Col. Hugo gets to smell the sulphur again, soon.

     We have been sorting through Cuban, Venezuelan, Brazilian, Mexican, Argentine, and European commentary and reporting about another dictator who rules by means of heading a operative majority of low-information voters.   It is tiresome.  These thugs who take power and say that they are democratically elected, strutting around as if they have some kind of moral high ground because they spend public money to stay in power.   They all but give money away to the procreative class that supplies troops to the gangs of thugs who graduate to become terroristic criminals and government operatives.

 

El presidente de Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, durante un mitin,

celebrado el pasado 4 de octubre en Caracas.

 / jorge silva (REUTERS)

     People like the little, pudgy, simian-looking "colonel" who arrive to high office without the merest qualification, save for the willingness to promise any and every thing to the graffiti and litter and procreative crowd, are too numerous in the empty halls of insignificant history to bother remembering.   However, it is true that they come and, thankfully, they go.

 

     What El Gringo Viejo has been able to glean from the various fountains of information that proceed from the pens and convoluted mental processes of the international press is that the peculiar looking colonel is in all likelihood not going to attend his inauguration for the next term of the Presidency of Venezuela.   An unfortunate extemporaneous statement by one of the Spanish doctors has led almost everyone to believe that the peculiar looking  colonel is headed for that great sulphur corral in El Rancho BarZeelBub, sooner rather than later.

 

     It would have been good to ask the Spanish doctor why it is that Spanish doctors were in charge of events concerning the peculiar looking "colonel" everybody in the world knows that the Cuban medical system is the best, most advanced, and finest in the world....and it's FREEEEEEEEEEEE!   But, oddly, no one asked that question.

 

     What is being asked is if there are going to be a number of expulsion and assassinations now that Nicolas Maduro (a dolt and erstwhile bus-driver)  the Vice-President of Venezuela,and Diosdado Cabello, the President of the lower house of the Venezuelan Parliament will be obligated to try to kill one another.   Floods of middle and higher ranking losing thugs inside this mafia-like government will be making  quick flights to Miami, Mexico City, and/or Rio de Janiero in a few weeks. 

Diosdado Cabello (izquierda) y Nicolás Maduro,

        con Chávez en diciembre. / EFE

     With the increased demand in Miami for deluxe apartments and penthouse arrangements for the refugee slugs and thugs, Obama's administration will be able to point to "an improved housing market".   Whether the bus-driver Vice President or the life-time professional thug marxist politician wins out is anybody's guess at this point.   Chavez did have a particular and peculiar way of hypnotising the masses and relating to them.   First blame the millionaires and billionaires, and then give them a lot of free stuff, and it relates pretty well to the limited information and intellect crowd.   Chavez used to drone on during his free form television addresses to the nation for three to eight hours at a time.
     There was a joke about the tourist who came to Venezuela and asked to see the jungles.  The local fellow said, "I'm sorry sen~or, but the forests, they are all burned up."
      "Oh! How terrible.  I understand they were very beautiful with different birds and wildlife and interesting flowering trees.  Was it a horrible forest fire?"  the tourist asked sadly.
      "Oh! No, no sen~or.  El Presidente, he is a great admirer of Franklin D. Roosevelt", the local man answered.
       Puzzled, the tourist finally asked, "What does Roosevelt have to do with it?"
       "We had to cut the forest down for the firewood, Sen~or...it is 8 hours of a fireside chat".


     All dull humour aside.  Chavez is a slug and a thug.   He is exactly the same kind of president as the one we have in the White House now, only a bit smarter and more audacious.  Chavez was not distracted by golf and piddling around with small things like trying to say tricky things that leave false impressions ....Hope and Change....fundamental transformation....spread the wealth....Save General Motors....
     Chavez expropriates.  He bullys, sends in street gangs to destroy businesses, he confiscates, and he has street gangs kidnap children of opponents and of editorialist who write inconvenient truths.   He calls middle class and wealthy people "exploitative devils and swine"....something that Obama does not have the guts to do in public. 

