The Battle Begins and Ends with Us

PRAY FOR THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS.

 

PRAY FOR THE HEALTH OF OUR SISTERS, the United States of America WHO ARE POOR IN SPIRIT AND IN HEALTH.
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PRAY FOR THOSE WHO COME AFTER AND WHO WILL CONFRONT THE DEBT.
 AND PRAY FOR THE  MILLIONS OF DEPENDENT PEOPLE WHO HAVE BECOME, AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE, A MENACE TO THEMSELVES AND SO MANY OTHERS
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This presentation is always worth the listening.  The marvel of the talent and discipline speaks volumes about the human capacity and spirit.  It is something unseen, but very real.

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     Certain factual errors in this clip notwithstanding, we present this clip in deference to those few who stood against so many during these very hours, about 180 years ago, right now.   The central part of the battle had been joined.  In less than forty eight hours, the bodies of all defenders save one, will have filled the hills and meadows surround San Antonio with smoke from their immolation.    Preliminary gestures and probes.  One assault in force, which had been repulsed, and the realisation that, unless reinforcements were to miraculously appear, the outcome had been settled.   The only thing left would be the body count.   The last scene with Mrs. Dickenson leaving with her daughter and the Negro boy...was actually quite a number of female survivors and their children, mainly Tejano people...Latin relatives of the Spanish-surnamed who died their defence of the Fortress along with wives and children of a few of the other men who died in the fight.  The Negro boy was actually a slave adult, named Joe, who eschewed a guarantee of emancipation offered by Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Presidente Generalissimo de Mexico, and chose instead to abide by his duty and deliver Mrs. Dickenson and other women and their children to the East....to some unknown destination.   They would meet up with Juan Sequin a couple of days later, near Gonzalez, where Sequin would learn from "Joe" of the disaster at San Antonio de Bexar, at a place known as La Mision de San Antonio de Valero del Alamo (the Mission of the Cottonwood Tree).

     The word "Valero" is a formal locational name...such as Brighton or Hamburg in English or German.  Valero is obviously Hebraic Spanish, from the Extramadura...(southeastern part of Spain)...and probably means something akin to "wealth-producing place"...or a man who works in jewellery or wealth...or who sells things of value or substance.  Almost certainly, however, this application of the word "Valero" in the name of San Antonio de Bexar refers to a community of that name back in Spain.   Almost certainly the patron saint of Valero in Spain would be Saint Anthony.

 

The Queen of the Missions of San Antonio
Mision San Jose, still in use to this day, in
 celebrationof masses, weddings, funerals,
 and other rites of the Roman
 Catholic Church.

 

     Other Spanish Colonial epoch churches and missions in the San Antonio area are the Mision San Francisco de la Espada, Mision San Juan Capistrano, Mision de la Santissima Concepcion,  and Mision San Jose.  Not too far away are the Mision Sen~ora del Espiritu Santo de Zun~iga, and the Mision Santa Cruz de San Saba.  Being first built (1716), and the most decrepit, the Alamo was used primarily as a warehouse, granary, and food processing and storage.

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Contemplations and Honours to one of the Top Ten of Texas

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Colonel Juan Nepomuceno Seguin's
Alamo Defenders' Burial Oration
delivered in San Antonio
25th February 1837

Eulogy published in the 
Telegraph and Texas Register
of Columbia (later Houston), Texas April 4, 1837

 

 

"Companions in Arms!! These remains which we have the honour of carrying

 

 on our shoulders are those of the valiant heroes who died in the Alamo.

 

  Yes, my friends, they preferred to die a thousand times rather than submit

 

 themselves to the tyrant's yoke. What a brilliant example! Deserving of being

 

 noted in the pages of history. The spirit of liberty appears to be looking out

 

 from its elevated throne with its pleasing mien,  pointing to us, and  saying:

 

 "There are your brothers, Travis, Bowie, Crockett, and others whose valour

 

 places them in the rank of my heroes." Yes soldiers and fellow citizens, these

 are the worthy beings who, by the twists of fate, during the present campaign

 delivered their bodies to the ferocity of their enemies; who, barbarously

 

 treated as beasts, were bound by their feet and dragged to this spot, where

 

 they were reduced to ashes. The venerable remains of our worthy

 

 companions as witnesses, I invite you to declare to the entire world, "Texas

 

 shall be free and independent or we shall perish in glorious combat."

