Encouragement and Disappointment

     It is cause for a bit of celebration that the visit to Mexico by the Bishop of Rome has been so successful.  His willingess to move among the populace and to lecture as well as listen has been a big hit.   He is put in the position of having a hard act to follow, since the Polish Pope had established a very particular positive relationship with Mexico.

     It does give the public a chance to see that the broad expanses of Mexico and the broad mass of people are still believing in something bigger than themselves.    The scenes around Guanajuato State, including Leon, Guanajuato (city), Silao, and various places in the Colonial Zone of Mexico's Central Highlands.
     It is hard to convince my people of the certainty that if Mexico were to collapse because of the cartel business and the general seductive nature of nihilisitic anarchy, it would lead to the certain demise of both Cental America and much, if not all of the United States.  While the tail rarely shakes the dog, in this case the tail is very large.

     It is necessary for both the United States and Mexico to repair their institutions both of religion and of governance.   Both countries are terribly in need of repair for any number of reasons, almost all of them leading back to the failure to practice a common law approach, and a recognition of a God-based religion based upon the precepts laid out in the Beatitudes and the Golden Rule.    Here are a few pictures of nice places.   Oddly, El Gringo Viejo found one article from AP that told more truth than fiction.   Most of the MSM articles have been between sneering and loathing of the "Show With Men in Skirts -  The Next Chapter of Opiate for the Masses".

     Most of what follows here is either neutral or positive.   The issue of the Cristeros and the Cristero War is very complex, and one which shows that conservative, Christian forces can and do roll back progressives and Communists when we put our minds to it.   It takes courage and the willingness to sacrifice everything at time, but it can be done.

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SILAO, Mexico (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI urged Mexicans to wield their faith against poverty and drug violence, telling hundreds of thousands of worshippers in an open-air Mass on Sunday that they would find hope if they purify their hearts.

Benedict delivered his message in the shadow of the Christ the King monument, one of the most important symbols of Mexican Christianity, which recalls the 1920s Roman Catholic uprising against the anti-clerical laws that forbade public worship services such as the one Benedict celebrated.

The pope flew over the monument in a Mexican military Superpuma helicopter en route to the Mass at Bicentennial Park, where he rode in the popemobile through an enthusiastic crowd estimated at 350,000.

Often seen as austere and reserved, Benedict charmed a country that adored his charismatic predecessor, John Paul II, by donning a broad-brimmed Mexican sombrero as he was driven to the altar at the sun-drenched park.

     "Some young people rejected the pope, saying he has an angry face. But now they see him like a beloved grandfather," said Cristian Roberto Cerda Reynoso, 17, a seminarian from Leon.

Before the ceremony, the vast field was filled with noise, as people took pictures with their cell phones and passed around food.     As the Mass started, all fell silent, some dropping to their knees in the dirt and gazing at the altar or giant video screens.     In his homily, Benedict encouraged Mexicans to purify their hearts to confront the sufferings, difficulties and evils of daily life. It has been a common theme in his first visit to Mexico as pope: On Saturday he urged the young to be messengers of peace in a country that has witnessed the deaths of more than 47,000 people in a drug war that has escalated during a government offensive against cartels.

     "At this time when so many families are separated or forced to emigrate, when so many are suffering due to poverty, corruption, domestic violence, drug trafficking, the crisis of values and increased crime, we come to Mary in search of consolation, strength and hope," Benedict said in a prayer at the end of Mass.

      "She is the mother of the true God, who invites us to stay with faith and charity beneath her mantle, so as to overcome in this way all evil and to establish a more just and fraternal society."

The reference to Mary is particularly important for Mexicans, who revere the Virgin of Guadalupe as their patron saint. His reference to immigration resonated in Guanajuato, which is among the Mexican states sending the most migrant workers north.  Many said the pope showed a deep understanding of the challenges Mexico faces. While they said things may not change as a result, at least the pontiff gave them hope.

     "It was really gratifying," industrial engineer Juan Jose Ruiz Moreno, 39, said after the Mass. "In his words there was a great understanding of us, the Mexican people."   Some in the crowd wore white tunics with images of Benedict, the monument and Mexico's beloved Virgin of Guadalupe, and reading: "The entire church asks for peace in Mexico."

