As you all know,

As you all know, the Old Gringo has been up here for a bit of time due to health matters affecting a family member.  We have been in communication with our place down near Cd. Victoria, Tamaulipas with some frequency.   Our chief of operations will probably be ready to beat me over the head with a hoe-handle by the time of my next arrival, but for now everyone has been very helpful and understanding of our situation.

      We are given to understand that during the past 10 days the Quinta Tesoro de la Sierra Madre has received  13 inches of rain.   The legendary "sequia de la canicula" did enter on a wet spell and it was not very dry and it is ended with a very wet beginning of the rainy season.   Sequia de la Canicula...essentially means "Drought of the Dog Days"....which is a very common climatological phenomenae throughout Texas and Northern Mexico.   In Texas, there is a cyclic thing that seems to occur about every twenty years, more or less, like the Dust Bowl days of the early 1930s, the Drought of the early 1950s, the well-drying drought of the early 1970s, then the minor dry spell of the early 1990s, leading up to this period of the 20-teens decade...giving Texas a pretty stiff go of it.   This particular drought, in spite of what one might hear or read in the present day is something between the 1950s and 1990s situation.     I remember the 1950s drought as a child, and it would be incomprehensible to most people at this time.     The Rio Grande and the Rio San Juan, the Rio Sabinas, the Rio Salado, and the Devil's River all went dry....totally....during the 1952 - 1953 period.   Our part of the Texas -  Mexican drought was broken by Hurricane Alice in 1953 which killed several hundred people on both sides of the Rio Grande, all the way up to Pecos Texas.    Alice would be like Xena the Warrior Princess and Irene would be like Snow  White's sickly little sister when compared to one another.    Hurricane Alice flooded everybody for several hundred miles and filled  the recently finished Falcon Reservoir, which when at maximum storage could cover half of Vermont. (...yes....really.)

     As another aside, the Old Gringo's great-great-great grandfather was very much involved in the building and rebuilding of some of those Covered Bridges as well as many of the water-powered gristmills in Vermont back then.   He and his son, and his grandson...my great-grandfather....built both overshot and undershot mills in Vermont, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and lastly in northeastern Pennsylvania.   (from around 1730 to 1860). (For those OROGs who were not aware or who are new to the Blog...El Gringo Viejo really does have pure, "real" Yankee blood...from the entirety of his paternal line.)

     We have been encouraged by the fact that much of the negative activity has been reduced, as anticipated, by the massive deployment of military force in the area.   The "organised delinquency" has been reduced as much as 95% and is now almost exclusively conducted by incompetent punks in groups that are more like badly organised street gangs.   While we are a long way from returning to a Mexico situation of the 1950s, we are on the way in that direction.    We have had people coming out to visit and take advantage of our facility....like before....even some foreigners.    So...refer to the "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah" by Allan Sherman...which rather sums up the feeling...if one listens all the way through the song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2Hx_X84LC0

More Later....thanks for your time and interest.
El Gringo Viejo

Bush's and Cheney's Uncle

Many people are unaware that George Bush and Vice-President Cheney are cousins and they share a common blood uncle.   That uncle has been a problem for the family over the years.  Like another relative, Aunt Bea from the Isle of Man...(I'm sorry, the Isle of Person) who was found to be living in the Slave Quarters of George Bush's palatial ranch home in an exclusive part of extreme central Texas, this Uncle is also an illegal alien.    This Uncle, a Mr. Elmer Fuhd, is an illegal alien from Worcestershirshire on the Windsorshireham, England and has lived in the United States on the dime of American hospitality for several years....like his illegal alien sister, Aunt Bea.

      Illegal Alien Uncle Elmer lives in a hollowed-out bunker in Cheney's secret underground city near the community of  Illuminativille , Wyoming.   Uncle Elmer , who is affectionately referred to as "Uncle Elmer" by any and all, picks up a little extra money, besides from his social security check and his SSI payments, by counting all the money Halliburton Co. steals from poor people and the hard working American people.   Uncle Elmer uses that money to buy several gallons of Thunderbird and  Jesse and Al's Lite Malt Liquor every week, as well as to post bond every now and then.    Like his nephew, Uncle Elmer had a run in with the law the other day...something about a 2.2 something, just like his nephew many years before.   It seems though, that his nephew George learned to stay sober and/or not drive drunk....while Uncle Elmer seems to like policemen's company.

