Small Calamity

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     Our little mud hut in the middle of nowhere has the value of about 1/1000th of my children and my better three/quarters.   So, the OROGs know that it is quite an important fixture in my life and in the patrimony of the family.  So, last night, we noted on the long-distance radar out of Brownsville (yes - it barely reaches to that point where the Quinta rests in front of the Sierra Madre) that moderately heavy to very heavy rains had continued to fall there for almost twenty-four hours.    The estimate of total rainfall seems to be in the neighbourhood of 10 - 12 inches.  We shall know more about the specific amount later.

 

     In any regard, two of the beams that support the roof/ceiling in the parlour seem to have been burned, where they are exposed to the exterior of the rear of the house, due to a bit of "climbing lightning" as it is said in the area.  That is lightning that hits a tree and then leaps to the lip of a house.   The two beams will need to be reworked and reinforced with lengths of 2 X 10s of equivalent value....about three feet for each....and bolted onto the "good parts" that remain in the interior of the house.  It is a pain in the neck, but the result is essentially an even stronger  than strong support for the roof and ceiling.   It is even more important because the area where the beams join the east wall is also adjacent to the chimney.  It is mandatory to maintain  absolute stability there.

 

     We have no real structural damage, just the injury that causes a geezer the same kind of anguish as when his child falls off his bicycle and breaks his fingers in a hideous fashion....or when his daughter is lying in bed with a burning fever from the Dengue...and having no way to pass the suffering from her to me.

 

    Anyway, there we are.  We have had to defer from making observations about the political and cultural situation due to this moderately important emergency.   We appreciate your indulgence.

 

El Gringo Viejo

 

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Observations and Lamentations

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     To Begin:   Benghazi scandal, Fast and Furious scandal, Internal Revenue Service scandal, Obama Socialised Medicine Offensive mendacities, Two-plane vacations scandal, Auntie Zietuni and Uncle Omar scandal.   Now El Gringo Viejo's blood pressure is up to a functional level.

    We bear witness now to the morphing of the Zimmerman-Hindenburg phenomena  into the Stand Your Ground Crisis.....which will soon morph into the Hindenburg-Disarm Security Guards Crisis.   Then we shall learn that there are 40,000,000 people who still  do not have free health insurance because the wealthy are not paying their fair share.  Another Crisis.

     It will be time to remind people that there are a lot of fully funded pension plans that are  "just sitting there", not doing anything in terms of feeding minority children.    It will require "educating" the public that it would only be fair to take just one or two per cent of that free money that nobody is using right now in order to provide post - infant Head Start for those who are forced to remain in the shadows and on the edge of American society due to historical patterns of exploitation and discrimination.   After all,  because of the lower birth rates, it will only cost one or two billion dollars to provide every minority child in America the basic three meals per day.

     Any notion that there could be any thought or possibility of graft or corruption associated with such a program is a typical charge of racists who are forever poised to leap into the path of progress that might possibly help those who have suffered the most oppression at the hands of the American War for Profit for the Rich machine.

     Just one or two  per cent for the good of many....given by few who have so much.   Is this a democracy or is it a continuation of the plantation?   After all, democracy means, in its truest sense, that we all have the same share...none benefitting either more or less from the common efforts of all.   It is our calling from our religion and our own sense of fair play.

     So, after all this other stuff quiets down....perhaps we can get on with the Crise de Jour.....making full use of the money that is just laying around.

 

 

      Next, we shall need to establish Courts of Social Arbitration.   People who are derived from groups that have been historically exploited and discriminated against have long needed courts composed of judgement panels of arbiters drawn from similarly exploited and discriminated against persons.   The courts could run on their own fines, thereby costing the Central Government little or nothing.

     These courts could be used to set aside convictions in the traditional, biased, and privileged-class protective tribunals that historically have protected the interests of the privileged to the detriment of the interests of the exploited.  They could also serve as civil courts that would settle disputes, with a special emphasis on empathetic treatment to and for the historically oppressed.

 

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     While all of the above is preposterous, please be aware that it is also the plan and purpose of the "progressive" elements who are found in all manners of elliptical orbit around the White House and the Administration, the Universities, the "Progressive" movement, and the general leftist milieu in America.   It is probable that five of every six people involved in what is known as "journalism" in these days could read the above gibberish and consider it reasonable.

