The Case of Rick Perry and the deranged Travis County District Attorney

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     A short note to all OROGs concerning the issue about Governor Perry's indictment is in order.   It will be introduced by the Youtube snippits we include herewith:

 

 

 

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     El Gringo Viejo suggests that DA Lehmberg wishes to duplicate the harassment  foisted upon Tom Delay by then DA of Travis County, Texas Ronnie Earle because she feels particularly slighted by Governor Perry.   It seems that the Governor vetoed a portion of the allocation from the State Treasury meant for her office's investigation and prosecution, if needed, of certain violations that might occur anywhere within the Republic of Texas.

     There is a peculiarity within the Constitution of Texas that grants the District Attorney of Travis County, Texas the power and prerogative to handle such cases.  The Travis County District Attorney is the only County Attorney of all the 254 counties in Texas that has that discretion.  Ostensibly it is due to Travis County being the county where the Capital of Texas....the City of Austin...is situated.

Governor Rick Perry

     While there are a lot of nice and fine people who live in Austin and Travis County, it is a Democrat Citadel, full of radical students and professors who are barnacled into the University of Texas culture.   It is also where many government "workers" are found, and it enjoys the presence of all nature of reformers, progressives, marxists, and anti-traditionalists.  Travis County is about a 65 - 35 Democrat stronghold, surrounded by counties that tend to vote 70 - 30 Republican.

 

     Governor Perry might not be my first choice for President of either Texas or the American Union, but he like DeLay, and most of the other Republicans are "my people".  I will submit that the charges of "official coercion" being levied against the Governor are specious, bogus, unfounded, and will not carry even a Travis County Trial Jury.   It took Ronnie Earl four tries before a Grand Jury to indict Delay, finally convict him, only to have all the effort go for naught when the conviction was overturned on the first appeal.  Ronnie Earle and the present District Attorney are both vindictive, small, self-consumed people, pretty much like Obama and (Sir Edmund)Hillary....and one can notice how our lady immediately resorted to threats of retaliation and special consideration because of her "importance".

 

 

Thanks for your time and patience.

El Gringo Viejo

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(Sir Edmund)Hillary Diane Rodham Elocutes

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This is a good quick read, a good laugh, and a lamentation that we have become Focus Group Phrase Nation.   This comes in from El Zorro who is a better gleaner than El Gringo Viejo.

 

 



Quote of the day, no, of the week, make that month.

Yet it probably is quote of the year ! 
No. DECADE. Wait a minute. It's the greatest quote ever ! 

“My accomplishments as Secretary of State? Well, I'm glad you asked! 
My proudest accomplishment in which I take the most pride, mostly 
because of the opposition it faced early on, you know… the remnants of 
prior situations and mindsets that were too narrowly focused in a manner whereby they may have overlooked the bigger picture and we didn’t do that and I’m proud of that. Very proud. I would say that’s a major accomplishment.” 

- Hillary Clinton 11 March 2014 

Could someone please tell me what the hell she just said? 
And she is running for President?

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Slither, Dither, and Pose: Gimme my 9 iron....now!

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    Our present occupant of the White House behaved predictably during the "coming out" of the Islamic State of Iraq, Syria, and the Levant.   We are moved to point out that the formation of ISIS (or ISIL) occurred with solid, dependable intelligence being available to the White House concerning the organisation for the past three years.

     The organisation was active in more than a peripheral way during the disorders in Libya that preceded the destruction of the American diplomatic installations in Benghazi.  It is the phoenix that arose from the destruction of Al Qaeda in Iraq by the American military.  It is committed to the destruction of all dictators, royalty, sheiks, sultans, and emirs within the geographical area now being formed into a Caliphate.  They will, when all is settled, allow a few chosen to come back and serve the will of ISIS, being convenient satraps to Satan.

     The reason that the ISIS people were involved at all in the Benghazi matter was for the purpose of laying their hands on significant supplies of American military-grade small arms and ammunition.   They were also interested in any other goodies such as mortars, RPGs, and other such material.   It is known that much of this ordnance was removed by  ship to the Syrian theatre to be used in the destruction of the Bashir Assad regime.
    The success of the Obama sand-painting manoeuvre so hamstrung Assad, that Obama had poor Bashir trembling behind a MacDonald's in downtown Damascus.   Meanwhile, ISIS thugs were busy destroying the non-deranged elements of  Assad's opposition, using American war-materiel.

    The point behind this construct by this humble observer is that ISIS and the Muslim Brotherhood and Obama have always been in agreement that all the strongmen and traditional aristocratic rulers needed to be taken down.  When the Egyptian military took down the Muslim Brotherhood, it seemed to deflate Obama considerably and he became almost disinterested in the whole Middle Eastern (Levant) affair.   Where are the golf clubs?

