O'Reilly....let the guests talk...or don't invite them to your desk

Sheesh!

     It would be better if FOX News would re-organise their schedule, with Greta first, and the other two hyper-interrupters taking the later time slots. Perhaps Hannity and O'Reilly could share a two-hour slot and just interrupt each other with repetitive platitudes, shouting over one another, and waving each other off until they both collapse in a heap of interruptive exhaustion.   El Gringo Viejo simply cannot understand a conversation when there are two, three, or four people all shouting at the same time....Perhaps they could just set up a barbershop quartet and sing (or sign) "Just a Minute! Just a Minute!" for the length of a standard segment and be done with it.

 

     O'Reilly did yeoman's service by braying like a drunken donkey about the case of the boy who was detained with the .410 shotgun some months back in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico.  He has probably been made aware by many more people than your humble servant alone, that his bully-boy, swaggering and posturing about what he would "do" to Mexico if the boy were not released by such and such a moment was very injurious to the boy's interests.   O'Reilly looked upon the event as one he could use to gin up his image as a tough guy who would stand up to thugs and crooks and all forms of corruption.   Just not Hillary or Bill, and certainly not with the Kennedys. 

 

     He was a bit more demure concerning the recent case in Sonora, which involved the detention by the Army of an American citizen.  That citizen was detained after the determination had been made that she was sitting atop a bus seat, under which there was a packet of neatly wrapped 15 pounds of high-grade marijuana.  She and her husband were not sitting side by side, but rather they were travelling 2 X 3....a process whereby a couple might buy three passages for the two of them, so as to have some stretching out room.

     As an aside, Mexican 1st class and deluxe busses are commonly used, even by the wealthy, in Mexico.    There are 4,000,000 carried, medium to long distances, daily.  Americans and foreigners being on-board is not comment worthy, it is common.  Frequent departures, comfortable seating, many semi-direct and express operators, two-driver teams, even recliner/slumber seating on the deluxe overnighters with restrooms  for men on the left and women on the right...etc. etc.  The bus being used by the Maldanados was a standard first class express.  It was running a route that could cover the entire run to the border in a comfortable six hours, including a couple of rest stops.   There is no smoking any longer on the 1st class and deluxe units.  So, having three seats for two people....obviously costs more....but it makes the ride more comfortable, and there is a seat to put all the junk, purses, munchies, magazines, and the like.

      O'Reilly made a big point about how, in Mexico,  everybody is always corrupt all the time, and the Army was just trying to shake down the Maldanados.   He was about 30 hours behind the story, and I particularly enjoyed watching him walk into the door-corner.   Sorry,  I just did.

     We had followed the case somewhat closely.   Sonora is a peculiar State where  common law has been sputtering as if to start for a couple of generations, with increasing success.   There is considerable American agricultural and industrial investment there, and it is a very rich State in terms of fishing, citrus, grapes and wines, and automotives.   There is a  six to eight generation American/British bloodline interlaced in the genealogy of the State, and there is a significant Mormon presence.

 

     While Mr. Bill was being more reserved, if only a little, about his braying, he still assured everybody that everything in Mexico is bad and....by inference, everything in the United States is perfect.   This information is sandwiched by his own articles about the putrid rot of vile filth of immoral corruption than oozes out every window and door of the White House and the central government bureaucracy in these days....and during the days  of the Clintons' Administration.    I remember one time when he slightly broached the topic of the possible problem Hillary might have in running for the United States Senate seat from New York, considering the persistent suggestions about her possible involvement with the "suicide' of Vince Foster.  That, and/or the next-day clearing out of his office of all papers and momentos by Maggie Thompson and Bernie Nausbaum, under orders from Hillary would certainly have to present SOME kind of obstacle to Hillary's advance to the Presidential Palace.......SOMETHING happened......shortly after that, because the topic has never been raised again.

