Hello Again. Cold, Earthquakes, Flowers, Repairs, Pearl Harbour, and Republic of Texas....Let Us Begin.

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We made it in yesterday, after a bit of a wait at the McAllen - Reynosa Bridge, and then proceeded to recuperate.   Then it was on to reposition clothes, shoes, boots, hats, and all this stuff that always seems to surround us and demand more attention and care than a herd of cats and children.   But, it is my life that I have imposed upon myself.

 

     The last couple of weeks at our place on the skirts of the isolated  Sierra Madre Oriental has suffered through a bit of a chilly period.  Two or three mornings  found the thermometer registering 30 to 31 degrees F, at the dawning hour.   The rest of the time the mornings arrived with the temperatures in the upper thirties or low forties.   The high temperatures struggled to get out of the sixties, and all in all it was a pretty chilly paso de estancia.

    

      This has been the coldest overall Autumn since the keeping of records for the Victoria, Tamaulipas area.  No high or low records have been set, but the generally and steadily low temperatures have led to this particular weather/climate factoid.

 

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     During the early morning hours of the date 25 November, 2013 there was an earthquake reaching the level of 4.1  -  4.5 Richter, being centred near the community of San Felipe de China, Nuevo Leon which is about 60 miles east of  the Monterrey metroplex.

     There is a significant, complex flood-control, irrigation, and hydro-electric production dam, named "El Cuchillo" on the watercourse of the Rio San Juan very nearby the epicentre.  To this point the complete review of that facility has not been completed. A major water transfer pipeline runs from the lake formed by the dam  to the metroplex of Monterrey, quite a project actually.   That pipeline, along with many others....a huge twin-six foot natural gas transmission line, for instance....all have to be analysed and evaluated.

      There were several reporters, of course, who suggested that frakking and/or global warming had caused the fairly rare earthquake.   And, of course, those two phenomena had also intensified the temblor beyond the levels of the other rare quakes (not true).

 

     At our little mud hideaway we had only a fairly sharp thudding bump (yes, in the night) just sharp enough to make all the dogs the Francisco I Madero Ejido bark, and cause our three cats to run into the parlour with their eyes wide as serving plates.

 

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     We are called upon to remember the events of 72 years ago, to-morrow.  Moving such a huge attack fleet...so very far across the Pacific Ocean and the launching of essentially naval "light cavalry" with such a devastating effect is a remarkable event.   That we slept through the possibility and did so little to anticipate and be ready for such a blow was, is, and should forever be a reminder of the validity of the ancient adage....."If a nation truly desires peace, that nation should always be prepared for war."

 

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    Our little hideaway is famous for producing an almost unending profusion of florid things, with something...or more frequently....lots of things flowering all year around.  On the right, the OROG can see Alvaro trying to show El Gringo Viejo how to study the Virginia Vine, (picture taken yesterday).

 

   

The OROG can judge for him/herself if El Gringo Viejo learned how to approach this task.   The Virginia is located at the very entrance to the Quinta.  We need to point out that our dating on the photos is not correct because we cannot figure out how to dependably access the adjustment area in the camera's brain.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Why Texas Nationalist?

James Rollins          

 

Recently I was invited to like The Convention of States Project on FB. This caused me to consider again why I am a Texas Nationalist. It boils down to one simple question for me:

"Can a constitutional republican form of government, respectful of our Rights and Liberty, be restored in Washington DC?"

I don't think it can be. It's nice to talk about an Article Five Convention or repealing the 17th Amendment or restoring constitutional national government but in my opinion it is all impossible in reality.

 

The history of our country since the formation of our government under the Constitution is extremely complex in detail but simple in theme. People are born with unalienable Rights. Government is created by People to secure and protect their Rights. When their government becomes abusive of their Rights, People have the Right to change their government to better secure and protect their Rights. The Constitution of the United States was a plan to have a national government powerful enough to solve certain national problems affecting all the States but weak enough to not be a threat to the Rights and Liberties of the People in the States. In retrospect, this has not worked out in actual practice.

Our country was most free when the Constitution was first ratified. Since then, ambitious politicians in our national government have used almost every international and domestic crisis and problem to seize more power for the government at the expense of the sovereignty of the States and the Liberty of the People. In my opinion, after more than 200 years, the great American experiment in self government has failed to secure our lasting peace and prosperity. Most importantly, our great experiment has failed to secure and preserve our Rights and our Liberty. This has resulted in our national state of affairs today.

In my opinion, the federal government is not going to be reformed. Politicians essentially do what their constituents demand. For generations, activists in this country have demanded the role of our national government change from securing and protecting the Rights and Liberty of All the People to providing social services, regulating almost all economic activity and seeking to achieve the nebulous goals of social justice and fairness in life. It is now considered proper and right for government to take substance from some people to give to other people at home and abroad. All of this has been encouraged by ambitious politicians aided by the disinterest of the general public. The vast majority of people in the great urban areas of this country don't want constitutional government. Instead they want government to provide for their needs. Big business interests, especially the military industrial complex, receive special treatment from the government in exchange for donations at election time. People and businesses that want something from government are who our government listens to and acts for. Those of us who desire that government should leave us alone to live our lives as best we can and as we wish, are regarded as a little bit strange and even crazy. We've even been called traitors by some in Congress for holding fast to the ideas of Liberty, personal responsibility and self determination.

Some people and politicians in this country have forgotten a simple fact. If the Liberty of some people is increased by decreasing the Liberty of other people, then no one really has Liberty at all. What we have is tyranny with the government playing favorites.

When our founding generation found their rights and liberties as British citizens being disregarded by Parliament and the King, they did not seek to reform the British system of government. Instead they sought and fought for Independence and the right to govern themselves. As a Texas Nationalist I am saying that I am willing to do the same for Texas so that we may be free of the national tyranny in Washington DC.