     With luck, Chavez will soon be gone, or at least will be semi-comatose for many, many painful years.   With more luck, the street gangs, the brown shirts, the red shirts, and all the marxist, bolshevik, maoist, socialist workers' party, and criminal elements will get together and destroy one another so that the country can return to the relatively pleasant place that it used to be.   It will be difficult due to the recent development of a really, really rough thug class that will be difficult to moderate and/or eliminate for the next several years.   It is similar to what the communist troublemakers in Honduras and Guatemala have developed over the last 30 years, the final product of which is the Mara Salvatrucha XIII .

     What is good, in a way, is these various extreme left and extreme anti-social groups that Chavez has been able to, more or less, keep on the same general path, will immediately begin to start to eat each others liver and gall bladders as soon as it is apparent that Chavez does not have enough strength to pull a trigger.   It will be like Uncle Joe and Trotsky...and like the Molotov, Kruschev, and Yahkov, and Beria days.
 

Stalin and other Soviet VIPs with (front right) Nikolai Yezhov


The same photo ‘updated’ after Yezhov’s fall. (For a similarly chilling photographic disappearance, see Vladimir Clementis.)  Behind Stalin's right shoulder is Molotov,

and to Molotov's right is Beria, "the engineer of the Georgia purge".  Of course

Yezhov was the "minder" of Beria.  Ah...what pleasant games the commies play

killing each other for fun and profit.   And just think, the man with the Napoleanic

hand, and the funny cap...he always said that Al Gore, Sr.'s bossman, Armand

Hammer, Occidental Oil, was his favourite capitalist.

(You know...I really wonder how Uncle Joe managed to make that little gargoyle Yezhov disappear?)

Read, also, Trotsky's demise in his up-scale digs in Frida's and Diego's neighbourhood in Mexico City.   There are many fairly decent accounts that speak to the love among the comrades of the Workers' Paradise.   We hope that the communist and criminal elements in Venezuela can warm up that old fraternal affection, one more time.

Toissot's -  Les  Rois Magos en Voyage

Thank you all for your interest.  We prepare our vigil for the three noble venturers from the East who have followed the guiding star.   We understand they arrive in Bethlehem in a couple of days if their horses and camels keep up their noble pace.
El Gringo Viejo

DAR Bans God and Christian Guidance Missal and We Don't Buy Girl Scout Cookies (they aren't as good as they used to be anyway)

The Daughters of the American Revolution are "guiding" the membership on methods by which the local chapters can and should avoid mentioning specific religions or important religious personalities if they happen to be Christian.  Hymns and anthems are being discouraged, as well.  And, of course, the ranking poobahettes of the DAR are denying it all.   But...we know it is true.

    It is just more of the "full court press" by the progressives to destroy America from the inside out and to establish a secular, atheist, socialist, internationalist citadel.   Destroy the churches, the schools, the social organisations, the families, the work ethic, and everything traditional, and that will finally make things the way they should be.   Read the lyrics of the Satanically inspired song..."Imagine" by the great moral philosophers, The Beatles.  And there you have it.

 

Please read this posting below and weep.  The Girl Scouts of America have been a source of deep sadness for this observer of the American scene for the past few years.  Most reasonable folks are unaware of the degeneracy and degradation of the current organisation.   Please read this posting carefully.  It is well researched and El Gringo Viejo has decided to publish it here after doing considerable verification of its content.

 

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March 3, 2012

Girl Scouts: The Awful Truth

By Betsy M. Galliher

 

Indiana freshman Representative Bob Morris is learning the hard way that the Girl Scouts of America is to the progressive agenda as the Komen Foundation is to Planned Parenthood, and the Catholic church (or so Obama presumed) is to an Obama abortion mandate. What is -- in one word -- cover.

     In a private e-mail to fellow House members, leaked to a northern Indiana paper, Morris outlined why he chose to abstain from a nonbinding resolution honoring the Girl Scouts of America on its 100^th Anniversary -- an organization Morris believes to have become increasingly "radicalized," with ties to Planned Parenthood, the United Nations, and abortion and LGBT advocates.

