Musings

These days now begin to fill with memories of sugar plums and all eleven of Santa's reindeer flying over all fifty seven States to apologize to all for the establishment of Christianity.   S0, one prepares for the sharing, the conviviality, and the general hustle and bustle.

      An OROG wrote in to suggest that this linkage is also a very high quality card service with nice themes and artwork;   www.ojolie.com    was reviewed by the Gringo Viejo, and it is a really nice operation.   We are having considerable problem with the other site due to the inability we are having in adjusting our flash drive properly, apparently.   We are not having any problem with the newer site, so perhaps if the same is happening to other  OROGs, perhaps the new place would serve as a decent alternative.

      It is well that we report that the situation in Mexico continues to improve.    We would commend to the attention of all OROGs that they dig into information beyond what is commonly available about the times we are living through, both in the area of our little place and our area in Texas.     It is hard for one person to speak softly into a strong wind and then be heard at any distance.     But, our earlier repeated observations about improving security and re-establishment of predictable social and commercial order have proven to be true. 

     With another few months it is possible that we might even experience the  re-emergence of the way things were 10 years ago.   We simply must wrest away the hands of the demons from the throat of the people who feel compelled to use these strange substances.   Once again, the Gringo Viejo observes that it should suffice to have things as powerful as alcohol and nicotine.  What more could be necessary?

Enough of such things for a little while.   Family is coming down from Central Texas and we are making the journey to the mother-in-law's place for Thanksgiving's gathering.   This will be the first such celebration without the father-in-law.   So it will be a bit of a challenge for each of us, especially for the widow.

If the football games become blowouts and the granddaughters are asleep, perhaps the inspiration will hit to send along additional messages later to-day.
El Gringo Viejo

Returned from the Front

The Old Gringo returned yesterday.   Windy drive up....45 mile per hour gusts....hot...dry and a wait that was a little long at the bridge.   But... one learns at some point in life to enjoy the misery and just get it over with.

      This particular time it seems that the drive was a little tiring, and so it will take a moment or two to re-disorder the thought processes in the "little grey cells".     There is quite a bit of positive news about our little mud hut on the Rio Corona.   There is news on the Mexican overall political front and on the commerce, industry, and agricultural front.   There are commentaries and observations, and a bit of review of prvious pontifications coming up.

     Speaking of pontifications, it will take a tad longer for us to attempt to understand the former Speaker's contention that ".....Catholics have a concience thing..." and therefore cannot be reasonable about issues that require the contradiction of the Canons of the Roman Catholic Church.   She also observed of herself that she loves and honors her Roman Catholic faith, but since the rules were made up by a bunch of old men wearing skirts and funny pointed hats, there is no reason to adhere to any rules...be they of concience or of canon. 

Your patience will be rewarded with some serious thoughts later to-day.
El Gringo Viejo 

Out for a Bit

Times will be quiet here on the blog for a bit.   The Old Gringo will be heading down for another stint of it.   With the settling of issues at hand from a couple of weeks back, it is time to take my place on the bridge and at the helm of our little place in the middle of nowhere, Mexico.   It is somewhat disconcerting to know that Jesse Ventura is coming back to Mexico after his recent setback in court.   Actually it is rather a sad state of affairs when a person such as Jesse Ventura cannot board an airplane without being repeatedly groped.   He has had a titanium hip replacement that makes it necessary for him to undergo super-inspection at almost every boarding.

     My understanding is that he did not think that he deserved any special treatment, only that he should be able to carry some fail-safe identification that would show that he is an ex-governor of one of the 57 States in the Union and that he has a titanium hip replacement and does not like to have people groping him at every opportunity.

     The judge decided against him.   In a way.  The judge decided that his court was not the most appropriate bench before which to present the case.   Jesse became very grumpy about it all.   We'll both be arriving back home in Mexico about the same time.   But the Old Gringo is not grumpy.   Not too grumpy.

    Not too grumpy....even if some sow has a weep-out about her son's plight.  She does feel really bad for that lady who had her head caved in by her child who dropped a grocery cart off a four story ledge onto the lady's head.  She was really sorry about that, but she just had to point out that the real victim in the affair was not the old white woman but her poor son who is only 12 years old....and New York might be going to treat him like an adult criminal just because of this and his other 22 arrests for various misdemeanours and felonies.  He is, after all, all really good kid.

