Yes, they can't

     The ancient formula has been employed again, and the same people whose forebearers came to this Continent searching for protection from central governments now are begging for the false security and easy life that seductive satanists offer to those who would prefer indolence to industry.

     The great Civil War has been joined.   The skirmishing since the end of the New Deal Era has, necessarily, become a battle.   Tomorrow, it will be a war.   The war will be between two sides.   There will be no neutral ground.   One side wishes to be left alone, to live by the tenets of English Common Law and the Law set forth in the original Constitution, to labour for the provision of oneself, his family, and his community.     The other side wishes to scheme to destroy the methods of investment and noble labour, while simultaneously demanding to be supported by a productive class that is subject to the whims and fads of an overbearing socialist governing class.
     One side produces, mentors, builds up, and expands wealth.   The other side organises, demands, and seeks to gain the goods and wealth of others by taxation, theft, violence, anarchy, or socialism.

CRITICAL POINTS THAT HAVE ALREADY PASSED:

(1)
      The bad side has long needed a built-in, subservient, violent, indolent mass of "victims" who are stupid, vicious, and unreasonable.   Lack of critical thinking ability, ignorance, depravity, filth, bastardy, and racism would be necessary characteristics of this class of subservients.   The solution, of course, was the Trojan Horse of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC).   Next was the change of the pedagogic class from one of a "calling" to one of a "profession". 
     In this way, there would be developed a group of people who could not and would not learn, led by a group of people who could not and/or would not teach.   Blackboard Jungle, starring Glenn Ford, foretold a bit of what was to come.   It was a soupy, syrupy movie.   Watching it now, however, brings a torrent of primal reactions...fight or flight?....nausea....scream bloody murder....don't hold me back, I'm going to jump.
     For those who had the "calling", there were  "professional organisations" established such as the NEA, the ATF, and any number of unions representing the interests of the teaching "profession" who would readily remind the person who had a "calling" that being a teacher means being a "professional".

Glenn Ford lectures an inner-city class, in a scene from the
famous 1950's era film.  It has been described as a gritty, or a
corny, or a realistic look at public education of the day.

     As for "students", suffice it to say that schools as we knew them are gone.   Vestiges waft in and out of some campus settings still, but very, very, very few "students" to-day would be able to comprehend or comply with what a classroom or school situation would require in 1955.   The student body has changed....(in many ways)....and the emphasis is on empowerment and rights instead of responsibility and duty.
     The marxist movement in American was successful in many ways in the producing of a "client victim group" and using that group to as a wedge to steadily drive down the self-same Negro race in America.   Group-think and the re-enforcement of self-defeating pursuits give us now the Detroit moment in human development.    It has given us "the projects", the "baby-mothers", the 50% unemployment among black men, ages 18 - 30.    If one doubts it, just examine how "black leaders" deal with conservative and/or Republican people of black - African descent.


(2)
     There are too many people who genuinely feel that the government, especially the central government, must provide for their happiness, success, and security.   By stating this it is not meant that there is a disturbing number of such people, but rather that critical mass has been reached.   There are as many people receiving some or several goodies from Father O'bamaham....from Warren Buffet and George Soros, all the way down to the president's own Auntie and Uncle.
     All these millions form the Army of Evil Locusts.   From the crony "capitalists" to the people who take food stamps or who own and operate stores where such devil's script is accepted as legal tender, or who participate in any program provided by the central government,   these people intend to take what is produced by others, some like a thief in the night, the remainder by the power granted to a government that is armed against its governed.

Prepare for the War ahead.    And ask not for whom the bell tolls, for it tolls for us.
El Gringo Viejo

Called Back

     The more things change the more they stay the same.   If you think it's bad right now, just wait a few minutes, it's bound to be worse.  Make up any good assembly of really pointless things folks say during trying moments, bind up those sayings, and forward them here for future publication.   Things began to go downhill on Saturday morning last.  Diana called at 5:00 am to say that she was getting her mother to take her over the emergency room to take care of her burst appendix.    She would have driven herself over but there was a problem with the carriage, and she felt like the engine belt had slipped off.

     "You're going to have an operation?"

     "I think it's unavoidable."

     "Can your mother make it.   The hour and everything?''

     "She will be here in a minute."    So with this certainty, El Gringo Viejo advises that he will immediately begin to pass command to Alvaro, who is 100 miles and six hours by a really good bus service and schedule.   Dogs, cats, and visitors and security issues have to be addressed before northward progress can be made.

