Amanda Keeps "The Flukie"

OROGs should not dispair.   The Executive Committee has decided, in spite of everything, that Amanda can keep her "Flukie" award.    

    Amanda Clayton, due to the efforts of mean people who think that there ought to be something like an attempt to provide for oneself, is going to starve to death in the snow, along with her two children.   Since it is the my fault and your fault, El Gringo Viejo is trying to raise money to make up for her loss, since it our fault and the fault of George  Bush.

She has been booted off of the rolls of the slugs who expect other people to pay for their food, chips, candy bars, diet soda, twinkies, and bulk Gulf Shrimp.   We pray that she be spayed, sooner rather than later.

      We also beg the intervention of the Goddess Nemesis to further her misery and cause the finding of the paternal agent in this parasitic mess.  Once found, he should be arranged to sing in the soprano section of the choir, and then put into the (orange) uniformed public service....cleaning the ball and chain around his ankle every night after returning from litter duty on the expressways.   Perhaps we could further punish him by forcing him to have supper with Nancy Pelosi at her home in San Francisco every third Friday.   Her Holiness could give him pointers about the finer points of Roman Catholic dogma and canon.

      In this vein, the lottery where ever it might exist is a diabolical thing, custom made for the stupid, indolent, and addicted.   It is the best form of recovering welfare and income transfer payments so as to re-recycle the money into the digestive tracts of the indolent or to provide them shelter in hell-holes known as public housing and/or Section 8 and to pay for the delivery of baby-mothers' babies, and to pay for Obama's Unkie Onie's Thunderbird and malt liquor.

      There would be no need for any of this madness if the systems of public assistance would shut down over the next 10 years. Politicians, food markets, banks, and the "poor" could find a better way to feed the "poor" without producing hourly train loads of un-fathered criminals in the process.    Americans, privately, would allow no one to starve or even go hungry.   Private agencies can quickly differentiate between those who are hungry and those who just like to eat.

     Miss Flukie, aka-Amanda Clayton will be allowed to keep her Flukie Statue, because among her people it isn't whether you win or lose, it's how you game the game.

El Gringo Viejo

A Statistical Observation

     El Gringo Viejo is a fairly good minor league social demographic analyst.   This is due to a bit of his studies at university.   The Gallup group, in its analysis of the labour market, has always been very thourough.   Their political polling has been manipulated at various times by their tendency to purposely overweight consumers, leftists, Democrats, and "minorities" in its samples.   While these tactics tend to skewer the results in favour of Democrat candidate instead of reflecting the opinion of the composite universe under consideration, it is still reiterated that their system for measuring the labour market is perhaps the best in use to-day.

     The government statistical derivation process  uses an arcane, adjusted, subjective, interpretive process that can be manipulated by the judgement of the polling interviewer.   It allows for the "dumping out" of "inconvenient" data.   That is how, two months ago, the poobahs decided to dump 1,500,000 out of the labour force, thereby determining that since they no longer existed, they could not be un-employed.    They had simply been unemployed "too long".   Heck, who knows...maybe they're dead.   Maybe they were carried off by a sasquatch.   Or worse, maybe they were carried off by Barney Frank and Janet Reno.

     The Gallup group does daily and rolling sampling.   The 30,000 sample is more than adequate for a universe of up to 500,000,000 members, statistically speaking.   So, if a right-wing crazy like the Gringo Viejo says that you can better trust Gallup than the once a month, weekly compilation being averaged up every month as practiced by the government, you can.   Are you going to trust a government product or a private sector product?   Normally one should trust the private job.   This is a good time to trust the private company.

Now, the rest of the Gallup report will be buried tomorrow by the MSM, so simply be aware that the unemployment rate is sharply on the increase.   The combined numbers of unemployed and those who are working part-time and searching for full-time positions is once again at the 20% level.   This does not count an estimated 8 to 10 million people who have drifted out of the universe of employment.

     This is troubling to the extent that it is not even good news for El Gringo Viejo as something that will damage the Obama re-election effort.   It would be preferable to beat Obama simply because he is an America-hating marxist.    These employment figures make someone think that the economic observers, even on Fox Business Channel, are singing in the upstairs bar on the Titanic.  All the financial channels are convinced that happy days are here again and that the economy is on a hot doggity roll, bubba!   Like Yogi says, "I think they've been smoking Geitner's and Bernacke's Kool-aid.

El Gringo Viejo

Monarch of Mendacity, President of Petulance, King of the Conumdrum

    

Captain Conundrum, vapid Master of the Mendacious 

     If the "big oil companies" take off business expenses from their income tax calculations, that is termed a "subsidy".   But if we allow people whose average income is 180,000 dollars per year to buy a VOLT and take off 7,500 dollars from their final tax liability that is called an "incentive".

