Oooops! That Billy Goat knocked down the Million Kilowatt Dam

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    It has been about 200 years or so (1989) since this writer informed a highly  placed Republican operative that there was a loud-mouthed political commentator who was saying things that many thought had been banned on radio or television.  Further, he was saying such things on a live, three-hour nationally syndicated radio programme.   The highly placed political operative expressed some interest in this new conservative commentator.  I advised him that the fellow looked like a twin of my Uncle Billy, foolishly thinking that such information might further whet his interest in the issue.

     El Gringo Viejo and his boss, along with five other small businesses, gathered up 1,500 USD each, and paid local talk-radio station to engage the "Rush to Excellence Show" to come down in person to entertain the rubes in fly-over country.   Our area was then, and remains, the last area in Texas with the contamination of having a welfare-based, elected Democrat Corruption Factory totally in place.

     El Gringo Viejo was busy being a successful entrepreneur in those days, with several small businesses balanced on a razor blade.  Of course, he had his wife to do the unimportant stuff, like  most of the work and raising the children.

    The show, called "Rush to Excellence" came to town, filled the largest venue in town with well over 1,000 people...all paid, and was a great success.   The tickets my wife and I bought for the important Republican personage, who truly was a highly placed Republican activist, went for naught, because he did not appear.   My mother and my wife went to the private reception with the private tickets since we have been among the five sponsors.  Since the  important Republican personage chose not to attend, I decided to say to hell with it and remained at the helm of the businesses for the day and night. 

   

John G. Tower
Senator for Texas

     This lamentation is not so much, "Poor Me" as it is to remind folks that what is considered impossible, planetarily challenged,  or ridiculous by people who are convinced of their own infallibility...can frequently wind up being a force that cannot be resisted.   The important Republican personage who had much success in his political objectives, discounted the suggestion of a person he knew to be his inferior in all matters.   That highly placed operative was an enemy of Karl Rove, especially in those days,  but a good friend and cadre-member of Jimmy Baker and King George the Ist.  He was also a member of the inner circle of John G. Tower.   Odd combination, except that Karl in those days was very abrasive in his enforcement of the will of the Country Club element of the Texas Republican Party (King George I),  Jimmy Baker was a good boy and tried to at least act like he was listening to whatever rightwing crazy might have found his way accidentally to the chair on the other side of his desk.   Baker could look interested   even as he would look furtively at his Rolex.

    This same operative also declared in 1980, during the Republican primaries, that the nomination of Ronald Reagan would result in a re-run of the Goldwater / Johnson election of 1964....and, in a way, perhaps he was right.   Sociologically, the Republican Primaries of 1976 and 1980 did more to finally establish a viable Republican Party in Texas since Reconstruction than any other impulse or influence.    Reagan won both primaries overwhelmingly.
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    Another answer to, "What does this mean?   What are you trying to say?" is the following:

Official AmeriBolshie
Flag

     Tower, Baker, and King George the Ist were all highly respected and successful Republican State and national personalities.   Each conservative, each well plugged in to the "reasonable, able to reach across the aisle type Republicans".   Each was also kicked in the teeth by the Democrat National Socialist welfare-state elitists.
 

  We hope that it gave them pleasure to have served as useful floor-mats to the Ameribolshie cause.   Tower was denied an appointment as Secretary of defence because he drank too much???????   Because women chased him around the desk?   Sam Nunn was to judge John Tower....??????   What a bunch of slugs...when a Sam Nunn, a prissy, arrogant snip who could almost always vote left and then trundle back to South Carolina and extoll the wondrous goodness of the Conservative Philosophy.   Sam Nunn, who could  do more hand in glove games with crony capitalists looking for government subsidies than even the Chappaquiddick Kidd.   Gag.  And, please do not even get the Gringo Viejo started on all the filthy, unwashed, Occupy Wall Street Black Pots calling the shiny copper kettles of Baker and Bush names because they had a bit of tarnish.   Perhaps Jimmy and King George the Ist, being elitist progressives, prefer to be door mats to fellow elitists than to truly keep company with people who are the salt of the Earth.
 

    Great Ruler of the Cosmos, please close Washington, District of Columbia down and turn it into an outdoor museum of monuments and parks.   Give each man and woman who compose the  entire adult Washington, D.C, population 100,000 (USD or equivalent in lottery tickets).  This includes Miss Flukie, and the entire Congress, the bureaucracy both local and extended, and city administration.   They shall each be given family plan tickets for a plane, AMTRAK, or bus ticket to another Continent, or Detroit, New Orleans, or Chicago.   There, each might feel at home in a place where he/she can recover from his/her illness, injury, disability, or particular psychological damage from being hurt by meanie-poo words,  comfortably reposed back into a friendly natural environment.

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     The following entry is drawn from the "making the rounds" electronic mail that is sent every so often by the Texas Nationalist Movement.  The word continues to circulate.   It is no longer the 7 beers and 2 margaritas fuelling the fantasy.   Sometimes it doesn't even require one beer to draw reasonable "what if's" and "We can't keep on like they are doing in Washington."
 
     A particular Tea-Party United States Representative recently recanted his condemnation of the movement by coming back to the same group he condemned as traitors to the United  States to ask for their support in the up-coming re-election campaign.

     We are not traitors.   So long as the Republic of Texas remains within the self-imposed condition of allowing itself to be within the union of the several sovereign States composing the United States of America, we agree to abide by those laws and regulations that seem pertinent to us.  Various of the other laws and regulations are being contested formally within both the court system of the Republic of Texas as well as the United States of America.  In several cases, recently, the Cause of the Republic of Texas has found relief and redress in significant cases related to central government injury to the people of the Republic of Texas.