     The clock keeps running and suddenly, one fine day,  ISIS blooms forth as a force that appears powerful enough to establish a new country, occupying sixty per cent of the old Iraq and pieces of Syria.  Proof that the president of the 57 United States was either totally unprepared for the post Benghazi events or, complicit in them, can be proved by this following point:

       During the period when all order broke down in Mosul, Tikrit, much of the rest of Iraq, and ISIS began the religious and ethnic "modifications" by crucifying, burying alive, wholesale executions, and outright banishing of undesired peoples the victors made a really serious error,  through hubris and excessive exuberation.
     With their additional new toys....American tanks, personnel carriers, and other goodies....and what seemed to be an interminable supply from the  American commissary, provided extemporaneously by a cowardly Iraqi army, the ISIS people lined up on the main highway, honking, waving flags, shooting their rifles in jubilation.  Miles and miles of clusters of gloaters.
    Firm orders could have been given to pull at least one, preferably two flattops into correct position, and then low-altitude strafing and bombing of the undisciplined celebrants with unrelenting and merciless pounding.   The first casualty counts would have been devastating.   It brings to mind the scene when the Iraqi army fled Kuwait.
     In that event, American and allied forces intercepted the fleeing Iraqi Republican Guard, who had been rapacious and brutal during their occupation of Kuwait.   The head of the convoy was stopped by anti-tank mines and air power, thereby blocking the forward progress while the rear of the convoy was repeatedly bombed and strafed.   It looked like this:

 

 

     Had Obama wished to "do something" he could have done the above same operation on the murderous ISIS thugs.   Of course, by Obama, it is meant Valerie and Axelrod and Obama's minders who write his teleprompter feeds.

 

     This was probably too much to expect from the Man Who Killed Bin Laden and had al Qaeda "decimated" and "on the run", and who, of course, saved General Motors and Chrysler.  Answer the phone, Hillary...it's 03:00.  It's something about an offensive video that's making fun of Mohammed.

 

More later.

El Gringo Viejo

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We are back again

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We have returned.  There is nothing much to report from our little hideaway South of the Border.  Hot days, and blessedly cool nights, with temperatures going down to as low as 59 degrees.  We did a few projects, and dealt with the care of our plants.   Things are a bit stressed by the Canicula....the normal dry run during the mid-summer.

 

      With what rain we did have, it was good to note that our repairs and adaptations during the past months were successful and the place looks quite noble again. 

 

     We have posted some of El Zorro's observations, and to-morrow there will be some broadsides concerning the state of things.  It will take El Gringo Viejo about 12 hours to recover and straighten some thoughts out.

 

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Notes from the Other End of the Republic of Texas

Gringo,

 

In the private blog I subscribe to, consisting of confirmed Vietnam veterans, a discussion of Lurch Kerry’s “initiative” in the Middle East ensued.  To that point there was a liberal scumbo who stirred up controversy by supporting compromise with radical Islam and support of Kerry.  I cannot post his comments but I can distribute my response:

 

“Hey troops... I think we have a Baby Ruth in our punch bowl here. That notwithstanding, the situation with Israel and Hamas is just the beginning of a world war. It can end two ways. One, Israel loses and the rest of the world becomes Muslim extremist or two, Israel obliterates Hamas and the rest of radical Islam backs off. If Israel loses the U.S. and the free world will be in a fight to the death. If Israel prevails, the U.S. and Israel (and other democratic countries) have to keep the lid on the terrorists. This asymmetrical war in which the world is engaged is one that will never completely be solved with the tactics we know and use today. The only chance we have is to wipe out the radicals as completely as possible with as little collateral damage as possible. They have to be eradicated where ever they are found. There is nothing simple, easy, or nice about war. This one is particularly messy because the righteous have to fight two wars at the same time. A virtual war with the politicians and their media accomplices and the physical war with weapons. We had that in Vietnam... remember? That has not changed but we have not yet developed the tactics for fighting a non-state terrorist guerilla war. We've all considered the conundrum of the unmovable object and the irresistible force. The radical Islamists are the irresistible force. What are we? Consider the power and influence they have amassed since the 7 Day War. Israel is the only consistent resistance they have encountered. We had Iraq but lost it. We beat the Taliban but let them come back. Our peace initiatives have only led to more insurgency. There is no compromise. Obama can say the war is over but our enemies don't agree. Saying it doesn't make it so. It only aids, abets and emboldens them. John Kerry and his boss are working against us either intentionally or unconsciously. It doesn't matter which. They (and the rest of the conga line of conspirators) have to go. Maybe this is too far from the topic; however, it is a very important conversation to be had, here and everywhere.”

