Let's All Pile on Herman Cain....He ain't no real ZuluKwanzaaintergalacticIgottadreamkilamonjarosymbionezeReal African American

"But, Mr. Old Gringo, you always use the word Negro when everyone knows you're supposed to call 'them'  African-Americans."

To which the old fool, Mr. Old Gringo, responded, "I always go out of my way to say 'Negro' because Ernesto Guevara always referred to 'them' as "N-words" in Spanish.   So, in order to spite him and his extension of the Cuban Revolucion into the the remainder of of the Americas, the Old Gringo uses the correct anthropological word, which is 'Negro'."

"Yes, but....out of respect to our African-American President, you should defer to his wishes, don't you think?"

"No.   By his own false assertion, he is not African, in spite of what his blood relatives say.   He adamantly asserts that he was not born in Africa.   Also, he is not American because he cleaves to a policy and ideology known as "marxism" which is irrevocably dedicated to the annihilation of the United States of America and to the concept of individual liberty and responsibility and self-reliance.   He is a 'spread the wealth' person, not a 'produce the wealth' person".

"But, Mr. Old Gringo, you have to admit that it was time to elect one of 'them' as President.  You know that it's just not fair for 'them' not to have a first place trophy like the rest of all those old white men."

"I do not believe in the apportionment of representation.   I do not believe in having Negro districts for State and central government congresses.   I do not believe in have Mexican districts, or German districts,  or Bangladeshean districts.   Under the precepts of English Common Law and the Constitution of the United States of America, all men are equal before the law.   It would not bother me to have every elected official in the nation to be Eskimoians, from dog-catcher to and including the Presidency were they literate, sincere, and qualified.   I have voted for Latins over Anglos, Negroes over whites, and almost any combination one can imagine of racial and ethnic selections.   Lamentably, the occasion has not presented itself that I could vote for or against an Australian-American to this point."

"But you have to believe in 'Hope' and 'Change'."

     "The Old Gringo does believe in Hope.   She was the scrawny girl who was a cheerleader for the McAllen Bulldogs back in the early 1960s.   She was about 5'4" and probably weighed about 86 pounds.   She was always nice to the underclassmen.   I believed in her.
     "Change is a bit more complicated.   I admire my son-in-law, because he could handle the change, but I could not.   He is a better man than I.   So, for better or worse, I never changed a diaper during my entire service as a father.
     "It gives the Old Gringo some solace to see that many have played back the magnificent telepromptings and studied the actual words, ".....and we will bring them to their knees, all the whitetrash, all the conservative Negroes and Mexicans, all the rich, all those who have anything you do not have....if you will HOLD them, I will put them in CHAINS."

      And now, a special note to Senator Ried.    Have you ever stopped to think what kind of a basal piece of bigotted bilge you are, when you say that you cannot imagine how "a Hispanic" could ever vote Republican.    Or, Senator...could you imagine, perhaps, what would have happened if George Bush or Sarah Palin or even Rudy Giuliani....you know...the guy who eats lots of spaghetti with his elbows on the table and talks with a funny Italian accent....if any of those people had said something like..,."O'bama is electable because he doesn't speak with a Negro dialect."   Such a statement proves that you know nothing about linguistics and even less about Barak O'bama and even less about not being a dumbass.
      Finally, Herman Cain is an American who can trace his Americanism and his racial identification back together....he is truly a Negro with the complete American Understanding.   He knows about real slavery, real governemnt intrusion, where a person could or could not eat, swim, or drink water,  Jackie Robinson, Mahalia Jackson, the Platters, Willie Mays, Jesse Owens, the Buffalo Soldiers, Jim Crow, Jim Limber, John Brown, Negro Confederate Veterans, John Henry, Booker Tecumseh Washington, George Washington Carver, Stephen Foster and the Camp Town Races and on, and on, and on.   He knows those things and a million others and understands them as an American, as a black man, as a conservative, as a man who knows what he knows and knows what he does not know.    In short, he is not a fraudulent personality, and in that way he is entirely, thankfully, completely different from the present occupant of the White House in Washington D.C.
A vote for any of the declared candidates for the Republican nomination for the office of President of the United States of America....even Congressman Paul....and appreciation for your indulgence as an esteemed OROG.   More Later!
El Gringo Viejo
  

Living Proof

Pelosi on Occupy Wall Street Protesters: "God bless them"

5:03 PM, Oct 6, 2011 • By JOHN MCCORMACK

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During a press conference Thursday afternoon, House minority leader Nancy Pelosi praised those participating in the "Occupy Wall Street" protests. "God bless them," Pelosi said, "for their spontaneity. It's independent ... it's young, it's spontaneous, and it's focused. And it's going to be effective."

