Humiliating

It is a matter of no joy to have to put out the article from El Diario of Coahuila contradicting the "annual emergency travel advisory" to the frontier and interieor of Mexican border States.    Nothing is said about the improvements in Tijuana and Mexicali.   There is no  mention of improving situations in and around Hermosillo.   Monterrey continues with inter-cartel issues, but even there things are assuming greater normalcy.

     The coincidence of the "emergency travel warning" is in fact a cut and paste warning that has been issued at the beginning of every Spring Break episode for the past 10 years, where the Holy Innocents come down to South Padre Island to participant in religious studies, do good works for the poor, naked, hungry, homeless, and prisoners and fast while meditating on various points raised by the Nazarene in His sermon on the mount.   

     The "emergency travel warning" does not specifically or even generally indentify places of real concern, which, while fewer, still exists.    Recent success in the lower reaches of Vera Cruz  State, in the extreme southern part of Tamaulipas State, and in the Monterrey metroplex still have not eliminated the problem totally.  However, it is well to call the attention of the OROG to the remarkable phenomena of the return of well-heeled Gringo hunters into the same area that received so much attention during the peculiar Hartley incident at Falcon Reservoir.

    Quoting the speaker, it states, "Gonzalez placed the example of the white-tail deer hunting season that has brought hunters to Ciudad  Mier from Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon, and Coahuila, but principally from Texas."

     El Gringo Viejo can attest to the fact that there were also a few groups of hunters back hunting the incredible whitewing, mourning dove, and waterfowl areas of central and coastal southern Tamaulipas this year, and a surprising numbers of fishermen heading back down to the lakes of Vicente Guerrero, Republica de Espan~a, and the coastal fishing community of La Pesca.    In that area, we are looking at a few hundred when there used to be several thousand.   The return to the Mier - Cerralvo area has been remarkable, because four years ago it was riddled with "bad influences" but now, the only problem they seem to be having is, like Central Texas, a plague of deer.    The number of Texas hunters returning are going on the word of Mexican friends and/or American/Mexican outfitter-guides with good records and who are also straight arrows in terms of their word.    The hunt has been phenomenal, we are given to understand.

      It would be appreciated if the United States State Department would publish an advisory that has usefulness, however.   Like the remoter parts of the highway between Acapulco and Zihuatenejo.   And point out that visiting either of the two towns is probably one of the safest things a person can do.    The advisory does the Gringo Viejo no good, because it is known that what it states is false and purposefully misleading.   It refers to events in the past.  It fails to correctly define events in the present for what they are, and it fails to recognise the massive amount of military and policing efforts that have steadily been degrading the malefactors.    The last incident to the west of Reynosa last week, and  two weeks before that incident were both horribly mis-represented by the local press...and finally even by members of the American federal government police officials.

     It is more than just a bit humiliating to think that better information can be derived from politicians from the old Partido Revolucionario Institutional than from our own press and officialdom.

      The simple fact is that a bad situation began to improve since the introduction of massive numbers of boots on the ground.    For four years we common dumboes have seen a slow restoration of order.   It has been, and will continue to be, very much a two steps forward and one step back situation.    EL Gringo Viejo will lament the steps backwards and celebrate the steps forwards.

Viernes 10 de febrero de 2012 | 09:47 hs

REYNOSA, Tamps.

En gira de trabajo sostenida en Reynosa, el mandatario tamaulipeco presidió la entrega de apoyos de Petróleos Mexicanos, al estado y municipios de Tamaulipas, por el orden de los 160 millones de pesos, y allí Torre Cantú aseguró que en esta entidad los casos de violencia que se han registrado, han sido aislados y no representan riesgo para la ciudadanía, ni para el turismo.

"Esa es una alerta que emiten cada año, si ustedes la ven, ellos (Estados Unidos) hablan de una situación que se vive en el país, y hacen una recomendación para cada uno de los estados, pero ya es algo que realizan año con año".