      "People leave for the good of their families," said Jose Porfirio Garcia Martinez, 56, an indigenous farmworker who came to the mass with 35 others from Puebla. "For us it's difficult, not seeing them for 10 years, communicating by phone and by Internet."  The Vatican said Benedict wanted to come to Guanajuato to see and bless the Christ the King statue, something that John Paul II had wanted, but was never able to do.

     With its outstretched arms, the 72-foot (22-meter) bronze monument of Christ "expresses an identity of the Mexican people that contains a whole history in relation to the testimony of faith and those who fought for religious freedom at the time," said Monsignor Victor Rene Rodriguez, secretary general of the Mexican bishops conference.     Before the Mass, the pope presented Mexico with a gift of a mosaic of Jesus Christ that will be placed at the monument.   After nightfall Sunday, the pope will remotely inaugurate its new lighting system.

     Guanajuato state was the site of some of the key battles of the Cristero War, so-called because its protagonists said they were fighting for Christ the King. Historians say about 90,000 people died before peace was restored. The region remains Mexico's most conservatively Catholic.  With roads closed, pilgrims walked for miles to the Mass with plastic lawn chairs, water and backpacks. Old women walked with canes. Some Mass-goers wrapped themselves in blankets or beach towel-sized Vatican flags, trekking past vendors selling sun hats, flags, potato chips and bottles of juice.

      Hundreds of young priests in white and black cassocks, waiting to pass through the metal detectors, shouted "Christ Lives!" and "Long Live Christ the King!" — the battle cry of the Cristeros.

The 84-year-old pope will be going to Cuba on Monday.

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Associated Press writer Michael Weissenstein reported this story in Silao and Nicole Winfield reported in Leon. AP writers Adriana Gomez Licon in Guanajuato and E. Eduardo Castillo in Leon contributed to this report.

In this picture made available by the Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano, Pope Benedict XVI celebrates a Mass in Colegio de Miraflores in Leon, Mexico, Saturday March 24, 2012. Benedict arrived in Mexico Friday afternoon, a decade after the late Pope John Paul II's last visit, and will travel to Cuba on Monday. (AP Photo/Osservatore Romano)

Pilgrims walk along a road toward the site where Pope Benedict XVI will give a Sunday Mass in Bicentennial Park near Silao, Mexico, Saturday, March 24, 2012. Benedict arrived in Mexico, Friday afternoon, a decade after the late Pope John Paul II's last visit. The pontiff's weeklong trip to Mexico and then to Cuba on Monday is his first to both countries. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

Faithful wave to Pope Benedict XVI as he passes by in his popemobile on his way to the Plaza de la Paz or Peace Plaza, in Guanajuato, Mexico, Saturday March 24, 2012. Benedict arrived in Mexico Friday afternoon, a decade after the late Pope John Paul II's last visit. The pontiff's weeklong trip to Mexico and then to Cuba on Monday is his first to both countries. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Pope Benedict XVI waves during the symbolic key ceremony of the city of Guanajuato, Mexico, Saturday March 24, 2012. Benedict arrived in Mexico Friday afternoon, a decade after the late Pope John Paul II's last visit. The pontiff's weeklong trip to Mexico and then to Cuba on Monday is his first to both countries. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

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Allow me to tell you why, Jesse.

Jesse Jackson

Mr. Jackson,
 
     Why has it taken so long for everyone else to recognise the chronic injustices that African Americans face?   My grandfather lost two brothers serving with the 96th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers in 1863, in two separate engagements with Confederate Divisions just before and just after the encounter at Gettysburg.
     Jefferson Davis had a slave as the Executive Officer of his plantation and business interests before and during the War.   After the War Between the States that same man stayed as a freeman in Davis's organisation.  He was known to be the best estate administrator in Mississippi, better than any white man.
     Abraham Lincoln, on the other hand, favoured the sending of Black people to "dig the Canal" in  Panama, because they were genetically accustomed to the heat and humidity, and because they would not be so sorely missed.
    Jefferson Davis's wife essentially sued for possession of a slave child, owned by a Black man, because she encountered him in Richmond beating the child with a quirt.  She gained the child only after essentially adopting him.   The judge said she would have a claim if she would provide hearth , home, and sustenance to the child, essentially becoming his mother.   The child, Jim Limber, became a fixture at the table of the Jefferson family, and immediately bonded with the Jefferson's eldest son.   The society ladies tittered that Mrs. Davis had obtained herself a "pet Negro", and nobody doubted that Jim Limber had welded into the family.   Mary Todd Lincolnm, on the other hand,  threw ash trays and candy dishes at even her closest Negro employees and friends, blaming them for the "horrid war"....
     The number one thing the Union occupation forces searched for as the Davis family 
withdrew to the South at the end of the War was not so much the President of the Confederacy, but rather the person of Jim Limber.   They found him with Mrs. Jefferson and the family and essentially kidnapped him and sent him either to the Bahamas or Jamaica.   Confederate sympathisers either gossiped, assumed, or thought that the Yankees had "silenced" him in a more certain way.   It is more probable that he was banished, like Elian Gonzalez.