 

      Please remember that Eric Holder cannot find out anything concerning the Fast and Furious debacle.   There is some oblique....very hard to focus...issue about a subordinate who might not have "fully informed" somebody, and who is punished by being promoted to a different desk....changing from Phoenix to Washington, D.C.  and at a higher pay grade.   But somehow that does not seem to be much of a punishment for indirectly managing to kill 400 - 500 Mexicans and several Americans, including members of the constabulary.

    And, one knows that if it is necessary to say on national Spanish-language television during the 2012 Presidential campaign that the program was started by George Bush and Eric Holder shut it down....we are dealing with the lowest of the lowest mendacious slime....when we listen to the present incumbent President speak.

      Allow us once again to level the accurate charge that the Fast and Furious program was expressly and purposely designed and implemented to cause killings by arms bought in American gun stores....thereby justifying a complete and permanent shutdown and cessation of the existence of  retail firearms and ammunition facilities in the United States of America.   It was the motivation of the attack on Mount Carmel in 1993...as a "head of John the Baptist" for Hillary Clinton....and it was the intention of the Holder DoJ in 2009, when the Fast and Furious plan was hatched by the anti-firearm Nazis.  Elimination of the holding of private firearms in America by Americans is one of the main Sacred Cows that the progressives must destroy.

 

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       No-growth economy, wage-deterioration, regulation avalanche, pushing environmental rules that are out-of-date and irrelevant, gestapo-like action by the internal Revenue Service, National Security Agency, and other groups behind the veil of whatever Wizard of Iz or Oz or Uz or Az , massive deficits that are sure to destroy the currency someday soon....has become the meaning of Hope and Change

     It is our certain conclusion that all of it is purposeful.  The desire of Obama's controllers...the Soros people and the Nihilists and Anarchists and Socialists....is to destroy America.  They hate anything founded upon the Rock of Yahweh.   It is atheist Jews hating practising Jews.   It is people taking over churches to impose social missions instead of social service...and to impose divisiveness when the religion is supposed to be Common...as in the original meaning of Book of Common Prayer....services for Prince and Pauper alike.

     Why have we left these people to destroy the culture and our grandchildren's chances to dream of greater conquests?

 

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     And finally, Stand Your Ground and concealed carry.   El Gringo Viejo really does know of a personal story, and from not so long ago.   It happened in Texas, where everything is supposed to be perfect, but sometimes not so much.   Like the day a fellow was driving back to his place after doing some necessaries in town.  Before arriving at his place, a well-known bully - drunk - hothead came barrelling down the two lane country road...invaded the contrary lane, and ran our fellow off the road.   Texas has good rural roads with wide shoulders, but leaving the pavement at 45 or 50 miles per hour is going to be an adventure by any measure.

     Our friend gets out of his vehicle and while trying to collect himself, he is confronted roughly by the bully, who for no reasonable reason has come back to cause more problems.   It is apparent that the bully is drunk, no import given to the morning hour, and he is spoiling for a fight.  He pushes our friend down onto the ground....so that the image is clear....it is like a mean Larry the Cable Guy, about 35 years old, about 6' 3'' and 260 pounds pushing down our guy who is a tad over 6 feet and about 170 pounds and a little over 60 years old.    Our guy is a veteran, and has a couple of issues left over from Viet Nam in terms of physical limitations....not much...but some.

     The Cable Guy's mean bigger brother is on top of our guy in an instant.  Drunk, big, mean....does not mean clumsy...and he begins to try to whale onto our friend.   Our guy fends off most of the badly placed punches, but some land.   The weight differential becomes an issue and the issue arrives at those critical 3 to 5 seconds.

    "Am I going to lay here and let him turn me into a corpse or a vegetative organ donor or do I kill the s.o.b."   Our fellow is a combat veteran...he has taken life indirectly and even directly, but it really is not his favourite activity.   Right now, however, the sand is running through the hourglass fairly quickly.   One reason that he has not panicked is because he has his 40 calibre just coming out of its holster.   Now it is a matter of 1 to 3 seconds.

 

    Suddenly another big bruiser comes up and grabs the Cable Guy's brother, "Jake, you dumbass...what in the Hell are you doin'?   You know you're on probation and the judge is going to hang you up by your private parts, boy!" and the Big Bruiser double-arm lifts the Cable Guy's brother up and pushes him down on the ground.

