Friday, 13 September 2013

Please visit our Chapel on the SuperHighway of Information, The Anglican Curmudgeon

     As you all might imagine, we do a lot of FOX - watch here, and still wind up throwing a lot of bricks at the television, but somehow we missed something.  So we urge, vigorously, that all OROGs stop at the chapel and light a candle for some favourite purpose.  It is found at this linkage.
 
 
Unbelievable Incompetence in Washington - Fox News has put together a video timeline of the administration's ever-shifting stances on Syria -- the video says far more than any words could about the...
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Four or five minutes, and worthy of the time and more.   Thanks for heeding this suggestion.  I am better off for having taken advantage of it.
El Gringo Viejo
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Ingrid Eyes the Quinta Tesoro de la Sierra Madre

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    We have been watching the cauldron bubble and gurgle for the last few days in the Bay of Campeche, and finally the watched cauldron did begin to boil  During the mid-morning, at the time that El Gringo Viejo told his better three-quarters that it would happen,it happened. 
     Suddenly, we are back where we were about three years ago when the  rains came to the Sierra El Cautivo and when it was over, there have been a cumulative 55 inches of rain in about a week, all falling in the in the catchments of various rivers,  the Rios San Pedro, Guayalejo, Puricficacion, Blanco, San Marcos, and, of course, the Corona (aka Santa Engracia).  The latter is the river that runs 200 yards away from the front door of your home in Mexico.   We are rather much stuck here, because of the lack of a title in hand for my new old pickup.  We are in that never-never land of having only the State issued form that says that we have done all necessary to obtain the title, and we are waiting in this penumbra until the document actually arrives.
     There is no complaint, because the young lady told us it would be two to three weeks for the document to make it to one of our secret mailboxes in an undisclosed location.  If anything could be done, we would have already called  Obama a long time ago. So here we are.  It's a little like trying to schedule a weekend on the Boardwalk at Atlantic City.
 
     So that all will be aware, the peculiar chart above-left shows the percentage probability of a locale receiving more than 16 inches of rain within the next 120 contiguous hours.  That is, of course, five days beginning 01:00 AM CDT 13 September 2013 .  The purple area at the lower area of the chart pertains almost entirely to the State of Oaxaca and a swath in the open Pacific Ocean. Our area, as many OROGs know is in the dark purple in the middle of the upper-left quadrant of the chart.  We are towards the lower end of the dark purple part of that long thin, parallel-to-the-Sierra Madres portion of Mexico's geography.
 
     We should disabuse AlGore from taking credit for the "incredible" forecast.   And, while we are at it, beseech any and every newsey-type person, weathermanperson, and anchor or anchoretteperson...FOX people especially included....to please stop saying the word "incredible" while showing a bolt of lightning hitting a (tree)(building)(house)(Saint Bernard dog)(mother-in-law).   These things are not incredible.   They are not "beyond the ability to comprehend, understand, or even know".   And while I am at it, all FOXNews people must from this day forward, when asked, "How are you?" respond "Well" and not "Good".   I find it incredibly frightening to think that my people cannot speak well Englishperson.
     Anyway, AlGore must recognise that the above rainfall values are relatively uncommentworthy in terms of records of any kind.  There are various places throughout Texas and Northeastern Mexico that have recorded 12 inches in a 24-hour period.   A small community west of San Antonio, Texas named D'hanis had a 28 inch recording during the drought-breakers in April, 1935. This began a episode of flooding in the Country of 1,100 Springs of Central Texas that lasted through until July of that year.  Nearly 21 years later that area would have another episode with similar rainfall values.  Rains of 3 to 10 inches in that part of Texas might make the news for one day, unless there is a wreck out on State 16.  If that happens, folks will have to read about the rains in next week's Uvalde Avalanche. 

To wit:

(El Gringo Viejo urges all to click onto "A Narrow Escape" whose linkage is found in the heading immediately below.)

THE TEXAS FLOOD OF 1935

The Great Flood of 1935
by Edward Aquifer
Vintage photos courtesy TXDoT
A Narrow Escape
Excerpted from the diary of Maryleene Bolen Christensen
 
1935 Flood - Colorado River Bridge Columbus Texas

 
1935 Flood - Colorado River Bridge in Columbus, Texas
Photo courtesy Nesbitt Memorial Library 00160
 
The April showers of 1935 may or may not have brought May flowers. If they had, they would almost certainly have been swept away into the Gulf of Mexico. Central and South Central Texas experienced heavy rains that Spring which greatly affected Austin, San Antonio and lesser cities like Junction, Uvalde and D'Hanis.

