Inconvenient Anecdotal Weather: Sorry, Al

This is just a brief point for OROGs to use to re-enforce their certain knowledge that Al Gore is wrong and that facts are correct.   While the minimal Hurricane Sandy was immediately brought out by the climate change / industrial / government complex as a poster girl for Global Warming/Climate Change, nothing has been said in the Obsolete Media about the almost incomprehensible nationwide deep-freeze affecting the entirety of Mother Russia, from eastern and northernmost Siberia to the Ukranian frontier in the west.

 

     The climate change zombies always lie, and they always lie about everything.   If they declare something to be true, it is a lie.  If they fail to say something about a phenomena because it contradicts the canons of their religion, it is a lie by omission.   They lie about the climate because they see climate and weather as a way to forward government control over the inferior masses they wish to control.   Advantage?   It goes to the climate change zombies because most Americans have arrived at the point that they are no longer capable of critical thinking.  A large minority can still clunk through a matter with the rusty gears in their brains functioning fairly well to see through the truly very feeble arguments of the climate change marxist zombies.

 

     More polar bears than ever?   Makes no difference.  All the polar bears are going to drown tomorrow because such stories make children sad, and further causes them to hate George Bush.    What if too many polar bears means that too many polar bears are brutally killing and eating too many baby seals and walruses?   No problem, because the Obsolete Press will just not mention anything about a really, really inconvenient truth.

     Perhaps a film of the Papa Polar Bear bashing a 4 month old Baby Polar Bear cub to death, battering his body into pieces, just so as to protect his own future domain is a little inconvenient for the Third Grade "ecology class " at the Mandela - Guevara Academy on Park Avenue.   They had best stick to "Oooooooohhhhhmmmmming " the Chevrolet Volt so as to let it know that we love its soul and the spirit that it embodies for the good of all oppressed peoples....and Kwanzaa....and everything.   And guns are bad, too.   Very bad!! BAD! BAD! BAD!

 

     So what does Al do when he's there overlooking the Pacific Ocean from his love nest, built well below where he assured us the water-line would be by 1995, after the polar ices caps had all melted.   How does he explain temperatures of 58 degrees Fahrenheit BELOW ZERO!  In Siberia, yes, but 100 miles south of the Arctic Circle.   And how does he explain that all records in Russia have essentially been broken in terms of the last 70 years, and that 100-plus reporting stations have set all-time record lows, from the far eastern parts of Siberia to the Ukranian frontier?    Even Moscow has been enduring failures of their much vaunted "winter-proofed" subway system....because the electricity cables have been snapping.   For the  last two weeks and, it is estimated, for another week or two, all children everywhere in Mother Russia are ordered to remain at home....a "snow month" so to speak....in a country that is remarkably capable of carrying on in hostile winter conditions.

A man walks in a snow-covered park in Russia's southern city of Stavropol. Russia is enduring an abnormally cold December, and after a "warm-up" around the time of Orthodox Christmas, early January, the "real" winter will begin in January and February.   The man in the picture was rumoured to be AlGore, who was in town to deliver an updated lecture about how Stavropol's future is doomed to be an Amazon Basin type of place with Wild Native Americans riding one-ton, sabre-toothed,  flying piranha fish.   We could not confirm that information, however.   What is certain is that Stavropol is over 300 miles south of Moscow, much, much closer to Instanbul and Tbilisi than to the Capital of Mother Russia.   To be fair, it does not look like the picture above to-day; the temperature has been in the 40s F....but the rest of Russia to the north and east is still locked in deadly cold.


Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/brutally-cold-russian-winter-kills-123-people-20121226-2bvlx.html#ixzz2GHMDo2qp

Just a bit of holiday reading for the informed.   Sorry Al.

El Gringo Viejo

Holiday Intermezzo

The Case of the Blown Fuse and the Meltdown:

     We are at that time of the year when the mind tries to avoid thinking too deeply.   Humour is one way of avoiding angst, unless a person has snake venom in lien of blood and kerosene in place of liver bile.

 

     Of course, El Gringo Viejo is that person so afflicted.   We have just returned from a brief jaunt to the grocery store, and certainly the OROG tires of reading about the latest grocery store line story, but they really are good.   It gives pleasure to the writer to rant and rave until his face looks like a Concord grape and the various veins and arteries in all part of his scrawny carcass are bulging and pulsing dangerously.

     We made the mistake of joining the shortest line to-day.   The wife unloaded the basket while I just marked time helping hand a few things forward.  It became apparent that matters had come to a halt and that there was a communication problem on many levels.   For one, the cashier had laryngitis;   for two, the two thrippits were talking between themselves about a billing issue and about whether or not the  people at the Women's and Infant Children's Program (WIC) had or had not told them that Pampers were included in the admissible purchases.