 

Colonel Juan N. Seguin, Commandant
San Antonio, Bexar, Texas
Army of the Republic of Texas

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     The term, Alamo de Parras, meaning "Cottonwood Tree of the Grapevines" was appropriate to the area at the time, and was one of the steadily evolving common, vernacular names of what would later become San Antonio, Texas. Almost all the barely spring-fed creeks in that area of Central Texas have stands of cottonwoods right up to the creek's edge.  Then there are large cypress trees, along the standard flood line, and then walnut and pecans, growing wild, and backed by bramble and low growth.   This low growth and the middling high trees would almost always be draped with skirts of wild mustang grapes that were used by Indians and then by the Spanish colonists for the making of a pretty fair wine.  Mustang grapes can be adapted, after some effort, to a predictable husbandry, and they seem to enjoy the extremes of climate provided by Central Texas...very hot, very cold, very dry, very wet. Crummy rocky soil, but what there is can be very, very fertile is another characteristic of the geography of the area around the Balcones Escarpment, upon which San Antonio is situated.

          The Sequin family was ensconced in the Walnut Springs Creek area, about 28 miles to the east of "downtown San Antonio" and they were  well known in the San Antonio community.   Juan's mother was from the very prominent Becerra family that had lived in and around San Antonio, as ranchers, for four generations.   That was no mean task for those days. (As an aside, Becerra translated to the English means "heifer".)

     After the establishment of an independent Mexico during the 1821 - 1822 period, various of the elements of previous Spanish military and civilian order simply took up their morning chores and military and civilian duties as the only source of stability and continuity in the northernmost outpost of the new nation's northeasternmost extensions.

    Juan Sequin would become a fixture there and in adjacent places called La Bahia del Espiritu Santo  and Goliad (The Bay of the Holy Ghost and Goliath) near what is in a triangle bounded by Goliad - Victoria - Central Gulf Coast of Texas.   His social life would forever intertwine him with the names of Gonzalez, Navarro, and especially Zaragoza that were prominent in that area and also to a lesser extent up to and near San Antonio de Bexar.   He married in 1825 at the age of 19....was known to be a literate person...a musician...and a hard worker.

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ACCOMPLISHMENTS

of a 

True Texas Hero

 

1834 - - Appointed Territorial Governor (Jefe Politico) of Texas.

 

1834 - - Being the first to organize opposition to Gen. Santa Anna by preparing a circular inviting citizens to take part in a Texas Constitutional Convention.

 

1835 - - Appointed to the rank of Captain in the Texas Army by Commander and Chief Stephen F. Austin: Captain Seguin recruited fighters to defend against the invasion of Santa Anna's army; Juan Seguin personally provide his own troops with horses, food and shelter.

 

1835 - - Battle of Gonzales erupted over possession of a cannon wanted returned by Mexican troops; Gonzales citizens challenged the troops to "Come and Take It." They then used it to fire the first shot of the Revolution.

 

1835 - - Juan Seguin fought alongside Jim Bowie in the Battle of Concepcion; then rushed to join the Grass Fight south of San Antonio in an effort to slow the pace of Centralist forces coming to establish a non-representative government.

 

1835 - - Siege of Bejar - Captain Seguin with his 160 Tejano ranchers and Texas volunteers attacked Gen. Perfecto de Cos troops then in control of San Antonio in a crucial battle that signaled no turning back by Texas freedom fighters.

 

1836 - - The advance guard of Santa Anna's troops was sighted near San Antonio which alerted the small detachment of defenders to quickly regroup on the grounds of the Alamo: Once there, the small unit of Texans immediately prepared their defense of the mission against the attacking troops of Gen. Perfecto de Cos that were soon to be dramatically increased by the much larger forces of General Santa Anna.

 

1836 - - The Siege of the Alamo commenced; Captain Seguin defended the mission alongside Crockett, Travis, and Bowie until ordered by Colonel Travis to break through Mexican Centralists' Army's lines in search of additional Texian troops.