Can you imagine waking up to this?

Nate Beeler / Clarity Media

"The message of the protesters is a message for the establishment everyplace," said the House Democrats' leader. "No longer will the recklessness of some on Wall Street cause massive joblessness on Main Street."
Pelosi did not comment on--and was not asked about--the law-breaking that occurred during the protest over the weekend. About 700 protesters were arrested by New York City police after the protesters "swarmed the Brooklyn Bridge and shut down a lane of traffic for several hours," according to CBS News.
When the Tea Party movement emerged in 2009, then-Speaker of the House Pelosi called them "astroturf" and "un-American" people who were "carrying swastikas."

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Please forgive this lifting of the Weekly Standard's very salient article.   Theirs is the credit, but it is up to the Old Gringo to spread it around, if only the small amount that this Blog can.
     The Tea Party nuts were "AstroTurf" and had "hidden backers and guiding special interests"....but these commie pawns are spontaneous.   Even a dumbo like Glen Beck knew about and predicted all of this four months ago.   PUH - LEEEZE, Nancy, go to the Betty Ford Clinic....have a face transplant....find a good saloon,.....do something....go somewhere....just shut the door when you leave.

      The minority leader continues to continue.   She can correct the Pope of the Holy, Roman, Apostolic, and  Catholic Church about Roman Catholicism.   She is a wondrous girl.   Living proof that the dysfunctional psychotic need not be helped.
Thanks for checking in.
El Gringo Viejo

The Left Never Respects....

What is mine is mine, but what is yours is negotiable.
The reason those people are poor is because of institutional weaknesses in the present form of distribution of wealth.
The reason those people are poor is because  of institutional patterns of racial and class discrimination.
The reason for my failure in life is because somebody did something to me.

There is no need for any person to benefit from the death of a relative.   The assets of the dead should be delivered to the Crown and distributed to the benefit of all, depending upon the will of the Crown.
Everyone has the right to a good paying job, a home, medical service, and a comfortable life.    It is the duty of those who have resources to provide such to the rest of the population.
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     One of my favourite images of the attitude of the left is to see the aftermath of their gatherings.    Leftism is the blossom of a weed that is composed of arrogance, narcissism, conceit, and elitist self-importance.     "If I say there is homo generative global warming, then the debate is closed"
      To begin with that long topic, there is no debate.   The evidence is in, it is overwhelming, and it is absolutely irrefutable.   The terms "global warming'' , "climate change", "nuclear winter" and the like are political and not scientific.    They are convenient terms for Captain Planet and half-wits to use for the purpose of scaring and depressing children into supporting idiotic schemes that could never have any possible effect upon any macro-climate issue.
       Remember....always take pictures of the Arctic and the Antarctic during their Summer episodes.    AlGore says,"....The people are so stupid they will always think the North Pole is cold and that the South Pole is cold.  And when we show them pictures of baby polar bears having to swim to their deaths because the ice floes are melting because George Bush would not sign the Kyoto Accords, we will be able to shut down American industry and everything will be better.  Damn! I am smart."

And then we leave the "Save the Earth, Kill George Bush Rally'' and it looks like this:
http://www.breitbart.tv/hate-rally-protesters-shame-america-with-trash-left-behind/

Notice at the end of the film, an attractive and well-spoken Mexican young woman who expresses some sympathy for the peoples' right to express their greivances but who is also appalled at the litter.    In Mexico the rule is the same...PAN rightwing rally - no litter, PRI "centrist-opportunistic-say-anything-that-means-nothing Party, some-to-much litter.....PRD extreme leftist party rally....tons and tons of gargage, pampers, and graffiti per person.
      This and every public event of the leftists always results in this kind of disrespect for others, for the Earth, for public order, and self-discipline.    It's rather much like a lecture from Michelle O'bama about how to travel responsibly.    Or any of a number of tree-hugging hollywood hypocrits who tell us what we must do so that they can use a B-52 to go down to the corner store.