     Overnight, Morris became the fodder of mainstream media and late-night hosts. Even Morris's fellow Indiana House Republicans joined in the mockery, purchasing cases of Girl Scout cookies and crunching away in front of Morris during a House session. Indiana House Speaker Republican Brian Bosma went so far as to don a Girl Scout badge sash for a Gridiron dinner in the same week, where featured as each table's centerpiece was a box of Girl Scout cookies marked "Caution: Contents Radicalized."

      It comes as no surprise that calling out one of the great vestiges of iconic girl power and time-honored Americana garners great public outrage, especially amongst Morris's fellow Republicans, where real honor appears to be going along to get along. What Morris's fellow Republicans fail to understand is that in collective outrage, there is truth -- exposed. And the truth is that, for all the generations of earnest, jumper-clad cookie entrepreneurs the GSUSA has lovingly nurtured, the organization is moving left at a fast clip, even if only at its highest levels of leadership. This may be news even to most scouts, if not the parents, citizens, and business leaders who volunteer their time and talent as troop leaders. In fact, it might be news to anyone who doesn't understand the language of progressivism -- global, reproductive rights, climate change, empowerment, diversity, sustainability, fairness, community, social justice, universal, green -- think nearly any advocacy, save capitalism.

     Still, the larger point seems to have been lost amidst all the shock and awe Morris elicited. Why are the accusations so altogether unthinkable in the first place?

    

     Full disclosure: I am as endeared to the doe-eyed keepers of the Thin Mint for which I would sell my soul most days as anyone. I cringed when I heard Morris's original remarks. It was just the crazy talk the left feeds upon -- and the right, consequently, takes such pains to avoid. These were the Girl Scouts of America he was talking about, for heaven's sake. Like millions of other scouts and now a parent to scouts, I've experienced only the best Girl Scouts has to offer -- lessons in leadership, character, entrepreneurship, Christian ideals, service to others, and macramé -- under the tutelage of leaders with no pretense or agenda.

     Frankly, what Morris was suggesting was so far-fetched that it was almost as unthinkable as suggesting that Republicans don't always have conservatives' best interest at heart; the church has been infiltrated with agents of social justice; our own prestigious military has in its ranks enemy Islamists and apologists; the public education system to which we entrust our children is full of radical, anti-American educators; the mainstream media -- the fourth estate -- is a virtual arm of one political party; women's reproductive health includes the right to practice infanticide; and Sesame Street Muppets endear children to government. What's next -- asking us to believe that the man elected to keep the American dream alive could govern antithetically to individual liberty? Shall we see if James O'Keefe can fit into a brownie uniform?

      The question we should be asking ourselves is, why not? Why wouldn't we expect the Girl Scouts of America to have contemporized its agenda with the willing assistance of progressives, as has every other American organization under the sun? No one doubts that the vast majority of GSUSA troops function fairly autonomously, as intended, with nary a murmur of Planned Parenthood, but it still behooves parents to know the company their daughters keep (literally) and the agenda that company espouses -- the same company to whom millions of scouts entrust $750 million in gross cookie sale revenue annually.

Here's just a sample:

GSA's CEO, Anna Maria Chavez, served as Deputy Chief of Staff for Urban Renewal and Community Development under former Arizona Governor, Janet Napolitano. Napolitano vetoed a ban on partial birth abortion, along with legislation requiring parental consent for minors during her governorship. Chavez calls Napolitano her "mentor."

Troop Capitol Hill - an honorary, bipartisan, Congressional Girl Scout troop - in conjunction with GSUSA's Policy and Advocacy office, helps to create public policy benefiting girls, and to bring Girl Scouting to underserved communities. Troop Capitol Hill has been lead, at one time or another, by Senators Barbra Mikulski (D), Susan Collins (small r), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D), and Kay Granger (small r). According to the GSUSA website, "The Honorary Congressional Girl Scout Troop has helped Girl Scouts of the USA secure nearly $15 million in federal funding over the past few years. These funds have been distributed to Girl Scouts councils for innovative programs in public housing, rural communities, and prisons."

