Please Think About the Actuarials...Not Press Reports

     It is still disappointing for me to watch FOX News spill half-truths to outright misstatements onto the screen about Mexico.   This week-end, Harris Faulkner, whose father is a highly decorated Army Officer, had to read about how stupid people are going over to Mexico to buy cheap gasoline.    People were doing that in spite of the fact that everybody is always killing everybody and chopping their heads off all the time.

     Then, an authoritative white boy comes along and responds to Harris's lead in with something to the effect that even if you survive the trip over to buy the gasoline, the gasoline is no good and it will void any warranty that might be in force with your automobile.    On talk radio overnight, Teamster-type truck drivers called in with the same pre-fab story about how some stations in Mexico that are owned by the cartels lower prices on their gasoline standards so as to lure innocent Americans over, at which time the people are beheaded and their vehicles are stolen.  For one, Cartel people do not own PEMEX Stations.   For Two, PEMEX Stations do not have price standards.  The price of gasoline and diesel is fixed, nationwide.  There are no other gasoline dispensers save for PEMEX, and it is a government chartred monopoly.

     So it's hopeless.   But just to set it straight, the Mexican gasoline is not, as the white boy said, all the same grade.   There are three different mixtures based on climate, elevation, and urban density.   Three.   The "enlightened" USA has 39 at the present time, all established by edict by imbeciles in the EPA who believe in simultaneous global warming and global cooling, and who scoffed at the notion that acid rain in Canada might have been caused by effusions from the forests in Appalachia.   (It was, no matter how hard they laughed at Ronald Reagan for making the observation)

     As far as the "boutique" mixtures, there are 39 in force now in the USA, but another 50 or 60 have already been approved, and we can rest assured that the new O'bamaham administration to come will have refineries making gasoline by the pint before it is all over.    And blaming it on the oil companies.   And most Americans are woefully and willingly ignorant about the nature of the oil and natural gas business, and will probably buy the bilge.

     The white boy said that the government owned PEMEX company forces the stations to all charge the same, so the station operators fill their underground tanks with water, and there is no control or recourse.   They all do it, and that's why the vehicles do not run.    The fact is that PEMEX auditors do more frequent test-tubing and meter-register exams than any place in Texas or the United States that I know of....perhaps California might have ,more snoops, because the State of California is trying to take $1.50 on the sale of every gallon and really needs the money.   They need to feed the miracle babies and children and do the day-to-day funding of pensions and programs that are financially insane.   PEMEX is a Government-owned operation that is run like a private business finally....and especially in the last ten to twelve years has been doing a really good job in complying with their compact.   Some say it is prelude to ultimate privatisation....good, and the sooner the better. Also, the Mexican gasoline is quite good, and it has been many years since I could get an engine knock even out of the lower of the two octane grades.   The old 1992 Dynasty has fairly high compression and 400,000 miles on the same engine, so El Gringo Viejo uses an ABABAB approach, filling with the 87 octane Green Pump this time and the 93 octane Red Pump the next time.   The Red Pump fuel is either EXXON Supreme or the PEMEX equivalent made with the same formulation.    The full filter has been checked occasionally and has never had junk or anything.   So scratch up another one for the blowhard no-nothings.

     The most recent time anyone had a problem with being beheaded at a PEMEX station anywhere in Mexico is when Occupy-types threw molotov cocktails at a pump in Chilpancingo, Guerrero during one of the perpetual communist manipulated "student" protests about global warming and profits and being required to take examiniations and make an 80 so as to pass on to the next level.  An heroic station manager died of his burns incurred during his efforts to put out the fire before the station blew.    Also, every now and then the convenience stores are held up at the PEMEX Stations and, of course, that is very bad.   We should be grateful that it never happens in Texas.

     Folks, before you roll your eyes again....who are you going to believe....?   Someone who lives it and has studied it and done business in it and who comes from ancestors who have been in the middle of it from Flintstonian times....or reporters?    I have never been in attendence at any event, then seen the press report of that event, and been able to say that the report was reliably accurate.   Once again, the issues we have now are not cured, but they continue to improve.   And people really do go and come across the the Rio Grande and do so without extraneous issue 99.9999999% of the time.

El Gringo Viejo

The Saddest Moments in Life. Can We Talk?

Heartbreaking news for the heartland.   Rosie's program on Oprah's network managed to capture a 00.000 share and a -24.2 rating, meaning that people were actually turning their chairs and Lazy-Boys around, even while the television was on...so as to say that they were actively not-watching the Rosie Show.   With that, it seems that Rosie is going to join Katie Couric in the "Who?" Hall of Fame sometime very soon.   No time or date will be announced by Arsenio Hall, because, who cares?

Rosie's program space will be replaced by Michelle O'bama doing aerobics on special vacation flights to Aruba and the Taj Majal next week, and then to Machu Pichu and the Summer Show in Paris on her shopping trip for "Clothes to Shop Target By". 

My mother told me to say nothing about a person that is negative. So, El Gringo Viejo

will refrain from saying that the above picture could puke a buzzard off'n a gut wagon.

As for the one on the left, congratulations on setting up a perfectly useless network with perfectly useless programming aimed at people who are significantly intellectually

challenged. At least they apparently are not watching, in droves.