 

1836 - - The Fall of the Alamo occurred while Captain Seguin was following his orders to ride to Goliad in search of reinforcements from the troops of Colonel Fannin.

 

1836 - - He next rushed to warn and help defend Texas citizens fleeing from the path of the Mexican Centralist Army during the ensuing Runaway Scrape.

 

1836 - - Captain Seguin commanded the  Cavalry Company  of the 2nd Regiment during the Texians' victory over Santa Anna Army at San Jacinto; soon after that brief struggle, he was ordered by General Sam Houston to enforce the orderly withdrawal ofGeneral Lopez de Santa Anna's troops from Texas.

 

1836 - - Captain Seguin with his army re-entered San Antonio to accept the surrender of the Mexican Centralist forces there under the command of Lt. Col. Francisco Castaneda, the same officer involved in the opening skirmish over the cannon at Gonzales.

 

1836 - - He was promoted to the rank of Lt. Colonel by Republic of Texas President David Burnet, who expressed special trust in the courage, patriotism, and ability of Juan N. Seguin.

 

1837 - - He successfully appealed to his friend, Sam Houston, to rescind a prior military order to destroy San Antonio by fire, thus earning Colonel Seguin the respect for saving that city.

 

1837 - - Ordered by Sam Houston to bury the remains of the Alamo defenders, Colonel Seguin provided the martyrs with a Christian burial including full military honours.

 

1839 - - Senator Juan N. Seguin presented a bill that established a mail route from Austin to San Antonio.

1839 - - Colonel Seguin was honored by the citizens of Walnut Springs who voted to change the name of their community to Seguin because of his service to Texas during its heroic struggle for Independence.

 

1837 - 1840 - - The Biographical Directory of the Texas Conventions and Congresses states that Juan Seguin was an elected member of the Senate of the Republic of Texas 2nd, 3rd and 4th Congresses; Senator Seguin's legacy includes his strong leadership for adoption of a bill requiring all of the Laws of the Republic of Texas to be written in both English and Spanish. Senator Seguin held high his views that the Republic's law should protect all citizens and that there can be no doubt as to the rights an individual enjoys, and equally important what his responsibilities are, as a citizen of Texas.

 

January 19, 1840. Austin was selected as the official capital. Col. Seguin was on the joint Senate and House Committee to select the site for the Capitol of Texas which was named for his bosom friend Stephen F. Austin, It is related that the committee killed buffalo for their food while camped to locate the site for the capital of Texas.

 

1841 - - Juan Seguin is elected Mayor of San Antonio.

 

1842- - After considerable harassment by newly arriving, mainly German settlers, coupled with death threats against his family, Seguin leaves to Mexico, and resides in the Rio Grande area with relatives, from Laredo to Reynosa.  He is arrested and given a choice between being jailed for treason against Mexico or serving in the Army against Indian depredations and possible Texian counter-offensives.   He joins the Army and winds up serving in the Christmas Battle of Mier, where Gen. Pedro Ampudia and Seguin defeat a Texian force after a two-day battle, known in Texas as "The Black Bean Expedition".  Later Seguin served in the Mexican defence in front of American Generals Taylor and Worth during their march to Monterrey in the Mexican War of 1847-1848.

 

1850- -Seguin returns to Texas and is restored to his possessions and rights of citizenship.  He returns to business as usual.

 

1852 - - Won election as Bexar County Justice of the Peace; re-elected for a second term two years later.

 

1869 - - Elected Wilson County Judge.

 

1874 - - Juan Seguin was declared a hero of the Texas War for Independence by the Texas Legislature and provided a lifetime pension by the state.  With this pension, his age, and complications during the 10 years of Military Governor Edmund Davis's brutal Reconstruction administration, and due to his bad treatment because of his service to the Confederacy as a elected civilian officer and as a reserve officer in the Partisan Rangers, Juan decided to return back to his remaining relatives in Laredo.   He would return to visit various friends at times, but spent his remaining days writing his recollections, explaining his life's decisions to people who wrote or visited him, and living comfortably with his assets and his Texas pension for service during the War against C. Gen. Presidente Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, (war criminal extraordinaire)  and the Mexican Centralists, the majority of whom were patriots in their own wrought and right, doing a job they felt needed be done.

