This would serve to impeach and convict anyone....but people are aftaid of the Clintons....scared to death.....probably even Trey Gowdy

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    The flap over the continuing sleaze and corruption for which anything Clinton, Rodham, or Democrat Party must be credited presents new and exciting opportunities for people who like to put septic and bubonic material under the focus of their microscopes.   Gorgeous Georgie Stephanopoulos swishes forth with an endearing commentary about what kind of saint his is.   Just think of all that money he gave in the fight against Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome.

     Little difference does it make, Stephie, that you could have given money directly to the Docteurs Sans Frontieres and the money would have been used at a 96 to 99 per cent level of efficiency and a 100 per cent level of effectiveness.   Those percentages are a little better than 10 - 12 per cent chalked up by the Clinton Criminal Conspiracy Programme (CCCP).

 

     There is a bit of an override expense in trying to keep (Sir Edmund) Hillary's large.....uh....interest in her brother's well-being up to standards.  The CCCP's "assistance" to Haiti did include a sweetheart gold mining concession to (Sir Edmund) Hillary's whitetrash, vagabond, bag-man brother prompting this assessment....one of several long, long summaries of rousing failures and legal spider-webs covered somewhat accurately even by Wikipedia....To wit:
 

"Following the 2010 Haiti earthquake and with Bill Clinton co-chair of the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission, Rodham and some partners proposed a $22 million deal to rebuild homes in the devastated nation, with funding to come from the Clinton Foundation.^[5] The deal never went forward and the Clinton Foundation said it was unaware of the proposal.^[5] In October 2013, Rodham joined the advisory board of VCS Mining, a Delaware-based company that was planning a gold mine in the Cap-Haïtien Arrondissement area of Haiti.^[28] By 2015 the project had become controversial due to possible environmental effects and the level of foreign ownership; for his part Rodham objected to any inference that he had gotten this position due to his family: 'I'm a very accomplished person in my own right. I raise money for a lot of people. That's what I basically do.'"^[28]

 

     ^{And yes, El Gringo Viejo knows that the Rodham brothers are guilty of scores of other crimes and misdemeanours, some much more egregious, such as assisting and facilitating the sale of Presidential Pardons....for money of all things!!  Can you imagine?  But, what possible difference can any of this make at this point?} 

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George Stephanopoulos Did More Than Just Give Money To The Clinton Foundation

Matt Vespa | May 17, 2015

       Earlier this week, Guy wrote about ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos giving $75,000 to the Clinton Foundation, a fact he failed to disclose when reporting on the former First Family and their non-profit organization. He has since apologized for his lack of transparency (via Ed Morrissey):

I want to address some news you may have seen about me. Over the last several years, I’ve made substantial donations to dozens of charities, including the Clinton Global Foundation. Those donations were a matter of public record, but I should have made additional disclosures on air when we covered the foundation. And I now believe that directing personal donations to that foundation was a mistake. Even though I made them strictly to support work done to stop the spread of AIDS, help children, and protect the environment in poor countries, I should have gone the extra mile to avoid even the appearance of a conflict. I apologize to all of you for failing to do that.



 

Yet, as Ed noted, Stephanopoulos’ donations were public insofar as they’re listed on the Clinton Foundation’s tax returns; returns that have transparency problems of its own. Regardless, this revelation makes it all the more delicious given that Stephanopoulos accused Peter Schweizer, the author of Clinton Cash, of having a conflict of interest due to his political leanings when he interviewed him on This Week in April.

Well, Schweizer recently reported that Stephanopoulos hasn’t been fully forthcoming about his ties to the Clinton Foundation, which goes beyond paychecks. He’s been a featured attendee and a panel moderator at past annual meetings for the Clinton Global Initiative (via USA Today):

…his [Stephanopulos] on air apology for this ethical mess, Stephanopoulos did not disclose that in 2006 he was a featured attendee and panel moderator at the annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI).

He did not disclose that in 2007, he was a featured attendee at the CGI annual meeting, a gathering also attended by several individuals I report on in Clinton Cash, including mega Clinton Foundation donors Lucas Lundin, Frank Giustra, Frank Holmes, and Carlos Slim — individuals whose involvement with the Clintons I assumed he had invited me on his program to discuss.

Stephanopoulos did not disclose that he was a 2008 panelist at the CGI annual meeting which, once again, featured individuals I report on in the book, such as billionaire Clinton Foundation foreign donor Denis O'Brien.