     But enough is enough.   When the Illuminati installed Bush and Chaney for their fifth consecutive term after elections were cancelled in 2008 and everybody was waterboarded all the time and everything....we were willing to put up with a few excesses.   But, we citizens should protest this thing about us paying for Uncle Elmer's and Aunt Bea's becoming Trans-gendered Americans and then getting married to each other just so they can have a new, larger free Housing Authority apartment by the Casino in Atlantic City.   I mean....you just gotta draw the line somewheres.

(Notice how, in the press caption, the
Republicans try to make it look like this
is Barack O'bama's relative, and not the
Uncle of George Bush and Lon Chaney)
NO JUSTICE?  NO PEACE!
FREE UNCLE ELMER, NOW!

PAPER: Obama's illegal alien uncle has valid Social Security ID, driver's license...

This is so lame, the mainstream media labelling Uncle Elmer as some kind of relative of Barack Hussein O'bama, the first Irish President of all 57 States.    Typical teabagger racism.  Everybody knows that it's George Bush's and Lon Chaney's uncle....who else could take advantage of the system without fear of retribution??   Aunt Bea?   Teddy Chappaquiddick?  Of course not.    If these two people, Uncle Elmer and Aunt Bea were related to Al Gore or Barry O'Bama, they would have been deported instantly!!!!   Everyone know that.   We are for the poor.....not for people who rip off programs for the poor and then file for and receive...from very honest immigration judges...."refugee status" for Aunt Bea and "menace-to-society-drunk preferential status" for Uncle Elmer.    If Obama were here, he'd do something about it.

The Old Gringo thinks its over.   One more try, and he's gone.

Thanks for your time and patience as always.

El Gringo Viejo

The Clairvoyance of the Gringo Viejo

 "Did I put my shoes on the wrong feet
again this morning?  This hurts, man!"

LE CIRQUE: Carney Grilled Over Potential Hillary Primary Challenge: 'You'll Have To Ask Her'...

     Now, all will know that the Old Gringo is at least as brilliant and well-informed as the Washington press corps.  (?)

     These are interesting times my friends.  The notion that this was taking place occurred to the Old Gringo some time back and then seemed to solidify during recent weeks.    This is not such a comedown for the National Socialist Democrat Workers' Party, because they must take solace that they can dump the 2nd first black President for the wife of the the real 1st black President of America, William Jefferson Blythe, who managed to forever disgrace the office and betray his wife at the same time.

     The American version of the National Socialist Democratic Workers' Party can nominate that wife, because she is as wiley as the first Black President of all 57 States and as much a dedicated marxist as he.   She can also prove that she is every bit as irrational and hypocritical as the present first black President of all 57 States and as corrupt as Charlie Rangel, William Jefferson, Mr. Maxine Waters, Algee Hastings, by showing them her Rose Law Firm billing papers and her "charts" that guided her to a small fortune in the cattle-trading futures.  And, she has one big advantage over Michelle.   Sir Edmund Hillary Rodham has never been proud of America since her second year at Wellesly, a noted patriotic think tank of the CCCP.   She got the street creds...you know?

     Can we not stop and take a deep breath and imagine the wondrousness of it all?    Instead of Camelot with a Round Table, we can have a septic settling tank where The View, Oprah, Jerry Springer, Nancy Pelosi's Beauty Hour, and Maxine Waters can write law by decree while on Public Mandatory Television.  Sessions of these meetings will be called "The New Improved Girls Gone Wild Show".

   The Congressional Chambers and  offices can be turned into a free day-care for the exploited mothers of the the DC metroplex.   All the children will be given a free university diploma from something called  "The Electoral College", and they can appoint Sheila Jackson Lee Czar-Boss Man of the Homeland Security Office of Space Exploration and Equal Opportunity Department.   After all, Sheila can then find the flag the American astronauts so stupidly left on Mars.   Each will be given an Air Force One private plane equipped with a shopping mall  featuring only books by Hillary and dirty Che t-shirts.

Laissez les bons temps rouler!

et merci, Le Vieux Americain

Global Warming?? No....Hog Troughing Politicians and Gimmetrons? Yes

HURRIQUAKE
Starring Jane Fonda, Whoopee Goldberg, HRH Sir Edmund Hillary Rodham, and AL GORE, Barry O'Bama, and introducing Katie Couric as the Revengetrix of the Universe.