      Alvaro arrives during the late afternoon and begins putting order back into my negligence.    It is too late to reasonably leave and arrive before nightfall at the frontier.   Besides, at these hours there are weather travel advisories for our area, from Linares down to Cd. Victoria for heavy thunderstorms, stationary, with much lightning and golf ball sized hail.   One of the connector roads generally used by our return route, between Padilla and Barretal, has already received between 6 and 9 inches of rain.

      Alvaro goes home during the night around sunset.   By 03:00 the next morning, we have had six inches of rain.    Lightning and thunder have driven all the animals onto the corridor.  Bebe, the Labrador, has demanded and gained reluctantly rendered permission to take refuge in the parlour.   Power was lost at 00:15 when a very slight misjudgement by a driver trying to park a bus into a new parking area to protect it from lightning and hail.   He had backed into a power poll, and even though there was no damage to bus or pole, the jolt had caused two high tension lines to make contact and blow a transformer.

     Two calls were accomplished between the frontier and the Quinta in the midst of everything, advising that an operatin had been ordered for the late afternoon, and later that the operation had been a success, the appendix had ruptured, and that the children had made the trip down from the center of Texas to render all needed assistance.    I left in the rain at 06:00 hours on Sunday morning, and drove non-stop to the border in a little more than five hours.   The area between the Quinta to Santander Jimenez was heavily impacted by from seven to fourteen inches of rain, depending upon the locale.

     The processing out for my vehicular importation papers was accomplished quickly, and the customs and immigration inspection on the American side was quick and with a relatively short line.   So, all in all, folks were surprized to see El Gringo Viejo arriving at a good hour.   Diana, always tough and resilient, was sitting in a fancy chair in a private room, looking perky but a bit tired.    Our two children had done all the necessary running around, taking pressure off of their grandmother.   And I had arrived in time to take all the credit for suffering so much.

     It should be pointed out that Gringo Viejo is 65 years old in a couple of days.   So, he shall allow the OROGs to determine his mother-in-law's approximate chronological location.   It fell to her to care for the daughter who has been mowing the lawn and checking-in on her a couple of times per day.    But, there she was, driving over in the dark, walking up and down the corridors of an hospital, filling out the forms, doing the question and answer sessions about allergies, and all the things that are so necessary and unpleasant.    She handled essentially all the primary and secondary necessaries during the first critical day, during what was a true, life-threatening emergency.    She is and always has been a very high-class, loyal, supportive, and contributing-type person, true to her Roman Catholic catechism and her characteristic, classical American principles.

     The next few days will find the boss going back to work and edging into solid food.    I shall be here to attend, do the errands, and so forth....feeling guilty about not being on the firing line when the first shots were fired.    The boss is very tight-lipped about any interior family and/or medical issue, so comment will be scarce in days to come.   We have just been advised that she will be released tomorrow, after undergoing major surgery late on Holy Saturday.   About sixty hours, in and out.   It reminds us of when she had the second baby in the early morning and was back at home in the afternoon, washing dishes and putting things back in order that I had dishevelled during her 18-hours absence from the house just to have a baby.

     Comments about other matters coming up.   Good to be with everyone.   Christ is risen.  Alleluia, Alleluia!

El Gringo Viejo

This is not a solicitation

El Gringo Viejo is an odd old bird.   He has a best friend who he hasn't seen in 20 years, and other people who are important who also receive scant care or attention.   Most of the other people with whom he would drink coffee and gossip are dead.   It is, perhaps a personality defect.   In any regard, some very nice people who are very successful, pleasantly mildly eccentric, crossed paths with El Gringo Viejo some years back.

    They, like others commissioned a bit of consulting work and other interesting assignments.  They have always been in our top five since.   We communicate sparingly, but always with interest and gusto.   We share many, many common attitudes and opinions.

     The husband of the pair sent me a note of interest concerning a friend who owns a relatively famous and productive gold mining operation that has interests in Mexico.   One of the mines most commonly mentioned around our area is the one in Durango.   It is some distance away, but also relatively close....Texans know what I mean.    El Gringo Viejo is including a descriptive folleto about the business.   It is very interesting and a proven "gold mine" for those who did invest in the operation. 

http://argonautgoldinc.com/admin/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/PDAC-2012-Fact-Sheet.pdf

This linkage is a PDF, it fills with a lot of blank area in the beginning so be sure to scroll down far enough to engage the information.  It takes very little time to go through the material, and it is fascinating.   We are not agents or representatives of the business, and no stock purchase or investment is solicited either by El Gringo Viejo or by our friends or by the business.   It is just a pleasant look at what other crazy gringos do, South of the Border.