    Our friend goes and stands over the Cable Guy's brother, who seems stunned that he met the ground in such an unceremonious manner.   He releases the hammer back down from the cocked position, while looking the bully in the eye.   The bully's friend says, "You dumbass, you missed your reserved seat in Hell by one trigger  pull.   You better thank your lucky whatever that it was him and not someone else....because Hell, I would have killed you for that trick you just pulled off."

 

    Our guy, still glaring at the Cable Guy's brother, re-holstered, and said, "Last warning."   and then he got back in his ride and continued home.   For a good while after that, the Cable Guy's brother would cross the street so as not to have to pass by our guy.  And then...one day...the Cable Guy's brother decided to run over someone with his pickup, more or less intentionally.  And that gave him a whole heap of trouble.   Many years over in the Huntsville, Texas area, as a guest of the DOC, revocation of probation which added on a few more years....and all those nine yards of tribulation brought on by a life run by the demons of the soul.

     Had worse come to worse, on that earlier day out on the two-lane, our new friend would have had a fighting chance to take his cat-food back to the ranch house...along with his wife's medicines....and the other little things that a small ranch always seems to need.   And he still uses his concealed carry permit....everywhere he goes.

 

(a very substantially true story....identities are purposefully deleted)

 

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Thank you all for having accompanied us during our Observations and Lamentations.  We have received various comments during the last couple of days and we appreciate each and every one.  We urge that the OROG read the very brief comments of The Anglican Curmudgeon, and share his own lamentations about the nature of the attack upon the Soul of America...a very short and pointed read.

 

El Gringo Viejo

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State Department Re-issues Travel Warnings for Tamaulipas

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Central Government gone wild:

 

 

     This is not an advertisement, nor is it a solicitation for business.    Thankfully, our little business is so small that we really would have a hard time handling even the smallest increase in activity.   We are simply using this opportunity to point out the uselessness of approximately 78% of the activity of the Central Government in Washington, D.C.

 

     The Consul General of the United States State Department in Matamoros, Tamaulipas issued a general travel warning, advising Americans not to travel to the State of Tamaulipas due to the wave of car-jackings, murders, kidnappings, and assaults along with the general violence associated with contests between various organised criminal elements.

      The news release also declared that the number of Americans killed during the past year in Mexico had gone down from 79 to  43, and that almost all those killings had resulted from the Americans being involved in the drug trafficking business.   Then the news release declares that the overall situation is much improved since the peak of the cartel activity in 2011.

 

     It was like something out of the TWILIGHT ZONE:   A cut-and-paste warning, word-for-word taken from previous warnings (some over 4 years old)  that were equally useless because of failure in terms of precision, the contradictory information, and other "news" that ran counter to what a person who lives in the middle of the situation knows to be true.     It's just wrong....and useless.

 

     It was such a spooky press release that El Gringo Viejo had to review the normal "un-official" sources of information about the drug and cartel violence.   Perhaps he was head-in-the-sanding....perhaps he was being Pollyanna....perhaps his rose-coloured contact lenses had become permanently attached to the iris.    Check...check...check.  Nope.   The sites that used to shovel up fresh guts and beheadings are pretty much reduced to being police blotter sites, covering domestic violence, predatory step-fathers, and shoot-outs between gangs whose oldest members are less than 15 years of age.   And, even those stories have seemed to calm into the 1975 - 1980 era of intensity.

 

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AND THEN:

 

      Last night we had the confirmation of the detention and arrest of a major, or should we say, THE major figure still standing from within the ZETA Cartel.

CBS NEWS/ July 15, 2013, 7:21 PM (cited source)

Mexican military nabs alleged Zetas drug lord Miguel Angel Trevino Morales

 

Updated at 10:28 p.m.

A man said to be one of Mexico's most wanted drug lords has been captured: Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, also known as "Z-40."

Trevino Morales, alleged leader of the brutal Los Zetas cartel, was caught Sunday by Mexican Marines in a town called Anahuac near the border of Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon states, authorities say.

In a press conference, officials said no shots were fired and three men were arrested with 2 million U.S. dollars in cash, three guns and multiple rounds. It was not clear what the precise roles of the two other suspects were, but Eduardo Sanchez Hernandez, Mexico's Assistant Secretary of Media and Security, said he believes one was in charge of finances and the other was a bodyguard. He did not answer when asked what role U.S. agencies played in capture.