The government in Washington, regardless of which party is in charge, is bankrupting the country, ruining the economy, encouraging class warfare based on sex, religion, race and income, and destroying our reputation internationally with a reckless foreign policy. Our government of the people, by the people and for the people operates with an absolute disregard for the Constitution of the United States, the Constitution of Texas and our Rights and Liberty. If I thought the United States and our freedom could be saved by reforming the national government, I would support efforts like the Convention of States Project. However, I do not think the United States government can be changed or reformed in any substantial way. Therefore I choose to devote my efforts to achieving Independence for Texas.

Independence is the only possible way to insure an opportunity for a better future for my grandchildren. Some say that Independence is a dream. But Texans have always been different from the rest of the country. Texas is a state of mind and a way of life, recognized nationally and internationally. Today more people are thinking about what it means to be Texan and free. More Texans are thinking that they don't want to be dictated to by an overbearing intrusive national government. More Texans are realizing that the federal government is broken and can't be fixed. More Texans are realizing they don't need the federal government at all.

In my opinion, our liberty as Texans is being assaulted every day by the federal government. The future of our children and grandchildren is being threatened. Independence is the only way to stop the assault on our Rights and Liberty. Independence is the only way to end the threat to our heirs.

I believe the federal government has become the greatest enemy of our own Liberty that this country has ever seen. Recent revelations about the NSA spying on the general public and the IRS targeting certain political groups show us again that we do not control and cannot trust our national government. We cannot change the federal government nor can we change the mindset of the rest of the country. Therefore I believe Texas must be a free and independent nation. Our children and grandchildren deserve nothing less.

Go to http://texnat.org for more information.

Respectfully, James Rollins, La Grange, TX

 

 

    This calls into question the sound reasoning behind a State initiative, based upon the authority specified in and by Amendment V of the Bill of Rights.   Such is an alternative for attacking the excesses of the central government that is favoured by El Zorro and Mark Levin and numerous other straight thinkers.    We are including these writings of another similar...but slightly different...take on the problems present by the appearance on the scene of committed totalitarians.   These opinions are, as noted, Mr. James Rollins who is a member of the Texas Nationalist Movement. 

 

    We leave the issue open.   If we are to remain Americans, in a federated union of sovereign States, the Fifth Amendment approach could work.   In a more cumbersome procedure we abolished liquor and alcohol from America's pantries, and later restored the Devil's brews and distillates, once again by the same cumbersome procedure   (So much for the term  "settled law").

     The standard amendment procedure has been used, and that means that there is more than a little validity to the Fifth Amendment alternative as well.

 

     I, personally, actually do think that withdrawal from the present Union might be easier and would not even necessarily be all that bad for the rest of the States left behind.    We'll commend this all to the attention of folks who think in terms much grander than trite, meaningless  focus-group belchings.

 

El Gringo Viejo

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The Kennedy Issue

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    For El Gringo Viejo, he was sitting in Mr.  Jerry Lofton's fourth-period Civics and Economics, Major Work class.   I was just one of the preppies in Bostonians with no socks (fad of the moment), Levi's with cuffs rolled to the inside, never outside by that point.  We were engaged in a bit of discussion with Mr. Lofton, the few Democrats in the class, and the body of people, while he also prepared to pass out our "weekly", which was half essay and half multiple choice and /or true-false.  It was easy and hard....if a person had done the readings and remotely listened / participated in the class discussion / arguments, then he/she could almost always score 90 or better.

 

     The P-A System that connected every classroom, nook, and cranny of the McAllen High School campus with the front office suddenly began to crackle a bit....the usual sign that an announcement was impending.   Then there was some hard-to-discern conversation...just voices...we could recognise who was speaking but not what was being said.   Jane Martin said, "I hope they have more problems with the jet engine, and they have to let us go after this class."  The McAllen High School physical plant started life with a T- 38 jet engine that was converted into a system to generate electricity.   It failed during its first year of operation so frequently that students were officially advised to carry a flashlight in order to make it around in the windowless building.   Man, did we ever want to go back to our old, familiar run down building in the centre of town.

     Then, Mr.  Marion Sell, a first-class jerk, principal of the  9th biggest high school in the Republic of Texas, came on, clearing his throat several times, and finally ominously intoning, "This announcement is to inform everybody that the President of the United States has been shot in Dallas, and is apparently dead.   We shall make another announcement fairly shortly concerning the remaining class schedule for to-day."  It was 12:42....only 22 years after the bombing of Pearl Harbour.

      We were stunned.   The class was 60% Republican, 10% Democrat, the rest dedicated whatevers.   Jane Martin declared, "Well, at least we're going to be let out early."

      Mr. Lofton, who was a dedicated theoretical conservative...leaning Republican....and most of us believed he was a poofy....said, "Jane?" immediately causing Jane to say, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean it that way." to which Mr. Lofton said, "Let us pray for the President and his family and the Republic....and he offered something to this effect, "Almighty Father, guide us in the troubled hours to come.  Help the Kennedy family, who has already lost so much.  Watch over Caroline and John John, and this we pray in your Son's name, Amen."   The Romans and Episcopalians crossed themselves and we all sat back down for what seemed to be forever....three...perhaps five minutes.

      There was another announcement by Mr. Sell, saying that the bus students would leave two hours early (13:20), and the remainder of the students could leave the campus at the end-of-period bell, which would ring in about 12 minutes.   The bell rang, we went homeward, mostly through the other homes of friends.   It was a long weekend.   I served the early Mass at Saint John's, which started a 07:00 on Sunday morning.  That service was typically a no sermon, no music, only Eucharistic candles lit, only one acolyte to attend to the priest.   Usually there would be 50 or so communicants,  but on this day there were about 190, if I recall correctly.   And being an Episcopal Church, these people were, at a minimum, 90% of them GOP adherents.