Resaltó que su gobierno trabaja de manera incansable en el tema de la seguridad y además continúan promoviendo el territorio tamaulipeco, con muy buenas relaciones en todo México y en otros países.

"Estamos trabajando todos los días por darle más seguridad a los tamaulipecos, y esta alerta de seguridad nosotros simplemente la vemos como un reporte anual con recomendaciones que ellos emiten", puntualizó el mandatario tamaulipeco.

Por su parte, los alcaldes de la frontera tamaulipeca, lamentaron la postura del gobierno de Estados Unidos, y de igual forma señalaron que a esta entidad no le afecta, ya que por primera vez, en esta administración, se puede decir que la seguridad ha sido recobrada al 100%.

El alcalde de San Fernando, Tomás Gloria Requena, dijo que la seguridad de Tamaulipas hoy se palpa principalmente en su municipio, el cual a inicios del 2011 fue azotado por una inusual ola de violencia, que los puso en el plano mundial.

Destacó que esta seguridad que hoy vive su municipio la garantiza el Gobierno Federal, quien a través de la Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional ha manifestado que San Fernando, hoy es el municipio más seguro de Tamaulipas.

De igual forma el alcalde de ciudad Mier, Alberto González Peña, minimizó la alerta estadounidense, ya que aseguró que en esta zona ribereña de Tamaulipas, el tema de inseguridad es cosa del pasado.

Reveló que gracias al apoyo del gobernador Egidio Torre y del gobierno federal al mandar a Mier al Batallón 105 de Infantería la seguridad se recobró al 100%, y el comercio y turismo han vuelto a la normalidad.

González puso como ejemplo la temporada de caza de venado cola blanca que hoy se vive en la región fronteriza, y que ha atraído a ciudad Mier a cazadores de Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, Coahuila y principalmente de Texas.

- Difieren con alerta en congreso local

Es respetable pero no compartida, así se refirió el presidente de la Junta de Coordinación Política del Congreso del estado, Gustavo Torres Salinas, sobre la alerta de viaje que emitió a sus ciudadanos el gobierno de Estados Unidos.

"Esa postura del vecino país es respetable pero no la compartimos el llamado es que sigamos trabajando como hasta ahora, en la eneración de empleos, de economía, en la inversión", señaló el legislador priísta.

Previo al inicio de la sesión ordinaria de este jueves, Torres mencionó que en Tamaulipas se sigue trabajando.

"El estado sigue su marcha, han visto que hay diferentes estrategias que ha impulsado el gobernador y nosotros como congreso, apoyando todas las medidas tendientes a buscar la tranquilidad de todos los ciudadanos en cuanto a su trabajo y labores cotidianas", expresó.

Añadió que, "difiero con respecto a esta postura, seguimos trabajando en lo que nos corresponde.
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     Any OROG desiring a translation of the above newspaper article should advise us, and we shall attempt to have a translation emailed to you befor Spring Break begins.
With grumpy resignation, we retire from the computer for at least a little while.  Thanks for your time and attention

Lo Que el Viento Se Llevo

     The title of this blog-entry is Gone With the Wind.   El Gringo Viejo includes a couple of silly little clips of the late 1950s and early 1960s just so we can remember and give others a chance to see how innocuous and shallow the popular culture was.   To give everyone an idea, in the time exposed in this little clips, the illegitamacy rate among Black folks was hoverning at an alarming 9%, and the licentious Latins were checking in at a disturbing 7%.   The sedate and ever-so-correct Anglo group, by the same measure back then, was scoring a 5%.    Public assistance of any kind was something to be avoided and never to be revealed  to people outside the family because of the possible shame of it all.

    Now everything is better....and we can show our children how to make obscene gestures during the halftime show of the SuperBowl.    In any regard, El Gring0 Viejo sent these little ditties to his children so they would know what kind of silly people we were back in Bedrock. The Spanish part of the transmission is because a friend in Mexico is being sent these looks into the dust bin of history.    The one in Mexico is a bit older than my children, but not old enough to have been able to make fun of this kind of music and presntation.   At time El Gringo Viejo communicates for no purpose in the Spanish, just to keep his children on dedos pedales.