GSA's Media Relations Expert and Spokesperson, Josh Ackley, was the founder of the now-defunct band, "Dead Betties," a homoerotic band with a disdain for the mainstream. In addition to his media duties, Ackley has been involved with Scout delegates to the United Nations.

GSUSA Public Policy and Advocacy Associate, Clare Bresnahan, is also a fellow at the New Leaders Council, an organization "Training The Next Generation of Progressive Political Entrepreneurs." According to Bresnahan's bio at the NLC site, she is "armed with a background in social justice and nonprofit advocacy..."

While GSUSA claims no formal relationship, as early as 2004, then CEO, Cathy Cloninger, gave an interview to the NBC Today show in which she stated GSUSA partners with Planned Parenthood. In fact, Up to two dozen individual councils have openly admitted to partnering with Planned Parenthood for sex "education" materials, including the pamphlet, "How to Know You Are Ready For Sex."

Betty Friedan, the co-founder of NOW and NARAL, sat on the GSUSA Board from 1970 to 1982.

In 2010, the GSUSA partnered with the Urban League, urging scouts to pledge their time and commitment to the "I am Empowered" initiative working toward the goals of affordable healthcare; safe, decent, affordable, energy efficient housing on fair terms; access to jobs with a living wage and good benefits; and every children ready for college, work, and life by the year 2025.

 

Every Girl Scout, through annual dues, is a member of and contributes to the WAGGGS, or Worldwide Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts. Here is WAGGGS statement (in part) to the UN's Commission on the Status of Women:

We demand access to comprehensive sexuality information, services and supplies for all young people. We need it today - and today needed to be yesterday. The young people from more than 20 countries and every continent collectively demand their sexual and reproductive rights:

--All young people must have access to comprehensive sexuality education and sexual and reproductive health services, including contraception and emergency contraception, in order to avoid unintended pregnancies.

--Accessible, affordable and safe abortion should be made part of the minimum package of sexual and reproductive services.

The WAGGGS and GSUSA partner to sponsor an annual World Thinking Day, celebrating sisterhood in "global thinking," This year's theme is the United Millennium Development Goal no. 7, "we can save our planet." Here is the WAGGGS statement:

The poorest people in the world are the ones who will most feel the effects of environmental degradation and climate change. Ensuring environmental sustainability is a critical foundation for ending this poverty. Girls and young women of all ages around the world are also differently and disproportionately affected by the consequences of environmental degradation and climate change.

The World Thinking Day theme for 2012 is Millennium Development Goal 7: "we can save our planet" and the aim is to raise awareness of the environment and the impacts our lifestyles and choices have on it, so together we can, as one Movement, speak out and take action to save our planet.

Environmental sustainability is the seventh of eight areas of focus made by 189 world leaders at the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000. It is part of the WAGGGS Global Action Theme, which encourages girls and young women to make a personal commitment to change the world around them by linking to an important agenda: the United Nations' Millennium Development Goal.

     The GSA's Leadership and Board reads like the who's who of leftism -- not that you would know from their accomplished bios at the GSUSA site. The more provocative findings will require one's own research. There are personal connections to Amnesty International, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Human Rights Campaign, the National Council on the Research of Women, Women's ENews, the green movement, and the wholesome and teen-friendly (cough, cough) MTV. One GSUSA board member actually sits on the board of the International Planned Parenthood Federation. Family Watch International does an excellent job of detailing the connections.

     Anyone can do the research -- even just a read of the GSUSA site itself -- from the heroines the Girl Scouts' literature promotes -- Elizabeth Gurly Flynn, for one, a founding member of the ACLU and chairwoman of the Communist Party -- to recommended links, Media Matters, and "teenwire," to name just two; and readings, Girltopia and Journeys. Simply put, the evidence is more than overwhelming that the GSUSA is proving to be just one more illustration of the quiet creep of progressivism. For anyone who believes that progressivism must be exposed in all its insidious glory -- rooted out whenever and wherever it is found -- relying on the good faith of any organization, even the iconic Girl Scouts of America, is an unaffordable luxury.