 

 

                    El Zorro

Loose Ends, and Loose Cannons

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    As we prepare to leave to-morrow before the dawn's early light, it becomes an urgency that El Gringo Viejo cover and re-cover some important topics.

 

 

     The first, concerning this "immigration" thing, is that it has nothing to do with immigration.  The entire tragi-comedic nightmare is a clumsy and blunt effort on the part of the Obamatrons (and the least player among the actors, Obama himself) to identify people they know to be sub-human and who will do the most damage to America by having their presence made permanent in the middle of America.

      Mind you, it is not our opinion as conservatives that the people of Central America are sub-human, but to sophisticated progressives who are content in the knowledge of their own intellectual superiority....general superiority to everyone, to be sure...they know the Central Americans (a) all look alike, and (b) are hopelessly stupid, and (c) will assist in breaking the bank of the Gringos when they latch onto the "safety net" of perpetual, multigenerational welfare.

 

     All socialists and progressive know that the barnacles and parasites who glob onto the public assistance programmes provided by the central government of the United States and various of the 57 States that compose the federation produce 90% of the social and medical problems in the country.  The more there are, the better for the purposes of the socialists and progressives.  It allows for the continued making of proposals that are aimed to cure the problems created by the last programme that was meant to cure the problems.  The more absurd the proposal, and the more expensive, the better.   How about one billion dollars to have a National Midnight Basketball League?   That way, three years later, we can have a National Grief Counsellor and Violence Intervention Department exclusively dedicated to the out-break of shootings at late night and early morning basketball games.   After all, because of racism on the part of the Republicans this long-standing problem has never received the funding needed in order to be effective.

 

    Actual solution to the problem?   Have children who are disciplined by a father, and who are instilled with a catechism, be it Orthodox, Protestant, or Hebrew....and enforce the rules of that catechism by the hand of the father.  No father?  Treyvon.   Paint Treyvon as a victim in the "demagogue community" and produce more Treyvons.

 

     Purpose?  To cure problems and make things better?  No, the purpose is to always keep a wedge issue to resuscitate in order to drive the low-information and low-intelligence voters to the polls.   Reproductive Rights!!  Equal Pay for Equal Work!!  War on Women!!!   And of course propose remedies that will aggravate the problem so as to have something even worse to blame on the Republicans.

 

    We remember when George W. Bush declared in his fourth State of the Union address that he wanted to partially privatised the Social Security System.  He suggested that the Democrats had opposed the move in spite of the fact that it would enhance retirement options.  When he referred to that setback, the Democrat side of the audience went crazy with cheering and applause....and the only thing they could possibly have been cheering was the fact that they had kept the people in bondage to a Ponzi Scheme.   Were the Social Security System to be operated out of a barber shop on the edge of the Pasadena - Houston city limits, everybody working at the barber shop would  be making license plates before the end of the year, somewhere near the TDC complex in Huntsville, Texas.

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     Please review this, sent from the Arctic portions of the Republic of Texas by El Zorro:

Press Release:

Monday, July 28, 2014
For Immediate Release

LaVenia J. LaVelle, Press Officerpress.office@ssa.gov

News Release SOCIAL SECURITY

Social Security Board of Trustees: No Change in Projected Year of
Trust Fund Reserve Depletion

Print Version

The Social Security Board of Trustees today released its annual report on the long-term financial status of the Social Security Trust Funds. The combined asset reserves of the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) Trust Funds are projected to become depleted in 2033, unchanged from last year, with 77 per cent of benefits still payable at that time. The DI Trust Fund will become depleted in 2016, also unchanged from last year's estimate, with 81 per cent of benefits still payable.
In the 2014 Annual Report to Congress, the Trustees announced:

• The combined trust fund reserves are still growing and will continue to do so through 2019. Beginning with 2020, the cost of the program is projected to exceed income.

• The projected point at which the combined trust fund reserves will become depleted, if Congress does not act before then, comes in 2033 – the same as projected last year. At that time, there will be sufficient income coming in to pay 77 per cent of scheduled benefits.

• The projected actuarial deficit over the 75-year long-range period is 2.88 per cent of taxable payroll -- 0.16 percentage point larger than in last year's report.