 

1890 - - Juan Seguin dies in Laredo, Tamaulipas at the age of 84.

 

1974 - - The remains of Juan Seguin, Hero of the Battle of San Jacinto, are returned to Seguin, Texas and interred with all honours, and to this day his Spirit receives visitors from friends, relatives, and those interested in the life of this brave...and in ways at times hard to understand...and very loyal Friend of Texas.

 

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    This is enough to digest.  It depresses, as well as inspires, as well as comforts an old Texan to know that there was another fellow who was dealt some hands whose cards had a lot of low numbers.  But he was very much a man of honour....who protected his family first....and always considered himself a Texan.  I bear no rancour against him, only respect and a preference that all should deal with his life and legacy in a positive way.   He truly was integral in the 13 Days of Glory, and the 22 minutes of retribution that would take place a month and three weeks after the Fall of the Alamo, in a place called San Jacinto.

El Gringo Viejo

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One of many friends...but these words are especially valuable to El Gringo Viejo

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     This is an especially pleasant note from a fellow traveller on the Anglican Curmudgeon's blog.  She is an earnest and positive critic of A Gringo in Rural Mexico, a great-great-grand niece of William Barrett (Traverse) Travis, and a much less wordily expressed analyst of the American Condition than your humble servant.

     I have concurred or agreed with every contribution she has made both here and at the Anglican Curmudgeon's blogsite.   At this moment, she has wandered over to underscore the accuracy of our reporting and recounting here.  The failure to encounter the weapons of mass destruction by the American and Allied Forces in Iraq was a joyously reported matter that proved beyond doubt to those of low intellectual ability that "George Bush Lied, and People Died".  Of course, it also proved to be valuable ammunition to the elite, obsolete media that would rather have an anti-Republican story than the Truth anytime.

 

     The only problem is that during the beginning stages, just before and right at the beginning of the hostilities, there were reports, even in the Obsolete Press that convoys of very heavy transport trucks were being waved through Syrian border checkpoints.   Speculation, informed rumour, deductions made by arms specialists and military analysts, were reported for two or three days.   I recall one report that suggested that the Americans knew about the convoys from their aerial reconnaissance but it was thought that Bush wanted to avoid widening the theatre of the War by giving Syria an excuse to joins arms with Hussein.   Although Bashir Assad and  Saddam Hussein were enemies of a sort Hussein had demonstrated that he would entrust Iraqi assets with his enemies, as when he sent his feeble air force group over to Iran during the War to Liberate Kuwait.  About sixteen poorly maintained fighters made to Iran at that time.

 

 

     In any regard, our friend sent this brief note, a kind of testimony in El Gringo Viejo's defence, just to let me know that I have not been dreaming or inventing the story about the truck convoys to Syria.

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I am a TV news (and C-Span) junkie. I clearly remember, just prior to US forces invading Iraq, seeing several aerial coverage of convoys of Iraqi trucks crossing the Syrian border, and TV commentators saying the suspicions were they were moving the weapons (of mass destruction).
Strangely, when none were found within Iraq, the story changed to "they never existed", and the convoys were never mentioned again.

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          Her transmission jogged my memory, because in truth, there were fairly lengthy, very low level filmings of the convoys...some tractors pulling trailers with triple rear axles....and everything neatly canvas-covered and roped-down in a fairly orderly manner.   It was almost as if the "fly-overs" were being done by those small helicopters or fixed-wing single-propeller observation planes used for forward infantry reconnaissance.

 

     So.   I know the truth was being told through my good offices, but this transmission from our friend at the Anglican Curmudgeon reassures that the OROGs can have sounder faith that it was not a dream that produced those convoys to Syria.

 

Many thanks to our contributor!

El Gringo Viejo

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Important Purrsonalities at the Quinta Tesoro de la Sierra Madre

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     We are all but totally self-consumed and egocentric.   It has been a life-long affliction.  So it is with a bit of trepidation that I move to underscore these personal defects by recommending to all OROGs, especially the newcomers, that they randomly review older and ancient...and some of the more recent rantings, observations, historical and Mexican analyses, and other commentary.