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Proviene desde los días cuando la gente negra fueron, casi todos, gente presentable, ordenada, y civilizada.    No es mitología.   Simple fue una realidad.   Las Ronettes, el trio, son de Spanish Harlem en Manhattan.  Mas increíble todavía es que no están llevando pelucas.  Es cabello real.

      It is a bit of a sad thing to see these girls from Spanish Harlem, The Ronettes,  such a corny, boring routine....but when one thinks of Celena Quintanilla and how her father turned her into some kind of a whatever to flounce and shreik in her underwear in front of an essentially brain-dead audience, it is still my opinion that things have edged steadily down for the common folk since the Beatles crawled out of their vermin hole in Liverpool.

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Required Viewing for OROGs

We commend to the attention of all OROGs  the very brief film-clip that can be joined at the below-included linkage.   This was to have run during the SuperBowl commercial madness in the past, (2004).   The production and direction of the little blurb was paid for and sponsored by our friends at MoveOn.org and the estimable financial genius George Soros.

    We have borrowed this link from the ANGLICAN CURMUDGEON which is also found as one of our constant recommended reading alternatives on the list to the right of our screeds.   The Rev. Mr. Haley is that joyful combination of perfect literacy, subdued eloquence, and inspired work-a-day genius that one fears may be soon absent from the American and English-speaking world's scene.

We include the entire article.

Anglican Curmudgeon

 

 

Sunday, February 5, 2012

The Superbowl Commercial No One Saw Today

This commercial (H/T: Powerline) was originally made by
George Soros' lapdog, MoveOn, to run during the Superbowl
in 2004, but for various reasons (including its then very political
slant), it did not make the cut. My, my -- how times change.
For some unfathomable reason, George Soros and MoveOn
did not even consider submitting this commercial for the
Superbowl ad competition this year. Please watch it, and
along with me, wonder why -- are their particular bones of
contention becoming increasingly irrelevant to what the rest
of us can see is happening? Here is the 30-second commercial
that -- despite Soros's billions -- did not run in either 2004 or in 2012


Meanwhile, here is a commercial (with Clint Eastwood) that did run this year.
It implies that, under the Obama administration, Detroit and its automobile
industry are about to launch a new "second half" initiative that will
put the (Democratic) team on the scoreboard once again:


Who else but the Democrats under President Obama can claim to have turned
GM and Chrysler around in these trying times? (Of course, the commercial
does not mention Ford, which managed to survive the recession with its own
capital and negotiated union contracts, no thanks to the President.)
And who else but the Democrats under Obama would choose
to make this commercial the one they decided was best to run,
instead of the one George Soros handed them in 2004?
I tell you Republicans out there : you've got to get up
early to gain a march on these Democrats.
Posted by A. S. Haleyat 9:43 PM

Addenda:   Posted during the mid-afternoon of 9 February 2012

The Old Gringo said...

There is no place to hide. No one can reasonably say that the Clint Eastwood clip was not a campaign advertisement for BHO. The dastardly take-over of the two companies, Fiat-Chrysler and Government Motors resulted in the cancellation of all preferred shares of stock, thereby punishing those who had the least to do with the companies' failures. Preferred stock is that which is most frequently found in the "widows' and orphans'" portions of long-term, "ultra-secure" stocks designed to produce modest but sure dividends. One can check how many mutual funds are still in existence since the expropriation and subsequent cancellation of these shares of stock. The number of Mutual Funds have been reduced by almost 40% since the expropriation. The most innocent of the financial instruments were the ones most punished by this marxist administration.
Clint Eastwood, as have I, perhaps has become a bit unclear in his thinking now, at this stage in his life. During the expropriations and subsequent delivery of the two corporations into the hands of extremely corrupt labour unions and the central government, Rowdy Yates knew that these were bad moves, and he said as much, frequently.

Forgive my long-windedness and abrasiveness. Thank you for your kind attention and time.