And then we have the "respectful, peaceful" demonstration by the leftist and pr0-communist forces of Lopez Obrador during the last Presidential Elections in Mexico.   They took over the main political plaza...the venerable Zocalo....in downtownmost Mexico City  AND the totality of the Paseo de la Reforma for FIVE MILES and occupied said areas for almost 2 months.   In this article....totally pro-communist....it points out that the "people" are demonstrating and demanding a recount of the vote.    It does no point out that the Federal Electoral Commission was already underway with the Constitutionally required recount which was done under the view of several score live television cameras from various entities from throughout the world. It was widely regarded by all sane parties....even Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, an influential and leading leftist politician....as the most transparent, accurate, and honest Presidential election in Mexican history.

Imagine this boulevard, the most travelled thoroughfare in
the entirety of Latin America, a true beauty mark in the noble
if problematic City of Mexico, closed and occupied by several
hundred thousand littering slugs, essentially living and using
the famed street as a restroom and garbage dump for the
 masses, for three months following the elections of 2006.

     Much of the observation and grounding complained in the blog cited below represents the actual facts of the days surrounding the Mexican elections of 2006.    It was the tarpits of demagoguery.
    
The Leftist's Credo:
Promise everything, aim hatred at anybody who has anything, respect nothing, bring the people to a frothing frenzy, and then go back to your home in the (choose one or several) the Hamptons, Lomas de Chapultepec, Nob Hill, West Palm Beach, Puerto Vallarta....and let someone else pick up the garbage.

RECOMMENDED READING FOR OROGs:

Mexico’s PAN-PRD Alliance

January 28, 2010

by Arjan Shahani
Mexican politics are frustratingly fascinating.

This seems like a paradox, but then again, so does our history as a modern state. With presidential elections 2.5 years away, unlikely candidates and alliances are already beginning to form. This leaving me wondering if this country has any recollection of the political roads we’ve traveled and the costs they’ve instilled on us.

Let’s retrace our steps for a minute. The Mexican Revolution that started 100 years ago was supposed to set the basis for a system, which would alleviate the poverty gap, provide better worker conditions and at the very least, treat citizens with respect and provide the political rights that people lacked.

But this complex era in Mexican history resulted in what Luis Aboites Aguilar called (in a very politically-correct manner) “a political arrangement which made stability possible in the long term.” Along came the time of the PRIismo, an authoritarian regime with a masked one-party system run by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI). As they had with Diaz

Tired of instability and revolt, society happily welcomed a structure that turned huelguistas (protestors) into sindicalistas (organized union advocates). Far from a democracy, this electoral system continuously rigged elections and left the poor-rich divide unattended, replacing it with a constant rhetoric of “institutionalized revolution.” The message during the first decades of PRIismo was “we’re working on it.”

After their 70-year chance at “institutionalizing revolution” a strong opposition led by a right-leaning party (Partido Acción Nacional–PAN) that had been denied access to power at the federal level was able to bring PRIismo to an end. A young (mostly middle class) generation filled with hope rallied behind soon-to-be-President Vicente Fox under the cry of “Sí se puede” (“Yes, we can”). And on July 2, 2000, yes, they did.

But the 2006 election was characterized by a polarized and heated debate between PAN candidate Felipe Calderón Hinojosa and a charismatic left-wing radical, Andrés Manuel López Obrador of the Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD). Left and right battled it out. One crying out against “the rich tyrants that oppressed the peoples” and the other promising that development would result from attracting FDI and promoting employment via a partnership with the private sector. Calderón got the job with 35.9 percent of the vote, only 0.58 percent more than López Obrador.

The aftermath of the 2006 election is well-known: López Obrador did not accept the results, labeled Calderón “The spurious president,” set up camp in Mexico City’s Zocalo, and blocked off Paseo de la Reforma (the city’s most important street).

Now there is a new twist in this long-standing political telenovela. The “Yes we can” promise has not produced expected results, leaving Mexicans disillusioned to the point that many believe the next elections will be a landslide. The assumed victor: the PRI.

But how is the incumbent PAN party preparing to avoid this? With the most unlikely (and ridiculous) of alliances. César Nava, national president of PAN has publicly accepted that his party is working on a deal with the PRD to have joint candidates for the upcoming state elections.