     The woman who was injured has severe to profound head and brain injuries and is comatose and not expected to live.    The mother of the child lives in an housing project near the shopping mall where the events took place.   She and the mother of the other boy, also a multiple offender at the age of 12,  who was involved in the dropping of several grocery carts, apparently with the openly stated intention of killing or injuring someone....are professional welfare recipients and optimizers of the "baby mother safety net".

      The woman in the coma is one of those peculiar people who still think that organisms who look roughly human must be born with and have souls  even if they are completely unsupervised, are unchurched, and are in the fourth generation of welfare dependency.
      The woman in the coma was doing an errand at the mall that day was to purchase several hundred dollars worth of higher quality candies for the children at the housing projectl   The candy was to be passed out during the trick or treat festivities of All Hallow's Even.
      The woman in the coma was a wealthy woman who had dedicated much of her time and a great deal of money over the years to efforts to help the marginalized populations in New York City and elsewhere.   May she rest in peace.   May the Great Lord Yahweh forgive us all for having allowed the creation of a system of government sanctioned and subsidized creation of narcissistic, sociopathic monsters.

El Gringo Viejo, will return in a few weeks...with luck, during his absence, he might be able to forward some information and conditions about our little mud hut on the spring fed mountain creek somewhere in the boondocks in Mexico.

Al always, thanks for your time, attention, and interest.....

Best Bargain on the Web, very enjoyable

This entry comes from some folks who produce the greatest greeting cards on or off the web.  It seems that they don't worry so much about being politically correct or incorrect.   They seem terribly Anglican, which is not that strange because they come from rural Sussex, from the below-named village of Lurgashall.   In keeping with things there, they are all very intelligent, talented, and sophisticated and have a talent for modernizing antiquity.   The operation is Jacquie Lawson Cards, and they would be something equivalent to a Japanese Bonzai tree that is 500 years old, or like Lou Gehrig's farewell to Baseball speech, or actually having a private audience with Santa Claus, or a two-month rail trip around the United States.

Check in at http://www.jacquielawson.com/    and see their offerrings.   We cannot figure how the business can make any money, so we assume that they are all independently wealthy and have not been taxed enough.  We shall report them to Barry and Michelle's Tax Collection Service if more evidence presents itself. 

     The Gringo Viejo's ancient ancestry considering our various surnames are terribly Hebrew, Ingles, Picts, and Jutes, Frenchy, Dane, (and some Prussian, Hessian, and German Saxon thrown in, but do not tell anybody).   We have a lot of people buried around Bury Saint Mary's, Kelsale, Suffolk, to the north of Lurgashall, Sussex.
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Lurgashall village

Jacquie lives in the village of Lurgashall, in Sussex, England. Most of the scenes, characters and animals for her cards are taken from the village, or indeed from her own picture-perfect period cottage.

The name Lurgashall is probably Saxon in origin, dating from the period following the Saxon invasion circa 500AD when a roving band of marauders may well have travelled along the Roman road from Chichester to London and settled on the site. Although the village is not mentioned in the Domesday Book, situated as it was in the dense forest of Wealden which was then considered to be of little value, Lurgashall was included in the fruits of victory which William the Conqueror handed out to his greedy henchmen.

Lurgashall is a now small but thriving village of around 700 inhabitants, and it boasts a pub (of course), a Saxon church, a shop, and a cricket green. The cricket pavilion (which can be seen clearly in the "Snowdog" Christmas card) is notable for the clock tower which was erected in 2000 in memory of Jacquie's late husband Roger, who was for many years captain of the village cricket team. The cricket team has its own website - www.lurgashall.com.

If you're ever passing through, be sure to call in at the Noah's Ark Inn, where Henry and Amy will be happy to serve you a pint of their best Greene King IPA!

St. Laurence's Church
Although nothing remains of the original wooden Saxon building, the present Church shows clear signs of later Saxon architecture. The Tower, with its pointed arch, is Norman. The Cloister was added in the 16th century, so that parishioners from some distance away could rest & eat between morning and evening services. Remains can be seen of an early font which was smashed by the Puritans in the Civil War. This bears signs of a lock to prevent the theft of Holy Water for superstitious purposes. Beneath is a 'Resurrection Stone' of immense weight which was hired out to prevent newly buried corpses from being stolen! The present font, of Sussex Marble, was first used on Lady Day, 1662, when the restored Charles II had reintroduced the Prayer Book and the ceremony of Baptism. The Lectern was presented in 1897 in memory of Alfred Lord Tennyson who lived nearby and was a regular worshipper at St. Laurence's.