A statue of Davis and his
son with Jim Limber, also his son

     Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton, Madison, Adams, and the entire panoply of the Founding Fathers spent much of their time trying to find a way out of the stupidity of the peculiar institution....a way that would not confound the interests of anyone.    The best way was, of course, manumission, and the reinforcement of a stable, religiously based family unit.   Washington was successful in eliminating the practice of selling man, wife, and minor children apart one from the other, a novel idea in his times.

     Jesse Jackson and all the poverty pimps, Al Sharpton and all the race charlatans thrive on the poverty created by programs that "help" the black race in America.   AFDC, Section 8, Public Housing, food stamps, Head Start, WIC, medicaid, and the hundreds of other programs designed to soak the productive while enslaving the dregs, slugs, and criminal elements such programs produce.   Those programs are the life's blood of people like Jackson, Sharpton, and Farahkan.   The have especial ire for the conservative and productive black individuals, spewing hateful epithets and derision at them at every opportunity instead of holding them up as examples. 

     Jesse, you are not worth being allowed to even look at a picture of Booker Tecumseh Washington.   Your and yours are the ones who created the fact of the situation where we are now.   Black thugs murder 20,000 people every year, mostly other black people...some of whom are fellow thugs, many of whom are just normal people going along their way.    They commit something on the order of 300,000 other felonies every year.   Why? Because they have no catechism.   They have no spiritual anchor.  It is not because somebody said a "word" to them....the same word they use to identify themselves when speaking in private or even in public.    No, Jesse, these are the spawn of your works.

     Jesse, you are a piece of scum.   You strutted back to the kitchen, laughing about how you spit into the "rich white crackers soup" when you had what was a pretty high-faluttin' job as a very young waiter at the Country Club down in Carolina.  It was your formative incident.   Then you threatened the black people in the kitchen when they turned you in to the management of the Country Club.   They had class...you have none, and you've been "gettin' back at the man" for that incident ever since.

    You are a shakedown artist....a protection racketeer....and oddly, a perfect example of whitetrash.

Please leave and go to Cuba or Venezuela, where you can putrify with the other old socialists.
El Gringo Viejo

Butt Out

Butt Out, Mr. President.
     As in Cambridge, as in Tucson,  this is not your affair.   Legal remedy is being employed.   Your hyperventilation at the opportunity to never let a good crisis go to waste is showing, and it is not a pretty picture.    You do not give a flip about the boy's death.   You do not care about justice.  Your only iron in this fire is the opportunity to somehow connect the death of the young man to the fact that Florida is a concealed carry State, and it also has the Castle Rule now made into law.

     Since you are an incompetent attorney, allow El Gringo Viejo to explain to you that the Castle Rule, also known as the "Stand and Defend" rule, now written into law in Florida, does not include pursuing a person off of the premises under concern.   It only covers the imminent physical danger or significant loss and/or damage to property under the control of the armed resident.

     This case rests solely on the possibility that the young man in question did anything on the premises under the protection of the neighbourhood watch "captain" that would have presented an objective clear and present danger.

     Finally there is process underway, completely and properly under the control of the appropriate authority.   It was a bit too late, however, because the stench of Calypso Louis and the famous Minstrel Character who plays the part of Chaplain to the Amos and Andy Show whose name escapes me now....I think it is Tawano Brawley.

