Anglican Back to the Future

The events of Life lead to Death.    And yesterday El Gringo Viejo was required by an inner voice to make a quiet presence at the funeral and burial of a lady who was one of the shining jewels of the crown of McAllen, nay, unto the crown of South Texas.   She was a person who had an impact on this life and on many others.

      She was a teacher when teachers served a calling, and were not professionals.    She was a brilliant linguist.   She was a well-studied and truly learned person.   She always walked straight, sat straight, and talked straight.   Her physical posture, professional posture, and spiritual posture were always straight.

      She came from the colonial stock of Spanish settlers who entered into the area this part of Texas was known as Nuevo Santander during the latter third of the 1700s.   Some of her people came out of established places in Queretaro, others were relative late arrivals to the Spanish Colonial empire in the New World.    They were productive people.   They were tested by fire, drought, Indian raids, wars, freezes, hurricanes, and the common challenges of living in a thorny wilderness.

      It was known among the Anglos that she was one of the "Royal Land Grant People".    About fifty percent of the people in and around the Brownsville, McAllen, Rio Grande City, and Roma area who were Spanish surnamed had either total or partial ancestry into that group in those days.   To this day, there are many of such people who still maintain most or at least significant portions of the land grants that came out of Madrid during the Spanish Colonial period.

     Although she had this blue-blood background, she was also humble person who always sought to assist others or contribute to various causes, such as the anti-polio efforts of the late 1940s - early 1950s.   Many other causes were helped by her efforts.  She was also a dutiful and competent wife, mother, and neighbour.

     She had been born into the Roman Catholic Church, and during the latter half of her life she had drifted into the Episcopal environs, teaching at St. Alban's (Episcopal) School in Harlingen and Saint John's (Episcopal) School in McAllen.  It is not known if she became an Episcopalian, or ceased being a Roman communicant because among Anglicans that is not really important.   Any person baptised in Christ can come to the communion rail.   It is perhaps better to, at some time or another , seek confirmation into the Anglican Communion, but for many Orthodox, Romans, and traditionalists, the Episcopal Church offered a refuge of constancy until about 30 years ago.

     We were not surprised recently, for instance, when a prominent Roman Catholic family whose children had attended Saint John's School decided to have a large, formal wedding at Saint John's.   It was quite a shindig.   The flowers alone were stunning and represented a minor fortune, which they left for Mass for the following Sunday.   The vases were crystal and huge, set at the aisle edge of each pew.  They left those to the Church, as well. There was all the typical falderah of a fancy Mexican wedding; the lasso, the aras, Ave Maria, the godfather of this and the godfather of that, the something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue, and a silver sixpence for her shoe.   The celebrant was the same priest who is rector of Saint John's Episcopal.   It was a complete clash and fusion of English Anglicism and Spanish Romanism.   All very, very pleasant and unforced.

     In any regard, the funeral was typically Episcopal.   Short...about 25 minutes.   Certain prayers, the collect, the Epistle, a sermon of quiet words and recognitions.   There is no happy joking or rocking anthems....just the organist and a soloist who did a pleasant rendition of Ave Maria....the organist plays a recessional,  Ode to Joy, as the crucifrix and the casket leave the sanctuary.    The casket was never opened.  It was covered by a beautiful, luxurious tapestry, it was quiet.   The funeral home was august, correct, professional, and absolutely dignified in its administration of its events and responsibilities.   About 100 people waited for about 20 family members and closest friends to followed the priest out.....all boarded up, and drove slowly to the very elegant and presentable Roselawn Cemetery in McAllen.
      But herein is the purpose of the Gringo Viejo's observation.   All of this prologue is written with a bit of trepidation.   This event was for the family of the one who was being buried from Saint John's, not for me.   But what made it perfect for what is necessarily a sad event  was that the service had reverted to the ancient book, the Old English as it is found in the now demised 1928 Book of Common Prayer (which was little changed from the original as published and authorised in America in 1790, and in England in 1662).   Much of that Book was based upon the first formations of the Prayer Book in English that was developed during the turmoil of the 1550s.    It's good to know that the Holy Spirit is actually the wine that is consecrated for the Eucharist, and that there is still a Holy Ghost who is in charge of mysteriously causing Holy Mysteries and the suspension of normal natural law.

