamenting ever having been known to be his second cousin. Davis had a good laugh at that one.</i></span></b></pre><pre style="line-height: 1.45em; max-width: 100%; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;">_______________________</i></span></b></pre><pre style="line-height: 1.45em; max-width: 100%; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></i></span></b></pre><pre style="line-height: 1.45em; max-width: 100%;"><b><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;">III. Humble (Humility)</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"> Finally, we employ the noble word "Humble" in the sense of putting good things first, of </i></span></b><b style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;">providing for his own and others. My aforementioned brother Milton, who did his Master's Thesis titled "Certain Aspects of the Political History of Starr County", collected many old timers' remembrances concerning Henry Clay Davis's acts of generosity and service.</i></span></b></div><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;">* There was one little old lady who showed us pictures of Dona Hilaria and documents of Davis...as she droned on and on about how he helped this old lady here, and aided in rebuilding a damaged home of an old man there</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>…</i></span><i style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;">etc. Her collection and memories of her forbearers was fascinating, especially since she had so many pictures and letters. Considering that she had never known Davis, who died in 1866, it was as if she were clairvoyant, or so it seemed to us.</i></span></b></div></span></b><div style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: red; font-family: georgia; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"></div></div><b style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">* I shall end, humbly, by not droning on pertaining to this very special </span></i></b><b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">characteristic that pertained to Henry Clay Davis. His many acts speak for themselves. My time is done, the issue is yours to do your </span></i></b><b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">pleasure or application to the topic.*</span></i></b></div></b></pre><pre style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); line-height: 1.45em; max-width: 100%; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"> Thanks for the opportunity to be involved a bit in the matters pertaining to a truly significant figure in the history of the Lower Rio Grande Valley, of Nuevo </span></i></b><b style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i>Santander, and of the Republic and State of Texas.</i></b></pre><pre style="line-height: 1.45em; max-width: 100%; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>David</i></span><i style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"> Christian Newton</i></b></span></pre><pre style="line-height: 1.45em; max-width: 100%; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;">3 </i></b><span style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><i>February 2021</i></b></span></span></pre><pre style="line-height: 1.45em; max-width: 100%; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><i>Mission, Texas</i></b></span></span></pre><pre style="line-height: 1.45em; max-width: 100%; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><i>______________________</i></b></span></span></pre><div class="blogger-post-footer">Thanks for your time and interest. Please email questions, comments, complaints, or praise!</div>David Christian Newtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02486433908063462273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3909519562769268569.post-76566548937128540512021-02-02T02:23:00.001-06:002021-02-02T05:21:26.325-06:00Where to Begin…and where to end?<p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><b> <span>_____________________________</span></b></span></i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i><b> We have to disregard appearances. That guy laying over there in gutter clutching his <span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">whiskey bottle</span>…<span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">wearing tattered clothes</span>…<span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">bearded by the aid of nine unbathed days</span>…<span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">is in all probability a fellow who is down and probably out of his luck. But in these times, it is interesting how many folks fall under the "poverty line" or who have numerous children lacking adequate nourishment due to having been exploited by the wealthy.</span></b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i><b><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> What has gone wrong when the </span>richest<span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> nation on Planet Earth has this ever increasing crush of starvation and want? Lady Gaga sings for the Democrats and a few foot-kissing Republicans while wearing an outfit that cost over one-hundred billion dollars so that the adoring chosen ones could adulate Lady Gaga and other such superlative representatives of the Human Race.</span></b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i><b><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> My mother and her family were just like that</span>…<span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">there is a bit of a place nearby her home in Tennessee that tried to keep up with what was expected of prosperous and/or </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">respectable people:</span></b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr5gLXRsUx2YmA1TS3fiTBEyftOXPCsybAZUotbTLbIdKQMuVzwwOukd2lYlnsOUk2ZWoJAW265gEuFrZhfFc5h880JfZYiUamJ_B6_Wys2_8C4dKwGTIOTen04_kVpJNWHCgq2zgKFtw/s534/c8ec5566ba0d6f6e080796c5044fe0a3.jpg"><img border="0" data-original-height="401" data-original-width="534" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr5gLXRsUx2YmA1TS3fiTBEyftOXPCsybAZUotbTLbIdKQMuVzwwOukd2lYlnsOUk2ZWoJAW265gEuFrZhfFc5h880JfZYiUamJ_B6_Wys2_8C4dKwGTIOTen04_kVpJNWHCgq2zgKFtw/w400-h300/c8ec5566ba0d6f6e080796c5044fe0a3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: red;"><i><br /></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: red;"><i>This is a fairly typical </i></b><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); color: red;"><b><i>multi-congregational Baptism </i></b></span><b style="color: red;"><i>down</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> by the River</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">probably western North Carolina </i></b></span><b style="color: red;"><i>or eastern</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> parts of southeast Tennessee</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">probably in </i></b></span><b style="color: red;"><i>the early 1950s.