Moral High Ground

    

     Humour is something like listening to a pinko, obsolete media reporteress solemnly pointing out that the Democrats, as usual, have staked out the Moral High Ground in the matter of shaking down people who have anything more than the next person.  

 

      One of the most important things to a socialist politician is to have considerable sums of someone else's money to distribute to one kind or another of a victim class.   The socialist/marxist cares little about the exploited victim, but a great deal about having control over the poor victim and the disgusting person who has things.    After all, the socialist has been endowed by the Great Power Which Existeth Not with supernatural knowledge about how cultures should be arranged and who should be at the top of the pecking order.





FOUR MORE YEARS!

 

     We, on this humble theatre, would like simply to point out that it is far nobler for those of us who have little, to defend those who have much, when we have nothing to gain.   We know that money taken from those who have much is destined to profligacy and payment for all manner of self-defeating, injurious activity.   It is the nature of "social democratic" governments.
 

     We would like to point out that the only true task and obligation of the central government was to have been the provision of a common defence for the several sovereign States and to operate a postal service.   Certain duties and tariffs were to be levied, and the northern interests fought over this with the South, because the South was disposed to free trade while the northern interests wanted great walls of protective tariffs so as to lessen competition from foreign finished goods,  (as an aside).


    The purity of the demagoguery of the Obamacrats is the conceited notion that we who can read and write would think that raising taxes on the "rich" will in any wise affect either the national debt or the national running fiscal deficit.   The best any of the proposals put forth from the White House would provoke perhaps 300 hours worth of extra income, but even that is in doubt due to diminished overall economic activity that would be caused by raising said taxes on the productive investing class.   In short, the productive investing class will not productively invest.

     The willingness of any Republican to play any kind of ball with these charlatan national socialist madmen is disheartening.   Any position taken by any Republican will certainly be, is certainly being, ridiculed and derided by the Obsolete Press.   Nothing can be gained by being "reasonable and inclusive and bi-partisan".   The only thing the national socialist madmen truly fear is that the Republicans will put up a fight.   The Rightwing crazies and common Republicans rising up and digging their heals in is the only way to derail this artificial Windmill made of sugar that Geitner and Bernacke have invented to essentially generate support of Quantitative Easing XVII .
     It'd the Fiscal Cliff don't you see?...If we don't spend another 1,000,000,000,000 on useless projects and corporate and union welfare....then you see,  just put in that small amount into shovel ready projects and unemployment compensation and areas that have good union wages and provide investments for sustainable energy projects and the rebuilding of the Nation's infrastructure, THEN, and only then,  we can finally arrive a place where we can be proud of America for the first time in our adult lives.
       If Republicans cannot unite to fight against such bilge and intellectually defective garbage, then it really is time to move closer to an independent Republic of Texas or the establishment of a Constitutional Conservative national party to replace the useless RINOs.

Thanking everyone as always for passing through these precincts.   Every viewer is appreciated.
El Gringo Viejo 

No Respect Earned, None Given

THIS PARTICULAR ENTRY INTO THE CONTINUING LEGACY OF EL GRINGO VIEJO'S BLOGS IS DEDICATED TO A FELLOW WHO HAS PEOPLE BURIED IN THE SAINTED LANDS OF EASTERN TENNESSEE, AS DOES EL GRINGO VIEJO.   HE RODE THE TRAIN WITH US ONE TIME IN TEXAS, CROSSING THE BRAZOS, BUT NOT AT WACO.   HIS NAME IS BRIAN CARROLL VANN, AN AMERICAN...A PATRIOT....AND A GOOD MAN.   HE WANTS TO BE JUST A GOOD COWBOY AND A GOOD CARPENTER.   HE IS THAT AND MUCH MORE.
     WE SEE NO PATH OTHER THAN WITHDRAWAL FROM THE AMERICAN UNION, ON FRIENDLY TERMS.   WE ARE MANY.   WE SHALL BE MORE.  WE SHOULD NOT BE FORCED TO SPEAK TO A DEBT THAT WE DO NOT CREATE.

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     There is a fine old American institution, whereby Americans think that it is good to "respect" the office of the Presidency, and that somehow refraining from calling a cad a cad, or a fraud a fraud is the meaning of such an epithet.

