A Lighthouse - Perhaps a Matrix of Lighthouses

PLEASE CHECK OUT THIS SITE, 'THE ANGLICAN CURMUDGEON' .   It might possibly be of interest to many of you.

                                  http://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/

      We almost never lead a new entry with a linkage to another site or blog.   You all are accustomed to our frequent inclusion of linkages and pictures in the body of our articles, but this one is so different.   It is different for a good reason.

     Religion never seems to go away.    As you all know, the Old Gringo is an old-time Episcopalian.   You have read about my explanations of "separation of  Church and State".    The term  as applied now has little to do with what the phrase meant when first used in the earliest 1800s in the private letters exchanged between Thomas Jefferson and John Adams.    You have also seen my comments about how the new American Republic had to resolve a relationship with a Church headed by the King of England especially when a greeat number of its adherents had just finished a revolution against the  King George III, Defender of the Faith and the Chief Bossman of the Archbishop of Canterbury.

     The above linkage will serve as sort of a dry saloon where the drinking light is always lit and where the bartender is astute, accurate, grammatically meticulous, and where the converstaion  is slow, heavy, laden with ensight, careful thought, good-will, humour, historical richness, appropriate sarcarsm, some deference, and an amazing gaggle of happy, grumpy curmudgeons.   It is a Lighthouse of Safe Harbour for Un-repentant 1928 Episcopalians, Church of Englanders, Anglicans, and all Orthodox.   It is also a sanctuary city for most orthodax and conservative Jews and/or any Jew who ever owned one of those busy delicatessens. 

                                                    "SHA-ALU SHALOM YIRUSHALAYIM

And let us also pray for the whole state of Christ's Church.    The Old Gringo vigourously urges that all OROGs include the linkage at the top of this blog entry in your ponderings and daily life journeys.

Thanks, as always, for your kind attention.

El Gringo Viejo

One Last Interview

The last interview the Old Gringo did with the former first lady, Sir Edmund Hillary Rodham was back in 2010, shortly after she had completed the Swim Around the World Without Stopping for Free Abortions Charity.

     "Please forgive me, you have so many titles and honours...one hardly knows how to address you..."

      "Oh! hee-hee-hee...that's neither here not there.   *I have always thought that I should be called something that I would approve of if I were the one that I was being what I am.  I always thought that way....don't you think I was right about thinking the way I think?"

      "Yes, certainly.   Then is it alright if we simply refer to you as Mrs. Clinton?"

      " I always like the sound of that in a negative, reverse-logic sort of way sometimes, but I think I would like it better if I were to be addressed simply as Your Serene Highness, Queen of the Universe and Duchess of Chapaqua, Countess of Fort Marcy Park, and Earlene of Mount Carmel."

      "That could be a tad long for the 200 hour autobiographical story that you ordered to air on PBS, Mrs. Queen of the Universe, so perhaps we can add in some scene separators with your titles written in calligraphic form.     Tell us, is it true that the people of Kosovo awarded you the Silver Clothes Hanger Medal of the Order of the Knights of the Holy Corkscrew?'

       "Yes, and I and Ron ....what was that cute, little coloured boy's name...Ron...?"

      "Brown?   The Secretary of the Treasury and previous head of the Democrat Party?"

      "Yes!   Ron Brown....such a nice boy....it was just so sad that he had to be on that plane that crashed into the mountain during that heavy rain...."

       "We're getting a little far afield fairly quickly, Madame Your Highness Queen Duchess, but Ron Brown's plane crashed on a clear morning...the air traffic controller who was there that morning  and who told the international press that the weather and conditions were ideal for flying commited suicide three days after the plane crash.   You might recall it was the official government flight, a USAF Special Services flight ....there were   42 people killed on the business investment trip being sponsored by the Department of Commerce.    Some people thought that was kind of strange since Ron Brown had been reported to be turning state's witness against you and King Billy Jeff I in various proceedings underway in the Department of Justice.   You....I mean...Your Serene Highness is not concerned about those observations?''