     O'Reilly was doing that interview with some poobah, and suggested the matter, and the poobah blanched and declared that it was absolutely proven that there was no evidence of any kind to support that "theory"  and "nobody" takes it seriously  anymore.   O'Reilly persisted a bit, saying '.....I have sources who have been pretty definite about that...." , when his talk-mate vigorously disagreed, and said that it was a settled issue...no evidence of any kind to support the charge.

 

      Just the notion that Kathleen Willy's husband committed suicide the same day and somewhat before Bill Clinton assaulted her in the White House....and then her second husband had a one-vehicle "accident" three years later, while driving some information pertaining to Hillary  and Bill and their Whitewater days over to an investigator of some sort...should ring a few bells.   Repeat such co-incidences several score times, and we have Macbeth meets the Beverly Hillbillies and the Ma Barker gang in Chappaqua.

A scene from a typical city's centre,
in this case Cd. Alvaro Obregon,
in the southern part of Sonora,

     Let's not even get into the Coptic fellow still rotting in prison because of his video about Mohammed....or the corruption represented by the various "green investments"....not that they were just obviously bad, unconstitutional, and arrogant....but that they were part of a front-up, pre-paid kick-back political fund-raising scheme that would and does land Republicans (rightly) in prison when they try it.    And a million other things!

 

     But back to the case in Sonora.  The soldiers did what they had to do.  They searched the bus.   They found the packets. The detained the passenger sitting over the package. Their commanding officer delivered the detained party the nearest Federal Prosecutorial facility.   Further evidence was gathered.   The detained party protested vigorously that she was innocent, "I'm LDS!" she declared.

     Representations were made by an attorney who requested a  writ of amparo (to suspend legal processes due to the weakness or absence of evidence), and the magistrate took the matter under advisement.  On the next Wednesday, the two young soldiers....regular Army, combat veterans, involved in the very successful pressuring of El Chapo Guzman's organisation in Sonora (including the recent arrest and incarceration of his father-in-law), did not appear for evidentiary hearings.  An officer from the adjutant's office appeared instead, and said that the Army itself was doing recovery of evidence and at that point there was nothing to support what had appeared, at one time, to be obvious.

     In a stunning release, the Army revealed certain security camera footage that clearly showed the Maldanados entering the Bus Terminal with their accoutrements....folded blankets, water six-pack, reading stuff, purse, just the regular stuff people bring along for a moderate distance bus ride.   There was no pair of bulky, wrapped, and re-wrapped packages of pot.  There was film of their boarding...getting off before departure...buying a couple of bags of munchies...(no Coca-Cola or coffee, you know, they are LDS)....and just obviously dumboes like the rest of us...me included.....getting ready to roll home after a funeral.   And El Gringo Viejo knew that that night, Bill O'Reilly would walk into the door-corner....and El Gringo, perhaps lamentably but certainly unapologetically, was happy.

 

     Mrs.  Maldanado was understandably put-out, angry, distressed, forlorn, and a score of other things due to and during her detention.  She is human.  She is well-spoken, well-presented.   I would have been VERY GRUMPY if the same thing had happened to me....and it has....but in the United States.   But the truth worked through the peculiar labyrinth of Mexican legal procedure, and even Geraldo was caught off-guard,   even though the news about the issue was readily reviewable, all but live and in colour, on very reliable Mexican news reports.    Then...Mrs.  Maldanado, in a mix of high reason and somewhat female expression of some kind of justification for the crummy situation that has brought us to these extremes and measures  declares that everyone was wonderful....she expressed gratitude and appreciation to the girls (officials) who took care of her during her detention, understanding towards the Army (who stood behind the truth), and of course her family.  The mark of a Lady.   A lady who calmed herself in extremely trying times and then befriended all and made things pleasant.   The mark of a Lady.

This excellent picture, taken by the
photographer Bruno Girin, famous
for many studies of Mexican scenes
is of Tulum, archaeological site in the
State of Quintana Roo, Mexico.

  

     For the interest of the OROGs  who might reasonably be concerned, the soldiers were not admonished or punished for their work, in that, in reality they had done their duty.   So, the very best of a bad situation was had by all.

Except Mr. O'Reilly.