The U.S. State Department had offered a $5 million reward for Trevino Morales.

The Zetas cartel is among Mexico's most violent drug organizations, notorious for civilian killings and beheadings. Is leaders ordered the killing of 72 undocumented immigrants in 2010 in what is known as the San Fernando massacre. More recently in May, the Mexican army said their leaders ordered underlings to leave 49 mutilated bodies in a northern Mexico town square.

Trevino Morales' brother, Jose, was recently sentenced to 20 years in prison in Texas for using a racetrack to hide illegal drug profits for his brothers.

Las Zetas is one of eight major, rival drug cartels involved in an ongoing conflict for regional control.

A horse ranch in Oklahoma was raided in June under suspicions it also hosted a money-laundering operation for Miguel Angel Trevino Morales.

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Views of Anahuac - a downtown park

   The ones who captured him were elements of the Mexican Naval Infantry.   The take-down was not in Nuevo Laredo, but rather the city of Anahuac, Nuevo Leon which is found to the south, but not too far distant from the Laredos that straddle the Rio Grande.    Trevin~o - Morales is thought to have been born in Dallas, Texas although that data is in dispute.  He was never actually a regular Army soldier in Mexico.  He served a stint in the draft of about six months.   He was never one of the Fort Bragg graduates one associates with the high-ranking sergeants trained in special operations and night-parachute techniques and so forth....those original 27 or so who deserted and sold their services  (committed treason) to the Cartel del Golfo as "security engineers".   All of those have been killed or, for those few who have survived, are in Mexican or American prisons.

     The Naval Infantry, working with several different sources of information, including civilian informants in the locale, established a roadblock ambush on a rural road that locals said he had been using during the hours of darkness, especially the "madrugada" (early morning, pre-dawn hours).



 Main Parish Church
 of Anahuac

     Beyond the roadblock ambush, the Naval Infantry also brought in armed helicopters, and FLIR - capacitated equipment.   The contingent on the ground numbered about 60 infantry, under the command of a naval grade captain, and they received what was thought to be a "convoy" but what turned out to be one vehicle only.   Three men and a driver.  Trevin~o - Morales, his body-guard, his accountant, and the driver all surrendered without firing a shot, although they were heavily armed. It is not known as of yet if any of the weapons retrieved were "Fast and Furious" in origin, but such a thing would be unlikely.
     Word to the wise:   It is almost impossible to escape Forward Looking InfraRed imaging, especially when you are the only vehicle and the only four guys within thirty miles radius who are not wearing Naval Infantry camouflage.   And when you have 50 automatic rifles being held by fellows who really, really do know how to use them...being pointed in your abdominal regions, just put your hands up in the air, very slowly.    And in this same vein, this particular fellow of interest was involved with his brother, in Oklahoma, with the trading of fine thoroughbred horses.   His brother, and several of his brother's friends are making licence plates since about a year ago, and several million dollars worth of horses, land, and fixtures were confiscated, simultaneous to the career-change that the race-horse magnates (now  cockroaches) had invested.

 

      Any thought that this is just a blip and another Cartel will move in, and/or the "management" of this Cartel will just replace the leader with another, I think is incorrect.   It is my observation that each major blow done by the Mexican military and/or police agencies has resulted in less and less competent operation of the remaining cartel activity.   Also, it has resulted in more intermittent and less intense nefariousness in general....whether it be shake downs, silver-0r-lead alternatives for police and other officials, extortion (ie; waiting outside the schools to take 1/3 or more of the teachers' pay on payday), murders, reprisals, and the movement of marijuana and narcotics.

     So, not only is El Gringo Viejo confused about the latest warning from the State Department...which also included an all clear notice for various States in Mexico previously carrying warnings....but he is also certain that this blow will reduce the activity by another 3%.   And it will free up military assets to go into other areas.   Step by step.   Tick, tock, tick, tock.

 

More later.

El Gringo Viejo

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El Zorro's and El Gringo Viejo's Secret Confederates forward a message sent by Yankee sympathisers.

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    The following communique was sent from a secret ranch north of San Antonio de Bexar, Republic of Texas.   It originated from the pen of a Yankee woman.  She makes sense.  She sent it to our friends and fellow agents who own the aforementioned ranch.  The article can be found in Opinion magazine.   They  passed it ahead to us, as fellow agents of the resistance to the National Socialist Agenda as represented in the form of the Obama Socialised Medicine Initiative - 2010.