     Such refrain is not the meaning of the concept of "respecting the institution".  Respecting the institution is pretty much limited to the idea of desisting from removing the President by means of unjustifiable force.   It can be construed as waiting for the normal cycles to approve, renew, or disapprove and replace the present president, and to accept the victory or defeat of this or that candidate by virtue of the rulings, procedures, and votes of the Electoral College.

     As an aside, most of us know that the libs, pinkoes, and lefties hate the Electoral College.  They know that everybody is equal all the time and that we should have direct elections for president, just like a real country.   A professor told me one time that it was stupid to have a place that used to be a school evolve into being an arbiter of a national election.   Ah! The dulcet lure of fraternite', equalite', et liberte'.

    So, from this fountain of vitriol and other spewing gastric acids, we point out that no one who is completely unaccomplished, who has no agenda save for the destruction of the American Republic, and who knows nothing beyond the agenda of demogogic marxism deserves any of my respect.   Quite frankly, he deserves no one else's respect.   He has gamed the system by trusting in a certain residual willingness to be doubly fair when dealing with certain people.   He and his peeps knew and know that the American people will put up with being called racist white-trash Klanner dullard neanderthals scum selfish fascists by a supposedly brilliant black man until the cow that jump over the moon comes home and closes the barn door after herself.   The marxists who seek Utopia know this and, of course, use it to their advantage.   They know that while elections are still taking place they need to combine the following in order  to "win" approval.

    (1)    demonisation of the opponent as an uncaring, detached wealthy person
              who made his wealth by fraud and exploitation of the masses.

   (2)    promising to the oppressed and exploited the return of the profits
             made by the exploiters and the millionaires and billionaires.

   (3)   promising, to the oppressed and exploited, free telephones food,
            housing, education about how to obtain public assistance,
            heating, cooling, transportation, medical services, and
            carnival palace tattoos and fingernail jobs.

   (4)   promising to "make the rich pay their fair share", by finally
            forcing them to pay taxes, just like the rest of the people.

   (5)   promising to extend unemployment benefits to beneficiaries
            on a permanent basis, along with "drive-through disability"
            benefits at Social Security Multi-service benefit dispensaries
            located by every liquor store and lottery dispensary in America.

   (6)    promising to balance the budget by raising taxes on the rich.
             (see #4)

              
   (7)   promising to give unmarried and married women free abortions
            contraceptives, child care, world peace, absolute independence
            from men, and free shopping, and like..you know...unless,
            whatever...and no men...unless...and everything.

The Lady of the Lake beguiles Merlin
during one of her trips ashore.

   This above group combines well with the "gimmeeverythingforfreenow!'' 70% of all labour union members, although there might be some duplication with the 25% abovementioned.   Tack on the stupid and ignorant wise-fools who stumble around in the universities memorising communist cant and canon as if it were newly discovered wisdom recovered from a rock with a sword stuck in it, taken out of a lake with a beautiful lady-spirit living there. This will produce a base of 25% of the electorate that can barely wipe up their own drool. It will also fold in the single women and women who are essentially in a remorseless quest of extending their hatred of their mothers and their own wrinkles into a crusade against whatever catches the microwaves generated by whatever hormone froth seems to be spilling out of the cauldron at the openning scenes from MacBeth.
       Included in this latter group are thrippets who think that my daughter should pay for her birth control pills when, while my daughter paid her own way through school, is married, has a family, has a professional level position, a husband who complies with the complete traditional assignment and on, and on....while the thrippets want free pills at Georgetown University where the Jesuit Beelzebuddies perversify not only Roman Catholic dogma, but other things as well.


NOW TO THE POINT, FINALLY:

     There is no "fiscal cliff" arriving.  It arrived with the establishment of the Federal Reserve Bank and the deification of the Green Back Dollar.   Our present problems could be solved by cutting all central government spending by 8% across the board...everything...and reducing the income tax to 20% maximum, and abolishing the capital gains tax on secondary gains.  Abolition of taxes on any form of business, including small, medium, and large corporations would also solve the problems.
     The rule is that any money sent to the central government will have a tendency to be misspent.  The more money that is sent to the central government will increase the tendency.  Sending money to the central government is the beginning of that process by which leaches and parasites who "really need" the money to build Solyndra Plants and buy lottery tickets with food stamps,  gain their fix.

