Why do you say...?

Why do you write...why do you say...?   These are questions that come to El Gringo Viejo at various times.   Usually we are too much in a stew and feeling too grumpy to remember that there are a lot of folks who have just "tuned in" so to speak.  So, here are a few answers:

 

What does (Sir Edmund)Hillary mean?
     That comes from she, herself.   She swings wide, when answering questions about her past, present, and future.   She was asked one time about the source of her given name.  She answered that her parents had always been impressed with the exploits of Sir Edmund Hillary and, in order to give their daughter the inspiration to always aspire, simply "because it was there", they named their daughter in honour of the famous, if somewhat eccentric, Brit hohenbergsteiger.
      So, there you have it.  How noble.  What brilliant, loving parents to recognise the brilliance they had whelped forth.   The only problem is that (Sir Edmund)Hillary was born three years after the conquest of Mount Everest by anybody other than the father of Janet Reno and Janet Napolitano *.   Perhaps, one might suggest, they were waiting for someone named "Hillary" to do something really noteworthy so that they could go down to the district clerk and finally register the birth.   Any explanation will do when a person has to corkscrew down to the Courthouse.   *(yeti and sasquatch have long been suspected as being involved in the paternity of the two women in question)



What is an OROG or what does it mean?
     An OROG is the Order of the Readers of the Old Gringo.  No membership fees, no benefits, but an occasional chuckle and  place where you can find somebody who is grinding his teeth just like you are.


Why do you infect your writing with English spelling and other Anglophilia? 
    This is part of an ancient war El Gringo Viejo has with the useless and pointless changes that have come the way of the Episcopal Church, the English Church, and the Anglican Communion in general.
     More pointedly, it is a protest against the flushing of the 1928 Book of Common Prayer as the basis of conduct and worship for members of the Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church Church of England and the Anglican Community.    The basic prayer book, common because it is used, commonly, by prince and pauper, remained essentially unchanged when brought out of the Latin in the 1550s.   Some changes had to be made after the American Revolution so that Americans would not be required to pray for the health and protection of King George and all those in authority.    That is where the term "Protestant Episcopal Church of America" comes from.   It is an Orthodox Church, but had to protest the little matter of praying for the health of the monarch who had just been overthrown.   So it was changed in the 1790s to this...(see if you can figure out what part was changed):
 
       O LORD our Governor, whose glory is in all the world, We commend this nation to thy merciful care, that being guided by thy Providence, we may dwell secure in thy peace.   Grant to The President of the United States, and to all in authority, wisdom and strength to know and to do thy will.   Fill them with the love of truth and righteousness;  and make them ever mindful of their calling to serve this people in thy fear; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end.   Amen.

     The entire set of services and Celebration of the Mass of the Holy Eucharist, order of officiation over Rites of the Sacraments all comes came to this poor child when he was very young.   His Grandmother Mamie Chisum Neal...a nice girl from the low hills of Eastern Tennessee ...could quote page after page after page from the the Book of Common Prayer, used by Episcopalians...and their half-brothers the Methodists, Presbyterians, and the ME Church, and the African Methodist Episcopal Church.    She was not an Episcopalian, but the King James unabridged was, literally, her Bible, and she could recite with theatrical emphasis page after page of that cornerstone of the Faith.   She would say that she was a Methodist, but her mother-in-law was a Christian (surname) and very high-church Anglican, out of New York, and back into the inner workings of that strange Island that ruled the world before it decided to rot.   Her mother-in-law, of course, is El Gringo Viejo's grandmother.
    
     So, that is the long form.   There is reason behind the madness.   Perhaps not a reason that makes sense to a reasonable person,  but it does make sense to the this writer.   It is a reasoning that asks the question, "If it is good to change, why then is it not just as good to remain the same?"    Supposedly the Episcopal Church changed and ordained lesbian tuna fish and uses "relevant" language to re-fill the pews 'with young people'.
     Holy Spirit (?)... (wine, whisky, everclear, ethanol?)...why not "Holy Ghost" ?  Were the ghosts  in Supernatural Workers Local 2256, AFofL-CIO  offended?  Did they want a royalty payment?   Did changing the Book of Common Prayer make the message more "relevant" ? No.   Did it re-fill the pews? No.  They are emptier by the week.