</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> Before all these people are through </i></b></span><b style="color: red;"><i>they will have been</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><b><i> full-immersed </i></b><span><b><i>baptised</i></b></span></span><b style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); color: red;"><i>, especially </i></b><b style="color: red;"><i>the folks wearing</i></b><b style="color: red;"><i> white</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">clothes. Most of these events were held by individual</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">congregations, but there were Pan-congregational where</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">all races, denominations, and social positions could be</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">seen praising Jesus and conquering the Devil.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><b><i>____________________________________________</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> </i><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">It was a different time obviously, and we are certain that there was </i><i>plenty</i><span><span><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> of ostentation and puffery there and elsewhere during those time. However, one can tire finally of a complex and traditional culture being steadily denigrated by the haughty who thrive upon being self-important . On one hand our people might be doing the degrading on their own. But on the other hand, the progressive </i><i>and</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> liberal folks might be </i></span><i>falsely</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> stereotyping the traditional group because they are "backwards" or "in-bred" or worse yet, "Republican"</i></span></b></span><b style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span><i>.</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span><i style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"> Of course we do not wish to denigrate "reasonable Republicans" who were poured into the </i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">mold of stalwarts such as Elizabeth Cheney, the third ranking person in the Republican portion of the House of Representatives in Washington D.C. BUT, when </i><i>said</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> ranking member of </i><i>such</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> an august body does a double-cross, </i><i>stabs fellow Republicans both in the front and back, it is somewhat inevitable that the lower unwashed elements within the Party of Lincoln would take exception to her actions. This writer would be among those unwashed elements.</i></span></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span><i><br /></i></span></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span><i> As an aside, sometimes it is worth noting that even Father Abraham Lincoln stabbed the Republicans in front and back when he established a similar but independent party in 1864. For the elections in the North during the event s of 1864, the Republicans had to stand in line behind moderates, independents, semi-documented aliens and Democrats (loyal to the Union) who formed the new Lincoln political organisation formally named "The National Union Party".</i></span></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span><i> The Vice-Presidential candidate that Lincoln preferred and selected was Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee who, as a matter of fact, was a Democrat. Johnson had never removed himself from his position as Senator for Tennessee, and so carried forth as Tennessee's senatorial representative to Washington D.C. even during the depths of the War, in Tennessee as well as scores other pitiable places.</i></span></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span><i> Andrew Johnson was a true anachronism. He was a poor man from rural North Carolina who bounced around in various saloons, apprenticed at one time before "taking off", and finally landing in a remote part of Tennessee where he managed to make a living as a clothier, specialising in coats and trousers.</i></span></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span><i> He did not like Negroes, free or slave, all that much but he truly hated wealthy people. He was a life-long Democrat in the Andrew Jackson mode which proved his proclivity to admire people of a lower order. He considered himself to be "one of them". He ran for a position as Senator from the State of Tennessee, some thought it to be a humorous folly, but peculiar voting rules caused him to be elected to the American Union's Senate as a Democrat.</i></span></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: red;"><i><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHSgGqPwtivoHlW11dBZj71SzvNVRpC6Zbj5380l2f3Y1fJu1vssMuVdutdHQcYheBIbCKdV2n_Jr1NN42AZEAhXjSnb5_E2FL5mc3WvA2pwtozufmKJq6refeR6kMaME_sO1pd1rChiM/s2048/EgC0W21WAAIYhnl.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1702" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHSgGqPwtivoHlW11dBZj71SzvNVRpC6Zbj5380l2f3Y1fJu1vssMuVdutdHQcYheBIbCKdV2n_Jr1NN42AZEAhXjSnb5_E2FL5mc3WvA2pwtozufmKJq6refeR6kMaME_sO1pd1rChiM/s320/EgC0W21WAAIYhnl.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: red;">Lincoln at his 2nd Inauguration in 1864.<br /><br /> To his left is the Vice-President elect,<br /> Andrew Johnson.<br /> Lincoln would shortly be dead by the hand<br />of John Wilkes Boothe, a famous actor, who<br /> also had a burning hatred for Lincoln.