Pretty Faces? Yes and no

     Enrique Pena Nieto, de Partido Revolucionario Democratico candidate for the Mexican Presidency in next year's July election, and also the newlywed husband of some silly soap opera star has had a substantial inauspicious start to his "slam-dunk" electoral victory.   He is managing to garner headlines such as these, "Can Mexican presidential candidate avoid 'Rick Perry' slump after books fumble?"

     In the case of Rick Perry, the Gringo Viejo has some considerable experience having to suffer through Rick's convoluted, drawn-out, of ten pointless dronings.   It is fairly obvious that the guy is intelligent....like a Caterpillar D-9....and one underestimates the Governor's intellect at one's own peril.   But he cannot speak well before a group, large or small, and he does not think quickly.

Enrique Pena Nieto
Candidate for the Presidency of Mexico
Partido Revolucionario Institucional

     Enrique Pena, on the other hand, is just kind of intellectually "otherwise capacitated" as they say now in the politically correct world of urbane Mexico.   Over here, he would be known as a 'dumbo'. He has had repeated lapses of memory, and several Obamaesque episodes of responding to a question with a fifteen to twenty minute rambling assembly of phrases that frequently wind up not having anything to do with the question or the topic at hand. Most recently he declared that he likes to read books, sometimes novels but could not name any. Later he recalled some titles but paired them to the incorrect authors.   He also said that he read the Bible, and had been inspired and guided by it....ending with the brilliant "....I have even read a little of it." Not cool, even with a Bimbo ....(denigrating term for public woman deleted)...who seems to always be vying for the position once held by the ....(denigrating term for a public woman deleted)....Sasha Montenegro, the mistress, and later wife, of the ....(denigrating term for a disgusting, corrupt slug)....Jose Lopez Portillo, President of Mexico 1976 -1982.

     Obama has the advantage of a lapdog, elitist press to cover for his repetitive, mendacious, demagogue-like monologues that seem to pass for speeches.   They certainly sweep his "...all 57 States in the Nation..."   slip-ups under the camel's hair rug.    But Enrique does not have that luxury.   The press in Mexico has been increasingly independent and vigourous in political matters.   They try to avoid covering the cartel issues so much, although there are those who do and do it well.    But many prefer to cut their risks of offending people who are prone to violent, unpredictable reactions and concentrate on politics and other newsworthy matters.

     Plus, while the very handsome dunce  really was Governor of the State of Mexico, adjacent to the Federal District, not all the electorate is totally convinced that he is anything more than a pretty face.   His wife is not known for much beyond being known....in a manner of speaking.

The nation is also being presented with the candidacy of a very sharp, tooth and nail scrapper, who has considerable private business and public sector experience.   She is reasonably attractive, very well spoken, and conservative....and almost certain to be nominated next month in the Partido de Accion Nacional's national nomination convention.   She also has an excellent social resume'.

Josefina Vazquez Mota
Candidata a la Presidencia de Mexico
Partido de Accion Nacional

     Josefina is well-spoken, deeply intellectual, charismatic, and conservative philosophically.

There are many, many females who are voting for the first or second time from the middle class....and there are many, many working-class females who have a long history of electoral participation,  who are tending towards this woman.   Frequently, during campaign stops, she is thronged by these types.   Also well represented in her posse is the standard PAN stalwarts, along with younger males, small business blue collar types as well as the white-collar managerial types.

      So....since the left has chosen an essentially deranged fool, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who managed to squander a 53 - 30 - 17 lead four months away from the Presidential elections 6 years ago......we find ourselves in a horserace.    Enrique's poll numbers have already begun to wobble....from "sure bet" to re-instate the PRI to a good, solid  "perhaps".

     As an aside, the Old Gringo cannot understand why the leftist PRD did not nominate the mayor of Mexico City....a solid pinko, but one who has done a defendible job as CEO of the biggest City in the World.   But, the younger man deferred to the older, and barring some kind of intervention by fate,  the Partido de la Revolucion Democratica may find itself shopping for some kind of appropriate historical dust-bin quite soon. 