     After what seemed interminable debate, they finally asked the cashier, who neither could understand them nor could tell them that she could not understand them.  The girls, of course, were speaking Spanish, the favourite language of the anchor baby mothers in this area, and each had a brand new anchor baby, less than six months old.  Each girl was about twenty years old.   Each baby was fluffed, puffed, wrapped in nice warm blankets....the little girl with already pierced earlobes and new gold balls gleaming from each side of her head.

     Exasperated, and aware of the line forming behind us as well as the increasing possibility that the Boss was going to jump into her Ninja stance and whip out her collapsable samurai sabre and start hacking, El Gringo Viejo put himself into the matter, first directing his words to the cashier,"The girls are trying to figure out if the diapers are covered by WIC."

     The cashier checked through the screen, and pointed out the place where the Huggies were charged to their WIC account.  "They were included, yes" she whispered.

     But this caused other consternation, since the first girl's WIC card had not managed to reach the entire purchase, so we had to wait while that issue was finally resolved when the other girl entered her WIC card so as to pay the remaining balance.   This resulted in the the breakdown of the whole accounting process and the computer began to pout.   The whole matter required the intervention, finally and thankfully, of a floor manager, who came and took the girls over to another register that was closed and began to cash them through anew.

     Of course, during their first check through neither girl would lift a finger to help the haggard cashier in terms of sacking the groceries.  They stood around blythly self consumed, talking on their cellular telephones, waiting to be waited on.   In Texas, when there is no sacker, self-supporting people of all ethnicities and/or races normally will begin to sack their own groceries, especially where it is obvious that a line is forming and there is no available sacker.   For instance, that is what El Gringo Viejo did while the Boss paid us out.

 

     So there we are.  Working and productive people being held up, on many different planes, by slugs and dregs.   They steal our time, our money, and our space.   The HEB grocery store chain is a facilitator because they accept WIC and the LoneStar Card.   There is no health in this situation.  There is no doubt that these girls left their grocery carts loose in the running lanes of the parking lot, instead of walking them a very few feet to a nice little corral where they could be out of the way and readily re-gathered.

     Oddly, one of the reasons it is so pleasant to go to the grocery store in Cd. Victoria is that there are no food stamps or government coupons to process.  The lines run very smoothly.

 

Enough of that.  It is the least of our problems.   It is when it is compounded millions of times each day in America that it becomes the huge problem that it has become.

 

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The Case of the Disappearing Corkscrew: 

 

     The amazing story of Madame Corkscrew still leaves a sane person with mouth agape, shaking his head in disbelief.   Watch as FOX News people on The Five, on Fox and Friends, mainline contributors like Laura Ingraham, and a convention of supposedly intelligent, straight-thinking people mumble and blubber about how (Sir Edmund)Hillary has been on a really tough life's pilgrmmage....or has been the hardest working Secretary of State ever...or has accomplished so much, travelling to over 100 countries, negotiating for America....or how she had to suffer the humiliations of her husband and the vast rightwing conspiracy....and that she has done so, so, so very, very, very much for children issues...and women's issues...and women's and children's issues....and everything.   Hey, FOX News...and everyone in the other media....the words for Hillary are poseur, fraud, liar, fake, pathologically mendacious, narcissist, grifter, conceited,  and worse.

 

     It comes to mind that (Sir Edmund)Hillary had to go on a Sahara Camelathon with her daughter after LEARNING....LEARNING, MIND YOU!   that Billy Jeff Blythe was NOT TELLING THE TRUTH about Monica....!!!!   SHOCKING!!!! Shocking,  so shocking that she had to nurse a "bad back" and so she flew off to North Africa to go on a CAMEL RIDE!!!!  At taxpayers' expense!!!!!   Can any OROG imagine treating a bad back by riding a camel?

     Both Hillary and  Billy Jeff have made a living by honing the art of mendacity to the finest of an edge.   They learnt early on that the Bald Faced Lie was one of the best ways to pull off the deed....as in Billy Jeff's, "I've never worked harder in my life than I have on this middle class tax cut we promised, but it's just not possible."  What followed was retroactive tax increases on all levels of the taxpaying public.   Turned out, it was the original plan all along.  Welcome to the brave new world of 1993, a few weeks into the first term of the Co-Presidency made in Hell....Hillary Rodham and Billy Jeff Blythe.