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Posted By Betsy McCaughey On 8:03 PM 07/12/2013 In Opinion
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     The Obama administration disguised last week’s edict delaying the Affordable Care Act’s employer mandate as administrative tweaking. White House advisor Valerie Jarrett told reporters the impact would be miniscule, because 95 percent of employers subject to the mandate already provide coverage. Don’t be fooled by that figure. The delay could add over $60 billion to the cost of Obamacare in 2014 alone, affect 10 million workers, and double enrollment on the exchanges.
 

     Few bills debated in Congress affect that many people or cost that much. The delay will cost more than the annual budget for Medicare Part D prescription drug program. Shockingly, the administration failed to consult Congress or provide an iota of candor about why the delay was necessary.
 

     Delaying the employer mandate was likely a last ditch maneuver to avert an under-enrollment crisis on the health exchanges. Success depends on enrolling young, healthy adults and families whose minimal health needs will offset the cost of the sick and middle aged, a process scheduled to begin on October 1. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius begged the NBA and the NFL to coax their fans into signing up for exchange plans.
 

     But the NBA and NFL refused Sebelius’s request. Just days later, the administration suddenly postponed the employer mandate – a ploy to compel uninsured workers to sign up on the exchanges. According to the Employee Benefits Research Institute, there are 6.9 million uninsured full-time workers whose employers would have had to start providing coverage on January 1. 2014 if the mandate had not been delayed. These 6.9 million workers will have to enroll in exchange plans or pay a penalty to the IRS.
 

Betsy (Ross) McCaughey - R
Cultural and political commentator
and Lieutenant Governor of New York
1995 - 1998
 

 

      The same goes for 3.1 million workers currently covered by mini-med plans (that have annual or lifetime caps on benefits.) These plans are allowed under waivers granted from the administration, but the waivers expire January 1, 2014.
 

     All in all, the administration’s edict puts 10 million workers between a rock and hard place. Sign up for an exchange plan, or pay a penalty to the IRS for not being insured. The average single man earning $29,000 a year before tax will get some subsidy but will still have to write a check every month for roughly $137. That’s for the cheapest plan with a $5,000 deductible. It’s a raw deal, and many single people will opt for the $95 penalty instead.
 

     On the other hand, uninsured workers with dependents are likely to enroll in an exchange plan. Last February the IRS ruled that the dependents of any worker offered affordable on-the-job coverage are ineligible for coverage from the subsidized exchanges. That left millions of spouses and children without taxpayer-funded coverage. With the employer mandate delayed, they will be eligible.

      If half of these 10 million workers go to the exchange and enroll with their spouses and dependent children, the cost to taxpayers will be a staggering $52 billion the first year, even after subtracting the $95 per-adult penalty the other half will pay. (The average subsidy will be $5,290 according to the Congressional Budget Office.) Add to that the $10 billion in foregone penalties the CBO had predicted the employer mandate would yield the first year, and the cost of delaying the employer mandate one year could total $62 billion. With no Congressional approval.


 

But there’s more:
 

     On Friday, the Obama administration quietly released final rules that “eligibility” for exchange subsidies will not be verified by checking an applicant’s income through employer information or tax data. All comers welcome. In California, the SEIU, the AFL-CIO and the NAACP are already conducting door to door canvassing, phone banks and robocalls to encourage people to sign up for exchange plans. And the state  (National Socialist Central Government - comment added by El Gringo Viejo) has mandated that voter registration will be integrated into the process.

     Obamacare imposes an employer mandate beginning on January 1, 2014. Only Congress has the constitutional authority to change that date. We the People must not allow the administration to defy the Constitution, increase the cost of Obamacare by at least $62 billion next year alone, and herd millions of people into taxpayer funded health plans whether they are eligible or not.


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Betsy (Ross) McCaughey is a former Lt. Governor of New York and author of Beating Obamacare.