<br /> Andrew Johnson spent the un-expired term<br />of President Lincoln avoiding impeachment<br /> attempts by the Radical Republican elements<br /> during the post-war period. <br />__________________________</span><br /><br /></span></i></b><br /></td></tr></tbody></table> He was chosen by Abraham Lincoln to be his candidate for Vice-President in the 1864 Presidential elections. It was thought that by unifying the two major parties, Lincoln could press for a somewhat more amiable re-entry for a defeated Confederacy to rejoin the Union. The assassination in April of 1865 put all of that into a far pantry, whose door would never open again.</i></span></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><b><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><i> Johnson's fame, more than anything, was that he was known to have been sober once or twice during all of his time as a United States Representative and as a Senator. Because of the assassination by John Wilkes Booth and his little gaggle of losers, Lincoln was buried back in Illinois. Andrew Johnson would serve out Lincoln's second term, arguing with the Radical Republican element and keeping them at bay with continuous political manoeuvring.</i></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><b><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><i><br /></i></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><b><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><i> All of the above is simply a preparation for the reader to be aware that a cold wind cometh. We find ourselves now guided by the hand of another Democrat nincompoop who somehow stumbled into the front door of the Presidential Palace. Mr. Biden has been impaired for several score years in several score ways and seems to be on the verge of finishing his degree in non compos mentis at every public venue where he might appear.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNKi3eElziC39wm1iQIb_ifuHGR4kPIniqtFB0NpxHub-I5uTgDsG-u-8w_TeaXQBLYrSiSxyvsAITXlFifVN3rKUFyR939dd05uX9ecfpQElnyMC57KZpNR84PEHeuGBSku0XNl1291A/s620/4661.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="372" data-original-width="620" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNKi3eElziC39wm1iQIb_ifuHGR4kPIniqtFB0NpxHub-I5uTgDsG-u-8w_TeaXQBLYrSiSxyvsAITXlFifVN3rKUFyR939dd05uX9ecfpQElnyMC57KZpNR84PEHeuGBSku0XNl1291A/s320/4661.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> <span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>We were given to understand that Good Ol'</i><br /><i>Joe was looking for his driver's license at</i><br /><i>this moment. <br />__________________________</i></b></span></td></tr></tbody></table></i></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><b><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><i><br /></i></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><b><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><i> We do have to give Good Ol' Joe credit for taking advantage of every possible chance to grab and snuzzle women's (and girl's) hairdo's and give "shoulder rubs" for free. </i></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><b><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><i> It is something like a cross between Dracula and King-Kong meeting and "helping" your 10-year old daughter cross the street when there are no cars anywhere.</i></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><b><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><i> Joe's problem seems to be that he always seems to do these things when he is in front of an audience and 2o or so national and international television cameras.</i></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><b><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><i><br /></i></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><b><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><i> So, here we are, all over again. Americans of the normal, patriotic, self-reliant nature…who have conservative inclinations and aspirations, seem to do fairly well in the "American structure" of economic participation. Things were bumping along fairly well until the Red Chinese Plague came upon us. It seems that matters became worse after the television networks got through with their explanations about how many masks a person has to wear while taking a shower, and how many years children must stay out of school before the next millennium runs out of calendar pages.</i></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><b><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><i><br /></i></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><b><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><i> The approach to an epidemic has fit well into the intrusive instincts of the "I know better than thou" control-freak socialists. One must remember, if he ever knew, that we studied the Asian Flu contamination at the end of World War I. As the United States crawled out of the World War mess of Mr. Wilson, the Asian Flu managed to kill 650,000 people, when the population of the United States was only slightly more than 100,000,000 souls.</i></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><b><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><i> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAl4s2rjlTEDYF08nDF_ibetgwj2DHWfkXtxw45V1-jKdAoQatUcAF1rPTOWjOifoJzw7tsqJCp5v2QHU3v_KhS3AU4-P_5QzHmm5sgfK0ecpStru61HW9uoua0FCTaG-FJEZRsi3GR2A/s1390/1960s-woman-in-flapper-costume-dancing-CTG176.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1390" data-original-width="1062" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAl4s2rjlTEDYF08nDF_ibetgwj2DHWfkXtxw45V1-jKdAoQatUcAF1rPTOWjOifoJzw7tsqJCp5v2QHU3v_KhS3AU4-P_5QzHmm5sgfK0ecpStru61HW9uoua0FCTaG-FJEZRsi3GR2A/w153-h200/1960s-woman-in-flapper-costume-dancing-CTG176.jpg" width="153" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>Alarming<br />degenerate dancing!!<br />"The Charleston"<br />______________</i></b></span></td></tr></tbody></table></i></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><b><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><i> Without wishing to seem ghoulish we are now standing at 430,000 dead based on a universe of 330,000,000 souls now resident and/or citizens of the United States of America. Our present per capita mortality statistics, as they relate to the issue of the Red Chinese Flu are still rather pale in terms of per capita deaths of the late nineteen-teens and early 192os.