     Actually, it is a conundrum constructed as only a bunch of arrogant, socialist control-freaks could do.   "Our EPA standards on coal will necessarily make electricity rates skyrocket in the years to come"....tee-hee...tee-hee-hee.   We really need to move the price of gasoline and diesel to European levels in the next few years.....right?   That's the plan.  So, fleshing this insanity out a little more, the same people who the President damns to Hell at every turn, the "millionaires and billionaires", are the only ones who can afford to buy a 50,000 dollar automobile (including State sales taxes, title, license) and they are the ones who have a 7,500 dollar subsidy to buy an auto with a 30 mile range (if the drivers use luxuries like headlights, ventilation fans, etc.).   This is an oil burning and coal burning vehicle with a battery that cannot be disposed of in any way that is approved by the same EPA that is trying to force people to buy the stupid thing to begin with....WHEW!!!    We're talking about big progress here.    It is more living proof that the White House is presently either an insane asylum or a operations war room under the command of Vladimir Putin, Raul Castro, Hugo Chavez, Jeremiah Wright, Bill Aires, and Maxine Waters.

     This is not to mention that that the actual four billion dollar "subsidy" the President is talking about is directed towards people who have low producing, small wells on their own property.   They have wells that were self-financed or partnered with small oil operators and that commonly produce from one to six barrels of oil per day.  Those are the "big oil companies" who might have a "sawhorse pump" (my parents' name for the pumpjack) bobbing back and forth that you pass by when driving through Luling, Texas.    Those wells belong to Lula Belle McKlaferty and her retarded boy.    Lula and Jimmie have done alright since Jake died, because of the insurance, and because Jake did a clean out on that old well.   It cost a fortune....about 15,000 dollars....but the durned thing was so mudded up that it was bringing up more gypsum and brine than oil.

    About a year before Jake crossed over to be with his parents, he called Jasper Blount, the fellow with the clean out rig, and they pumped a few tons of barite mud into that old well.  Jasper told Jake that it seemed to him the old well had been filling, because they were taking out a lot of black pipe.    Sho'nuff,  when they started up the pumpjack, the fill-tank started taking in two or two and a half barrels of oil a day.    Before it had been two barrels of brine and a lot of mud.    They were lucky if a half barrel a day floated up to the top, and that oil was pretty poor...lots of sulphur content too.

Pumpjack killing flowers and causing
global warming and cooling in Texas

     You know, the folks around Luling kinda figured that Jake was knowin' that he was doin' poorly.   Anyway, Bush and the Republicans passed a bill sayin' that the IRS would allow the small holders to take down the expense of the clean-out the next year.   That meant that Lula Belle and her boy would be in good shape with the tax man for three or four years.   And now look at her.   She's makin' about 150 dollars a day net off'n that old well, price of oil bein' what it is.    I guess that why she has Old Man Sanchez and his kids doin' that roof job on the back of her main house.

And that is the way it really was .... and is ....in the real world.

El Gringo Viejo

WE HAVE THE OSCAR, EMMY, AND NOW..The FLUKIE

St. Fluke
Martyr of the Holy Order of I Buy, You Pay
Pray for us now, and at the time we pay our
taxes.

                     THIS IS A FLUKIE

The New Award Statue is fashioned to look exactly like its namesake, the fluke, which is a trematoda, a lower life form that frequently infects the human body's organs and blood.   It is made from organic fluke slime, complying with EPA demands concerning both Global Warming and Cooling.  It is named in honour of St. Fluke, the Martyr of the
Battle of Georgetown, and the Inquisition by the Flattearthers

And the winner of the first FLUKIE

The perfect image of a "Flukie"

STOP!  LOOK!  and LISTEN!    You Have to Hear This Michigan $1Million Lottery Winner Defend Why She’s Still on Food Stamps

 

"I feel that it's okay because I mean, I have no income and I have bills to pay."

 (She is also under consideration for The (Sir Edmund) Hillary award

     for perfect, narcissistic mendaciousness.  Four first-person pronouns

         in less than a 20 word sentence is pretty good for a FLUKIE)

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     The abovepictured fraudette gains the honour of being the first recipient of the FLUKIE because she embodies all the best of a female who has absolutely everything, but who still feels justified in demanding that the rest of us and and children and grandchildren pay for her food, tennis raquet restringing, monopoly game, veterinarian services, clothes, and/or any and/or everything else, depending upon how she feels at this particular stage of the moon or not....maybe.
     Her particular accomplishment, as many of the OROGs already know, is that she won 1,000,000 dollars in the Michigan lottery (idiot tax), and stupidly took the quick pay alternative, thereby losing over 200,000 dollars.   She then noticed that since she was still unemployed that the dolts at the Michigan Department of Human Refuse had decided to keep sending her money into her "I like to eat free Card".   Only 200/month.   I mean...what's a crummy 200/month?   For a single Flukie?   But, guaranteeing her place in the FLUKIE Hall of Fame, she wisely pointed out "I'm still unemployed".
      Miss Flukie wins during this award cycle for being the best example to approximate the Chutzpah of a Georgetown University political activist demanding that the rest of us and our children and grandchildren should pay for her contraceptives.