*Arjan Shahani is a guest blogger to AmericasQuarterly.org. He lives in Monterrey, Mexico, and is an MBA graduate from Thunderbird University and Tecnológico de Monterrey and a member of the International Advisory Board of Global Majority—an international non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of non-violent conflict resolution.
Tags:: Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Felipe Calderon, Partido Acción Nacional, Partido de la Revolución Democrática, Partido Revolucionario Institucional
To read more from Americas Quarterly, sign up for a free trial issue of the print magazine. No risk, no commitment.
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There is a lot of good material floating around.   Let's keep our powder dry, remember the Beatitudes, and be ready to serve.
El Gringo Viejo

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A Father and Son teach each other....Usually the Father learns more

The number one concern
for all adolescent males
during the Walt Disney
"Zorro" Days - Annette
Funicello

(What follows here in Georgian face is the writing of original blog text.   Other type faces are material that has been included from other sources, or derived from emails between my son and the Old Gringo.... hisseff.... as my Grampa used to say)


     My son sent me this concerning the contemporary of another adolescent femme fatale during my days at that age.   Marisol was the equivalent of Annette Funicello, who was the Queen of the Mickey Mouse club back in the late 1950s.    The thing is that this Spanish girl from the same period is a dead ringer for my granddaughters.   They are also derived from the same part of Spain, albeit from 400 years further back in time.   Their grandmother is more of the classical Malagena type, brunette, and is typical of  an area famous for stunning beauties. My daughter, thankfully, took after her mother in terms of appearance and composition.

                                     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdnmTn0RmYk
Click on the above link to see a pleasant bit of puffery and a Shirley Temple level of talent for a child of that age.

This is Marisol in 1962 at the same age
as Annette.   Marisol, although blond, was born
in Malaga, the heart of the "Moorish" part of 
Spain.  Her natural name is Josefa Flores Gonzalez

What follows here are the Old Gringo's comments to his son concerning his unearthing this relic from the late 1950s and early 1960s.

         The video of the little Spanish girl is the one with which I am familiar.   She was quite the item during the Franco period in Spain.    She was used by the Franco government to point out to the world that "all the gueros had not abandoned Spain"  with the exodus of the communists following their defeat in the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s.   She was incredibly talented.   Wonder what happened to her???

      For instance, about 30,000 gueros (blond and/or light-skinned) children wound up in Mexico, sent there by their communist parents in order to find refuge from the war against the Royalists and Franco supporters.  Others went to the United States, others went to Russia and France.

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      Now you know what important matters we discuss.    Actually, however the topics are somewhat important.   The "gueritos"  (little blondies, pronounced whear - EEH -tohs) were sent to Mexico because at that time the ultra-leftist, "Great Expropriator" Lazaro Cardenas was President of Mexico.   He invited the Spanish communists affected by the victories of Franco and the great majority of the Spanish people over the Soviet backed attempt to gain control of the entry into the Mediterranean Sea, to send their children to "his home" in Michoacan State.   This astoundingly interesting State is situated between Mexico City and Guadalajara.   It is a profoundly beautiful, cold highlands area which is home to the lower Tarascan Indians, who still are found in abundance throughout the State.   Many of the Gueritos settled in Morelia, Patzacuaro -Santa Clara del Cobre area, and around Uruapan.   The vast majority of those children did not return to Spain.   In a few cases, very few, their parents came to live with them in the hospitable, leftist environment of pre-World War II Mexico.

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     Then my son sent me this article (below-linked) from the New York Times.   The article deals with a phenomena presently moving around Mexico.   It concerns the activity of a very popular, leftist poet.   The article bears reading.    It has a couple of points of inaccurate leftist cant and the rest of it has a bit of pinky drip.....BUT....incredibly....El Gringo Viejo gives OROGs permission to read it under the bedcovers and with a flashlight!!

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/02/opinion/sunday/can-this-poet-save-mexico.html?_r=1&pagewanted=1

     If the OROG wishes to read the article, it must be read in its entirity.   There are several very salient observations and conclusions towards the end and very end of the article with which the Gringo Viejo agrees.    The pinky poet...a "leftist Christian"  who follows Tolstoy (?????) and Gandhi....is actually a good guy, even in the Gringo Viejo's opinion.   Another thing is this critical point.....He is one of those very, very, very few leftists who would support a conservative Presidential candidate  in the upcoming elections or any future elections.    He has had good things to say about President Calderon and he has declared that most of the Conservative economic agenda will benefit the poor and the working-class Mexican more than the old government controlled economic models.    The growth of Mexico's economy by 10-fold in the last 20 years bespeaks of the obvious superiority of private initiatives in terms of how to make a bigger taco and make it more accessible to more people.

     (There is a joke Mexican socialists and other leftists who have become disenchanted will tell on themselves after a couple of hours in the bar.   "Hey, Pepe!  Why do you have that Conservative party bumper sticker? "   to which Pepe responds, "The Socialist Party proposes more of the same.   The same means more nothing.   They want to distribute nothing equally.   The C0nservatives want to produce something and let everyone have a chance at having at least a little something".   To which Juan says, "But Pepe, what if your neighbour gets more than you?"   It is a very sardonic joke about the Mexican pathos.)