      It will be difficult for them to go into their deranged, hydrophobic slobbering rage as it becomes clear that just over to the West a bit, in that horrible place that has a Confederate Flag incorporated into the State banner, a white boy was just convicted of murdering a black person, and now has the rest of his life to think about his actions,to enjoy free room and board, and 1 hour per day of recreation included.

 Face of a Dispiccable Person.
Killed a gardener, 17 years married, and known
to be a pillar of the community....a positive force
in his home town.  James Craig Anderson, based
upon our research, was the kind of guy who makes
a community in the South that special positive
place.   Mississippi eis full of them, but they are
never seen in the media of the popular culture.

Deryl Dedmon, 19, of Brandon, Mississippi, has been sentenced in the killing of James Anderson.

(sourced from CNN and verified through two other sources by the Voice from the Sierra Madre Oriental)
STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• Deryl Dedmon says he was "ignorant and full of hatred" when he killed Anderson
• The victim's sister says her family is praying for "racial conciliation"
• The prosecutor says more charges and arrests are coming
• Dedmon has been sentenced to two concurrent life terms

Editor's note: This story contains language that some readers may consider offensive.

(CNN) -- A white Mississippi man has been sentenced to life in prison for the 2011 murder of an African-American man, with the judge calling it an inexcusable, "despicable" crime.

Deryl Dedmon pleaded guilty to murder and a hate-crime charge before a judge in Jackson on Wednesday afternoon, admitting to the June killing of James Craig Anderson. Hinds County Circuit Judge Jeff Weill sentenced him to two concurrent life terms, saying, "This craven act isn't who we are."

"Whatever excuse you offer, forget that. There is no excuse," Weill said. He added, "The state of Mississippi condemns this despicable crime."

     Dedmon, 19, told the judge that he was a "changed man" who had found religion since his arrest.  "I wish I could take it all back," he said, adding, "I was young and dumb, ignorant and full of hatred. I chose to go down the wrong path."

Leave us alone.   Black Klanners, White Klanners.....Leave us alone.

El Gringo Viejo

Truth Droppeth as a Tonne of Bricks from Heav'n

http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474980592585

RONAL WILSON REAGAN, speaking in 1964, Goldwater Campaign

     This is mandatory viewoing for rightwing crazies and those who want to be rightwing crazies.   It is also required viewing  for those who will see that the truth we tell is true, and the predictions we make about the effect of socialist policies upon society are true.   The incessant meddling in private business, the taxation of industry and industriousness, the establishment of public assistance and welfare as a lifestyle become the down button for any nation's elevator.  Peace through strength, strength through self-relaince.

Ronald W. Wilson

http://politicalfutures.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981209556
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PAUL HARVEY, playing the role of Lucifer

    This will underscore why El Gringo Viejo does not believe in safety nets, lotteries, social progress, or anything that has been talked about in the popular culture for the past 50 years.    This radio vignette is bone-chilling and will serve to re-invigourate your resolve to defeat progressive and pro-socialist forces before they destroy everything.

Thanks for your attention and time.
El Gringo Viejo

Yes We Much II

A man was in a barber shop one day, having a shave and a haircut.   During the time that was normally restful and invested in a bit of pleasant conversation and unwinding, the tranquility was broken by an especially loud-mouthed, obnoxious man.   He held forth on Negroes and damned them to hell this way and that.    He threw out to the attention of all who would listen every shiboleth, every trite observation, every un-kind and unsavory thing he could lay upon the Negro race.

     The other people in the shop were not great crusaders for the elevation of the black man to common status with the white man, but neither were they admirers of the Klan, an organisation, it was rumoured, in which the loud-mouth was a key member.

      He was known to have a lop-eared bay with four white socks, and that was the horse he used on his "rides".  In the entire county, and in all the adjacent counties, there was no other horse that could be so easily identified.   So it was understood that the loudmouth was not really the brightest candle in the chandelier.

     Finally, the customer who was seeking the repose of a good haircut and a shave, with a bit of pleasant conversation, finally barked at the offender,"Jerome, shut up!   I came in here for a bit o' calm.   I'm sick of listening to you braying like a jenny-ass in labour!   You know, you sure ought'n to thank the Good Lord that you were born white, because if you hadn't been, you would have been out of anything to do."