     And yet, as a private entity, with questionable tax-exempt status, considering that it is arguably politically active, the GSUSA is free to contemporize as it sees fit. There are plenty of parents who will happily embrace the change, if not simply refuse to question the organization's intentions. Sounds like a voting bloc to me. Others, like Morris, will opt for an organization that defines character as he would for his own daughters, such as the American Heritage Girls, formed in 1995 as an alternative to the GSUSA, "dedicated to the mission of building women of integrity through service to God, family, community and country."

     In a second letter to Indiana House members, Morris subsequently apologized for painting the entire Girl Scout organization with such a "wide brush" and for the haste with which he did some of his research. While Morris bemoaned Michelle Obama as the organization's honorary chair -- and I agree, Mrs. Obama's fondness for tyranny is no example to young, capable, idealistic girls -- it is true that every First Lady since Edith B. Wilson has served as chair. Mrs. Obama might have a thing or two to say about all those cookies, especially considering that she has enlisted the GSUSA to her Let's Move! campaign of government largesse, but she herself can hardly be blamed for the GSUSA's leftward lurch. Still, Morris owed fellow Republicans -- likely most interested in teaching Morris a lesson in pecking order -- no apology, in my thinking. Perhaps when the Girl Scouts introduce the Sandra Fluke merit badge in contraceptive affordability, Republicans will better recognize testicular fortitude when they see it.

     Once progressivism takes root, it's nearly impossible to weed out entirely. With the honor the GSUSA still evokes, it might be downright impossible. A generation of young, empowered girls can carry a lot of water for progressives. It is infinitely easier once that generation no longer knows God, Country, or conscience. Most unfortunately, failing to recognize progressive cover is usually a lesson realized once it's too late.

 

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El Gringo Viejo has not bought any Girl Scout cookies for quite a while now.  And oddly, his children never really did watch much if any Sesame Street.  My daughter did watch Smokey and the Bandit about 300 times and my son watch a lot of fishing and hunting shows....but they really didn't watch much television.   We were probably the only parents who ever yelled at their children that they "....had better watch some television". 

Thanks for your attention.

El Gringo Viejo

Kirchner Grasping at Straws....and Islands



    Another of the World's Number One Most Admired Women....just think of everything she has done for the women....and the children....flounders in her own duplicitousness and mendacity.  Cristina Fernandez Widow of Kirchner, President of the Developmentally Challenged Silvered Republic of the Proletariat has sent a letter demanding the de-colonialisation of the Falkland Islands by HRH Elizabeth II.

    To-day is the 132 anniversary (or thereabouts) of the dislocation of Argentine interests from the Malvinas, and the renaming of said islands, The Falklands.  Cristie says, as usual, that agreements in the United Nations that even the Brits agreed to declare that colonial manifestations are to be erased from the globe.   Only the perpetually "going to amount to something in the future Silvered Republic" has the right to have colony.

     To this hysterically desperate....woman....communist....trying to salvage her presidency that she rode into on the casket of her dead husband....who is no longer with us...because he is dead....the "Malvinas Option" is her last hope.   She actually thinks that she will dig up the body of Eva Peron to tie onto the prow mast of some clunky Argentine man o'war, and that she will strap on the armour of Jean d'Arc and strike a blow for social democracy, anti-colonialism, Frida Kahlo, and all things that are good in the world.



Another deranged, demented, and debunked
"reformed" communist-lite demagogue leader
of a nowhere country plays her Ace of Spades
as she sees her Bolshevik Sand Castle wash
away, into the Atlantic Ocean.