     What follows below in normal typeface is my communique with my son.  This was sent to correct the say-it-enough-and-it-becomes-true gibberish about how the students at the Plaza de las Tres Culturas were all Holy Innocents demonstrating over the manipulation of parking tickets by an old corrupt meany down at the main Police Headquarters.    It was MUCH BIGGER and had overwhelming international implications involving the Soviet Union and the Castro brothers.     Ditto....by the way....with Salvadore Allende of Chile who was actually toppled more by a fratricidal argument between Allende's cabal of Maoists and Stalinists and other marxists who were trying to either deter or speed up Allende's nationalisation of everything in Chile.   Allende was surrounded by people who either wanted to boil the frog slowly or throw the frog into the fire immediately.   The other 66 per cent of the Chilean people who did not vote for Allende in the previous presidential elections had simply tired of his meaningless rhetoric, indecision, and pushing Chile's economy into what appeared to be a bottomless well.   Below are the Old Gringo's comments to his son:

      The New York Times article mixes saliency with absurdity.   The Evangelist for Peace and Justice has developed quite a following.   This time, however the leftist message has been blunted by reality.   The Evangelist himself has recognized that Mexico is dealing with something that goes far, far beyond political organization and direction.   The Times was big enough to point that out when it showed that Calderon successfully demonstrated that Mexico was dealing with Satan, not criminals.   The "Evangelist" had been coming to that same conclusion  along his way, and he has lectured the crowds that force will be necessary before a reasonable sustainable peace can be restored to Mexico.   I am sure he remains a committed leftist, but he has developed a good case of realityosis.

     Also, please be aware that the "specific issues" surrounding the Polytechnic disorders had little to do with why they were there on the Plaza de la Tres Culturas.    It is quickly forgotten that the grouping of upper-middle class, spoiled students to protest this or that was carefully orchestrated by the September 23th  Communist League, a Castro controlled "piquete" against the Mexican political order, and was actually and totally dedicated to the complete halting of the the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City.   They were trying to bring the City of Mexico to a halt, to promote riots, vandalism, and disorder.     Guerrilla snipers were filmed shooting both into the crowd and at the Army personnel deployed at the Plaza.   This is not debatable.    The total number of dead never exceeded 160 by any count.

     One thing was also certain.    After the event, the Olympics went off without any interruption from the "defenders of justice and the poor".    It was pretty much like campus demonstrations after the "Kent State Massacre".     As proof of what I am saying....(and this comes from the pro-communist Wikipedia gnomes)...try this vignette pertaining to the murder of Eugenio Garza Sada, the richest man in Latin America, founder of Ceverceria Cuauhtemoc, Grupo Alfa, Fomento Economico Mexicano, SA de CV, and several other heavy industries in the Monterrey area....

This clarifying inclusion was taken from the normally pinko Wikipedia.   Once again, however, there can be accurate reporting and archiving on the part of the pinkies, at times, occasionally.

Kidnapping attempt and death of Eugenio Garza Sada:

     During the 1970s the Mexican political situation was difficult, with several groups looking to destabilize the government, including communist guerillas who sought funding for their activities. One of those guerillas groups, Liga Comunista 23 de Septiembre, planned to kidnap Garza Sada for ransom. On the morning of September 17, 1973, a small group of 23 de Septiembre guerillas ambushed Garza Sada's car at a red light in downtown Monterrey. The kidnapping attempt turned into a gunfight when Garza Sada's bodyguard intervened, and Garza Sada was killed by multiple gunshot wounds received while reaching for his own gun. Garza Sada's funeral was attended by more than 200,000 people.

       In 2006, a Mexican Secret Police document filed in the Mexican National Archives uncovered that the Mexican government was aware of the kidnapping conspiracy a year before it actually happened, yet did not prevent it for political reasons.

The reason for failure to intervene was because the leftist Luis Echeverria Alvarez, President of Mexico and a butt-kisser for pay for both the CIA and the KGB and a monstrously dedicated statist, socialist, and free-enterprise/capitalism hater, had information from international, American, and Mexican intelligence sources about this assassination plot and never transferred the information outside of Los Pinos.   He essentially became a co-conspirator in the plot to kill Mexico's premier industrialist.    Also, there were over 600,000 people who attended the funeral....not 200,000....and this was proven by blow-ups and pin-to-the-head counts.

