A special note to newcomers: first of all, welcome!

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     We forget, at times, to do a bit of self-promotion, especially if it benefits our clients and readership, loosely known as the OROG community.   The Order of the Readers of the Old Gringo is a growing group of grumpily pleasant people.  There are even a few who think they are liberals of some sort or another.

     We have had the comment from one lady who indicated that she happened upon our blog and it made her so furious that she wanted to call her congressgirlyman.   But, she did not, and was strangely drawn back to the long, winding sentences with two dependent clauses and perhaps three independent clauses, silly pictures, and silly music....anger, humour, British spelling, Mexican-inflected commentary....historical orientations...and social analysis....and she decided that it was one of her favourite stops on the cyber-highway into the cloud after all.

 

Have Gun - Will Travel

     We appreciate the open mind.  We also urge that the reader landing here for the first or early times to-day check back for a couple of weeks or maybe twenty or thirty entries as time permits to understand this blog.   It is both constant....riding along the right rail of the track, relying upon traditionalist guideposts for life....and somewhat eclectic, such as when we analyse by 360 degrees the issues surrounding Battle of the Alamo, or the Cinco de Mayo.   We also jump on the bones of Mexico and the Mexicans and can be one of  Mexico's and the Mexicans' best defenders, depending of course upon whether El Gringo Viejo believes them to be in error or correct.   El Gringo Viejo is the quintessential Texian.

 

     We have a posse, each a Paladin with his own path, and all of whom have similar although not identical viewpoints who intermittently contribute writing that, alas, is as good to much better than my own.   While they might not be either gunfighters or one of the Twelve Knights of the Court of Charlemagne, of them all they all be qualified for either title.   So the reader is not doomed to the same source forever.
     We even take our own to task, at times.  And, finally we draw liberally from source material that is used, with due credits, to augment understanding.   Once again....meander through our recent and ancient writings on the blog....communicate, preferably by e-mail, and feel at home here.

El Gringo Viejo

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THIS MIGHT BE THE BIG ONE, ELIZABETH!!! The "Constitutional Law Professor" is the "Nutty Professor"?

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 This is about as close to an up and down, just-the-facts-ma'am case as can be devised.  And it is constructed by a bunch of bureaucrats.  To wit:

 

President Obama violated a “clear and unambiguous” law when he released five Guantanamo Bay detainees in exchange for Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, the Government Accountability Office reported Thursday.

 

“[The Department of Defense] violated section 8111 because it did not notify the relevant congressional committees at least 30 days in advance of the transfer,” the GAO report said. “In addition, because DOD used appropriated funds to carry out the transfer when no money was available for that purpose, DOD violated the Antideficiency Act. The Antideficiency Act prohibits federal agencies from incurring obligations exceeding an amount available in an appropriation.”

 

The GAO rejected the idea that the action was legal and sidestepped the Obama team’s suggestion that the law is unconstitutional.

 

“It is not our role or our practice to determine the constitutionality of duly enacted statutes,” the report says. “In our view, where legislation has been passed by Congress and signed by the President, thereby satisfying the bicameralism and presentment requirements in the Constitution, that legislation is entitled to a heavy presumption in favor of constitutionality.”

 

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     The action by the hand of the White House in the trading of five high value vermin for one deserter is simply another demonstration of the willingness of Barrack Obama to denigrate the United States of America.  This action would be similar to a man walking into a grocery store to buy a can of soup with a price tag of $1.50.   As the buyer walks out, he takes 12 one-hundred dollar bills and throws them at the cashier and continues on, walking out, going to his auto, and driving away.

     Obama's statement was that it was more important to defer to the terrorist - murderers and their feelings than to the entire United States Army and its feelings about a person who would desert his brothers in the face of the enemy, and further, join that enemy in the enemy's efforts.

      This swirl of incompetence that even has a dolt like Chuck Hegel concerned about Obama's lack of strategic understanding points ever more solidly to the fact that Obama is really bored with hanging around in the White House.  If he cannot be out demagoguing the Hell out of white people and black and Latin conservatives, and braying-forth with marxist platitudes, then he is just not interested in "plugging in".   

 

Good Grief, Carlos Moreno!

El Gringo Viejo

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Predictable - But maddening in any regard

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     We are being deluged, almost, from all sides about how Obama did "pretty good" in walking the middle line between lynching the Ferguson policeman, and worshipfully venerating the unfortunate dead boy.   He was applauded for sending in a worthy intermediary between the competing interests in the case.   Those interests are, of course, the oppressed masses and the enforcers for the slave-masters.

