Pour Money on Top of the Issue, Prices Go Up

     The looming disaster of the Obama Socialised Medicine Initiative (OSMI) is now poised to thrust the rapier into the body of the American economic system again.  It is obvious even to  a left-handed door knob that the bulk of the participants in the OSMI will be a combination of Medicaid slugs and people expecting my children to pay for their "free health care" via Obamasubsidies, known in the business as "ObieSubies".

     The term "crony capitalist" that applies to private businesses that lobby to pick up preferential selection and contractual considerations, moves  six steps down to the level of "Compliant National Socialist Pseudo-private Business That is Essentially Owned and Operated by the Central Government".   Now, the previously private insurance companies can join the likes of the Ethanol Triangle Conspiracy, and the expropriation of General Motors and Chrysler and their delivery by Barry Soetoro to the United Auto Workers labour union.


     Two things will happen in fairly short order if the Republicans do not immediately move to repeal en toto the OSMI.  The flood of money being printed to subsidise the insurance companies for the lack of full-pay OSMI captives will be massive.   The old saw about how this programme will save the government, therefore the taxpayers, billions and billions will suddenly turn into a nightmare that will make the financing of the Iraq and Afghan wars look like the financing of Michelle's last State Dinner honouring Kanye West for his contributions to humanity.   And with those payments and subsidies, any and all pretence about competition and cost controls will be totally disregarded.
     Whenever there is a subsidy, the money of everybody becomes the money of nobody.  It will be exactly like the Medicaid Programme's open ended shovelling of money into the bottomless pit of social disorder, third world illness, and maladies of sloth and anchor-baby madness.


     We are humoured as well by the effects of Obama's nationalisation of the "Student Loan Programme".   It does, however, help prove the previous point.  Something had to be done about the rising cost of a college education.  Democrat Socialist solution?   More money and let the government run the whole show, so the dirty old banks could not gain a usurious profit from the futures of the poor innocent students.   Result?   More free money into the hopper resulted in the inevitable, and the tuitions and other charges went up even faster.  Now the average college graduate has a crummy marxist brainwashing instead of an education and a debt of 30,000 USD, on average, to liquidate over the next 200 years.


     We must repeat to ourselves in the morning, shortly after awakening, "The quickest way to control a population is to tax the income of that population and to control its access to medical attention and records".


     We are receiving  fair warning from the Cosmos, with this hideous Alptraum that has befallen the nation due to this Veteran's Administration situation.    Government workers, at times and far too frequently, learn that since they are immune from dismissal, they can practice inventive administration to their own benefit while the petitioners are abused or dis-attended.  We are noticing now that one after another of the Veteran's Administration's facilities have been cooking service statistics in such a way as to be something that can only be criminal.   In scores of cases, as they build up, we are looking a charges that in Texas would be 1st degree Manslaughter by depraved indifference....5 years to life....depending on how the Jury decided that particular day in that particular court.


     The phony scandals seem to outdo each other at every turn.  If there is nothing to hide, then why do they try so hard to hide it?


More Later.  Thanks for your attention.
El Gringo Viejo

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A Sad side note about a recent previous post

      Folks, this is critical.  It is sad.  It is bad.

      We were sent a quote, a very salient quote, which we posted above the speaker of said quote, James Abram Garfield on a previous page of this blog.   It was sent by some of our favourite people who sometimes send us contributions, clips, notions, and observations.  We posted the reasonable and correct impressions of President Garfield.   As good Confederates, we render honours to Generals and dignitaries and Presidents of certain countries, especially when they are our own. Mr. (General, President, Congressman, etc.) Garfield needed a bit of dressing for the entry on our blog....but we could not find anything appropriate for a Yankee hero, a President killed in office, a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, a man whose soul had few scars.

    El Gringo Viejo had thought that the lack of reasonable Confederate memorabilia and commentary...along with the flourishes and ruffles. was simply a desire to cause the  disparagement of the South and its cause in the War, the bad reasons and the good reasons.  The South, and its losses and sacrifices, was hated simply because of the hatred by liberals and the politically correct robotrons.   But no....They hate the damnedyankee heroes just as much.   Those who also fought for confused abstracts and fought against lesser numbers but who were easily the equal or greater than even the Japanese defender of his island.  And we cannot find in three or four cliques a "grand display of American Flags" to celebrate America....the Grand Army of the Republic.....or any of those great things that the Union forces and their sacrifices accomplished.