     The losing of a nearly 100 year old secular saint is not pleasant, but the service also allowed it to not be an unpleasant thing by invoking the eloquence of the ancient words.

The New York Times Outdoes FOX News?

Every now and then a person has to recognise the truth for the sake of recognising the truth.  In yesterday's New York Times, a good article came to the surface about corruption touching the O'bamaham campaign funding process.   The activities are concentrated around a place called Chicago.   The issue involves people of the infamous Cardona family, well known in a place called Chicago and in the semi-legal gambling casino business in Mexico.

     As in the old movies, the family members are very good about saying, "I'm just a regular businessman.   My business and my life are an open book, Mr. Ness.   I've been clean ever since I got out, Mr. Ness."    They are not good people however.    The article attached to this linkage provided below shows some of the ins and outs, and some of the interlocularity that this horrid family has twixt the underworld, the overworld, and the politicalworld.   Next, the Gringo Viejo surmises, the New York Times will be obliged to run a less accurate article trying to implicate the Mexican National Action Party, Sarah Palin, Herman Cain, All Republican Presidential candidates, and the Bishop of Rome in dealings with this horrid family of mafiosi.   The entirety of their activities in Mexico, in terms of politics, has been with the Partido Revolucionario Democratico (weird left) and the Partido Revolucionario Institutional (old, dull, centre-left).

     It should suffice to point out that  when the Cardona sister-in-law says that "the family is really nice people....that I know this really looks bad....Pepe is really good people"....that the reader of the article is at liberty to draw his own conclusions.    Pepe was a marxist radical student organiser at the University of Iowa during the 1990s and also managed to get in some training for his later life by embezzling funds from the student government accounts over which he managed to gain authourity during his time as president of the student body.   Before long this will spill into all aspects of the family's life and into the methods of operation of the President who declared that everything would be on C-Span, there would be no special interest funding, that there would be .....blah,blah,blah.

Special Note to OROGs:    Immediately upon posting this message, the linkage went dead.  We urge OROGs to access the New York Times directly in their own manner and exercise their own ample intelligence to track this article down.   It is probable that the human beings flooded the linkage after the article was posted on Drudge, and after various news outlets in Mexico began citing the article.   Therefore it would probably serve well to just go to the regular front door and search from there.

Onward through the Fog.
El Gringo Viejo
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/07/us/politics/major-obama-donors-are-tied-to-pepe-cardona-mexican-fugitive.html?_r=1

When the Detroit Kid was known as "Rowdy Yates"

"Well, Mr. Faver, I guess you're right about that .   I fought the Yankees the best I could.  I've tried to give you and the Faver people good service.   But, I guess I've really stepped in it this time."

     "Everything you say is right, son.  You've done good by us.   But when you turn away from the idea that every man has to drive his own herd, plow his own furrow, or fight his own battle, you kinda drift away from the rest of the herd.

      "I know you want to help the folks in New Orleans.   But, Detroit isn't in New Orleans.   And stupid, pot-smoking, beer drinking union thugs aren't exactly the kind of people Hey Sus, and Wishbone, and the rest of the boys hope that their daughters bring home to meet their daddy.  Why would you film an ad in a dump that's the same bad as the dump you were pushing, anyway?   Would you film an ad for New Orleans in Detroit?   What in the hairy hopscotch were you thinking, Boy?"   Mr. Favor shook his head, holding his tin coffee cup twixt his calloused hands, all the while with holding fast to his fresh rolled cigarette twixt  the middle and index fingers in his inimitable, almost prayerful way.

       "I know Mr. Favor, but I was confusing America with labour unions.   I know that bailing out the companies by expropriation isn't exactly the law of the west, but...."

        The trail boss looked at Rowdy sharply.   Smoke from the mesquite-wood campfire streaked between them, as if representing the wall that had been built by the new events. "Son, you have to understand that you've broken the bond of the cowboy.   Right now back East, there's a man that is bound and determined to figure out how to make light come out of electricity.    I hear that there's a couple of boys who think they can make a bicycle fly.   The Favors back in Shafter, my people, have already lined up a telephone from the ranch all the way to Alpine and Marfa.   They say that in another year they're going to be able to talk to San Antonio and even New York City. And not a nickel's worth of government money's gone into it.   But there you are sayin' that it's okay for the government to tell the widders and orphans that their investment portfolio is just a bunch of fancy papers...changed in to nothin' in the stroke of a pen.   No preferred stocks, no bonds, only the unions stayed in.   They own the companies now, and they were the ones who caused the companies to go broke to start with.   This all just breaks my heart and burns my soul."   He paused for a drag on his cigarette, and then continued. 