Although Texas was hit with record-breaking rainfall in 2007, vastly improved infrastructure prevented the devastation which Central Texas and the Hill Country suffered in the 30s. (See Rob Hafernik's Dam Fun: A July 4th Trip Up the Chain of Highland Lakes.)

The 2007 flooding around Burnet, Marble Falls and Cedar Park brought nearly 20 inches of rain in a 24-hour period which is far more than the 9.21 inches of rain Austin received for the month of May 1935 or the 9.71 inches that June. But when one factors in ground saturation and no run-off channels, the resulting damage of the 1935 rains was far worse.
Bystanders watching Austin Texas 1935 flood
1935 Flood - Austin, Texas
Photographer: H.M. Stene, a cartographer for TXDoT
1935 flood, Austin Texas
1935 Flood - Austin, Texas
Photographer: H.M. Stene


 
 
1935 Flood - Austin, Texas
Courtesy of Austin History Center, PICA 008484-A
In 1935, while Austin was receiving its deluge, San Antonio was hit even harder with 14.07 inches in May with 8.41 inches the next month. The stores around Alamo Plaza were flooded in late May and tiny D'Hanis, Texas reported a hard-to-believe 20-24 inches of rain in just 2 Hours and 45 Minutes.
D'Hanis Texas after 1935 flood
D'Hanis after the 1935 Flood
San Antonio River Cibolo Creek Bridge
View of Cibolo Creek Bridge on Highway 66 North of San Antonio
River near flood stage.
Early to mid-June rains approached 20 inches in many other smaller communities from Uvalde to Austin. The Llano, Colorado and Pedernales Rivers all reached flood stage, affecting the cities of Junction, Llano, and Fredericksburg. On June 14 and 15 the Colorado River was just 1 foot below the record reached in July of 1869.
LLano River Bridge washed away by 1935 flood, and 1936  bridge
Llano River Bridges in Llano, Texas

Junction Texas June 1935 flood
June 1935 flood in Junction, Texas

The 1935 flood in Junction, Texas
The Llano River crested at its record level ever (at that time). June also brought flooding on the Nueces River and West Nueces River. Flooding extended from north of Brackettville to the Rio Grande (just downstream from Del Rio). Uvalde reported 12.5 inches within a 12 hour period and the total for that day was 17.6 inches.
Frio River flood of 1935, north of Dilley, Texas
Flood scene of the Frio River north of Dilley, Texas

Nueces River flood scene, Cotulla Texas, 1935
Flood scene of the Nueces River, Highway No. 2 south of Cotulla

The flooding of 1935 was instrumental in the building of the chain of lakes and dams from San Saba County to Matagorda. The flow of the Colorado River is uninterrupted from Austin to the coast. The towns of Bastrop, Smithville, La Grange, Columbus and Wharton have all had their share of high water incidents and the loss of bridges. But none since the construction of the dams.
 
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 These rains were pretty much duplicated when the drought-breaker episode of 1953 - 1954 hit the same area.  That prolonged flooding period was helped along by a couple of tropical storms, however.  We almost popped a gut-string laughing when Henry (Nose-hair) Waxman, a pinko congressman from California began railing, almost shouting during some hearing  at some poor dumboe being grilled for the benefit of the Obsolete Press barbeque at the news hour later that day, "Don't you see?!  It's quite obvious that the Super Storm Sandy is proof that we have Global Warming.  We've never had weather like this....EVER!!!!   What more proof do you want???"
    The sad humour, of course, is that any dumboe can, with three clicks, come up with 2,436 examples such as the above rustic but excellent, sincere, and legally admissible pieces of evidence that non-everyday rains, floods, and storms do actually happen, and then they are, like old soldiers, allowed to fade away as the days, weeks, months, and years march on.   This material above-presented does not have anything to do with our oft-mentioned Galveston Hurricane of 1900.   If that hurricane had hit New Orleans or New York City in 1900 or 2000-whenever, the death toll would easily have been in the hundreds of thousands, if not millions.

 
     So, with all of this to consider, I shall set about making a bit of supper for these cats, and the boss, and if there is any left over, El Gringo Viejo might eat that himself....after he sees that all the others are still whole.
    Thank you all for your attention...especially you all, AlGore and Henry.
 
 
El Gringo Viejo
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Thursday, 12 September 2013

"Tell them that's my story and I'm sticking to it."

"But mother, we did not corkscrew down to the landing strip.
We did not wear bullet proof vests or helmets.
The little girls were on the tarmac with flowers"

"Shut Up...
you ungrateful thrippet. If no one were here
I'd slap the goose-**** off your smarty-aleck stupid
mule face.  You look just like Eleanor Roosevelt when
she was 80."

