True Meanings - San Jacinto

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    The term "true meaning" of one thing or another.....the Feasts of the Nativity, Resurrection, All Souls and All Saints for instance....has been a sport of intellectuals, analysts, and commentators for hundreds, even thousands of years.   As a compulsive commentator, this means that the OROG knows that El Gringo Viejo is going to be commenting on some matter he considers to be important very soon.

     And, that very soon has arrived.  This time it is concerning the not-so-famous, and generally over-simplified matter of the Battle of San Jacinto, 21 April 1836.

     Texans have been all over the map on this matter.   In and around Austin and a few other precincts of the Republic of Texas, the Battle of San Jacinto represents the best image of the worst people in the world....the Americans, Anglo-Saxons, Southerners, men, and individuals who consider themselves to be sovereign entities.   That is the common opinion held by the University of Texas elites, certain women's and leftist political groups, and their satraps, the ethnic and racial agitators, and various sorts of anarchists.

     But, surrounding the Island of the Bunny's Burrow, is a wondrous circle of Briarpatches ....San Marcos, New Braunfels, Round Rock, Georgetown, Plugerville, in short communities tiny, small, and somewhat larger that are filled with reason.   They range from Stepford-type places, where a person finds Stepford wives, husbands, pets, children, home and lawn, schools, private arts and study classes, the best AAA minor league baseball and shopping....to dirty-fingernailed, blue-collar types of people and communities where a person has to prove he/she has dirty fingernails and/or calloused hands in order to register to vote or buy a lottery ticket.   Their unifying factor?    Traditionalist, private sector, conservative reliance and practice.

     Most of the rest of Texas, even in the South Texas area, there is, and always has been a mediocre to a fine understanding of the meaning of the victory by the Texian Forces over the Centralist Forces of the government of Antonio de Padua Maria Severino Lopez de Santa Anna y Perez de Lebron, (aka - Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna or more simply Santa Anna).   It is easy to make an ethnic or racial issue of this matter, but in fact it was none of that.   Even the ones who fought the fight thinking that ethnic and racial matters were important to the issue.....were wrong.   It was a much, much bigger issue.

    With reference to the above, we re-iterate what has been written by El Gringo Viejo before that the Anglo-Irish settlers in the San Patricio Colony, near present day Corpus Christi, sided with the Mexican Centralists and their military during the issue.   While this occurred, another body of Texians north of that point....the Mexican/Spanish rancheros, business people, cattlemen, and farmers sided overwhelmingly with the Texian full-statehood cause, and then with the move to Independence from the control by Mexico City and its bi-polar political posturing.

AT THIS MOMENT, THE BATTLE HAS BEEN OVER FOR ABOUT THREE HOURS.   THE ISSUE WAS SETTLED IN LESS THAN AN HOUR.

     So, to the point of this analysis and commentary.  The very large and pursuing segment of the Mexican Centralist forces a total of 15,000 in five armies headed by 14 generals and colonels....commanded by the Presidente Generalissimo himself....had hounded a rag-tag "army" that never numbered more than 1,000 effectives.   On the day of the engagement....this day....it had at most 920 ready combatants, with no more than 50 rough and ready cavalry.   They would assault a very battle-hardened, fairly well to very well trained, accustomed-to-victory army of at least 1,900 soldiers.

    One side had two cannons, known as the Twin Sisters, while the other side had managed to lug 9 cannons literally across almost the entirety of Texas.
There were 8 nearby and the big 12-pounder on-site in the middle of camp.  Another 30 cannons were within a day's arrival distance, along with another 5,000 mediocre to crack, excellent assault forces including the much feared cavalry with their lancers.

     It was Sunday.   Each side knew of the other's exact position and strength.  There was no chance for deception save for one thing.   That would be the choice of one side or the other concerning ....."When?".     Houston settled that issue during the early morning hours of the 21st Instant.  As the orders went out a few hours later that the men muster and prepare for their deployment and orders to advance....fear, joy, excitement, commitment, final bonding between battle-mates, quieting of mounts who sensed something was up, and then....the predictable orders up and down the line...."No firing until the order is given....no firing until the order is given!!!!"  And then, quietly at first, and walking; then, a trotting but still silent advance;  and then the bolting of the small cavalry group in the advance and to the right of the line of infantry....sweeping forward at breakneck towards the enemy still sleeping in the face of the enemy during those dawning moments.....and then the entrance into the most formidable military encampment on the North American Continent....carnage of the worst sort...the devastation of the entire Presidential Divisional Forces....hundreds dead and wounded, many drowning in the San Jacinto River and its surrounding swamps.  Official numbers seem to back up these:   Mexican forces had 630 killed, 208 wounded, and 730 P.O.W.  while the Texians had 9 killed and 30 wounded.

