It just keeps getting better....

http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/17/citing-a-lack-of-usage-costco-removes-e-v-chargers/

      This one explains why COSTCO wants granny to eat catfood in the dark with no air-conditioning while not being able to park her coalburner in the disabled parking space during the blizzard brought on by global warming during Bush's purposeful flooding of New Orleans.
It's all part of their plan, folks.

Hi! Y'all, I'm Jimmie Rodham and
I'm runnin fer President

Join the Peoples' Resistance!

Coal Powered Cars to the People!!

We demand electric cars!!

We demand no electricity production!!!

We are the Left....We know best.....!!!

Everyone else is extreme, illogical, and rich!!!!

We demand everything now!!!!

You...Shut Up...NOW!!

Give us your guns, money, and property...and SHUT UP!   Racists!!!

 

And then there is this charmer

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/19/gm-impala-lawsuit-idUSN1E77I0Z820110819

     This one explains how we are all better off with a National Socialist Workers' Party solution to das autoproblemmitbaldergashen.    Adminstration by United Auto Workers....where the belly over the belt union thugs are apparently all members of the "Six-Pack for Lunch Bunch".        But, what the heck....the UAW owns the place...we're the UAW....if we want to smoke a few roaches and knock off a six-pack for lunch....what's a little inaccuracy on the assembly line?   After all...that's a management problem...quality control and all that.   Besides we only work on suspensions and brakes....nothing life-threatening like the CD changer.   What the hell do you expect for 40 dollars an hour?   Perfection???

  http://www.torquenews.com/106/chrysler-uaw-workers-caught-drinking-smoking-pot-during-lunch-%E2%80%93-third-time
All new contracts with labour unions in the Closed Shop States must include a "Hold Harmless" clause, agreeing to not press or pursue civil or criminal charges against the Union or its members.   These charges are meant to cover but are not limited to vandalism, arson, bodily harm, assualts, other criminal and/or issue of civil liability.   The Unions demand this clause or else they'll slash your tires and shoot your dog....but nothing personal you understand.
Pray for America. 

More Later.  Thanks for your tolerance.
El Gringo Viejo 

      

Before you all scoff at the previous post

    We have to admit to ourselves that if the New York Times is beginning to paint pictures of Barack O'bama's marxist programming failures, then the end is here.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2011/08/green-jobs-epic-fail.php

      O'bama's cute self-described communist clown, a Mr. Van Jones....an ex-con, of course...who at one time was a real live White House Czar, is painted in an article by the Times as a failed experimenter....perhaps noble...but failed.

     It's time to turn the inevitable march to World Socialism back over to the Queen of the Universe.   She is the candidate the Democrats will instantly turn to so they can demonstrate buyers' remorse adequately.   And think of it; she's been out in the trenches as Secretary of State, defending America's Interests, stabbing Israel and Mubareck in the back, keeping the Red Chinese in their place.   She's the man of the moment.   Oh!....think of the shivers running up and down Chris Matthew's leg now!!!

      She is also the perfect and oh-so-moderate-and-experienced candidate.  She appears "moderate" to the dunced, MSM-following public and she has a  million lunatic Amazon Battalion Commies in Move-on, Code-pink, and the NOW "women's" movement dullards.    It is kabuki theatre at its best, at its very best.

 An apple for your freely given vote, my lovely?

Ah!....Relish the moment.  "I'm going to wash that man right out of my hair...", except, I don't think she can sing as well as Mary Martin....Actually I don't think she can do anything except be the Perpetual Queen of the Universe for Eternity.   She is the only one the Old Gringo knows who will be able to outdo Michelle in base, whitetrash-like self absorption.

Thanks for your time and interest.

El Gringo Viejo

Peculiar Prediction

One of the good things about being a geezer is that the Old Gringo has seen a lot of things, been to a lot of places, and had a number of experiences.

     During the 1967 - 1968 period, a perfectly useless piece of human debris by the name of Lyndon Baines Johnson, who, some have said,  could well have been directly involved in the murder of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was floundering in the mess of the Viet Nam War.    He would not allow the generals and admirals to fight in their own way.   He would not make the massive deployment that would be necessary to drive the North Vietnamese forces out of the South, and he would not bomb Hanoi or Haiphong into oblivion.