      "Oh! Hee-hee-hee, I never pay any attention to any of those silly rumours about me, even if they are true.   I always worry about the big picture, like what I want, and when it is that I want whatever it is that I want.   For instance,   I always want a good supply of easy to handle, heavy ash-trays and lamps close at hand.    Besides, try as I might, I simply cannot remember anyone by the name of Ron Brown.   I normally do not associate a whole lot with the coloured, as you know, considering my position and such.
      "But...perhaps you forget, Your Supreme and Perpetual Highness....the blackface routine you pulled off in that Negro Church somewhere during your campaign for President of what was then the United States of America....you remember, perhaps, saying something like, "Ah don't feel  no ways tired..(tie-yerd)" as you attempted to show that you became an expert on American Negro litarary issues while practicing your New York Yankee cheerleading routines?       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGDm4jkDbGQ  

How soon we forget the maniacal duplicitousness of progressives and marxists.   It never abates, never wavers.   Its desire is to eat Heaven and Earth and to destroy Nature and all mankind with it.

As always, thanks for your investment of time and attention.
El Gringo Viejo

Yes the Old Gringo knows.....

      The Old Gringo knows that it is mean to suggest that there are no people who look forward to...depend upon...and generally base their lives around their free money from Social Security.    When in Texas, we live next to a ....uh...woman, who is....uh....considerably disturbed, self-concerned, narcissistic, and self-consumed.    She is not as old as we, and well below the age of 62, much less 65.

      She receives free Ponzi money because she 'needs'  it.   She also has a "disability" and because of that she also receives SSI, which is classical Sanskrit for Ponzi - 93 Octane.

       During those days about a month ago while "the Republicans are closing down the Government so that nobody can have their 'help'....no Social Security, no SSI, no Lone Star, no Medicare, no rent subsidy, no help for the ones who need it most"....this woman came by at least twice per day.   She began the encounter always by asking "Do you think there's any chance we can still get our checks and our help?   Why are they doing this?   Don't they know we need our help?"

      The banks here in this once prosperous and noble area, had to detail extra persons to answer telephone inquiries from people who needed their help, calling in repeatedly every 15 minutes....every 5 minutes....every hour....10 times per day....to find out if their "help" had arrived to their bank accounts.   Some banks just stopped trying to accommodate the calls and let their incoming calls back up to be handled in routine order.

      Can anyone imagine that we voted ourselves into a program whereby a majority of the people in Hidalgo County of Texas....and in many, many, many areas of the United States....where there are that many miserable timid little people who have placed themselves into the position of fearing and grovelling to the government to such a degree?

     So yes, we are aware that there are people who are now addicted to being dependent upon their addictions to dependency.

As Always, your kind investment of time and attention with us is appreciated!

May the Great Yahweh bless all OROGs.

El Gringo Viejo

      

Governor, here's what you should have said....

Like the plurality of Republicans in Florida, my vote would have gone to Mr. Cain.    Romney tells me that there is global warming and that he "gave"  Massachussetonians free health "care".

       So, our Lord Governor reminds Romney that Romney called the United States Social Ponzi Scheme a Ponzi scheme even before our Lord Governor had called the Ponzi Scheme a Ponzi Scheme.   That is not the point.    It was such a waste of time.   The Geezers in Florida know it is a Ponzi scheme....that is settled fact....people living in The Villages really do not worry about Social Security.     Almost all of them either invest their Ponzi Scheme proceeds into something lucrative and then pay capital gains on the profits or they give the money to favourite charities and projects.

      So, Lord Governor Goodhair, you would have served yourself better to have said...."In Texas, we call this kind of a financial arrangement "fraud" and "conspiracy to defraud".....because it is a Ponzi Scheme.   Our school employees and State employees do not participate in the federal program because it is inferior and fraudulent.   The State of Texas employees and School District people own their retirement accounts...they can be willed to heirs and assigns....the accounts are the property and asset of that particular employee.     The accounts grow by wise and conservative management by a board of governors.    We also have private insurance accounts that are like a magic carpet once a medical problem arises.

       "What also needs to be pointed out is that I did not create the prosperity we have in Texas.   Texas benefits from a cumbersome, convoluted, inverted, and outdated Constitution which disperses authourity and power throughout a labyrinth of officials who have less power than some other person down the line no matter how high or low those officials might be on the food chain.

       "The Governor is the weakest of all the Statewide election officials.    He cannot even propose a budget until the State Comptroller of Public Accounts assures that this or that amount of money will be coming into the State Treasury over the next biennium.