 This is Oswald, perhaps one/ fifth of a
second after being shot.  Being shot at
that anatomical place, the knees buckle
and the pain is so severe that almost
anyone falls unconscious and enters
into profound shock. Recovery is
almost always impossible. 

     We had a television in 1958...the same one we had in 1963....a big, bulky Packard Bell...probably the best television ever built.  I changed into the Levi-official uniform...white, sleeveless t-shirt...turned the television on and in a few short minutes was treated to some loon blowing Lee Harvey's guts to shreds with a well-place navel shot....perfectly placed to silence the object of your pistol's affection.   This note:   If you ever need to kill someone and make certain that he does not talk, and you don't want to try a head-shot because of the chance of too much collateral damage to innocents, the place to hit is that area just below the belly-button.   That is because it becomes impossible for a person to speak...he bleeds out before the surgeons can intervene and sew him up, and all is well....all secrets are kept.  It's almost like Ruby knew where to aim.

      It's almost like he also just happened to use a .38 Special hollow-point bullet, the kind of bullet that attempts to disintegrate as the lead and copper jacketing shred through all nature of flesh and tissue.   No bullet was recovered from the body of Lee Harvey Oswald....

 

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VARIOUS AND SUNDRIED POINTS:

 

 

   To begin, Texas was not a hot-bed of Republican and/or rightwing activity at that time.   We had the Birchers, but they were intellectual and not bomb-throwers in any wise.   While Dallas was a "stronghold" of the GOP in Texas, it should be remembered that there entire delegation to the American Congress, two senators, about 19 congressmen, all State-wide office-holders, all county judges, all judicial judges, all county commissioners, all justices of the peace, constables, and sheriffs....in short...anyone elected in an election requiring party affiliation...were Democrats.   The exception was one fellow, Bruce Alger who was elected in a fractured argument situation between Democrat Conservatives and liberals in Dallas, in 1954.   Alger was re-elected several times before being replaced by fellow Republican Jim Collins in 1964.   These people were not snipers and assassins, however....they were very country-club, gentlemanly, and kind people.    I am not being sarcastic.
     However....up to and until around 1965....99% of all elected offices in Texas had their office-holders settled, not in the general election in November, but rather in the Democrat Primary in May, with the run-offs in June.   Such is still the case in the lower 1/6th of Texas to-day....although the number of GOP Latins as a percentage of the population continues to inch up, daily.

     There was one fire-brand sort, Maj. Gen. Edmund Walker, USArmy who was admonished by Ike as President for referring to Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman as "pinkoes" .  Walker resigned from his commission, but Ike refused his resignation and ordered him to the command of the 49th Infantry Division in the NATO command in Germany.  Walker had an impeccable WWII and Korean War record.   During his stay in Germany, Walker got in trouble again by directing his troops to think and vote the right way for the sake of America.   He edged over the line in his animation and this time was "resigned" by President Kennedy.  There was no real anger with Kennedy, the biggest disagreement being Kennedy's "Interdependence Speech" on July 4th of 1962...I believe...in which Kennedy pointed out that America was now an "Interdependent Nation" being necessarily allied with many democracies in the effort to confront and destroy communist imperialism.   Walker was disturbed that "interdependence" should not be celebrated on the day of "independence".   I remember well the "Independence Rally" at Archer Park. (4 July 1963) in the centre of downtown McAllen  (US 83 and Main) with the Birchers, part of the McHigh School band, and about 2,000 people.  They were all talkers...like Tea Party people....talkers and voters....but no assassins.   They were all good, dull, solid people.   I was there with the Teenaged Republican stand, raising money, passing out propaganda that was designed, I guess, to preach to the choir.   At that time El Gringo Viejo was in his last few months of being the President of the largest Teenaged Republican Club in the United States.....we had 344 paid members...in Democrat dominated Texas! ?
     Walker, interestingly enough, was the object of an assassination attempt in April of 1963.   It was determined by "someone" that Lee Harvey Oswald was probably involved in that attempt that sent a bullet into the living room window of the Walker residence one night in Dallas, Texas.

Maj. Gen. Edmund Walker

     Walker ran third in the Democrat primary in 1964 in the election for Governor.  He was quite popular....but no revolutionary.   He had gone to Oxford, Mississippi during the time of the integration of the University of Mississippi by James Meredith.   The press said that he had gone to cause trouble and resist the effort...the opposite was true, however.   He had gone as a proven military leader of white men and black men to counsel restraint, brotherhood, and calm.   Bobby Kennedy who knew a little but not much about Southerners and Texans, over-reacted and had the FBI arrest Walker, over J. Edgar Hoover's objection, and placed into an insane asylum for ninety days (shades of CCCP politics).   A psychiatrist evaluated Walker and ordered him released on the fifth day, declaring that he would not participate in a sham commitment.    The doctor was some kind of European, no Klanner or anything...and Bobby came off looking like the jerk that he could be, sometimes.
     These things were going on in Texas at that time.

 

 

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My mother and God-mother were poobahs in the Hidalgo County Democrat Party, they had been delegates to the formal State Convention.   Please remember that Hidalgo County was and continues to be the 6th largest of Texas's 254 Counties.    They were also despisers of Lloyd Bentsen, Jr. the local boy who was everybody's favourite liberal/conservative/moderate United States Representative from the Lower Rio Grande Valley.  They also hated Lyndon and Lady Bird because of their totally, thoroughly corrupt nature.
   It is said that people who worked at the station always felt that Lady Bird emptied the retirement accounts of the people at Channel 5 - KRGV radio and television in Weslaco, Texas when they sold the station in the early 1960s.  It was just one tale more, accurate or not,  of scores and scores of peculiar and illegal and immoral actions that made people marvel at the Johnsons' brilliant business acumen.  Anhydrous Ammonia tanks and Billie Sol Estes has a nice ring to it....for some of the Old Timers.