 

Quick, Cap & Trade

                                                                    Extreme Winter Weather Hits Europe

These images always seem to be shielded from the tender eyes of the American audience.  After all, since the United States was three times hotter this past year than the year before, many more minority children and elderly and minorities and handicapped and people who have different levels of intellectual understanding and everything, you know.   After all the Occupy Wall Street people are the only ones doing anything about any of the problems left behind by George Bush and all the military and everything, you know.  That's why I can't find any work at a living wage.   Free America From Zionism Now.  Free Palestine, Now.   Solidarity With the Pastors for Peace and Union with Fidel.    Unemployed Liberal-Arts Graduates and Unemployment Compensation Recipients - Local 2294 - AFL-CIO -   Union Pruod! You kmow?

"Good weed, man.  Like wher'd you score it dude?   Gotta light, dude?   Have you seen that girl I had in the tent a minute ago man?   Bad hag, dude...bummer.    Nah...not a dime, man, but I jacked some stamps off an old black woman in the store.   Where do we knock out the windows tomorrow? Who's that ugly dude with the mouth problems?"


 I'm Sgt. Davis, NYPD,  There is some question about the identity of the person we apprehended here in Fort Lee Park.  He appears to have a mouthful of Marbles or a severely impacted tooth infection.    He does not seem coherent, because we cannot make any sense out of anything he says except the word, "masseuse".   He doesn't appear to know his name, in fact, he doesn't appear to know anything.
Okay, thanks.  But if anything comes to mind, call the number on this card, anytime.
  

QUICK POINTS

(1)   It is time for the Republicans to talk about nothing beyond the basic issues of governance.  The battle of the Nine Year Old Girls Saying "You are" "No, You are!" "No, You are!" tired everyone to death.   No depth....supposedly people who are able to see into the distant galaxies are unable to pass up playing the roles of pre-adolescent ninnies having a back seat quarrel.   "Mommy, tell him to stop!" "He did it first!" "Did Not!" "Did So!"  "Mommmeeeiieee". Spare me.
      If the Democrats had paid actors to play the roles, they could not have done it better with Clint Eastwood doing the directing.    As for the Gringo Viejo, he will do like the truckers, and pull over where he sees a large number of trucks parked outside so he can go in an have a comfortable break and a good chance at a decent meal.  
      It is well to consider that the primaries with no intense television advertising  was won by the nobody who speaks in lows tones.  About time.

 (2)     Please be aware, all OROGs, and please think about this.  Various leftist governments are performing a bit of magic right now in order to keep cake flowing to the slugs and thugs who compose various public employee unions.   Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Greece, Portugal, and others are either finishing the act or beginning to move quickly to implement the act.   What is it? 

     Those private bank accounts and all other privately held pension, annuity, 401-type retirement funds are now in the crosshairs of the marxists who presently amble freely in the halls of the Secretariats of the United States government.   Plans are being studied now in the White House that will be implemented after the election, perhaps by executive order, that will freeze and then subject to confiscation all such monies presently held in the above-described accounts.

Two peas in a pod.   Kirchner
and Obama yuck it up about how
stupid the little people are.

       While the OROG knows that El Gringo Viejo is also totalmente loco,  El Gringo Viejo y Loco must caution the OROG community that not only is it being planned, but it has already been successfully tested.    In Argentina, the communist bar-maid Kirchner (pictured above-left with one of her closest admirers) has completed the confiscation of many private pension funds, leaving Argentina in a dither of fury.   The reason for her new-found bellicosity concerning the Falklands Issue is her desire to distract the ire of the populace away from her grab of sacrosanct, private assets.   She decided to go after that money because it belongs to the rich and the rich needed to pay their fair share, besides they have too much money anyway....sound familiar?     She then digs up the Falklands Issue although, in days closer to her time as a communist guerrilla "moral support agent" with the Communist guerrilla group Montoneros, she opposed the last Great War of Liberation of the Malvinas, because it was simply a dodge put up by the Generals to distract people from their own fascist brutality.   She recently used a throat cancer operation to gain back some of her Fantasyland celebrity lustre ....soap operatics....until it became clear that she would not be able to play the Evita card...and the doctors willingly confessed that the thyroid growth had never been suspected to be cancerous.   So they might have to dig up poor Evita and conduct a traffic snarling march through the streets with that rusty casket.