THE GRINGO VIEJO'S ANCIENT PARISH:

     This is where a bunch of really pure-bred English mongrels were baptised, married, and buried back in the 1200 - 1600 AD period.     This is in the little city of Kelsale, Suffolk, in Anglia, England.   Lots of primordial Gringos there.



Church of Saint Paul and Saint Mary, C of E

Kelsale, Suffolk, East Anglia

Some day soon, perhaps, we shall be able to make the trek to various places to see at least where our children's ancestor saw things, whether we see the same things or not.   We shall have to go into most of south and eastern England.....then some places in western England like Shropshire and southern Mersey Counties which are adjacent, I believe to the northwesternmost corner of Wales, but still in England...and then Cumbria and Northumbria in  northernmost England and to the Isle of Man.   Before or after that, on the same trip, we shall have to cover the southeastern third of Spain to say grace over the bones and dust of the children's better side.

     Any English OROGs on a personal basis with Basil Rathbone need to ask him if he can pick us up at the station and take us over to see his place at 221B Baker Street.   We would prefer one of those black taxis or perhaps one of the red double-decker busses that we see in the war movies.    We'd intend to be staying in the London area for three or four nights.   We'll need one day to give the Archbishop of Canterbury a few pointers about Anglican dogma and ritual.....also to remind HRM Elizabeth that she really needs to name her son as Duke of  Falkland and Belize, and then pass the succession directly to her grandson, HRH Prince William.    It would be a shame to follow a pretty decent run of it for one monarchette with a dumboe like the present Prince of Wales.  Would there be a king so bold of bone that he would deign to deny the dullards the dole they demand and disband the Labour Party, and expel their pinky souls (what be left of 'em)from the Parliament.   So there.   Let it be written.

El Gringo Viejo

If a Republican Were to Do This....

Jay Carney quoted the Bible on Wednesday. Except he didn't. AP PhotoClose

From today’s briefing:

MR. CARNEY: Well, I believe the phrase from the Bible* is, “The Lord helps those who help themselves.” And I think the point the President is making is that we should -- we have it within our capacity to do the things to help the American people.

And it might be added, that since it is in the Bible that rich people are ropes that cannot make it through the eye of a camel they are all going to be turned into pillars of gold like Damacles and all those people in Atlantis.  So much for what you believe, Carney....because if you believe in what you believe the Bible says about this matter, you are capable of believing anything, everything, and nothing all at the same time.

And then....with no particular respect...."I think the point the President is making is that we should - we have it within our capacity to do the things to help the American people."
        To do what, precisely?    We have to help the American people to help themselves be helped?  Is that what the great Yahweh said in the Bible?   Is that what someone said he said?   Did  Nancy Pelosi, Michelle LaVaughn Robinson, Harry Reid, Jay Carney, Barry O'Bama, almost every Democrat officeholder and appointee, and all the other intellectually-challenged people all go to the same school of rhetoric, composition, and logic?

The Gringo Viejo told his supplier he needed a camel for his
next blog entry, but it arrived late.   So he was sent back.

Right!   Carney knows that quote is actually in Poor Richard's Calendar, too.  It's kinda like Margaret Mitchell's book,   Gone with the Mockingbird.

El Gringo Viejo

(enter Dr. John Dean's battle cry in after the Iowa Demcrat Primary in 2004)

For Every Season, There Is a Time

Be not deceived;  God is not mocked: for whatsoever
a man soweth, that he shall also reap.

     There is no way to avoid the natural law of Yahweh as it is set down.   If we produce un-fathered children and support those children with the wealth of those who are not their parent, the majority of those children are bound to the crooked, self-destructive path.   They care nothing for their own patrimony and will destroy the patrimony of others.   They have no souls.   They do not care.   They are born dead....seeming to live for a brief while, as they destroy everything around them.