 

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Enough Really Never Is Enough

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     To start, and as an aside to Rush, there really is such a thing as "white Hispanic".  Although El Gringo Viejo is desperately tired of  the use of the term ''Hispanic''....he will play at the edge of the water concerning the issue.   For a label that was meant  by the Latin-speaking Romans only to define the outer reaches of the Mediterranean Sea....towards where the sun sets....the West Lands (Hispania)....it has received a lot of use by people who are (1) ignorant (2) want to sound "with it" and "smart" and (3) do not want to use that horrid dirty word, ''Mexican" and/or who don't really know why they are saying the word "hispanic'.   Although Rush is an intelligent fellow, and a cousin of ours, he does come from Cape Giradeau, Missouri.

     We had a client many years back who was as hard headed as a dried cow's skull.  But that is neither here nor there.   While in Mexico City during one spring visit, we were making the rounds with various businesses with whom we had made appointments.    It happened to be Ash Wednesday.   As we received some ranking executives from a group involved in up-grading their telephonic switching equipment for a large banking concern, my Cape Giradeau client suddenly rose with his handkerchief and wiped the blackish grey stain off of the Mexican exccutive's forehead.   I lurched forward, too late, then settled back down to apologise for my client.

 

     The executive seemed bemused and amused in a way, laughing a bit. " I appreciate your concern.   No problem, no problem" he assured.   While at the same time, my client was asking, "What's wrong?''

 

     It was my task to also say, "It really is no problem.  But to-day is Ash Wednesday, and a lot of folks go to the churches at some time or another to receive their ashes."

 

    We went to quickly explain that the priests receive parishioners and others from among the Faithful, during an all day, all night affair at the communion rail and place a Cross of Ashes on the foreheads of those people.  The ashes are made from the contributed small palm Crosses from the year before that celebrate the arrival of the Nazarene into Jerusalem during the celebration of what is known as Palm Sunday.   Ashes can be augmented by unused, or overproduced Palm Sunday palm crosses or any palm frond that is respectfully burned for the purpose of making Ash Wednesday ashes.

 

     But, instead of saying "Oh, how foolish of me!"  or "Please forgive me!  I forgot what date it is!" or something similar, the businessman suggested that it was kind of a dumb thing to do....to walk around with ashes on the forehead during business hours.

 

    This is said in no wise to be contemptuous or to presume in my own superior intellect.   It is just the nature of things.  Rush is a relative of a direct, although distant, nature.  He is not a bad person....nor was the businessman from Rush's home town a bad person.   But it is a bit surprising that a person who lives in a traditional town in southeasternmost Missouri, that surely has Roman Catholic, Episcopal, Presbyterian, and Methodist churches, would not know about the "receiving of the ashes" tradition still practiced by Apostolic Churches.

 

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    So, and quickly, Rush says the term "White Hispanic"...as if he is going to guffaw and break out into belly laughter....and in so doing paints himself into a corner of being the fool that his detractors hope or would wish him to be.  He is no fool, but he is woefully ignorant of ethnic and racial compositions of all God's children.  But, the fact is that Zimmermann is 13/16ths Caucasian.  The remaining 3/16ths is dividing between people of a mulatto background (European / Black African) and people native to Peru....perhaps Quiche or some associative of the Incan grouping.   One of his grandmothers carries the Caucasian, Black African, and AmerIndian chromosomes simultaneously.

     Most white Southerners have Cherokee, Creek, and/or Choctaw blood line injected into their genealogy.....as do most Black Southerners who can trace their presence in the United States to a time before the 1850s.   We have gone through this several times before, and we would really like for Rush and the media, including FOXNews to "get it right" finally.    In Texas, the Latino group whose members trace all sides of its ancestry to before 1900 in Texas is probably almost entirely 75% to 100% of white racial composition.

 

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     We tire of this.  We also know that we cannot fight perception, because in the popular culture, perception is reality.  The Kardashians are real although they are false.  But then again, they are also white even if they are Armenian.  And furthermore, being Armenian does not make them white trash, but being white trash does make them white trash.

 

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     Finally, the obsession on the part of the media....both the obsolete media and FOXNews, as well as the blogosphere and other alternative media....has been disheartening at the least.  This issue of the killing of Trayvon Martin has been ridden hard and stabled sweaty.  It does not serve any good for the dead boy.   It does not serve any good for the man who shot him. 

 

     Barack Hussein Obama calls for a way to honour Treyvon Martin by hauling out the gun issue again.  Guns, guns, guns.   You see, says the President, a little louder than subliminally, racism is bad and Trayvon looks like "my son".   But the way to honour Trayvon is to do something about all this gun violence.   It's time for all the Crackers to turn in their guns.