The one on the right, besides never having seen a picture of a Bessemer Converter melting

iron and steel with fire is also uglier than an old abandoned Bessemer Converter, and nowhere near as smart. And yes, kerosene and an updraft can make quite a billows

and a fire that can produce heat values in excess of 2,800 F....and with the nature of

the upsurging feed of air such as at the Twin Towers....perhaps even to the boiling

temperature for iron of 5,200 F. There was a fire in McAllen, one time, that

burned down the biggest hotel in town. It was hit by lightning on its twin copper

cupolas. The fire immolated the building, including concrete blocks and hard-fired

bricks. There was nothing left. Sorry, Rosie O'pottamus.

Not having known that there were 190,000 people stupid enough to watch Rosie's program, or Ophra's network and  operate a channel changer with one hand, I remain, very pleased with your presence on this dark and stormy night in Texas.

El Gringo Viejo

Barrack and Eric Say Americans of Mexican or Other Latin Origin Are Stupid

Eric Holder's notion about what "restraining voter turnout" might be does not include Black Panthers stalking around the entrance to a voting place, swinging truncheons menacingly in the presence of white and known conservative black voters.

Eric Holder knows but does not care that 73,000,000 Mexicans can register to vote in a much more demanding and complicated process, and further, if they do not comply with the process, THEY CAN NOT VOTE.

Eric Holder knows but does not care that 73,000,000 Mexicans will bring their Credencial Electoral Federal to the appropriate voting precinct and that it will be matched to a catalogue of voters....according to photographs and thumbprint, and 11 other security embeds in the Credencial or THEY CAN NOT VOTE.

Eric Holder knows that in Texas, every person of English, Irish, Scottish, Manx, French, Swedish, Norwegian, Russian, Arabic, Czech, Bohemian, Polish, Japanese, Chinese, Mongolian, Pakistani, Indian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian.....(enter 113,340 national, racial, and ethnic groupings) will be required to show photographic identification to vote in the up-coming elections.   One of the main reasons is because Democrats, marxists, and communists try to steal elections by flooding the proceedings with unqualified electors.   Reference ACORN and the union-thug recalls and anarchy in recent days in Wisconsin and essentially throughout the Republic.

     The approval in Texas by Latin citizens for the voter identification measures now in place is 58% while those who oppose are roughly the same percentage as there are of deranged marxist Anglos and other assorted honky-types.....about 21%.   It only seems fair to make certain that people of Mexican ancestry who are American citizens by birth or naturalisation process should be assured that their vote is not going to be diluted or cancelled by an anchor-baby mother.   IT IS THE SIMPLE MATTER THAT A PERSON MUST BE OF AGE, A CITIZEN, A RESIDENT OF THE PRECINCT AND DISTRICT OF CONCERN, AND NOT A FELON OR OF UNSOUND MIND.   Is that really too much to ask?

Eric Holder is a bigoted racist because he insists upon telling us that Mexican Americans, Negroes, and other "minorities" are too stupid to be able to do what any and everybody else does in order to comply with simple civic responsibility.

Eric Holder and his best bud, Barrack Hussein Obama, are both marxists who delight in trying to pit ethnic and racial groups against the American Commonality.   They delight in telling people that, by pulling down wealthy people, the downtrodden will be better off, be happier, and will finally receive their "fair share" of Kwanzaa presents.   It has worked everywhere else in the world, except in the places where it has been implemented.

It is mandatory that these people be given a permanent vacation in a place where they would be comfortable ..... like Red China or North Korea.

And, by the way, the last time a police officer contacted me, the first thing he asked for was my identification.   He was Latin, I am Anglo....I complied....and did not even seek legal relief.

Imagine that!

El Gringo Viejo   

Blind Man in a Dark Room

 The Archbishop of Canterbury

     The Gringo Viejo has made a commentary on another blog, defending another Anglican traditionalist.  So that all OROGs will know what the dirty laundry of another family looks like, it is being included below.  The announcement by the Archbishop of Canterbury that he is now to graze in greener meadows brings a bit of relief to those who have suffered a decade of pointless, meaningless mumblings that bring to mind warm mayonnaise.   This is said with some deference to warm mayonnaise, which undoubtedly has greater relevance to the Will of God and the fulfilment of His desire that we strive to save our souls and the souls of all mankind than did this peculiar secular humanist in priest's raiment.

     Another like-minded fellow named Kurt, stated his opinion on another blog, and it was the pleasure to stand with him after his comments were essentially ridiculed by a "more enlightened" cleric.

Kurt,

    You are right.

     Those of us who are wounded by the radical notions of secular humanists presenting themselves as holy men and worthy guides along the straight and narrow do certainly agree with you.
     It is amazing to note that this ABC could muddle and obfuscate so much in so little time.   Some might say he was overwhelmed by the "divisiveness and politicisation" that the Church has suffered during the past 40 years.   Those are code words for flatearthers who believe in Holy Mysteries, Church Canon, Traditions, and natural law as established by Yahweh.  The only fire and brimstone we have seen for years is the blistering hatred the Church hierarchy has for those who long for a time when the Archbishop of Canterbury could make at least one or two references to the Nazarene or His Father during his dull, prolonged, tortuously twisted meaningless commentaries.