    No excess money in Washington, D.C. -   No starving children, no 24 year-old inter-generational grandmothers, no Solyndras, no ethanol, no housing crisis, no 300 pound sixth graders, no fairness and diversity and tolerance sex-education classes for 3rd graders, no duplication of 70 programs involved in ''job-training", no studies of examination committees checking into the studies of reviews of the policy initiatives relevant to the peripheral impact of peripherilisation.
    

Thanks for Being Here.  More later.
El Gringo Viejo


Back from a Whirlwind

     We returned from a quick trip up to the "extreme central" part of the Republic of Texas, and beyond.   Family matters and a combination mix of Thanksgiving and Christmas obligatory visitations.   The people who compose our very near to near biological and in-law class of family are all solid, civilised, productive people.  They are competent in the white collar, medical, blue collar, and social areas in such a manner that bespeaks of a solid catechism and approach to life.   Each has his/her little quirks and characteristics that set that particular relative apart from the other.   All share many similarities.

      For instance, Aunt Rosario and her daughter whom she did not name due to a promise made to an Indian spirit named Watabuncha always sacrifices two chickens and a cat just before daybreak on days that fall on odd numbers.  But she failed the rest of us by being a bit predictable and unwilling to branch out into more imaginative methods of self-expression and self-realisation.   Cousin Jake did not make all the reunion activities this year because he finally succumbed to the ardours to trying to set the Guiness World Record for Body Piercings.   He had something like 54,000, but was disconcerted when he found out he was trying to break the National Record for India.   He thought India was the name of a girl.

 

      So, we also went up and back to Dallas, Texas to visit our son.  We went up and back on the train, which was an experience, almost entirely pleasant.   The ride back was a little better than the ride up, although the entire event was rewarding with scenes of Texana filling the windows, and meeting up in a couple of cases with long lost friends who had never been met. One fellow in particular, a "old cowboy - master carpenter" whose ancestry, life-story, and political/culural observations were taken from the same mimeograph that was used to program this Gringo Viejo.    We both had substantial ancestry coming out of East Tennessee, and from there on the whole show went downhill.

GROUNDS OF ROBERT E. LEE PARK, DALLAS
Night scene at the Arlington House, a Southern-themed
events centre on the grounds of the 9 acre central-city
park.  Although this is a night view, this facility does
all kinds of public renderings, including a "cold fried
chicken" breafast, wedding receptions, business
 meetings, and a hundred other services.Just
 Amazing.  A publically accesseible place fit
for Royalty. 

     We  were especially impressed with the return train.   Both trains were full....every seat, ever Pullman compartment.   The first one even had a deluxe, add-on, private touring car tacked onto the front of the consist with people doing a Rail Tour of America.   They had been in San Antonio for three nights, and were heading to Dallas for a couple of nights....you know, to go to Gilley's in Fort Worth and then see what must be America's Stepford City...which is Dallas....simply an amazing place.

      We had the advantage of having our son as a chauffeur, and host...because we barged-up his apartment of course.   He has an idyllic living situation, and an executive-type position at a place adjacent to the most downtown part of Dallas about a squinch and a tad from  the train station, Highland Park district, University Park district, and Saint Peter's Earth Office across the street from Robert E. Lee Park.....an absolutely stunning set of urban grounds, elegance, and tranquillity....none better....none as good.
     We were also treated with being introduced to a entirely delightful, entirely attractive, and entirely civilised young woman who looks strangely like our son and daughter and son-in-law...were they all to be seated together.    She comes from the background that causes her to put a self-made, elaborate floral display in a crystal vase on the table, for the pleasure of my Boss.   Pure class.   She also did well under the withering fire of prying questioning.   She didn't even seem to mind when The Boss took the mouth swab for ACME Forensic DNA Services and sealed it in the mail pack.   The fingerprinting was a bit messy however.  Although youngish, she is already an accomplished professional woman, qualified by diplomas and demontrated experience in two areas of professional endcvour.   A real "catch" to be sure....but then, so is our son!
    It was only an overnight run, so in the morning we went back to take the return ride, and we purposely had quite a bit of time to kill.  We turned in at a little restaurant, a half block from the train station, that appeared to be a little hole in the wall.  Something told us that it was a nice place.   Decent looking folks going in and out.  Clean and proud looking on the outside.  A combination of things.
     Once inside, one realised quickly that this is either the Cantor's brother or the Rabbi's sister's place.   Perhaps the Chinese ancestried waiter named Oscar gave it away, (actually it was the menu listings and some of the clients).   The fact is, after a little research, the owner is a Vietnamese lady...a refugee...who has five of these places in the Dallas metroplex.   Her efforts truly have established the best Country and Western Hebrew Delicatessen West of the Hudson....(as some reviews state).
     In any regard, it was a thouroughly delightful detour on the Road of Life.   We solved the problem with what to eat on the train by gorging on a "light breakfast" with our son.   It wasn't so much the quantity of the food, howver.   It was the sedate, august atmostphere....even for the morning....the commonality of the clients and staff...coming from at least 6 ethnicities and three races....yet all oddly similar in presence and deportment.   The physical plant was like Dallas, or any really fine place that is fine from the inside-out.  And the quality of meal and service was and anticipatable 100 on the scale of 100.  It's funny what can be done when you slam together Arkies, Orientals, Jews, Saxons, Latins...when they all have a catechism....a notion of compliance....a sense of the Golden Rule.   Amazing.... read her for recommendations other than our own;    http://cindisnydeli.com/reviews-2/


