One Last Note Before Departure

This is one more rant, because if it ain't writ, then there ain't no point to tryin' to get any sleep.

     The article is cryptic, summarizing the events that left a PEMEX gasoline station attendent severly burned.    A "student demonstration" near the city of Chilpancingo, Guerrero, the State's capital, turned into the predictable and desired mayhem desired by the "professors".   First-class and Deluxe long haul busses stopped in the highway with large stones and a human mass, then boarded....thugs demand that everyone get off....pilfer money, jewelry, luggage, and whatever for "the cause", and then turn the busses sidewise to the flow of the expressway lanes that normally smoothly connect Mexico City to Acapulco....traffic count of 40,000 each way per day is common.
     The mayhem had gone on in Chilpancingo for several days...part of the common marxist tactic.  They demand this and that, and the rectory and/or the local, State, and/or national government says okay, and then the agitators refuse to agree to what they were previously demanding, accusing the other side of "being insincere, patronising", and trying to trick  the "students".
       The problem is that there were no "martyrs"....people slain by the fascist brutes who are lackeys of the filthy Capitalistas Americanos and the "free-trade colonialists".    So, like the Occupy Your Property movement in the United States and other such nihilistic narcissists in Europe, it's time to break some windows and set some fires.    After all, why should anybody have any of this stuff....what about global warming?   Think globally, Act locally!
      So a batch of thugs, driven on by their university trained urban "professors", finally attack the PEMEX gasoline station across from their school complex....quite a nice one actually....and throw a molotov cocktail into a pump.
      Enter Gonzalo Rivas Camara, a pump attendant and minor repairs and auto service person one might normally find at a PEMEX station.    He runs forward first to try to put out the fire, then runs to the shut down switch that disconnects the pressure systems for the pumps.  Gonzalo is severely burned.   He is hospitalised, receiving excellent care, but finally succumbed yesterday to the murderous, depraved indifference of marxist thugs who were trying to destroy a privately owned concession of the PEMEX monopoly gasoline operation.   Gonzalo is not a rich man....not quite a poor man.....but now he is a dead man, because arrogant, atheist, elitist "professors" educated in Mexico City's best public schools essentially at no charge, decide to change their preparatory school into a popular resistence communist training camp of some sort.    In the ensuing disorders, when the authourities finally came to restore order, two of the poor innocent students were shot to death.   The leftist media, both in Mexico and worldwide, was quick to point out that "poor, Indian students, just excersising their legal rights to protest, were murdered by trigger happy cops."    There is no common lament for Gonzalo Rivas Camara, one who complied with his legal and morally correct duty, and then some.

      It is clear that the ''students'' did everythng possible to provoke the authourities.   It is true that the largest pecentage of the  body of the "protesting students" fled the area after the molotov attack on the PEMEX station.    A dedicated group of about 30 stayed and taunted the police.   They went on one charge at the police who fell back in fairly good order, considering the abandoned autos and trucks at the scene.  The next thing is gunfire, which the leftist press immediately blames upon the police.
     It is becoming clear, as was pointed out in the previous post some days back on this same blog, that the "professors" or their agents most probably fired the shots that killed their "comrades"....thereby providing the much needed martyrs.   There is solid, camera evidence taken by neutral nobodies....like people from the busses that had been stopped....that there were at least four "professors" or their agents who were carrying rifles and lurking at the rear edge of their students' grouping.    These armed people consistently took firing positions behind cover as if waiting for some opportunity to "fire for effect" .
     Sick of it, tired of it.   These same "professor" types have been coming down to this Indian areas for years with the same purpose of fomentation of useless insurrection.   They follow the same formula every time.   It is tiresome.   It is a form of premeditated murder.   These people are pathological.   Like...I have the right to demonstrate in front of your restuarant and drive you out of business because George Bush wouldn't give me a job paying 200,000 dollars per year.   Occupy?   Protest?   Spare me.