</i></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><b><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><i>_____________________________</i></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><b><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><i><br /></i></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><b><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><i> We move on now to a bit of opining and wonder. </i></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><b><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><i><br /></i></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><b><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><i> There are many adjunct observations that one might make concerning this Flu Rampage…like the Roaring Twenties that brought us The Charleston and other such risqué dancing steps and the proclivity to drink alcohol when Woodrow Wilson and Margaret Sanger had ordered the prohibition of the use of Demon Alcohol for the rest of perpetuity in 1919…by order of a Constitutional Amendment requiring what was then referred to as "The Prohibition".</i></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><b><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><i> A countermanding of said Amendment took place in 1933 by an act of Congress, pushed by the new President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. America remained in a "Great Depression" from 1929 through 1941, in spite of all of FDR's best efforts to cure the "Great Depression". Roosevelt managed to take advantage of a convenient war when the Japanese decided to attack Pearl Harbour on the 7th of December, 1941 bringing America into World War II.</i></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><b><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><i> The re-establishment of the sale of alcohol did not salvage the American economy…it was, in fact, the brutal Second World War of the late 1930s up to the mid-1940s. The dismal effect of denying alcohol to the public guaranteed the development of "black market" for Demon Rum. Bad liquor was distilled and brewed up that wound up killing many, many folks, and few were made to pay for it.</i></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><b><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><i> We did wind up with a relatively efficient cadre of thugs who could terrorise and control large bodies of individual who either wanted alcohol or money…or both. While there still is black marketting in the alcohol business, we know to-day that drugs…illicit, prescription, fake, legal, or howsoever they arrive at the doorstep…it is almost alway certain to avoid and/or deny the use of them.</i></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><b><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><i> And yes…even as you read this, nodding your head…you know your Mary Jane or that man over there who knows his son will be a Major League pitcher some day…both of those children might be dealing with a drug pusher even as I type.</i></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><b><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><i><br /></i></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><b><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><i> PLEASE WATCH OVER YOUR FOLKS.</i></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><b><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><i><br /></i></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><b><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><i><br /></i></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><b><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><i> Then finally, I turn to the final topic of this polyglot of opinion, knowledge, speculation, despair and hope. It is a matter of considerable concern to me. We briefly dealt with the issue of the man who escaped Impeachment and conviction by action of the Lower House of Congress and the Upper house, the Senate, when Andrew Johnson had essentially lost control of much of the administration business of the United States of America. </i></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><b><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><i> Johnson had also lost much of his mental ability due to copious consumption of combustible material such as Tennessee whisky. But he was tenacious enough to hold off repeated assaults by the Radical Republicans who despised him…primarily because he was a Democrat chosen by Lincoln late in the War Between the States in order to attempt an opening to the Southern parties to finally lay down their arms and "come to reason" . That entire period, from 1864 - 1868 befouled as it was by the assassination of Lincoln, left a cloudy period that Americans of to-day would find incredibly incredible.</i></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><b><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><i><br /></i></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><b><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><i> We like to compare Lincoln and Johnson to Jefferson Davis, who was the President of the Confederate States of America. For instance Abraham Lincoln advocated for the general abolition of the condition of forced servitude (slavery) but he was also very much opposed to the idea that the manumitted and newly freed should not be automatically eligible for the voting franchise.</i></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><b><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><i> Andrew Johnson, who was a strange creature who despised wealthy Southerners and who also was quite certain that Negroes were not quite human, and he did not like being around them either. He and Lincoln were much more alike than different.</i></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b><i> For instance, during the War Between the States, an incident occurred wherein a gaggle of well-dressed women, including Caucasians, Negresses, and manumitted Coloured Ladies were tripping along the sidewalks in Richmond on their way to some matter that might concern women. Suddenly they all came upon a horrible scene where they witnessed a Negro man beating a very young Negro boy with a cane or stick (accounts varied). The gaggle of women, startled at first, then charged the Negro man, took the child under cover of their own protection, and began condemning the man in no uncertain terms.