     "But, Gringo Viejo, those are funny, stupid little brown people who do stupid things all the time and never amount to anything because they are dark skinned and bad."

      OROGS!   Please heed my words.   In 1950, Cuba was the 4th ranking American Nation in terms of per capita income.   The order was USA, Canada, Argentina, and then Cuba.   Now Argentina is continuing its slide into the middle of a fairly miserable pack.  Now it is USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Panama'.....etc.    The last two countries in terms of per capital income are Cuba and Haiti.  Argentina may be the ante-penultimate above Cuba soon.    Having a perfect workers' paradise involves a little bit of sacrifice on the part of the people who don't matter.
      But, in a way,  Obama beat Kirchner to the punch.   Please remember that it was Obama who ordered the total cancellation of the preferred stock of  the General Motors and Chrysler companies.  It was a massive amount of wealth simply flushed down the toilet.   The oddity is that the majority of that money was held by elderly ladies and others with mutual fund type investments.   Those individuals had money harboured in such preferred stock because those stocks receive dividends PREFERENTIALLY before any other stocks or holdings.   They are dull and boring stocks that pay a fairly good dividend, and because of that great security the offer they are referred to in the industry as "Widows' and Orphans' stocks.   They were flushed.   No reclamation, no compensation, no "gee, I'm so sorry"....just flushed.
     When Obama pulled that off and he was not impeached and convicted immediately, nor even overturned by the Supreme Court, he knew he could force socialised medicine down the throats of a populace that would believe they could have something for free.
     With the deficits piling up....and even the remotest chance that this pretender could possibly be re-elected and rule by "the stroke of a pen, law of the land"...it is inevitable that he will opt to employ this measure...it has already been planned....it has already been put into effect in countries during these days.   Brazil has done a bit of it, Venezuela has been doing it on a piecemeal basis.   The stupid little dark people way down there are not stupid.    They are not even brown nor little.   The leftists among them are stalking vampire demons who hate privately held wealth or private money of any kind.   They demand total dependence upon and total obeisance to the elite, superior class, which of course is them.

(3)    The Roman Catholic hierarchy in the United States will learn....perhaps when all the clergy and important communicants are in the gulag making license plates for United Socialist States of Whatever.    The Catholic hierarchy fails itself and its communicants by promoting the notion that they can tell people to remember to take advantage of the food stamp program and this program and that program, and still preach a Christian message.  What they have produced is a large body of pamper throwing, food stamping, lottery ticket "investing" slugs.   Those parishioners will abandon ....or have abandoned... the Church for a bag of Doritos and a 48 ounce Mountain Dew, and perhaps a couple of scratch-offs.
      The Church will be kicked in the teeth, as the Church is kicked in the teeth in all marxist countries until it complies with the wishes of the State.   If it persists in allowing any dogma that is not Liberation Theology, materialist based....(right now it is 85% marxist, liberation theology)....the Secretary of Health and Human Services in the next administration will close down the Catholic Hospitals and the Seventh Day Adventist Hospitals, and any medical service facility that does not promote abortion and forced contraception.....and whatever new "medical practise alternatives" will be necessary under the socialised medical regimen to be fully put in place in the next two years.

It has been going on for years;

This article was forwarded to El Gringo Viejo's daughter by one of her school chums who has been part of our not-so-extended family for the past three or four hundred years.   This friend of my daughter's and another OROG who is equally important to the family are both Democrats of a sort and liberals of a sort, and El Gringo Viejo has no idea why they have the least use for him.   It is probably because they know that if either of them or any of theirs need A positive, I will go to give them my blood.    They have done well by my wife and children and therefore they are of my tribe.