WELCOME TO TEXAS
EL GRINGO VIEJO




Israel - Palestine Solution

    We are pleased that everyone was clamouring for El Gringo Viejo to recommend a workable solution to the seemingly intractile problems presented by the Israeli - Palestinian conflict.    We have a very simple set of actions that would solve the problems permanently.  However, single women and people of colour and Hispanics and the elderly and the students would not approve, so our platform is being re-written to tolerate those more mature and intelligent points of view.

 

      The rest of the world's notion is for the Hebes to learn how to swim or die or both.  This is Hillary's idea...often stated in her more private moments....and it is the solution presented even by atheist Jews, who for some reason just love to hate the god they know does not exist.  It is the solution recommended by Bill Ayers,  Barak Obama's Chicago Community Action mentor, et alii:

 

William Ayers (Weatherman Underground bomber,  unrepentant domestic terrorist)	Frank Davis (Member Communist Party USA,  Early mentor to Obama)
Jeremiah Wright (Black Liberation militant,  racist, and "pastor")	Tony Rezko (Corrupt Financier,with   ties to Terror Financing)
Louis Farrakhan (Nation of Islam Leader,  racist, anti-American)	Raila Ordinga (Fundamental Islamic Candidate,  Kenya, Obama's Cousin)
Communist Party Illinois (US Communist Political Party)	Socialist Party USA (Marxist Socialist Political Party)
The New Black Panther Party (Black Militant Organization,  anti-American and racist)	Terrorist Group Jamas

 

 

     These are some of  the people and organisations involved in Obama's formative devolopment.  The above mentioned people and organisations and the individual known as Barak Hussein Obama have long advocated for the elemination of the State of Israel and for the "Palestinian People"  to be restored  their "rightful lands".

 

     It is enough to point out that the various Palenstinian groups are content to shoot rockets that indiscriminately rain down on wherever.   To them it is preferred that the rockets hit schools, hospitals, and synagogues full of people.    To them it is preferred that the Israelis be forced to aim as weapons stores and missile batteries that are purposefully positioned adjacent to schools, hospitals, and residential areas so as to cause the maximum civilian casualties.   They have no respect for life...even of their own people.   Their dead children are hoped for by products to be used for their insidious propaganda machine, which then means that the Obsolete Media and the Jew-haters like Hillary and Barak are accessories to the murders of children, women, old geezers, and other non-combatants.   It is what Obama wants and it is what Hillary wants because it feeds their understanding of what evil people Jews are and what a better world it will be when they are all dead.

     Palestenians with their guts hanging off the understructure of some building in downtown Gaza City are just necessary collateral damage.   And besides, Hillary doesn't really give a flip about them either....would you want people like that at your gated and guarded community in ....well, we can't say where Bill and Hillary have their love nest now.....security, you know.



NOW, THE SOLUTION:

     The people living in the Palestinian areas wake up one morning with brains in their heads.   They look around, as if trying to shake off a stupour of many generations.   They begin whispering to each other, generally agreeing, " We've been schnookered by a bunch of shake-down thugs."
     They conspire during the day, and then, at sundown slay all of the Hamas, Hezbollah, Al Fatah, Muslim Brotherhood, al Qaeda affiliates, Persian,  and similar operatives and officers.   Then they say among themselves,"We are all sons of Abraham, surely the Hebrews will see us as their brothers.   Let us go to them and ask their guidance.   They are an arrogant and cranky people, but they are also generous.   They will tell us how to become happy and rich, and our wealth and industry can reinforce theirs, and we will be too tired to hate the Hebes any more and the Israelis will be able to prosper more by not having to worry about the scum we killed yesterday afternoon.
     And they all lived happily ever after.