      The irony is that Echeverria was also Secretario de Gobernacion under the Presidency of Gustavo Diaz Ordaz.   As such he was the XO of the government and was the ranking civilian officer at the Plaza de la Tres Culturas during the "Dia de Infamia", and gave the orders to return fire into the crowd of students.    Later, right-wingers would say that he did that in order to provoke what all the left-wing wanted....full-scale riots in Mexico City by illiterate peons, well-to-do "students", and communists. EVERYONE IN THE NORTH OF MEXICO WAS OF THAT OPINION A YEAR AFTER THE EVENT AND SO STATED OPENLY.   WE BELIEVED WITHOUT CHALLENGE in Texas.   The communists had said that they would halt the Olympics in "solidarity with the World's rejection of American Imperialism in Viet Nam and elsewhere, and in condemnation for Mexico's collaboration with the Imperialist."    They were humiliated when the Olympics were pulled off without a hitch....

       Thanks for your patience.   This is a complicated posting.   My children are very deep thinkers and sometimes manage to pull their father out of his cave and into the light of reason.    Please forgive me for my lecturing tone.   Sometimes a person fears that he left some instruction and insight out while he allowed his wife to do all the heavy lifting in terms of raising the children.   It would be dreadful should the my children be as dull as their father, but it is also necessary that they know why the Old Fool thinks in the manner that he thinks.    They are both more mentally and intellectually quick than their father.

Thanks again.

El Gringo Viejo          

A Troubling Disclosure

     A couple of days ago the Old Gringo decided to review a couple of "Minutemen" sites.   These are the fellows who come down to the border to "protect America" from Mexican military incursions and illegal aliens.    Several of their "documentary films" of encounters with the Mexican military brought me back to where I am.    In every case, the dumbo doing the filming and narrating is either stupid or ignorant or lying through his teeth about the nature of the conversation between the valiant defenders of America and the vile and sneaky Mexican soldier.    In the case cited here, there was a light infantry platoon, perhaps 30 soldiers, and a group of 6 or 7 ''minutemen''.

      In a couple of cases, one of the Minutemen who could speak Spanish fairly well would correct the filmer/narrator, resulting in an exchange like..."No, that's not what the lieutenant said.   He just wanted to know  if we had permission from someone to be here.".....To which the filmer responds..."I don't care what he said, I only care about what I heard".

      Lamentably, because it might be the case that the Old Gringo can speak a bit of Spanish, it was very, very apparent that the fellow saying,  ".... that was not what the Lieutenant said".... was telling the truth.    The officer's manner was not even nuanced in any negative or menacing way.   The other soldiers' weapons all around were pointed down and all military protocols were being followed.   The area where the filming was taking place in this instance was one where the soldiers had been in a heavy firefight a couple of weeks earlier....around an old, abandoned home within sight of the United States/Mexico border.  The Army had taken casualties and rendered many more at that point on the map.

      It could be pointed out that the armaments being carried by the soldiers could have destroyed the vehicle of the Minutemen with two clips and three seconds.   They could have killed all six or seven of the Minutemen there in less than five seconds, driven their bodies to a cavern two or three miles away, burned their cameras and tape recorders, and gone home.

       In the background, un-manned and not at-the-ready was a mobile mounted 50 cal. belt-fed machine gun, not covering the encounter between two Mexican soldiers and six or seven white-trash thugs who were armed, somewhat heavily.   The Old Gringo was amazed....genuinely did not know .....   that such a presence and such mendacity could be practiced by American people.   And they are so stupid that they think that there are not several hundred thousand old Confederates out here who can readily interpret what the exchange of a conversation is when conducted in Spanish.     How could anyone be so stupid?

Inbreeding?

      The Old Gringo laments that he must confide in the OROG community that he reviewed about 30 of these "trophy films" and encounters, finding each and every one to be flawed in terms of honest presentation of the facts.     It seemed to be almost like an attempt to cause some incident that would give cause for the American government to step in with righteous indignation and disarm the American public...."for its own good".

      As you all know, the Old Gringo is absolutely convinced that the ATF "fast and furious and stupid" program of delivering weapons that could be readily transformed to automatic-fire to Cartel members was most certainly a straw-dog designed to shut down legitimate trade and ownership of firearms among private individuals in the United States.

      It was all very depressing.  Very disturbing.

With some considerable lamentation, we render our gratitude for your continued indulgence.

El Gringo Viejo