     Nay! Nay!   We were those who were.   The secular humanists and the social justice people came and changed the Church and them blamed us for the Church's failings.  They said they would fill the pews...and they are more empty than before.   They have elevated perversity, worship of humanity, and idealised materialism.   They have resuscitated a few obscure practises from yon so as to show that they are  also traditionalists, but they never really evoke the inner feeling in a congregation that there is any sharing of belief in the unseen.   The only thing they worship seems to be "equivilisation"....the making everyone and everything "equal".   It is a dreary gospel, written by Voltaire, Robespierre, Marx, and Engles....and it does not belong in an Episcopal or Anglican Church.

We pray for the Black African Bish0p to be called to reinvigorate this great part of the Body of Christ.  That Thy will be done
aka El Gringo Viejo

Oil Companies are not the problem

     The problem is that somebody found out that oil people....the rig workers, the doodle-buggers, the wildcatters, the royalty holders, the refiners, the truckers, the pipeliners, the roughnecks are not saints.   Most of them are not even lower level acolytes.

       Therefore, people who know nothing about the oil business like to blame the oil companies for every real and imagined difficulty in their lives.    And, if a person is especially petty and self-absorbed, he particularly resents the oil companies violating the compact they had about giving anybody and everybody fuel for whatever price the buyer wanted to pay.

       Oreally raves on and on, and it has to be that he is either willfully ignorant of the nature of the entire industry, or that he is a closet socialist.    The top 20 oil and gas explorers, producers, distillers, transporters, and end-marketters pay over 150,000,000,000 dollars in local, State, and central government taxes each year.    Royalty holders pay another 22,000,000,000 dollars, each year is such taxes.    B0n Jovi pays 150 dollars of real estate taxes in New Jersey because of exemptions he qualifies for because he has some bee-hives on his properties....properties that have several million dollars of value.   El Gringo Viejo pays more than that in McAllen school taxes just on a couple of old gas wells.

     The oil business pays over one hundred and seventy-two billion dollars in various taxes last year.    And, they provide the cheapest and best gasoline in the world to its clients in America.   The solution to the energy problem is not Solyndra, or autos with solar powered propellers, or algae oil.   The solution is to bind the three nations of the North American Continent into a "cartel'' of the good, and agree to produce and deliver to ourselves first and then sell our surplus to other markets.    The oil and gas industry would make good money on that market, albeit a little less, and the prices would remain low because of the lower cost of transportation.

Natural gas is already so cheap some people are trying to figure out how to feed it to their children without blowing them up, or having them float off into the blue.

    We are off early in the morning tomorrow.   We return on Saturday, the Lord willing and the Devil not objecting.

El Gringo Viejo

     

     

So All Know El Gringo Viejo is only daft a' smidgen.

     "Grandma, what's wrong with Old Man Stanford?"

      "He's alright, Davy.   It's just that he's a tad teched."

       That resolved everything.   So we go on about our business trying to find out where the wild chickens had been puttin'.      Grandma Mamie kept about 60 hens in their cages, and let the roosters to light in the trees overnight.    Some hens, who apparently were claustrophoic, preferred to stay out and take their chances with the coyotes, foxes, feral cats, bobcats, and o'possums.  The roosters were so dumb...well, you know...they were males.

      We found a dozen and a half, some were poulet eggs, and as we went back to the side entrance of the rambling, frame farm house, I asked my grandmother, "Grandma, what do you think bein' a tad teched is like?"
      "Well, you know.   Go and put'n those eggs in that bowl of fresh well-water.    Bein' a tad teched is like being daft a' smidgen," Mamie said after a bit of contemplation.
     El Gringo Viejo, who is daft a' smidgen, includes this scanning from the main economic events newspaper in this part of the frontier so that OROGs will know that their blogmeister is not totally fallen off the edge.   The article deals with the environment from whence I came, where I dwealt, and what is actually going on in the 99.9% area of what is Mexico.   The security issues are real, but it is not what one deals with 99.99% of the time when tending to birdwatchers, loafers, and photgraphers in some corner of rural Mexico, for instance.
     Every day things become a little bit better.   Every day things become a little bit better.   Two steps forward and one step back.   And we have the Mexican Army and Naval Infantry.   Those two institutions have given Mexico, and El Gringo Viejo, frankly...a reason to be ultimately optimistic about an increasingly positive future.   A future with no Obama and with a Mexico Retaken, an America Restored, and a Canada establishing the clear path to leaving socialism in the rear-view mirror.    The above article was published in Texas Border Business, vol. 7 no. 9 March, 2012. 

This is what we see and experience.   This is the trucks on the highways hauling stuff from the

United States and Canada, and hauling stuff up to the United States and Canada.  We have

a front row seat on a fascinating place that never seems to change, yet is always changing.

It's like a trip with no dope, dude. 

Thanks for your time and attention.   More Later.  We shall be heading north to babysit the granddaughters for a bit.   We shall try to make some more salient observations while up-state.

El Gringo Viejo