 

     The worthy intermediary is the radical and corrupt Eric Holder.  He is famous for having lied his way through several "phony scandals" to the point that he has been held in contempt of Congress once already, and will likely be cited again in the case of the Internal Revenue Service corruption and cover-up.  His performance as the bag-man in the Mark Rich pardon during the last hours will be high among his accomplishments to chisel upon his tombstone.  "Here lies the most corrupt individual to have ever served as Attorney General of the United States.  Few people could lie under oath so blatantly are remain free of imprisonment."

 

     Holder enters onto the scene of a small city, a suburb of Saint Louis, accompanied by up to a score of attorney - investigators who are famously corrupt, leftists to the extreme, and roundly condemned by many, including a federal judge in New Orleans who wrote a 120 page condemnation of that body's performance during a police investigation in that city.  The judge in his decision summary referred to Holder's gang as "grotesque".   He described their performance as worthy of disbarment.

    Of course, among the Democrats and the Progressive movement these are accolades.   It is the same rating (Sir Edmund) Hillary gained from her boss who was chief counsel for the Watergate Committee for the Democrats of a slightly different day.  Hillary, like Holder, like Obama are Democrats of this day, as in Peoples' Democratic Republic of Wackopelosia" or German National Socialist Democratic Workers' Party.   Hillary, of course, was discontinued in her service on the Watergate Investigation group for lying and insubordination.  She was admonished somewhat publicly by the head of the investigative group, a Democrat, and advised that she would be given a most unsatisfactory recommendation for being totally unprofessional.    Holder and his posse come from this same ethic.

 

     The "Ferguson Investigation" is bound by the chains of bigotry and Leftism, and little or no good can come from their efforts.

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     The further deterioration of an administration that started off low and has gone ever lower, is the idea that suddenly, after Barry Soetoro gives what appears to be a grudging recognition of another dead person's blood on this hands, the "the White House" and the "Defence Department" declare that an attempt to recover various prisoner/hostages in Syria, but....the effort failed.  The number of troops committed and the various platforms and armaments were even cited and specified.   I sat with my jaw on the ground.  This was such an obvious Valerie Jarrett iron-fisted demand to sway public opinion back in favour of the Man Who Shot Liberty bin Laden (also laden with security leaks and classified information dispersal, leaving one Pakistani doctor still in prison for "treason) that it 110% flabbergasted your humble servant.

     Is nothing sacrosanct?  Is there nothing that is immune from sacrifice that will those deranged people in the White House will not do in order to explain, justify, and/or further "perfect" their god-king?  Our secret ops successes should not be revealed or discussed when they are successful.  Less when they fail.  Mon Dieu!!!

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     In the matter of Obama's performance, all involving  ''shuttle theatrics" with the flying of Air Force One back and forth, back and forth from Martha's place to Michelle's place at $500,000/one way per whack (actually more), the issue is sickening.

     He flies back to the White House to figure a strategy on how to take best advantage of the matter in Ferguson, Missouri.  He injects central government authority in to the matter while at the same time declaring that he can't do much because local authorities have greater prerogative.  

     As the governor of Missouri, a fool by the name of Jay Nixon, calls for the "rapid prosecution" of this case....later declaring that he had been misunderstood....Eric Holder comes in to talk to the "victims''.  The prejudicial attitudes are overwhelming among the Democrat - Progressive race baiters and vote-turnout enhancement operatives for said political group.   They are going to milk this Ferguson Issue into all the way to the ice-cream factory.

 

     Holder is going to have a hard time trying to explain away the aggravated robbery of the store, 12 - 15 minutes before the shooting of  Michael Brown.  He will figure some lie to explain away the somewhat severe assembly of fractures around the front of the policeman's face and eye.  Holder is very capable of  bringing a witness forward to testify that the copper fell down when he left his patrol unit to chase down Michael Brown and shoot him in the back.  "And you see, there is no proof that Michael Brown struck the policeman.  It is clear that the policeman injured himself."