     It was a horrible disaster for the hopes of a Mexican totalitarian's empire stretching from the Arctic Circle to the doorstep of South America.   And, it was a exhilarating moment for the men who had won against all odds and established in Texas some hope for common law, natural law, and the sovereignty of the individual.

    The capture of the man who at once was the head of the government, the army, and the entire Mexican political reality at that time had learned his military craft as a young Royalist officer in the Spanish Army.  He was a white Criollo (Spaniard born in the New World), and learned to relish his time and activity in the Army.   He served in various venues, including during a sweep of Texas many years before where opponents of the Crown were  picked up and executed even after surrender....and their heads removed and displayed for days in prominent viewing areas so as to chill the fervour of those disposed to revolt.  It was his experience and he had enjoyed it.

    Late in the Wars for Mexican Independence he changed sides (one of his more predictable characteristics) and brought his considerable abilities to the service of the Mexicans in their efforts to secure Independence.  He held various military and political positions, always at or near the edges of power until, around 1830, he began to have irresistible control and effect upon the exercise of political power.  It was his abrogation of the Mexican Constitution of 1824, liberal reform document providing for an American style tri-partite government with the citizens having certain inalienable rights, that put Zacatecas, Durango, Coahuila y Texas, the Yucatan Peninsula, Guanajuato, San Luis Potosi, Chihuahua and certain other regions into full rebellion against Santa Anna as a person and as a political force.

This depiction is near the age of  Lopez  de  Santa Anna around the time of his invasion of Texas

     To show how important and improbable this victory by the Texians was. it should be noted that with all it inefficiencies and breakdowns, the forces of Lopez de Santa Anna during the period from 1835 through 1836 had 28 major engagements that could be called battles or at least very significant battalion level engagements.  Lopez de Santa Anna's forces lost only two.   The first one and....the last one.    The decision of General Urrea to acquiesce to the demand that Mexican forces withdraw to the south of the Rio Bravo (Grande) before any consideration of dealing with the captured Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna was also a source of wonderment to historians and contemporaries to the issue.   There were enough forces to overwhelm the Texians in a second, but some think that Urrea's hatred for Lopez de Santa Anna and his war crimes, arrogance, artibitrary nature, and generally corrupt manner caused him to take advantage of this chance to humiliate the despised generalissimo.

     Urrea would die a few years later during a duel in Mexico City, but Lopez de Santa Anna would live on to torment the Americans and the Mexicans before dying, broke and friendless in June of 1876 at the age of 80.

     But Texas as a continually evolving, conservative, imperfect, common-law, and natural-law political entity lives on.   It is the central beaming, casting light of that lighthouse of the side of the mountain...that most brilliant light within the that shining city that people from around the world wish their side of the mountain could be.   Texas remains a concept that is bigger than reality, bigger than itself, bigger than Hollywood, bigger than any imitator, and a force entirely capable of returning to freestanding status.

     Recent serious surveys had found that a plurality (about 38% of Texans now seriously believe that Texas should seek a path apart.   Among Latins in Texas 25% favour separation and the re-establishment of the Republic of Texas....that number being roughly equal to the number of Latins who are active and/or self-identifying Republicans.

      That we could have come from San Jacinto against all odds, been annexed, seceded, "Reconstructed", re-admitted, and then arrived back to the point where we began....rejecting an arbitrary, arrogant, corrupt and far-removed central government, is a matter of interest to observers of contemporary as well as historical Texian issues. 

     So, true meanings?   Until Gabriel plays that last tune, the true meaning of the Battle of San Jacinto is not known.  We should hope, however, that it does not mean that Texas is resigned to be a dull piece of gravel in an recovered aluminium-metal crown that marks the monarchy of fools such as we have in the White House and executive department of to-day's central government.

Thank you all, as always for your time and interest.  We shall try to be "back in the saddle". 

El Gringo Viejo

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Observations and Comments that Rattle Around in My Mind

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     Things run together in what remains of the brain of El Gringo Viejo.   The work on the Quinta Treasure of the Sierra Madre was tiring.   The labour shortage in Mexico is hitting our area in spades.   Three different maestros who are normally available had to defer from helping on our job due to existing and future commitments.

    We finally had to go back to the original maestro....the one who is most capable...but who also had history of shady dealings and a tendency to never reach the end of the project.  But, he said yes...and he has good equipment.  This time he worked through the project in three days.

      One advantage is that he had Alvaro and me to help.   Rafael, the neighbour, is an engineer.  He approved my design and helped in several ways.   In any regard, it was a success.

     Across the Rio Grande, back up in Texas, we learned that the Chief Deputy of the Sheriff's Department had been "picked-up" for engineering illegal campaign contributions for his boss's re-election.   His boss, of course, is (now was) the Sheriff of the 6th most populous of Texas's 254 counties.   Within a couple of weeks, our Sheriff had pled guilty at arraignment....no indictment, no trial....just guilty to charges so deep and wide and corrupt that the whole ugly thing could puke a buzzard off a gut-wagon.