ABC's most visible news employee did not disclose that in 2009, he served as a panel moderator at CGI's annual meeting, nor did he disclose that in 2010 and 2011, he was an official CGI member.

Stephanopoulos did not disclose that in 2013 and 2014, he and Chelsea Clinton served as CGI contest judges for awards, in part, underwritten by Laureate International Universities — a for-profit education company I report on in the book. Bill Clinton was on its payroll until his recent resignation.

Schweizer wrote that ABC News virtually ignored his inquiries into why this information has yet to be made public to ABC viewers.  Instead, they told him, "Yes, George made us aware that he was moderating these panels and that is absolutely within our guidelines. We know that he would be listed as a member — as all moderators are. He is in good company of scores of other journalists that have moderated these panels."

Oh, and how ABC News handled the Stephanopoulos donation revelation is another story by itself. Apparently, the Washington Free Beacon discovered the donation, contacted ABC, who then went to Politico’s Dylan Byers–all after they promised to get back to them with a comment (via WaPo):

[Matthew] Continetti is the editor-in-chief of the Washington Free Beacon, a conservative website that launched in February 2012. Stiles is the digital managing editor for the Washington Free Beacon. The Stephanopoulos story surfaced on Wednesday just before 3:30 p.m., when Stiles found his name on the Clinton Foundation’s donor lists. He e-mailed Continetti, who told him to move on the story and also directed a researcher to check whether Stephanopoulos had seeded any of his on-air work with disclosures about the donations.

The research turned up no evidence of Stephanopoulos having told viewers of his largesse to the Clinton Foundation, clinching the need for a story. “I think you have to write this one straight,” Continetti wrote to Stiles, who sometimes takes attitudinal approaches to the news. The editor-in-chief also cited the need for a comment from Stephanopoulos’s office. “I knew immediately that this was a news story,” says Continetti.

Despite Stiles’ best efforts, ABC News didn’t cough up a response on the spot. Heather Riley, a spokeswoman for ABC News, e-mailed Stiles just after 9 p.m., promising him “something.” “What time are you posting? Want to make sure I get it to you in time,” she wrote.

Hear this, knee-jerk detractors of modern web journalism: Absent a comment from ABC News, Continetti & Co. decided to let the matter sit overnight. They just waited.

When the Washington Free Beaconers put their heads together Thursday morning, there was still no comment from ABC News. “I say, ‘Let’s begin to move this story,'” recalls Continetti. The piece wasn’t complicated: A network news anchor had contributed to a charity run by the first family of the Democratic party and hadn’t told viewers when that charity emerged in news coverage. What was complicated was its landing. “Literally as we were about to hit ‘post,’ we are alerted to the Dylan Byers piece that just went up,” says Continetti, who moved to publish their piece without the ABC News statements. Those arrived later.

The Post’s Erik Wemple said it is possible that Byers found out about the donations at the same time, though we can only speculate since he told them he couldn’t comment on sourcing. Wemple wrote that ABC News has to explain the torpor that overcame them when responding to the Free Beacon’s request for a comment.

If indeed ABC News “ran” to Byers after getting an inquiry from the Washington Free Beacon, shame on them. PR shops, after all, exist to handle just the scenario that the Washington Free Beacon presented. It’s a very linear transaction: Reporter asks, PR responds. Should it turn out that ABC News betrayed this very simplicity, the network will have forfeited its expectation that journalists check with them before publishing their goods on ABC News. “I’m trying to instill the value of reporting to a new generation of conservative reporters,” says Continetti. “What lesson do they draw when they do their due diligence and some hack PR agent goes to another outlet in order to control the story?”

That’s such a good question that the Erik Wemple Blog just dropped it into an e-mail and passed it along to ABC News along with the other questions that they won’t answer.

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Silence is unacceptable here. ABC News has to do one of two things: Either apologize to the Washington Free Beacon for whatever precisely it did or explain how its actions meet the commonly acknowledged standards of the industry.

(article source:  Townhall Newsletter)

 

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    We must point out that Stephie Stephanopoulos grilled the author of Clinton Cash....the book that recounts (Sir Edmund) Hillary's and Billy Jeff Blyth's Sharpton-style pre-paid blackmail, self-enrichment programme, the Clinton Criminal Conspiracy Programme.  Said programme is a shakedown, protected by narcissistic fools who can pose questions such as "But how can anyone believe any of this when everybody knows that you are a Republican who simply wants to hatchet-job any prominent Democrat?"  Classical question posed by a fool, who is an arrogant fool, and an arrogant fool who has no sense of pride or shame.   And ye shall know them by their good works.