     I am truly distraught that our nation and its sections are so little considered.  To ask "The Cloud" to give me a nice 4th of July scene with hundreds of American standards flapping in the breeze seems to be a simple enough thing.  A Memorial Day something, even if not pertaining to the War Between the States.  But all forms of reasonable nationalism are being buried into the Cloud.   We are being forced to become citizens of the Planet Earth. The only reason there are such displays within five or six clics for Confederate issues is to ridicule that for which 450,000 Southerners died and to confuse the issues, and to discount the good intention as best they could be represented of the Southern position.   Both of these sides....either of these sides....would have been a better path than what the United States has now, with 25,000,000 in the slavery of dependency.  Neither of our two sides would have had the peculiar institution functioning after 1910....mechanisation would have destroyed all justification for such an archaic and disgusting  institution.

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Low Information Voters for a Low Information President? Or Is It Versa - Vica?

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      We have been trying to digest the "president's news conference" from yesterday, but sometimes the rumination is a bridge too far.   There were so many cats, dogs, endangered species, grandmothers, run over by that display of loose cannonry that my head has not even begun to spin yet.

     The statistics were, in the main, either pointless and impertinent to the issue at hand or they were made up from whole cloth.  To make one point and then leave it be, allow me to state that the Veterans' Administration is not burdened  by a sudden onslaught of unexpected Veterans from "Bush's Wars".  There are still more and more to come and go from World War II (although we are still losing about 1,000/day), Korea, Viet Nam, and the general Cold War posturing and deployments.  The relatively few couple of million from Kuwait Liberation, Iraq I, Iraq Surge, and the entire Afghanistan period should have been no real problem to absorb into the processes of the VA.

    The problem is....when the central government attempt to do anything, it never works as intended when administered by a civilian bureaucracy.  Every now an then we can have a U-2 project, an SR - 71 project, various warships, the B - 52 and various other warplanes come in at or below budget and at or near schedule.   But, curing poverty....well, buying votes can be awfully expensive.  At least when we buy votes with weapons systems, something gets accomplished.  Amazingly, I admit, because the military is almost as inefficient at times as Nancy Pelosi's 31st facelift....the one that set off the 7 alarm response  from the San Francisco Fire Department.

     The following observations will probably not make El Gringo Viejo very popular, but it is felt that they must be put forth into the light of the waning moon.  To Begin, we need to stop boxing when we should be doing kung fu!!!  This has been stated several times on this screed.  Everybody knows that Sibelius should have been fired...in reality she should never have been hired.  Everybody knows that everyone sitting behind any desk with the civilian rank of GS - 16 through 18 inclusive are commies, pinkoes, national socialists, or at the very best, Progressives.  The progressives' motto is, "It is far too hot to-day for croquet or tennis or golf. I move that we stay here at the club and keep the bar busy.   We can do communism to-morrow, for the little people."

   

     The highest ranking bureaucrats are all extreme leftists.  Many of the people in the middle and higher ranking areas of the civil service bureaucrat
"community" are dedicated, rock-solid, union-thug marxists.  Much of the general officer staff of the five services is rotted out through and through with progressives who think the military is a petri-dish for some kind of a Kinsey Report Graduate School of Social Engineering, Depravity, and Moral Decay.  The mealy-mouthisms and lack of spine required for these brass hats to grovel at the foot of a poseur such as Barry Soetoro is stunning.   To think that David Petraeus could have some dark secret hanging over him that is so bad that Valerie Jarrett can blackmail him, but he cannot blackmail her in self-defence.  To wit:

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     So we have the event yesterday when the poseur-in-chief comes forth and for the 9th time, being faced with a major moral and legal scandal well-beyond any since Lyndon Baines Johnson, shovels out the bilge about how he is outraged, there is going to be an investigation, there will be a report, the people responsible will be held responsible, and more must be done for our Veterans  and the Mureene Korpse.  Saints preserve us, if they can hold their noses long enough.

     But....and I mean really....we should not call for the resignations and firings of any of these festering pieces of regurgitated refuse from a goat farm.   Allow them to stew in their juices and bile.  Let the nouveaux press, the paladins with IPads, and the bloggers with their insane energy, eloquence, and perspectives keep prying out the rot, the hideous green fungus of the decayed souls of those who preferred grovelling to serving America and her Constitution and the Creator who inspired it.

      I am tired of listening to this dull thumping on a broken drum..."Quit, Resign, Fire-them...thump, dlumpd, dlumb...  

        El Gringo Viejo says,"Let Sibelius do what she does best...like stare into a live camera lens for 40 days and 40 nights with the drool coming out of her mouth, and the dull gaze of a moron fixed on the centre of the lens.   Let the "Lootenint  Genral" commanding the VA declared, that (Yaaawwwwnn)  I am very out.   Raged.      At all of this we are going...(YAAaaawwwnnn) ....to get to the ...uh....uh....side door of much that we have Wensdy morning.. or sooner tree-stump."