 

    We recommend that Mr. O'Reilly take the offer of his friend who lives on the Riviera Maya on the Yucatan Peninsula, and visit for a couple of weeks.   Do a show from there for a week.   Tell not just the truth, but the Truth, the whole Truth, and nothing but the Truth....just once about Mexico.

 

El Gringo Viejo 

 

    

A Prediction: Geezers Take Notice of this Warning

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     Once the people between the ages of 18 and 35 figure out that Father Obamaham is going to saddle them with some bad choices, there are going to be problems for us Geezers.

     The whippersnappers are going to learn, with mouths agape, that they will have either "exchange insurance" which is fairly useless and qualifies a person for conveyor belt medical service, or private insurance that will cost around 500 dollars per month per person in family.

 

     This will be done while the Geezers maintain their old Medicare and whatever supplemental they are buying....still not cheap...about 100 to 300 dollars a month extra for the enhanced coverage...even after many years of contributing into the "Medicare Trust Fund".

 

     But. as we suggest, the low information, low intellectual power mass of "younger people"  have been trained to hate people who "have".  Once they see the premiums they will have to pay for their "free medical care", there will be a visceral, cave-man response by people who have been fed moral relativism for the past 50 years in public schools.

 

     So, it's just a thought.  All us Geezers might want to avoid 6th Street in Austin on Friday and Saturday nights....not just because of the "urban situation", but because of the groupings of 26 year-old sophomores at the  Peoples' University of Texas who are just learning that they are going to have to pay Obama 6,000/year as a matter of force, law, and fact....or they are going to go exchange or private and get to pay 18,000/year for a family of four (whatever a family is defined as in Austin by that time).   Quite a sticker-shocker for "free medical".

 

    So, maybe I can move back up to the real world and set up a saloon there by that auditorium....I can call it "Old Gringo's Soylent Green Saloon:   last stop on the happy trail" .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sp-VFBbjpE

 

Soylent Greenly,

 

El Gringo Viejo

 

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If no income tax...then what?

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The central government in Washington, D.C. should be, for the moment, considered to be a legitimate government.  Although it has come to consider itself as  the sovereign, thereby displacing the individual citizen, it still requires certain legitimate access to the financial resources necessary to run its basic services and activities.

 

     After reviewing the Constitution of the United States of America, it was found that there were very few activities reserved and/or required of the central government.  The missions and duties of the central government were clear and understandable.

 

     The first, and perhaps greatest, was the requirement to provide for the common defence of all the members of the new federation of sovereign States.   This would require the establishment of an army, and even more especially, a strong navy, and a strong coast guard.

 

     Next, and critical to the binding of a Nation, as opposed to an assembly of neighbours, was the establishment of an effective system of post.   The orderly sending of messages and valuables great distances at reasonable cost and reasonable assumption of arrival from one end of the nation to the other came under the purvue of the Constitution's to-do list for the central government.

 

      Then, there were the implied activities.   If there were to be a judicial, a legislative, and an executive branch of the central government, such an assembly of unproductive people would have to have their stewards, butlers, snuff-box fillers and cleaners, spittoon emptiers, scribes, slave arbiters, coachmen, livery tenders, gardeners and room tenders, cooks,  etc.

      Within the executive, one must consider the establishment and defence of Embassies and counsels, couriers and secret briefcases with hidden compartments, and the cost of seductive hostesses for the visits from French and Russian diplomats. That is the Department of State. Then there is the Treasury and then the Secretary of Justice.

 

     To fund all of this?  Tariffs at the ports.   Liquor and certain other excise taxes.   This was Alexander Hamilton's first recourse when he saw the futility of trying to deal with an insurrection by some disgruntled veterans from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, with the deployment of disparate State militias.   That was in 1783....and when time came for the Constitution to be drawn, the Hamiltonian faction was careful to make certain that some form of independent income be provided for the Central Government.

     In those times, it was assumed that public projects would not only be deigned  by the governments of yon, but that those same-said governments would provide for the necessary financing.   Once a matter could be removed to the most affected jurisdiction, it would correctly fall to the People of that Locale to pay for it.   Made sense.