</i></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b><i> The constabulary was notified, and in the meantime Mrs. Davis, the wife of the President of the Confederate States of America took, in her mind, legal possession of the boy. She lectured and warned the mean old man that he was not to ever be in the presence of the boy or any of the ladies present ever again!</i></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> Within days, after consulting with authorities, she and the ladies learned that the child could not be extracted so easily. There had to be grounds, procedures, and such messy matters. Mrs. Davis declared then that she was moving to adopt the child as her own</i><i>…</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">and she declared him a "free man" and that he had quarter and family at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Jefferson Davis,</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>and</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> </i><i>further, he would be quartered and cared for equally as the children of the President and his Wife. Besides, she declared, he will have mates of his age and we have learned that he reads and writes quite well for a child of eight years.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><b><i><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi28BomcYI5IuxJa0n3goIT4M2s6lq9Fvuxe864F5xLkoktJ4DtB_OQN_xAq6yUN7IbM_9K0EYxxSG_iJD5jGdNRp2yAThbZrzDGgTW6hvqfXFflEuG82xY-0ASNF291E17HYWQIkGMr88/s322/Jefferson-Davis-as-a-young-man.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="322" data-original-width="301" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi28BomcYI5IuxJa0n3goIT4M2s6lq9Fvuxe864F5xLkoktJ4DtB_OQN_xAq6yUN7IbM_9K0EYxxSG_iJD5jGdNRp2yAThbZrzDGgTW6hvqfXFflEuG82xY-0ASNF291E17HYWQIkGMr88/s320/Jefferson-Davis-as-a-young-man.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><b><i>Jefferson Finis Davis</i><br /><i style="font-size: small;">President, Confederate States of </i><br /><i style="font-size: small;">America…and much, much more. <br />__________________________</i></b></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> As the War tended to a final miserable end, the Davis family, along with a contingent of Confederate soldiers attempted to gain an exit from the pursuing Yankee blue columns. Interestingly enough, the Negro boy, whose name was Jim Limber (Davis), was travelling with the family…as a member of the family…and ostensibly managed an escape and </i></b></span><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><b><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">according to the </i><i>lore of the times made his way into the Bahamas.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><b><i> Davis himself was captured, treated rather badly, and remanded to a prison where he rotted for two years. During the succeeding quarter-century Davis was almost continuously involved in the going and coming, to Europe and all points in the United States as well as southern Canada, striving to maintain his dignity as well as trying to make a living. He was involved in many business ventures, some were somewhat successful, while others…not so much.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><b><i> Jefferson Davis died in December of 1889 of malaria and flu…and was finally buried in Richmond, Virginia…the place where he had attempted to serve as a vital and decisive President of the Southern Nation. We would recommend that folks should review various tomes concerning the man Jefferson…a trying voyage through misery, service, accomplishment, and tribulation.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><b><i>_________________________</i></b></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Thanks for your time and interest. Please email questions, comments, complaints, or praise!</div>David Christian Newtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02486433908063462273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3909519562769268569.post-4641921579475799172021-01-19T04:55:00.010-06:002021-01-19T05:00:48.291-06:00Anarchy and Subterfuge, specialty of the Left <p style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">___________________</span></i></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i> <span style="color: red;"> We have been distracted by distractions during the past two or three weeks. One small to medium-large disaster or problem seems to erupt every few hours during this Life's trek, and during these days.</span></i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"> <span><b><i>The events of the past election left little or nothing about which to be pleased, much less elated. My guy, spinning for a second term in the White House, managed to sling enough platitudes and veiled innuendo to have justified sandblasting Mount Rushmore and replacing the sculptures with his own image.</i></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"> <span><b><i>The opposition, the Democrat Party, performed admirably, trotting out the same rotted, worm-infested meat of "gimme-gimme", "I want…", "I need…", "…and it will all be free". And of course, the rich will have to pay their fair share, according to the Gospel of the Good Fairy.</i></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><i> This participant, activist, and partisan has tired of it all to be sure. The magnificent Soros and his minions, along with the backing of ten or twenty billionaires who know and love Soros, has pretty much decided the future for the American Republic. There can be no doubt that Good Ole' Joe Biden will be hanging around the White House, with nothing particular to do.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><i>THE LONGER AMERICANS CONFIDE IN THE WISDOM OF OUR FORM OF ELECTIONS AND ELECTORS…THE SHORTER OUR TERM AS A GREAT NATION WILL BE.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Thanks for your attention.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><i>EL GRINGO VIEJO</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><i>11 JANUARY 2021</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><i>___________________________</i></b></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Thanks for your time and interest. Please email questions, comments, complaints, or praise!</div>David Christian Newtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02486433908063462273noreply@blogger.com