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
Candidato a la Presidencia de Mexico

Partido de la Revolucion Democratica

The issues will be interesting to watch as they unfold.    As you all are aware, were the Gringo Viejo a Mexican with a dog in this hunt coming up, he would support unequivocally the girl.

El Gringo Viejo

The Difference is...

One difference might be that the conservative, regular, normal dolt asks, "What is best for the country?"    The Occupy Free Portapotty Crowd asks, "Who's going to pay my debts?  Who's going to give me a high paying job? Who's gonna give me what I want? Now!"

PLEASE BEAR WITH EL GRINGO VIEJO WHEN YOU HAVE A MOMENT.   READING THIS FOLLOWING  SCREED SHOULD BE REQUIRED OF ALL TRADITIONALISTS AND INTELLECTUAL CONSERVATIVES.    We are certainly in a war for the preservation of this Republic.  

Saul Alinsky and DNC Corruption

Diane Alden
Jan. 7, 2003

Saul Alinsky died in 1972. He was a Marxist grassroots organizer who spent much of his life organizing rent strikes and protesting conditions of the poor in Chicago in the 1930s. However, unlike Christian socialist and activist for the poor, Dorothy Day, Alinsky's real claim to fame was as strategist for anti-establishment '60s radicals and revolutionaries. Indeed, Alinsky wrote the rule book for '60s radicals like Bill and Hillary Clinton, George Miller and Nancy Pelosi. He considered Hillary Rodham to be one of his better students and asked her to join him in his efforts as an organizer of radical leftist causes. But Hillary had other fish to fry on her climb to national prominence. Alinsky had a true genius for formulating tactical battle plans for the radical left. He wrote two books outlining his organizational principles and strategies: "Reveille for Radicals" (1946) and "Rules for Radicals" (1971). "Rules for Radicals" begins with an unusual tribute: "From all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins – or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom – Lucifer." The devil challenged authority and got his own kingdom, and that goes to the heart of what left is really about. That of course is to get power any way you can, including lying, cheating and stealing. The ultimate rule is that the ends justify the means. Alinsky asserted that he was more concerned with the acquisition of power than anything else: "My aim here is to suggest how to organize for power: how to get it and how to use it." This is not to be done with assistance to the poor, nor even by organizing the poor to demand assistance: "[E]ven if all the low-income parts of our population were organized ... it would not be powerful enough to get significant, basic, needed changes." Alinsky advises his followers that the poor have no power and that the real target is the middle class: "Organization for action will now and in the decade ahead center upon America's white middle class. That is where the power is. ... Our rebels have contemptuously rejected the values and the way of life of the middle class. They have stigmatized it as materialistic, decadent, bourgeois, degenerate, imperialistic, war-mongering, brutalized and corrupt. They are right; but we must begin from where we are if we are to build power for change, and the power and the people are in the middle class majority." But that didn't stop Alinsky and his followers from using the middle class for their own purposes. They counted on the guilt and shame of the white middle class to get what they wanted. In order to take over institutions and get power, the middle class had to be convinced that they were somehow lucky winners in "life's lottery." Alinsky's radicals found a perfect vehicle for their destruction of the American system and more particularly for taking and maintaining power. That instrument was the Democratic Party. Transition and Transaction The transition of the old Democratic Party to what exists today should not surprise or confound conservatives. Nor should Alinsky's tactics seem foreign. After all, for nearly 40 years, Republicans and the conservative agenda have been getting hammered by the left through the successful use of Alinsky tactics. In that cause, radicals and the liberal-left gravitated toward the print and electronic media, toward the university professorate and the law. The left, consciously or unconsciously, adopted Alinsky's rules. The impact changed the nature of the Democratic Party and the direction of the United States. Increasingly, the left is succeeding in changing the nature of the Republican Party as well. Suffice to say the greatest change has taken place in the relationship between the state and the individual. America is rapidly descending from a representative Constitutional Republic to a collectivist empire controlled by elites of one sort or another. Alinsky's influence on the modern Democratic Party indicates that the ends do indeed justify the means. As Alinsky states in "Rules for Radicals" it was foolish to believe that means are just as important as the ends. He states that "to believe in the immaculate conception of ends and principles ... the practical revolutionary will understand ... [that] in action, one does not always enjoy the luxury of a decision that is consistent both with one's individual conscience and the good of mankind." Sadly, not enough Republicans and conservatives learned Alinsky's rules until late in the game. A sign of hope is the fact that the new media, including talk radio and the Internet, are changing all that. One can hope it is not too late. In any event, Alinsky's rules include: "Wherever possible go outside the experience of the enemy. Here you want to cause confusion, fear and retreat." "Make the enemy live up to his/her own book of rules. You can kill them with this. They can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity." "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also, it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage." "The threat is generally more terrifying than the thing itself." "In a fight almost anything goes. It almost reaches the point where you stop to apologize if a chance blow lands above the