     Such is the case for the above pictured individual.   In the matter of the shooting of the boy in Florida, it was certain that only hours would go by before the combination of clumsy police process, and rabble rousing community organisers, and the nature and gravity of the case would bring the above pictured individual into the fray.   His only interest, of course, is in seeking and finding justice.   His most famous accomplishment to date is his brilliant intervention in the case of Tawana Brawley.   Another of his finer moments in the application of the Beatitudes and the Golden Rule is his admonition to crowds gathered in a Harlem commercial zone that Koreans did not belong there and that they should be burned out of their businesses.   Of course, he was integral in righting the wrongs that were committed against the poor woman who was beset upon by the Duke lacrosse players.   That might really have been his finest hour.   In short, the above pictured Heroic Community Organiser,  like the blowhard in the barbershop, would never have had anything to do had he not been born a Negro to some degree or another.   Luckily for the above-pictured individual, he does not have to suffer the boarding, feeding, and veterinarian bills of owning a lop-ear bay with four white socks.   He can prove his useless stupidity just by "being there". 

     Thankfully for the individual pictured above, there are dolts and dumboes who can stumble into a way to attract things that look like a horse-fly that fell into a barrel of Velcro.  With reference to the Floridian shooting, we must proceed on the assumptions that can be drawn from the press reports.   Such measures are always risky, but let us proceed.   To the reasonable observer, we have a very un-photogenic "captain" of a neighbourhood watch committee having been accused of shooting a very presentable young man.

     We have a problem in that the young man was apparently unarmed, and apparently moving around in a public area, with the knowledge of his mother, and without seeming to be bothering anything or anyone.   A case can be made, therefore, that the individual who was legally armed, exceeded the purview of his authority by pursuing the young man some distance away from the area to be protected, having engaged the boy in physical scuffling, and then shooting him, knowing that the police were on the way to determine what the nature of the conflict and situation was.

       It would have seemed to this writer, that given no weapon being used or carried on the person to the boy, and judging by the boy's appearance and criminal record, the "captain'' was, at best (for him) standing with at least one foot outside of his authority and discretion.   Were El Gringo Viejo to have been the Chief of Detective or Chief of Police in Sanford, Florida it would have been necessary to detain the "captain" for some period as allowed by Florida Law.   If it were to be necessary to release him, El Gringo Viejo would have requested a bench order to attach an anklet on the "captain".    It would have been doubly necessary to research the boy's school history, the neighbours, and the community, his church, his living situation.   At this point, it appears as though the boy was a Rockwellian American type.   He did not have drugs, burglary paraphernalia, shoplifted products, or anything like that on or about his person.
     It would have been necessary to research similar matters concerning the "captain",  paraffin and GSR patterns on both the quick and the dead participants, and at least an offer of a polygraphic analysis.   All of the data and information should have been delivered to the District Attorney and there should have been a grand jury immediately empanelled.    Likewise, the established ministers in the Black community should have been met with on their turf, and it should have there been explained that discussing this case in public would jeopardise moving the case forward.   He should also have said, "I want to have any shred of evidence from any of your congregation that would serve to clear or convict either or both of the people involved in this tragedy.   I want any lead, notion, hunch, or hearsay from any reasonable person known to you."'
     And then, El Gringo Viejo would have immediately called the Attorney General and the Florida Department of Public Safety and asked for a special prosecutor and a forensic assistance team, since  a type of security officer...in a way...was involved.

     Sadly, to me it seemed that the Black folks in the area, while vocal, were somewhat more restrained than the rabble one finds in the big northern cities.   But, of course, they are Southerners.  This higher level of class, sociability, and reason among the agrieved group was wasted by the Police Chief.   The issue should have been to disarm the entry of racist rabble-rousers immediately by throwing a blanket over the issue and making it a local matter.   But now, the Community Organiser Extraordinaire will be coming down with his friends from the mainstream media, and we'll have another circus.   The Black Panthers will come, the Ku Klux Klowns will come (they are joined at the hip, one living because the other is living because the other is living.... mentally retarded losers),

     In the issue of a similar incident in East Texas, when a black man was dragged behind a pickup by three reprobates of limited intellectual reach, the miscreants were rounded up, tried, and sentenced....two to the death penalty, and one to life imprisonment.    It still wasn't enough for the NALACP, because for some reason or another, even though two of the bums where put to death, somehow it wasn't adequate without there being an additional charge of having committed a hate crime.
     The particular Texas incident was handled without intervention by the central government police such as the FBI and/or the ATFand E.