El gobernador Ángel Aguirre Rivero, el alcalde, Héctor Astudillo Flores y la sociedad civil brindaron un póstumo homenaje a Gonzalo Miguel Rivas Cámara, trabajador de Diario de Guerrero y las gasolineras "EVA" quien murió a consecuencia de las quemaduras que sufrió al apagar con un extintor el fuego de una bomba despachadora de la gasolinera EVA III; incendio provocado presuntamente por estudiantes de la escuela Normal de Ayotzinapa. (Foto: Abel Miranda Ayala)

¡JUSTICIA!

Por: Baltazar Jiménez Rosales

¡¡Justicia!!, fue el grito de total indignación que repetidamente interrumpió la ceremonia postmortem que organizó el Gobierno del Estado a... 12:42 AM

This individual was eulogized by his brother, a lieutenant in the Mexican Navy.   The Bishop, the Governor, the City Council, his mother came from Vera Cruz, and several thousand people came....at some danger to themselves....because the "liberators of the people" are very good about bullying, brutalising, terrorising, and otherwise wreaking violence on people who oppose and/or stand up to them.   The post election 2006 and 2008 stories out of Oaxaca are the norm, when people cross the commies.
     Simply please be aware that this entire incident was prefabricated by the marxist social disorder handbook.   A crummy imitation is Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals"....but it is the book of common prayer for marxist activists in these times.

El Gringo Viejo

Heading South in the Morning

     The Old Gringo will be heading down tomorrow for a spell.  The Sargento Mayor Alvaro probably was thinking that he had petrified in place and/or become a fossil.  We'll be taking down the dogs' and the cats' favourite foods and other goodies for neighbours and friends.   We'll have to measure the Labrador BiBi, and determine our plan of attack for the Spring in terms of the plants, trees, bushes, and yard projects.    Simplification will be the rule.   Alvaro says that there are people wanting to make reservations....so we shall see about that as well.

     We should be back before the end of the month.   Diana has chores line up for me here, but I always tell her not to go into too much detail about any of it, because it will all be forgotten by the time morning comes anyway.

Look for a few messages during my stay....if laziness does not consume my plans and efforts to go down to the chat-room with the good connection at the Estacion.

Until soon,

El Gringo Viej0

Banal, Drippy, Dull

Early in the morning, usually between 04:00 and 04:20, depending upon the patience of the cats and the dogs, El Gringo Viejo wakes up and stumbles in the direction of the coffee, cat food, and dog food.     At around 05:00 he tunes in to his master's voice, the SKY Satellite/Cable Service in Mexico or TWC in Texas, and clicks up  Fox and Friends, watching some of what they are airing.     Then he searches around on various Mexican local and national channels when he is in Mexico.   When in Texas, he will fish a little in the barrels  marked CNBC, Fox Business, and only rarely....just enough to refresh the memory as to why such channels are avoided...he will review the bilge at PMSNBC and other CCCPNews outlets.    

      However, one can  tire of watching Fox and Friends and almost all of FOX News programming at times, because of the banality that they manage to inject.   They forget that theirs is the network that actually does have the viewership with the higher intellectual ability.   The others think and/or say they are brainy networks...like PBS or PMSNBC or Whatever, Inc.....but it is actually Fox News.   So we should demand better.    A case in point, of many,  is the continuous pointing out that Congress only has a 5% approval rating and that O'bamaham is going to run against Congress because he can't run on his record.

       The approval rating of 5% is at once complicated and simple.   All sides are angry with both the "other side's" side and with their "own side's" side simultaneously.  My side is angry because the Republicans should (but don't) come out and explain briefly that if people want to spend 1,000,000 dollars for a box of matches in a couple of years.    They should also explain that for said reason....they are going to filibuster and block every program and department's funding until a complete budget is presented which includes an 8% across the board  cut in funding.   Only the War Department and the two stupid entitlements Social Security and Medicare will be kept at the old level.

        The Party of Perpetual Unemployment Compensation and Baby Mother Funding is angry because their "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need" drones have not already, at the least, either imprisoned everyone who has more than anyone else or better yet just taken all 100,000,000 who compose the 1% and led them to the guillotine.

What Father O'bamaham and the
Occupy Your Property Movement considers
an instrument of an applied "teachable moment".

        That is why there is a 5% approval rating.   Each side is impatient with  their own side.   Each side hates the other side's side.  It is a wonder that there is a rating as high as 5%.