    So without further ado, and referencing that Billy Goats really do knock down million kilowatt dams we submit:
      

 

Radio Host: Texas Most Likely To Secede

Dave Mundy 

 

 

With high schools around the nation preparing to hold graduation ceremonies soon, the state of Texas has laid claim to a class honorific: "Most Likely to Secede."

Radio host Dennis Miller and columnist Mark Steyn gave a light-hearted nod to the idea of a breakup of the United States during a discussion on Miller's radio show Thursday, with Steyn acknowledging that the independence movement in Texas is no joke.

The two were discussing what might happen if the tide of socialism washing over the United States remains the prevailing political driving force in Washington, and Miller said getting away from socialism wouldn't necessarily involve moving to Australia. He suggested instead moving to Texas, which would be "the first place to push back against it."

"If I ever do flee, don't think fleeing has to involve you going over to Alice Springs or something," Miller said. "I'm going to Texas because that'll be the first place that pushes back. They're not going down the tubes with this country if this country decides to go down the tubes. I really think I'd head for Texas."

Steyn, a columnist for the conservative National Review, said that Texas could well turn out to be the leader of a Soviet Union-style breakup because the independence movement there is a "serious" one.

"I think you're right there," Steyn said. "The idea that all 50 states are going to be content to slide off the cliff in a kind of haze and a drone of sort of soporific princess fluffy-bunny socialism is completely false. I mean, there will be — you're going to have serious secession movements if some of this stuff isn't turned around, not just in Texas."

The Texas Nationalist Movement is the primary independence organization in the state and membership in the organization has exploded in recent months. County-level TNM groups are now active in more than 100 of the state's 254 counties, and leaders of the TNM are expecting even more new members once a series of broadcast and print media ads begin reaching the public. The TNM has already indicated they will again be fielding candidates for local, county and state offices in the coming election cycle.

The subject of secession often reminds many Americans of the Civil War, and many progressives who otherwise spend much of their time denigrating the armed forces threaten that a move toward independence by Texas or other states would prompt another civil war. The Texas Nationalists pointedly embrace the belief that their movement is wholly political and that independence can be accomplished at the ballot box, not on the battlefield.

Perhaps with that in mind, the comedian Miller offered a suggestion.

"It would appear at times when civil war might be inevitable," Miller replied. "Why don't we get together right now and agree to do it by paintball so nobody gets hurt. Why don't we just have a big liberal-conservative — meet at the Mississippi and have a big paintball game so we can get this figured out?"

Story at the Daily Caller: http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/16/steyn-warns-of-serious-secession-movements-video/

 

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This is not a fair warning for what is to come.   The is an observation of that which has already arrived.

El Gringo Viejo

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REPOST; GOLDIE OLDIE FILES - Woodrow Wilson, Carranza and other Obamaoid Progressives from History

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     So, the third in the installment  about Thomas Woodrow Wilson, a bigoted, hyper-utopian progressive who helped get rid of a dictator, and thereby condemned an entire nation to socialist-progressive-utopianism for almost 80 years.  Agrarian reform programs brought Mexico from the list of food exporting nations...number seven in the world in 1910...to a country that had to import corn...the Mexican dietary staple...and pay for it in silver, gold, and oil.   Burgeoning industry went all but silent, for forty years, while machinery was back-patched,  repaired with reforged parts, and general Rip Van Winkle-ism prevailed until the 1960s.

     By that time, Mexico was truly a nation with a 20th Century understanding of reality, but an 18th Century level of development.   It was not the poorest of third world countries by any means, but it was in the middle of the pack.   The Nation demonstrated the ability to do impossible tasks, such as the Cuernavaca - Mexico City Autobahn, the development of Acapulco as a premier vacation spot in the international scheme of things, the Copper Canyon Rail transit of the Sierra Madre Occidental, the building of the 42 story Torre LatinoAmericano in downtown Mexico City.  These and many other jewels were apparent to anyone who was willing to look, but it was rather much like a V-8 engine always seemingly hitting on 5 cylinders.   Corruption, sloth, "rounded corners and sharp curves", and a typical, national-socialist, monolithic political structure kept Mexico "under control".  In other words, they had painted themselves into the same corner that had provoked the Revolution of 1910 - 1917.

 

This is Miquel Aleman Valdez,

who was the first post

Revolutionary President

of Mexico who had not been

a veteran and General Officer

in that War.   He served in

office from 1946 - 1952.

Although he entered politics

as bit of a liberal,he became

known as the first

"conservative" to hold the

office in the opinion of many

political scientists. The first

non-military veteran to be

president after the

revolution.  It is said that

he looked a lot like his friend

Walt Disney.   And he did a

lot of big projects, like

Acapulco. 

     But, by this point the problem was greater than that some old man who had perpetuated himself in office, and then insulated himself to the point that intellectual wags could say, "Presidente Diaz has turned the Presidential Palace into a mausoleum for living Presidentes."  The political party that evolved from the mess of the late nineteen-teens through the 1920s was finally, and ridiculously named the Party of the Institutional Revolution.   It was a name that only a Bolshie could love.

 

      Mexico found itself in this foggy situation of anti-Americanism intertwined with a certain mixture of respect, affection, and suspicion directed toward the Gringos....as well as a further pleasant bondage of import/export of meats, fruits, vegetables, grains, seafood and shellfish, industrial raw and finished materials, tourism, and so forth...trade going both ways, with heavy protection by the Mexican government imposing sometimes draconian duties in order to defend Mexican heavy and medium industry.  American belt autos for instance, required 300 per cent duty, and more if they had electric windows.