        "Rowdy, look here at Hey Sus, he's just a dumb Mexkin like us.   But he works on the drive over 18 hours a day.   He came with no English and now he talks better than most of the guys pokin' cows out there.   His kids are doin' great and his wife has that job back in Alpine that she's turned into a business.   And you take time out ramroddin' for us to push sales for a bunch of lazy slobs who want the government to pay them for smokin' dope and drinkin' beer while they assemble cars for more money in an hour than Hey Sus or you make in a day.   If you're goin' to push horseless carriages...then why not for the Toyota plant in San Antonio?  We buy Yankee things...what's wrong with buying Japanese things?...'specially when they're better and they're made in Texas....and the workers are free men....and wimmin....not union slugs.

      "Well, Mr. Faver, like I said...it's best if I head on over the horizon.   Probably west, maybe Mexico...one way or the other.  Maybe..."

      "Now, Boy....don't go thinkin' that this is some kind of an exile.   Hell, son...we went through Chickamauga together and Shiloh, too.   You go and get your bats out of your belfry, or at least lined up where they're supposed to be.   Come around when we make it up to the railhead....we should make it there in a couple of months, with good weather.   Here's your pay....and it little based on your share.  Don't send me any messages from a jail somewhere. Keep your nose clean and we'll looking for you at the end of this road."

     And with that Rowdy mounted up and rode into the darkness.  Favor wasn't too worried about letting the boy move out in the dark.   A full moon, and a good familiarity with the route to Shawnee would get him to a decent stop by an hour after sunrise.   He could find a place with a tub and real soap and hot water and a decent shave....and maybe start teaching the bats where they were going to have to line up in the future.

El Gringo Viejo

Pants on Fire

Rueters, McClatchy, AP, and almost all news wires and sources:   We see through your deceptions.   We know that you are not stupid, so we must deduce that you think we are.  Sorry, you are out of luck.

(1)    Mexico is dangerous, a failed state, and the population is begging for an end to Calderon's War which is killing innocent people, especially Americans, by the hundreds every day.  No one supports him, and he is the most unpopular President in Mexico's history. The problem is that none of this is true.

      The fact is that a fundamental hard-liner has won the Partido de Accion Nacional nomination for President.    She defeated two other good candidates who were also committed to the successful prosecution of the War.    The present President has a 58% approval rating.  About 21% oppose the War....primarily the leftists and ultra leftists who are composed of the "forever marching and protesting" nihilists, anarchists, and marxists.  The other 21% are dyed-in-the-wool "reasonable" leftists and slugs of the old PRI party.   The latter are the ones who suggested that we should "let boys be boys" and traffick their marihuana and drugs, because, "after all, the use of that stuff is innocuous, it's a victimless crime, and the only ones damaged are a few Americans and a some Negroes."    Because the PRI was based upon marxist precepts and the notion that Man can perfect the condition of the human race, it dealt always in rationalism....let us be reasonable....we can control this thing....we have to accommodate these people and understand their point of view.
      Accomodating a Satanic gorilla as a house-pet usually results in the masters being shredded and eaten, and the house being destroyed.   "But I thought they were vegetarians.  Why did they eat us?"  And the voice responded, "Because they wanted to."
      The "knowledgeable" news sources are immediately going to begin to defame Josefina Vazquez Mota.   She is called "La Borracha"  because everybody knows  she's a drunk.   Everybody knows she's the ugliest woman in Mexico, even children call her '' the girl with the monkey face from the Planet of the Apes''.    And, after all, everybody knows she is corrupt and there are rumours that she stole billions of pesos from the secretariat she ran into the ground....etc. etc. etc.    None of the negatives are true, and the childish name-calling are symptomatic of the typical name-calling the left practices, while accusing the right of being the only ones who are insensitive and snarly.
      Furthermore, although people not want to believe it, and almost everyone knows that it is not true, the number of killings, murders in the first and second degree that take place in the United States of America is much greater in number than in Mexico.