     While Republicans have their problems here and there and now and then, Hidalgo County has had 3 elected Sheriffs in a row who ended their terms at the licence plate factory.   At least this Sheriff's son managed to be convicted of multiple felonies and sent to a federal licence plate factory,   The Sheriff's son was the head of a special tactical "anti-drug"  and "anti-organised crime" unit.  The unit was composed of 9 commissioned peace officers.   One of them is the son of a local police chief.   All making licence plate for Chairman Mao.

     And the last primary elections, inside the Democrat Party primary in Hidalgo and the surrounding counties, there was so much voter fraud, officially recognised voter fraud, that it will be difficult to try all the cases.  In the case of Hidalgo, Texas there were precincts where over 20% of the voters required "voter assistance", allowing  thereby a "helper" into the voting booth in order to "assist" the hapless voter.   This manoeuvre is very commonplace in many voting precincts throughout South Texas.

     A County Commissioner for Hidalgo County, a woman who had, according to community common knowledge, been a bar-maid not long before becoming a member of the County Commissioner's Court, set quite a record for public service.   After doing so much for women's and children's issues like other heroines of the Democrat Women Defenders Association....she managed to use public money for private purposes, while also arranging welfare for illegal alien women whom she would hire as maids and slaves...also on the taxpayers' dimes....she finally was assigned her place in the Women's Licence Plate Factory.

    It really serves no great purpose to keep naming the hundreds along with their transgressions against the common good.   A party built on welfare, fraud, covetousness, and the sale of the canard of "....the Party for the Poor".   And not a smidgen of corruption in any of it.

     We have come to the point where it looks more and more like something may be going to happen in the IRS case, and perhaps even the Fast and Furious case.   We shall discuss this in more depth later. 

     It was and is all so depressing.

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     Then, we have an event, a woman throwing a shoe at (Sir Edmund) Hillary.

As one reviews the video of the incident, it is very apparent that the Queen of All Universes is completely unaware that anything had been thrown in her direction....the shoe passes well to her right while she is looking down and beginning to look up.   The shoe is 15 feet past her when she makes her first reaction to the situation.

     Like almost everything pertaining to this hideous narcissist, the whole thing wreaks of a set-up.   The cooing, wowing, and fawning admiration for Hillary's "quick reaction" and "really sharp comeback lines" among the chattering of the Obsolete Media robotrons was another opportunity for me to drink another bottle of Pepto Bismol.   

     It was as if the "spontaneous comments" advisory had been passed around even before the event.   Vince Foster's briefcase spontaneously appears on his cold, hard, desk three days after the police have gone through the room, making notes and photographs of every possible thing....never noting the briefcase on top of the desk.   And lo and behold, there just happens to be a "suicide note" inside the convenient briefcase AND it just happens to be torn into 30 or so very convenient to tape together pieces.    No fingerprints...so it was good that Vince wore his latex gloves to write his suicide note.   He had done a pretty mediocre, but interesting job in imitating his own printing (not cursive).

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     We had an phenomena during this last stay of the arrival of numerous ring-necked doves.   There were perhaps 20 pairs.  They are coloured like milk with a slight bit of chocolate syrup, and they are bigger even than a large whitewing dove.   We had been told by the "ecology" people that there were no more ring necked doves....that the Tea Party and George Bush had killed them all.   Just an observation.

    More later.  It is time to consider Holy Saturday and the Feast of the Resurrection

El Gringo Viejo

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Back Home

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     We have returned from our place in Mexico.  It was a lengthy stay, and we did a considerable amount of repair, reconstruction, and gardening work.   The last few nights were very cold....mid-thirties, but there was no damage to the avocados or other delicate growies.   Lots of birds.   Some good rains.

     There is a considerable amount of commentary to read and also to type up.  We should be here for a while, although we are going Central Texas to visit with the rest of the Tribe this weekend.

     We shall make an effort to make a few comments to-morrow.

El Gringo Viejo

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El Zorro tends a ha'penny common nail with a 16 - pound sledgehammer....right on the head

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EL ZORRO ASKS THE COSMOS:


How can a twerp like Barrack Hussein Obama do so much harm to 330,000,000 people?

 

If you really stop to think, it is almost as unfathomable as the national debt of $17 trillion.

 

     330 million individuals have had their lives unalterably harmed by this average IQ, brainwashed, arrogant, and low-esteemed product of the third world drug and thug cultures.