Thank you all, as usual for the investment of your time which is valued greatly by EGV.

El Gringo Viejo

How El Gringo Viejo responds.

     It is with some trepidation, but it is how I see these things.   People ask, I shall answer.   Rosie and the liberals somehow assert that Islam is just the same as Christianity and Judaism, just a little better because the majority of the people are poor and backwards and incapable of critical thinking.

The Gringo Viejo's response to this line of thinking was drawn up thusly:    

     The matter at hand is a comparison of fundamentalists and orthodox of the three Great Religions. The Jews and the Christians are taught and usually believe that we are born into original sin. We are told that Yahweh stands aside to allow us the right of choice desired by our grandparents, Adam and Eve. We hope that a woman learns from her training and her errors and either becomes a saint or becomes at least saintly. We are taught to forgive even more than 7 times 70 times.

     We are taught to hope the same for a man.

     The fundamentalist Ishmaelite and many orthodox Muslims believe that a woman is a whore and must be forced to be a saint. Which begs the question, "If a woman is forced to be a saint, is she really a saint?"

     Each of the three religions have members who violate the basic teachings and canons of their own religions. The Muslims, however, are the only ones who blow up each other's churches at a whim. They do it on a regular basis. If a woman wears a green burka on Tuesday, an Imam can demand that she be stoned for lasciviousness. Her husband, or first son, or her father is given the honor of throwing the first stone.

     We are taught that the Nazarene intervened in the stoning of a harlot, and demanded of the crowd, "Who among ye be without sin? Let him casteth the first stone." The crowd of cowards dispersed, and the Nazarene spake to the harlot, saying ''Go ye and sin no more."
In that profound scene the Nazarene identifies the two sins. Extension of judgmentalism...."I find her conduct offensive, therefore I shall kill her", and the disrespect of ones own body, the temple of Yahweh, by prostitution. In both cases the parties of concern received their punishment and instruction. The bullies were shamed in front of everyone, and the girl was told that she is a sinner, and hopefully to-morrow she will be a saint.

So there,

El Gringo Viejo

Some Parting Shots, Heading South

Not untypical San Pedro girl.  Well
 educated, talentedbut she can't
 boil water.She can shop,however.
Favourite saying?
  "Daddy,This credit card doesn't
 work any longer."

    We head down to the South while 30% of Mexico heads to McAllen for two weeks of shopping at La Plaza Mall and in the various venues in the McAllen area that have shops laden with every imaginable and unimaginable necessity that nobody needs.   A strong peso and gradual comfortability with travel conditions are causing considerable optimism among merchants on this side, and several million half-witted 12 - 19 year old females who range from the lower middle classes to the impoverished billionaires of San Pedro de Garza Garcia (Latin America's richest city (per capita), adjacent to Monterrey, but over the Loma Larga and just out of view.

     The population of the entire Metroplex of 8 contiguous counties/cities, including Monterrey (the largest), is a bit over 5,000,000 people.    San Pedro is only about 200,000 souls, the majority of whom live in families with an income in excess of 1,000,000 dollars per year.   It is almost entirely "Old Money", held by industrialists, bankers, and commercial heavyweights.

 The City of Monterrey and San Nicolas de los Garza are more middle class and upper middle class, small business people, professionals, and youngers outliers of the magnates and poobahs of San Pedro.   But, now, even the working class adjacent city of Guadalupe is a place where considerable disposable income comes from.  That is where the business comes from in McAllen.   Cities in a cluster where even the working class has a pretty good slice of the pie, and a metroplex where pies are being generated, different kinds, different fillings, different sizes.    It is one of the reasons why the War is worth fighting.



Chipinque Mesa National
 Park and Environmental
            Reserve.   Adjacent to San
 Pedrode Garza Garcia.
  Full of Bears and other major
      mammals, next to a metroplex
 of nearly 5,000,000 people.  