CORPUS CHRISTI —A Caller-Times report last week about beach litter contained this interesting nugget:

Discarded disposable diapers have become such a growing concern that a beach debris summit in Galveston sponsored by the Texas General Land Office included a panel dedicated exclusively to that problem.

Not the kind of nugget one should encounter on the beach or anywhere else. Unfortunately, these joyless little bundles also litter our parks, shopping center parking lots and roadways.

Corpus Christi has a litter problem. Mayor Joe Adame and others have made admirable efforts to address it by organizing cleanups, making a point to show up and work hard at those cleanups long beyond the photo-opportune moment, increasing awareness and urging people to take pride in their surroundings.

But the problem persists and disposable diapers are its most disgusting emblem. We're not aware of a less forgivable littering transgression.

Changing a diaper isn't a welcome task but it's surprisingly easy, thanks to sanitary wipes and the way diapers are made these days. Anyone who must change diapers learns quickly how to wrap up and seal the mess efficiently into a small, portable package with a surprisingly clean outer surface. The diaper's adhesive seals the package so thoroughly that the only real objection to handling it until it can be disposed of properly is the knowledge of what's inside.

That said, there's no acceptable excuse for anyone to share this experience with others by leaving the diaper where it doesn't belong. Too many parents, grandparents, guardians and older siblings have guided children through the diaper stage successfully without once leaving a used diaper where it didn't belong.

Youthful parents' immaturity is not an excuse. The pressures on a single parent supervising several scurrying small children are no excuse. A grandparent's arthritic pain is not an excuse. If a trash can is too far or not immediately available, the diaper-changer can store the unwanted package on the floorboard or the trunk for the time being.

They don't even smell all that bad. We might expect some disagreement on that point. Anyone who does disagree has all the more moral obligation not to share used diapers with the rest of us.

But share they do. The result is that the neatly wrapped package bursts under the tire of the next car to park in the parking space, or under the foot that stepped on it.

The South Texas sun hastens this bursting process but, as the panelists in Galveston noted, the decomposition process is slow and vexing from an environmental standpoint. The plastic takes 400 to 500 years to decompose and, needless to say, fecal contamination is a concern.

The panelists discussed remedies such as assigning jail inmates and those sentenced to community service to diaper patrol, and enlisting churches that teach the concept of Creation Care, the name given our moral imperative to take care of this Earth.

Those are good ideas but we also urge special, enhanced fines and no-tolerance enforcement targeting this specific type of litter.

Why single out diapers? Because we can't help but suspect that even the most well-meaning, least squeamish, hardest-working litter cleanup volunteers also find ways to single them out, as in "I'll pick up anything BUT that." Who can blame them? And why else would there be a need to assign jail inmates specifically to the task?

Please, diaper changers, treat proper disposal as the responsibility that it is. And please, Powers That Be, enhance the penalties for the crime that this is. Motivate those responsible to act responsibly.

     This has been the Gringo Viejo's  nuclear grump-out thunder-whine for about 412 years now.   It can be explained, understood, studied, and instructed....but it will continue.   The problem is basic, simple, and irremediable.    The marxists and social justice and equalitarians in the central government have convinced the world that poor is better than well to do.   Being a taker is better than being a giver.   Being taken care of is better than being self-sufficient.   Being a narcissist is better than being a practicioner of the Golden Rule and a servant to humanity.   The people who throw pampers are gutter slime without souls whose job it is to be slobs and concerned only about eating, procreating, and avoiding work or communitarian obligations.    They are "The Democrat Base" who are better than producers.

     Carry this through to the Occupy movement....they gather, they befoul everything, and leave the mess to the pain and cost of others.

      The dumboe Tea Party people gather and the place where they gather is cleaner when they leave than when they arrived.

       The Democrats and the Mainstream Media call the Occupy movement "People who are doing God's work".    The Democrats and the Mainstream Media call the Tea Party People "racists and extremists."    Makes a guy proud to be an American.