     We can assure everyone that no one was listening to Barry Soetoro who voted for him....save for a few people in San Francisco and in the Hamptons.  The people on Cape Cod were busy preparing for the Memorial Day clambakes on the beach and for the march to the Old Chappaquiddick Memorial Bridge...which. after all.  is what inspired Memorial Day as the formative moment when the Lion of the Senate was proven to have the mettle sufficient to be a drunken pervert and serial misogynist.   This year everyone at Martha's Vineyard will be marching to raise money for buying the little ribbons people wear to express solidarity with victims this or that.  This time it is for victims of head injuries derived from bumping into the Glass Ceiling.  These people are so sincere. Much.

 Twenty Dollars?  and that
is for one cup!

     Bring these things to the front.   Every time we lock arms with them and sway back and forth, singing, "Getting to Know You, getting to know all about you...." since they left office, vomitoreum sales have shot up at almost all of their venues.  Can the OROG imagine that AlGore did not want Billy Jeff Blythe  nor (Sir Edmund) Hillary anywhere around his stupid 2000 presidential campaign.  Hilly and Billy just helped Chelsea's mother-in-law, a clone-hag of Hillary, finish fifth in a three LBDTGZSWAJ-way race.  Hilly and Billy campaigned vigorously for Mrs. Whazzernaim who had held the United States Representative seat there in Pennsylvania back in the 1990s before she voted for (Sir Edmund) Hillary's version of Communist Care and Burial Service.   We lament having to link the OROG to his article, but it shows the actual level of what grass roots America thinks of the Clintons if they are not lugged around in a solar-powered wheel-barrow by the entire Obsolete Press Corpse.

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Clinton In-Law Marjorie Margolies Toppled in Pennsylvania Race

   

       

By Betsy Klein
@betsy_klein
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May 20, 2014 9:49pm

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Chelsea's Mother-in-Law, Mrs Whazzernaim

      Despite the support of both former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Marjorie Margolies, Chelsea Clinton’s mother-in-law, has lost her Democratic primary bid for the Congress.
     The Associated Press called the race for her opponent, Brendan Boyle.
At 37, Boyle, a state legislator, is 15 years younger than his next-youngest opponent. His campaign raised the least amount of money. He lacked his opponents’ powerful connections to the Philadelphia political establishment.
     And yet, he just beat the Clinton family at its own game, winning the race for Pennsylvania’s 13^th district.     With 56.6 percent of precincts reporting, Boyle leads Marjorie Margolies 58.5 percent to 22.4 percent, per AP projections. Valerie Arkoosh has 10.7 percent of the vote, and Daylin Leach came in at 8.4 percent of the vote.


      “They say money always wins,” Boyle told ABC News in a recent interview. “If we win, we show that’s not true.”


Margolies, 71, had a significant boost from the Clinton machine throughout the race. Margolies’ son Marc Mezvinsky married Chelsea Clinton in July 2010 and they are expecting a baby this fall.


     Bill Clinton hasn’t campaigned for any candidate as much as he has for Margolies, with a fundraiser, an ad, and a robo-call on her behalf. While serving Congress in 1993, Margolies famously cast a controversial vote in favor of the Clinton budget.  The fallout from the vote cost her the seat, and hers’ became the textbook case of a career-ending vote. ABC News called her favor to Clinton “the most celebrated political debt of the year.”
     While Hillary Clinton has shied away from 2014 campaign events, she made an exception for a fundraiser on Margolies’ behalf, which the former congresswoman did not attend.
      Margolies, however, struggled to connect to voters and while her fundraising numbers were strong, the campaign had trouble maintaining cash-on-hand throughout the race. To make matters worse, a March report asserted that Margolies “doubled her own salary as head of a small, largely taxpayer-funded charity [Women's Campaign International] into the six figures” as her now-ex-husband Ed Mezvinsky was facing charges of fraud.
     Boyle emerged as Margolies’ lead contender in early May, when all three of his opponents, alongside women’s groups EMILY’s List and NARAL Pro-Choice America, mounted attacks on Boyle’s anti-abortion record. Boyle maintained that he is pro-life.
Arkoosh, 53, a practicing obstetric anesthesiologist, campaigned on healthcare reform and her experience lobbying on Obamacare while president of the National Physicians Alliance, landing the Philadelphia Inquirer’s endorsement.