Old Gringo to Fox News:   Don't waste air time with innocuous bilge.    Instead of doing a "FOX News Alert!" about how  "John Wilkes Booth is surrounded by Union troops and the barn where he is hole'd up is a'fire!".....it might be better to run articles about how the farmers and the the grocery stores and the food processors have made an alliance signed with Satan and the professional food stampers union.....

       They could do a special report on how the farmers and the bureaucrats signed another accord with Satan to put ethanol into perfectly good gasoline.     Did anyone ever notice how the miles/gallon falls about 10% when we put ethanol-poisoned gasoline in our tanques?

       Another article could be done on (Sir Edmund)Hillary Rodham's 40 biggest whoppers.   That could fill an entire season with reality shows that are real....Camel rides, anyone?    It could be called "Getting to Know America's Most Admired  Lady" . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBOf8HggAb4&feature=related   Some of it could be filmed at that Epic Picture about the War Between the States setting...the Plantation....what was the name of that plantation...????   Oh! But of course....Corkscrew-Flakjacket on the Sewanee, such a romantic  place with Magnolias and fried green tomatoes and smoking compounds of religious kooks burning in the background.   The smoking compound is the forerunner of the present day "Fast and Furious" program to strip Americans of legal firearms ownership.

    It just seems like the time has come to fight.   Every social program set in place by the central government has failed in its stated purpose and led us to the ruin that was predicted at each point of enactment.    They are using the armed forces to promote....what?   Lesbie-smooches?  They want lesbie-smooches but they don't want a major parade or a set of parades to celebrate the return of victorious troops who fought and won a thankless war that Harry Reid pronounce once...."This war is lost!" on the Senate floor?????

More later.....

El Gringo Viejo

        

Odds and Ends

Resolutions for the New Year?   No, we avoid making commitments that neither can nor will be fulfilled.    Stopped smoking, about 20 years ago....not because of being told by them or him or her or the central government ''surgeon general" .    Just stopped....no nicomatic, no tobackyblaster, no Chief Ludvig von Barfing Bear's Wigwam of Holy Sweatrocks 53-Step  Smoking Remediation Program of  the Stars (approved for Medicare and Medicaid).   I already stopped beating my wife because my hand started hurting too much, and I stopped taking six newspapers from the dispensing machine instead of just one because my pet parrots and owls all escaped and there were no cages to be cleaned any longer.

     During a recent visit upstate, we were exchanging a visit with the in-laws of our daughter.  They are a fine couple, very intelligent and generous and the perfect grandparents for our two granddaughters.    My comadre, after an excellent buffet she had arranged for us, her parents, our son-in-law and daughter, and our granddaughters finally asked the Old Gringo to explain ...."when it all happened".    She and her husband are very accomplished and polished people, more than a tad more intelligent than the Gringo Viejo....so it was a bit of a challenge to inform someone who has more of an intellectual edge than oneself.    Her point of reference was, "When did the idea of total courseness in deportment and total assault upon the conventional mainstays of of the culture begin?"

     At first it was thought a bit of a joke, because her analysis would be as good or better than my own.   Discussion concerning matters such as this question is what has kept university student union buildings full both in the coffee shops and the meeting rooms for many generations.    But, the Gringo Viejo painted out his own answer....Lincoln establishes the right of the central government to force people at the point of a bayonette to submit to the will of another group of people on the basis that the latter find the former objectionable.

      This seminal concept changes the Constitution of the United States from an instrument of guidance for governance of a Republic into a vehicle of legal leverage that will finally result in the establishment of an organic law democracy.   Leftist, populist, labour, anarchist, and finally "progressive" movements began to form up a persistent, new, and seductive policy during the period from the late 1880s through the early 1930s.

       That policy had three heads:

                                   (1)    The certainty that human psychology and society could be perfected

                                   (2)    The necessity to put only "elites" in charge of the necessary changes

                                   (3)    The correct vehicle to obtain "change" is government force.