(Theatre management will provide barf-bags at the entrance for viewers who have been forced to attend this movie by Mayor Bloombird)
This was the Old Gringo's whole point.   Global Warming is now proven by Hurricane Irene.   For a correct recovery it is necessary to fund shovel ready projects and invest in America's infrastructure.   We should spend at least 2 trillion dollars over the next 6 months to dig out from this....the worst disaster in American History....It is time for the Gimmegimme people to trundle and waddle down to the Uncle Sam Saloon and belly up to the bar.

      Training academies are gearing up for Queen For A Day training so that people can whine for their handouts.

       Politicians will be perfecting their pitches about how the Bush tax cuts have left their local infrastructures in ruins and then they have the hurricane damage to deal with.

       Nashville....Joplin....considerable non-central-government recovery.      Essentially being too white, too Republican to be the concern of the press...or the Obama adminstration.    Most of their recovery was done by local resources, volunteers, churches, private groups, insurance companies.   Everyone doing something to help themselves and their neighbours simultaneously.

         BUT...where ever FEMA is found there is massive corruption, massive stupidity...ie mobile and modular housing parked "somewhere"  to be sold two or three years later, un-used, deteriorated, as surplus...and what is put into service is totally trashed by the 666 people who lined up for whatever free goodies they could Queen-For-a-Day out of the stupid bureacrats.

        The Mega-Banks....(campaign donors in their majority to leftist Democrats), the politicians, the Labour Unions (always ready to take care of them there shovel-ready projects) and the Gimmetrons are circling. 

     We went through many hurricanes and natural disasters here in  South Texas without FEMA.   Why FEMA?, What is FEMA?, Please seek answers.   In 1933 the Rio Grande ran 100 miles wide at its mouth with the Gulf of Mexico due to the runoff from Hurricane No. 4....The only Central Government help was a few elements of the United States Army, 1st Cavalry Division.   My father was in the Headquarters Squadron of the 12th Regiment of that outfit.   It took them a week to round up about 2,000 mounts and start into recovery efforts, but the private sector and a few Texas resources managed to recover from the effects of a hurricane that was 100 times more devastating than Irene.

Please!!     Let us end this insane, mindless "help" from the Great White Father in Washington.   No more programs that are only set up to keep people like Mayor Nagin in power and thier "poor" enslaved to the Democrat Socialist Party and the New York Megabanks who write the rules for the Democrats.   Enough!!  No mas, No mas!!!! 

Why? How Does the Old Gringo Know These Things? And a bit more..

Not only does the Old Gringo give up on Governor Christie...but he finishes any slight use he might have had for Mayor Bloomberg.     He is also one of the those politicians who delights in the notion that, since he is so much better and wiser, he can tell the world that mosques can be built to accompany the ghosts of the murdered, for the very people who did the murdering.  He demonstrated that he knew how to bring a metropolis to its knees by vacationing in Bermuda during a minor snowstorm three years ago.   He has now demonstrated that he could bring that same metropolis to its knees....to a complete standstill....for three days by "taking care" of it, on behalf of all the little people, and protecting same from a very common and very brief weather event.    Thank God for Mayor Bloomberg and FEMA....They saved us from Nuclear Winter again.
Sunday, 28 August 2011,    Where has America gone? 

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The Old Gringo, responding to a steady smattering of statements of concern about his mental health because he is contradicting all known weather forecasts and analysis and going off on a binge of rightwing vitriol, reponds:

He saved us from Global Warming,
Cooling, Climate Change Worst Storm in
the History of the Universe

TO THE RESCUE: Obama takes charge at hurricane center...
CONTINUE TO BE AFRAID...
IRENE: A PERFECT STORM OF HYPE...