     Now, El Gringo Viejo is just as happy as he can be when California and New York and other States decide that they want to meddle in the purses, wallets, and check-book scribbles of their subjects.   But he prefers Texas, obviously, because Texas has no income tax.   Our motto as a member State in the American Union might be, "One psychotic, totalitarian income taxing madhouse is enough".

     So, the solution we present is simply to establish a 12.5% national sales tax which is imposed at the point of terminal use.   Hotel room, auto, lawnmower, everything save  for food, medicine, and medical service.

   This would accompany a law ordering an immediate initiation of an orderly disestablishment of the Departments (Secretariats) of Health and Human Refuse, Commerce, Agriculture, Energy, Transportation, Housing and Urban Destruction, Homeland Security, Education. most of the Department of the Interior, Veterans' Affairs, and various Bureaus, Commissions, and Agencies.

      We have always been quick to point out that the Department of Veterans' Affairs would be broken up and the issues pertaining each veteran would be assigned to his branch of service.   Brothers looking after brothers.

      The Bureau of Indian Affairs would be abolished.  The Coast Guard would be immediately sent back into free standing service...possibly attached to the Department of the Treasury.  The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives would be cancelled.  The Environmental Protection Agency and the Occupational Safety and Hazard Agency would be cancelled immediately.

 

      All of the above bureaucracies to be cancelled "do" absolutely nothing.  If the OROG had had the opportunity to have accompanied me during my walks through what was then called "Main Labour" the OROG would been stunned:   a huge, useless building in the Middle of Morass, D. C.  where office after office was peopled by young...local somewhat human looking types...let us say....literally laying on the desks, eating pizza, playing office basketball with wadded paper and trash-cans, cackling and giggling, involved with anything but anything pertinent to issues affecting the labouring man.  And I am not referring to  late Friday afternoon light-craziness waiting on the clock to run out.  And this was in 1973!!!   With certainty, it is worse now.     And think....a nationally applicable labour law and labour standard....really?   The minimum wage works so well, that is why the socialists return and return to accuse the Republicans...in left-think, "Ain't nobody c'ain't live nohow on no mimimim wage..." .   This while the white liberal, who glowers at the dumboe Republican who is working and minding his own business, and says "How could you let this happen!?   How can you live with yourself!?"

 

A 12.5% national sales tax would cripple the central government's ability to control the lives of the actual sovereigns.   The reduction and/or elimination of much of the discretionary and arbitrary regulation would unbridle the Republic in terms of solid, unrestrainable economic and spiritual uplift.

El Gringo Viejo

 

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Abolish the Fingers that Choke Us

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Yesterday we solved the problem with illegal immigration.

     Almost 90% of the problem is  one of allowing people who are here illegally,or who arrived legally and then remained here illegally, to be allowed to   glob onto the free money.  Those funds are provided by the Socialist Democrats and the money winds up in  Big Business and Big Bank Panhandling operations.  The large grocery chains and the banks tell us that "It's great for the local economy.  We need our fair share of the free money.  Our Congressman really brought home the bacon!!!"....and disregard the fact that they turn previously pleasant places into war zones and horrid, Detroit-like scenes from Dante's Inferno.

     Before, even legal aliens were prohibited from becoming "wards of the state" or the committing of any crime.   Doing such meant immediate deportation.

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      The next step is to simply abolish the Internal Revenue Service.   The Central Government in Washington, D.C. has no right, no need, and no justification to anything that pertains to something as private as our incomes and wealth situation.   It is simply none of the Central Government's business.

 

       If the Central Government knows a person's or a family's income, sources of income, methods of investment, it can destroy that person or family with the greatest of facility.   It does so frequently.

 

      Be aware, citizen, that the Internal Revenue Service is exempt from rules normally in place in terms of legal processes.   There is no presumption of innocence.  There is no recovery of items and/or money seized.   Seizures can and do occur without warrant or process.  When they wish to return your access to your accounts, or your property, they will do it, or not.