 

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     Finally, this whole matter of shuttle-vacationing is maddening enough, without having to include the idea of Obama holding a press conference yesterday to lament the gruesome passing of the photo-journalist.  Obama, as usual, arrived late to the event, made a few perfunctory, hollow remarks about something "unrelenting", left and went back to Martha's house in Massachusetts.  In minutes he was yucking it up with his buds, driver in hand and as far removed from the shambles he has made of America and its foreign policy as possible.    The junior varsity has defeated the Obama Administration with its own version of "Arab Spring" and "Lines in the Sand".

   Those "red lines in the sand" you drew, Barry, turned out to be Foley's blood.

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By Justin Sink - 08/20/14 01:51 PM EDT

George Bush:   "I just don't feel right playin' golf, when I have troops catchin' bullets and gettin' chewed up by IEDs."
26 rounds in eight years.  None after mid-2003.

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Barry Soetoro:   "Stupid teleprompter didn't work.  Flew all the way over there and all the way back, and had to read some stupid statement off of note cards."
186 rounds in fewer than six years....more casualties in six years than Bush had in eight....and losing victories, cancelling the successes and sacrifices of the dead, wounded, and life-interrupted reservists and guardsmen and Regular Army, Marines, Airmen, Coast Guards, and Navy.

 May the Great Yahweh bless them and may the Saints preserve us.

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Too angry to sign off politely.  Thanks for your time and patience.  Shades of Benghazi being caused by an offensive video on YouTube.

El Gringo Viejo

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High School Student Arrested for Writing about Hunting Dinosaur with Gun

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We have to wonder where critical thinking has gone.  Let us overload the boys with dilantin and other dulling drugs and wait until they are fifteen or so and shoot up the school.  Then we can blame the guns.

David Christian Newton · Top Commenter · Works at Self Employed
Look folks, the authorities had their hands tied. He did not have a dinosaur hunting license. He had not been to the sensitivity training about how to deal with illegal alien, lesbian dinosaurs and he had not done the required 300 hours of community service after pleading guilty to the charge of being a male. Only XXX knows what will happen when they find out that he is white.

 

David Burgess · Top Commenter

Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as: - Knowing when to come in out of the rain; - Why the early bird gets the worm; ... - Life isn't always fair; - And maybe it was my fault. Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies, don't spend more than you can earn and adults, not children, are in charge. His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a 6-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding ...an unruly student, only worsened his condition. Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children. It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer sun lotion or an aspirin to a student; but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion. Common Sense lost the will to live as the churches became businesses; and criminals received better treatment than their victims. Common Sense took a beating when you couldn't defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault. Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement. Common Sense was preceded in death, by his parents, Truth and Trust, by his wife Discretion, his daughter Responsibility, and his son, Reason. He is survived by his 4 stepbrothers - I Know My Rights, I Want It Now, Someone Else Is To Blame and I'm A Victim. Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone. If you still remember him, pass this on.

 

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Time Runs Out

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     Back on 15 August of this year, we wrote the following:

 

  Firm orders could have been given to pull at least one, preferably two flattops into correct position, and then conduct 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.

 

     We were thinking that since we are influential commentators on domestic as well as foreign policy that Valerie Jarrett would immediately have us arrested and imprisoned.   Then she would order Barry to follow my suggestions to deploy the necessary B - I bombers and numerous F - series fighter/ bomber platforms against the obvious threat presented by ISES and L.   That deployment would be relentless, 30 hours per day, bombing and strafing an ever decreasing periphery of combatant concentration until such time that here would be nothing left.   It was and remained until just that past few hours ago the one aperture of opportunity to face a body of combatants so full of their own hubris as to think themselves indestructible.  Concentrated, compressed militarily into a ridiculous ball, and our leader is on the golf course....plotting how to milk the Ferguson matter for Democrat votes...and generally doing what American-hating Nobel Peace Prise Laureates do.  Hate America....and play golf....or lay around in Mallorca hating Americans.

 

Pathetic.  The time is past.  The ISIS combatant are "going civilian" now, and they will have to be rooted out one-by-one.  They are coming to get us.   But Barry will not have to worry, because the courses where he tee's up do not allow people like the ISIS people to get past the gates.