 

     What brought all this on?  It was the intransigence of the Mexican elites and intellectual leftists who were bound and determined to imposed Utopia.  They had been selected by Wilson, Lind, Lane, House, and other social engineers and community organisers to bring Mexico quickly to a happy land full of cheerful middle class people, taking  piano lessons and buying motorcars.   They believed in happiness through nationalism, not patriotism.  They believed that gratification should take the form of having things.  Being very happy meant taking things from people who had "too much".
     The social engineers and politicians were grateful that the Democrat politicians and the liberals from the United States were "reasonable' about making sure that the intellectuals and social engineers should certainly be well-compensated, and kept apart from any of the normal restraints imposed by social democracy.   That is why we have Frida and her mommy and daddy.  This is why we are still just emerging from the 200 million ton gorilla called the Confederacion de Trabajadores Mexicanos, and the Sindicato Nacional de Petroleros a; Serviceio de la Republica Mexicana.
   The former is the Confederation of Mexican Workers and formed, litrally one third of the Ruling Structure of the Ruling Party, the aforenamed Partido Revolucionario Institucional.   It was part of the Ruling Party and everyone in Mexico, by the Constitution of 1917 had to be a member of the Confederacion or one of it octopus-like locals if in fact he was going to work in the skilled trades or service sector of the Economy, public or private.   This was the ideal model thought up by....George Bernard Shaw and the Fabians....and also the Bolshies in a place called Moscow....and also, right around the same time another dumboe by the name of Venustiano Carranza.   Obregon believed as did Carranza in the need for a socialist democratic construct to the society.  Both were killed, Carranza after his followers tired of his high-handedness and corruption before he had been in office for two years, and Obregon when he determined to see through his "democratic reforms" by running for a second term which was a violation of one of the main battle cries of the  Revolucion immediately past. "No Re-eleccion!!!" 

Juan de Leon Toral
assassin of Pres. Gen. Cd,
Alvaro Obregon Salido
about five years before
he assassinated Alvaro
Obrgon, President-elect
of Mexico

     Carranza was assassinated because he was an obstreperous ass.   But Obregon was different.   The leftists moaned about losing him, because he was Big Left, exposed to all the wonders of the social democratic model in Europe well-received by Progressives from the United States.  But he was killed by a "religious fanatic".   That religious fanatic bore two beefs with Obregon.  He was angry because Obregon had committed to the idea that the Catholic Church had to be either eliminated or remanded to essentially parlour practice.   The Constitution had already provided for the legal basis for the expropriation of all the Church's property and even their churches and secondary building like rectories, convents, and monasteries.  Certain elements the Army had been busy enforcing the most abusive parts of the Carranzista document, by harassing clerics, nuns, and tertiaries, along with parishioners and  people who wore religious jewellery.   Many clerics and common believers were tortured and murdered by these pseudo-military units.  By the time Obregon decided that Mexico needed more Obregon and fewer priests, his assassin had already decided to solve that problem.
    That was the second reason for having to murder  Obregon.   He was displacing his "political godson"  President Plutarco Elias Calles an even more horrid anti-Catholic and anti-religionist in general.  and had just been re-elected two weeks before, to a leap-frog term split by Plutarco Elias Calles.   He was enjoying a banquet in the plush San Angel district of Mexico City, when young Juan de Leon Toral, showed Obregon a caricature, as though he were the  restaurant's "official" caricaturista. and received Obregon's pleasant approval of the work....turned away, turned again, and put five bullets into Obregon's back.   

Plutarco Elias Calles
President of Mexico
1924 - 1928

Force behind the throne
from 1929 - 1935
(more or less)

    This resulted in a really weird ascension, little understood by anyone without a serious brain syndrome, but Obregon was elected, but not inaugurated. He had violated one of the principal tenets of the Revolucion de 1910 -1 917.   NO RE-ELECCION!!
  His predecessor could not serve as president because he had already served his full term.  The Constitutional provision required that the Secretary of the Interior had to be installed for a period of two years,  while new candidates and elections could  be put in place.   The Interior Secretariat was a fusion of what Americans would think of the Secretary of Internal Domestic Affairs and Governance, the State Department, and the Executive Office of the President. So it fell to Emilio Portes Gil to serve as President of Mexico from 1928 until 1930.   Portes Gil was advised of this incident while at the Hacienda de Santa Engracia which is located just a few hundred yards from our little adobe hideaway.  He was playing cards with Jose Martinez Gomez, then the very young inheritor and owner of the Hacienda, and three other gentlemen farmers of the citrus area surrounding the Hacienda.  Portes Gil, it is said, rode by mount to the train station about 4 miles away, with a valet, and took the train to Monterrey, then the overnight to Mexico City, and reported for duty at the Presidential Palace that the OROGs have seen in pictures of the Zocalo in Mexico City.

     Plutarco Elisa Calles then ran the government of Mexico from behind the scenes by essentially controlling three almost equally powerful political figures, each of whom served a Congressionally approved two year term.

 

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     As we reviewed this it was moving to realise the truth behind the saying that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.   In tearing down a construct of authoritarian institutions, the Progressives in Mexico, egged on by their half-brothers in the United States and Europe, set about to expropriate the Haciendas, and replace them with....essentially nothing.