     To continue in this vein, the press points out over and over and over again that there are two Missionaries who were murdered in the cartel plagued Monterrey area.   It's just too dangerous because of the cartel violence and the churches are sending their people over to security classes...at least the ones who are still stupid enough to go to Mexico....but everybody knows that misisonaries are being targetted.   Of course it turns out that the murders of that fine couple...actually really nice people who had moved to that beautiful part of Mexico 30 years ago from Amarillo, Texas and raised their family there....was an inside job.    The door was not kicked in, there were no shots fired, it was made to look like a random burglary but a well hidden wall safe was removed from the wall.   Neighbours saw no strange vehicles around the place, and the investigators and even family members suspect someone who is close to the family is guilty of the "intellectual authourship" and/or the actual acts.
     The press is purposefully misleading.   For instance, there have been four other murders in Texas during the time since that murder passed and this writing, and yet there is not the mournful mornings about how dangerous it is to live in .....say....Johnson County, Texas.
       

      Then there is the story about three scumboes tresspassing on a ranch next to a junior high school in Hidalgo County, Texas.   One scumbo is shooting a rifle at nothing in particular.   There are two brothers hit by errant fire....almost 900 yards distanct....waiting to try out for the junior high basketball team.    FOR ONE WEEK, press demands in the shrillist of terms that something be done about hunting next to schools....AFTER ALL...THE CHILDREN....AND THE MINORITY CHILDREN......
      Schools all over the area that are adjacent to rural settings begin building masonry walls and begging forgiveness.   Legislators rush to the legislature to submite bills demanding rifles with barrels that will select only non-minority students to kill and only students that are older than 55 years of age.  And...prohibiting the shooting of students before or after dark or sunrise.   And demanding that something be done about "all this uncontrolled and irresponsible hunting that is being done in the middle of a school area"....NOW!!!!!
     But, the story comes out that the landowner had been extremely compliant with the hunting procedures at his particular ranch.   There had never been any incident involving a hunter...still has not been.   The thugs who were there had broken into an otherwise inaccessible part of the ranch, tapped one of the pasture water lines, and made up a marihuana plantation under the mesquite and ebony forest.   While tending their "farm"one afternoon, they drank too much beer, smoked too much dope, and one of them fired his rifle at some fertiliser containers (for the marihuana plants), and two errant bullets hit the two boys.   The Sheriff's Department did some good work sorting it all out, detained all three of the dumboes, and charged the guilty party with an especially heavy set of felony charges.   All three remain in custody.   None were hunters.     AND NOT ONE PEEP FROM THE MEDIA ABOUT THE OUTCOME AFTER ONE (1) WRAP UP STORY.   NO IN DEPTH ANYTHNG, NOTHING.    Just another opportunity to disarm the public gone to waste.

(2)    The United States has to join the ranks of the "adult" nations and provide socialised medical services to their populations.   And further, we must continue to adjust disparities in housing options for the "middle class" and the "poor" by means of programs administered by Fannie and Freddie and DHUA.  THOSE NATIONS ARE BROKE, BUSTED, and BANKRUPT.
     Canada, for instance, is gradually moving away from its "free medical services"  where dogs could use the hospital's MRI, while humans had to wait, so as to be "fair".    Canada also provides minimal involvement in the housing industry, leaving their citizens to freeze to death in the cold....because, after all, if the government doesn't give you your free house, who will?
     Mexico's INFONOVIT housing program, while still troubled, solved 90% of its problems when Zedillo, Fox, and Calderon gradually weaned the program from central government control and turned over the accounts to the ones who were paying into the accounts.   Now the "government housing program" originally aimed at the lowest paid workers in the formal economy, now includes everyone, low paid or high....but under his/her own identification number.   And, the workers can use the money when the time comes to rehab an existing house, build a house over here or over there, or participate in a privately built row-house...(lower-middle and upper-middle townhouse type developments)...which used to be insta-slums, but are now better built and almost ideal as a "starter home" or a "moving-on-up" home.
     Mexico still stumbles along with its fully socialised  Instituto Mexicano de Seguro Social and fully private medical sector independent of the IMSS, simultaneously.    The rightwing governments for a little over a decade now, have further instituted a "poor folks and otherwise uninsured" program called Seguro Popular which covers those not in a private plan, or cash pay, or IMSS.   Although subsidised, it provides substantial coverage for a couple, for instance, for only about $180.00 per year.    Much of the subsidy is covered by the draconian 16% national sales tax and the incomes taxes, once again levied entirely on the middle and upper income groups.