El Gringo Viejo

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Parallels: Treyvon and the Gentle Giant

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HOLY ORDER of the HOOD

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   Similarities between Treyvon Martin and Mike Brown are abundant.  Like Jesse and Al pictured above, the two boys are poster-babies for the Great Society and Progressivism.   Or, the case can be made, as enshrined above, Skittles, Arizona Watermelon drink, and Robitussin (or Sudafed) can be used to make "high-school meth", was Treyvon's  juice of choice.   Mr. Brown's preference was for mixing the sugary tobacco of Swisher Sweets Cigarillos with marijuana, and repacking the Swisher Sweets with the mix, and selling the semi-industrialised reefers to his "friends".   It is known due to the toxicology reports on both boys that they used considerable marijuana, and certainly in Treyvon's case and most probably in Mr. Brown's case, there were mixtures of other toxins (drugs and alcohol) that were frequently ingested.   Treyvon,  high-school meth and Michael, Swisher Sweet Cigarillo Reefer.   Real cultural and intellectual proweress.

 

     Treyvon was the finest boy in the world, just coming back at night from the convenience store to his home.  He had just gone to buy himself a candy bar and a canned drink.  But the facts, when fully revealed and comprehended would tell a different story.   The whole truth and nothing but the truth reveal that Treyvon was not going "home" but to the apartment of his father's current squeeze, to where he had been relegated because his mother did not want him at her place.  His father, although he had the girlfriend, lived elsewhere and did not have "room" for his son.  So Treyvon lived the life intended for him by the engineers of the Brave New World.  Shiftless and dependent and narcissistic and mean.

     Treyvon was working on a ten-day suspension from school, having been found with drugs (probably marijuana) in his locker, along with stolen gold jewellery.  His suspension for such a long period was because of another previous suspension for physically bullying a girl.  He would have gone to juvenile detention but for the fact that the school district where he attended was trying to avoid reporting crimes so as to artificially be able to state that the "crime problem" in the school he attended (massive) could be demonstrated to be falling.  Kudos to the principal for innovative bureaucratic union mendacity.

 

     Mike Brown had been separated from his mother because of the fact that she had tired of being pushed around and hit by her son.  In a variation of the hyper-sensitive domestic violence laws that exist now in almost all States, something had to be done with Mr. Brown.  So, apparently, it was decided that he could go live with his grandmother.  She, after a period, banished her grandson to a certain section of her house, and would not permit him to enter into "her'' section.  We have not been able to ascertain as of yet the reason for such measures, but it seems likely that he just likes to push much smaller people around.  One can readily see his method of dealing with the person at the convenience store when that person called down Mr. Brown for trying to leave without paying for his Swisher Sweets cigarillos and the other things he had purloined.

     The notion that Mike Brown was waiting to start college in the coming week is ludicrous.   It was an invention of the Obsolete Press, possibly in parroting some silly person's fictionalised response to some lame "reporter's" question, "Well, what was Michael doing?  Where did he work, or was he going to school?'' 

 

     It should be noted that Anonymous had "hacked" into St. Louis criminal files, supposedly and found a lengthy record for Michael Brown.   But, one of the reasons we should all be leery of using Anonymous as a good agent in research is because he (it?) is wrong about 50% of the time.   Michael Brown of our incident in question at this time turned 18 this past May.  Were he to have a record, it would have to have been either entirely or overwhelmingly juvenile and therefore essentially unrecoverable.  We do know that had he lived, he would have been charged with aggravated felony robbery of the convenience store, with the charges elevated by having physically accosted the clerk/owner of the store.  His friend, who has been said to have been uninvolved in the affair at the store, was an active accomplice.   In my reading of the complete police report of that incident indicates that Michael gave him several boxes of the Swisher Sweets which were then secreted on his friend's person under his outer clothes.

     It should be pointed out that the response when asked about Michael's juvenile record has received the famous answer, "Issues about his juvenile criminal record cannot be released since those records are closed to the public without a court order."   That response almost always means that there is a juvenile record.

 

     Finally, we fear for the community, due to the threats implied by the notion that if there is no quick indictment and conviction, as the Democrat State Senator warned, "....you will see a response that will make these riots look like a picnic in the park."   The fear is based on the fact that the officer's injuries brought on by a sucker-punch to the mid-face area did considerable damage to the bone structure around the eye (many fractures), and the action of Michael Brown in making a bum's rush against the officer after having once attempted to take the officer's weapon will limit the possibility of an indictment, and certainly of a conviction.   It is a dark future for that community.

 

     The arrival of Eric Holder into the mess portends nothing but demagoguery on steroids and strong-arm tactics.   It is the Democrats only hope to energise their base sufficiently to hold on to the Senate.

El Gringo Viejo

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