     There was a certain perverse joy in savouring the moments of watching rich people have to carry their suitcases and boxes and whatever they could salvage down a dirt road and board a train in the second class because some pseudo soldier in a lieutenant's uniform, glass-eyed drunk on mescal has taken your last peso, and your wife's and daughter's jewellery, and all because of the fact that you were born.  Born to privilege, true, but it was not your call.   It was where the stork stopped.  No real determination about being a good rich guy or a bad rich guy....just loathed, as did the citizens of the Nouveau Republique Francaise loathe their betters and titled people, until they killed Robespierre and waited to be saved by an imitation Emperor in the form of another madman.

     (One remembers Obama telling the crowd, "Get your revenge! ")

 

     But it is true.   There was lots of fluff and ruffle, many great speeches.  Plans for this and plans for that.   There was blame to go around, always it was the Gringos' fault because of this measure or that law....but the richest country on Planet Earth in terms of known geological and other natural stores of wealth per capita was Mexico, and yet, nothing seemed to happen.  The Haciendas were frequently expropriated but not repartitioned among the peons.   And if the repartition did take place, the peon received a warrant title for so many years...usually until he would be calculated to be too old to farm effectively, and the Reforma Agraria would take back his property and give it to  somebody else.   No patrimony, no estate, no inheritance;  just a rent-a-life.  Schools remained a big towns, cities, and Mexico City affair, because all of the three-grade Catholic primaries had been closed, burned out, and the teachers killed, abused, exiled, terrorised, or told to desist breaking the law or ".....come with me to the license plate factory".

 

     This is truly the Progressive way.   As with Obama's Socialised Medicine Initiative (OSMI), it really is necessary to hire 20, 000 or 30,000 more IRS agents, specifically for the purpose of terrorising the populace.

 

         It is like Hillary saying, in 1993,  that certain specialty doctors make too much money, so we will solve that problem by prohibiting medical schools from graduating doctors in those specialties.   That is the way socialists think.   Like when the price of milk was too high during the Depression, Harold Ickes (yes, the father of the son) ordered, without authority the round up of purebred Holstein dairy cattle to be slaughtered and burned.  Later when the price of milk was too low, they rounded up calves and slaughtered them, and poured milk out into the gutters around the bottling companies.   This is the way of governments in an increasingly totalitarian state.

 

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Venustiano Carranza del la Garza
President of Mexico
1918 - 1920

    And it remains thus to this day.  It was astounding to me to drive up to the entrance to the United States a few years back and find a huge sign at the inspection booths.  It was placed there by the United States Postal Service and announced the issuance of a series of commemorative  stamps honouring the career and life of .....Frida Kahlo?    They never stop.  It is like the night of the Living Dead Zombie  Commies...the sun never comes up.   If Frida had just stayed alive for seventy more years she could have hosted Sesame Street programs, and really could have taught the children.

 

 

      You, the OROG, piecing together these three penetrations into the period from when Wilson ordered the total destruction of the Port and City of Vera Cruz, simply to disarm a strongman General President named  Victoriano Huerta, and then stab friends of the Gringos in the back and engendered resentment that still has not really completely subsided. Those friends were Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata.
   Then, by essentially appointing the most anti-American, pro-German, pro-marxist individual by almost hand-walking him into the Presidential Palace, the Wilson administration managed to appoint the only truly anti-American among the entire cast of tragi-comedic theatre, Presidente, General, Ciudadano Venustiano Carranza.

     The Utopian Splendours dreamed up by Carranza and piddled and dibbled with by successive decades of politicians caused much of the problem we have in Mexico to this day.   The permanent, always dependent, always marginalised underclass that prefers being in that situation because they know they will be the first to receive the handouts of politicians....that is one of the final huge obstacles to Mexico's finishing at a place among the mighty.  The Progressives make their messes and then they take their blame list out and begin to recite.   Saul Alinsky was not the first to figure out the formula.

We might well be making further additions to this posting.  Several things are going on at once at this end.   Thanks to everyone who has endured this assault upon the Utopian Elitists.

El Gringo Viejo

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Podesta and Duck Dynasty (DO NOT OPEN WITH CHILDREN PRESENT!!)

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Phil Robertson

Photo credit: AP |

 

     It is amazing.   We arrive at the point where a person cannot say that he is opposed to the practice of homosexuality, he considers homosexuality to be a sin, and that he is instructed by his catechism and religious teachings to love the sinner and hate the sin.   The is no record in Robinson's recent or distant past to indicated that he has gone out of his way to torment or injure a homosexual.  Robinson is being castigated and punished by the Arts and Entertainment channel for an attitude and belief that causes no injury.  He is being punished for having an opinion that is based upon a well thought out philosophy that recognises natural law.

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One the other hand, we have John Poedesta:

 

   "In an old interview, my snark got in front of my judgment. I apologize to Speaker Boehner, whom I have always respected," Podesta posted.

 

     That's all!   Move on!  Nothing to see!   Move on!. 
     Not so fast, good buddy.  You and Lucy got some splainin' tudoo.
     John, you are an old hack, dedicated to the notion that you learned from a quick read of Lucifer's bible, Rules for Radicals, that demands radicals to denigrate, isolate, and ridicule all opponents.   Make them objects of scorn....and like all good marxists....you have practiced that white-trash, low-rent method of deportment during the entirety of your professional life.
   Why?   Well, because you like being a thuggish thug.  And you like being a big pawn on the national socialist side of the board. And, no, you do not respect Boehner, nor do you respect anything that stands in the way of the final establishment of a totally corrupt, national socialist, welfare-state America.