     It would take the arrival of the Clintons before we ever saw casualty counts stack up faster than they did with Lyndon's organisation.
 

 

 

 

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 For a fair, and even understated understanding of the utter worthlessness of Mr. and Mrs. LBJ and their  hypocritical political and social posturing....a person needs to thumb through the book "A Texan Looks at Lyndon" by J. Evetts Haley.   Please consider the words of a liberal, but excellent modern political history writer and analyst:

 

Assassination of John F. Kennedy Encyclopedia

Joachim Joesten argued in his book, The Dark Side of Lyndon Baines Johnson (1968) that Haley's book, A Texan Looks at Lyndon is an important source of information on Lyndon B. Johnson: "Haley's book may not be a masterpiece in the strictly scholarly sense, and it is certainly not a bible of my political creed, but as source material it is invaluable. For the author is not only a fellow-countryman of Lyndon B. Johnson, but an insider of Texas politics and an old political pro in his own right... That this biography of Lyndon B. Johnson is coloured to a considerable extent by bitterness at his own failure in the political game, as well as by an ingrained dislike of the Rooseveltian tradition (which, alas, also produced LBJ) and a generally ultra-conservative stance, I do not doubt. Still, even after making generous allowance for possible exaggeration due to these factors, there remains in his book so much well-documented fact that it cannot possibly be bypassed by anyone seeking enlightenment about the dark recesses of the Johnson story."

     El Gringo Viejo vigorously urges the OROG to dig up the excellent, although slightly (and reasonably) tainted by personal invective, book that chronicles the morally useless and corrupt Mr. and Mrs. Johnson.   She was, like Hillary, such a nice lady.   She liked Texas wildflowers....isn't that just amazing?   Can you imagine that she was the first one who liked Texas wildflowers?  Some of her best friends were meskins..."I even have bluebonnet pictures by...what's the name of that nice Spanish boy?   Poor Fear  E  O....right Poor Fear E O  Sal E Nas.    He's such a nice person and so talented."  (Am I feeling nauseated?)

     My Godmother and my mother, after making all the jokes about Kennedy having to change the currency from "In God We Trust" to "In the Pope We Hope" and how he would have to go over to the Vatican to consult on legislation and to "kiss the Pope's big toe". settled back to see who was going to be ordained as the Vice-Presidential Candidate for the Democrats.   It had to be Symington because Kennedy was a conservative and he needed a liberal to balance the ticket.   Maybe it would be Humphrey...probably too young.  The hours went by and suddenly Marvin Kalb comes out, looking a lot younger back then for some reason, and says..."We have it on good authority that John Kennedy has asked Lyndon B. Johnson, the Majority Leader of the United States Senate and the second place finisher in the delegate count at this convention, to be his campaign partner and candidate for the Vice Presidency of the United States."

     My mother and my Godmother, at eactly the same time turned to each other and said,  "If he wins, Lyndon will kill him.''    It is my opinion that 10% of all Texans said exactly the same thing upon first hearing of Kennedy's choice.   Before the OROG or visitor snickers, please read the most heavily footnoted parts of Mr. Haley's book, published in 1967.

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     Finally, the  issue of the overwhelming popularity of Kennedy, it is a joke.  Kennedy / Johnson won Texas by less than 30,000 votes in 1960, with a Texan on the ballot....he was the least esteemed State-wide officeholder in Texas at the time.   In Washington D.C. he was admired for making things happen, in Texas, it was said, he was admired for not being in Texas.

Consider this:

    The polling of Texas showed a different trend. In the Houston Chronicle, published Nov. 22, 1963 and headlined, "Chronicle Poll Sees Goldwater Over Kennedy; Conservatism Would Carry Republican in Critical Texas Areas" the article claimed, "Sen. Barry Goldwater's conservatism would carry him to a victory over President John F. Kennedy if the presidential election were held today in Texas. If a predictable 2.5 million votes were cast, Goldwater would roll up about 1.3 million to Kennedy's 1.2 million. That would mean a margin of 52 percent for Goldwater to 48 percent for Kennedy, a statewide survey by the Chronicle indicated Thursday. The decisive manner in which Goldwater apparently would take Texas is indicated by comparing his anticipated vote with the presidential vote of 1960, when Kennedy downed Republican Richard Nixon by 46,000 votes for a 51-49 percent margin. General "disenchantment" with the Kennedy administration and an adverse reaction to his civil rights program are the two most frequently mentioned reasons for the President's decline in popularity in Texas. The picture could brighten for Kennedy by voting time next November..." Sadly, the day of this article's publication would be the end of days voters would have a choice to vote again for President Kennedy
 

     When Kennedy landed in Texas, the Gallup organisation, and others, had noted the old phenomena of "likeable, but....".   The US News and World Report published in October of 1963 that Barry Goldwater had opened a lead over Kennedy in the nationwide polling.....in spite of the President's likability and popularity.   Texas was one of those States that seemed to be approaching a point of no return, with either Goldwater or Nixon being preferred over Kennedy.   Johnson was being rumoured to be the soon to be ex-Vice President because of certain....should we say.....pressing personal legal matters.