(3)     Next, and it grieves me to mention, because it exposes the Old Gringo to reprisals that are not easy for a normal American to believe exist, one must understand certain facts about the dangerous positin in which the nation finds itself.    In previous bloggings El Gringo Viejo pointed out that there had been quite an encounter involving bad guys being trapped between American and Texan law enforcement and the Mexican Army on the Rio Grande near Mission, Texas a few days ago.   It was recounted that the Army had inflicted numerous casualties while the Texas-side authourity had joined in the shooting of those trying to flee the Army while swimming to the Texas side.   Because the malefactors chose to oppose both authourities simultaneously, they were essentially shredded up by both sides.   The American and local Texas authourities took one dead, two wounded, and several others prisoner.   The Army was left with as many as 12 expired criminals.   Only one helicopter was seen and verified by everyone, including civilians, and it was seen backing up the Army over Mexican territory....and it was an Texas helicopter, not DHS, and it crossed into Tamaulipas from Texas...for all to see.   It happens both ways, not too frequently, but not too rarely, either.
     Further, there was an English language transmission from that helicopter to the effect that "....we are taking hits...we're going to back off." 

     Now comes the sad part.   The FBI has been brought in.   Inter-State, International, you know.
       From one day to the next we are given a new account of what happened.  First of all, the Texas and American officers on the Texas side of the Rio Grande did not fire their weapons.   Secondly, the entire affair is part of a well-known exercise of the corrupt Mexican military to "stage" combat-like situations where they overwhelm a superior force and kill them and/or take them prisoner.   Then they burn all the "marihuana packs" that are actually filled with shredded newspapers and make a big press event out of it a few days later.   There was no Texas or American helicopter involved, it was a Mexican Army helicopter that had come from the interior of Mexico.   The supposedly "dead" smugglers were probably released for another operation later.
    The FBI account was so far removed from the actual events, that were witnessed by many and various, that it moves one to believe that no only did Lee Harvey Oswald kill Kennedy, but everybody else did too.     Mayhaps,  all conspiracy theories are possibly right.    The local press is rabidly anti-Mexican, but very pro-food stamps and victims and the "poor", and the right to throw pampers where one might deign.    But, the first couple of reports were closer and moved closer to the truth and then came the FBI.
     The private group that advises the United States government on these affairs states that nobody in Mexico has any faith in the Army and everybody knows it, so that's why they have to keep it a secret.    Once again, do not doubt, that the Army is 99.8% straight and narrow.  It has the complete backing and trust of the overwhelming....overwhelming.... majority of the people.    One reason is because the bad apples in the military are investigated and severely punished by the military.   Another reason is because they almost always can account for almost every centavo in the military budget.   Another reason is, when the average Mexican dumboe calls and makes an 'anonymous denunciation" a fight normally ensues that involves the Mexican Army running into the fight and the malefactors running away....or being seen with various internal body organs and parts lying around on a bloody field of encounter.   And the caller does not receive any reprisal....and people being held for ransom in a filthy safehouse are liberated, meth labs are uncovered, tons of COCAINE and HEROIN and Marihuana and prescription drugs, are found and destroyed.
     THREE HUNDRED PLUS  Army and Naval infantry personnel have been killed.   ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND NINETY honest to somewhat honest cops have been killed in defense of the Flag and the people.
      In "Fast and Furious", the Obama administration's move to "Disarm Americans Now"  passed firearms into Mexico that have been found to be involved in over 400 incidents involving casualties.   Most of those do not concern me and should not concern you.   However, 10 cops, 2 soldiers, 15 children, 10 women is the best count of the innocents and unjustifiable killings that have resulted from this insane effort to close down legal arms sales to American citizens.....directly tied to the guns involved in the stupid program.

      This is not in dispute.   That at least two American officers have been killed as a direct result of this fiasco is not in dispute.    Were it to have been Richard Nixon, he would have been dragged out and hanged like Mussolini....such is the monstrous difference in the measuring of the ill of Republicans versus the good of marxists, Democrats, and other leftists who always leave the woodpile empty, the grounds filthy, and the blame to others.