     Leach, 52, a state senator, gained a following for his pro-recreational marijuana platform and unorthodox sense of humor. “If we win, we’ll have large seafood towers and fine scotch,” Leach said of his election night party. “If we lose, it’s licorice and Muscatel.”
Boyle will face Republican opponent Dee Adcock in the safe-Democratic district this November.
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    My whole and final point, perhaps, is to let them stew.  It serves us to let their "good works" go before them until such time that we might possibly have an awakening.   Nothing else seems to work perfectly...and I would like to try a different strategy, and also different tactics in the implementation of said Strategery.

     We appreciate your patience.

El Gringo Viejo










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Real Santa Claus, False Santa Claus

Dear Virginia,

     You are a bit older now, and you wrote to ask why it is that you continue believing in Santa Claus.  You ask if it is proper to cling on to such childish notions or if perhaps it might be a fear of death, growing old, or entering the challenges of adult life.   My understanding, and applying that understanding strictly to my own condition, is that you are an intelligent girl.  You know that Santa Claus as depicted in the literature is a Santa Claus that is real only to children.  They can see him....because they can see him....and not just as a colourful picture on a page.

     It is probable that, while awaiting their assignments in some other place before their birth, they might even have seen him and spoken with him.   I know that the day-care facility there must have been crowded and busy, but it is almost certain that the good and generous Bishop tried to pat every head, regardless of the colour and structure of the hair upon that head.

     So we move past our confirmations, bar mitzvahs, and altar calls and into horrors and pleasures of "real" life, only rarely seeing the glimpses of our image of Saint Nicolas, as if he were a shadow of a shadow.  I, for instance, saw him recently at the pub where I stop at least twice a week.  He was at the bar, laughing and enjoying the fraternity, and he was sitting with his friend.   That friend was the same Samaritan who had stopped to render aid to the Jew who had been assaulted by bandits on the road.   As you know Virginia,  Samaritans were a peculiar people of the Holy Land who practiced a faith made up of pagan worship, naturism, and Judaism.  They seemed to feel the need to cover all their bases.

     So, imagine the spectacle of a Greek who worked in Turkey talking and yukking it up with some kind of Semitic-Phoenician whose only binding would have had to have been that they both had lived on or near the Mediterranean Sea.   And, one other thing;   spontaneous generosity.
     One was drinking a Heinekens and the other a Corona with lime....you know....a couple of Orthodox.   In a second, Santa Claus caught my simultaneous glance with his eye, and he knew that I "knew".  He said something to the Samaritan, who then turned discreetly to see the Gentile who "knew".     Apparently he approved, because the two went back to their notes, comparisons, and experiences with the fools that mortals be.
     I stayed for a bit, meeting and greeting fellows of acquaintance in the Manhattan madness.  These places were always almost...but not quite...crowded.   People could order a half-sandwich (for me, pastrami on rye w/horseradish and a Coca-Cola).  The Jew - owner behind the counter would always, always, always say...'' Yeah! I sell them a half at a time, because they're so good that the next guy in the door will buy the other half.  That way instead of losing a dime on every sandwich, I only lose a nickel)...and the people sitting and standing around the bar would laugh, order another beer, pay out, and make room for the next hapless Gentile that could never get enough of the good food and ambience.
    The pickle was finished and the bill called for, but Levi, never looking up, say,"Achh!  Your Uncle Nikko paid you out already.   I haven't seen him for awhile.  He's lookin' pretty fit for an old guy!"

     I protested a bit, but Levi said," ....oh..just leave a tip in the jar...then ,,, fardinen a mitzvah ...as my savtah would say....go look it up and get out of here...yer train is leaving!!"   Always impatient, always grousing, always generous.

Inside view of Grand Central Station in these times

      Virginia, this day...as I went to the fabulous Grand Central...but just before entering there was the boy who almost finishing at the Lorillard and trying to make a few shekels, but mainly trying to overcome his inborn stage shyness as well.  He is quite a good violinist, and for the last year he has been standing up to the maddening rush, on the sidewalk.   This time I finally left him something....it was only a 10 dollar bill, but it will buy a few strings.


     So then, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.   But always beware of the Government trying to play the role of Santa Claus.  The "very real" Santa Claus is a fake and leads to ruin and corruption and misery with his false gifts and bondage.   The Santa Claus that is seen by children....and only occasionally by us old people who moves us to generosity...that is the real Santa Claus who has always existed and who forever will exist.

And here is a gift for you!

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El Gringo Viejo
Sometime long after the last...and well before the next...Feast of the Nativity.
And to all a good night.

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El Gringo Viejo quotes a Yankee General. This quote sent from the folks at the outpost in Extreme Central Texas

"The people are responsible for

 the character of their Congress.