    Their good works?   A complete Democrat Slave Houseboy asking Romney why he wanted to take away birth control medicines and devices from women.   Accusing the Pot of being black when the Kettle is blacker.  It's nice to be a leftist, because it means...even at Chappaquiddick Bridge, never having to say, "I'm sorry."   After all, George Bush did nothing to repair that old bridge. 

     The reason El Gringo Viejo is bald is because he has almost 100 year's-worth of head scratching trying to make sense of almost anything Democrats, liberals, progressives, marxists, anti-traditionalists, socialists, and communists say.   It all seems to go into the ever overflowing Dempster Dumpster in the Sky where one finds things like, "....we'll just have to vote for it to find out what's inside of it."

 

More later.  We have many arrows filling many quivers.  My house is made of adobe and not glass.  Read the comments of El Zorro, check out the Anglican Curmudgeon, review the submissions of our contributors, check out TownHall and other reviews....and keep an eye on Politico...the only remotely sane pinko news-source.

 

El Gringo Viejo

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This becomes more serious by the hour.....

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     The elite observers and the sophisticated scoff at us, the lowly ones, because they know us as conservatives and traditionalists.  Therefore, they are certain that we are bigots, xenophobes, and all the other convenient things they wish to call us.   It makes them feel better about themselves.

 

     But the fact is, we who count ourselves among the intellectual, pseudo-intellectual, anti-intellectual and rural/traditionalist thinkers who eschew socialism in favour of liberty.  We  certainly are not what the progressive elites would like to think us to be, or like to pigeon-hole us as.

 

    We have all long since concluded that the entire leftist and progressive cohort of the political class in the American Republic is consciously committed to the task of reducing this Republic to a septically-challenged, graffitied, hell-hole.   It is their quest to achieve this goal so as to "teach America a lesson".

     Most of us fervently believe and know that Obama, Valerie, and Company...along with all their foundation  backers and straight-thinking celebrities such as Barbra Streisand and Al Gore....know full well the result of the establishment of a socialist, welfare state system, increasingly overrun by people from outside the country who have no hope of ever being self-supporting.   They know it  will lead to the ruin of the nation.    This accomplishment would bring them joy and trembling anticipation, when they consider how many American flags they could trample upon, dancing in glee.

     Michelle Obama's cynical commencement address the other day showed the eternal, vitriolic, snarling of a hypocrite who has everything and still complains because she got a raw deal out of life.  She did not inspire the student body of Tuskegee to do much beyond feel sorry for Michelle first, and then feel sorry for themselves.....although they were graduating from an Institution and walking the grounds of a place that had been venerated in life by none other than Booker Tecumseh Washington who was also famous from speaking, but coherently.  To wit:

 

     “There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.”

 

     Some Negroes, like some Whites, love to wallow in self-pity and remember every offense, real or imagined suffered during a difficult, unfair life, even while others of both groups prefer to assume the role of Jonathon Livingston Seagull, spreading their wings and flying to new heights of fulfilment and excellence.  Yous pays yer dime and yous takes yer choice!

 

     Barry and Michelle, fighting tooth and nail to prevent other Negroes from accessing private or better quality schools, still send their children to be educated where they will not be sullied and defiled by contact with the hoi polloi.   And even as they do that, Barry and his government move to continue the flooding of America with the kind of people who are unlike the colonial types and the immigrant types of times past.   The fomenting of police - community conflict, the establishment of socialised medicine, the constant harping about racial unfairness and imbalance, the asinine fixation on something called "income inequality", all feed into something purposefully designed to fundamentally transform America into something worse....much worse.  And one of the crowning examples is this State Department refugee prioritisation.  To wit:

     [Also inappropriate, it seems, is the resettling of the most vulnerable Assyrian Christians in the United States. Donors in the private sector have offered complete funding for the airfare and the resettlement in the United States of these Iraqi Christians that are sleeping in public buildings, on school floors, or worse. But the State Department – while admitting 4,425 Somalis to the United States in just the first six months of FY2015, and possibly even accepting members of ISIS through the Syrian and Iraqi refugee program, all paid for by tax dollars, told Dobbs that they “would not support a special category to bring Assyrian Christians into the United States.”