belt." "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it and polarize it." (Think Gingrich, Lott and the success of name-calling used by the likes of Bill Clinton, Paul Begala, James Carville, Maxine Waters and others against conservatives and Republicans. Think of how Clinton "enemies" like Paula Jones or Linda Tripp were treated.) "One of the criteria for picking the target is the target's vulnerability ... the other important point in the choosing of a target is that it must be a personification, not something general and abstract." (Trent Lott comes to mind. Meanwhile, a former Klansman by the name of Sen. Robert Byrd got away with saying "nigger" on Fox News at least three times, and he still maintains his Senate seat and power.) "The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength." For instance, Democrats imply conservatives are racists or that Republicans want to kill senior citizens by limiting the growth of the Medicare system, they imply Republicans want to deny kids lunch money without offering real proof. These red-herring tactics work. Of course, Republicans reaction to all this is to immediately go on the defensive. Seldom do they unleash their pit bull orators or strategists. Rather than use the immense amount of data available to prove the conservative case, Republicans tug their forelocks, say "yes sir," and hope the accusations and name calling will go away. Why is it that Republicans consistently fail to point out the monumental failures of the new Democrats? Failures such as the massive disaster that is the "war on poverty." On that topic alone Republicans should be drilling the public in every media venue and at every opportunity. Then and only then should Republicans offer alternatives to the failed policies of the Democratic left. Republicans should pound relentlessly on the fact that the Democratic Party was hijacked by leftist reactionaries way back in the early '70s. The reactionary left is the obstructionist left. They do nothing but defend and cling to the failures of the past. That fact makes them reactionaries rather than radicals or progressives. Unfortunately, Republicans still pretend that nothing has changed regarding the basic philosophy of the political parties. They refuse to understand the horrendous notion that Democrats tell us the U.S. Constitution is flexible. That means the rule of law is flexible. If that is the case the law and the Constitution mean nothing. It means that the law and Constitution are twisted by the whims and fancies of the moment. In fact, in the 2000 election Al Gore maintained the Constitution could and should be manipulated because it was "flexible." Whatever happened to the amendment process? Bill Clinton used executive orders to circumvent Congress and the Constitution. He used the agencies of the federal government against his enemies. Clinton set an extremely dangerous precedent. Alinsky would have loved it. It is a perfect example of the use of the Rules for Radicals – ends justify the means. Hillary and Bill Clinton and other powerful former '60s radicals learned from Saul Alinsky. It is about time that a few more Republicans and/or conservatives did as well. Alinsky in South Dakota Remember that Alinsky's advice was that the ends justify the means. Think of Florida in 2000 and the manipulation of military ballots. Think of Milwaukee and unattended polling places, which allowed leftist college students to take handfuls of ballots to check off. Think of a million immigrants in the 1996 election granted instant voting rights by the Clinton administration. More importantly, think of South Dakota in November of 2002, or Nevada in 1998 or 2002. In a brilliant bit of investigative reporting, National Review's Byron York gave us a grand overview of the corrupt and unpleasant outline of how Alinsky's rules work during election season. Republicans, once again asleep at the switch, live in the land of euphoria. They still believe that their Democratic counterparts are among the angels on God's right. Considering that Alinsky expresses admiration for Lucifer, they are looking in the wrong place to find many modern Democrats. Republicans still assume that the modern Democratic Party, its media sycophants, its operatives during national or state elections, will play fair. It is hard to say which is worse, Republican naïveté' or Democratic cheating and law breaking. When Democrats cheat, especially under Bill Clinton's and Terry McAuliffe's watch, they whine when they discover they didn't cheat enough to win. When they are caught in the big lies, they expect Republicans to ignore it and give them a pass. The last election in South Dakota is a case in point. In the primaries and election of 2002, lawyers from Washington started showing up at polling places in the hinterlands of South Dakota. The Republican leadership and the establishment should have seen it coming but they didn't. As Byron York relates in "Badlands, Bad Votes": "On Election Day, Noma Sazama knew something unusual was going on the moment she arrived at her polling place, the St. Thomas Parish Hall in Mission, South Dakota. Sazama, a member of the local election board, noticed several strangers in the room – an unusual sight in Mission, population 904, where most people know one another. It turned out the strangers were all lawyers, Democrats who had come to town to serve as poll watchers for the race between incumbent Democratic senator Tim Johnson and Republican John Thune. One was from Washington, D.C., another was from New York City, and a third was from California. 