   The term "Malvinas Option" is reserved for that last desperate measure taken by whatever regime is in place in Buenos Aires to salvage itself.  It always fails.  The Union Jack has remained over the Falklands before and it will remain there after Cristie has ceased even being a memory.   The facts are clear.  Argentina is in pitiable economic straits.  The Argentine peso continues to slide, insolvency is not something being spoken about in future tense.  Flailing measures such as uncompensated nationalisation of the oil company, air lines, and other foreign owned or involved businesses has been one of the mainstays of the poison brewing in Cristie's cauldron.   Private pensions of public and private sector employees, businesses, union, and non-profits are being usurped by the Argentine treasury in a desperate effort to put cake on the shelves for the hyper-dependent rabble that always make up the core of commie and socialist political support.

Argentine peso started off 2008 at $o.32
American to 1.00 Argentine.  As of this
morning, it is $0.19 American, or a
loss of almost 40% during Cristie's
presidentcy.  Very strict currency
conversion controls are in place.
Foreign reserves are exhuasted.
Hope and Change costs money.

    El Gringo Viejo thinks that the Argentine military will not fight if ordered.   This, truly, is not from cowardice.  It is because of the sobering deduction provided by  reality.   The last war with the Brits resulted in several thousand useless casualties on the part of the Argentine soldiers, many of whom were sent into battle without food, or even armaments.  The Brits lost several significant warships to Exocet missiles delivered by an Argentine pilots flying  Mirages and to bombs dropped from... (you guessed it...British built Canberra bombers.  The were many sailors lost in that event.   The Brits lost 777 dead and about 2,000 wounded.  The Argentines lost almost 1,500 dead and about 2,000 wounded.
     The fallacy of Cristie's argument about the United Nations imperative concerning  colonial properties is that a return of a piece of land to native ownership requires a plebescite including those same natives.   There is no doubt that the residents of the South Sandwich, Falkland, and South Georgia Islands would vote nearly unanimously in favour of staying within  that group of people who have the Queen's image on their coin and paper currency.

English Electric Co. Canberra

 

     Ah! Cristina, you are no Evita.  You really are like that other Queen of the Universe recently released from a hospital in the United States.   A media created falsity....a poorly constructed lie.

More Later, and thanks for being with us.
El Gringo Viejo

Hey, Christi....Call yo' Daddy, O'bama

    

True Love

 

     Mr. Christie....once admired governor of a less than admirable State in the Union...New Jersey....was filmed last night and then again to-day, admonishing the Republican majority of all people for failure to have approved 60,000,000,000 (sixty billion) dollars of hurricane relief money last night.   The money was to have gone to the long suffering and victimised people of New York and New Jersey.   Supposedly

     But, allow us to observed very quietly that FEMA, emergency allocations, special relief for the dislocated, all such measures always...always...always...always (and the words never and always are dangerous words)...always result in waste, failure, knashing of teeth, whining, bellyaching, and the usual failure of 9 lepers to regard the civility of saying "thank you".

 

     We who are unsophisticated hicks and rubes who live in Confederate Country...we who are stupid and backwards....will always remember that the crews who left Texas and other points of the South to go up and work on the restoration of the power systems in New Jersey and New York were received in a peculiar manner.   Obscene gestures, shouts of "Scab", tomatoings, rock throwing damage to private company service trucks, and the like were common.   Why?   Because the workers, in the opinion of the fine and sophisticated people in New Jersey and New York, were either not union members or were members of the wrong union...or something.   Racial and geographical epithets were also common.

 

   And so, now comes Governor Christie.   He who literally slobbered over the most miserable excuse of a person to have ever held the office of president of the United States...doing a jive shuffle like some kind of clown...so as to pick up a few dollars to rebuild his crummy, thoroughly corrupt state.  Corzine, Torecelli, and...and...Christie...Corzine Torecelli, and Christie.

    Obama says...yessir, we're gonna cut right through all that red tape and get the job done.  You government people listen to me.  Git all the money to these people rat now!!! I so order!! Git it done!

     Then Mr. Christie says, "Oh mighty massa president...we loves you because we talked on the phone many times and I could tell that you really cared about us and you are going to take care of us...we loves you really big.   You're not like that crummy Mormon who thinks people ought to take care of themselves...he doesn't care about little people like you do...we like you and we really don't like him.  I'm ashamed of him and the Republican Party.   We like empty promises and showboating carneys like you a lot better than that Mormon with the 12  wives.