     El Gringo Viejo will be heading South against the traffic, a good place to be.   While most of the inundation of McAllen comes from the West...the Monterrey metroplex...there are still considerable numbers who depart from Tampico metroplex, Victoria, and San Luis Potosi for the assault upon the Malls.   It is a pleasant madness.   But it is madness....they leave a place where there are plenty of things to buy, prices have become more equivalent over the years, and any gain enjoyed with the somewhat lower prices in McAllen are pretty well eaten up in travel and accommodation costs.



     We shall be arriving during the mid-day to-morrow, and it will be good to see Alvaro and the dogs and cats.   Alvaro has had a long stay of it, and he will take off for a month or so (usually he returns as much as two weeks early because he actually prefers hanging around the Quinta, and the animals and the friends he has there).    Have no doubt that Alvaro is an exceptional personality.   His contributions are legion and his errings are very few.

ADMONITIONS DURING THE ABSENCE OF EL GRINGO VIEJO:



      The proposed budget by Congressman Ryan of Indiana, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee is, perhaps, as good "putting of the toe into the water".   It includes, however, by choice, a continuation of the notion that the high income and wealthy should pay a higher tax rate....simply because they are bad people who have too much, and much more than they need.    It also calls upon the taxpayer to include the employer's share of any matching portion  of  the insured's premium as gross income.   Likewise any portion of a retirement program paid by the employer as an incentive or reward for employment or longevity in employment would likewise be subject to taxation by the central government.

     El Gringo Viejo almost dropped his teeth into the garbage compacter when he saw that Ryan was boldly projecting a balanced budget, in terms of the running income/expenditure accounting BY 2040.......???????    We're talking about some serious belt-tightening here.   Right?

     Another of the fool-proof, fail-safe assumptions to make about any "closing of the loopholes" in order to "expand the base of coverage of the lower tax rate" so as not to have and overall reduction in the "gross income tax proceeds needed to fund governmental operations", is that the intent of the "reform" is to keep funneling globs of lard into Washington D.C.     This lard, fudge, and butter will continue to be used to pay for a bureaucracy that will tell you that your driveway gutter is a "wetland" and.....

       "You are prohibited from occupying your home until the Migratory Waterfowl Administration's new regulations are published in the next 30 months.   In the meantime you are fined 20,000 dollars per day for willful attempted injury to a snaggle-jawed rump-minnow which is the prime food source for the roughbellied whackquacker duck.   While it is not proven that the Whackquacker Duck does or does not exist, it has been proven through our in-house opinion surveys that he does feed on the above-described minnow.

     Remember, Just Say No! to Alar....You eat apples, you die.   Just a frindly reminder, from Smokey the Bear."

Paul Ryan (R) Chariman
  House Budget Committee

El Gringo Viejo proposes once again the movement over a ten-year period from the income tax to a national sale tax of 7 percent, along with a total cancellation of the income tax on individuals, companies, and/or corporations by the end of that 10 year period.   Expenditures would be kept at 2008 levels, and social security contributions would immediately be placed into the private accounts of the member.   His/her social security number would be programmed as his/her private account.   For people under the age of 46, they would be required to wait until the age of 70 to access their annuities, but it would be theirs as part of their wholly owned assets and estates.

     Once again, the Ryan plan is a place to start the overhaul of the concept of central government involvment in the private financial affairs of a sovereign person.   It is half of a baby step.   Until the income tax concept is abolished, people like John Corzine and  Maxine Waters will live inside the citizens' wallets.

El Gringo Viejo

Mexico, Cuba, and the Bishop of Rome

     Some OROGs may be displeased because the Gringo Viejo refers to the Bishop of Rome as the Bishop of Rome.  "His name is Mr. Pope," they protest.   Yes, to the misinformed who are not enlightened Episcopal sticks-in-the-mud, and antique antiquarians, responds EGV.   The true Episcopalian....any real fire-breathing Anglican....knows that the Christian Church must be Apostolic in succession and based upon the passing of Church authority by way of the construction of Dioceses.   Each Diocese is presided over by a Bishop, and an important man is he.   He must be elevated from the common priesthood by now fewer than three other Anglican Bishops.

     The Church of England is headed by an even more very special Bishop.   He is the Archbishop of Canterbury who is elevated to his chair by the Monarch of England, be he or she whosoever.  The present Monarch is a Monarchette named Elizabeth, and she shall soon be naming a new head priest for the entire Church of England, the official church of the Realm.