'There were no locals, and I've never seen that happen before,' says Sazama, who has lived in the area for 73 years." Furthermore, York maintains, "The Democratic team of lawyers confiscated the Parish Hall kitchen only a few feet from the balloting tables." Witnesses swore in affidavits that party hacks had rented dozens of vans and hired drivers to bring voters to the polls. Lawyers from elsewhere made the Parish Hall their headquarters. Seventy-three-year-old Ms. Sazama stated, "They had the names and time-of-pickup and whether someone voted on them, and from those he would contact the drivers." Finally she understood that the influx of outside Democrats were going to use the polling place as their headquarters, an action which is against the laws of South Dakota. The lawyers tied up the phones, which meant that the poll watchers and election officials could not make needed phone calls. York quotes the election supervisor: "They were on the phone using it to call I don't know where, and I needed to call because we had some new districting. They were always talking on it." When Wanless, the election supervisor, protested, she got a chilly reaction from the out-of-towners. "I felt like they were trying to intimidate me," she recalls. In fact, all this is against South Dakota law, which states: "No person may, in any polling place or within or on any building in which a polling place is located or within one hundred feet from any entrance leading into a polling place, maintain an office or communications center. ..." There were no Republican lawyers or authorities around to inform election officials that it was against the law for the Democrats to be running their campaign from a polling place. That was bad enough, but ever since November Republicans have failed dismally to make it a BIG national issue. There was also complete failure to understand Alinsky's second basic rule: "Wherever possible go outside the experience of the enemy. Here you want to cause confusion, fear and retreat." The DNC counted on the locals being intimidated by a gang of high-priced lawyers – and of course they were. Another Alinsky rule used in the November elections in South Dakota: "In a fight almost anything goes. It almost reaches the point where you stop to apologize if a chance blow lands above the belt." In other words, what you do is count on the failure of will by your opponent to call a foul. The opponent usually believes it is easier to do nothing, it is always easier to do nothing, and so Republicans "move on." That is the kind of apathy Hitler's forces counted on in the Weimar Republic. The end-justifies-the-means cabal figures that even good people find it easier to do nothing. In South Dakota, lawyers from diverse places were part of a brigade that the DNC uses to "ensure voters' rights are protected." But as York relates, "According to the testimony of dozens of South Dakotans who worked at the polls, the out-of-state attorneys engaged in illegal electioneering, pressured poll workers to accept questionable ballots, and forced polling places in a heavily Democratic area to stay open for an hour past their previously-announced closing time. In addition, the testimony contains evidence of people being allowed to vote with little or no identification, of incorrectly marked ballots being counted as Democratic votes, of absentee ballots being counted without proper signatures, and, most serious of all, of voters who were paid to cast their ballots for Sen. Johnson." According to some witnesses, Democrats were also running car pools out of polling places on the Indian reservations, where investigators are discovering that the dead Indian vote had a major impact on the slim, last- minute, 524-vote Tim Johnson victory over John Thune. Affidavits from South Dakotans also indicate that money probably changed hands in crucial areas in the boonies. It was not gas money for van drivers either, but paying per head per vote – shades of Tammany Hall and the elections in Boston wards. Nonetheless, Republicans have decided to "move on." To get the entire story, including affidavits sworn to by South Dakota residents, read York's November article in National Review Online. Alinsky Does Nevada When I worked at Nevada Policy Institute in Nevada several years ago, the Post-election analysis of the 1998 election uncovered the fact that family pets received absentee ballots in crucial districts. Dead people were counted as well. Democratic Senator Harry Reid's slim, 428-vote win against Republican John Ensign raised eyebrows and the juices of some who understand how the modern DNC and its phalanx of wheelers and dealers, lawyers and opportunists really work. A part of the tactic includes breaking the law when you can and where you can get away with it. Remember, in the minds of the hijacked Democratic Party the ends do indeed justify the Luciferian means. In Nevada on Dec. 24, 2002, the FBI seized ballots cast in primary and general elections. Said Daron Borst, FBI special agent in Las Vegas, "There is an ongoing investigation into election fraud, but I can't go into any details due to the nature of the investigation." Ballots were taken after a complaint was lodged that 85 voters in tiny Eureka county did not live in that county or were long dead. The Eureka County probe marked the second time this year the FBI has become involved in a county election in Nevada. As in South Dakota, it is much easier to get away with election fraud where people don't know the law or will not enforce the law or they are intimidated by the chutzpah and law breaking of crooks in Armani suits holding credentials from the Democratic National Committee. Unfortunately, when Republicans don't pay attention to the corruption and allow themselves to get screwed time and again, they are also in league with the devil. By this failure of will, the sins of omission are as evil as sins of commission. Voting fraud was rampant in 2000 and again in 2002 and it will be more so in 2004. Why aren't Republican lawmakers and the RNC making sure this does not happen again? In 2002, Terry McAuliffe told the world that Democratic lawyers would be out in the states keeping an eye on things. They did more than that and it was against the law. The failure of Republicans to impose the rule of law on the cheaters, liars and manipulators allows those who use Alinsky's corrupt system to win. That fact tells us that the voting process means as little to our elites as does the Constitution. Because of that fact, Republicans will lose future elections. More importantly, the people of the United States will lose. The RNC and the GOP leadership just don't get it. Otherwise they would care enough to do something about it.