     Miss Flukie has already done everything wrong.   She took the quick pay, then bought a house, and of course, a new automobile.   It was probably a VOLT...but who knows.   Perhaps it was a Corvette.    So, within the next four or five months she will be angry that the tax man in Michigan wants 4,000 dollars in real estate taxes, and her credit cards will be maxed out.  Living proof that the lottery really is an idiot tax.

     Good luck, Miss Flukie.   If you had won the money on Wheel of Fortune or Jeapordy we would all have been happy for you....but then again....you couldn't win, because you've proven that your are a dolt and a loser.

El Gringo Viejo
Chairman
American Flukie Academy

We need to point out...

     This is not terribly surprizing.   Bill Maher has come out to defend Rush Limbaugh.   El Gringo Viejo thinks that Maher is something of a pitiable personality who at times chokes on his own unreasonable vitriol.  However, his right to say things and not be punished by hypocritical superiors should at least have been considered before they threw him under the bus for saying the same things on the air that his bosses were saying over their martinis in their super-select saloons in Manhattan.
       The Jew-hating atheists of Jewish extraction...almost all marxists, like Saul Alinsky...hate Yahweh and Jews and Christians and Moslems who get along with Jews.   They are a strange lot.  They too were celebrating the destruction of the Twin Towers in those days following 11 September 2001.   El Gringo Viejo hopes, in any regard, that Bill Maher can continue to resist turning to view Sodom or Gomorrah and becoming a pillar of salt.   Come back to your faith, go to a nice conservative synagogue with a good cantor.  Yahweh is patient and Abraham will rejoice in the return of his grandson.   There is hope.
      Bill Maher pointed out that there is something more going on to this story than it might appear (obviously).   He also says that the sponsors withdrawing from Limbaugh are following an unfortunate path.   It is also refreshing to note that the surliness of the martyred Saint Fluke and the hysterical rage and sobbing without tears of the War on Women victims has already begun to stink like dead fish guts.....have they been here three days already?   I thought she was your uncle.

     The Carbonite stock going into collapse is refreshing, as well.   El Gringo Viejo also sent messages of dismay to several of the hypocritical, pinko businesses who sponsor those who attack reason and abandon those who preach reason.
El Gringo Viejo....  

It is done, the Alamo is lost

During these hours the fires ordered by Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna had consumed the remains of the Defenders of the Mission of  San Antonio de Valero....known to the locals as..."la capilla de los Alamos....the chapel of the Cottonwoods.

Col. James Bowie

     Only one of the defenders was not thrown onto the common pyre.   Juan Jose Esparza was the only person to be granted permission to be buried in Holy Ground, under Christian Rites.   All the others were immolated.  Including David Crockett.   Esparza was a close friend of James Bowie, the co-commander of the outpost.  Esparza essentially snuck into the compound through a window, bringing his wife and children with him.    That evening or the next day, he took to the defense of his very ill friend, Col. Bowie and bolstered him in the continuing arguments that he had with the childish and arrogant, 28 year old William Barrett Travis.

     Travis was Southern aristrocracy.  He also carried the rank of Lt. Colonel.   He looked down his nose at the sometimes sober Bowie, who was famous as an alligator wrestler, dueler, gambler, and adventurer.   Travis was cold, spoiled, arrogant, and as we say in the South, 'full of himself'.   James Bowie was a man of Eastern Tennessee with considerable life experience in and around Southern Louisiana, especially New Orleans.    He spoke Cherokee, and could read, speak, and write English, Spanish, and French, making him comfortable in any environment...low or high.  All who knew him thought him given to flights of extreme chance in business, and perhaps being fascinated with risk.   People say he invented the Bowie Knife, but that honor actually belonged to his brother Rezin Bowie.

Antonio Lopez de
Santa Anna c. 1869

     When Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna ordered the Defenders burned in a commom pyre like dogs, finally even deciding to throw Bowie in with the rest, Juan Jose Esparza's brother, Francisco, a middle ranking officer in the Mexican force under the command of General Filisola, asked the Supreme Commander for permission to take Esparza's remains to be buried.   That was the only one who received such permission.   There were 17 known Latin Defenders, although there is a probability that some of Captain Juan Seguin's men were never rostered....meaning there may have been as many as 35 to 60 Latins....known as Tejanos.   Impromptu volunteers would not have been out of the question because Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna was extremely disliked by the people of Coahuila and Texas, Latin and non-Latin alike.