     The answer to my comadre's question in short form then was that the elimination of the traditional culture became the active central focus finally, in the latest part of the 1960s and especially in the 1970s to the present.   Saul Alinsky, an atheist Jew, is feared and loathed by the American Right because he wrote the definitive instructions for the turning of America into an uncleanable septic tanque.    This writer sees Alinsky more like compiler of Bolshevik rabble-rousing tactics, and perhaps a thwarted stand-up comic from Hell.   He was a person of sufficient intelligence to know that his policies would bring ruin upon any country that followed them, and he also did not care....he simply hated America because he felt that he was not allowed to "fit in".

      There is something odd....very queer....about a Jew who embraces communism.   There is something creepy about a Jew who hates Judaism and Jews, but then blames his lack of social adaptation on the fact that he is Semitic.

     Violent and "non-violent" agents for "change" in America all used his book as a Bible for their relentless insurrection.   Barak Hussein Obama keeps this book on his bedstand.    Everything he has done during his public life has been based on the simple rules laid down by his "guardian demon".    Isolate your enemy....ridicule your enemy....saturate the universities with professors who will spend 50 per cent of their class-time with marxist indoctrination.   Always express your cause and objectives in short phrases....always find an "ethnic" victim and blame his plight upon the "system" or upon "White America".   Always remember the first objective is to destroy America and then rebuild a new country based upon the precepts of pure marxist dogma.    The Democratic Socialist Peoples' Republic of Free Atlantis.

     The joke in all of this is that Saul Alinsky and all his ilk are derived from social thinkers like George Bernard Shaw, Woodrow Wilson, Annie Wittenburg, Eleanor Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Margaret Sanger, Adolf Hitler, Nikolai Lenin, Carrie Nations, Leon Trotsky, Che Guevara, and a host of other similarly- inspired social engineers.    Whether we like it or not, Franklin Roosevelt would not shake hands with Jesse Owens, and Margaret Sanger found her greatest inspiration in the "advanced" and socially progressive techniques of the National Socialist (Nazi) medical industry.

WCTU Beauty Contest
Judged to have been safe from
assault by even a sober saloon patron.
The one on the far left (lavender
dress)is Barney Frank's great-grandfather.

    By the term "his ilk", one must include Bill and Hillary, Barry and Michelle, Ted and Hanoi Jane, etc. etc. etc.     But Old Gringo....it's not nice to always drag out the "Hitler Word" when making these baseless accusations....and terms like socialist.... and bolshevik.   And that is true.   But...worse than true, it's also factually accurate and necessary.

      The irony is certainly that these people use the American Negro as the skeleton key to turn every lock, and yet, their first and continuing objective was and will continue to be the elimination of the Negro race from American soil, and ultimately from the face of the Planet.  They have the same fate planned for all the inferior races, including Slavs, most Jews, all Arabs, most Orientals, all people from the South...(aka - white trash)...mentally retarded people, Mexicans and most other people with any Latin background.    You see, only the chosen will be allowed to determine that foul-mouthed, communist Whoopie Goldberg is a "Good Negro" and Herman Cain is a "Bad Negro".   We know because Gloria Alred took side on that case....and Gloria, like Nancy Pelosi, is one of the "enlightened".   Gloria Alred also loves Guatemalan illegal aliens....for 3 minutes and 32 seconds.

       But, to the point, the abolition of prayer in public schools, the extension of AFDC and food programs of many kinds, and other public support for the indolent, all coming from the entitlements etched in stone on the face of American social structure in the 1960s....and the continuing onslaught since....is why the Gringo Viejo says that the stone began its inexorable roll down the mountainside in the late 1960s and 1970s and will probably continue until such time that there is a massive rejection of public assistance at the polls....or when all is destroyed by the return of the guillotine and all the producers are beheaded and their pants pockets rifles for the last brass shilling.
      This little Christmas episode with the people identified above was something of what El Gringo Viejo refers to as a Rockwellian Moment.   We are all so dull and boring.....the old man of the group had quite a business career and flew B-17's over Germany.  My compadre is a Navy type and, (your humble servant is Army), worked all over Mexico in the oil business and other places in the world during interesting and dangerous times, literally hundreds of spellbinding stories and personal friends in high places.  The Gringo Viejo is the least of them with similar experiences and accomplishments, albeit to a lower scale of accomplishment.    The younger man, the son-in-law is somewhere in the stratosphere of a major computer company as is his wife (our daughter ) and the grandchildren look like poster children for a poster about poster grandchildren.    They are even polite and civilised.
      Why would any of them ask a blowhard like me my opinion about anything?   They are very good company one and all.   I do not deserve to be favoured by them.