(4)    And then the wondrous and deft handling  of the issues in the Middle East.   Let us depose this and/or that horrible dictator and put in democratic reforms.  Hooray, hooray  we deposed the horrible dictator.   Now we have democracy and everyone is better off.   Go put on your burkha or you will be stoned to death.  Death to America, Death to the Hebes, Kill, Kill, Kill....kill Shi'ites, Kill, Kill Kill...homicide bombers to the attack...there is another funeral procession....kill, kill, kill....Look there are the pilgrims....Kill, Kill, Kill....Ours is a religion of Peace, not like Christianity and Judaism....KILL, KILL, KILL.
      The only two places where we deposed something and put something more or less in place that looked like some remote kind of sanity, Obama, Hillary, and the marxists in the administration have managed to destroy.   The destruction came when the cowards were certain that the last Gringos were gone from Iraq.   And now that Panetta has let the camel out of the tent in Afghanistan....the murderous cowards will drag their country back into the 7th century and proceed with the female circumcisions and stoning of adultresses as the correct national pastime.
Kill, Kill, Kill....Muslim Brotherhood be praised.   Cornerstone of Father O'bamaham's foreign policy.   Canada and Mexico provide the vast majority of America's imported oil.  If Father O'bamaham is re-elected, neither will sell to us nor will the Muslim Brotherhood.   And Father O'bamaham's policies to reduce America to its proper place of a slum in the ashes and rot of socialism will have been accomplished.

Thanks for your time
El Gringo Viejo 

Good News

Josefina Vazquez Mota

PAN Presidential Candidate

JOSEFINA VAZQUEZ MOTA -  The Sarah Palin of Mexico's Partido de Accion National (Mexico's Conservative Party) has won a resounding victory in gaining the Party's nomination for the Presidency of Mexico.   Early results are showing that she has gained as much as 59 percent of the vote against two other very good candidates.

Pray for continued anti-communist, free enterprise, common-law based government in Mexico, and Victory in the fight against the social disintegration.   The general elections will be the first Sunday in July.

Excuse me, Father O'bamaham

    We are lectured by the person who attends two Ivy League universities, yet has no academic record.   He guides us by the calm waters, yet he has written nothing by his own hand.   We are instructed by his experiences as a beset-upon minority group member, yet his main claim to genealogical fame is that he is fairly closely related to Gen. Robert Edward Lee.
    His elder, paternal-line relatives,  in this country only recently arrived, have been treated to a free ride to the tune of 200,000 dollars per year including court costs and public defenders.   These are two illegal-alien blood relatives he chooses to allow to remain in the United States.   He also demands that we pay for their room, board, bingo cards, drugs, liquor, and legal defense teams.

     Since he says he does not know the person very well.....the one  who wrote his book, "Dreams of My Father", we can refresh his memory quickly by pointing out the fact that his "ghoster" skated on charges of murder due to a technicality.   His "ghoster" is proud of the fact that he helped kill innocent people, and has repeatedly said he wishes that he had "done more" in terms of rendering death, destruction, and mayhem.

     Now comes saying a Mr. Cahill, renowned student of the craft and an expert in the field of tracing and tracking "ghosters".    An OROG can reasonably assume that this man would qualify, if such things exist, as a forensic authourship analyst.   He observes:

     "In my career in advertising and publishing, I have reviewed the portfolios of a thousand professional writers, all of them crowded with writing samples, but only a handful of these writers would have been capable of having a written a book as stylish as Dreams. I have also written a book on intellectual fraud, Hoodwinked, and examined any number of bogus biographies that excited the literary left to the point of complicity, Edward Said's and Rigoberta Menchu's prominent among them, Menchu winning a Nobel Prize for hers. Obama's ascent seems to follow a century-old pattern."

     Mr. Cahill is struck by the fact that Obama has nothing to demonstrate any particular literary talent for his time spent hanging around on the hallowed precincts of  Harvard and Columbia...not a snippit.   He suddenly writes a AA minor-league blurb which, like Rigobert's bilge, is full of communist mendaciousness and hatred of things good and orderly.    Because he can take advantage of the  predisposition of the New York Times and its literary critics to practice the bigotry of low expectations, his book is promptly declared the most important thing put in print since Gutenburg's Press.
      The celebration of his life as a campus cocaine dealer, smoking dope in his dormitory room does not really qualify as great literature.   The "ghoster" is the AA minor leaguer who has pitched a shut-out....a good game .... at that level.     Obama, of course, could not even qualify to be a first base coach on a semi-pro team, to carry the analogy further.    He can barely read a teleprompter.   In order  to impart emotion he must be addressing an audience incapable of critical thinking.   He is a carnival shill, begging for an audience of rubes.   He must address an audience of rubes who want something for nothing, who hate America as a nation of the independent and self-reliant, and who hate anybody who has "more".