     So there are a couple of answers to questions that have been asked over the last few days.   If you will all be so kind as to notice, no one can accuse El Gringo Viejo with anything like blowing up a mosque or synagogue or church of any kind....or beating up a nun....or tumbling a wall onto a homosexual....or shooting a adulteress in the head for half-time entertainment at the soccer game in Kabul.   It is not the way we argue or discuss differences.
We would never dynamite the Cliff Buddhas of Afghanistan.

Thanks for the time and interest.   Other questions follow during the next few days.   The hour is drawing nigh for our return to the Quinta, so we shall have to type quickly.
El Gringo Viejo w

Shooting from the Hip, Then Taking Aim?

The Obsolete Media and the pinky pants Republicans have joined together again.  Romney is a disrepectful monster who is unqualified to comment, especially inappropriately, about matters that are far too important for him to understand.   He also committed gaffe after gaffe during his trip to Great Britain before the Olympics and then again in Israel....simply ghastly...obviously shooting from the hip and taking aim.

 

     "It is obvious that the police in Cambridge, Massachusetts behaved stupidly...."  and the really deeply thought out and meaningful, "Treyvon would look a lot like a son I might have had...." or some bilge to that effect.
      Shooting from the hip might also include, "....an' we're gonna have our hearings and discussions about major legislation on C-Span...no more behind closed door deals with big donors...."

     Actually there is not enough computer storage space in the universe to process all the mendacious bilge that this pretender dumps out on the populace.   It is well that there are so many of the drooling  dullards and fifth column people who are available to digest O'bama's microwave emissions within their own heads, thereby reducing the amount of toxic radiation that hits the literate and straight-thinking populace. 

     Drooling dullards and fifth column people are well represented in the Obsolete Press, and they outshone themselves by co-ordinating a banal questioning barrage on Mitt Romney for having pointed out the errors committed in Cairo....mainly because it was blatantly necessary.   The Obsolete Press managed to question Barry Soetoro none at all for his incompetence, anti-American apologetic response, and his lack of preparedness for something that had been warned about for considerable time.
    With guilt dripping from the spot that marxists use where other people normally have souls, Barry points out that the matter is entirely the fault of Mitt Romney.   If it weren't for people like Mitt Romney there would be a lot more understanding in the world.    The sub-human dregs who allow themselves to become the fools they are assumed to be, and the cannon fodder for every wild eyed notion of religious maniacs, are at fault.   Their leaders are at fault.  They are at fault at the VERY INSTANT THAT A ROCK IS RAISED AND LEAVES THE HAND OF THE FIRST PYSCHOTIC DEMONSTRATOR.
    
     Hillary Clinton sent her "great and admired friend" into Libya (he and three other State Department workers are dead now) on State Department assignment, and yet somehow was unaware of the intelligence being provided by Muslim, Arabic people to the State Department, the CIA, and probably other intel channels.  Their information warned of Al Quaeda impulsed, organised 11 September Reprisals Movements.   None of these disturbances have anything to do with a relatively ancient, relatively benign look at certain aspects of the Prophet Mohammed.   We can know the foibles of  King David, and make movies about Esua, son of Yahweh and Mary having "relations'' with M.Magdalin or whoever...and we do not riot.   But it is understandable, and a just response, if the Muslims do it.   Elephant dung on the painting of Saint Mary, being called art and paid for with government money?   Very sophisticated.   Pushing the envelope.   Objected to by the narrow minded, say the arts and croissant crowd from the Hamptons.
         But, HRH (Sir Edmund)Hillary was busy "being absent"  from the Democrat Convention.  She was busy doing nothing and being blackmailed by her own FBI raw data personal information file.   She was busy staying away because Michelle Robertson and Valerie Jerrod did not want the Number One Bull Cow possibly causing a barracks uprising on the floor.   (Sir Edmund) Hillary could well have had her Jean d'Arc moment and inspired the apprentice bull-cows and the Flukie-dupes to storm whatever styrofoam Bastille might be available in  the Demo-prop warehouse.   We couldn't have that ...nope....we don't want no bull-cow stampedes on the Convention floor.