Happy New Year.   We'll be heading down to our little place on the side of the Sierra Madre in a couple or three days.   Be sure to write in with questions should they arise.
El Gringo Viejo     

It Never Ends

     The Old Gringo is too lazy anymore to rile up big.   But when there is a boatload of bilge that is bigger than Beaumont and Baton Rouge combined, a Hulk just has to say something.

     The  Chairman of the Democrat Party of Texas has decided to point out that Rick Perry is a big ole' meanie.  In his recent editorial release for publication throughout the Republic of Texas, the Chairman points out that Perry hates  school children who attend schools with very few children in the classrooms.   El Gringo Viejo went to school in the first two grades of primary with 40 beaming little, snotty faces in the room....no air conditioning...McAllen, Texas.   No problem.

                               Boyd Richie states,"Our school-children are being shoved into already overcrowded classrooms and media reports indicate that tens of thousands of teachers will lose their jobs because of Republican budget cuts.   Not even Pre-K children was (sic) left un-scathed as $208,000,000 were cut from vital Pre-K programs on which countless Texans depend. (?)  And Medicaid was funded only through three-fourths of the budget cycle.   So if the legislature isn't able to quickly fill in that budget hole before 2013, set up the guest room, because nursing homes are shutting down and grandma will need a place to stay." (There are four false or ignorant statements included in the short quote above.   Send a note to the Gringo Viejo pointing out those four statements  plus 5 dollars and he will give you winning numbers for lottery tickets....free!)

    He goes on with the marvellous, and ever so original Democrat/Socialist saw of ".....Campaigning on a platform to kick people off the government dole while treating himself to a government funded life of luxury most taxpayers can barely imagine, is shameful".    It is particularly poignant when one considers the image of Father Obamaham splittin' rails for the po' folks down there in the South....way south....like Hawai'i for seventeen days

     LET'S TRY ONE MORE TIME, BOYD RICHIE, and see if you are in need of remediation or if the task is hopeless and you should be promoted to a higher level of incompetency.  The person you have employed to write your editorial comment is in desperate need of a basic English language rhetoric and composition class.

This is the Governor's Mansion as it appeared before
the "incident".   It was actually a bit smallish, although
extremely elegant, august, and a point of pride for all
Texans.

     Governor Perry draws the ire of Boyd Richie because the Governor draws a salary of 150,000 yankee greenback dollars per year.   Mr. Richie is also angry because the Governor uses up 10,000 dollars per month to live in a fancy rental somewhere in an area of Austin where there is segregation.....like where Democrats might not live in abundance.   Like almost all Democrats, Mr. Richie cannot avoid steering into the morass of a "mistruth" when he could just as easily practice some form of veracity.

This is how the Mansion looks after considerable repair
work has been done.   The vandalisation, of course, is a story
unto itself.   It was torched by a person that would be
a good candidate for leader of the OCCUPY movement.

      His biggest lie is a bit more skillful.   He can plead ignorance.   He can plead stupidity.   He can say, "I'm too busy and important to have to bother myself with things like incontrovertible evidence, truth, and/or facts."   Mr. Richie is a very important person, it is true, and since he is a Democrat, he is allowed to lie without fear of challenge by anyone in any form of the more traditional media.    Democrats can lie, because it is only fair, since they are doing good and Republicans only do bad.

       Mr. Richie points out that not only does the Governor's salary place him very close to being in the 1%, especially in Texas, but he has also used his influence and special interest, lobbying power to extract money from the Retirement fund.    And he is even eligible to receive health care for the rest of his life, provided by the State of Texas.    BUT THEN, HERE IS THE AWFUL TRUTH.    In Texas, the Texas State Employees' Retirement System is not like the Social Security Ponzi Scheme System of the Democrats.    In Texas, each employee in service to the State of Texas pays a portion of his salary each month into his own, personal, assigned, and dedicated retirement fund.   The employees of the various school districts in the State....be they teachers, aides, administrators, janitors, bus-drivers, or whatever....participate in a similar system but exclusively reserved for them, called the Texas State Teachers' Retirement System.