      The boy who looks like Barack Obama's son is due no honours.   He was a thug.   He had a horrible record of drug dealing on campus, stealing and selling stolen property, unwarranted aggression, not to mention almost continuous truancy.   He was on an extended suspension during the time of his death.    And with the greatest strangeness, the idea that he is out at night walking back to .....the apartment of the "girlfriend" of his father...speaks volumes.

     This boy's mother did not take him in.   This boy's father did not seem to have room for him.   He winds up with the "main squeeze"  of the moment of the father.   The father and the mother are incensed that no one would charge the cracker with murder for killing this nice boy, but neither the mother nor the father would take him in or make serious allowance in their lives to shelter him during a time of duress for their own son.   The boy's apparent good female friend is a dunce of extremely limited intellectual reach or depth.  Her main reason for being is apparently to be a lump.   And her inspiration is the vomit that pours out of hip-hop and rap music sources.  That she could be used as a lead witness in any case up to and including the establishment of the place where ear-wax is found would be a wonder.

 

     The case was wholly without merit.  There was no murder.  It was clearly the case of a boy beating up a man who did not know how to fight.  The beating rose to the point where the man could reasonably assume that he was going to soon have his brain splattered onto a concrete platter.   Ironically, if Zimmerman were actually a tougher fellow, Treyvon would be alive to-day.  But Zimmerman did not know how to fight, was not a particularly aggressive fellow and therefore wound up being in the position of having to take the ultimate measure in order to save his own life.

     Knowing the nature of bullies and thugs from long experience, it is a certainty that Trayvon....a racist, undisciplined, bully, and certifiable hellion and criminal....could and would have pounded Zimmerman's head flat.  Zimmerman would have wound up as, at worst, a dead man or, at best, as an organ donor and then a dead man.

 

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     It is necessary to observe that another thug, wormy political operative, and generally disgusting cancer within the central government, Eric Holder, now contemplates filing ''civil rights" charges against Mr. Zimmerman.   The same fellow who cannot find out anything about the "Fast and Furious" mess, but who promotes the guilty parties within the ATF to higher positions as a form of "punishment", can move very, very quickly when the crackers let off another cracker for killing an innocent young product of the liberal/progressives' Brave New World brand of social development.

     He threatens to re-open the Trayvon Martin case as a case of deprivation of civil rights....which is a hard case to make when charging a civilian....especially a 'legally armed" civilian.   But such cases are a hallmark of show-trial dictatorships.   Whether National Socialist as under Hitler or Bolshevik as under Stalin or  Popular Socialist as under Fidel, Raul, and Mao, show trials serve to warn the common slobs about how they are supposed to line up and be afraid.

     Sharpton...what is there to say?  What job would this Black Klanner have if he did not have white people to hate and blame for everything from  hangnails to halitosis and black people to hate when he finds out that they eschew his construct of the Brave New Plantation.   Jesse Jackson?   What can be said when he is seen lamenting that Treyvon lost his case because he did not have a jury of his peers.   I mean, there is truly no way El Gringo Viejo can rise to the level necessary to comment upon such profundity.

 

     Perhaps Sharpton and Jackson can someday join the four named pilots of the Asiana Airlines Boing 777 that made the tail-first landing in San Francisco the other day.  Perhaps they all can join the presidents of Rushmore some day.  More later.

 

El Gringo Viejo

 

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Thirty-five per cent favour Re-establishing the Republic of Texas

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   Most OROGs know that El Gringo Viejo has become more involved with the movement that would amicably disassociate Texas from the American Union, now that it is established that the value in that Union of marriage, the currency, the bond of truth, local control, the right of self defence, of possession of one's effects and property is totally discounted.    As the American Union, and its central government has moved deeper and deeper into the murkiness of organic law, it has left the citizens of that Union increasingly exposed to capricious harassment by that central government.

     The ever-increasing scope of services, compliances, rules, prohibitions, regulations, and useless meddling in the most minute daily issues facing the common citizen has become burdensome to an extreme.   We are faced now with the imposition of a nationalised health scheme so oppressive that even the people who foisted it upon the American Union do not want to participate in that debacle.   We have been treated to the spectacle of the most highly placed elected Democrat in the lower house of the United States Congress actually saying that ...."We have to pass it (the Obama Socialised Medicine Initiative empowering legislation) in order to find out what's in it."  ...followed by a wide-eyed nodding as if there would follow thunderous applause because of Her Facelift's profundity.   Citizens have a right, certainly, to something better from a Speaker of the House of Representatives.