 (Sir Edmund) Hillary shortly after receiving
her commission from Xena, the Warrior Princess
and Gloria All-Red to save the world from Alar.

We are everlastingly grateful to have found a group of people....the Obsolete American Press, the Progressives / marxists, and the dull cannon fodder people with the personalised licence plates of AFDC666 who have come together with such perfectly matched leaders...so as to provide us all a better life for free.

Backing Romney, and hoping he can go back up on the mountain and find the tablet he must have dropped on the way down last time....the tablet that said...."THOU SHALT REPEAL AND THOROUGHLY RESCIND THE OBAMA SOCIALISED MEDICINE INITIATIVE.  THOU SHALT NOT REFER TO THE LEGISLATION AS ''HEALTH CARE'' AND THOU SHALT NOT KEEP EVEN A SYLLABLE OF ITS TREACHERY AGAINST SELF-STEWARDSHIP AND SELF-RELIANCE.  THOU SHALT REPEAT HOURLY, THAT MAN CANNOT ESTABLISH PARADISE AND PERFECTION ON EARTH.  CHARITY IS TO BE DONE PERSONALLY, NOT BY THE RULER's WILL OR OFFICE.

El Gringo Viejo

A CRY OF DESPERATION : Is there any repair/?

Why can I not fix this problem?  Maybe one more try.

hah!  voila!   El Gringo Viejo is a genius.   After twenty hours of trying to clear my posting process...and now in the dark and dread of night,  it is done.   You people have no idea how difficult it is to try to type while balancing a lit candle on top of your boney bald head.

    But, it is done.   During the entire day the blog roll would not accept postings.   Once again, paranoia set in....then quadrinoia set in.   Black helicopters  were everywhere.   It was like West Nile Virus on androids.   Actually, it is Google Chrome once again that provoked and then was employed to cure the problem.   St. Conundrum  must be my patron. 

     My points were, during the day, that El Gringo Viejo would have called the chief thug of the Muslim Brotherhood just as the mob was going to attack the American Embassy, and told him that "....if one little hair on the chinny chin chin of anybody inside the Embassy, doing business in the Embassy, foreign, national, or extraterrestrial,  that there would be a twelve hour delay, in order to move all the camels and donkeys away from the Pyramids of Giza.   I do not care what happens to you or the people, but you might want to gather up some of the extras from the Ten Commandments.   You will be able to use them to sweep up the rubble and dust from the three 30,000 pound bombs we are going to drop on them. I don't really give a flip about sub-humans who are so sensitive that they must riot, ruin, murder, and go into psycho-social convulsions just because someone makes a bit of a film about how Muslims have become sub-humans who are so sensitive that they must riot, ruin, murder, and go into psycho-social convulsions just because someone makes a bit of a film about how Muslims...etc.etc.etc.   So, please be kind enough to get the only people out of the line of bombardment who matter....that being the camels, donkeys, dogs, cats, goats, sheep, and especially the pigs.  Move them first and do it now, because the B- 1s and the B-2s and the B-52s have all taken off already.   Have a nice day."

     We had written a nice treatise about what a nice thing it is that Obama can pull off the same "I know what's in your confidential personal raw data FBI File" blackmail on Billy Jeff and Hillary.   But then the opportunity presents itself with a picture of Hillary with "egg" all over her ....face..,."We came, we saw, and Gaddafi's dead"   That solved all the problems.  And, mix that with the picture of Obama sleeping through the burning of two American Embassies in one night...it all makes a guy want to go out and celebrate Arab Spring all over again.

Merry Kwanzaa, Everyone.   Barry, Barry,  the phone's ringing.  Barry, there's a workplace violence episode somewhere.   Wake up, it's three o'clock in the morning.

El Gringo Viejo

Another Reason Why the Crime Rate in Texas Keeps Falling

It probably happened just this way:
Good News from El Zorro's bailiwick -

News  about Texas Women

A TRUE STORY FROM... "THE HOUSTON HERALD" HOUSTON , Missouri

Last Thursday night around midnight, a woman from Houston , Texas was arrested, jailed, and charged with manslaughter for shooting a man 6 times in the back as he was running away with her purse.
The following Monday morning, the woman was called in front of the Arraignment Judge, sworn-in, and asked to explain her actions.
The woman replied, "I was standing at the corner bus stop for about 15 minutes, waiting for the bus to take me home after work. I am a waitress at a local cafe.
 