 If that body be ignorant,

 reckless, and corrupt it is

 because the people tolerate
ignorance, recklessness,

 and corruption."

  James Abram Garfield

President of the United States of America

Major General, United States Army

United States Representative for Ohio

Self-made, compliant, and honest man

Minister of the Word of Jesus Christ

Bargeman, Ohio Canal

Father, Husband, and Martyr

as a Confederate, we render this man, an enemy, our honours.  He was

valiant in his service to his beliefs.  He was, to the degree possible,

civil to his previous foes.  He tried and perhaps would

have succeeded in the building of many bridges.

A self-consumed assassin ruined the good

this young man could have done.

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Something to keep the OROGs angry with me, and something to make up for it.

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Concerning Heroes and also landing in Mexico clumsily:

      The reason Glen Beck needs to be taken in small doses is because, sometimes, his analysis and interpretation of things leaves a lot to be desired.  He leads of this morning, for instance, by picking on a cripple.  Let's beat up on Mexico for doing something dumboe like detaining one of our heroes for no good reason.

     We remember the recent case of the boy, also a recently discharged military man, who was held on the far, far other side of the frontier, over in Matamoros, Tamaulipas.   Fox News had to put up the obligatory picture of the boy "chained" to his bed in the detention in Matamoros.  He had been detained for having a 410 shotgun in his motorhome, along with a carton (20) boxes of ammunition.   We, although some might forget, gave 1% of the blame to the boy, 9% of the blame to the American customs people who told the boy that he just needed to declare the shotgun and ask for the permits and licenses as he went in to Matamoros.

     The other 90% of the blame I laid at the foot of the detaining officer in Mexico who probably received some form of insult (in his opinion) or an attempt to prevent his inspection of the vehicle (in his opinion).   That is my experience in these matters, and it traces to the point that both parties think they are totally empowered and within their authority and right.  In this case the Mexican federal customs inspector needed only to have ordered the vehicle, its contents, and the occupants to return to the American side, something they do with some frequency with those who have committed some breach of law or regulation and who avoided saying, "You can't do that to me, I'm an American citizen". 

    El Gringo Viejo is just telling the truth.  El Gringo Viejo has never been detained even in a precinct, much less a detencion or a juzgado....in Mexico.   And he has taken many, many people to Mexico with and without guns, legally.

     We were treated to the bloviating Irishman, O'Reilly who declared that he was going to get the boy out and if he wasn't out real quick then O'Reilly was going declare a boycott against all Mexican exports and on tourism to Mexico.

His bloviation was so severe that it almost derailed effective intervention that was essentially terminated, having been initiated by the Tamaulipas Chamber of Commerce and handled by a famous attorney of considerable note and of high regard in Tamaulipas and Mexico City.

     He was released.  The boy's medical conditions and temperament situation were clearly not adequate for him to have been anywhere outside the view of careful and considerate friends and relatives.   For instance, the reason he was "chained to his hospital bed" was because he had insisted on going back into the general population and reception area (not the place you would want your daughter or Mother Theresa, let us say) to settle a score with some guys with whom he had had a disagreement during his early moments under detention.   In my opinion, it was very probably better and best for his continued health to have kept him out of general population and the primary detention area.

     After the soldier's release, FOXNews junkies, of which El Gringo Viejo is a prime example, never really heard much about the boy.  Ever.  We would urge the public to think about why this is the case.  But one thing is very, very certain.   Nobody in Mexican officialdom gives a damn about what Bill O'Reilly say, thinks, or does.  Nor do they care very much about me in any way....which is the way I like it.
     And, if anyone out in OROG-land assumes that the United States State Department gives a damn about you when you have a problem in Costa Rica or Peoples' Democratic Republic of Throtekutia or even Japan or Mexico or Canada....we bid you well and a rosary.


     This new case is very similar.  And all the braying in the world will do no good.   It will be private agents...civilians, Mexican members of this Masonic Lodge, or that Lions Club or the Rotarianos  or the Damas Catolicas, or the Chamber of Commerce of the City of Tijuana and/or the State of Baja California who will do the necessary heavy lifting.  Not Glen Beck, not Bill O'Reilly....especially not.
     We need to point out two things that are being overlooked by our friends.  One is the facility where the boy is being kept.  The people in charge are from the Fuerza Civil, an elite and relatively new group established by the previous administration that has been substantially professionalised.  That portends very well for our soldier.   The other thing is that when he was calling and saying that he was surrounded by Mexican officials, he was obviously using a cellular telephone.  Normally cellular telephones from the United States do not work in Mexico, they stop working at the very inch-line of the border.  If in fact his was working in Mexico, that means it was bought there, or it was "chipped" in anticipation of needing it to work there, or he was not in Mexico when he was talking to his mother.   So, there is one enigma.
     Plus, Glen Beck reports that his people report that the prison where our new prisoner is was the scene of a group killing last year when Cartel people brought guns and dismissed the guards, went and found some of their Cartel's "soldiers" who were prisoners there and ordered them to go back inside and kill a certain nine or ten other prisoners who belonged to a different Cartel.    It is NOT the same prison.  That particular prison is the Apodaca - Cadereyta Federal Detention and Social Re-adaptation Centre almost totally towards the other side of the country....near Monterrey.  Facts are heavier than hot air, Glen. 