     You, and your national socialist buddies, continue to equate a bunch of disorganised dumboes who have an extremely low crime rate, who pay and have paid taxes all their adult lives, who provide for themselves and others, who have many military citations among them, who leave the place cleaner than they find it, who give more to charities than your people by a factor of 12X per capita, who care for their own and others without complaint, who volunteer in their communities in far greater numbers than your group, who are always improving their surroundings, who are immensely cleaner and more well disciplined than the people who attend your gatherings, people who do not desire the bondage and chains of slavery produced by the public welfare system...and that the enslaved spread their wings and fly to that land of self-sufficiency, and who are the antithesis of anything that the Democrat, Communist, false prophet James Jones was.
     And furthermore, the Tea Party people do not hate Negroes, or Mexicans, or Irish, or Polish type people, or even French people;  were you to attend one of their functions you would probably find all of the above sorts of folks well represented....probably even a lesbian Eskimo or two.     Their worst enemy is usually another cracker or lesbian Inuit,  and they don't drive around looking to beat up homosexuals.  They almost all have firearms, and rarely use them save for an occasional hunting trip.  As a group, their firearms safety record is phenomenal. They teach their children...frequently they can be encountered home-schooling their children.   They are very dull and boring people, by choice.  They are responsible and compliant.

     You called a bunch of people who are the antithesis of James Jones a group of people who were like the James Jones phenomena.  You know what the truth is and you consciously said something that was not the truth, therefore you are a liar.   And since you are a that blatant of a liar, that certainly means you are a like all national socialists and Bolsheviks, a chronic, pathological liar.   So, you are in your own excellent company.   William Jefferson Blythe, (Sir Edmund) Corkscrew, Barrack Hussein Obama, and then names the Hall of Shame of vermin who people this administration:   Sibelius, Napolitano, Holder, and so forth.   The list is endless.

    You and your people call the Tea Party people "Hostage Takers", "Anarchists", "Terrorists".  This below is what was done by a deranged communist pseudo-religious leader who was transitioning his flock to live in the Soviet Union, so as to establish his "liberation theology" communal village based on communist principles.  Obsolete Media reports always carefully omit Jones's dedication to communism.  Most, if not all of his adult s of his flock had been brainwashed or were committed to cleave unto the Soviet communist construct.  You  dare to compare the Tea Party people to this scene that we post below?   May the Creator of the Universe have mercy on your rotted soul: 

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Jonestown Massacre, The Peoples Temple Photos:


On November 18, 1978,  912 followers of American cult leader Jim Jones ("Peoples Temple") died in a remote South American jungle compound called "Jonestown" in British Guyana. Some members were shot, others were forced to drink poison, but most willingly participated in what Jones said was an act of "revolutionary suicide."

Jim Jones began his ministry in 1953 as an independent minister in Indianapolis, but was later ordained in 1964 by the Disciples of Christ. By the end of 1971 he had moved his congregation to California eventually establishing two churches there. His main church remained in San Francisco, but a second was also opened in Los Angeles. The Peoples Temple peaked during the 70s to include perhaps as many as 8,000 members. Though racially diverse, most of Jones followers were African Americans.

Jim Jones was once a popular community activist in San Francisco who contributed cash and coordinated volunteers to support both causes and political leaders.

He could turn out thousands for almost any event or effort. During the 70s he appeared with many prominent politicians including then State Assemblyman Willie Brown. In 1976 Mayor George Moscone gave Jones a seat on the San Francisco Housing Authority Commission. Governor Jerry Brown was even seen attending services at the Peoples Temple.

But after the tragic deaths at Jonestown Willie Brown said, "If we knew then he was mad, clearly we wouldn't have appeared with him. But it's not fair to say what you would have done if you knew the kind of madness that would take place years later.''

Negative press reports began to surface about Jim Jones in the summer of 1977. In response to such criticism he moved many of his followers to British Guyana. Eventually about 1,000 core supporters gathered at an isolated retreat there, which was later officially named "Jonestown." But complaints from former members and families continued, ultimately culminating in requests for an official investigation.

According to an affidavit dated June 15, 1978 one-time Temple member and Jonestown resident Deborah Layton stated that "conditions had become so bad that half of Jonestown was ill with severe diarrhea and high fevers." But despite this they "were required to work in the fields from 7 AM to 6 PM six days per week and on Sunday from 7 AM to 2 PM" and the "food was woefully inadequate." Ms. Layton advised that "Rev. Jones...claimed that he was the reincarnation of...Lenin, Jesus Christ [and]...had divine powers." And further stated that Jones also "appeared deluded by a paranoid vision of the world. He would not sleep for days at a time and talk[ed] compulsively about the conspiracies against him." The compound "was swarming with armed guards [and] no one was permitted to leave unless on a special assignment," Layton said. Jim Jones warned "that the time was not far off when it would become necessary for [his followers] to die by [their] own hands," she added. A so-called "White Night" or "state of emergency" was often declared at the compound and within this context mass suicide was rehearsed.

California Congressman Leo J. Ryan received many complaints from his constituents regarding family members who were followers of Jim Jones. He subsequently responded through an investigation. With permission from Jim Jones, Ryan came to visit the group's compound on November 17, 1978. The congressman toured the settlement and met with Jim Jones. On the 18th some Temple members passed notes to Congressman Ryan's party requesting to leave with them. Ryan agreed and took some members of the Peoples Temple with him. At an isolated airstrip on the 18th, apparently under orders from Jim Jones, gunmen from Jonestown ambushed Congressman Ryan's party. Leo J. Ryan and four others were killed immediately, some of the Ryan party escaped into the jungle.