     Enter the next Camel Ride.   Hillary has stomach flu.  Hillary grows weak.  Hillary faints.  Hillary hits her head.   Hillary wakes up speaking fluent Bantu with no memory of Kosovo, Whitewater, Mr. Carmel/Waco killings, her daughter's danger at ground zero, FBI Files, defamation of the Travel Office, defamation of numerous of Billy Jeff's women, of a miserable worthless pointless tenure as Secretary of State that resulted in desired destruction of American influence in the Middle East and elsewhere in the world so hoped for by the marxist internationalist elements who put Obama into office to serve as a mouthpiece.   Hillary cannot even remember Kathleen Willy or Vince Foster.  And besides, after all she has done for the children....after all she has done for the women...she doesn't feel obliged to appear before any stinkin' committee.   During her one testimony before a grand jury in Washington, D.C. she invoked the notion that she "could not remember" several score times....running the risk of a charge of perjury by evasion.
     I have had a concussion, many years ago...not a bad one....but enough to foul up my equilibrium on my left side for a long while.   But, save for a couple of days in bed, I have gone about my business at somewhere between 95 to 100 percent effectiveness.  Hillary has no concussion.   She was watching a television program or something and came up with that idea from a Three Stooges skit.   She knows that some GOP Senator has some kind of goods on her.  Obama, the Socialist Democrat Pantheon. and the George Soros Zombies have ordered that she not expose herself to an episode before an inquiry unless she has a ready lie already in place to respond to  a "trick" or "loaded" question.

Hillary is looking much better and should be willing to
testify soon, really.  

 

Concussion.  Good Grief.  Film besmirching Islam, anyone?   When is Hillary going to melt into a pool of green slime like in "The Wizard of Oz"....please?
El Gringo Viejo

Off to make a joyful noise

We are heading off to midnight mass in a minute.  Wife and Son and El Gringo Viejo.  To-morrow Daughter and Granddaughters and Son-in-Law arrive to visit and pay homage to the Great-grandmother of the little ones.

 

In a way it leads to notions of guilt.  I have so much and others have suffered so.  But we are left to judge matters based upon our own ability to understand.  Under the laws as written by the  Ruler of the Cosmos, however, we must speak of the Peace which passeth all understanding;   We cannot understand.   So we must content ourselves in simply doing good, as best we can, in our own way.

 

It is left at that.  Good will win.  The balance will be maintained.   I shall do my small part.

 

MERRY  CHRISTMAS

 

EL GRINGO VIEJO

CHRISTMAS

Twas' 11 days before Christmas, around 9:38
when 20 beautiful children stormed through heaven's gate.
their smiles were contagious, their laughter filled the air.
they could hardly believe all the beauty they saw there.
they were filled with such joy, they didn't know what to say.
they remembered nothing of what had happened earlier that day.
"where are we?" asked a little girl, as quiet as a mouse.
"this is heaven." declared a small boy. "we're spending Christmas at God's house."
when what to their wondering eyes did appear,
but Jesus, their savior, the children gathered near.
He looked at them and smiled, and they smiled just the same.
then He opened His arms and He called them by name.
and in that moment was joy, that only heaven can bring
those children all flew into the arms of their King
and as they lingered in the warmth of His embrace,
one small girl turned and looked at Jesus' face.
and as if He could read all the questions she had
He gently whispered to her, "I'll take care of mom and dad."
then He looked down on earth, the world far below
He saw all of the hurt, the sorrow, and woe
then He closed His eyes and He outstretched His hand,
"Let My power and presence re-enter this land!"
"may this country be delivered from the hands of fools"
"I'm taking back my nation. I'm taking back my schools!"
then He and the children stood up without a sound.
"come now my children, let me show you around."
excitement filled the space, some skipped and some ran.
all displaying enthusiasm only a small child can.
and i heard Him proclaim as He walked out of sight,
"in the midst of this darkness, I AM STILL THE LIGHT."


Courtesy of El Zorro.....whose words have helped El Gringo Viejo to confront this horrid event.   Thanks, Old Friend.

     Your humble servant could reasonably be thought of as a self-centred, pompous, egotistical blowhard.   He sees himself pretty much that way.   But he did his father-in-law's Eulogy. It was about a five minute emotional ordeal to speak of a man who was a true treasure of his community.   My comments were prepared, and partially read, partially spoken in an historically important Roman Catholic Church.  The words  spoke of the man and his family and his several, well-known strong points of character and capacity.  Not one personal reference to the Eulogist was made by noun or pronoun or in any context whatsoever.

 

    What has been reproduced and included below are truly the words of a deranged narcissist.