---

"We humbly accept the Nobel

Prize for Saving Humanity

Again.    Without Government

the dummies would have all

drowned or had a 2x4 driven

into their collective heads.  We

must all give thanks to Saint

Kwanzaaclaus that George

Bush was not in charge and

Barry the Heroic drove away

 the bad of the storm and left

only the good"

       The hurricane can not and never could have developed SuperGargantuan Category 345 Perfect Storm Billion Miles Per Hour strength.   Never.   Like Katrina barely reached category 5 briefly one time in the mid-Gulf but had degenerated to barely a three...very briefly in the Mississippi data.....and barely a one anywhere west of the Mississippi - Louisiana border....Almost all  of Katrina's effects were caused by corruption and political croneyism in the staffing, maintenance, and operation of the locks, gates, and control houses of the Orleans Parish levee and canal system.     The all but insignificant high winds and relatively un-commentworthy rainfall totals did not cause the flooding.   The overload in Lake Ponchetrain and the failure to control that overload was the cause of the flooding.    The human toll was due to addiction to giving and taking public assistance and the choosing to be a member of the 666 group by the majority of the people in New Orleans.

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(the below-entered material was written on the Saturday before the "devastation" of the Entire East Coast and New England) 

    IRENE CANNOT BUILD INTO ANYTHING MAJOR BECAUSE IT HAS TOO MUCH CIRCULATION OVER LAND.    MY GOD!  GOVERNOR CHRISTIE BELIEVES IN GLOBAL WARMING!!!   WHAT IN THE HELL WOULD HE KNOW ABOUT STORM SURGE?    THE STORM SURGE ANYWHERE IN NEW JERSEY WILL CERTAINLY SET NO RECORDS, AND SHOULD BE REASONABLY DEALT WITH BY ANY PERSON CAPABLE OF STRINGING A LARGE BEAD ON A THICK PIECE OF THREAD.

       CLOSE THE POLLUTING COAL FIRED PLANTS AGAIN, GOVERNOR.  THAT WILL SAVE THE WORLD...POWER YOUR CHEVY VOLT WITH A REAL SPACEMAN ANTENNAE THAT ATTRACTS POWER PLASMA FROM THE PLANET GOXBLIT....WE WOULD NOT WANT YOU TO POWER IT WITH ELECTRICITY MADE FROM COAL!!!

     If you northeastern political leaders can close all of the nuclear and coal fired electrical plants permanently every now and then, maybe we'll only have ten or twelve once-in-every-thousand-years earthquake/hurricane one-two punches   every combined hurricane/earthquake season.    Think of the Children!!!

And, please, Mr. Fox Chief Meteorologist....New Orleans did not have a "storm surge"  from Katrina....IT HAD SEVERAL LEVEE FAILURES CAUSED BY NEGLECT AND CORRUPTION AND INCOMPETENCE.   STORM SURGE IS A COASTAL PHENOMENA, MR. CHIEF METEROROLOGIST....NEW ORLEANS IS LOCATED TOO FAR INLAND EVEN FOR THE WORLD'S LARGEST TSUNAMI.    AAARRRGGHH!!!!!!!!!!!

(Is that a hurriquake?)
CONTINUE TO BE AFRAID...
IRENE: A PERFECT STORM OF HYPE...

Enough, already!! It's a crummy, basic hurricane....Are We Americans or maggots?

    

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will, torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” – C.S. Lewis

It is not fun to have to lecture my friends, but the 57 hours per day coverage of a relatively minor hurricane is just stunning.   How many beach-standing reporters must one skip over with the channel selector?    The  answer my friend is blowing in the wind....right?

      This storm is a mediocre "Category 1"  at best.   Please review the records of Camille, for instance, which was a killer and back-doored the middle Atlantic seaboard with huge rains and damage, after entering through Mississippi and making a right turn in western Tennessee on its run back to the Atlantic.    There are AT LEAST 50 other hurricanes of greater import just in the latter 1800s and through the 1900s....But this reaction is absurd even for stupid, ignorant reporters who tell me that the Earth is 4,000,000,000 years old with all authourity, and yet who know nothing about geographical history, earth-sun relationships, geomorphology, history,  or much of anything else.

     I shall never forget Shep Smith, FOX-news, panning an extended overpass in New Orleans, not far from the stadium they use for the Saints' football games, and doing a close-up on the covered body of a deceased-type person.    Shep glowered into the camera, with all his anger and earnestness showing, and declared, "Just laying there, and nobody cares.   Doesn't anybody care about these people?   Before this is over, scenes like this could be repeated 10,000 times."    Little matter, of course, that the death toll never remotely approximated that number.  