Diane Alden is a graduate of the University of Minnesota with degrees in political science, economics and history. Dubbed the "prairie pontificator," she also has grad work in international economics and international political movements, plus extensive work in the psychology of behavior in disordered children, women's issues in Third World countries, creative writing, and marketing. With a sideline in American Indian studies and independence and secession movements worldwide, she is also working on upcoming changes in Canadian politics and the flux in the political landscape of North America. See her full bio

TYSK Note: Learn more about the Alinsky Method, the Delphi Technique and "facilitators". If you work for a major corporation or a school district, you are sure to have come face-to-face with this method of group manipulation or, group mind control under the guise of using the "team" approach to problem solving. Click on this link for a short overview article. Once enlightened you are sure to want to know more. Do a Google search on either the Alinsky Method or the Delphi Technique. You will not only learn of its insidiousness, but also see how many groups proudly claim to use these methods to obtain results!

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The President's Speech

It is well that the President spelled out his vision for America.    He wants to guarantee that Americans have a chance to be in the middle class.   He was to make certain that all people will have what is necessary.   He wants to be sure that all Americans have those four basic rights that come from a government that cares about its citizens....The right to a good home, to provide shelter against the cold and stormy blast and a dry place for the children when it rains.

      A certainty that the larder will never be empty and the table ample, especially for the children and the elderly.....but certainly for all Americans.   Any nation as wealthy as the United States is obliged to provide nutrition to all citizens, and others who might arrive at our table hungry.

     In this land, the government makes certain that from one ocean to another the land belongs to all.   That each person has a chance to his own corner, his own piece, and the government in Washington is obliged to make certain that right.