    The United States government has made it clear that there is no way that Christians will be supported because of their religious affiliation, even though it is exactly that – their religious affiliation – that makes them candidates for asylum based on a credible fear of persecution from ISIS. The State Department, the wider administration, some in Congress and much of the media and other liberal elites insist that Christians cannot be given preferential treatment. Even within the churches, some Christians are so afraid of appearing to give preferential treatment to their fellow Christians that they are reluctant to plead the case of their Iraqi and Syrian brothers and sisters.]

     This above being a summary borrowed from the very fine commentary of Alex Haley's blog THE ANGLICAN CURMUDGEON ( http://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/ ) whose latest posting disassembles the posturing of both the United States government under Obama and various of the Church denominations thought of as "mainstream", including our own Episcopal Church  of the United States.
    It is, by their determination an excellent idea to allow Muslims to crowd in, then send for their relatives, while establishing themselves in sub-cities, showing little or no interest in American communitarianism.   A few years go by, and then honour murders, pressure cooker bombs, Army-post mass shootings, and addiction to facebook manifestos and calls to jihad against the Sons of Satan begin in earnest, as we have already seen, repeatedly.
  We are already approaching that point where Europe now is....hostage to socialism and Muslim social-psychosis....and it could only be a purposeful thing on the part of the progressives.

     Please visit the entire article by the Anglican Curmudgeon.  His disassembly of the this madness, while depressing, is crisp, succinct, and devastating to any argument about "fairness" or "human rights".
     Now, the ancient yeoman's prayer must be invoked, for I have railed forth for far too long.   So I close with, "Lord fill my mouth with worthwhile stuff, and shut it when I have said enough."

El Gringo Viejo

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Convenient, condensed basic introduction to Islam - Complements of El Zorro

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There are several precepts for the basis of Islam.  They are:

 

·       The Trilogy - The Koran, the biography of Mohammad (Sira), and the traditions of Mohammad (Hadith): 

The Koran is devoted primarily to the religious side of Islam.  The Sira is the life of Mohammad.  The Hadith (all the hadiths – small "h") are the traditions of Mohamad.  The Sira and the Hadith are the Sunna.  The political Islam is predominant in the Sunna at about 67% which is to convert the entire world population to Islam.  Muslims are bound to imitate the Sunna e.g. the life and traditions of Mohammad.  Mohammad is Islam!

 

 

·       Dualism - Everything is either right or wrong and both are correct.

 

Islam was an invention of Mohammad.  It is divided into two parts.  The first part is religious Islam where Mohammad received his first revelation from the angel Gabriel in Mecca in 610 AD.  When he started preaching in Mecca he was weak and could not gain a large following, about 150 followers in 13 years until 623 AD when he was cast out of Mecca by primarily the Jews but also the other religions there which did not agree with is religious views.  That was the first and religious part of Islam.

In 623 AD Mohammad took his few followers to Medina where he became a political leader and a warrior.  For the rest of his life Islam grew to billions as there are today through politics and war.  Mohammad took revenge on the Jews and Christians whom he named "People of the Book" and the rest of the non-Muslims for his treatment while in Mecca.  This was and is the totality of Islam, and the second part, which is an aggressive total life system for Muslims consisting of religion and politics.

 

Both of the above are the basis for the duality of Islam.

 

            (a) Religious Islam defines the peaceful Muslim

            (b) Political Islam defines the fundamental (fanatic) Muslim.

 

    Likewise, there are only two types of people in Islam, Muslims and Kafirs.  Again duality.

 

    There is no right or wrong in Islam.  Contradictions in Islam in any of the Trilogy are called abrogations.  That means that what is written is true even though one Sura (a chapter in the Qur'an) appears to contradict a preceding one.  In Islamic law, the Shar'ia, a newer law may abrogate an older one.  In any event, the newer text takes precedence over an older one; however, the older one may be used if it advances the cause of Islam.  As far is Islam is concerned, Allah and his Messenger cannot be wrong.  Duality.

 

     There is weak Islam and strong Islam.  In weak Islam a Muslim may defer to a Kafir socially, even though it be a lie, if it advances Islam and they cannot prevail otherwise in whatever effort they may engage.  In strong Islam, the Muslims are allowed to subdue the Kafir in the most expeditious manner available including torture and murder of the Kafir if he/she cannot be converted to Islam.  Duality.

 

     The goal of Islam is to cause the complete submission of the Kafir until every person on the earth is a true Muslim.