    Finally, on this point, it is easy to make fun and denigrate Mexico for all of this absurdity.  They deserve most of the derision.   But, remember that Hidalgo County of Texas has not had a Sheriff finish his term in office for the past three Sheriffs.  All are making licence plates or have been released after gaining a lot of experience making licence plates.  And, in terms of jail breaks and other indiscretions, the most corrupt Presidential administration in the history of the Republic, including Jackson, Grant, LBJ, and Clinton  is the one we have now.   Can anyone imagine releasing 40,000 felons including murderers, armed robbers, and all manner of cockroaches just because they are sad, depressed illegal aliens?   Ridiculous.  Preposterous.  Criminal in its own right.   And, once again, I would be glad to go and obtain the person presently detained in Tijuana, and have him in the United States in less than two weeks.....working solely for expenses. 
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On Heroism and Heroes:

   On the next point, it would behove all of us to not use the term "Hero" to describe any military person, or person who has worn the uniform, or who is wearing the uniform.  A hero, by definition is someone who feels compelled by an inner force to risk his life to the point of certain death, in order to save someone, especially his buddies in the same uniform or grouping, or others in imminent danger who have no hope beyond what would be done through the intervention of one who would risk his/her life.

     One could say, perhaps, that anyone who has stood service in a combat zone that by definition has no front....no enemy lines.....when the entire place is "the front".....could be serving in a heroic way.   But it is still not the proper designation.   Hanging around in Saigon was not like slogging in the Mekong Delta.....until the Tet Offensive happened.   Heroic things happened in both places at that time, and there were heroes.

     But, if you press me, I would say that a fellow with a bronze star could well be a hero.   Someone who came back from Viet Nam or Iraq or Kuwait or Afghanistan with a chest full of medals and no bronze star or higher should be saluted and recognised as an Honourable Soldier, Sailor, Marine, or Airman.  Even the guy back in Torremolino, Spain who was loading munitions for transfer....doing what he was ordered to do....he may not be a hero, but he is an honourable military man, doing correctly what he was needed to do.

    It  is a very small point, but it is just something that grates a little.   I know a few people who did heroic things, but refused or deferred from participating in fillingout the papers and making statements of concurrence about what they felt to be just their job.   For instance, El Zorro did things(perhaps he will write up a few chapters), for which he could not be "medalled", because some of the most dangerous things done were those assignments "out of theatre" or "out of country" which required personnel to be where there wasn't....so to speak.

Thank you all for allowing me to grumble, because sometimes an old curmudgeon just has to grumble.

El Gringo Viejo

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B. O. L. O. - This is serious, not a joke. B. O. L. O. - Myrtle Beach Area!!!

This bike was stolen from me Saturday night in Myrtle beach. If anyone happens to spot it please report it to the police.


ALL OROGS IN THE FLORIDA AND EVEN JUST OUTSIDE OF FLORIDA BY THIS TIME, PLEASE BOLO THIS RIDE.   CALL 911....OFFICIALLY  REPORTED STOLEN...THIS IS SERIOUS.  

Wealth Expropriation and More Major and Minor Topics



Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers
 in Occupy Wall Street,
 Zuccotti Park

     It is apparent to all reasonable observers at this point that the president and his administration are bound and determined to sabotage the American economic system by and all means and methods possible.   We can see the incessant attack upon the energy production, transport, and refining industries.  We took note of the  out-and-out theft of possession of General Motors and Chrysler by means of simply cancelling the validity and worth of the preferred stock held in those companies by investment groups on behalf of individual investors and by individual investors operating independently.

