The image of (Sir Edmund) Hillary talking authoritatively about anything raises questions immediately. We watched, and there were really no surprises. She managed to touch all the bases. To wit:
Dedicated to that "first revolutionary" LUCIFER
(1) According to Rules for Radicals she did as ordered. Always accuse the opponent of actually doing what it is that you as a radical are doing. Do this especially if the opponent is, in truth, not doing what you are accusing him of. This cynical admonition by Saul Linsky is something this final distillation of arrogant totalitarians have taken to its final refinement.
While on the one hand pushing ACORN (and later re-incarnations thereof) thugs....mainly barely one-half step above homeless druggies....to do "voter registration recruitment" (?), they accuse Republicans of being openly attempting to "...keep people from voting." ACORN and Sons, famously signed up scores of thousands of Mickey Mouses, Marilyn Monroes, John Smiths, and so forth. They were, and still are, actively involved especially in large cities and around universities where "students" could pick up a few extra bucks, turning in voter's registrations to the County Registrar. At times the error rate for the cards was over 90%.
ACORN and the Sons of ACORN would assure the authorities that the errors were "accidental" and sometimes due to the plain inexperience, lack of intelligence, or the fact that they could only pay minimum wage. ACORN "deputy registrars" were charged and convicted on many occasions. Reasons? Offering registrants cigarettes, cocaine, marijuana, money, and/or sex for registering to vote.....you know....citizenship things. But ACORN and Son are just part of the hideous, purposefully deceitful mess. Another small but significant part of the issue is described below.
Strangely, we find that almost everywhere an area where probable Democrat voters are found in concentrations of 90 per cent or more of the precinct, registration is also found to be almost totally registered. At times there are more registrants than even the most recent census can verify the number of voting age adult citizens.
Frequently, on voting days, precincts in some heavily Democrat and leftist strongholds manage to vote over 100% of the registered electors represented on the precinct rolls. Such phenomena are not all that rare, although they are known as Miracle Precincts. Ask (Sir Edmund) Hillary about this, and she would certainly respond that she has never heard of such a thing.
She probably has not heard about the "false stories and myths about voter fraud" that occur here in southernmost Texas. Just during the past two election cycles....mainly concentrated in the Democrat Primaries...which are really pointless due to the fact that the winners will ultimately either be sent to prison or driven out of office by some kind of scandal....women known as ''politiqueras" (poh - lih - tih - KEI - rahs) trundle about where ever there might be very old and incapacitated women. These women will first be told that "I am here to help you vote." And the politiquera will engage the old lady in some polite and banal conversation, moving all the while to that point where the old lady will be told that the politquera is really busy and she needs to have the old lady ".....sign right here on this line".
The little old lady has probably been through this before, and knows what is going on. She also has a bit of fear in her as it concerns the politiquera. They become quite insistent to even threatening, rough, and finally physical when they think the little old lady is not going to sign.
What is the important document? It is a request to the County Elections Officer to mail, to the little old lady below named and endorsed, an Absentee Ballot for the election of such and such date. If the little old lady hasn't been too much of a problem, the politiquera might throw a five dollar bill on her bed. If she "gives up" some names then the politiquera might be disposed to give the little old lady 20 dollars or maybe an "extra" (stolen or found)Lone Star Card with thirty or forty dollars left on it.
If the little old lady holds out, there is, at times, physical violence. At other times the politiquera might threaten that she "knows" about the illegal paper work in her legal alien petition or naturalisation papers false information or any number of hocus pocus dragons that she can employ to terrorise the hapless little old lady. Frequently we might be talking about a little old lady who is 80 - 100 years old, maybe 75 -110 pounds, frail in health being confronted by a woman who is essentially a saloon-madam type, big - around 200 pounds, and perhaps 33 to 60 years of age. Frequently the politiquera has her "chauffeur" or helper, who might be a large male.
It is not a good time for a femme sole should a politiquera put that woman in her sights. Little old men are also assaulted in the same manner. They know that the politiquera will be coming by to check on their mail, and once again the document will be signed....at which time the politiquera herself will fill out the ballot in the "correct" manner.
The politiquera will always assert in court that she is "helping" the little old men and ladies vote....but sometimes, and increasingly...even the Democrat District Attorneys have begun to tire of the game. It became sadly humorous when during the last couple of sessions, United States Postal Service letter carriers have been found offering ballots for sale that have been sent out to legitimate (or otherwise) requests to the county's Elections Registrar's office. Price per ballot? From $5 to $20, depending upon how close the election seems to be.
So, (Sir Edmund) Hillary....ye of the s l o w s p e e c h and stern condemnations of people who have done no wrong in this issue....just shut up or shut down....what moral grounds do you have....? You and your party pride yourselves for only one thing, a process: .....buying votes with other peoples' money and using that money to enslave people into a system that all but requires them to continue to vote for you so that they can .....live....! Gag.