At any time that a person has laboured well for the State of Texas in one of these areas at some combination of years of life and years of service that equal 80 years, that person can elect to remove any or all of that retirement fund....under certain caveats and conditions....both to the favour of the State and to the Pensioner....to his personal control.

      During the time of employment, the money contributed to the fund is invested in fairly dull and boring instruments and the pension fund grows.   The Trustees may well be cronies and political appointees, but their record in the handling of many, many billions of dollars in trust for these employees is better than Father Obamaham's most trusted go to guys...like Corzine, and another favourite contributor, Madoff, or perhaps that great investor, Marc Rich.   What a team you could make with Clinton's and Obamaham's financial people....throw in Fannie and Freddie and Franklin Raines....wowsers....!

      But in Texas, you see, we are all rather backwards....Jed Clampett type folks....so we have the system that allows a person to own his retirement.   If he dies, the balance or a system of payments is paid to the survivours or beneficiaries.   How novel.    Nobody who can avoid it is on Social Security....because Social Security is a Ponzie Scheme, illegal if attempted by any private person....only permitted if it is operated by people who need a system to try to scare the heeby-jeebys out of dull, stupid people who think that Obama gives them a check every month for being good proles.    Even we geezers who take our Social Security checks know that it is a scam and a sham.....

      But not the Texas State Retirement Systems.   The recipients OWN THEIR PENSIONS.   They paid for them.   GOVERNOR PERRY HAS THE NUMBER OF YEARS OF AGE AND SERVICE TO EXTRACT HIS PENSION IF HE CHOOSES.    ACCORDING TO THE LAW HERE, HE IS FURTHER ALLOWED TO APPLY HIS SERVICE AS AN AIR FORCE OFFICER TO THAT TIME.   HE AND ALL OF THE PEOPLE IN THE SYSTEM CAN CHOOSE TO MAINTAIN THEIR PARTICIPATION IN THE HEALTH INSURANCE PLAN OPERATED BY THE STATE.   IT IS NOT PAID BY THE STATE.   IT IS PAID THROUGH PREMIUMS PAID BY THE PENSION POLICY HOLDER.    BY COMMON LAW, THE LAW COMMON TO THE PAUPER IS APPLIED TO THE PRINCE, AND PERRY IS PLAYING BY THE LAW.

 The plane in front is like the one  Capt. Rick Perry
flew in the Air Force.

   In fairly short order, the larger part of Perry's "windfall" will be gone, and his pension will be paying him a little shy of 90,000 yankee greenback dollars per year.   Much less than Barney Frank who never flew a C130 under any condition....or an A6 Torpedo bomber...or an F4 Phantom....or an F105 Interceptor....but who did manage to allow his "friend" to operate a male prostitution ring out of Barney's apartment for a year....but Barney assured us he never knew about it, and received a standing ovation for it when he came back to the floor of the House of Representatives after lying about every aspect of his situation.   Barney needs his pension....a pension that is thrice the size of Perry's.  Barney helps the poor and the little people.   He gives them Social Security.

     El Gringo Viejo closes with this paragraph from Mr. Boyd Richie, the Chairman of the Democrat Party of Texas....this is a complete, free-standing paragraph....not taken out of context in any way.    It represents the best thought of the Democrat Party of Texas.   Mr. Richie boldly states, "Clearly the only person Rick Perry believes should be the beneficiary of any kind of state benefits is Rick Perry."

     

Wondering why there is no picture of Rick Perry pushing Grandma off the cliff in her wheelchair, and not being disposed to vote for Rick for anything unless he is chosen to run against Father Obamaham in November....we remain ever grateful for your patience.

El Gringo Viejo

Gringo? Perceptions and misconceptions

Green Grow The Rashes

This song was known from the time of Bobbie Burns, the Scottish Poet, and a literary genius many times over.   He was obviously influenced by the English and the Irish, and he influenced them.  He was the Gringo Viejo's father's favourite in the panoply of those who job it was to stain paper with ink.   Over the years Robert Burns has risen in the estimation of this writer as well.