      There is no way to avoid the natural law of Yahweh, as it is set down.   If we send out children to tutelage, and they dwell among fools, then our children will leave their instruction as fools, with only rare exception.   If they are told naught, they will know naught.   If they are told the tales of fools, they will be as the fool.   If they are told that they are wise, and their informers are fools and full of guile, our children will be a danger to themselves and everyone around them.   Our children's souls will atrophy within them and they will see themselves as greater than the Laws of Yahweh.    They will know there is no Yahweh, and with that certainty they will know that they  themselves are gods, and have no constraint.

       Mexico has lost 20 percent of its young people and 15 percent of its human-occupied geography.

        America has lost 20 percent of its young people and 10 percent of its human-occupied geography.

        Canada has lost 10 percent of its young people and  5 percent of its human-occupied geography.

      Were it a war, these losses in dead, wounded, and captured would essentially mean that those who had suffered those losses had lost the war.   When it is stated that an amount of children have been "lost", it is meant that those children have been killed or taken into the short life of organized crime, or those children who have embarked upon the life of glue and paint sniffing, marihuana smoking, cocaine, methamphetamine, morphinates, and other inebriates.    Most are drawn from what is politely known as the "urban environment", but....

        Do not doubt that your own children, grandchildren, nephews and nieces, and/or those of your friends and associates  could be among those who have the 10 miles stare, the lying, the early aging and dental problems, the secretivity and sneakiness, the peculiar moods, the irascibility, and the counter-productive explosive spontaneity.

 "My parents treat me like I'm a
child.   Nobody understands me.''

OOOOOOOOOOO

       Reasonable alternatives proposed in the past were not employed.   Many proposals were made.    Some were seemingly radical.   What we have now is a catastrophic collapse leading soon to total anarchy, death, and destruction of all property, value, and wealth.   IT IS HAPPENING NOW.     All the "radical" proposals bandied about in restaurants and saloons and beauty parlours, and backyard barbeques could have had a positive impact towards moving to a solution to the problems caused by bastardy and the unwillingness of so many  to concern themselves with the legal pursuit of self-sufficiency.

TO WIT:

(1)    Utter and total legalization of all psychotropic anything.  With safeguards such as requiring the AMTRAK engineers and the Southwest Airlines pilots and the Greyhound Bus drivers and all such similar critical personnel to submit to urinalysis before departure or other such deployment...and other such basic, logical measures....we could have allowed those so disposed to turn into the Zomboes they wished to be, take them out to de-activated Indian Reservations, and kept them there, stringing beads, and eating their oatmeal and Vienna sausage until they died.    The Gringo Viejo rates this alternative a 93.

OR

(2)     Arrest, demonstration of incontrovertible proof to the satisfaction of a special drug jury of 18 people who have passed a reasonable, difficult examination concerning their intellectual capacity and reasoning ability, and execution by firing squad that could be publicly heard but not seen.   Another two tiers of appeal should be worked out.   Visiting panels of (6) jurors, drawn from random assignment as in a lottery, could be the first tier of appeal.   Another could be the existing Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.    The entire process would be held to the time limit of 360 calendar days.    El Gringo Viejo gives this alternative a 93.

THEN 

(3)     Withdraw, cease, and eliminate the operation of government public assistance programs.   The central government in Washington, D.C. has no Constitutional authourity to transfer payments from one group to another.   The individual States might have that authourity if they, in their wisdom, wish to burden their own citizenry.    Elevate the eleemosynary institutions in the various locales to the task of providing for those who require charitable intervention in their lives.      El Gringo Viejo gives this alternative a 95.

THEN

(4)      Upon the proving beyond all reasonable doubt, any woman who is deriving the majority of her family unit's support from charitable or public assistance, and who has a third baby without the benefit of paternity will be first given a preventative, and then after due process with be taken to a veterinarian to be spayed.    The three children will be taken into private or State child protection and adoptive alternatives sought and obtained.    There will be no foster-care programs...only adoption.

       Any female who has produced three children without benefit of paternity will submit her whelp to paternity testing.  Those who have been identified as the procreants to her whelps........barring he who can demonstrate the PREVIOUSLY publicly published announcement and DEMAND FOR THE RIGHT and intent to take, own, and be wholly responsible for his progeny, .......will be taken to the veterinarian and be gelded....at the procreant's expense.
         All participating veterinarians will be exempt from any civil liability for these services.
         El Gringo Viejo gives this alternative a  95.

AS always, it is an continuing pleasure to have your company, share your time, and receive the OROG's attention.
El Gringo Viejo...