Oh! I'm going to faint over the rush of gratitude for your having come here and given six buckets of vomit disguised as empty promises.   We loves you Mr. Hero President Magical and Wondrous Superman."

 

 

 

"For a fat white boy, your not so bad, cracker.  I'll get
right on those C-5As full of 100 dollar bills just as soon as I
get back to Washington.   FEMA will take care of everything
and you'll have a brand new State early next week.  Promise."

 

 

     HEY, MR. CHRISTIE -   WHY YOU BLAMIN' DA REPUBLICANS?  You said Obama's gonna take care of you, already.  Now, Youse da guy dats complainin' already?   Complain to yo daddy Obama...He's yo daddy now.

 

      Christie might even change parties soon and reveal himself to be the dull liberal that he has always been.   He is a slug and a charlatan.   His speech at the Republican National Convention was a bit of foreshadowing about his staking out a "moderate" spot on the playing field in order to "take back" the Republican Party from the "TEA PARTY extremists" and to establish the Republicans as the "socialist lite" and nice and reasonable party for the 2016 elections.

 

 

Puke on the whole Queen for a Day thing.   The entire State budget for one year for New Jersey is only 30,000,000,000 dollars.   The Gulf Coast people, Nashville, and Joplin pretty much did everything on their own.  You have no professionalism...and no shame, Christie.

El Gringo Viejo 

TOPIC: Low and No Information Voters

It was raining here, finally, last night.  Cold.   The rain was not heavy, but it was dense and steady.  So I went out to the main barn because of that leak that we had repaired.   It had dripped on to some of our work saddles, so it was well that we had lathered them from the last use.   The four horses we keep in were surprised to see the large door open, on squealing hinges, but they were reassured when they saw it was just the same old coot who had closed the door earlier in the evening.  It smelled horsey and warm, things were pleasant inside. 

     I checked the saddles and gazed at the place we had repaired, carefully squinting for a bit of a drip or a drop...but there was none.  Just at the moment that I was going to turn on the heel of my boot and head back to the parlour fireplace, there it was.   The saddle bags of the first saddle was draped over the seat of the saddle, as usual, but the flap was open, and a heavy, parchment-like sheet of expensive writing paper, folded very precisely, and sealed, this time with the best black sealing wax, and stamped with a familiar  "Z".

 

     "Why doesn't he come in?  This is so....strange," I thought to myself.  The letter was stuffed carefully into my shirt.  El Zorro still chose to write in India pen ink, and I did not want to lose any of the message.   Running up to the front gallery and into the main door, back into the warm parlour, I dried off my hands and extracted, then openned the missal from my masked rider friend.  It announced:

 

 

 

 

 

 00000OOOOO00000

 

ATENTO Y SINCERO AVISO !

Mensaje a la Gente Conservadora!

El Problema y las soluciones de los electores burros de baja intelligencia y/o procesamiento de informacion politico, cultural, y de importancia social.

 

 

 

( THE FOLLOWING IS A TRANSLATION FROM THE MESSAGE THAT WAS LEFT BY EL ZORRO)

 

 

Tema  -  Electores de Baja Informacion y capacidad intelectual:

Where to begin?

The problems that resulted in the second election of the misfit we now have

to call "President" have two sources.

The first source is the chronically dedicated to the Democratic Party. "My

parents were democrats and my grandparents were democrats so I am a

democrat." Some of them know what they are doing and think by so doing they

will be part of the club when the other side loses everything. There are

others who just follow because they are and always will be democrats. There

are also those who are ideologically aligned with the socialist, Marxist,

communist, fascist leaders of their party. Many of them get their relevant

information from the Daily Show, Bill Maher, the Colbert report, etc. and

think that is real news. That pretty much sums the first group.