 

     The events, as in the case of the grievances against King George III and the British Parliament during the 1770s and the grievances against Presidents Bustamante and Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna and the Mexican Congress in the 1820s and 1830s were more than similar.    In many ways, the offenses against the citizenry during these days are more grievous, due to the fact that they are so insidious.  Inch by inch, day by day, deception and intrusion, unpaid and forced central government mandates support people and programs that are designed to foster sloth and dependency.

 

    Some may cry, "Peace, Peace".

 

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   THE FOLLOWING MATERIAL IS FROM THE TEXAS NATIONALIST MOVEMENT:   

 

It is no secret that the Texas Nationalist Movement is "people focused". It is evident in our never-ending quest to connect with other Texans who are seeking independence and to convince those who are still "on the fence". It is why we have meetings all over Texas every week, spend an overwhelming amount of our budget on outreach and are always asking people to join the organization.

Most folks get it. Some don't.

At the heart of any plan to achieve the mission of the Texas National Movement must be the people. This is articulated in Article 1 Section 2 of the Texas Constitution and is scientifically proven. A "critical mass" of Texas Nationalists must be reached to achieve the "tipping point".

The Tipping Point

Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found that when just 10 percent of the population holds an unshakable belief, their belief will always be adopted by the majority of the society. The scientists, who are members of the Social Cognitive Networks Academic Research Center (SCNARC) at Rensselaer, used computational and analytical methods to discover the tipping point where a minority belief becomes the majority opinion. The finding has implications for the study and influence of societal interactions ranging from the spread of innovations to the movement of political ideals.

“When the number of committed opinion holders is below 10 percent, there is no visible progress in the spread of ideas. It would literally take the amount of time comparable to the age of the universe for this size group to reach the majority,” said SCNARC Director Boleslaw Szymanski, the Claire and Roland Schmitt Distinguished Professor at Rensselaer. “Once that number grows above 10 percent, the idea spreads like flame.”

There are two (2) important factors in the RPI research.   "Unshakable belief" 10% of population

By applying the standards set forth by RPI, we can firmly establish the necessary actions required to accomplish our mission.

The measure of the TNM's progress to the "tipping point" is in people. But it's not just any people. It is measured in people of "unshakable belief".

 

un·shak·a·ble  /ˌənˈSHākəbəl/ Adjective:

1.(of a belief, feeling, or opinion) Strongly felt and unable to be changed:

2.Unable to be disputed or questioned.

For us, these are people that are firm in the mission, vision and values of Texas Nationalism. They can articulate the mission, vision and values and live them daily. They are committed to the cause and cannot be discouraged. In the Texas Nationalist Movement our unshakability is measured by our level of engagement.

In the TNM, engagement is measured by a four-part test.

The Numbers
The science produced by RPI applies to entire populations and population subsets. Here is their findings applied to the Texas Nationalist Movement. 

Total Population: 26,059,203 Voting Age Population: 19,167,091 Voting Eligible Population: 16,100,196 Voter Turnout: 7,993,851

Acknowledging that out of these numbers voter turnout is the best indicator of the potential engagement in our cause and applying the 10% figure from RPI's findings, we arrive at the total number of Texas Nationalists required to reach the "tipping point". 

 

800,000

Where are we now? Recent polling shows support of Texas independence at approximately 35%. While our internal polling shows it to be higher this provides us with a good starting point to determine how many in Texas are ready for us to win.

With these numbers there are approximately 2.8 million potential Texas Nationalists.

The Breakdown

We are always looking for people who share our mission, vision and values.

When we are asking for members, we are asking to connect. We are asking for people to join with us to help us build a nation. We are asking for people to shoulder their share of responsibility to make this happen. We are asking for Texans who believe in the greatness of an independent Texas and are willing to do something to make it happen.

The "tipping point" is more than some recruiting goal. It is the one concrete thing that must be achieved to gain and maintain our independence. It gives us the critical mass to achieve and forevermore maintain the political, cultural and economic independence of Texas.

 

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This is just something for OROGs to gnaw on.
El Gringo Viejo