Anticipating the end of his ministry and certain arrest, Jim Jones then ordered the "state of emergency" he had so long anticipated. This carefully rehearsed mass suicide now finally took place. Everyone, except the very few that escaped into the surrounding jungle, either committed suicide or was murdered. More than 280 children were killed. Jim Jones body was found at Jonestown, fatally wounded by a gunshot to the head.

Willie Brown now the Mayor of San Francisco lamented in 1998, twenty years after the mass suicide and murders, that "Jonestown was a tragedy of the first order, and it remains a painful and sorrowful event in our history. Not a year has gone by that I have not stopped to remember San Francisco's terrible loss."

 

Brought to you by a fellow who was one of San Francisco Mayor Mascone's (D) top ten campaign contributors.   Brought to you by a fellow who dedicated himself to the communist cause and was comfortable in his dealings with Kremlin authorities.  Brought to you by a deranged lunatic who wanted to establish a "Communist Christian Commune" in Russia to be used as a propaganda device to show how benevolent the USSR  was and how well communism would work in an "accepting environment".   If your daughter brings a guy home who looks remotely like the above picture, you need to have a long and quick talk with her. 

    Finally Podesta, I certainly wish that I could be sly and tricky so that I could say something like.... "my mouth got out in front of my real feelings".  You national socialists and Bolsheviks are so, so very sharp about how you say tricky things that the stupid retro-hicks can't interpret.   That way you get to feel good about yourself and realize that rush of superiorist ego, knowing that you are so, so much smarter than all those hayseeds and hillbillies.  You can insult them twice and make it look like you really apologizing to them!   Aren't they stoooooopidddd!!!!   Hahahahahaa!

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"Perchance he for whom this bell tolls may be so ill, as that he knows not it tolls for him; and perchance I may think myself so much better than I am, as that they who are about me, and see my state, may have caused it to toll for me, and I know not that."  John Donne

 

 

 

Thanks for the time and attention invested with me on the skirts of the Sierra Madre Oriental.

El Gringo Viejo

” sponsored by the Department of Religious Studies at San Diego State University.
Below are the following member's of the People's Temple of Jonestown whose bodies were autopsied upon arriving back to the United States:

Follow up on the Mexican Constitutional Amendment concerning foreign petroleum activities

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    During the past 36 hours, the Land of Man~ana became more like the land of "Right now would be fine".   There are 31 States in the Republic of Mexico.  Some are larger and some are smaller.  Some are more populous, others are sparser.   But, once a Congressional agreement has been approved with the same wording, dot by dot, crossed t by crossed t, then, in the case of a Constitutional Amendment the bill must be remanded to the Presidents of the Congress of each State for their review and action, if any.   Simultaneously the Governor of each State receives the same legislation.

 

     These State reviews can be tectonic at times, as the local politicians try to wrangle out a completion of a highway or a dam from the Feds.   But, in this case, there have already been a sufficient number of States approving the Amendment to the Constitution authorising the Secretary of Government and the Secretary of the Treasury, at the discretion of the President of the Republic, to permit and prosecute to completion the opening of the Mexican market to drilling, refining, partnerships with Mexican firms, and the marketing of foreign petroleum products.

 

     There exists a chance that PEMEX service stations might even start to be seen in the frontier, on the Texas side.   They normally come equipped with nice convenience stores with clean rest-rooms...quite a novelty in Mexico until about 12 years ago.  They have a good quality of gasoline and additives, so the competition might well work both ways, to the benefit of all.

 

So that is where we are.  The work has been done.  The Partido Revolucionario Democratico  (PRD), essentially a hard socialist operation, did all their shouting, throwing of bags of blood  (pig's blood or catsup actually) in the State Capitol buildings and in the surrounding streets, and they committed a minimal amount of damage for an Occupy bunch....it was apparent that the wind was out of their sales, and that they had lost the argument and the issue.  The PRd and the entire leftist movement in Mexico ploughs shallower and plants less seed as each day goes by.  People are just tired of useless chanting, traffick freezing marches, the vandalism, and the ever looming threat of violence that accompanies any interaction with them.  The  PRD is a party without a novel thought beyond selling Che' pullovers, and nationalisation of the chewing gum factory, NOW!

 

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from the Wall Street Journal,
17 December 2013

Mexican State Legislatures Approve Energy Changes

Oil Industry to Be Opened to More Private Investment

By

Anthony Harrup

Updated Dec. 16, 2013 4:29 p.m. ET

MEXICO CITY—A majority of Mexican state legislatures have approved changes in the constitution that open the country's state-run energy industry to greater private investment and end a 75-year-old monopoly of state oil company Petróleos Mexicanos.

     Early Monday, San Luis Potosí became the 17th state to vote in favor of the bill, which amends the constitution to allow for private firms to explore for and produce oil and gas for the first time since the 1938 expropriation of the industry.

     Constitutional amendments in Mexico require a two-thirds majority vote in the Senate and lower house, and approval by a majority of the 31 state legislatures.

      Last week, the Senate and the lower house of Congress approved the changes, which amend the three constitutional articles that formed the core of the country's restrictive energy laws. With the necessary state approvals, the Congress can declare the changes constitutional and send the bill to President Enrique Peña Nieto to be signed into law.

      Mr. Peña Nieto, who is on a state visit to Turkey, said he would sign the bill as soon as he gets it back from Congress, which he expects in the coming days, according to a transcript from the presidential press office.

      Once that happens, the government and Congress have four months to draw up the enabling legislation that will include, among other things, details of the contracts that will be offered.