 

     He is making basketball predictions at a time when the Russians, Red Chinese, North Koreans, and almost every other bully country in the world is laughing their collective butt off at the once impressive Unites States of America.  That is us.  We are being laughed at.  More importantly we are in imminent danger of becoming a full blown third world country ourselves. 

 

     Our Internet domain name and Internet Protocol (IP) assignment control will be handed over by Obama to an as yet unknown international body.  How about the Internet being under the control and advice of Sharia Law?  Amazon will be selling turbans, prayer rugs, burkas, and other Muslim paraphernalia.  Information sites will be dedicated to Sharia indoctrination.

 

    Is Obama a Muslim?  I really want to know.  I am asking the question because it is obvious his agenda is so obviously prejudiced in favor of Islam.

 

    And just how did he prevail in two elections?  I refuse to believe there are that many really stupid Americans.  There had to be a special or foul method.

 

     The first time this fellow was elected we can understand due to the charisma associated with his speaking ability and ability to use a teleprompter.  His talent comes not from his brain but his mouth.  He was able to make effective use of technology.  He has surrounded himself with people who are savvy in all things political and technological.  With the low information voters interested in only what was free and the republicans caught sleeping, he breezed to an easy win.  The second time is very difficult to understand.  His base still is the low information drones; however, the Tea Party, Libertarians, and republicans who woke up slightly made the race closer.  Beside the choice of a really lame candidate by the republicans, the problem was (and still is) the Obama supporters do not sleep, do not quit, and do not care about issues.  The republicans, libertarians, and independents are lazy.  If they do not acquire energy soon we will be under some sort of fascist, socialist, communist, or Sharia government.  Our Constitution will be no longer, and it will be replaced by one of the above.

 

I believe the Obama party used some technology to sneak up on the voting population during the last presidential election.  This may seem over the head of most observers but here is a proposition that may have been or could be employed:

 

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) or a very similar system of using information can practically guarantee an electoral win.  It works like this.  The nation is divided naturally into geographic regions, states.  The states are further broken down in to many layers of smaller and smaller geographic regions i.e. counties, municipalities, voting districts, and so on.  Having a map with these divisions outlined, imagine it over laid with dots representing demographic data (for example census data).  What can be done with this map and the underlying data is to ask a question of the map “in the state of Texas, show me all the voters who voted republican in the last election (place a red dot for each of these)”.  On a computer screen one would see the state outline with areas lit up for where there exist concentrations of republican voters.  Some areas on this map will be a solid red for strong concentrations and no color where they do not exist and variations in between.  Imagine how districts could be drawn using this technology.  A technician could draw on the map, lines around the lit areas or exclude them as necessary to accomplish a voting district map.  To refine further using the map and census data additional information “asked of the map” could be incomes greater than $25,000 or families who drive SUVs or Individuals with criminal records ad infinitum.  By combining data and circumscribing relevant geographical areas a presidential candidate could easily know where and how to campaign (or where to buy votes).  This allows a machine to mechanically decide where the votes are without regard to issues and thereby giving an election to the voter with the best system.  This is like counting votes in a casino which, by the way, is not allowed in most legal casinos along with other mechanical systems.

 

This is somewhat complicated but the GISs do exist and are very accurate and effective.  I cannot help but believe that Obama used some mechanical advantage to win his second election if not the first.  To learn more about GIS see What is GIS?.  Put as simply as possible a GIS is a method of relating unrelated objects by where they exist geographically.  A very powerful tool.

 

It is believable that the controversy over GWB’s first election and the voting machine upgrades may have influenced use of such a system.  If the conservatives of either or all the Tea Party, libertarians, republicans, or independents are not using some such system they will lose.  Elections are not as simple as they once were…

                    El Zorro

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There is a certain conundrum involved with Obama and the Muslims of the radical sort.  The radical Muslims are dedicated to the proposition that all humanity be forced. to be compliant with the Law of God.  The most radical mete out very severe punishment for walking under the bumbum tree on Tuesday afternoon with a casual beheading of the offender's three daughters and his camel.   Nothing personal, mind you, just the Law as set forth in this Quran.

     Obama and his posse are communists, through and through.  They act like they know something of the Judeo-Christianic thing, but find it odd that the snake handlers and the people who kiss the Pope's big toe actually think that there is a god who has/had a son, who was born to a virginal Hebrette, and that the supposed mythical figure rose from the dead after having been crucified for blaspheming against the Roman Emperor's divinity.  They roar with laughter about this, among themselves, after all, "It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." --explaining his troubles winning over some working-class voters".