      As bishops are certainly important, the Archbishop of Canterbury is really important because he is also the head of the entire assembly or "communion" of Dioceses known, quite simply, as The Anglican Communion.    That is, all churches and organisation of such churches that extend from the original Church of England, founded and/or recognised by Saint Augustine in the latest days of the 6th Century.   However,  Saint Augustine (not of Hippo) the great emissary of  Pope Gregory was a bit flummoxed by his mission, because, as he informed HSH Gregory, "I have found the church alive in Britain and the fiel at worship of our Saviour.  What should I do?"
     His Holiness directed Augustine to allow them to continue to worship in their way and to direct their attention to the greater Church and the communion of all Christians.   That tie of the present to the past, and the present to the future became the foundation of a Roman Catholic-like orthodox church....still speaking Latin....still drawing on the ancient Celtic and, to a lesser extent Nordic, mythology and mysticism.   Merlin would have felt at home in any Church of England then, and quite probably in most of the conservative ones to this day.
     To bring a long story to a mercifully short end, the Anglican Communion recognises that there is Roman Catholic Church as one of many Orthodox, Apostolic churches within the Body of Christ.   But it recognises the authority of the Bishop of Rome only as that, and for one other purpose, that of representing the affairs of the Roman Catholic Church in affairs of business and negotiation with other members and churches of the Christian Religion.   The Bishop of Rome has no authority beyond his own denomination.   His infallibility in interpretation of the dogma and liturgy is not accepted in the Church of England or the Anglican Communion.
     Otherwise, the Anglican tradition is such that any baptised person can receive communion at the rail in an Anglican Church of any sort...ie, a Roman Catholic can take communion at St. Georges' Church, Episcopal in Dog Paddle, Texas.    But, an Episcopalian cannot, correctly, receive or be granted communion or rites of the Roman Church, even if baptised and confirmed.

     So, now we arrive at this visit by the Bishop of Rome to Mexico.   The foreign leftist press has been stunned at the spontaneous turnout and reception.   They were certain that the "with-it" young people have had enough of the priest sex-scandals, the obvious corruption within the Church, and the even worse alternatives presented by the protestant and Mormon and Episcopal churches active in Mexico.   But....oh! no!   There are huge  crowds.   There are even events that parallel the Pope's and intertwine with his mission.    The Vicar of Christ is in a Popemobile wearing a touristic sombrero charro...!   Oh! No!  He's speaking out about how communism has failed Cuba....HOW INSENSITIVE CAN HE BE????     And with every careful word he points to the need to re-establish faith and goodness, and to turn away from the easy money and casual relationships that result in the dehumanizing of the the human race.
     El Gringo Viejo is a bit surprise himself about the warmth and reception that Benedict has received.   But it is encouraging in terms of the election coming up and in terms of underscoring the commitment to bring the War of the Cartels to a successful end.    While it is true that the average Mexican in the street with any functional IQ at all is not enamored of this war, the overwhelming majority want the Army and Naval Infantry to continue the search out, encounter, and destroy efforts.   Mexico is prospering right now, in gross national economic terms, and if it could eliminate the plague of this cartel thing, and if we could stop using the miserable drugs, it would seal the power of North America as a Citadel of Prosperity and good works for generations to come.
    Now, Benedict heads for Cuba, where he will probably be conciliatory yet scolding.   His Church in Cuba is full of liberation theology advocates, priests who are communists first and then parish vicars third.    It is dominated by the horridly marxist Mary Knoll nuns and other pseudo-Catholic operatives who are no more Christian than the pseudo protestant "Pastors for Peace" communist-adjuncts who lobby on behalf of the corrupt Communist regime.
     Benedict knows these are dangerous vipers who hide in the dark pantry of the house of God, and it is best not to stir them up.   It is better to speak over the vipers and remind the common people that they have an advocate on this Earth as well as another advocate in Heaven.    It is the common folk who will save the churches, Protestant and Catholic, and the beautiful country that Cuba was.    It will be again.    It is the dissidents, it is the Ladies in White, and those who know the soul sapping drudgery of a socialist dictatorship, who actually constitute a majority of the population.    Hopefully this visit might be the last spark before the whole resistance ignites and Cuba can be placed back into its rightful path to liberty and prosperity.

      Benedict's head-fake, his setting of low expectations, and his ability to turn the pictures of a mean old man into the image of a kindly old grandfather, with the right to guide his "family" to a better path has made this journey something very special in the movement of liberty and Faith.

El Gringo Viejo