I know....Drudge Fishing....but how can a person pass it up?

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Does she use the same plastic injection molds
that Nancy Pelosi uses?   Only her injection
molder knows for sure.  He can be reached
at ACME Manikin Factory, Inc. 

Mirror, mirror on the wall?

 

Mrs.  Clinton, one-time Director of the Office of Bimbo Eruptions, apparently uses the same facial nuclear reactor as Papal Advisor and Avionic Flight Critic Nancy Pelosi.

 

     "That is neither funny nor respectful, Gringo Viejo.   Mrs. Clinton is the greatest United States Senator in the history of the World.   Think of all the miles she flew as Secretary of State.   And, how can you sit around smearing this wonderful woman, after ALL she has done for women and children?"

 

     "Yes, you are right.   I must apologise and sit in the ashes and mourn my iniquity as I shred my clothes." 

El Gringo Viejo

 

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Lady Macbeth....played by Sarah
Siddons, in 1822 in London
  (please forgive previous mislabel)

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I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully

 execute the office of President of the United States,

 and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect,

 and defend the Constitution of the United States.

 

Just a second, Judge.  I've tried everything to get

rid of these damned spots.  Out! Out!  And after

all I have done for women and children!

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Solutions

Eeeeeek! Eeeeeeek !   There are more sexual abuse charges than ever in the military!!!   Eeeeek!   Eeeeeek!  What are we going to do???   Eeeeeek!

 

     Solution?   -   As of the 1st of July, 2013 females in the service will be removed from on or below decks, anchors aweigh service.  No women on board. No women on submarines.   No women in the foxholes or the forward combat zones.

   Since women are, generally smarter than men, they will be relegated to being doctors (including dentists and veterinarians), nurses, Military Police security analysts and investigators, and strategic/tactical data interpretation specialists.  They can, under certain conditions, volunteer for behind the lines or pre-engagement, intelligence gathering of the most critical kind.  Also, women will be encouraged to serve in the adjutancy as prosecutors and defence attorneys.

     Clerical, office administration, and other such support is better done by females anyway because of their better sense of order and cleanliness.

 

Results of the above?    Probably an 88% reduction in sexual assaults.   A very sharp reduction in the 17% of female sailors returning from deployment, and going ashore as a member of the Maritime Stork Society.   A 99% reduction in having to deal with the sight of a female veteran who is missing a leg, arm, or both.

 

     Also, a sharp reduction in the spending of one-third of the service time of the combat, and close combat support personnel having to watch re-runs of "GI Jane", and being taught how to show tolerance to left-handed, double reverse transgendered Lithuanians who have six Mongolistical vegetarian aquanautic sisters with webbed toe and finger syndrome.

 

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Internal Revenue Service:

 

     To begin, never trust anything with the word "service" in it, if it is associated with the central government.    All marxist and totalitarian governments come up with all kinds of meaningless terms that almost  mean exactly the opposite of what their intent and effect is.   "Social Security Administration"....that is a good one.   "Medicare".....and of course, The "Affordable Care Act".....aka the Obama Socialised Medicine Initiative.

 

     This Service must be essentially cancelled, obliterated, shut-down more than totally, disbanded, and the graves of the grandmothers burned.

 

     BUT!   BUT!   EeeeeeeeK!   Eeeeeeeek!   What about the unemployment?  What will all those people working for the IRS do....THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!!?    What about H and R Block?   What will all the "tax preparation advisors" do????    The acountants???   The CPA's....????   Oh!! The Humanity......!!!!!!!

 

     They can find something else to do, like keeping books and doing accounting work for the businesses that will have an explosion of activity due to the fact that said businesses will be un-leashed to perform economic activity not seen since the time  of Ronald Reagan.  Standard accounting would be more fun as well, instead of all the defensive accounting and nail-biting we presently suffer.

 

Just a few thoughts.  We appreciate your time and patience, always.

El Gringo Viejo

 

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Whales Doing Belly-Flop Whoppers!!

"I first learned about this....after I woke up after having been in a deep sleep for the past forty years."

 

 

      Bill Clinton testifies one day in front of the silly 9-11 Commission.  Some had thought that William Jefferson Blythe might be called to account because he had not dealt with Al Qaeda in any serious way.  He had had three opportunities to "take out" Usama bin Laden, and was found to be either yellow or AWOL in each case.   No questions were asked about that matter.

 

     Blythe-Clinton was allowed, on the other hand, to pontificate and self-congratulate to the point of stultifying  boredom.   He pointed out that it was his administration that put into place the program known as "Eagle's Talon" all along the borders, which was designed to watch for and intercept them-there funny-looking little Arabs tryin' to sneak in with their bombs.   Billy Jeff howled at the moon about how his program was so successful because he had all but personally apprehended the fellow who was heading to the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) with the intent of blowing up planes and/or facilities.