 

     My parents had a grudging "like-him" factor.   My father lectured me after the 1960 election, saying that there is nothing wrong with this outcome.  It is not the one we wanted, Nixon is the better man.   But Kennedy was a friend of Joe McCarthy and a supporter, like his brother, he is an anti-communist, he's a Christian, and he is a believer in business solutions.   After that I was at rest. Better Nixon, but....Kennedy was no Roosevelt or Wilson.   And be aware, my parents never voted anything but Republican for President during their voting lifetimes.  My mother 15 votes and my father 14 votes...because his first vote, as he stated,...."....was casted by an damned fool. (Roosevelt - 1932)"

 

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Mrs. Brown was so pleased that I
really had done the project well.
I am sure the thought that I had
not just left the assignment on
 my mother's company car seat.

Kennedy and Goldwater on the
cover of the Semester Project.
The caption of the picture was.
"You're a nice guy, Barry, and
I like you, but your politics.."
and one can see Kennedy
 holding his nose.  

Oh! Gringo Viejo, you dream. There is no way you people and you especially at your age could ever have been so involved in such goings-on.
    To respond to that fair observation,  we include a major class assignment that had to be hand-written (in cursive,
of course)  during my Junior Year.  American History, major work, Mrs. Dorothea Brown.
    El Zorro and El Gringo Viejo and quite a cadre of McAllen's spoiled and finest were dedicated militant Republican conservatives.  To my knowledge, only Mary Ann Wycoff (a little older than I ) drifted off into the ne'erland of socialism after attending the University of Texas.

 

 

   We have to run. Much writing to do.  The various Zorros and Curmudgeons who are sharing the battlefield have found new Windmills to challenge.  Thanks to all for staying with us.   I am surrounded by associates who are smarter and more well organised.
     Engage and ally with your partners in the war being waged by the marxists against the American Republic and normalcy.

El Gringo Viejo

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The Interconnectivity Notion is Working - Speak the Truth to Madness - Join Arms and Advance for Liberty

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     Our notion about moving back and forth and grasping onto others who have blogs that appeal to the higher senses seems to be working.   Between our little adobe outpost in rural Mexico, and our tiny observation hut on the Frontier that the Republic of Texas shares with the Republic of Mexico we are now actively intertwining with 7 or 8 other bloggers of similar disposition.

 

     Our passenger count of OROGs has quadrupled, and all of that is thanks to you the OROG and to the other salient blogs.   We have, as some already know, one of the finest legal analysts in terms of matters dealing with Church Canon Law as it interfaces with the Law of Caesar, and who is also an historian of high degree, mixing with a gun-smith and analyst of Constitutional matters, especially as they pertain to the firearms and States' Rights issues, and several others who send in topics, incident reports, and commentary.

 



Johnny (Appleseed) Chapman

    This particular blog entry is addressed to the attention of Senators Ted Cruz and Bob Lee.   It is passively directed towards them, their plate is full at this time with trying to save the American Union from self-destruction.   But it about this matter of subordination.   The people who radiate around the places that matter....Washington, D.C. ,  New York City, and Hollywood...are pleased with themselves because they have put the shrunken head of Cruz and Lee up on the game-room shelves of their fancy flats and elegant homes.   It was a very successful hunting expedition and they destroyed the two upstarts who failed to respect the proper order of things.   They talk to other talking heads and nod knowingly about how good it was that the two novice Senators received their comeuppance. 

     So now, they can reach up after reading the Op Eds of the Old Grey Lady, and turn the light out.


    But it is like the advertisement that shows the trains and toys of the little boy coming to life once he slumbers.  The Wise RINO is unaware that, in that part of the American Union that does not matter, where dumboes with dirty fingernails cobble together a decent life from spare parts and hard work, Ted Cruz and Bob Lee are already something like Pecos Bill and Paul Bunyan...with a little Johnny Appleseed thrown in.

     Cruz and Lee are not worshipped like leftists worship (Sir Edmund) Hillarty for all the things she has done for women and children....(just think of all those things)....we are made of sterner stuff, as some erstwhile writer wrote long ago.  The two men....and scores of men and women like them who were so dumboe that they actually went to Congress and voted the way they said they would vote.....are heartily respected, admired, and placed in a position of trust and leadership we feel will not be abused.   Throughout my proverbial land of beauty parlours, saloons, mechanics' shops, diners, and churches people are eyeing each other and nodding....sharing knowing looks....speaking frankly...all with reference to the falsity of Hope and Change and the entire snake-oil side-show that has so wounded the Republic. 

     We now enter a zone of opportunity.  Many members of the National Socialist Democrat Workers' Party are preparing to commit regicide.   In keeping with their "code of instincts" as animals of the jungle, they will throw the king overboard the Ship of State, if there is any thought that they might lose their aristocratic title, however small.

    "How could a King be more important than I, when I am a viscount with much power and many admirers of my raiment in my own land?" they might ask.



 



     We should harvest the offerings of momentary goodwill by these serpents who normally are selling new lamps for old....and dispose of this horrid President's efforts to nationalise the Republic from sea to shining sea.   If possible, it would be well to ride the wave of reality and remove this horrid holder of the office of president of the United States of America.  We would be far better off with an elderly fool...a jester....who could never leverage so many ill-taken votes to move the country in any foul direction as has the present president.