      All Americans are certainly entitled to a living wage, a job which provides a sense of worth and a manner by which a person can provide for his family, friends, and neighbours.....and where a person's family, friends, and neighbours can likewise provide for him.    And further, that when events so dictate, and decent labour is not available, that he can be sure of support from his government to provide for those vital, basic needs he might require.

      And all Americans should rest assured and content knowing that they can access thousands of hospitals, with hundreds of thousands of beds, scores of thousands of nurses and doctors and other medical workers, to attend to any medical necessity without charge.  It is a basic human right, and not one which tolerates profit derived from illness, injury, pain, and dispair.

     This is a basic, fair, and reasonable humane appoach to the organization of a civilized, caring society.   No winners, no losers, only people...all the same....no concerns....producing as they can, and deriving from the citizenry what they must.   A fair deal.   A square deal.  A New Deal for all people.   Nobody can deny that this is better than a system which allows some to make so much profit....money....from the efforts of those who gain so little.   How can such a thing be called Democracy.   In a Democracy, everyone is equal.   There are no winners and no losers....such thinking should not and cannot be allowed....We establish the fair deal, a square deal, and a new deal where everyone finishes in first place.    And the Government guarantees it.

And if you don't want it, that's okay.   We're all the same.   We just want to take care of you.

 http://www.therealcuba.com/MurderedbyChe.htm
play this to hear about the real "Che"

Greater and Lesser Importance

Nearing evening on the 7th of December, 1941
Pearl Harbor,
 known to Hawaiians as Puʻuloa, is a lagoon harbor on the island
 of Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi,

     It is said by some historians that the Americans broke their agreement with the Japanese concerning the New World Order agreement that was implied with the signing of the treaty after the the Japanese demolition of Russian naval and land forces during a brief war in the earliest part of the 1900s.   It was understood by the Japanese that in return for fairly lenient treatment of the losing side....Russia and Czar Nicholas....Japan would be allowed to become the dominant Imperial Power in the Orient.   They would be allowed to generally order the lives and arrangements and affairs of the lower elements, like the Chinese, Viet Namese, Koreans, Islander tribes.....essentially everything from and not including Australia and India and Hawai'i, but including even insignificant places like Burma, Corregidor, the Islas Filipinas, Corregidor, Guadalcanal, and Midway.    Colonial activity by the Portuguese, French, Dutch, English, and other round-eyes was to be phased out of the Orient.

     The   Americans were to be allowed to control the lesser peoples of the New World, both aboriginal and colonial, from Tierra del Fuego in Patagonia all the way to the previous Russian colony of Alaska.

     In the Japanese was of thinking, the Europeans could argue over the control and dominance of the inferior people in the Middle East and Africa.   India was problematic, but with its perpetual turmoil between Ishmaelite and Hindu, it would never be able to threaten Japan's control of its third of the Planet

     That was Emperor Mieji's understanding of the payment for gentle terms of surrender by the Russian Empire.   It was the broker's understanding as well.   The Great Peacemaker of the Treaty of Portsmouth, 1905?   The Hero of San Juan Hill, The Commander of the Rough Riders in Cuba, the Great Trust Buster and enemy of the Robber Baron Capitalists.  The Founder of the American Progressive Movement (one of about 250 solitary inventors of the deranged Progressive Movement), the Great White Hunter....Theodore Roosevelt.
      The Japanese admired the brilliance and audacity of the Americans.   The building of the Panama' Canal, when the French could not.   The elimination of the meddlesome, indolent Spaniards from the Islas Filipinas.   One could trust that the Americans could run their third of the the Planet.   Even if they were a mongrel race and there were too many Negroes and Mexicans within their borders, certainly the real Americans in America could make things work correctly in the Western Hemisphere.   That was the Japanese way of looking at things. One can almost see the Emperor's Ambassador confiding to his American counterpart in Portsmouth, "When you have any problems with the Orientals in your country....like the Chinese people...remember to trust the advice of your true friends among your Japanese American citizens."
      The American and British intransigence concerning Japanese heavy-handedness in its dealings with China and Korea, along with continuous bristling, huffing, and puffing against the Dutch and Brits about the rubber, tin, and other treasures found in the East Indies  finally brought the Japanese to the point that they knew the Round-eyes would not ever really understand what it takes to rule over one billion inferior peoples.   Japan needed a free hand.   It wished to be judged by its own ancestors, by the Holy Wind of the Breath of the Spirit of the Departed Emperors and Samurai....not a bunch of Anglo-American politicians....Good Grief.
     The Japanese decided to use the "Rule of Oslo" war technique that the Russians had used on the Swedes in the early 1800s.   That was the use of the massive surprize attack.   The Japanese pulled it off against that same Russia in the early 1900s.  No declaration of war, no passing go, no collecting 2oo dollars.
     Considering the size of the Japanese Navy in 1940 and the intransigence of the American negotiators in 1940 - 1941, and the Japanese sense of entitlement based upon the understandings of 1905 at the Treaty of Portsmouth....there really could not have been and Surprize Attack on Hawai'i in December of 1941.   At my age, after my studies of the issues being addressed in the mid-1930s up to the attack on Pearl Harbour, it does not seem possible to me that Washington D.C. could have been so totally unaware of the Japanese plans, or unaware of the existence of a fleet the size of the one under the command of Admiral