    This review is not for the purpose of deeper understanding of my great genius and superior, Cosmically-inspired intelligence, but rather to take advantage of the fact that this blog has many, many sharp edges and soft landing zones and nooks and crannies.  It is not mono-dimensional.   We have had people comment about the range of ravings, ranting, and contemplations they encounter within the entries found in A Gringo in Rural Mexico:  voice from the Sierra Madre Oriental....it is the nature of the beast.   Asi soy  (As such, I am).

 

    Herein is included an example of such.  These are among my very few and best friends at the Quinta Tesoro de la Sierra Madre.

 

 

 

 

 

Each cat-owner, if he/she is realistic and honest, will admit that cats own their two-legged, fellow occupants.   There really is no compromise about that one fundamental point.  These three are no exception.

 

 

From the top to the bottom:

 

 

(1)   Cleopaetra -  She prefers the spelling of her name as the OROG sees it.  She is a short-hair, Maine Coon green.   She is incredibly psychic, does well with the dogs, and is the spitting image of the 20 year old cat we took down from Texas and who is buried on the grounds of the Quinta.  She is somewhat affectionate, sometimes demanding, and prefers to sleep entirely under the covers during the episodes of cold and uncovered during the Summer nine-months.  Born in the Ejido of Francisco I. Madero, about 300 yards from her present Estate.   Mother of two, both boys, who live elsewhere in the Ejido.  Prefers Whiskas, half & half, very occasional table food, individual canned corn kernels served one at a time as a desert.   Very good mouser and poisonous snake killer.

 

(2)    Calico or Calandria -   In English she is the former and Spanish the latter, due to her colouration.   Calandria is the northern Mexican Spanish word for the Oriole bird.  Calandria also is the word in Spanish for a particular type of light horse-drawn carriage.   This cat was left off on us, and has always been something of an enigma.  She eats about a half-pint of milk per day....in 12 to 15 different demand servings.  She has figure issues.  She has become more entertaining and involved socially with El Gringo Viejo over the years, and like Cleopaetra generally accompanies me on my daily morning walks to different points on the Rio Corona with the dogs.   At times she studies the perch to the point that someday, probably, she will dive in and catch one.  She also likes to sleep on top of El Gringo Viejo during cold weather, and after the old coot has fallen asleep in his recliner  while watching History or Discovery.   Cleopaetra resists such sharing, and the combat generally wakes up the old coot, much to his displeasure.   Cleo also generally dines on Whiskas with very little variation. 

 

(3)   Smokey -  The full sister of Cleopaetra, Smokey is an Angora-like, Maine Coon green, very nervous, high strung yet docile.  She likes to play, but on her terms...and can tend to be a bit claws-and-teeth rough.  She likes to sleep in the large closet in the big bedroom.   On occasion, she and her sister will curl up in a ball of identical coloured fur in their cat-bed so as to look like some kind of monster racoon.  This is a cold-weather phenomena.   Like her sister, she is given to wild running around in the house at times, using the vertical walls as bounce-off devices for making "flying-curve manoeuvres" in order to make 90 degree corners at full speed.  Excellent mouser and poisonous snake killer.  Can be affectionate at times without expectation of reward.  Like her sister, she likes Whiskas....not so much milk or cream, but some....and really likes her Whiskas treats, which she will chase down as if they are wild game. Mother of three, males, delivered on the same day as her sister's two males.

 

 

     There are a million, billion stories and quirks that make my cats and dogs much more special than your cats or dogs...thereby making them exactly like your dogs and cats....but we shan't burden the OROG's patience with such droning-forth.   It is sufficient that the reader have an idea of what we mean when we might mention "the cats".