    It is apparent in the incessant increase in regulation, meddling, and arbitrary governmental whack-a-moe enforcement and oversight of legitimate economic activity.  Demagoguery is to be expected of lower class political operatives and "community organiser" agitators.   The combination of demagoguery, anarchism, and criminality is a bit more rare, but one would expect such from a person who counts Bill Ayres and Bernadine Dohrn as close advisors and confidants.  Such an association is denied by creditable sources within the Obsolete Media such as CNN and the New York Times.   Ayres managed to beat a murder rap on a technicality and has since been involved in the indoctrination of pre-school to collegiate post-graduates in the value of communism and the worthlessness of America.  Ayers advocated that young people, back in the 1970s should ...."kill your parents, destroy their cars,  destroy their aparments....etc".   If becomes worse.    Ayers and his wife Bernadine were finally captured, being wanted on murder charges for having made and deployed various bombs that had killed and wounded several people.   Ayers also instructed in the making of a bomb that blew his first lady's head off al0ng with another communist terrorist: the bomb was intended for a USO dance for returning combat personnel that same night.   Ayers beat a possible capital murder charge because a court ruled that certain surveillance practices were inadmissible due to the lack of a properly styled warrant request.  Charges had to be dismissed due to the "fruit of the poisoned tree" rule of evidence.  Ayers's response? "Guilty as sin, Free as a bird.  America is a great country!"  he snickered.

    It is also beyond dispute by this point that Ayers wrote Barry Soetoro's "autobiographical" book "Dreams from My Father".   Considering that Barry cannot ad lib fifteen seconds when his teleprompter malfunctions, without senseless, epithet-shouting sloganeering, and fall-back gibber.    The similarity of style with Ayers's dull, predictable marxist bilge and dull predictable attempts at flourish, there is no doubt that Ayers wrote the "Dreams" book and perhaps even the other Obama ego-blast as well.

Relative of the Banyan Tree that jumped 
 out in front of that fine man, Barry, Sr.who was
 a great intellectual. The tree was not a relative
of Auntie Zietuni (RIP) or Uncle Omar Onyango
 Obama who lived on full  public support so far
 costing over 2,000,000 dollars in tax supported
sloth, and in Uncle Omar's case, multiple DWI
cases. More confiscation of American wealth for
 the support of parasites with no right to access
to the wealth of the working and investingclass.

    So, remembering these associations....associations that completely and on many tiers of surrounded....cocooned...Barry Soetoro with Manchurian Candidate hypno-coaches.   Daily, hourly, inculcation with Bolshevik and (oddly) National Socialist policy....spread the wealth, income equality, one-percent own everything, capitalism is greed, racism, racism, racism.  It is a communist catechism.   These "hypno-coaches, or minders were in charge of brainwashing a small brain.   The set about having him appointed to prestigious but hollow positions.  They succeeded in having him elected to parliamentary positions where he could vote "present - in training".   They were  waiting to ambush another marxist during the primary processes that would choose between two hideously narcissistic, anti-American slugs to lead the Democrat Party in the 2008 general elections, and the Chicago Annenberg Challenge - appointed communist and ACORN minders won the day.   Considerable help was, of course, rendered by the Obsolete Media.
     The perfect circle of self-contradicting hypocrisy and ignorance flowered perfectly in the whole affair.   "We must nominate a moderate who can reach across the aisle.  Romney had to work at it, but he finally got in touch with his inner-moderate and managed to lose the election.  He followed the battle plan of his predecessor Col. Sen. John McCain.  McCain did the self-sacrifice, quick-draw foot-shot much better and more quickly.   And, they elected a real live Negro who had absolutely no ancestry that had any bearing on the black experience in America.  Because it was "Time" (to elect the abandoned son of a communist, anti-colonialist terrorist, misogynist, polygamist, drug addict, alcohol addict who did at least hate America at least as much as he hated women and white people before he died in a stuporous, drunken engagement with a banyan tree).

    Therefore, now we have a disaster at the Veterans' Administration unfolding.  Purposeful neglect, designed to gain bonuses for a few, and to purposely inflict pain, misery, and death upon veterans, because not too far down inside, Obama GS - 16 level and above central government employees hate America and any vestige of America's former military traditions, honour, and splendour.    Luckily, our contact with the VA has been very good to excellent.   Texas, however has a congressional delegation that is always involved in what is going on in Texas under the auspices of the central government.  There is no doubt in the mind of this writer that the abuse, to the extent that it exists, is purposeful due to an abiding hatred by the constituents of this administration and the middle and upper level appointees of this regime.

     The military has been back-burnered while more important national security issues are considered.  We must and should have greater interest in the accommodation of homosexuals and soon the reverse-re-transgendered and the ungendered. who must not be confused with the nongendered and the half-gendered and the other-than-gendered.