Admiral Yamamoto

Yamamoto.   There were so many foreigners in Japan, so many pro-American Japanese, so many sources of information about the Japanese Naval construction projects that it seems improbable that some kind of at the least roughly accurate information could have been derived out of Kyoto, Kobe, and Tokyo.
     My Father had a friend who had been working in Japan in the late 1930s.   He came back to South Texas and spoke to folks about what was going on there, about the Japanese people, the geography of Japan.  My father remembered him as saying that the Japanese people are very much admirers of Americans and America.  He declared that the family with whom he stayed in Hokkaido, who lived in a rural/seacoast area, had a very elegant Shinto shrine on their property built to venerate their ancestors.   There were pictures of various departed ones, beautiful pieces of artwork, poems, incense burning continuously, and one small censer with a baseball beside it.  Examination revealed that the baseball had been signed by a fellow named Henry Louis Gehrig in 1936.   The man of the Japanese household was very proud of the trophy, and although Gehrig was not enfermed at the time, the family put the ball there to venerate the ancestors of Lou Gehrig, an American Hero who had gone out of his way to sign a baseball for this Japanese admirer travelling on business in New York.
      This same friend of my father's also said that the Japanese were importing thousands and thousands of tonnes of scrap iron and steel from Europe and the United States.   He noted that he had seen on a trip in early 1940 to the other end of Japan, near Yokohama and Yokosuka, a huge flotilla of almost new to very new warships, at least 40 or 50 small, medium, and huge ships grouping outside the harbour as if preparing for a shakedown and training.
     My father said many times during his life that if this fellow was just another dummy like the rest of us, then how come he saw these things and the White House did not?

     In any regard, in spite of the warnings and admonitions by the man pictured above, the victor of the Battle of Pearl Harbour, Admiral Yamamoto, the Japanese Empire moved to strike and cripple America's deep water fleets in Hawai'i, essentially by a sneak attack.  Yamamoto said that a great victory at Pearl Harbour would give him six months or a year at the most to secure supply sea-routes for oil and othr necessities of war.   Failing that, the vengeance of a Sleeping Giant would never be quieted.   He saw the end of his  Empire even during the battle.    The Japanese command was amazed at how well the Americans activated their response and fought un-yieldingly against the Japanese onslaught.
        Hence, when complaints are made about Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Americans remember the 2,300 dead who never stood any chance at Pearl Harbour, and I respond for the dead and the living, "No Pearl Harbour, no Nagasaki.   No Pearl Harbour, no Hiroshima."
    Sad, but true.
    As an aside, El Gringo Viejo points out to those who complain about our having not fought the War with Japan in a kinder and gentler way, that the atomic bombing of those two cities probably saved the lives of five to ten million Japanese and at least one million American combatants had we invaded the main island.    Every Japanese girl over the age of 9 had been armed with a bamboo punji stick, sharpened to a deadly point, and taught how to use it.  "Always wait in the corner behind the door, turn and thrust quickly with the force of your upper body, pushing with all the force of your legs," were the matter of fact instructions.