      The thing is, although many would never admit it, and many more have never heard of Bobbie Burns, there are those who would say that this famed bard was the father of the term or word....."gringo".    A poem this short-lived, talented man wrote, and titled Green Grow the Rashes, Oh! was a popular ditty set to music in various pubs throughout the British Isles.   Songs, with varying lyrics, some quite bawdy, some quite delicate were sung by men in all corners of the world.   It is thought that exhanges between the lines during the War Between the States were sung by soldiers during the night.   The Gringo Viejo's mother and grandmother....the ones from the South...both sang this song while doing housework or driving in the auto.   At times, they would sing it as a lullaby for a feverish, sick, or injured child or grandchild.

     They both would use the Scottish or original form which is printed below.....

Chor. - Green grow the rashes, O; Green grow the rashes, O; The sweetest hours that e'er I spend, Are spent amang the lasses, O. There's nought but care on ev'ry han', In ev'ry hour that passes, O: What signifies the life o' man, An' 'twere na for the lasses, O. Green grow, (refrain) The war'ly race may riches chase, An' riches still may fly them, O; An' tho' at last they catch them fast, Their hearts can ne'er enjoy them, O. Green grow, (refrain)  But gie me a cannie hour at e'en, My arms about my dearie, O; An' war'ly cares, an' war'ly men, May a' gae tapsalteerie, O! Green grow, (refrain) For you sae douce, ye sneer at this; Ye're nought but senseless asses, O: The wisest man the warl' e'er saw, He dearly lov'd the lasses, O. Green grow, (refrain) Auld Nature swears, the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes, O: Her prentice han' she try'd on man, An' then she made the lasses, O. Green grow, (refrain) etc. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

AND THE SECOND IS LIKE UNTO IT....

     However, the OROG will see below where it is stated that ".....other scholars date the term...." the Old Gringo would like to dissuade any OROG from consideration of such a statement as anything remotely possible.    The term "gringo" most certainly became a part of the constant Mexican vernacular suddenly during the first months of the  Mexican - American War of 1846 - 1848.   It was heard by John J. Audubon when he left the wharfs of Vera Cruz during his sojourn in Mexico even during the hostilities in 1847.

     The term began to be used during the penetration by American forces under the commands of Generals  Taylor and Worth on the route between Matamoros and Monterrey in 1846.   Troops would draw up in rank and file, and in parade order when moving through the various small towns and major ranch communities, so as to control the men under military discipline and to provide the Mexicans with the fair impression that the invaders were civilised and intended no harm to the general populace.

     Part of this march order presentation was to sing marching songs.   Two of the songs were those posted here.   The lyrics had perhaps hundreds of slight variations, scores of geographical variations, and different venues where one set of lyrics might have been more appropriate than others.   Children would run out of the villages when the American soldiers would come near....demanding "Gringo...!   Cantan Gringo!    Cantan!!!"   Sing...Sing the Gringo song....Sing!

     Gringo as a word in Spanish was the best effort made by people unused to new words, especially with the use to two hard "g's" and one with a following sub-ligual "r" ....and an "r" that was not a rolled double "rr"  such as the two adjacent words "Green grows the grass"....Difficult for any Mexican, literate or illiterate, and impossible for almost all children.   Further, the Mexicans had made it fairly clear that their citizenship and patriotism were not for sale, but their amiability and desire to do business with the "new reality" was certainly "for lease".     So, the relations were not perfect, but there were wide areas of common effort and interaction "for the greater good". 

      This assisted somewhat lax relationship between invader and defender helped an Irish-Mexican priest from one of the local parishes to penetrate the Americans security apparatus and in fairly short order seduce away about 500 recent Irish conscripts and/or voluteers in the advancing American army.   This formed the nucleus of the famous Batallon de San Patricio, with made up a smart and effective infantry and light artillery unit, finally numbering about 700 effectives.   These fellows would see heavy action during the enagements in and around Monterrey later, and then once again to the southeast of Saltillo where the Mexican Army essentially defeated the American Army, and then for some unknown reason pulled away and moved to the south, without taking the surrender or forcing the retreat of General Taylor.   The Americans, the Irish defectors, and the general demeanor of men away from home, children, and the innate sense of hospitality of the Mexican at any level brought two adjacent words into eternal fame as a contraction that identified that new race of man, the American....the Gringo.