     He would also not simply pull out and say "Phooey on the whole thing"....Instead he dribbled in troops in small to medium sized increments....changed strategies and tactics as if to the click - clacking of a metronome.   This was a perfect situation for a light infantry enemy that relied principally on hit-and-run guerilla actions and terrorization of local, native populations.

      It amazed people in the know that the South Vietnamese forces changed bit by bit during the war,  into an almost respectable fighting force and finally began gaining quite a bit of local backing...simply because of their own good performance and the presence of American and South Korean and Australian combat forces in large numbers.   I believe the American deployment level in 1969 hit a high of 623,000, all branches.  while the allied groups numbered upwards of 90,000.

      Americans lost nearly 60,000 dead and 220,000 wounded.   The South Vietnamese lost about the same number.     During the course of  almost 9 years over 3,000,000 people served under arms in the American military in country.   There was still a draft at that time, and the Old Gringo was drafted immediately upon completing the requirements for his B.A. degree at Southwest Texas State University.    He, (sniff, sniff) did not have the opportunity to attend his own graduation ceremony....which is just as well....because he would have been a lot like Father McKensie.
      But none of this, or all of this, is neither here nor there.   Except for one thing.....Johnson walked off and left the whole issue behind.   He was a shallow, hypocritical, crooked thug.   He was a bully, and like most bullys, he could not stand up to a fight.    He would only fight if he were absolutely certain of the outcome being in his favour.     So, when a third-rate pinko senator from Wisconsin, Eugene McCarthy,  filed against him in the Democrat Primary of New Hampshire in early 1968.....and managed to pick up 38% of the vote... thereby embarassing the President profoundly.       A couple of days after that primary, Johnson held a talk to the Nation and announced live and in colour that he would not be a candidate for re-election.

THEREFORE:
     The Old Gringo is increasingly under the impression that Barack Hussein O'bama, the first Irish President of all 57 of the United States, is going to soon announce that he is going on a permanent vacation......that he will not be a candidate for re-election.
      He is harder to read than Lyndon Baines Johnson.   O'bama has a foreign father, an absent mother, and was raised in the rarified environment of Hawai'i, by communist grandparents.  He attended private exclusive schools that emphasised marxist dialectics and social democracy and minimized any thought of patriotism towards the United States.   Because of those things, he does not have the mannerisms or inflections of a normal, natural born America-type Negro or Caucasian or any American mixture of any kind.
      O'bama, however, does lie just like Johnson, and, like Johnson has neither soul nor sense of shame.
      Speaking of 'neither soul nor sense of shame' , now comes (Sir Edmund)Hillary Rodham.   While watching her to-day     e x p l a i n    i n   h e r   o w n    i n i m i t a b l e    w a y,   t a k i n g  h o u r s   and   h  o   u  r s   t o     s  a   y     e v e  n    t  h  e    s im p  le  st     s en t  e n c  e  s      .    (yawn, shudder)....about how we are going to  whup up on Assad...just like we done whupped up  on Quaddafi....and Assad done better look out 'cause we're a' comin' to git 'em, it dawned on me.

     It dawned on me that she has been putting her Move-on ducks in a row....and with the next stumble by O'bama....she will strap on the Wonder Woman outfit, play the themes from Wonder Woman, Rocky I  -   XXXVII, I Am Woman, and her new song titled "I am the Wind Beneath My Wings".     She already has the endorsement of the Progressive Extraterrestrial Male Lesbians for Change that Remains the Same for (Sir Edmund)Hillary for Presidenta de Eternidad.

(For innocent OROGs who are normal and sane, reasonably wondering why the Old Gringo refers to the Mighty Queen of the Universe as (Sir Edmund)Hillary Rodham, it is because she responded with a straight face to a  0+ reporter shortly before her coronation that the Rodhams had named her "Hillary" because they were so inspired by the accomplishment of Sir Edmund Hillary and his conquest of Mount Everest that they were moved to name their daughter after him.   Of course, that being the case, her parents had the patience of Job, because normally people name their recently born children well before three years has elapsed from the time of the birth of that child.)
     [ However....the Old Gringo's mother went to school with a girl in rural Tennessee whose name was Girl Baby.  Because of various arguements amongst the Aunties from various sides  of the families, Girl Baby was never really named.    So, since she had been called Girl Baby so much, she finally began responding to those words as her own name.   She was known a Girl Baby into adulthood]

Tired of It

Yes, daughter, George Bush just took

 one vacation after another.  Not me. though.