    Biden could probably commit political suicide at least eight or nine times in two years, and he could replace the Steve Allen Show from the late 1950s and early 1960s as a comedy show worth the watching.    The principals of the Steve Allen Show were mainly pinkoes, but very funny.  The Jews among them still made fun of themselves and went to synagogue, and it smelled like a sophisticated New York City form of Hee Haw.   A really excellent program with circus, magic, music, and such like Ed Sullivan's excellent variety show, but funnier.   There was even one fellow, named Bill Dana who had a routine, playing the role of a heavily accented Latin...Mexican, Puerto Rican, or Cubano...and he would come on screen as an ill-at-ease person, obviously preoccupied with matters of great importance.   Steve Allen would ask him, "What is your name, sir?"    To which Bill Dana would respond, "My neim, Mai neim ees Jose Jimenez..." as if he was unsure of his own name.   If I am not mistaken Bill Dana was the first to do the old saw of a joke about the Mexican fellow telling the folks back home on his return how nice the Gringos are.  How so? the villagers asked the returnee.  He responded (and remember this is on live national television), "I go to the beisbol game and seet in the sit.  And theen, all the pipples rise up, and they ask to me eef I have a gud sit to seat een.  They eev'n sing eet to me.  They sing, "Jose, can you see?  The Gringos, they are very nice pipples."

 

But I diverge.

 

     The fact is that Cruz was right.  He was not only right about his diagnosis of this horrid piece of legislation, he is correct about the long-term effect and the hopeless black-hole of money that will never be enough to patch all the holes that will continuously develop in the Obama Socialised Medical Initiative (OSMI) as it crashes through American society and its economy.

     He was right in throwing down the marker in the Senate, because he and we are now in the position to say, "Look, John McCain called us nutters and radicals because Cruz was unhinged, disrespectful, grandstanding, stupid, and radical.    And now, John McCain is saying that the OSMI must be repealed, rescinded, and fed into every paper shredding machine forever!!"
 

     It is amazing how Truth hitting someone on top of the head with a two-by-four can make that person actually engage his brain and think.   So now, from all around, including lefty Democrats, the political class is trundling out to the microphones to divulge, "I never was really all that hot on the programme to begin with.  My constituents want to go back to square zero."

 

     We must be forever wary of politicians and social engineers who promise us social programmes that are based upon making other procedures and programmes "more efficient".   Efficiency and Effectiveness are brothers.   But they are not twin brothers.

     Furthermore, in sociological terms, one of the constants in the analysis of all societies, the most "efficient" societies are the most totalitarian and the most miserable for the particular society afflicted with said efficiency (North Korea, Talibani Afghanistan, Cuba, Zimbabwe).   The most effective societies are those who have a magnificent jumble of unpredictable opportunities overlaying a matrix of common law and private property and private economic initiative. along with a general, widely accepted, and widely practiced moral code.

 

    Our cause is just.  Our thinking is sound.  Our will is to establish the best of moral, economic, spiritual, and intellectual environment for all.   We do not wish to "take care" of people or give them things "for free".   Imagine the child who actually does a passable job at her piano recital.  That steeling of the spine and realisation of self-worth is a powerful force in the establishment of further accomplishment and self-reliance.

    

That the Saints look over Ted Cruz and Bob Lee and all those who staid in during the rough seas and hauled the heavy shrouds and stays holding up the masts and sails of our stalwart craft.   We are the stronger force  because we have souls...however damaged and tarnished...while our opponents scorn the belief in the provision of good for the sake of goodness only.   They have only the desire to control, preside over, and organise matters to their own liking.

 

     It is very necessary that all OROGs visit the Anglican Curmudgeon's blog to-day or at some early moment of convenience to study the history and changing nature of even the definition of "dollar" as a concept and as a currency.   It will point the way to new battles to fight and win.   He also has published a compelling set of observations concerning our new Jean d'Arc, the lady known as Yolanda Burroughs Vestal who has stood to deliver Truth to Madness.   We are many....we are stronger....we are more intelligent, and we seek that all people can find the good within themselves.

Stay in touch all.  We shall be leaving in the cold, on Sunday, in order to stand my duty at the Quinta Tesoro de la Sierra Madre .

El Gringo Viejo

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People ask about El Zorro....so we republish this to link each of you to each of us

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    We have questions at times about El Zorro, and we have other questions pertaining to where we crossed paths and wondering if we are blood related.   We republish blog entries every now and then, and this seems like a good time to republish an entry that actually comes from El Zorro's blog, which is political, but deals more specifically with 10th and 2nd Amendment issues.   That is not to say that the visitor would not find other material when clicking onto the upper right corner of our blog's face page where El Zorro takes on the persona of Mosinguy....a real live, and real life fine firearms habilitator and re-habilitaror....an expert on such matters.   There is not the time to list the other technical capacities that are in his repertoire of talents and accomplishments.

  

    For complex personalities, we are both rather simple men.  We have ancestries that are very similar, but unrelated.   Blue Bloods, Indians, and solid, well-to-do artesans, farmers, builders, and magnates come together to make a couple of lone riders...El Zorro first-born and serious, competent in things that matter, and El Gringo Viejo last-born and spoiled, too quick of mind and too accustomed to being waited on.  One was spoiled and accomplished, the other was hard-working and accomplished.   Both are Confederates....in a way....but never were or will be Klanners.

     So without further ado, we will place for a second time....how many more times, who knows...but every now and then.  We have had a real flood of new OROGs, perhaps seeking a rest-stop on the Obama Highway of Nightmares.





A FRIEND OF MINE
We have real problems that have to be addressed soon. The United States of America is in real trouble. The biggest obstacle to making America great again is ignorance and greed. We have a president and his lemming like advocates feeding that ignorance and greed. The president blatently lies about things that are critical to our way of life to achieve his "fundamental change".

I (aliases "Mosin Guy" and "El Zorro") don't remember thinking in 2004 that we needed a "fundamental change" in our way of life. Who were the nutty people who thought life here was so terrible it needed to be totally transformed by something without definition called "hope and change"? Mosin Guy doesn't remeber thinking we need a government owned and operated healthcare system to replace the best in the world. But there it was... screaming meemies surrounding the false prophet cheering "Hallelujah, everything is going to change!"