 

 

·       Allah is the only god - Polytheism, paganism, atheism, and agnosticism (in other words any religion other than Islam) are unacceptable.

 

     In Mecca Mohammad tolerated other religions and, in fact took much of his beliefs and structure of Islam came from the other religions, primarily the Torah and the Old Testament.  Some of his theology even came from paganism.  The evidence is that the name "Allah" came from a pagan idol, the moon. As he took his followers to Medina and gained strength and the ability to subdue his enemies he changed from his recognition of other religions.  He made Allah the only God and everyone else became the Kafirs, those who are all people other than true Muslims.

 

 

·       All people are slaves - Muslims are slaves to Allah, all others are slaves to Muslims.

 

    This is one of the basic precepts of Islam.  The word "slave" came from Mohammad's conquest of Slavic tribes, a derivative of the word Slav.  Islam teaches that Muslims are slaves and all others (Kafirs) are slaves to Muslims.  The belief is that Allah demands that Muslims convert or kill Kafirs with some inventions of Mohammad.  There is the "Dhimmi" who is a Kafir who does not convert to Islam but abides by a treaty which is an agreement between Muslims and Kafirs whereby the Kafirs agree to give up rights as free people so they may live (See Treaty of Umar).  The Dhimmi becomes a protected class of non-Muslim… a Kafir under the protection of Islam.  Slavery was not invented by Americans and the Western World.  It was and is a major enterprise of Islam.  The slaves were sold to Americans and western traders by Muslims in Africa and other European states.  Slavery is illegal in America but not in Islam today.

 

     It is the responsibility of every Muslim to fight jihad (jihad was invented by Mohammad) in whatever way possible to convert or enslave the Kafir.  The strongest will fight by war.  The old, women and children will support the warriors by providing shelter, food, money, etc.  Islam invades Kafir lands and confiscates everything of value. It kills or enslaves the strongest enemy and enslaves the rest if the Kafirs do not submit (Islam means submission).

 

 

A very disturbing thing about Islam and jihad is a section of the Healthcare law relating to Dhimmitude on page 107 that exempts Muslims from complying with the mandate to purchase insurance.  (See Muslims Exempted)

 

Islam is here in America.  This short summary highlights some of the basics of Islam.  There is nothing in this theology that is good for America.

 

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Be My Baby - The Ronettes - 1963 - Stereo - Music Video

     Show the grandchildren that things were intense but so much more civilised back in the day.   These were common working-class Puerto Riquenas and the like in 1963, just before everything fell to hell.

El Zorro forwards this clip to the attention of the OROG community - mandatory information!

Ann Corcoran on Refugee Resettlement

 

El Zorro sent this in for our consideration.  As we were learning a new posting manoeuver to enhance our presentations, it dawned upon me that for almost 60 years we have never demanded one thing from the other.   The only two people who could call me down beyond my wife and daughter were my brother Milton and El Zorro.   I would always yield.   El Zorro would sometimes lose sight of how much value he had and how positively the people around him viewed his presence.  I would serve, very infrequently, to reassure him of his position as one of the "upper-crust".

     Perhaps, at times, neither of us took himself seriously enough.  We are still not quite at the end of the race.  But, looking around, we have distanced our peers considerably, and we have lived adventure and accomplishment.   We have served well and honourably....El Zorro more-so than I.    We have the luxury to now bark from the very near side-lines and make strong, coherent observations that are now circulating in many corners, and on many planes.

 

     Our assumption that the secular humanists, progressives, and marxists would have no compunction about cold-bloodedly sacrificing an entire race of Americans into re-slavery has been shown to be true.   The acolytes of Margaret Sanger and Karl Marx would and did do all necessary that would be required to push America into extinction.

 

     Please remember the Texas Nationalist Movement.  Please also remember the cause of the Vth Amendment Convention.  Since we began jousting the issues presented by those Windmills, both issues have advanced to the point that there are now 30 sovereign States of the American Union that have voted for a Convention under the terms of the 5th Amendment.   (For a few moments, El Zorro thought that the Vth Amendment Convention was hopeless.  Perhaps my optimism was mistaken for silliness or delusion).

       Over 60% per cent of the citizens of the Republic of Texas have declared to carefully done polling that they support an Independent Republic of Texas.   El Gringo Viejo is Longstreet and El Zorro is Jackson, but this time there will be no retreat to Richmond and Appomattox.   This time it will be us who truly free the slaves of the Oppression by the Progressives.