But, it is tough, evaluating all these Red

 Chinese bicycles for Chairman Mao.

Suggestions for O'bama

     Dear Mr. O'bama, why don't you try confiscating a couple of Auto Manufacturers.   Have them build autos....like the coal-powered VOLT?  Tell the little people that they will help the environment by burning more coal and tell them at the same time that coal-fired electrical generation plants will have to be eleminated....for being too contaminative.
      After over a year on the market, not even 2,000 have been sold.   The auto loses its 40,000 investment (price, plus tax, title, insurance, etc.) at the rate of 65% before the ink dries on the title transfer application.   It is an environmental disaster....essentially a coalburning automobile....with a 1,000 pound battery that cannot be recycled.

      We can see it now, Mr. O'bama....on E-bay.....2012 VOLT Goremobile, makes 30 miles on an 7 hour recharge.   Home utility bill will go up by 400 dollars per month.    Too toxic for landfill, garbage truck will not take it away. Will pay anyone 1,500 dollars to drive vehicle into Lake Michigan. PLEASE NOTE:  Actual use indicates that the re-charge is much more electricity consumptive than GM or other analysts indicate.   Much greater.

       Why don't you try some shovel ready project.   Like all those bridges that George Bush ruined?   We need a lot of good union men out making 56.0o/hr driving front-end loaders around.   Ten percent of that will go to the union bosses and half of that will go to the Employ a Democrat Party Operative fund.

      Then, we could do a bit of taxing the rich, because they don't need the money anyway.    That will also solve all the problems, as well......it always does....if not....maybe a few "re-education centers" could be openned.

       Later, we should have the two-level JOBS....(Just Official B.S.) Bill....Whereby you could order an increase of the minimum wage to $24.36/hour while  prohibiting the hiring of anyone who fails to wear his pants four feet or more under his butt, and increase the term for unemployment compensation (unemployment compensation???    Unions for the UnEmployed are next...like in France??) from 99 weeks to 99 months...AND increase Food Stamp coverage to anyone who would rather be a consuming slug than a self-sufficient person.

      Then, require that all children under the age of 44 be insured by their parent's policy, that would help.    And....we could require that all minorities be required to report to ACORN's Midnight Flashmob Cracker-Beating programs.

       Anyone refusing to join could be made to carry Michelle's train around while she's on vacation.   When that line of service has enough people, then the others can work as your Aunt Zeituni Onyango's maids and butlers.  She can still be found in the illegal alien protection program, Boston Housing Projects, under complete public assistance....while in her perpetual, eternal appeal process against deportation back to Kenya.   You denied knowing her before it was revealed that you had known her and referred to her as your favourite aunt....kindalike the Kerry defence...I voted against it before I voted for it. 
      But, based upon the proclivity to .....shall we say...."adapt" to the life-style to which they have become accustomed....Michelle and Zeituni do seemed to need a lot of extra "inputs" in terms of being waiting on and taken care of.   A couple of hundred thousand jobs could be "saved" that way. 
      Aunt Zeituni was not the mid-wife auntie who caught you when you were born...right?   It was a different one....the one in Hawai'i...right?

      And remember to blame rich people, the Republicans in Congress, George Bush, and your fat-cat slug socialist friends on Wall Street.   The American public falls for that one fairly easily. 
      Make certain that nobody catches you in the false trap that Bush took office at the beginning of very sharp recession.   Remember that Bush blew up two big buildings in downtown New York and then tried to blame the 1.7 trillion dollar hit on the American economy on some innocent student pilots who just happened to be Muslims.   You have to watch out for the wily Republican contra-revolucionarios and their history re-writes. 

       Thank you, so much, Mr. O'bama for all the hope and change, we could not have been done without you.    (and Michelle)

El Gringo Viejo
(and Auntie Zeituni)

(Credit: AP)
President Obama's Aunt Zeituni Onyango lived in public housing as an illegal immigrant for a time because the "system" took advantage of her, she said in a recent interview.
"I didn't ask for it; they gave it to me," Onyango said in an interview with CBS affiliate WBZ-TV, scheduled to air tonight and Tuesday night.
"Ask your system," she continued, unapologetically, when asked about the situation. "I didn't create it or vote for it. Go and ask your system."



Onyango uber alles

Ask Not for Whom They Construct the Guillotines....