FAILING THAT SOLUTION:
     There is only one other way a conflict that has one unreasonable, savage, unprincipled party engaged in mortal combat with a group of people who have a catechism that includes fairness and respect for human dignity and commonly applied law.    The second group has to finally destroy the former group.   There is an ancient Spanish epithet that was placed on the escudo of a noble family's coat of arms.   It stated, "Si no la Razon, la Fuerza".   It is easy enough to translate for anyone who looks at the words for a few seconds....."If not the Reason, then the Force". 


UPDATE:
   (Sir Edmund)Hillary held up the announcement of the Peace Treaty for All Times for 24 hours, so as to give Hamas a little extra time to try a field goal.   She then was given the opportunity by the World Control Group Press Confederation to make the Official Announcement that signals   "The Bringing of a Permanent Peace to the Middle East, Finally".   Now she can be appointed president in 2016 to build on the great democratic  foundations she and Barak Hussein Obama Onyango Soetoro Dunham brought to us.   Mean, judgemental old judgemental meanies suggest that this permanent peace to last until the next episode of  Global Nuclear Winter and Summer Forever, which will be between 3 hours and 42 days.
Thanks for your attention, as always.
El Gringo Viejo

Is anybody aware?

 

      Obama nearly caused a complete and total eclipse of the Universe by handling and smooching the three women.   Where was the protocol officer?  This is the smartest, most anti-American, grovelling, and foreigner-respecting person in entire Universe.   You don't hug the Queen of England.  There are some things you don't do.   Bill Clinton went and joined the line waiting to take communion at a Roman Catholic Church somewhere in Africa...he's one of them there Fulbright Scholars....real smart feller, jist like Obamer.   But he's also one of them there ingert Jethroes  that think they're really smartypants when they're really, really ingert.   He jist don't know that you hafta be one of them there mackeral snappers to be in their communion line.  I bet he don't even know thet you cain't pick yourn nose when you meet the Pope.
 



Why is that goof smelling that
girl's ear?

     In any regard, Billy Jeff managed to confuse the baptised, confirmed, and "confessed" communicants in good standing, even though he was in the middle of the Monica mess, as well as about 432,774 other venal and mortal sins being unaddressed.   I know that I am a pot calling a kettle black, and confess such.   So, that makes me a blowhard, but not a hypocrite.
      The internet has been fairly well "scrubbed" already of the various other grabbings and  smoochings in front of the press Corpse and literally hundreds of 10,000 dollar cameras.   The dunce doing the grabbing and smooching is apparently unaware that the communists who lurk in the background in Burma...still controlling much by virtue of their willingness to terrorise the population...have circulated all these encounters to the populace.   They are showing the populace that the women are wanton public women who will sell themselves to the American.   They are using language about these women that I do not feel needs to be used on this medium.   Or on that medium from Cincinnati who shortchanged me on the tarot card reading she was supposed to do.

Snake Oil and Indian Tonic, FREE

Dear RINOs and all the other compassionate, reasonable, and rational sellouts to hedonistic "social justice" sales people:

 

     We know what the term  "revenue enhancement" means.   If you think that you can cover it up by saying catch phrases that only the  drooling, dull glazed look, basket people can understand, we have our own definitions of what you mean by the terms "closing loopholes", and "making the rich pay their fair-share" and the best one, "making a fairer tax rate".

 

     This is an example of the memory of El Gringo Viejo.  George Bush had been inaugurated three weeks before the Washington Post published the article which accompanied this picture of a hopelessly deranged "homeless'' woman.  During the entire "co-presidency" of Billy Jeff Blythe and (Sir Edmund)Hillary not one mention was made about homelessness or street people or any such issue by the Washington Post....unless, of course, it was to point out how programs were being put in place to help those of who, through no fault of their own, had been thrown out of the mainstream of American society and deposited under the overpasses by 12 years of neglect by Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.    We knew what you meant by that, too.   Time for some of that "Magic Snake Indian Elixer and Tonic" called "Revenue Enhancement"....it cures everything.