"Mom, try to put everything in its place.  You don't have
anything to hide.  Just go in and answer their questions
and then we can go shopping."

"Hrrmmmph."

"Does that mean what I think it means?"

"Shut Up!"

"Is this another one of those things like the Vince Foster
briefcase with the suicide note all torn up?"

"Shut Up."

"Mother, why don't you just tell the truth?  It's always
easier.  Aunt Wilhamina always told me to just
tell the truth.  Good medicine tastes bad.
You always told me to say whatever you
can get away with.  But that doesn't
work as well as Aunt Willie's advice."

"Shut Up.
  And don't mention that old n***** woman's
name again.  I despised that old fat black blob."

"Mom, she raised me.  You were gone in the morning and
not there at night.   She  drove me to school and helped me
with my homework and piano, and how to make cookies
and spag...."

"Shut up!"

"Mom, why did you tell all those people that I was jogging at
The Battery by the Twin Towers?   Didn't you understand
that I was shacked....?"

"Shut up.
Why in the **** do I have to sit out here with all these...
these....people.   Don't they know who I am?   Damn, I
wish I had my detail back. I felt so much better when
I had my gun-men...that way no one could bother Huma
and me."

"Mom, people really think that you and Huma are
a little too...like...close.   She follows you around at
three paces like an Indian squaw."

"Shut up!
And Indians don't have squaws.  Native Americans
have squaws."

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And now, El Gringo Viejo's response to a story in the
New York Times informing us that folks in New York
City cannot have guests who come to the
apartment or house of an individual who
then prepares those visitors a special meal,
as though he/she is a gourmet serving a command
meal.  This has become a fad morphing into a
custom in Manhattan, but suddenly the
permitting office says....NO!!!!...Not
without a permit!!!
 
El Gringo Viejo (writing anonymously) says:
 
 
GeneralLee

     I wholeheartedly endorse Tonyloaf's proposal. Furthermore,
the permit dispensers should be required to have permit-dispensing
permits. How can we be sure that the permits that they are
dispensing are official permits unless they have a permit
from the permit dispensing permit department of permits?
It is just so dangerous.
    What about the Children? What about the
reverse-transgendered, male Eskimo lesbians
who still owe on their college loans?
    What about the people who need free birth
control pills in the women's powder-room
birth-control pill-dispensers for Miss Flukie?
     How many roads must Miss Flukie walk down,
before they call her a man?
The answer my friend is blowing

in the permit office for the dispensing
of permits to permitting authorities.
 
Whew!

 
 
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Fool's Mate.....or, What if Putin played a game of chess with Doper Barry?

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This is Saul Linsky's class in Strategic
and Tactical, Diplomatic and Military
thinking.
 
       The chess board above has the Russian Putin playing defence, the black pieces, on the top of the board.   On the lower row is the offense, the white pieces, being played by a weasel who has no known aptitudes or accomplishments beyond being a racist, a drug salesman, and a poseur.   He will always perform well when he has a choir of sycophants with access to the major fountains of information used by the ill-informed.   But, when he has to actually practice the actual arts and sciences of diplomacy and warfare, he is woefully unprepared.  Excuse me.  He is totally unaware and unprepared.   He is the perfect fool for the Fool's Mate.
 
     For a person who says that he is a highly studied Constitutional Authority, he is decidedly ignorant of the American Constitution, or he is decidedly unconcerned about deferring to that document, unless it is by accident.   For a person who has been elected twice to be the Commander of the Marine Corpse who serve all 57 States, he knew little about his duties before election and has learned nothing during the seemingly 5,000 years of his imbecilic incumbency.
 
    Imagine appointing a useless man, Perez, to a useless Secretariat, Department of Labour who still says that we need to repair the bridge in Minneapolis in order to solve unemployment....again.   And who then tells the breathless CNBC anchor that the unemployment rate has gone down because Obama's economic programme is working.  The same Secretary declares that the increasingly large number of people who have left the labour force is actually a good thing.   This is the quality of intellect that Barry Soetoro attracts.   Barry is really a lot like his Uncle Omar Onyango.   Look at every Secretary of Cabinet level, at the United Nations Ambassador's chair, the Secretaries of State who have served so nobly and selflessly.   Just think of (Sir Edmund)Hillary, like the woman said, flying all those miles.....it is so impressive.   Like staring at an abandoned Sewer Treatment Plant in Detroit.  Think of all those miles....and all the good it did.
 