Uncle Warren Surveys the Future, watching the

International Brotherhood of Guillotine Builders,

AFofL-CIO put the Finishing Touches on one of

 Several  Guillotines designed to punish the Rich

 for having too much.   The judges of what is

"super rich" were Jeremiah Wright,

 Shiela Jackson Lee, and Maxine Waters

Now we have the entertaining picture of a rich old fool who has arrived at the peculiar point of thinking that the Central Government has a better idea about how to spend his money than does he.

      This old fool also thinks that the Central Goverment can actually define what the term "super rich" means.    He thinks it is people who have estates like his or Carlos Slim's.   Barry Soeto thinks that it is any person stupid enough not to be on AFDC, Rent Subsidy, Food Stamps, Unemployment C0mpensation, Medicaid, and in a Midnight Flashmob League.

      The Old Fool in question is gradually losing his bearings....just like the Old Gringo.   Mr. Buffet was heard saying, while this picture was being taken, "Why are they building that guillotine over there?"    At least the Old Gringo knew to respond, "Sir, they are building the guillotine for thee and for me.   They come for our children next.   They have just finished burning down the bakeries." 

      Uncle Warren responded, "I guess that Barry meant that we ourselves were to be the 'shovel ready projects'." 
       We learned later that the panel of judges was appointed by Hillary Rodham who was taken to the blade shortly after naming the illustrious panel.

                                                              Anagallis arvensis

                                                               the Scarlet Pimpernel flower

 

Thanks!

El Gringo Viejo

Ah. Justin, I barely knew Ye, my lad

Peculiar things.   While the politicians posture forever about matter of little import, then pay scant heed or practice  to deceive on issues great and grand, we fail to see things like life.   Life, going on around us.

      This was a very dull weekend in Mexico....our part of it....From Cd. Victoria to Monterrey.   The absence of marked inter-cartel confrontation leads to a lot of human interest stories in the news....and speculation about the up-coming Presidential elections both in Mexico (July - 2012) and in America (November - 2012).

      BUT!  The Really Big News these days is Justin Bieber's arrival at the performance center known as "The Arena" in Monterrey.   When the sales started for independent private purchases of tickets for the event, the tickets sold out in 4 minutes.   These are for tickets purchased on only one credit card and for a maximum of four tickets.  This is done to keep as many tickets as possible headed directly into the hands of the dedicated and deranged Pre-Bimbos known as adolescent females.   Click here for more details  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0M6PEkAzpo  .      Prices for the tickets ranged from dollar equivalent of around 50USD to a little more than 400 USD plus the 16% federal sales tax.   Bundle services were left with very few tickets....and there are two other presentations on the 1st and 2nd of October in Mexico City....also sold out. 

       Now we learned that all the tickets are all gone, within 2 hours.   Group tickets, 2ndary market tickets, everything.    These heifers' video might be typical of the many that were produced for this thing, who knows? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcJ1uHbgjlQ&feature=related      You'll have to wait it out all the way through.   It's funny in a way, sad in a way, good in a way....But there is not space show the OROGs the several hundred home produced videos and even personal webpages ....This particular one was done on 5 May 2011....well after all the ink had dried on the event, so it is really just a celebration more than an exhortation.   It is pretty much silly....except we are looking at lots of time,talent, money, and effort....loyalty on the part of the fans and performer, and something a bit normal....much more refreshing, perhaps than PoopDog Leper Breath and the Ho' Beaters or  Gutslyme and the Electic Toilets.

     The venue for this event, the Arena Monterrey is quite a place...troubled leaving the batter's box and making it to third base....but like a lot of things Mexican...quickly and well finished.   It is situated in a downtown Monterrey  site officially known at the Parque Fundidora which is the old Steel Foundry, shut down about 35 years ago.   The 700 acres of downtown property was finally converted to a Plaza Sesamo (Sesame Street Park), a World Trade Center... "CinterMex"....quite a nice "theatre of access" to and from  Mexican heavy industry....an elaborate family park with advanced aquatic diversion, and so forth.   The Arena is a 50,000,000 facility with "basketball seating" of about 18,000 and "concert capacity" of 56,000 with all exit doors "unblocked and unlocked" as they say.    The Wikipedia summary  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monterrey_Arena  about the place is fairly accurate, although the events list is incomplete by about 50% and a bit out of date now.

Thanks for your time this early Monday morning.   Time for me to try to look like something a little better than Howard Hughes on his deathbed.   Thanks for your time, messages, and interest.
El Gringo Viejo