      There is no due process, no matter what they say, because if a person fights back, they immediately begin to harass family or friends near or next to the "accused".   They use the rules of the Democratic Courts of the French Revolution.   Rules change in the middle of the investigation.  It is one mouse and one hundred cats.

 

      The Internal Revenue Service will take all documents, and they will grill all family members incessantly.  They, like the FBI, will say that the wife has already confessed and so if you do not do the same we are going to go ahead and process her for prosecution and declare her a flight risk.
 

 

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     As we hang around in the saloons, coffee klatches, and beauty parlours, we can gently point out that once the Obama Socialised Medicine Initiative goes into full implementation, the enforcer of compliance with the "free medical programme" of EVERY AMERICAN CITIZEN, EXCEPT FOR HILLARY RODHAM AND NANCY PELOSI, will be the central government's Internal Revenue Service.

 

    The Obama Socialised Medicine Initiative provides for what will become over 40,000 NEW investigators, all employed with the Internal Revenue Service, all carrying badges... with access to SWAT Team enforcers.   They will be making absolutely certain that every single American has been forced into something much different than,".....and if you want to keep your doctor, you can keep him/her....and if you want to keep your insurance...you'll be able to keep it."

 

    Unfortunately, what we will receive in our Kwanzaa stocking, will be a Red Chinese lump-of-coal cookie, wrapped with a note that says,"....to find out what is in your Free Medical Policy, you will have to vote for it".

 

 

Please indulge these pleasant, humour-wrapped, grump-outs.  To-night, the solution for funding governmental operations.

 

El Gringo Viejo

 

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Radio and Television Announcements Concerning Covservative Immigration Reform

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(1)   Marco Rubio's insistence that the people to be refolded into the American social fabric will be prohibited from "receiving federal welfare" is a troubling parching of words.   Much of what we think of as "federal" welfare is actually substantially funded by the various States.   At times, States of the Union foolishly entered into a "partnership" with the central government in order to "feed or help or house or assist" the "children or the elderly or the handicapped or the abused women or the minorities" and once the leeches learned that there was free money available the trundling zombie digestive and reproductive systems went to the mainly State Offices of Human Refuse.

 

     In the Republic of Texas,  before the Congress of the Republic of Texas wised up in the barest nick of time,  we came very close to turning over the vast majority of the Republic of Texas's resources....the budget....to the support of "free medical care" to the trundling zomboes.   It is called "Medicaid" ...which is regarded by a distinct minority of the population as  "free (insert the word, body part, or stage of labour, or bullet/knife wound, or incidental trauma resulting from a DWI) care."

 

THE SOLUTION TO THE INVASION OF THE TRUNDLING CONSUMER ZOMBOES FROM HELL, SEVERAL COUNTRIES OUTSIDE OF THE TERRITORIAL LIMITS OF TEXAS, AND APPARENTLY EVERY ASTEROID IN ORBIT OF THE SUN....IS THE ELEMINATION OF MEDICAID AND EVERY OTHER PUBLIC ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.  ABSOLUTE ABOLITION!

 

 

 

(2)    Senator Rubio, Representative Ryan, Please do not try to convince me that the bill you all are crafting will not be a repeat of the cascading avalanche disaster of tag-team trundling digestive and reproductive systems extending out to the fourth degree of relationship.   It will be the same as the 9.0 Richter Scale demographic earthquake that attended the 1986 amnesty debacle. 

         This bill, now totalling over 1,000 pages of legalistic bilge, backed up by very faulty sociological conclusions and including data that is purposefully misconstrued so as to propose a cure that addresses a disease that is different from the one that is being suffered by the patient.

 

 

(3)     The patient is not the people you think.  The patient is us....the ones who pay the taxes.  The ones who do the work.   The ones who do not take because we provide for or have provided for ourselves...while also having carried the willingly unproductive along the way.   Those who are most greatly offended by your pitiable, noble, but uniformed impulse to "do the right thing" are the Latins who have either been here at the beginning or who have arrived and complied before the establishment of the Great Society's "War on Poverty".  And this observer is offended.   You know nothing of the origins of the "problem", and you have mis-identified the victim or the patient in this matter.