     So we witness the stark raving mad lunatics...the Muslim radicals who supposedly believe in nothing but Allah, all day, every day, three times and twice again more during Ramadan and desire nothing but the death of whomsoever might braid his camel's mane with the wrong coloured ribbons during the Full Moon....who are making truck with people who want to destroy the faith of the American people and replace it with total secular humanism and the absolute religion of Global Warming and Cooling and atheism.   The progressives and marxists and atheists, arm in arm, swaying to the anthem of Coca Caliphate Cola and the International....with maybe a bit of the senseless, ridiculous, meaningless song we all know and love:

      Perhaps the most beloved, pointless, incoherent, bafflegab lyrics ever dedicated to feed starving Ethiopian children.  Three freighters were loaded up with medicines and food.   They pulled into harbour and immediately were mired in corruption and red-tape.   Almost all the food was purloined by corrupt military people aligned with the regime that was causing the starvation to begin with.   Various of the Grand Poobahs sold the majority of the tonnage....similar to what Saddam Hussein did with the relief material that was shipped in during his time in the United Nations "penalty box" after his defeat in the first Gulf War.

     This wafting odour of something rotten about the automated voting procedures affected only one place in Texas during the immediate past primaries....it was down here where the Democrats control everything...one of the very few places in the Republic of Texas where that is the case.   There have been several elections contests filed due to small things like more people voting in precinct than there are people on the registration (poll lists).  Among other things....so El Zorro's points are not flimsy in the least, especially considering that he is one of those people who can repair a computer, or put an F - 4 Phantom engine back together and make it work....and who installed three or four million miles (almost) of the first fibre-optic for SouthWestern Bell, etc. etc.    We are not talking about a guy who just plays with swords and rides around on a horse at night.

El Gringo Viejo will be heading South to-morrow in the morning.   We are doing repairs, and who knows, perhaps we'll even have visitors.  On Sunday, when I went to get my documents for my vehicle and me, the bridge of normal use had a 4 hour line of motorcars full 9f people from mainly the Monterrey metroplex who had flooded to the Magic Lower Rio Grande Valley (mainly McAllen) for shopping!!!  WHOOOPPPEEEEEE!!!!
     Remember that three years ago, no one was travelling anywhere....except your humble servant. 

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(Sir Edmund) Hillary Lauded for Public Service by Jeb Bush - Visit from the Archivial Past (Humourous, Sad Material)

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     Jeb Bush has taken heat from some on the right for agreeing to present an award tomorrow to Hillary Clinton for her work in public service.   Bush, who is chairman of the National Constitutional Center, is presenting the award in Philadelphia. he said in a statement. "While Secretary Clinton and I disagree on many issues, we certainly agree on the importance of civic engagement. The Board looks forward to the Center’s annual celebration of the vision of freedom, responsibility and equality embodied in the U.S. Constitution.”

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A NOTE TO ALL OROGs:

   We were privileged to have been contacted by the Republican Institutional National Organisation (RINO) requesting that we assist in the composition of a short address for the famous conservative. past-governor of Florida, allowing us to amend his speech slightly before its presentation at (Sir Edmund)Hillary's award for "Public Service and Civic Engagement"  (?)   My inspired words came out something like what is found below.

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      Former Secretary Clinton has dedicated her life to serving and engaging people across the world in democracy,” Bush said in a statement. "The simple act of corkscrewing into the heavy enemy fire in the Balkans and shielding Sinbad and her own daughter from the withering sniper and mortar fire as they ran across the completely exposed tarmac, prove that this woman is truly a daughter of Jean d'Arc.

 

      We all remember when she suggested to Maggie Thompson and Bernie Nussbaum that it might be nice to "tidy-up" Vince Foster's office after poor Vince was found at Fort Marcy Park after having suffered a calamitous health issue, something like a work-place incident. (Sir Edmund) Hillary, always thinking of others, asked her staff to clean up the office so that Mrs. Foster would not have to be burdened.

 

     And we are moved to think how difficult it was for her to supervise the ghost writers of two different books...two! mind you....when she had so much on her plate, on behalf of women and children and minorities. It is very difficult to supervise two different books, when one realised that neither she nor anyone else ever read them. (Sir Edmund) Hillary emoted the new literary process, far ahead of its time by Cerebral Osmomosistic Diffusion, a process she invented and perfected, and will be awarded, later in the day, ten consecutive years of combined Nobel Prizes for Peace, Science, Literature, and Divinity. While some light a candle instead of cursing the darkness, (Sir Edmund) Hillary is more like a Times Square Solstice and Kwanza and LGBTRZOKH Tree, lighting the way for what has been called the New Normalcy and Tolerance.

 

     The Wall Street Awards Group gave her, simultaneous to the Jeb Bush Award for being just like (Sir Edmund) Hillary, the coveted Bernie Madoff Award for devising new Techniques in Cattle Futures Trading. The Academy of Cattle Futures lovingly engraved her imitation silver and gold trophy with the message embossed over the image of an Old Cow, reading "It really does take one to know one".
 