 

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Speaking to the audience at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., Obama talked about his family and their vacations.

 

         "Now, even though my mother and grandparents took great pride that they had voted for him, I confess that I wasn't paying much attention to the United States Senate at the age of four or five or six. It wasn't until I was 11 years old that I recall even learning what a U.S. senator was, or it registering, at least. It was during my summer vacation with my family -- my first trip to what those of us in Hawaii call the Mainland," said Obama.  So we flew over the ocean, and with my mother and my grandmother and my sister, who at the time was two, we travelled around the country. It was a big trip.

 

       "We went to Seattle, and we went to Disneyland -- which was most important. We travelled to Kansas where my grandmother's family was from, and went to Chicago, and went to Yellowstone. And we took Greyhound buses most of the time, and we rented cars, and we would stay at local motels or Howard Johnson's. And if there was a pool at one of these motels, even if it was just tiny, I would be very excited. And the ice machine was exciting -- and the vending machine, I was really excited about that.

 

        "But this is at a time when you didn’t have 600 stations and 24 hours' worth of cartoons. And so at night, if the TV was on, it was what your parents decided to watch. And my mother that summer would turn on the TV every night during this vacation and watch the Watergate hearings. And I can't say that I understood everything that was being discussed, but I knew the issues were important. I knew they spoke to some basic way about who we were and who we might be as Americans.

 

      "And so, slowly, during the course of this trip, which lasted about a month, some of this seeped into my head. And the person who fascinated me most was this man of Japanese descent with one arm, speaking in this courtly baritone, full of dignity and grace. And maybe he captivated my attention because my mom explained that this was our senator and that he was upholding what our government was all about. Maybe it was a boyhood fascination with the story of how he had lost his arm in a war. But I think it was more than that.

 

     "Now, here I was, a young boy with a white mom, a black father, raised in Indonesia and Hawaii. And I was beginning to sense how fitting into the world might not be as simple as it might seem. And so to see this man, this senator, this powerful, accomplished person who wasn't out of central casting when it came to what you'd think a senator might look like at the time, and the way he commanded the respect of an entire nation I think it hinted to me what might be possible in my own life.

 

     "Obama also mentioned the heroic life of Inouye. "And so we remember a man who inspired all of us with his courage, and moved us with his compassion, that inspired us with his integrity, and who taught so many of us -- including a young kid growing up in Hawaii –-- that America has a place for everyone," Obama concluded.

 

 

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     All the Saints and Angels and Archangels and the Cherubim and Seraphims....please intervene in the Health of this Republic.

El Gringo Viejo

Some Odds and Ends After Our Absence

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     The cats helped a bit with the cold episodes.   They are adept at waiting for El Gringo Viejo to nod off on his slightly undersised recliner during the Houston Texans game, knowing that heat travels upward and is to be dedicated to the comfort of felines.   They, as I, have long ago determined that even if the temperature is comfortable, there should be no waste of warmth during the Winter.   As we are situated quite close to the Tropic of Cancer, the period near the Solstice on the Calendar tends to be very cool during the nighttime hours.  We were out about a month (we haven't counted up the days) and almost every night was in the 40s...ending up with Thursday's early morning reading being 35 degrees F.

     The last blast from the north came in just before and brought winds of 50 - 60 miles per hour sustained, and gusts up to 80 during the first moments of passage.   It is pleasant to report that throughout the area of our part of rural Mexico, there was not one power outage.  Excellent when it is considered that the sustained winds endured for a period of over 18 hours.

     We call attention to the fact that our little place is very rustic.   Some new readers might not want to dig through our 600 previous postings to read about the "mud hut", or to visit  our webpage (linked on this page), but even with the cold nights and slightly coolish days, the temperature inside stayed a constant 72 degress....a tribute to the really old fashioned adobe and plaster approach to forming the lobster shell of a house.

 

     It is also of note that the "situation" has improved to the point that people are actually speaking confidently that a reasonable semblance of the old imperfect order has seemed to return.   On our return yesterday, the highways were super over-saturated.   Extremely heavy traffic accompanied this traveller for the entirety of the 239 mile route that was followed this time.  Traffic coming, and going.  Busses heading south must have numbered 200 common carriers of the 1st class and deluxe variety.   Thousands of motorcars, 90 percent of which were families returning from buying expeditions in the Commerce Cathedrals (shopping malls) in McAllen and other places in the Lower Rio Grande Valley.   Another number were those Mexicans who live in the United States legally and make the Christmas trek in SUVs and station waggons, with and without trailers, loaded up like some kind of adjunct delivery service for Santa Claus.