     But because of Billy Jeff, that-there funny-looking little Arab fellow was captured.   And not a soul on the panel said a word.   It was like (Sir Edmund) Hillary shrieking, "What difference does it make?"  She should have been quickly instructed, "Listen bat-breath, it is important to the people who care about who, what, why, where, and how something happens to American personnel deployed in areas of increased risk.  "Why did you lie to the parents on the tarmac, saying that you were going to put that video-maker in jail for having provoked all that violence?"

 

     So many liars...chronic, pathological liars....where do we start, or end?   But to return to Billy Jeff, he failed to mention that his "Eagle's Talon" program was set into place 4 months after the incident when that funny-looking little Arab had been detained and arrested by a female border guard at the crossing point between Canada and the United States.   She moved on a hunch because of the deportment of the subject....acting nervous...which led to an examination of his automobile's boot.

     But Billy Jeff declared in front of the whole world and his mother's ghost that ''his" program, Eagle's Talon, had been the key to the capture of this deranged terrorist.   And not one panellist would press the point.

 

 

 

     Then we have Eric Holder, who is a proud marxist and a certifiable, pathological, chronic liar declaring that he had never heard of the Fast and Furious Program until a few weeks (weasel term alert) before the time of his being questioned before a Congressional inquiry.    Later, once the documents had been pried out of the Department of Justice with a solar- powered crowbar,  Eric Holder had to admit that he had actually been involved in the planning and implementation of Fast and Furious many, many months before.

     Not to be outdone, Father Obamaham told UNIVISION that Fast and Furious was a program that George Bush had foisted onto the Continent of North America, and further, that Eric Holder....that great legal mind and administrator....had actually closed it down.   Can you hear the seismic KAH - PLOOSH of the 400,000-tonne Great Blue Whale doing a back-flop into the Sea of Cortez, and causing a Tsunami from Mazatlan to Tucson?

 

Fact?   Fact is that the program "Wide Receiver" was put into place by the Bush Administration.   The program funnelled certain semi-automatic weapons through a capillary system of informant/providers who had worked well with American authorities in the past.  These firearms would wind up in the hands of middle and upper level cartel people, and reliable authorities on both sides of the international boundary would have more and better information about the who and where of certain personalities of interest.

    It worked well....closely co-ordinated with the Mexican Army...until such time that the cartel people figured out that the guns were "chipped", and were being monitored.   The Mexican Army informed their counterparts in the American Department of Justice, and the programme was dropped overnight.  No further transfers were made, and human assets were moved around to avoid unnecessary exposure to some of the most hideous, soul-less people on the planet.

 

    The difference between "Wide Receiver (Bush)"  and "Fast and Furious (Obama/Holder)" programs  is that Bush's program was aimed at finding and apprehending or eliminating cartel people, while Obama's program was aimed at framing legitimate gun-dealers and destroying them along with the concept of private firearm ownership in America.   That objective, as stated by El Gringo Viejo, is not something that the rightwing crazies dreamed up one day.   It is the actual reason, as divulged by people who were involved with  the "Fast and Furious" idiocy.   There was no concern about finding out who had the guns, only that they came from gun stores in Arizona and that they would be used in the killing of Mexican and American military, police, and civilians (preferably women and children).

     A cry would be raised against the "merchants of death", bills would be introduced and, zappo....stroke of a pen....law of the land.   Turn in your firearms or head for the Gulag.   The "gun stores" are closed,  forever.

     The American press?   Silent.  The concern by the low-information, low-intelligence voters?  None.

 

      Blatant lie.  Blatant complicity by the press.  Almost 500 now, dead in Mexico with Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives distributed weaponry over a two year period.   Remember, we only count the Mexican soldiers, Naval Infantrymen, honest to semi-honest cops, and the civilians caught in the crossfire between cartel squads who spray without discretion.

Most of the casualties were in the northwestern part of Mexico, although others were in the west....near Guadalajara.  At least two were American civilian police personnel, killed in Arizona.  Fast and Furious, indeed.

 

     These are the people who say it is Rush Limbaugh's fault that Miss Flukie cannot have my daughter and granddaughters pay for her oral contraceptives.  And...it is George Bush's fault that a programme that he did not establish...was horribly evil of motive....was the Death of hundreds of innocents....was abolished by Eric Holder and his thugs.   It must have been true....because Barack Hussein Obama said so in front of a television audience numbering several million during the 2012 Presidential campaign.     If Bush is mistaken, then that is a lie.   If Obama lies, then it is the truth.  The new definition of journalism.

 

El Gringo Viejo

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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