        "The State Treasurer has to certify those findings.....it wasn't that long ago that our Treasurer's name was Jesse James....(but a different Jesse James)....and then he has to propose a budget over which he has no control until it is finished being acted upon by the honourable Legislature.    Odd as it might seem to most Yankees the Governor of Texas has less power and/or authourity over governing the budget process than the Speaker of the House of Representatives or the  Lieutenant Governor, who of course is the President of the Senate....and some say of Texas itself.     All OF THESE OFFICIALS ARE REQUIRED TO FORMULATE A BUDGET FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS THAT IS IN BALANCE....BY THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF TEXAS OF 1876 AS AMENDED.     THERE IS NO SUCH THING IN TEXAS AS A BUDGET SHORTFALL.   There might be an overload of lard in the pre-budget wish list, but only reporters and liberals and other hopelessly ignorant people use the term "Budget Shortfall" when referencing the Texas State Budget.    The last check shows that Texas still has 21,000,000,000 dollars in what is called a "Rainy Day Fund".   
          Since Governor Miriam Amanda "Ma" (Wallace) Ferguson had released large numbers of  convicts....mostly prohibition violator "wets"....but also a significant number of bandits and violent criminals....from Texas prisons during her first term in office, the Pardons and Parole Commission was stripped away from the Governor's office and authourity.  She was elected governor of Texas even though her husband "Pa" Ferguson, had been impeached and convicted from the office during the WWI period.   The Governor's powers were reduced to being able to stay the execution of a condemned person one time for a maximum of 30 days.  So much for the press making fun of George Bush for not commuting Carla Faye Tucker's death sentence.    The Governor cannot overturn a officially upheld decision that has been voted on twice after considerable deliberation and automatically appealled by law to the highest criminal court in the State.

The above was all stuff you could have used....boiled down to brief, Will Rogers style vignettes, or whatever....but, you're done at this point.    You are too young for a senior moment, you might have one of those blood vessel congestions in your brain, or you might have been having a TIA stroke-like attack.   If so we are truly sorry....but your show was done....overcooked.   Stick a fork in it.   And imagine, even with that, Romney finished below you. 

Recommended FEMA funding solution

     The solution to the funding problem for FEMA.....presently being demagogued to death by the White House and the Democrats in the Senate....is to completely defund the stupid program and shut it down.

The above picture is from the Galveston Island area very shortly after the Hurricane of 1900, when that community lost as few as 5,000 to as many as 9,000 souls to the winds and storm surge.   We were just after a War with Spain, a difficult economic Panic, one thing and the other.   There was no FEMA, just a bunch of dumboes who got togther from various agencies....mostly charitable and private....some National Guard mobilized by the governor.... and rebuilt the churches and bawdy houses and saloons and emporiums and banks and schools.
       To review the totality of the entire event check out this official sight from the Galveston County Historical Society....to see how things were and should be again.   http://www.1900storm.com/


Back from the front....or is it the outback

     We drove back up from the Quinta yesterday to address further issues with the father-in-law's situation.   The drive up was uneventful, the bridge line was mercifully non-existent.    Sundays are extreme days for crossing into the United States.   Sometimes the line are two hours long and other times there is little or no wait.

     Things are well and good at our place and the surrounding area.   Considerable rain, a good cropping season for the citrus, sorghum, peppers, corn, and the like.

        The animals are all there, still spoiled, still with their same pecking orders and personalities.

       Perhaps our biggest problem was the fact that our potable water system has cut back on the time of delivery from 4 or 5 hours beginning at one or two PM, starting and maintaining a good flow which begins to weaken during the last hour....to now starting promptly at 3PM with very strong pressure and continuing in that manner for about an hour and fifty minutes.     The same amount of water might be being delivered.   The cistern fills very quickly, but watering the gardens has become something like a scene out of an old Charlie Chaplin movie with the Keystone Cops.

      A lot of things happened during the Old Gringo's time away.   During the next few hours there will be a lot of communication with the family, back and forth, and preliminary planning for exigencies.   During quieter moments efforts will be made to collect and process thoughts and impressions and transfer it all to the OROG community.

El Gringo Viejo