I was there alone, so I had my right hand on my pistol in my purse hanging on my left shoulder. All of a sudden I was spun around hard to my left. As I caught my balance, I saw a man running away with my purse. I looked down at my right hand and saw that my fingers were wrapped tightly around my pistol.
 
The next thing I remember is saying out loud, "No Way Punk! You're not stealing my pay check and tips." I raised my right hand, pointed my pistol at the man running away from me with my purse, and started squeezing the trigger of my pistol.
When asked by the arraignment judge, "Why did you shoot the man 6 times?
 
The woman replied under oath, ”Because, when I pulled the trigger the 7th time, it only went click."

The woman was acquitted of all charges.  She was back at work the next day!
That's Gun Control, Texas Style, but done in Missouri:  folks are learning!

The Face of the Labour Movement in America, in the World

Can any OROG not think of a child
having to confront this in the
morning, without having
the most profound
 concern for the
 Children? 





Truly an American Tragedy.  But, finally, the schools have arrived at their actual intended purpose.   To-day, the Chicago school system will still be open.   To-day, the Chicago school system, like most public school systems in America will be open, and performing their most important tasks.   Those tasks are, in no particular order  (a) feeding children who should be being fed by those same children's parents or guardians, (b) backing up the union, so that the most important thing is done, that being shovelling money into the teachers' pockets, regardless of outcome of product, (c) shovelling large portions of the money paid to the School employee into the Union coffers so as to facilitate using the Daisy Chain Democrat Campaign Financing Scheme.

 

     And, we have that "loose children" spectre, bluntly announced and discussed by the Chicago Police Department, also unionised.  They lamented that it will take substantially increased police presence in the downtown areas of Chicago to-day, because there will be 470,000 'children" on the streets with nothing to do.  Chicago is well on the way to challenging Cd. Juarez, Chihuahua,  Sao Paolo, Brazil and Tegulcigapa, Honduras as the murder capital of the world.   A total of 3,000 gang and drug related killings still remains within reach for calendar year 2012.

     It is quite probable that this "snow day'' for the union slugs and the "students'' is all kubiki theatre designed to provide a chance for Rahm to come down from the mountain with the tablets.....perhaps with the god of the mountain....Father Obamaham....in order to right the ship, "for the children".   Considering the intelligence level of the Chicago type union voter, Rahm and Father O'bamaham can blame Bush, and head on out to some expensive restaurant to pat each other on the back.

 

    This is the path for America in the coming five to ten years.   There is no doubt that the burning of the bakeries will begin sooner rather than later.   Perhaps Mr. Romney can suggest a compromise, and just burn down the bakeries on the west side of the street on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays and then burn down the ones on the east side of the street on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.  Sundays will be set aside to build Merry Solstice Floats for the Kwanzaa Parade.   Gotta be moderate....gotta get that vote in the middle....gotta do it....don't want somebody thinkin' we're a bunch of meanies.

 

Grrrrr.

El Gringo Viejo

 

 

A brief analysis and wave of the wand by El Zorro has detected the scam and its virus that assaulted our computer.    We shall have more on that soon.   DO NOT OPEN ANYTHING FROM "MICROSOFT" offering a new upgrade to a MICROSOFT WRITER SYYSTEM or anything like that.    !!!!!!!!!   

It just not so...and say it isn't so...and I told you so

There is a profound pall settling over the Kingdom of El Gringo Viejo.   An announcement broke though on your blog page here extremely early this morning, an "announcement" by the FBI, declaring that El Gringo Viejo's site is being closed down due movies, MP3, and other copyright infringements and violations.   It directed El Gringo Viejo to go and buy a certain type of charge card and type the code of that charge card in a the space provided.   It also declared that due to the copyright violations, failure to comply within 48 hours would result in El Gringo Viejo's incarceration for up to 3 years.