     And of course, sitting in the front row of the admiring and adoring audience was Mrs. Ron Brown, and the members of the White House Travel Agency staff who were given, let us say, a nice "early retirement" when (Sir Edmund) Hillary first entered the White House advised the FBI that they seemed to be tired and needed a rest. Always thinking of others, you see.
    She placed her cousins and some of their friends in charge of the White House Travel Office, and they served well enough until some were let go because of little discrepancies here and there.   Only two or three were ever convicted of felonies or anything, however.

 

    It was like when (Sir Edmund)Hillary and Janet Reno decided to have the FBI, the ATF, and Gen. Wesley Clark liberate those poor children from those crazy, religious gun-nuts outside of Waco, Texas. We are comforted in knowing that because of the heroic efforts of that team, led by (Sir Edmund)Hillary, those children are in a better place now.  Turned out the "gun-nuts" had fewer guns per adult-under-the-roof than the average home in Texas.  It just goes to show what a reasonable approach to Climate Change can do to forward the blunting of simultaneous  Global Cooling and Global Warming.

 

    It doesn't really matter, whether we are talking about holding 1,300 FBI raw data files for two years or leaving a briefcase on Vince Foster's White House office desk, three days after the office had been visited, photographed, and dusted.   Either way, it really is phenomenal, folks, really, because Chuck Colson who worked for Nixon in the White House had one unopened raw data file, and he had to sit in the Big House for three years for that offence.  Imagine!  All of (Sir Edmund)Hillary's were opened and the papers returned in inaccurate manners.  We are talking about a really magical personality.

 

    Or, we can consider the phenomenal ability to have Web Hubbell serve two different long terms in the Big House so that (Sir Edmund) Hillary could keep her wide....uh...her wide.....uh...presence ensconced in the White House, or that she is the only person in this 5,000 seat auditorium at this time who can say with pride that he or she knows well over 100 people who have met with violent and/or untimely deaths, sometimes unexplainable and sometimes ruled homicides and sometimes ruled suicides, and/or folks who are serving or who have served prison time stemming from activities with or around the famous pair, Bonnie and Clyde, excuse me, Billy Jeff and (Sir Edmund) Hillary.   Now, go ahead and say  what you might...not many people can duplicate that record.

 

     This list can go on forever, shaking down political contributors, foreign and domestic, who are trying to buy a Presidential Pardon or obtain some well-deserved illegal favour, saying that her daughter was at the twin towers on the morning of 9 - 11 - 01, saying that she was named for Sir Edmund Hillary three years before he began his assault of Mount Everest, or telling a nice crowd of folks that she tried to volunteer for the United States Marines but was turned down because of her eyesight.  We all just have to stand in awe of her.  We simply must.   Or else.

  

     Who would have ever thought that we would have the opportunity to pay homage to a person who could actually be forever remembered for falling into her 1,000,000 dollar an hour airplane while drunk, and then avoiding a pernicious Congressional inquiry for three months, by faking first stomach flu and then faking a brain concussion and then faking a broken jaw.  What better way to work out of a really tough hangover?
 

     And she will forever be remembered for those inspirational and patriotic words, "What difference, at this point, can it possibly make?" We shall forever remember that defiant, scowling, witch-like face, skewed into a look of contempt for such common people to even think about calling her to account for herself and her stuperous inaction during the time Americans were being killed because she was too blotto and/or too uncaring and/or too self-involved to have considered addressing the need for beefing up security for a consular compound in some silly remote country full of funny looking dark people.  At least it wasn't 03:00 some dark-thirty morning.

 

    Finally, I, Jeb Bush, demand that we have a moment of silence so as to consider deeply, everything....and I mean everything...that (Sir Edmund) Hillary has done for women.....and children......just think of everything she has done.....everything. Monitoring cameras and microphones are on, and will be reviewed after this event so as to ensure compliance with (Sir Edmund) Hillary's demands.

    Thank you all.  And may (Sir Edmund) Hillary bless America.

 

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    Thank you, Governor, for allowing me to advise and contribute to your attempt to speak reasonably about such an interesting personality.   I have been guided by my parents' admonition to only say the most favourable things one can about the living or the dead.  We believe that admonition has been served.
    Suffice to say, I and all of mine will vigorously oppose any effort that you might make in terms of gaining any further elective office.  The notion that you can render homage to a certifiably psychotic narcissist who is a dedicated marxist, committed to the destruction of this Republic and the establishment of a socialist replacement, while at the same time you are denigrating personalities like Ted Cruz, is disgusting. 

 

Sincerely,

El Gringo Viejo

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A couple of bitter pills....Billy Jeff's and (Sir Edmund) Hillary begin the case of "THE LOST ARCHIVES"

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Observations concerning Billy Jeff Blyth and his "heartfelt comments" that have been scrubbed so as not to stain the deliberations of the Beatification Committee

(1)   At the transcribed sessions with speechwriters ahead of his 1999 State of the Union, the president joked that then-Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas, was “probably a major suspect” in the dragging death of James Byrd in Texas the previous summer.