Lt.Col. William Barret Travis

      Bowie, however, is an interesting element among the Texian Forces.   Some think he was afflicted with tuberculosis, others say he was fighting the residual effects of a bout with typhoid.    Others say that he was struck hard by the death of his fiancee' in Mississippi some years before....and then after a very successfull marriage ...which had financial and emotional depth  into a pre-eminent San Antonio - Monclova - Saltillo based Spanish/Mexican family it all happened again.   A cholera epidemic swept through Texas in 1832, so Bowie sent his wife, children, and several of his in-laws to Monclova to wait out the plague in the healthier, drier, and higher air.    They all died when the cholera broke out there.
    So, there is reasonable speculation that Bowie, although relatively young and very accomplished, decided that he had a better place to be than on this Earth.   From the time after the death of his family, he had taken to drink and, while still gregarious and friendly and popular among the people in and around San Antonio, he was obviously a man with a wounded heart and soul.   He would not be the kind of man one would want in charge of a military garrison.
      So you have Bowie, the Mexicanized fighter for the Constitution of 1824, and Travis who really did not like the Latins and their peculiar brand of Christianity.    Bowie has a Latin friend who essentially comes into the Alamo to die with and for his Anglo friend.   Then we have Travis turning to Captain Juan Seguin, a brilliant Mexican army officer who hated Lopez de Santa Anna to ride out for re-enforcements, because  Seguin was the only one who knew enough about the lay of the land and the populations to be trusted with the job.

Capt. Juan Nepumecino Seguin

      Imagine Captain Juan Seguin riding to find Col. Fannin in order to bring him and his 350 men to the Alamo's defense.    He finds that Fannin's group has been annihilated at Victoria, near the coast, and all were lost.   General Urrea has riden back from a forward scouting to find that lesser officers have ordered the execution of all the prisoners, some 300 men, according to the orders of Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana.   Urrea is furious, because he knows well the rule of "if we do it, then they will do it ten times over".   But, the damage is done, Seguin rides back to San Antonio to find that upon his arrival, the Alamo is fallen, all is lost.
     He continues then to the east, looking for Burleson or Houston or Austin or anyone.   He finds Mrs. Dickenson and her baby and Man James.  He arrives to meet with Samuel Houston and to confirm that Fannin, Bowie, Travis, and Crockett are all gone.   Along with almost 500 regular and irregular militia.   Although he is a trained artilleryist,  Seguin goes on to command the Texian cavalry at the decisive Battle of San Jacinto, where he and the Texian forces destroy Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna's headquarters command of some 1,800 men, through a Washington-like attack on a Holy Day...a Sunday...21 April 1836.
      Lopez de Santa Anna had brilliantly conducted an Army and Navy attack, 1,000 miles away from his point of origin, moving three large corps of combined military force, cavalry, infantry, and artillery over deserts, mountains, cold, snow, and rain, encountering the enemy on frequent occasion and winning a succession of 24 straight engagements.   In every engagement the Texians had been beaten badly.   And then he camped with his main force on a swampy peninsula, surrounded by water, with no exit.   The carelessness of arrogance.

      Finally consider the Yucatecan Infantry, earlier this morning before sunrise.   They were put at the front of the attack group, attached to the 2nd Batallon de Zapadores, Ingenieros de Combate.   To them it was a form of punishment as Yucatecos, because that province had declared itself allied with the forces supporting the Constitution of 1824.   Lorenzo de Zavala had written that Constitution and Lopez de Santa Anna knew de Zavala was taking refuge in Texas.   So, the Yucatecan soldiers lay in the heavy wet snow that morning before sunrise, then became exasperated with their suffering, finally rose up and began the attack before the bugle call, that would leave 182 - 225 Defenders dead within the next 2 hours, and a minimum of 400 Mexican soldiers dead, and as many as 225 more dying of their wounds over the next two months.
      All of this defense and offense over a place that was neither worth defending nor assailing in military terms.   The brother-in-law of Lopez de Santa Anna, Gen. Perfecto de Cos declared, "Con una victoria mas como el este, perdieremos no  solo la guerra, pero quizas el pais.   (With another victory like this, we should lose not only the war,  but perhaps even the country).

     From an event that lasted for a little less than a month, that involved directly less than 3,000 men, there are a million stories and angles, points of view, and tidbits that will continued to the analysed, talked about, studied, and frequently misunderstood for the next one thousand years.....or more.   To be sure, we shall, and our progeny shall, Remember the Alamo.

Thanks for your attention.   Remember the 6th of March 1836.

El Gringo Viejo