    Barry did nothing in high school, did nothing in prep school, and did nothing at university, twice.  He was given what the white folks used  to reserve for the sons of the important and powerful who were dull, lazy, or distracted by saloons and/or a thin ankle, that being the Gentleman's "C".  
      Of course, not even that arrangement could help poor AlGore, in that he flunked out of law school and divinity school and then, wisely, quit trying.  His grades at the undergraduate level were lower than W's as well.
 
      In the case of  Barry....he apparently did not even do enough classwork to justify his allowance of the soft bigotry of low expectations "C", an institutional grade  among the "prestigious universities" during the 1970s through to the present.   Since lazy, uninspired or uninspiring white boys could have a "free 'C'". the poobahs  of the Great Universities decided to give a break to the black boys who were being recruited and almost scruffed into the Ivy League.
 
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Cat being scuffed and taken to Harvard.
 
  Barry has no writings, no studies in anything beyond a few "seminars" involving inculcation in the basics of rabble-rousing, shake-downs, and fomenting demands and unrest among pliable, selfish-interest groups.   His point of pride is that he was named Editor of the Harvard Law Review, but there is no evidence that  he did any more there than he did at the Nobel Peace Factory.
 
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Please read, for instance, the entirety of the below-included article, researched, and written, and published by a real reporter:

THIS MATERIAL WAS PUBLISHED IN "THE DAILY CALLER" IN 2012.  THE
REPORTERE TO BE CREDITTED IS JEFF POOR.



Observations from a classmate:


While details from President Barack Obama’s college years are scant, with the exception of a few acquaintances’ recollections, in 2008 one of his Harvard Law classmates offered a few seldom-heard remembrances of the president’s time at Harvard.

     Conservative commentator Carol Platt Liebau, author of “Prude: How the Sex-Obsessed Culture Damages Girls (and America, Too!),” guest hosted Hugh Hewitt’s February 22, 2008 radio show and described her relationship with Obama during her law school years. Despite his liberal slant, she said Obama was respectful of the conservative perspective when he was president of the Harvard Law Review.


     "I knew him reasonably well — as well as most people knew him, if not better — because quite in contrast to this image that Barack tries to project, as someone who is warm and all-embracing and all that kind of stuff,” Liebau said.

     “I mean, I will tell you I’ve written a piece that has praised Barack for certain things and I stand by that piece: He was color-blind in the way he chose, staffed the law review when he was president. He did give both sides a fair hearing. He always went with the far-left side, but he did give both sides a respectful hearing, which was fairly atypical at Harvard Law School at that time.”

     The essay she referred to was published by Townhall.com in 2007. It described President Obama as a listener but “a liberal’s liberal.”


    At the time of Liebau’s radio broadcast, Obama was being portrayed as a great unifier, which inspired bizarre reactions from the likes of MSNBC’s Chris Matthews. But Liebau said that was hardly the way he was viewed at Harvard.
  
    “Quite in contrast to this all-embracing kind of ‘earth father’ image — this sort of messianic blaze of glory with which he’s deemed to envelope our television screens — he was a pretty cold fish,” she said.

    “He was not a warm person. He was not the type of person that gave you a warm and fuzzy [feeling]. And you got the sense that he even wasn’t even terribly fixated or focused on what he was doing.

    “He said, ‘Look, what do you care who does the work?’” Liebau recalled Obama saying in reference to her management of the law review. “’It is the same amount of work for you to hand out the work no matter who it goes to, so why fight it? Do what’s easiest for you. Give the work to the people who will do the work, and just don’t worry about the people who don’t want to pull their weight.’”

Liebau wasn’t impressed.
      “I guess I was young and naïve: I was like, ‘Ah but that wouldn’t be fair,’” she said.
“And what surprised me is apparently that didn’t bother Barack at all. It was just kind of like — take the easy way out. Why bother yourself with all these silly notions about justice and fairness? Do what works. Revealing? I don’t know. Good advice? I didn’t particularly think so.”

 
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              Vladimir Putin
                   Владимир Путин
Vladimir Putin 12015.jpg

     Vladimir Putin is the new face of American foreign
and domestic policy.    This is the result of having a
lazy, incompetent, arrogant, fool's mate player at the
board, playing for the American team.

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Check mate;  game over.   Fool lost and the knave has become the boss.   America is to be directed by the KGB agent, and dictator of a country that celebrates the tractor driver being slumped over the steering wheel of a tractor with a two week old flat tire.  But who cares if the tractor driver knocked off one liter of vodka for breakfast. He has two more for Brunch in his knapsack.

El Gringo Viejo
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