(2)   In a discussion over the politics of the parents of Matthew Shepard, a gay man beaten and left for dead, Clinton said that “white people in Wyoming … are by definition Republicans.” And expressing his doubts about whether to bring up Shepard’s murder in the address, Clinton revealed to aides that his pollster warned his “numbers go down” every time he mentioned gays in a speech.

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     1.    Concerning the first point.   Billy Jeff Blyth is quintessential white trash.  His task, as a member of the whitetrash-American community is to denigrate and ridicule his betters.  He does it very well, through considerable practice, by associating people he resents and feels inferior towards with acts and statements he thinks will lessen public and community esteem for said people.  Tom DeLay, of course, had nothing to do with the dragging death of that poor unfortunate who met up with some drunken whitetrash late one afternoon.

     OROGs should be aware, however, that the area of Newton and Jasper Counties in Texas, adjacent in Deep East Texas to Louisiana, are  truly Old Confederacy in their ambience and understanding of life.  And, interestingly, with the end of the coming term, Newton and Jasper Counties will have been represented for six consecutive years in the Lower House of the Congress of the Republic of Texas.....by a Black man....very highly educated....a movement, fundamental conservative, and a Republican.  This last election cycle, he will have had no opposition from a Democrat and he had none in the Republican primary this round.

     Perhaps he took solace and inspiration from Billy Jeff, when Little Billy told the beaming Yankee throngs about how he would get on the city busses in Hope, Arkansas and purposefully go sit in the back so as to express solidarity with the humiliated Black Folks who were required to sit in the back of the bus by law.  Of course, that did not ever happen....for one because he would not have done it if he could, and for another...Hope did not have city busses.  Children rode their bicycles the 15 blocks over there and then the 9 blocks to over here and the adults either drove or walked to their destinations.   Billy Jeff lied and the Black Folks walked or drove to their destinations.
     Billy also remembered all the Black churches that were set afire around where he lived (actual count? Zero), and that is what drove him to always cast his first sympathies with the Black Folks.....like when he put his post-Presidential office in Harlem.

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Harlem Is Losing a Piece of Clinton

By MANNY FERNANDEZ

The New York Times - Published: March 16, 2011

  

     When Bill Clinton officially began his post-presidency in Harlem in 2001, he was greeted with open arms — thousands of them. At a plaza near his new office, at 55 West 125th Street, a crowd of 2,000 residents and civic leaders gathered on a hot July afternoon to celebrate the arrival of a neighbor whose presence, two blocks from the landmark Apollo Theatre, seemed to put a presidential stamp of approval on the neighborhood’s revival.

James Estrin/The New

York Times

Bill Clinton in Harlem in

2001 after announcing he was

in negotiations for office space

in a building at 55 West

125th Street. Nearly 10

years later, the William

J. Clinton Foundation is

moving to a bigger office

in the financial district.

     In his speech there in 2001, Mr. Clinton said, “Harlem always struck me as a place that was human and alive, where there was a rhythm to life and a song in the heart, where no matter how bad it was, people held up their heads and went on, and where, when things got good, people were grateful and cared about their neighbors.”

Nearly 10 years later, Mr. Clinton is leaving Harlem. Or, at least part of him is.

The William J. Clinton Foundation is moving most of its offices from Harlem to 77 Water Street in the financial district, in Lower Manhattan. But Mr. Clinton will keep a toehold in Harlem: his office as a former president will remain on the top floor of 55 West 125th Street.

     The nonprofit foundation will occupy space on the 18th floor of 77 Water Street. The move will give the foundation more space — 25,227 square feet downtown versus 18,000 square feet uptown — and will help it cut costs. The foundation’s rent will be cheaper than the $40 a square foot it pays in the Harlem building, though it is unclear what the exact new rent will be, since the deal is not yet official, said a person familiar with both office locations who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak about the details.

     The foundation did not respond to requests for comment. CB Richard Ellis, the real estate brokerage firm representing the foundation, declined to comment.

A spokeswoman for the General Services Administration, which oversees office space for former presidents, said that although the foundation was moving, the office space afforded Mr. Clinton as a former president would remain in the building in Harlem. The lease for that space — 8,715 square feet at the top of the 14-story building — was renewed in May 2010 and takes effect in August 2011, the spokeswoman, Emily Barocas, said. The 10-year lease expires in July 2021.

     Ms. Barocas said the General Services Administration had no role in the foundation’s use of the Water Street space. The New York Post reported the move on Wednesday.