"The projected depletion dates of the Social Security Trust Funds have not changed, and three-fourths of benefits would still be payable after depletion.  But the fact remains that Congress can ensure the long-term solvency of this vital program by taking action," said Carolyn W. Colvin, Acting Commissioner of Social Security.  "The Disability Insurance Trust Fund's projected depletion year remains 2016, and legislative action is needed as soon as possible to address this financial imbalance."
Other highlights of the Trustees Report include:

• Income including interest to the combined OASDI Trust Funds amounted to $855 billion in 2013. ($726 billion in net contributions, $21 billion from taxation of benefits, $103 billion in interest, and $5 billion in reimbursements from the General Fund of the Treasury—almost exclusively resulting from the 2012 payroll tax legislation)

• Total expenditures from the combined OASDI Trust Funds amounted to $823 billion in 2013. 

• Non-interest income fell below program costs in 2010 for the first time since 1983. Program costs are projected to exceed non-interest income throughout the remainder of the 75-year period.

• The asset reserves of the combined OASDI Trust Funds increased by $32 billion in 2013 to a total of $2.76 trillion.

• During 2013, an estimated 163 million people had earnings covered by Social Security and paid payroll taxes.

• Social Security paid benefits of $812 billion in calendar year 2013. There were about 58 million beneficiaries at the end of the calendar year. 

• The cost of $6.2 billion to administer the program in 2013 was a very low 0.7 per cent of total expenditures.

• The combined Trust Fund asset reserves earned interest at an effective annual rate of 3.8 per cent in 2013.

The Board of Trustees is comprised of six members. Four serve by virtue of their positions with the federal government: Jacob J. Lew, Secretary of the Treasury and Managing Trustee; Carolyn W. Colvin, Acting Commissioner of Social Security; Sylvia M. Burwell, Secretary of Health and Human Services; and Thomas E. Perez, Secretary of Labour. The two public trustees are Charles P. Blahous III and Robert D. Reischauer.
The 2014 Trustees Report will be posted at www.socialsecurity.gov/OACT/TR/2014/ on Monday.

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And then, we have more.  And it's FREE!

     We propose that the Social Security Administration be essentially turned into an operation similar or identical to the Texas State Teachers' Retirement System...and the Texas State Employees' Retirement System.  This system essentially has a process by which the employees actually own their accounts.  The member dies, the account remains in his/her estate, and is distributed according to standard probate, and according to certain relatively simple conditions, and according to previously arranged covenants between the  Texas Retirement Sytems and the participants.
    Yes.  We mean to turn the retirement set-asides that the employees pay into and own in their own name.....into a truly self-owned system like Texas has.  We would urge a programme by which people could choose a bit of an expanded investment system...a little more adventurous that what is presently used, by permitting ultra-conservative, moderately conservative, to standard conservative investment alternative for the money left in the system by the citizen.
     Should Texas wind up being able to re-establish itself as a free-standing Republic, it would be interesting to try to recover some of the money that was put into the supposedly sacrosanct Social Security Trust Fund, contributed by Texans.  That is one of the differences between the Texas System and the Central Government System in Washington, D.C.   The money in the Texas Retirement System cannot be mingled in any way with the general fund.  The entire amount is literally owned by each individual participant.

El Zorro opines thusly, concerning the Fifth Amendment and the need to make bold statements and proposals to truly and radically return the American Republic to the Old Regimen.  To think, that when the 19th Century changed into the 20th Century, the United States central government would borrow money from wealthy individuals for the purpose of short-term financing of the central government's activities during a pinch.
     Now, in these days, the extremely wealthy serve only to fund the Democrat Party and for those who do not fund the American National Socialist Democratic Workers' Party....the wealthy serve as whipping boys/girls to denigrate and ridicule as uncaring Scrooges.

Many of us are meaning what we say when we talk about taking the useless spending part of the central government to the Sanitary Landfill.  El Zorro suggests, something moderate by my standards, but certainly radical and necessary.
To Wit:

The Fifth Amendment is huge and the more information made simple (“Fifth Amendment for Dummies”) is one of the most important issues to keep fresh.

 

I am not sure what you are saying about the SSA.  What I picked out was a newsletter I get, a sub-topic of other VA issues I subscribe to.  It is what we know it to be… that it will be broke and fixing or replacing should be a high priority to a conservative administration.

 

The platform that will win includes:

 

1.) Rebuilding of US Armed forces to higher than previous highest levels

2.) Complete repeal of the ACA

3.) Abolishment of the IRS

4.) Privatization of the VA

5.) Abolishment of Dept. of HHS

6.) Abolishment of Dept. of Homeland Security

7.) Abolishment of EPA

8.) Abolishment of NLRB

9.) Close the Border

10.) Fifth Amendment

 

These are somewhat in order of priority in consideration of level of effort, time to complete, and hierarchy of process.

 

Other issues can be considered but the more issues the less attention each gets.

 

Que tengas buen viaje.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

JH

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Time to make supper, the boss just arrived!