 

(4)     We have long since tired of waiting in line behind people who are obviously not in need of nutrition and who have four, six, nine children and three grocery carts....who make us wait while they debate whether they want to buy Hollywood Now or the Kardashian Baby Bump headliner page magazine.

    We are in an upper income group, so we cannot afford to buy a magazine to find out about what the new line-up of Jennifer Lopez's body parts looked like and where all they were strewn after the straight-down Lear Jet crash outside of Galeana.    WE ARE COVERED UP BY THESE PEOPLE...AND THEY ARE NOT GOING TO LEAVE AND THEN COME BACK AND PAY ANY FINE OR LEARN ENGLISH OR ANYTHING BESIDES EAT AND REPRODUCE.  They are not citizen material.   Not Mexican...not American....not Cuban....not Canadian.    Were they Anglos, they would be known as whitetrash. They sell their extra food stamp cards to buy hits and lottery tickets and 100 dollar fingernail jobs. 

 

 

(5)     Texas has begun a steady draw down from public assistance.  I would prefer to cancel all public assistance to-morrow.  But, if the United States Congress would worry more about  the productive and quit trying to feed the parasites we would begin to turn the corner on gangs, shootings, miracle babies, "health problems" of poverty, graffiti, and 90% of the social and cultural problems that are presently encountered in the United States.

 

PLEASE!   Stop trying to do things for us.  It is simply vote-buying with someone else's money.  If you are foolish enough to allow Schumer's Camel's nose to come inside the tent, you will be sleeping in the sand outside the tent, and his camels will be sleeping on your fine Persian rugs inside the tent within 18 months of the passage of the New Amnesty for Old Act.

 

I have spoken....again.

El Gringo Viejo

 

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MEMORIAL

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It has been 44 years since my time at war.  It is as warm a memory as if it were only yesterday.

 

Since then Memorial Day has had more meaning for me every year.  The spirit of this special dedication has become a part of every day. 

 

As a returning soldier when America did not welcome us home, this day was not a special day for many of us because of the hateful greetings received as we stepped back on our soil.  As time has changed that despicable period the pain has dissipated. Our soldiers are now respected by most Americans as a special class.  It has not been long since I was first told, “Thank you for your service” at which time I could not hold back a tear.  It was so therapeutic to hear those words after so long feeling unappreciated.  It is hoped that Americans will continue to show the returning vets the appreciation they deserve.

 

This year found me doing nothing but appreciating the quiet.  It is amazing how the stillness and quiet of doing nothing can be so refreshing.  There was a time there was no refuge from the noise and compulsion to keep moving.  There was no relief from the pain of seeing brothers lost and brothers forever disfigured not to mention the mental agony.  As a young man the rhetorical question was, “What could be worse than dying?”.  It did not take long to get the answer.

 

Now I am allowed, by the grace of God and the sacrifice of younger men and women, to do nothing more than remember.  There is some subliminal guilt that others did more and sacrificed more but we are told there is no measure for how much sacrifice is enough.  If one does as much as he or she is able there is no reason for guilt.  That, however, does not ameliorate the feeling “Why am I so fortunate?”.  Then there is this special day and the spirit that tells me why there should be no guilt and why there should be unconditional gratitude.

 

These Americans, from the time of the American Revolution until today, who left home to defend it knew what the cost could be but they go to fight because they know the objective is worth the risk and the loss is unacceptable.

 

Not to morally separate the veterans of wars from all other Americans, I have to say I feel a special kindred with them that can only be understood by those who have faced war in all its ugly gloriousness.  I am proud to have been one of all those through the history of this magnificent nation who offered to give all to protect us.  Not having given all, I can only rest now and savor the days I have left.

 

God bless our veterans and God bless America!
Zorro
veteran
United States Air Force
two tours
Republic of South Viet Nam
extra-territorial operations, electronics,
jet engines, and combat in recovery operations
decorated and honourably discharged
no pardon, no amnesty needed

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