       

      It remained unclear how Mr. Clinton would divide his time between the two offices. On 125th Street near his office, Harlem residents interviewed on Wednesday said Mr. Clinton had been a positive force in the neighborhood, although not a regularly visible one. Abuk Auk, 35, who works at a hair salon near 55 West 125th Street, said she saw Mr. Clinton walking into the building once years ago.

      “We were so happy,” Ms. Auk said of Mr. Clinton’s arrival in Harlem in 2001. “We thought it was going to change everything for us.” She pointed across 125th Street at a row of shuttered storefronts and added: “You see those shops that are closed? It’s too bad he couldn’t do more to help small business here.”

      Assemblyman Keith L. T. Wright, a Democrat whose district includes the Harlem building, described Mr. Clinton as a great neighbor, adding that there were no sore feelings.

      “We love him dearly,” Mr. Wright said. “The community will always love him. We would catch a glimpse of him from time to time, and that added a special flavor to the neighborhood. We wish him well.”

       

     Harlem had not been the former president’s first choice. In February 2001, Mr. Clinton abandoned his plans to move into a skyscraper in Midtown after he was criticized for his decision to rent office space at one of Manhattan’s most lavish office towers. He had planned to rent the 56th floor of Carnegie Hall Tower for $738,700 a year, compared with the $210,000 asking rent in 2001 for the space in Harlem.

Colin Moynihan contributed reporting.

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Suffice to say....Billy Jeff almost never appeared  anywhere around his "favourite part" of New York City....a place where, according to him, he would go out of his way after arriving at "La Gardya Airport" to walk through Harlem and enjoy its familiar ambience that he had grown to love in Hope, Arkansas.   Like Hillary Diane Rodham had grown to love the New York Yankees because she was from Chicago.   Doesn't everyone just love football? 

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     We return to Jasper and Newton Counties of Texas, where the three scumbags who murdered the hapless Black fellow were tried in a Court of the Republic of Texas, where the foreman of the jury was another Black man, a law officer, and where the three whitetrash who murdered  the poor fellow received two death sentences and one life in prison.

     And even at that, the press and the NAALCP ran advertisements against George W. Bush because he would not support a bill that would style certain crimes as "hate crimes".   Bush was stupid, so he said things like, "How can anyone prove what someone is thinking in a court of law?   And besides, we have two guys on death row, and one who's going to sit in prison for the rest of his life.  What more can be done?'

     We throw in the last pitch, for a well-deserved "Strike Four", when we refresh the memories of all, about when Billy Jeff hurried back to Little Rock during his presidential campaign, so as to be available to reassure the Warden that there would be no delay in the up-coming execution of a Death Penalty Warrant.   The convicted murderer?   He was a Black man.  Bleeding hearts and others had pointed out that the fellow was not stacked with a full deck.   For instance, when the guards came to take him to the Death Chamber, the man straightened everything up and put the remains of his "last meal" in a safe place, covered up neatly, saying in all seriousness, "I'll finish this up when I come back".  This sounds like an urban legend...but it's not.   But at least Clinton managed to show the world that he was "Tough on Crime!"

     He probably learned his compassion in these matters while riding in the back of a non-existent bus, while passing by the smoldering remains of churches that were never burned....while he honed his penchant for steroidal mendacity.   Tom DeLay had nothing to do with the murdered of the Black man, by the way, although Billy Jeff went out of his way to tell that "joke" at every opportunity....part of that kinder and gentler, reaching across the aisle and being that there reasonable thing..... don'tcha know?

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2.     Matthew Shepard was a homosexual.   He was brutally murdered by a couple of thugs....mortally injured and left to die, apparently tangled in a barbed wire fence.   The press flooded every corner of the the newspapers, radio news, and television time and image with the innuendo that all Westerners, just like Southerners are beasts who rampantly dedicate themselves to the torture and murder of homosexuals and Negroes.   It just their nature, being sub-human illiterate snake handlers and superstitious rubes.

     Right?

     Then the times, they be a - goin' by....one day turns into the next....and the story turns out not to be true.   The two thugs are thugs, truly enough.   But they are homosexuals who patronise the same homosexual bar  where Matthew frequented.   The three were drinking and partying buddies with other homosexuals.   A couple of members of their posse even had girlfriends.  One night after too much alcohol and weed, Matthew wound up being the object of the disaffection of the two people who had killed him.    It was a matter something entirely different than that which was reported.   But, at this point, what possible difference could it make?

     Liberals, socialists, marxists, communists, national socialists, kill truly democratic-republican, common and natural law paradises, one lie at a time.  But do not fret.   They have all the billions and billions of lies they need, and the gullible, dependency-seeking slugs in the populace now....that they will ever need.   The American Republic stumbles ever closer to the abyss.


More Later, and thank you for having invested your time with us.  Your presence here is appreciated.
El Gringo Viejo

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