     This whole phenomena is a result of the perceived improvement in the  security situation.   While the chance of being involved, in actuarial terms, in some kind of crossfire or other related event was always very low in real terms, it is now perceptually, truly, obviously, and undeniably very, very diminished.   There is the apparent perception and understanding as well that the new administration is not going to move in the direction of "adapting to a reasonable alternative"(benign neglect of the cartels).   We are hopeful that what is essentially an imperfect victory will not be squandered by yielding to the notion that  sociological rot will not finally overtake an entire huge nation if left unchecked.

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AN IRRITATION:

     It disappoints, as always, when FOX News decides to join into and reinforce the popular perception created by the leftist press about the situation in Mexico.   The whole picture is not that much different than here in the United States.   In many ways, quite frankly, things are better South of the Border.   So when O'Reilly, or the voices on The Five, and others on FOX News were admonishing that Mexican prisons are Hell Holes where the cartels run the show, and that especially Americans are targeted by the criminal and general population of Mexico, and that everything is corrupt.....it brings to mind motes and beams and eyes, kettles, pots, and black.   While O'Reilly, for instance, was warning that if "President Nieto" did not release Corporal Hammer, that Mr. O'Reilly would "take care of Mexico's tourism industry".   Mr. O'Reilly is such an expert on matters Mexican, that he is unaware that it is President Pen~a....not Nieto.   The paternal surname immediately follows the given name(s).

     The Hammer case was already essentially resolved.   The Mexican Secretary of the Navy had declared the issue to have been warrantless and that no crime had been committed because the person involved had voluntarily revealed the shotgun in question and requested permitting for said instrument.  The telephone calls received by the family were from prisoners and/or their family members who commonly attempt to extort money from family members of other prisoners, especially the newly arrived.   American prison gangs do the same thing.

     The fear held by this observer was that what ground had been covered might possibly have to be re-ploughed because Mexican arrogance is similar to American arrogance.   If they are pushed, they tend to push back, sometimes to their own detriment.  O'Reilly fell into this category in a way.

      Many things about this case that were commonly known in Mexico were not reported.   The most vigorous operator in this matter had been the the Tamaulipas State Chamber of Commerce.   The final attorney in Mexico City had served well.   The usually useless Human Rights Commission (totally pinko) served well.   Various State and local elected officials had also been pointing out behind the scenes that the Secretary of the Navy's position was totally accurate.  The federal customs and immigration official had overreacted to some personal affront, and "behaved stupidly" in the words of a great American leader.   It was all but unreported that  Corporal Hammer's friend was not detained during this same incident.   And, while even Laura Ingraham had to pile on, please be assured that of the 1,000 Americans behind bars presently in Mexico, somewhere between 950 to 1,000 are not the type of person with whom you would like your teenaged daughter to be spending time.  As well, of the 140 Americans killed in Mexico during the last year, O'Reilly and Laura and the rest of the choir seem to leave out that 130 or so were very, very probably involved in the drug trafficking business.   Here, there is something usually stated about fleas, dogs, and lieing down with, etc.

 

     It is my judgement that the full weight of the blame....at least 99% of the fault in this issue....lies with the Mexican customs officer.   All he would have had to have done, at worst, is to have ordered the individual back to the American side.    There is some blame to be spread onto the American border agents who apparently told the boy that there would be no problems, just to declare the gun and get the permits.   The permits have to be obtained before going in.

 

      And while all this is going on, there is a 340,000 tonne elephant sitting there on the FOX News set, minding its own business.   "Don't go to Mexico, it's dangerous and corrupt, and they are always doing things all the time to everybody...especially Americans", they say.  While we have Benghazi unresolved....Fast and Furious left unresolved....20 dead children in Newtown, Connecticut....overwhelming corruption at all levels in the United States Government....Solyndra ignored....expropriation of General Motors and Chrysler....and some jackass from Chicago talking about reasonable new firearms legislation, like, you know, Chicago....where "One a Day" would be a substantial improvement.   Thank the Lord that Chicago has stringent firearms control.  That solved all the problems.

 

     Please allow us to include that during El Gringo Viejo's professional and business life, he conducted, permitted, licensed, escorted, guided, scouted, and otherwise attended to the issues of hunting game birds in Mexico involving hundreds upon hundreds of hunters, and thousands of shotguns, scores of thousands of importations of rounds of ammunition.   Never had one man detained.

 

Thanks for the opportunity to unload, perhaps inform to a level of greater understanding, and swim upstream.   These might be the last days for contrarians and other sorts of folks who have knowledge and opinion that is true but not part of the common understanding.

El Gringo Viejo

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