     My response then as now is best not recorded.    Most know what I think about the whole worthless concept of FEMA, or almost any central government intervention, long before it became another instrument in the destruction of local control, States' rights and prerogatives, and the practice of general self-reliance.    Some of the best summaries of what happens to a group of people who have five, six, or even seven generations of complete public assistance as their main or only support, augmented primarily by illegal activity such as prositition, drug dealing, strong-arm thuggery, armed robbery, murder for hire, and welfare fraud.....came out of the Katrina "disaster".

     The mayor of New Orleans, elected by the "takers" left and went to where he lived...in Dallas, Texas.   He had frequently been heard to say that he did not want his children to grow up in a place like New Orleans....it's a nice place to visit, but...?   Five large consists of AMTRAK trains had been dispatched and were waiting in the train station  to take people out, according to the evacuation order....within sight of the stupid football stadium...nobody came.

       400 busses from the New Orleans Independent  Feeding, Babysitting, and Thug-Trainig District sat abandoned, eventually to be drowned by waters, not from Katrina, but from the corrupt, inept adnimistrators of the canal and levee districts, long places of employment of girlfriends, boyfreinds, and brothers-in-law of local politicians.   Nobady came...the bus drivers had also heroically fled.   As did the city bus people.

     A cum laude graduate of the New Orleans school of "public service",   United States Congressman Jefferson...a racist, Democrat, hypocrit, liar, and thief commandeered National Guard assets so as to make a last run to his house (in the "white folks part of town"...doncha know?....) so he could remove what turned out to be 100,000 in Greenback Yankee cash dollars from his kitchen freezer.    And one of theseveral Guard 2 1/2 ton transport trucks (for one scrawny hyprocrit thief) got mired in the front yard, requiring several more vehicles in its extraction.

     No press coverage of that one.    Or of innocent self-reliant black people being passed over for minimal assistance because there were so many scores of thousands who were "truly deserving".....like the Crips, Bloods, and the slime who stole all of Fats Domino's legendary works, collections, and awards and who raided the acclaimed museums in the Crescent City....and a thousand other sackings.   Another of the "truly deserving" was filmed, while pulling a pirot in waist-deep water, with several large family members on board with considerable belongings including a huge television....he intimated in a way that cannot be stated here that he had to bring all this stuff because, since he had gone to all the trouble to loot it out last night, he did not want some criminal to come and steal the stuff he had managed to help "liberate" that night before at the store near his projects.    He was one of the famous "undocumented shoppers".

      On top of all of that, the people who were taken out of New Orleans were for years...and still are in many places, a scourge of locusts upon the places where they lighted.   Gangs, criminality, sloth, stupidity, filth, violence, and decay oozed behind them as they "reformed" the criminal elements in Houston and that area, as well as Dallas, Memphis, and scores of smaller communities unprepared for the Locusts from  the Septic Tank of Hell.  Crime rates went up from 25 to 50 percent in these places.

       And George Bush gave them FEMA charge cards of 1,000 dollars a person in Houston and other places...that went on until the FEMA dumboes figured out that 500 people in a line meant 5,000 pre-paid cards when the slime/thug/born-criminal "takers" simply kept going back around to the end of the line....'....'til dem cahds run out, We needs lot o'help..MF".   MF was their affectionate, pet name for anyone  who was helping them during their times of stress.  All OROGs understand, I am sure.

     These cards were sold to regular people in Houston sometimes look for "something for nothing" and who were dumb enough to buy them for 10 cents on the dollar.   The buyer would go a distance and then be robbed at gun-point by a family member of the one who had sold the card to begin with.     It was kind of like one of them there "interest bearing" FEMA Katrina emergency cards.    Thanks, FEMA.....what did we do before you were here?

WHY DO REPUBLICAN POLITICIANS FALL FOR THIS STUFF?   GEORGE BUSH HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE CAUSE OF THE DISASTER, TRIED DUMBO FEMA THINGS TO MAKE THE 'TAKERS' HAPPY....AND THEN TOOK ALL THE BLAME BECAUSE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, IN THEIR MAJORITY, ARE NO LONGER CAPABLE OF CRITICAL THINKING.   IN GERMAN THAT IS CALLED 'OPRAHLOGIC'....!!!   HOW DID WE SURVIVE, I ASK, BEFORE FEMA AND FOOD STAMPS AND ALL THIS HELP!!!!!!!???????