Under the new energy laws, private oil companies will be allowed to produce oil and gas, either sharing profits in joint ventures with the government, sharing production, or under licenses where they will pay royalties on oil produced.

      It also opens up oil refining, electricity and other areas of the energy industry to private concerns.

     Passage of the energy bill, which was supported by the ruling party and conservative opposition but opposed by leftist opposition groups, marks the high point in a number of legal changes that Mr. Peña Nieto's administration managed to pass in its first year to raise the country's long-term growth potential. Earlier overhauls were made in education, telecommunications, banking and tax laws.

Write to Anthony Harrup at anthony.harrup@wsj.com

 

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     El Zorro and I are involved at this time about the doors that might open that have not been anticipated.   It bodes well for the Mexicans.  It bodes well for the Americans and the Canadians.   And, of course, it is a hopeful development for all of the Republic of Texas.
    It should trouble any American to think that the Mexicans are stumbling out of a socialist mess that will take at least 20 more years to completely recover from, that horrid legacy of 1970 - 1982 and the Echeverria - Lopez Portillo mess, and that suddenly they act and approve something that is about 250 times bigger than the Keystone Pipeline.
   And in the meantime the Selfie-taker-in-Chief plays with vixen Prime Ministrinas at a funereal affair in a foreign country, on a different continent.
Nero, come tune your fiddle, and then please resign.  

 

    But now it is official.  The doing of the deed has been done and the authorisation has become past tense.   El Gringo Viejo genuinely never thought it would happen in this lifetime.

 

Wandering through the fog with a wistful smile to-night.

El Gringo Viejo 

Megan Kelly is right....I hope she knows why

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Nicolaos, Bishop of Myra
It should be of interest that myra from
the Turkish is a perfume of rose-water
which is what we know from the King
James orginal translations as myrrh.

 

 

 

    During these periods that accompany preparations for the Feast of the Nativity and the attendant Christ's Mass, we would like to throw in a vote of concurrence with Megan Kelly.  The issue is a useless one, because it deals with matter of race, colour, and ethnicity.   Leftists who are addicted to causing and exacerbating racial divides have run out of any issues beyond taking money from productive people to spend on renewable lethargy, and fomentation of racial/ethnic hatred.   They really are nice people...?

 

     Megan is right.   There is more than one legend of a cleric who distributed gifts.  But!!!  The one that must be focused upon most carefully is the Bishop of Myra.    He dates to the last half of the Third Century and the first half of the  Fourth Century.  He was decidedly Caucasian, racially.   Although he was very active in the Christian Church as is noted by his high rank of Bishop of Myra, he was not Turkish.
     As St. Patrick was not Irish, but Anglo-Saxon, our friend of the miracle of giving was decidedly Hellenic..... Greek, born in Greece, and of Grecian ancestry.  His father was a religious man and bore the name of Theopolous.   Nicolaos was always dedicated to religiosity.  Even as a child he observed all the fasts and prayed frequently.   He was elevated to the cloth and became a Bishop at a relatively early age.
     His service to his Saviour, his congregations, and the general populace was marked with numerous very strange and powerful miracles.   Neither was he a poor man, but rather a financially well-fixed person.  It is said and it was venerated that he returned three children, sealed in a vat, from the dead.  The three young boys were slaughtered by a butcher, who then ordered his wife to seal the butchered pieces into a curing barrel marked "hams".  Nicolaos saw through the butcher's evil acts and miraculously restored the three youngsters to life.

    He intervened in the execution-by-beheading of three innocent sailors and changed the will of the ordering judge and the executioner by invoking the will of Yahweh and His Son.  He was associated with the restoration of a man's hope lost, due to the fact that he, as a father,  did not have money for his three daughter's dowries.  Various stories have that once every time a daughter came of age (15 years), a bag of gold coins...a fortune...would appear at the door.  Other explanations are that the bags arrived through a window (Gabriel's trick) at the Feast of the  Annunciation.  A third explanation is that he threw the youngest girl's bag of gold coins down the chimney and it landed in her stockings that were drying overnight by the embers of the fireplace.

  Lutherans, Roman Catholics, Anglicans, and the Eastern Orthodox denominations recognise Saint Nicolaos and revere him as the saint of sailors, thieves, archers, pawnbrokers, and students.  The apostolic non-Catholic denominations usually recognise Saint Nicolas, as do many Baptist congregations.
    The acts of other well-to-do clerics in western and northern Europe seemed to re-enforce the notion of magical gifting by some kind person of the cloth.   It would be reasonable to assume that after arguments and incessant questioning,  somebody said to his children, "I don't know where the heck he come from!!!  Maybe he comes from the North Pole!!  Now leave me alone."
     But, among the lesser acts that actually engendered the concept we carry as not-too-good Christians, is that Saint Nicolaos is associated with the spirit of giving.   That came from the habit Nicolaos had to take servants and a fine carriage out into the working class and poorer areas during the early morning hours, supposedly of the Feast of the Epiphany....and then go about quickly place toys and baubles at the door for the children of those houses who had them.    It was said that the rapidity by which the gifts were placed, without detection, seemed to be magical.

 

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     The first hurdle is to understand that the words "white" and "Caucasian" are interchangeable.   That will solve a lot of problems.   One can disagree with that statement, one might not want that statement to be true, but it is.  If a person wishes to believe differently, that is fine, but it is not anthropologically correct, and following that belief pattern will restrict one's usefulness in any theatre of educated argument.
 

    Now, for the record, not all white men are white.  A lot of groups that folks may not think are white, really are white.   The following is not suppositional: it is fact and provable by dna and chromosome analysis and so forth.   There are a few whitish looking people who are not white...not Caucasian.  We shall address a few of them. 