The warning "Be careful what you ask for" was not issued. Hope was only in response to false promises of "...free gas for my car, no more house payments, free healthcare. Somebody else will pay for it, not me". The lie the president did not tell was his promise of redistribution of wealth, higher prices, and higher taxes.

We have sold, no, given away our souls either for some progressive ideology without substance or greed for things not worked for. Mosin Guy says we because collectively we chose this dumboe not only once but two times. "We" does not include a minority of us who knew this was insane.

Included in this minority is a very gifted friend of mine who goes by the alias of El Gringo Viejo. David has been my best friend and more like a brother since our early years in South Texas. Both having been baptized Eiscopalian, we attended St. John's Episcopal Church in McAllen as Acolytes where we entertained, briefly, thoughts of the priesthood but were a little too mischevious to be serious about it. We belonged to the Young Republicans of South Texas where we served and entertained notable leaders in the local and national parties. We spent more time fishing and exploring northern Mexico than attending classes in Jr. and Sr. high school. After school we served at several electoral functions for political figures, notably George H. W. Bush. El Gringo drove the President's and yours truly drove Marlin Fitzwater's lemozines to a rally at the McAllen Civic Center and later to a fundraiser at Calvin Bentson's estate. My memory is of being asked information regarding the local environment by Marlin Fitzwater. El Gringo spent more time in private with George Bush. This was in 1979. Bush did not win the Presidental nomination but was selected by Ronald Reagan for Vice President. Mosin Guy remebers playing minor part in that meeting but my friend was all over it and was instrumental for years supporting the conservative effort in South Texas.

After high school El Gringo and Mosin Guy went different directions, he went to Southwest Texas State University at San Marcos, Texas where he earned his Bachelor's degree in Sociology with minors in History and Political Science. Mosin Guy went to Texas A&M but lasted only one semester in the Corps of Cadets. He went from there to the US Air Force where he enjoyed an all expenses paid two year vacation in balmy South Vietnam. However, Mosin Guy did manage after military to achieve a bacheolor's degree from University of Texas at Pan American in Government with minors in English and Psychology.

    El Gringo kept in touch with Mosin Guy during the Vietnam experience via Mosin Guy's father in McAllen. Since that time the two men have been constantly in touch sharing 99% compatible views on the state of the country. El Gringo is fluent in Spanish and has dual residency in both Texas and Mexico. He is expertly knowledgeable in the political and social state of Mexico and even south to include Central and South America. He and Mosin Guy are strongly pro-Texas and Texas autonomy in the Union. His web site has more information and significant articles not always or necessarly related to politics. Biographical information as well can be found at privatouring.blogspot.com - A Gringo in Rural Mexico

    El Gringo Viejo is an expert in demographics and the political environment, present and past, of the Union. His blog is essential for people who are comitted to the salvation of the United States and the Constitution. His writings critically analyze the problems we face and offer solutions in a unique style that entertains as well as informs. Today, I urge all who read this to invest time in the journal of El Gringo Viejo. There is a way out of the quicksand in which we find ourselves. There is a way to turn uninformed, apathetic, and misinformed people into critical thinkers. That is to learn from those who can show the way. You can read El Gringo Viejo's blog at El Gringo Viejo. You can sign up to subscribe to the blog by request, send email to El Gringo Viejo. You may aslo send comments to him at Comments.

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Both Mosin Guy and El Zorro (who are the same person), have been overindulgent in embellishing of El Gringo Viejo's good qualities, and substantially inadequate in identifying his own accomplishments and positive attributes.   Small things, like - El Zorro could do better Warner Bros. animated stars and Disney animated heroes and celebrities of the Silver Screen and television than the self-same artists in Hollywood.   When he was between the 6th and 7th grade!!   He left my mother and her friends "drop-jawed" after doing a few pictures for them at a school function.  Just a "for instance".   Once again, link to mosinguy.com at the upper right corner of this page to find another home away from home in the internet.   And yes;  We are both completely insane....and absolutely sane....at the same time.

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Thank you all for your time and attention.   Any questions about either of us will be processed.   I shall be heading south in three or four days, for a period of a month or so.   We'll try to get a few more blows in between now an then.

El Gringo Viejo

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Where have all the Eskimoes gone?

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     We take a bunch of Eskimoes....Eskicurlies....and Eskilarrys out minding their own business, making harpoons and gumming blubber.   We watch as they kill animals and eat them.   They laugh a lot.  Sometimes they have to beat up their wives and children, but only after kicking their mush dogs around  a little.   In the Wintertime, things can become dicey.  Eleven Eskicurlies can make for a pretty tight fit in a 700 square foot  (round foot?) igloo with no bathroom or radio.   No way to tune in Oprah or listen to Sergeant Preston of the Yukon.

 

     Most Eskilarry children thought the theme music title for Sergeant Preston of the Yukon was "Way Down South in Dixie's Land".....and they were pretty happy thinking that way.   They thought they were doing alright.  A little blubber, some fish, an occasional bear steak, and who knows what else, maybe some sweet-potatoe pie just like Aunt Tooluchilukeeba used to make.

 

     Every now and then some really uncivilised people would come by and visit, offending sensibilities, griping about the rest-rooms, and they would leave.   They shared a little of their vodka, ate too much free blubber and raw fish....but at least they would leave.

     The one day some other Russians came, calling themselves  "Mairicans" .   They would always greet the Inuit and the Ku'piks by saying, "Hi, I am a Mairican"   Later, others would come with fancy boats, planes, and other conveyances and they would say "Hi, I'm a Mairican.   We have come from the government to help you.   Your houses are sub-standard.   Your diet is totally disgusting, your family relations really aspirate, you are institutionalising child abuse, you are allowing the children to perform dangerous tasks only suitable for children over the age of 15 years 8months and 4 days.   These boxes are the food you will eat, it is healthy.   Also, all the animals you are killing have just been put on endangered lists and you can't kill or eat them...and that goes for the walrus and fish in these waters.   We also understand that you are panning and excavating for gold, and that must cease as of now, because the areas you are contaminating are protected wetlands.