Thanks for your patience with these ramblings.   Being born in 1947 and raised by parents who had friends among the Nisei who farmed in the Lower Rio Grande Valley before, during, and after the War....and considering all the Toyotas we never could wear out....perhaps our vision is blurred.   It should be pointed out that one of the flag-raisers at Iwo Jima was a Rio Grande Valley Boy from Weslaco named Harlan Block.   He was killed about 2 weeks after the flag raising.   His cousin was the coach who recommended me to the University of Texas baseball program, mentioned in a previous blog post.

El Gringo Viejo....  

A Geezer Just Has to Learn, Sometimes

    So, during the Thanksgiving episode, we had a bit of a problem with the wife's ride.   The was a crack in the top of the radiator.   We took the vehicle to the shop and had it fixed.  It was cheap enough and very quick.   The leak in the radiator was fixed.   BUT!   There was the tiniest, teeniniest little drip that showed up the next day.   Nothing, less than a drip an hour, but it was there.   After three days there was a little light that came on saying "cooling fluid low". 

     El Gringo Viejo solved that by putting in a pint of distilled water.   The drip continued.    Then the battery went dead.   El Gringo Viejo buys another battery....and then takes the vehicle to the radiator/muffler shop.    He is very kind and gentle, there is no reason to have to defend oneself at this place.   It is almost like a club.   Whosoever goes there once will not go elsewhere.   It is cheap, not inexpensive, but dirt cheap and the work, parts, etc. are all guaranteed, no questions asked.

     Three mechanics come over....it's Saturday, mid/late afternoon.   They look under, over, around, and through.  The put the hand-pressure pump on and pump it up.   They put the truck on the lift.   Finally, it drips.   It drips again.   Everybody is happy....but everybody is sad.   "Es la bomba"....(It's the pump.).    The water pump has the tiniest leak....they do not go away, they only become worse.    We change it out.   It was still very cheap by realistic standards.   And they do not use Red Chinese replacement parts.   Only new American or Mexican, or rebuilt Mexican parts.  Legitimate parts in a box that say, Made in America....or Hecho en Mexico...or Reconstuida, garantizada, EUM.    All carry life-time warranties.    No Red Chinese 23 day water pumps.

     But Wait!   There's more.    The thing is, you see....and all OROGs know what the Gringo Viejo is talking about....that my son had pointed out the leak after the radiator repair and said that it was something different...almost insignificant....but it was there.    El Gringo Viejo told everyone to leave it alone...it would stop....it's cleaning solvent....it's nothing....think positively....etc. etc. etc.

Seen while the Gringo Viejo was waiting for his
auto to be repaired.



     As the OROG probably already knows, the young whippersnapper was right and the old geezer was wrong.   This moved the Gringo Viejo a couple of steps closer to the entrance to the Nancy Pelosi Memorial Soylent Green Factory (earmark 3302a385/dm220),   He did see the Grim Reaper at the repair shop, but he was just picking up his Chevy Volt....something about a fire in the battery compartment.

More later.   Thanks for the attention and time.
El Gringo Viejo

Perfect Definition of Madness

Fed may give loans to IMF to help euro zone: paper.

Duh?  Dat really feel rilly goud, right?



Well it be.   Certainly we are in better hands when we leave the affairs of national finance to people who are much smarter than we.   After all, if the Federal Reserve can print free money for the National Socialist Banking System, and free money to feed millions of people for free, and free money to subsidize production of food for free meals for millions of people in America and elsewhere to eat for free.....then they should print free money to feed the union members and slugs of Greece, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Germany, Poland, Italy, Iceland, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Turkey, Luxembourg, and Monte Carlo, and Scabovia, and Upper Southern Vomitia and California.

    Perhaps we should feed the dogs and cats and all the little animals.   And the Polar Bears.

Pray for the state of Christ's Church.   The iceburg has been struck.   There is no hope for the ship of State.

El Gringo Viejo