     Semitic and Asemitic people are all white folks.  In the South we coined up the word Asemitic to identify the children of the seed of Hagar and Abraham.  But, academically and ethnographically, they are all Semites.  That whole batch of northern African (Mediterranean) peoples stretching well past what is now Afghanistan....are all white.   The Syrians, Armenians, all the people of the Caucasus Regions, all the Iraqi and Kurds and Turks....they also be white.  The Saudi, Yeminis, Kuwaitis, the Omanis....even unto the Moroccans, Libyans, Tunis, and most of the Egyptians and Eritreans (very dark people) are white....along with the peoples of northern Algeria.
     Next are the Pakistanis and the Indians, some of whom could make a lump of coal jealous.  But, they are white.   The Iranians are white, but not Arab.   Nor is their language based in Arabic or any form thereof.  The Iranians are Indo-Arian.  Much of their blood-line is Germanic and their language is Farsi, which is derived from several languages including one that is probably pre-historic by several thousand years.

     All the folks who can trace all sides of their ancestry into pre-World War II Europe are white.....save for one little batch that causes folks to scratch their heads a lot.  The Swedes and Nords are white, certainly, but not the Finnish.  They are a cross between Celto-nordics and Mongolian.  And their language is different from their neighbours in substantial ways.

     So, the white folks are a peculiar bunch.  Europe, divided into so many ethnic slices...just England and the British Isles....Ingle, Jute, Welsh, Irish, Scot, Norman, and others....like Manx.   Europe has the Anglo-Saxon group, the Germanic or Teutonic Group, the Slavic group which includes Serbs and Russians, Slovaks, Poles, and the like, the Scandinavian or Nordic group, the "Latin" group....which ranges by itself to include Portugal, Spain, the southern half of France, Italy, and Romania.   All white folks.

     Pure Spanish, however and for instance, is an example of the complexities of the study of race and the children of race....ethnicity.   Spain and the Iberian Peninsula has a minimum of six major ethnic entities, and variations of the language to the point that Portuguese is regarded as a separate language from Spanish....in spite of the obvious similarities.  A dialect, however, ceases to be a dialect when one or the other of two similar speech groups can no longer readily understand the other.  In this case the Spaniard and Mexican and Cuban, etc, has great difficulty understanding a Portuguese speaker, while the Portuguese speaker has no difficulty understanding the Spaniard.  Ethnically, the Portuguese tends to be a bit more Jew and less Arab than the southern Spaniard.   A native Barcelonan speaks a dialect that is difficult to understand by the Spanish speaker....called Catalonese...but almost all those northeastern Spaniards can also speak Spanish without reverting to their nationalistic Catalonese.

     My professor brother who was a great and famous cultural geographer, linguist, and anthropologist and I both arrived independently to the conclusion, however, that there is no such thing as races.  If a Japanese-type person can give blood to a Luo Tribesman from central Kenya and vica-versa, then there most certainly an overriding truth....there is only one race.

    So, Virginia, as I have always kept posted on the side-column about Santa Claus...yes, there most certainly is a Santa Claus....and he most certainly is white....and he belongs to all of us of that one race of many colours....and we belong to him, even if we do not believe in him.   El Gringo Viejo chooses to believe in him because he has seen the works of the Greek bishop in the modern era.

Keeping Vigil.

Brief Story of Amazement .

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Cristina Fernandez Vda. de Kirchner had a significant health set-back recently.   It was  something like a blood clot on the brain, and it put her down for the count of nine.   Suffice to say, her presidency of Argentina has also be something like a blood clot on the brain of Argentina.   Supposedly, at this time, Argentina's executive is a composite of sixteen to nineteen different individuals. Cristina is rolled out, as though she were a latter-day Evita, full of sawdust and formaldehyde and glowing with a golden lustre, to smile and nod and wave like Queen Elizabeth's famous un-screwing the light-bulb.


The new president, Bachelat,

ready to raise taxes after advanced

training, running women's issues

programmes at the United Nations.

Standing at the right of the picture

and far to the left in Chilean politics

allowing Real Live Communists into

her kinder and gentler cabinet, she

also worked as a double in movies

about (Sir Edmund) Hillary

 Rodman de Benghazi.

 

     The Argentine peso is more shot now than ever....worse than the Mexican peso in the late 1970s in terms of the overall losses and general economic impact on the Argentine peoples.  The gnomes in the Casa Rosa (the name of the presidential palace in Buenos Aires) are still trying to stop global warmingcooling and destroy the wealthy.

     We are disappointed that the people of Chile have decided to trundle into the vacant, cold, labyrinthine halls of Satan's Nest.... called  Plantation Socialism.   The left in Chile points to Pinochet, who in fact saved Chile from a guaranteed lemming jump into the Bay of Havana, and keep plugging away to enslave the people of Chile to a group of gnomes in Santiago.  It works so well in Cuba and Venezuela, no? 

 
    And just look at the United States, where Obama has given everybody free medical service all the time, especially the octogenarian, reverse-transgendered namow who is desperately in need of pharmaceutical contraceptives and lactation pumps.  It is only fair.   So Chile now has a parliament of demagogues who are ready to approve an increase in the taxes levied against those horrid corporations so that the pot-smoking, indolent. collegiate-class of young Chilenos can have "free university".

We give it 30 months before the whole thing unravels when different "progressive" factions within the central government in Santiago eat each other while the Chilean economy crumbles.

El Gringo Viejo

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