 

    Below is the pitiable girl-dog who delivered us 9 puppies....all males....all looking suspiciously like BeBe the Labrador.   We ridded ourselves of the pups, all to good homes, and even the mother....whose names is Sonsa (Silly Dunce in English)....was given to a nice family 14 kilometres away, to the South.  We were elated that she had found a place where she was actually wanted....until she wandered up from the Rio Corona, about one week later, scrawny, scratched-up, and elated to see her "real home" again.    She refuses to be touched or even come close to any human....even Alvaro and El Gringo Viejo.   She will wait for us to leave her bowl of food for her...and once we depart she will eat everything, without regard for or against the starving dogs in China.   She is fairly useless, but will bark at friends and strangers alike.   We are giving her an injection every now and then...a Stork Repellent....so as to avoid "problems" in the future.

 

         

Ugly, fairly stupid, but loyal.  She follows
El Gringo Viejo around like a robot, but never
comes within four feet of him or any human.
She is also very small, 15 lbs., and has survived
two encounters with motor vehicles.  One year
old at this point, and avoids motorised vehicles.

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Thanks for your time and interest.

El Gringo Viejo

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MSNBC'S MADDOW BLAMES BUSH FOR MESS IN THE UKRAINE

 

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     The esteemed Rachel Maddow goes back to the well to find the real reason for the lack of any reasonable and/or coherent positioning or thinking or action on the part of Obama or his administration.   The explanation....George Bush.

El Gringo Viejo responded to her lunacy as it appeared  on a popular screed, and shares his own humble wisdom below.

 

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CORRECTION, PLEASE, MISS MADDOW.

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       Bush and the Americans, et.al. invade Iraq. Destroy the Iraqi military, capture Saddam Hussein al Tikriti, and generally win the war. The Gringos establish some semblance of civil society and do a fairly good cultural and social mop-up. The issue remains with the marxist / anti-American elements in the United States..."Bush lied and people died". The fact that Hussein had WMDs cannot be disputed. He had them, they were used frequently against the Iranians and against Iraqis....Shiite, Kurds, and the Swamp Arabs. Many, many thousands died. During the Iraq - Iran War (8 years), perhaps 1,000,000 were affected. During Kuwait, the environmental "lack of sensitivity" expressed by Hussein was revealed by the setting afire of 142 active and producing oil wells.
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            I did not think much of the invasion, but in military and even cultural terms it was a considered success. Most knowledgeable analysts and observers are convinced that the bulk of Hussein's WMDs were moved to Syria shortly before the outbreak of the American, et.al. invasion. Some of those munitions quite probably were those being used both by Assad and the "freedom fighters" during the present Syrian disorders.
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           The anti-Hebe nutcases in the present administration (which includes all of the members of this administration) are totally committed to the total erasure of Israel as a sovereign state, and in truth, to the elimination of the Jew presence within the ranks of the human race. I am not a Jew, so I am not begging for someone to save my race and me. It must be recognised, however, that all socialists...Bolshevik, National, progressive, etc...hate the entire Judaic - Christian "thing". Many of the Jew-haters are atheist Jews who hate their own "non-existent" Yahweh, their ancestors, and any notion of Judaic historical validity.
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            The correct analysis for what has occurred in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, the Far East, and the rest of the world is that the Bush team did a high-mediocre to sometimes excellent job, won two wars, defended Israel to all reasonable limits,....left office...and watched this administration squander it all as it snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.....purposefully.
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            Why? It was, is, and always will be the purpose of this administration to destroy, debilitate, and denigrate everything about the United States of America. These people will continue to do it while in office and sustain their efforts upon leaving office...hoping that when they leave that there is nothing left but smouldering ruins in their rear-view mirrors.   Their creed...hate traditionalist Jews, hate traditionalist Christians, hate agnostic libertarian thinkers, hate America, hate self-reliance, and give reverence to degeneracy.  Great creed.
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  Thank each of you for your kind attention.
  El Gringo Viejo

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Hall of Fame of Foreign Policy Victories for Hope and Change Barry (double bogey) Soetoro

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Sergiev Legrov and Sir Edmund Hillary yukking it up back when
Sir Edmund Hillary was "doing so much for women and the
children". One can see the famous "reset button"  that was
developed by the Solyndra Labs Consortium.   That is
the same company that came up with the "If you
want to keep your doctor....'' slogan.  Also for
the children....and minorities....and the
Cowboy Poetry Society of Nevada.

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