     And yes, we both know that there are many Longstreets and Jacksons.   We are Legion.

 

We commend these words of the lady above to the OROGs' attention.  Remember, also, that there are no ISIS training camps west of Ciudad Juarez.  There are, however, overwhelming evidences that ISIS operatives are self-inserting as Mexican or Central American type people....and I would estimate that five or ten per month might be being inserted.   Many have come from that insertion camp from west of Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua,  trained long ago in Syria or Iraq.  An equal or greater number might well be, and probably are, coming in from Canada.

El Gringo Viejo

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Potpourrie of Commentary....some even worthwhile

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Climate and Demagoguery:

     The immediate flood of commentary concerning "Super-Storm Sandy" wreaking devastation upon New York City and places in nearby New Jersey was revealing.  The Climate-Change Industry parasites predictably reminded all concerned that the storm was living proof that the polar caps were almost finished and that not only were further storms and floods in the offing but also Atacama-like droughts that would destroy all known forms of life in the Universe in a matter of hours if not minutes.

     Of course, every little boy's cry of "Wolf! Wolf!" and each hen's shrieking "...the sky is falling!  The sky is falling!" has seen the predicted time of occurrence arrive and expire with no significant weather/climate deviations from known norms having transpired.   AlGore and his acolytes are even quick to point out that the lack of fulfilment of these predictions is even further proof of their accuracy.

     It is the problem caused by people who make a religion out of their insanity.   It is a form of the same disease that afflicts a large swath of a certain group that understands that Jews, homosexuals, Christians, adulteresses, and misbehaving Moslems must be beheaded.

 

     During these moments, most of the Republic of Texas is being super-saturated with nearly record rainfall.    Those areas in the Central part of the Republic, and into the areas to the East of San Antonio...the historically Czech, Bohemian, German, and Polish dominated stretches....are picking up rains of 2 to 10 inches per day, every few days.   Every part of the Domain seems to be greening and flushing out with rarely seen rainfall totals, save perhaps for the Permian, near Midland and Odessa in far West Texas.

  There were those people who told us that the droughts suffered by most of the Republic three to five years ago was proof that the End had arrived, and Global Warming, brought on by Bush failing to implement the Kobe Agreement was our punishment.  
    Those same persons are now quick to comment that the heavy rains are beyond Noahanic, and proof that their predictions were, and always have been, correct.   If one listens to the overnight radio crowd, it is astonishing how inarticulate, ignorant, cocksure, and arrogantly wrong the continuing die-hard gaggle of climate nuts remain.  One hopes that the ones who identify as high school and/or collegiate-level professors spouting this stuff either seek counselling and therapy or at least do the honourable thing and resign in disgrace for intentionally misleading the unwashed ignorant among us.

 

     While these rains are a bit much, they are appreciated.   The lakes around the area in Mexico where we hang around are all full to over-filled.  The same is the case in most if not quite all of the Republic of Texas.   Below are a few notes about weather and climate in Texas.

     Texas Weather Records   

 