     Enter then this man, to the National Prayer Breakfast. 
     The president goes before the Congregation with all the sincerity of William Jefferson Blyth, and after stumbling through his preambulatory remarks to show how much better person he is than the rest of the "millionaires and billionaires" he lunks out the motto of the liberation theologists....as if he is informing the gathering that he is the first one to comply, understand, and inform others of this sacred justification for marxiism:

                    For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required.

     He beams his moral superiority.  The congregants are respectful, if a little bemused by the sophomoric arrogance and the speaker's lack of true understanding of the admonition.   El Gringo Viejo is not a nice person, so he is not bound to be respectful to a pretender.   So, here, it is pointed out that this is an order from Yahweh, Father of Esua....that we should give freely of ourselves of time, money, blood, attention, favours, or whatever is required to attend to the naked, the homeless, the infirmed, the prisoners, the traveller, even unto the lonely and those who are left behind.
     It is difficult for Obama to understand that we must (as in required by force) render unto Caesar what is Caesar's and that we must render that sum at the point of a spear, or in these days, to thugs with guns and badges who work for the IRS or DOJ and who need the money to pay for inflated salaries of people who do literally nothing, and people who receive money whose duty it is to eat, procreate, and demand more while also holding a gun or a knife on us.
      Many of us give beyond that which is extorted by force and cast into the bottomless well of profligacy by "public servants".    Some have but a farthing, others have great mounds of silver and gold.   They give from what is left behind by the tax collector.   And they do the work that tries to correct, in many cases, the damage done by the failed social and economic policies of Caesar.     Mr. Romney, for instance, was forced to pay 3,ooo,000 dollars to the central government, and he gave 3,000,000 more from his income to projects and organisations with which he has an emotional or intellectual connection.    Senator Kerry and Vice-President Biden, for instance gave little or nothing.   Father O'bamaham also gave next to nothing, along with his wife, whose giving is mainly to herself.
     What would this shallow, small little marxist do if he were to hear some real theology, part of the mystery of the Religion and philosophy of Christianity as expressed by  a person upon whom the Mighty Obama does not believe, nor even believes existed.   What if he were to hear this:

Unto those that hath shall be given, and they shall have abundance: but from those that hath not shall be taken away even that which they have.
The Gospel according to Saint Matthew

       Here the Nazarene points out that those who have generousity, faith, and patience as a gift from His Father or through their own discipline, they will have in abundance.   Those who have not and care not to discipline themselves so as to gain such virtues, they will lose even the small amount they might have had.

        The Nazarene was also short with the fool who did not protect his wealth, or who planted upon the rock, or who built upon the sand, or who did not invest wisely his master's five talents, or four talents, or his one talent.    He commended the vintner who tended his vineyards well.   He instructed the farmer to cast his seeds upon fertile soil.   He urged the builder to construct his home upon the rock, and he praised the servants who doubled the master's wealth, while chastising the "stupid" servant who buried the one talent that he had.

     And finally, he pointed out the obvious,
       
.....And there were some that had indignation within themselves and said, Why was this waste of the ointment (spikenard) made?


      For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence  (approximately one-year's salary), and have been given to the poor.   And they murmured against her.


      And Jesus said, Let her alone;  Why trouble ye her?   She hath wrought a good work on me.


     For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good:   But me ye have not always.

     She hath done what she could:   she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.


     Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.


Mark 14: 3 - 9


     Please spare the instruction about how, when, and why we should do this or that for the poor.   You are the least among us to advise the correct path.   We who are sinners, but  yet have catechism and strive to correct our wicked ways and our shortcomings, have a better teacher than you.   Your catechism comes from "Rules for Radicals", a book that was dedicated to the honour of Lucifer.  Some teacher.

'Nuff said.
El Gringo Viejo