      Couriers and other transfer of information could normally link the Capital of Mexico with these outlying areas in about one week....very quick by American reckoning for the day....so the tales about the children, the songs, and the interaction between invader and defender were fairly well known in fairly short order.   In 1847, the term "Gringo"  was published in newspapers quite commonly, and referred always to Americans, American soldiers, and American whatever.    Therefore, whomsover believes that the term comes from the green uniforms and gold buttons of General "Black Jack" Pershing, and his mainly Negro units of regular cavalry and mounted infantry during their pursuit of Pancho Villa.....that is fine....but whomsoever professes it as knowledge of fact to other people, is an ignorant fool.    Simply not true....simply 70 years too late....    And yes, they referred to the Negro soldiers as Gringos, too.

      Finally, as has been stated before, the word "Gringo" is not a perjoritive unless it is used as one.   El Gringo Viejo and his late brother made a pact to restore and maintain the word "Gringo" as the neutral title for Americans and things of and/or of an American nature.

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(The following is presented from a source which is, in its first part, probably substantially accurate.  The second part is patently untrue. It is probably also false that Pancho Villa's forces had anything to do with the attack on Columbus, New Mexico or on about 99% of the banditry and Mexican military provocations during the terms of Carranza and Obregon during their presidencies the 1916 through 1924 period on the American border with Mexico.)  This ballad is based on a similar song, Green Grows the Laurel, that was popular in 17th century Scotland. The American ballad tells the story of an American soldier's love for a Mexican lass. Though I don't have the words for the earlier version, it evidently had a similar theme, albeit with different nationalities.There are countless versions of the song, I have included only two. One story of the songs origin speculates that Cowboys in South Texas loved to sing the song. Across the way, Mexicans, who could not understand the words, could only hear "GREEN GROW". So white Americans became known as "Gringo" by the Mexicans. However, other scholars date the term to the incursion of American troops in Mexico to search for Pancho Villa.

Green grow the lilacs, all sparkling with dew I'm lonely, my darling, since parting with you; But by our next meeting I'll hope to prove true And change the green lilacs to the Red, White and Blue. Green grow the lilacs reminding me of The ones that I brought you with all of my love, The gates of my country will open for you And change the green lilacs to the Red, White and Blue. Green grow the lilacs, Your favorite flow'r, So sweetly perfuming - a sad parting hour. Oh send me a message - That you love me too, Let's change the green lilacs to the Red, White and Blue. Repeat first verse. Alternate Version: Green grow the lilacs, all sparkling with dew I'm lonely, my darling, since parting with you; But by our next meeting I'll hope to prove true And change the green lilacs to the Red, White and Blue. I once had a sweetheart, but now I have none She's gone and she's left me, I care not for one Since she's gone and left me, contented I'll be, For she loves another one better than me. I passed my love's window, both early and late The look that she gave me, it makes my heart ache; Oh, the look that she gave me was painful to see, For she loves another one better than me. I wrote my love letters in rosy red lines, She sent me an answer all twisted and twined; Saying,"Keep your love letters and I will keep mine Just you write to your love and I'll write to mine." This picture was taken during happier times, and included General Alvaro Obregon (l), General Francisco Villa (c) and General Black Jack Pershing in El Paso, Texas in 1914, before Villa and Obregon went at each other in a series of famous battles during the Mexican Revolution of 1910 - 1917.    Pershing and his white and mainly Negro forces were all considered "Gringos" even before the later incursion in 1916, which pitted the two friends, Pancho and Black Jack against each other in a confrontatin neither wanted, and both knew to be a CYA by Woodrow Wilson and his lackies who were trying to cover up the failures of their Mexican policy.  The next year, 'peace candidate' Wilson would have the "Gringo" in a war in Europe.   Wilson's Mexico policies indirectly would be the cause of 50 years of ensuing rot, corruption, and socialist misery.