     George the Second comes in and three weeks later, look what happens:

     You guessed it.   Lengthy "human interest" stories about the massive homelessness and the absence of any plan to address the problem.   We were told homelessness had diminished a great deal during the 1990s, but  that began to change after it was learned that the Supreme Court would vote along party lines to install George Bush as President, against the wishes of an overwhelming majority of the citizens of all 57 states.  This woman lost her house just hours after George Bush was selected and not elected.   Now, only 5 weeks into the repressive Bush regime and war against women, and the war against minority children, homelessness has increased from 1,305 people nationwide to well over 10,000,000 people now crowding every available square foot under every overpass on the American Interstate Highway System.  There is already a critical shortage of grocery carts that do not have "wiggly front wheel syndrome".

 

     WE KNOW YOUR RACKET AND SHAKEDOWN SCHEMES.   IF YOU ARE A RINO, AND YOU APPROVE ANY OBAMACONOMY INITIATIVE, OR FUND THE OBAMA SOCIALISED MEDICINE INITIATIVE,  THEN WE'LL PROBABLY VOTE YOU OUT IN THE PRIMARY, EVEN IF WE LOSE THE GENERAL IN 2014, SO AS TO HASTEN THE COLLAPSE.    PERHAPS FROM THE RUINS OF SOLOMON's TEMPLE WE CAN SALVAGE A FEW PIECES TO BUILD A NEW SYNAGOGUE.
      We know the jargon used by the Obsolete Press, the RINOs, and the SOCIALLY CONCERNED means that anyone presently paying any income tax....defined as anyone who receives less back tham he/she paid in withholding, is considered by the obamocrats to be a millionaire and a billionaire.   A person who made 30,000 dollars last year and had 2,500 dollars withheld, and then receives a 2,000 dollar "refund" check from the IRS....is a millionaire and a billionaire.   Anyone who produces on any level and is not a gross consumer of central government largess is a millionaire and a billionaire.  Such people are not paying their fair share.

     Is it fair that a young couple making 100,000 dollars, and having no children, be allowed to keep all that money when they really do not need it?    What about the single mom with six children, three of whom have special needs?  She has no income, and yet just a few miles away there is a young couple, with no children, no cares, with too much money in terms of the needs that surround them.

     So, we know that Obama needs just a little bit more from those who have been lucky enough to work their way through the secrets of the system while others were distracted by the need to care for children afflicted with spinabifida, anacephalic disorders, blood diseases, and diabetes all brought on by atmospheric, water, and ground contamination produced by uncaring, profit driven industries....who also never pay a fair share of their excessive, and sometimes obscene profits. (we know your dribble and demagoguery)

 

     ONCE AGAIN...RINOS, REASONABLE, RATIONAL, CARING, COMPASSIONATE, VISIONARY, COMMUNITY LEADERS AND COMMUNITY ORGANISERS, SOCIALLY CONSCIOUS RELIGIOUS LEADERS AND COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS:   WE KNOW WHAT YOU REALLY MEAN.    WE KNOW YOU MEAN TO SHAKE US DOWN FOR EVERY LAST THING AND CENT WE HAVE IN ORDER TO BUY VOTES AND TO GAIN POSITION FOR GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS and SUBSIDIES TO ARTIFICIAL BUSINESSES and "SOCIALLY CONSCIOUS PROGRAMS" (none of which work) FOR YOUR CRONIES.      

 



A WARM WELCOME TO OBAMA IN THAILAND

The parents of the little girl on the right just told her that the picture
 is of the monster who comes when you lose a tooth and put it
under the pillow. He yanks all the rest of your
 teeth out, and then  bites your nose off.  He
needs teeth.   Lots of teeth. And money.
  Your money.And your nose.
  And your ears, too.

 

We have some editting, and some preparing for our run to Austin and Dallas - Forth Worth.  El Gringo Viejo and the Better three/quarters is going to take the AMTRAK from the Austin area to the DFW area and back, during the Thanksgiving Episode.   My addiction to trains comes from cowardice after essentially crashing a Braniff 727  during the early 1970s,  in Austin and from a particular affection for trains that my paternal grandmother had for the concept of "train travel".   It is my affliction.  More later.

El Gringo Viejo