Event	Record	Location	Date
Temperature (F)         Coldest      -23   Tulia (40 miles S of Amarillo)       Feb. 12, 1899       Seminole (65 miles SW of Lubbock) Feb. 8, 1933 Hottest 120   Seymour (180 miles NW of Dallas) Aug. 12, 1936       Monahans (45 miles SW of Midland) Jun. 28, 1994 Warmest year statewide 68.6     1921 Coldest year statewide 63.2     1976           Highest monthly average 102.4   Presidio (210 miles SE of El Paso) June 1962 Lowest monthly average 19.4   Dalhart (60 miles NW of Amarillo) January 1959           Highest annual average 74.1   McAllen (60 mi NW of Brownsville) 1988 Lowest annual average 56.1   Dalhart (60 miles NW of Amarillo) 1959           Rainfall (inches)         Greatest in a 24-hour period 29.05   Albany (105 miles W of Ft. Worth) Aug. 4, 1978 Greatest in one month 35.70   Alvin (20 miles SE of Houston) July 1979 Greatest in one year 109.38   Clarksville (105 miles NE of Dallas) 1873 Least in one year 1.64   Presidio (210 SE of El Paso) 1956           Highest annual average 59.1   Orange (100 miles E of Houston)   Lowest annual average 8.67   El Paso (westernmost city in TX)             Snowfall (inches)         Greatest in a 24-hour period 24.0   Plainview (45 miles N of Lubbock) Feb.3-5, 1956 Greatest maximum depth 33.0   Hale Center (35 mi N of Lubbock) Feb. 4, 1956       Vega (25 miles W of Amarillo) Feb. 4, 1956 Greatest in a single storm 61.0   Vega Feb. 1-8, 1956 Greatest in one month 61.0   Vega Feb. 1956 Greatest in one season 65.0   Romero (65 miles NW of Amarillo) 1923-24           Wind (miles per hour)         Highest sustained speed SE 145   Matagorda (70 mi SW of Houston) *Hurricane Carla Sep. 11, 1961   NE 145   Port Lavaca (70 mi NE of Corpus. Christi) *Hurricane Carla Sep. 11, 1961 Highest peak gust SW 180   Aransas Pass (20 m E of C. Christi) *Hurricane Carla Aug. 3, 1970           Hazardous Weather         Longest and worst drought       1950-1956 Worst heat wave     20.0 billion in U.S.damages, 10,000 deaths 1980 Worst cold wave     Over half of Texas went below 0F February 12, 1899 Most damage from 1 tornado 442M   Wichita Falls (120 mi NW of Dallas) April 10, 1979 Most tornadoes in 1 year 232   115 of the total were associated with Hurricane Beulah 1967 Most tornadoes in 1 month 124   115 of the total were associated with Hurricane Beulah Sep. 1967 Most damage from 1 hailstorm 1.2B   Parker, Tarrant counties **US record May 5, 1995 Deadliest hurricane 6,000-8,000   Galveston - Category 4 hurricane Sep. 8, 1900 Most damaging hurricane 3.0 Billion   Hurricane Alicia - Category 3 hurricane Aug. 18, 1983

    We concur with almost all these figures, although locales generally have taller tales and dates buried further back into the annals of history.  Of note to this writer is the fact that the deadliest hurricane is listed as a category 4, although there is no asterisk to denote that there was no method to measure accurately a wind-speed that would, in these days, qualify as a Category 5.  Also, as "most damaging storm", had the same storm struck Galveston - Houston area in these days, conservative estimates of damage would be one trillion dollars or more......easily.
     It should be noted that in those days, in 1900, Galveston was the fourth largest city in Texas and it was essentially....to the extent of 98%....destroyed and destroyed totally.  Steam locomotive switch-engines working the yards around the Galveston Harbour complex were found six miles away, on the Texas mainland.   The casualty levels are low because many of the workers and people who were there at the time working in the harbour area especially, were foreigners from Mexico, Italy, England, Ireland, China, and the Philippines.  Most were never found or recovered.

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Gen. Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
President of Egypt 

     Finally, the Obama administration says that the Border is secure and al Qaeda is on the run and we are going to do better in Egypt with Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood democratically elected than having an old fool like Mubarak in charge because he is corrupt.   And besides that it is people like Netanyahu, Egyptian President Gen. el-Sisi who keep causing problems by siding with Jews, Christians, sane Moslems, and by making decisions based upon well-founded, rational reason.
     Can you all imagine.  Who do they think they are?  The King of Morocco, the King of Saudi Arabia, the King of Jordan, the President of Egypt, the emirs of the United Emirates, and King Bibi of the Hebrews suddenly form into a functioning alliance and do just battle against the Forces of Darkness.  They have done it somewhat effectively.   The response from the White House?   "Why are you people picking on the poor Hootsies and ISIS Freedom Fighters?"
     They do it facing every danger.   First is the danger of being sold down the river by an American Administration that is headed by a person who is the half-brother of a Muslim Brotherhood chaplain...who served as the future American President's best man at the wedding perform by ...you guessed it...Jeremiah Wright.  The next is that Obama and his ilk have historically and into during these times always hated the Hebrews and loved the Palestinians.

     It is not surprising that Obama and his minions would prefer to negotiate "sweetheart treaties" with the Persians who want to annihilate the Hebes and Gringos....like as in "totally", in lieu of defending and co-ordinating with people who seem to understand, at the very least, how to sign and keep an agreement.   The people who want to kill us all are the President's favourites and the people who have at least a level of understanding of reality and at least grudging affection for the Gringos....the President hates.

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     More later.  We are still trying to get on top of the various issues and topics that can rust out a bit after three weeks on the edge of civilisation.  Our stay this time was marked by a lot of little detail work and the continued rethinking about direction, themes, and utilisations of our little hideaway.   We shall divulge some inner thinking in the coming days.

El Gringo Viejo

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