The second source of the problem is the "Low Information Voter". This group

is one that before this past election had never been counted or accounted

for in such social undertakings as electing our leaders. They are people

who do not care about politics, government, taxes, healthcare, or any other

social necessities to keep the Republic operating to their benefit (or

deficit). They are the people who are busy with anything but what happens

in Washington or the state seats of government. They do not want

information or to be bothered with it. This group consists of, but is not

limited to, those who are most interested in reality TV, like to smoke dope,

working people who only want to pay their (tax) bill and be left alone,

college kids who are in school to avoid going to work. They don't see or

hear and until now could not be reached... but this time, this time Obama

did reach them. He is, looks, and acts "cool". He got their attention in the

first debate with Romney when Romney talked over their heads and Obama

seemed aloof. Obama appeared to be "out of it" acting as if he didn't even

want to be on the stage. All through the rest of the campaign he followed

through on that. He didn't take on the issues that are important to the

country. Obama appealed to the LIV's interests by appearing on late night

TV and the View, taking long vacations from being president, shooting hoops,

playing golf, and not boring the LIV with real issues. His appearances,

what he looks like and how he spends his "media time" got their attention.

There is a difference between low information voters and no information

voters in that the LIVs have some information that is either wrong or

limited. The NIVs are know-nothings about the system and pretty much just plain

don't care. Both of these groups are low information voters (a rectangle is

a square...). Together they make up a significant number, especially when

you consider the margin by which Obama won the election.

We cannot underestimate the opposition on this issue. They may have

stumbled onto this new source or how to reach them but now conservatives

have that to contend with among all the other entire usual prospective voter

base.

So, there is a problem that has to be dealt with. The conservative party

has the challenge of keeping and growing the base, convincing the swing

voters, and reaching the low information voters.

We have to get dirty and we have to start now, if not sooner. Our

candidates have to be better informed on the issues than the competition,

look "cool", and they have to act somewhat apathetic while at the same time not

alienating the traditional base. The candidate has to look like everyman.

Ron Paul probably had the attention of some of the LIVs because of his

physical appearance among some of his positions on social issues that would

appeal to the uninterested observer.

It is possible what is happening now is a turning point in the experiment in

freedom. It may be that there is no rolling the stone back up the hill.

This is not inevitable!

Low information voters were probably the margin that beat us. It could be

said "We got beat by stupid". That does not have to happen again. All who

care have to start now by talking to everybody they know and any others with

whom they may have the opportunity. It does not matter how much it

irritates them, information has to be pushed to them. They will not go get

it. The pop culture has to be made irrelevant to the extent it can be

because that is where and with what most of the ignorant voters and LIVs

spend their time.

GOBIERNO CONSTITUCIONAL y LIBERTAD!

Z

The "comadre" wrote with ire and angst....can't say that I blame her.   (Comadre is the mother-in-law of our daughter).  Who can blame her for her sentiments?

 

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Tax Return?  Many Happy Returns???

 

Happy New Year!  Right?

 My tax return?
 I just received my tax return for 2011 back from the IRS. It puzzles me!!!
They are questioning how many dependents I claimed. I guess it was
because of my response to the question: "List all dependents?"
I replied: 12 million illegal immigrants; 3 million crack heads; 42 million
unemployed people on food stamps, 2 million people in over 243 prisons;
half of Mexico; and 535 persons in the U.S. House and Senate."
Evidently, this was NOT an acceptable answer.
I KEEP ASKING MYSELF, WHO THE HELL DID I MISS?

 

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As the pool of taxpayers continues to shrink as a percentage of the population, things will become steadily worse.   After all, Little Red Hens are a custom fit to be slaves to Aunt Zietuni Obama and Uncle Omar Onyango Obama.  It's so good to know you're needed, even if it's only to serve as a money cow to feed and house reprobates.

HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR...AUNTIE ZIETUNI AND UNCLE OMAR...WE'RE GLAD THAT WE COULD HAVE BEEN OF ASSISTANCE.   Where are you people going to go after you destroy this country....Red China?
El Gringo Viejo