     There has been a budgetary disaster with Geitner who is an attempted tax-defrauder. He says that one of Barry Soetoro's top policy advisors told him (Geitner) to lie about how Social Security does not contribute to the running budget deficit.   Who really cares, and what difference does it make, when nobody in the White House, save for the service and physical plant people at the White House, give a flip about anything that has to do with Social Security, Budgets, and such matters?   The president and his "advisors'" only concern is to avail themselves of the money so long as it remains available so as to purchase votes.


     The driving of people from the workforce and into the ranks of the "disabled" under the liberal definitions now being made by the Social Security Disability programme has placed us in the position of having more employment-aged persons now out of the labour-force than there are people who are employed.  Amplification of the numbers of people loading up the grocery cart with the USDA free food for freeloaders programme indicate that 50,000,000 people are dining on the dime of the dummies who pay taxes and work or who own businesses.    "What's your  job, buddy?" one might ask.  "Well, I'm an eater," the other responds, and then asks, "Are you an eater, too?"


     "No, I guess that I am just a payer."  the Payer responds.


     "Bummer, Dude. Well, say...can you help me and my babymother with these four carts?"


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Why do you have this when so many
 have none of this or much else.It is
 not fair when the whole point
 behind founding this Country
 was to make sure that nobody
 would have more than some
 other person.  No? 

     As this election-round approaches October and the November 4th election  day,  proposal after proposal will fly out of the Oval Office.   A minimum wage of 20.00/hour should be considered.  A 5,000 dollar per year direct payment to families below the poverty level will stimulate the economy.  People with M1 (cash and bank accounts), M2(treasuries, cds, other bonds, set asides for IRAs and other pensions, public and private) and M3(gold, silver, properties, and structures) will have to consider that they owe part of that wealth to the people who made that wealth happen.  A tax of the M1 and M2 of  3% per year, and no more, should be fair and tolerable for someone who has so much while the vast majority of the rest of us have so little. Gold and silver being held in private hands is a useless exercise and leads to hording and speculation that injures the overall economy.  Therefore, under pain of confiscation all people holding more than 50 dollars of gold in the form of bullion, coins, jewellery, dust, or in any form, as with silver, will be required to turn such metals over to the Internal Revenue Service.   Said Service is authorised now to enter the citizen's business, abode, or any place deemed necessary at any time day or night for the purpose of making an on-property assessment of gold and silver's presence on that property.   Unreported metals will be confiscated without recompensation and criminal charges can be made against whomsoever was holding such Gold and or Silver.

Cristy and Barry during better times

     Attention all OROGs!



Nicolas Maduro

The first crooked thug to
serve as President of
Venezuela since the
last president died.

     The above proposals that start just below the little red line above, is what the ruling gnomes of Buenos Aires has been pushing, in one form or another, under the regimen of Sra. Presidente Cristina Fernandez Vda. de Kirchner and her gnomes, all clones of Hugo Chavez and his clone, Nicolas Maduro, present tin-horn thug, pseudo-marxist-populist who is busy saving, feeding, nurturing, attending to, giving of himself, and loving the poor.  Just like Cristina and just like Barry Soetoro, (Sir Edmund) Hillary, and Nancy, the little old winemaker over there in the hood.....the Napa-Samona-Mendicinohood .   All these slugs want your gold and silver and pensions and life insurance.   It is coming.



Nancy and her hubby's place is rather much like this one.

Poor Nancy.  Thank the little people. she does.   I remember her being a better Catholic than the Pope, when she gave thanks for the meal that her servants had prepared and served to the two or three hundred millionaires and billionaires who had gathered to fight the War on Women.  She prayed, so eloquently, "Thank You for the dirty dishes, They have a tale to tell.  Some folks are going hungry, While we're eating mighty well!  Amen!" 
    We all appreciated the setting with the Pelosi's vineyards, the landscapes, the little people who got to wash the dishes and serve all that Thunderbird she had  them put into the fancy French labelled wine bottles.

     We did the limbo that night until somebody's pants ripped, or so we thought.  It just turned out to be Nancy's face giving way again, and ripping from cheek to cheek and then right up over the top of her head, just like last time.   The lady who takes care of her, and keeps her medicines like the President with the nuclear football, she found Nancy's eye, but this time it was the left eye.  The Doctors came and essentially just packed her face with another semi-permanent papier-mâché surface shell, and the makeup artist came and painted on that wild-eyed, insane-madwoman look that is so becoming for her.

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Whew,  That was quite an evening.   Maybe next time I'll be able to wrangle a invitation for one of you OROGs.   Did I just say Rangle?   I meant to say Barney....or was it Jesse....or Billy Jeff....All those names start to sound the same after a few score years.

El Gringo Viejo

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