     Lastly, the individual pictured above has never raised a hand or his voice when a non-black person is killed by a black person.   During the last ten years, over40,000 white people have been murdered by a black person(s).   During the same time period, something under 2,400 black people were killed by white people.   These figures relate to manslaughter and murder in the 2nd up to the capital level of degree.   Never once did the person pictured above lift a finger to condemn the norm.   He is quick to condemn the uncommon occurrence, and frequently winds up being unapologetically wrong.

The inconvenient truth.   Like Algae and Algore.
El Gringo Viejo

Sometimes a person knows

     The visit by the President, at substantial taxpayer expense, to Cushing, Oklahoma to "cut the ribbon" on a pipeline to the Orange-Port Arthur, Texas refinery and petro-chemical complex is an exercise in mendaciousness that is almost equal to the entire W.J.Clinton and H.R.Clinton Administration's  eight years of raging lies and deviancy.

     Suffice it to say that Barak Hussein Obama has done nothing to enhance the production of clean coal, natural gas, or oil ever in his life, since the day of his birth to this point, and such will be the case probably well beyond these days.    Suffice it to say, as well, that he has done nothing to facilitate the safe transport of said materials at any time during his remarkably mendacious life.   He probably never will.

O'bama surpasses William Jefferson Blythe's whopper.  Blythe's
was, "I've never worked so hard in my life trying to find a way to come up
with a middle class tax cut like I promised during the elections, but
there is just no way.   Things are worse than we thought, and it's
George Bush's fault.   He did not inform us, and I have no other
choice except to propose a tax increase on the middle class."
Barak Hussein O'bama says yesterday he has no way to affect the
 market price ofoil.   To-day he says that he is moving to fast-pace
 this pipeline so that he can affect the price of oil.
   These are the utterings of a psychotic,
 mendacious madman.

         Mr. President, my family and I have been royalty holders in Texas for three generations.   I have worked, in a dilettante way on a couple of occasions on drilling rigs.   El Gringo Viejo has worked peripherally near and on edge of the oil and gas business for the better part of a half-century.    I listened to your talk in Cushing, Oklahoma to-day.   I accuse you,   I charge you, of being the worst of what a liar is.   You contradicted the very things you said a day ago, a week ago, a month ago, a quarter ago, a year ago, before you were elected to the office you hold now, when you were a worthless senator representing mendaciously a State of this Union that suffers mendacious fools such as yourself in office.   You are a chronic, pathological liar.

     Further, you have had nothing to do with the Cushing - Port Arthur line.   It is the work of big business, smaller companies, investors large and small, thousands of highly skilled pipeliners who work with huge machines and tiny devices to perform "miracles of tons under pressure going a long way away".    You do not understand the science, the engineering, the financing, the risks, the training, skills, education, and experience involved in this matter.   Furthermore it is an issue of State to State, private to private.   It works precisely because you had nothing to do with it.   Had you had anything to do with the Cushing line, the project would, like the Canadian leg, be sitting idle now.

      That is because you hate America.   You hate private economic activity.  You want a homogeneous society of people beholden to the central government for clothes, food, shelter, and medical service.   You want a society with those people living in projects, while you and your fellow-marxist wife can live on the other side of the divide between the 'proles' and the control people.   That is because you see yourself as one of the control people because you are smarter and better than the rest.     And you will make American pay for her sins.   And you will make white people pay.   And you will make conservative black and latino pay for being "sell-outs".

      Ninety percent of the people who heard you talking this morning knew you were lying.   Oddly, about twenty percent of those agreed with you even though they knew you were lying.   They were thinking..."The rubes will buy this bilge.   They are so stupid that they can't see that he is lying.   We'll fool 'em again, like we did with the "hope and change" thing.   Man these common Jed Clampett crackers are stupid.  Isn't is neat-o?" 

     Please go somewhere you like better, like Cuba, while Fidel is still alive.   Or, like Venezuela, while Hugo can still babble incoherently about his Vision of Utopia.   You, Fidel, Hugo....a dustbin....a sunset.

We thank all OROGs for their patience and understanding and time.

El Gringo Viejo