     We have patchworked a by-pass to the screen freezure, and continue now on our merry way.   If it is true that they can do this, then the Republic is truly and totally lost.   Firstly, it is lost because we have downloaded nothing that was not already in the public domain.   We have download numerous pictures, all of which have been widely circulated for considerable time.   Secondly, every time we have a notification that "this image is protected by copyright" or if there was an offer to sell the right to use the image, we did not use that or any image so presented.    Thirdly, we have no desire to sneak or resale copyrighted material.   A simple notice that we have done so will result in the immediate removal of the offending material.

 

     We have never received any advisory, never received a "cease and desist" instruction.   It cannot be possible for a government entity to fine a private citizen without a demonstration of evidence, an identification of the law in question, and the presentation of some kind of a chance for defence, appeal, and conditions mitigating the circumstances.   Therefore we are presuming that the penetration of our page was done by a skillful hacker of some kind...and we shall disregard the notice.   If some government agency  throws me in prison, or even detains me, it will signal that the finish line has been crossed.

      I say this, because it is common knowledge that copyrighted stuff is duplicated by the ton by private individuals on an hourly basis.   We have never heard of any such admonition or directive plaguing those individuals....who, once again...are numerous.    The other thing is that there was no Treasury or Court Clerk's name, number, or anything attached to the code receiver.    It looked as if it might even have been a political campaign donation destination. 

 

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Mitt Romney loves Obama care....just not the bad parts:

 

 

     It is truly a wondrous thing to wake and shuffle to the breakfast nook, and find your son there, still covered with cake-crumbs from his 72nd birthday celebration yesterday.   Cake and icing crumbs are everywhere....beer bottles by the hundreds are on the floor, under the sofa cushions, under the tables, on the ceiling....the wall mounted flat screen is on the floor, still plugged in ...but showing only snow...and a recurring message crawling by that states "warranty expired....warranty expired....warranty expired".    Ah! There's a few hundred beer bottles in the back yard....and the toilet is full of beer bottles.   Probably better not to check the trash can.

     The hulk of your son, who has turned the 1,000 dollar love seat into a big chair whose seating section is firmly touching the floor now, belches one of his famous 116 decibel "outdoor burps",  wipes his nose on his forearm, and then without openning his eyes, yawns the advisory, "You have to go get a few of cases of beer.   There's not any left for breakfast.   Some of the guys are coming back in a minute with some bags of Hershey's kisses.  We're going to have a Contesto Grandeo on BATMAN and SUPER Mario DESTROY the VOMIT MONSTER game....we haven't played that one  for a week or so."  He pauses, seems to go to sleep,  but then speaks again..."You'd better hurry, because the guys might come back at any time, and they don't want to have to back out of the drive way while we're playing, and you'll have to walk to the store.   It's not that far,  but it's just a thought."

 

     It's moments like these....those special family moments... when a Dad is really grateful that Obama and Romney agreed on requiring the mean ole' for-profit insurance companies to insure all offspring, all the time back in 2000-whatever.   Now with the perpetual insurance by parents, they even have sole rights to your pension, your investments, your bank accounts, even your Lifecall necklace....just in case he or his friends run out of beer and find out you are dead and in a heap in the shower with the water still running....for the last 3 days.

     El Gringo Viejo has tried to swallow the idea that a liberal Republican is better than an out-and-out marxist, but....it really is all the same.   It's national socialism, bolshevik socialism, progressivism, Trotskyite socialism, Sendero Luminoso socialism, and all other forms of totalitarianism....all forms of socialist - statist control of the methods of production, distribution, and marketting of goods and services.   Romney's endorsment of extending coverage of elderly children to the accounts of the parents "for free" as well as his idea of demanding that insurance cover pre-existing conditions...."for free"....means that it's over.

     Romney's fuzzing out this early means that he was the Trojan Horse sent in to kill off any free-enterprise alternatives to the grey dull life that lies ahead.   The Republic is probably dead.   If Texas cannot retire from the Union...there are very, very, very few places left to go.

 

Scratch "In God We Trust" and teach the children ''Stroke of a Pen, Law of the Land".

El Gringo Viejo