     Also, each real live injun family will receive 3,500 USD per month plus 900 USD per child for food stamps, and SSI for the underaged geezer that has no teeth from gumming blubber.   When she turns 63, she can have SS and SSi as a retired Indian.   Here is your starter deck of lottery tickets.  It is about a ninety day supply, but after that you'll have to buy your own."
 

     The Inuit is a little surprised and says, "Where will I spend the money?  And when granma is 60 we already arranged the iceberg and everything...the farewell party....she'll be sent to the ancestors in Hawai'i on her own iceberg."

 

     "Well, whatever. You'll need to request, fill out, and forward the "Personal use of Iceberg Permit Form No. US300-sa-433.   And,  we're bringing in a chain store here to sell necessaries, and things you'll need to have now that you are civilised.   You'll know the store by its name...."

 

       The Inuit is trying to keep up, so he asks, "What is the name of the store?"

 

       "It will say in big letters in the front window, 'L - I - Q - U - O - R  and  B - e - e - r'   and 'L - O - T - T - E - R - Y'.   Okay?"  responded the Mairican from the government. As he/she boarded the Helicopter to fly back over Sarah Palin's homestead to make obscene gestures, the government Mairican shouted over the rotor,"We'll be back later with your Obamacare Card."

 

      Before two generations pass, 57% of the males over the age of 13 are alcoholics.   There are no igloos.   There are shacks...what is left of modular, efficient housing provided by the central government's BIA.   Garbage is everywhere. Eigthy per cent of the population has diabetes.    The "beatings" have become brutal, the children are run amok, smoking dope, few girls make it to the age of 16 without at least one miracle baby.   Only about one-fourth of the cultural unit is capable of functioning at the levels where they were in the 1950s.

 

     This is a blog entry of bitterness.   Southerners are still unrecovered from the Central Government's imposition of New York Bankers - Andrew Jackson nefariousness and the banishment by those agents  of about one-half of the Cherokee Nation out of parts of Georgia, Tennessee, and Virginia.  The Bureau of Indian Affairs would probably be in a very close tie for first place of the Central Government  bureaucracies that would be vaporised upon my ascent to the Throne.  FEMA would rank right up there as well, along with about 78% of the Secretariats.

 

     This blog entry is made specifically to remind one and all, including the Gringo Viejo, what Government Help looks like....

El Gringo Viejo

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Tom DeLay moves closer to full vindication

 

 

 

TOM DeLAY'S CASE MOVES CLOSER TO
BEING CANCELLED.   NO NEW TRIAL
WILL BE CONDUCTED ACCORDING
TO MOST OBSERVERS.

 

 

     DeLay had six attorneys....incredibly enough of very high repute...honest men.   Several of them had  worked with my brother who ran the Associated Republicans of Texas (ART), a group that handled literally scores of millions of dollars over a 30 year period and never failed any audit or trumped up investigation.   The  objective of the ART was to enhance campaigns and provide some funding for local, State Representative, and State Senator positions in the Republic of Texas, only.

     I know these things as a fairly close activist in Republican affairs for many years, and because my brother was Executive Director of the Associated Republicans of Texas. Until his incapacitation due mainly to age, his honour and integrity was never challenged even by the most gutter-bound slimy Democrat, even the arch-socialist Lloyd Doggett.

     These above-mentioned attorneys advised Mr. DeLay that his procedure was honest, legal, and most of all morally correct. DeLay proceeded, reasonably, on the basis of reasonable counsel. I know  this to be true because I  was familiar with the case and the manners and methods of Mr. DeLay's defence team.

     DeLay was investigated four times and material was taken before grand jury after grand jury until finally the last grand jury moved to indict. The case made no sense. The construct was ludicrous and almost every Democrat in Travis County had done things far more questionable.

 

    The conviction of DeLay flabbergasted even the Democrat politicians. Everyone knew that it would be impossible to convict a man who had done everything out in the open. The evidence used against him were the legal filings that he made and kept available to public view according to the law.

 

     It is the same thing that happened to Scooter Libby. Innocent of everything, they had to convict of something. He was, quite literally, convicted of being innocent. I still fault George W. Bush for not having given Libby clemency.

 

     The only reason the DA went for the indictment on DeLay was because the Republicans in Congress had said that each would, if indicted, resign from the position. DeLay did resign as promised when indicted, much to the cheers and celebration of the reptilian Democrat Socialist Party people. I sincerely believe that even the punk, Ronnie Earl the District Attorney, was surprised at the conviction.

 

    Please remember that Sandy Berger rifled documents from the National Archives....by the scores...stuffed them in his...ychhhhh - underwear and socks. Each rifling was a felony. George Bush and AG Gonzalez determined not to prosecute him, because it would have seemed unseemly and partisan. Berger was stealing documents that proved that Bill Clinton lied before ethe "9-11 Commission"  about his activities concerning terrorism infiltration and his dealings concerning Usama bin Laden.  (Clinton did lie, several times)

 

   Double standard. Republican overparks, he is taken out to be shot. Democrat murders a girl and leaves her body in a sunken Oldsmobile in the dark, rushing waters of Chappaquiddick Sound....he receives accolades and a standing ovation for being a murderous demagogue and hypocritical, socialist slug.

 

And that, my esteemed OROGs, is the name of that tune.
El Gringo Viejo