It is the old game. Democrats commit serious second and first degree felonies like (Sir Edmund) Hillary so often does, and they are applauded. Tom DeLay uses a common accounting and processing operation to transfer funds, openly, and Ron Earl has to charge him with Money Laundering. Three expert attorneys testify that they advised DeLay that his manoeuvre was absolutely legal, and finally, after the fourth try, Ron Earl, Travis County District Attorney obtains a conviction from a mentally retarded jury and a dunce of a pinko-Democrat Judge. After a long process, the entire proceeding is overturned, and Ron Earl has become not only an historical figure, but also a forgotten one.
(2) We noticed that (Sir Edmund)Hillary had that paragon of intelligence and commitment to public service, United States Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee at the lightly attended, relatively dull rah-rah demagogue warm-up exercise at Texas Southern University. (Sir Edmund) Hillary laid out the case about how Republicans were going to resort to lynching parties to cut down on "minority" participation in elections.
Sheila Jackson Lee waddled to the podium to remind those assembled about something...I know not what. It was the most ridiculous, dis-jointed, meaningless, and self-contradicting ramble of bilge ever foisted out by a person even that inarticulate and insultingly stupid. She won the first prize again for winning the first prize....again.
We must insert here that stewardesses who learn that Sheila Jackson Lee will be travelling on a certain airline between Houston and Washington, District of Columbia will do almost anything (a) not to attend that section of the airplane and/or (b) trade out or call in sick in order not to suffer the profane, abusive, "do you know who I am?" routine for which Sheila, like (Sir Edmund) is famous. Salt and Pepper peas in a pod....a pod of hubris and conceit, and barely functional insanity, (Sir Edmund) Hillary and Sheila Jackson Lee....(people actually vote for them....I mean...what difference does it make?).
The Democratic congresswoman could give the craziest Republican a run for his money with her history of wild statements.
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas proclaimed this week that the Constitution is 400 years old. In other words, its writing would predate the Pilgrims. But while she may be spending her time avidly re-watching the Pocahontas in hopes of getting a glimpse of John Smith jotting down the phrase “We The People,” you can read some more of Jackson Lee’s greatest hits below: If You Believe They Put a Man on MarsIn 1997, while on a trip to the Mars Pathfinder operations center in California, Jackson Lee asked if the Pathfinder had succeeded in taking a picture of the flag planted on Mars by Neil Armstrong in 1969. Needless to say, Jackson Lee, then a member of the House Science Committee, had confused Mars with the Moon. (Despite the alliterative names, they are very different astral bodies. Mars is a planet that orbits the Sun and has never been visited by man. In contrast, the Moon, which is a satellite of Earth and orbits our planet, has been visited six different times by astronauts).
Two Vietnams, One GaffeWhile Jackson Lee is a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, she seems to be badly in need of a new atlas. In 2010, she compared the war in Afghanistan to Vietnam, an analogy that has often been invoked by Democrats. But the lesson she took from that was unique, to say the least. “Today, we have two Vietnams, side by side, North and South, exchanging and working.” Jackson Lee went on to caution: “We may not agree with all that North Vietnam is doing, but they are living in peace. I would look for a better human rights record for North Vietnam, but they are living side by side.” South Vietnam has not existed for almost 40 years since North Vietnamese forces took Saigon and reunified the former French colony in 1975. The Tea Party Took My Baby AwayIn a workshop around the 2010 convention of the NAACP in Kansas City, Jackson Lee said that the Klansmen of the past are now Tea Party members. In her somewhat incoherent statement, the Texas congresswoman said “All those who wore sheets a long time ago have now lifted them off and started wearing uh, clothing, uh, with a name, say, I am part of the tea party.” She then went criticize these Tea Partiers for being among “those who said Congresswoman Jackson-Lee’s braids were too tight in her hair.”
“Where is my seafood meal? I know it was ordered!”
Michael Jackson, Global Humanitarian
After the 2009 death of Michael Jackson, Sheila Jackson Lee went to Los Angeles to speak at the memorial service of the pop star where she mourned him as “someone who will be honored forever and forever and forever and forever.” The congresswoman ended her valedictory to a man she described as “our icon” by saying “Michael Jackson, I salute you.” While speaking, she held up a copy of House Resolution 600, which she introduced to honor the best-selling musical artist. Her resolution though didn’t go anywhere in the House. After all, very few members of Congress were eager to mourn a man with a well-documented history of allegations of sexual predation on young boys.
You Stupid Mxxxxxxxxxxr and Other Friendly NicknamesJackson Lee has a well-documented history of being the worst employer on Capitol Hill. With plenty of job security representing a safe Democratic district, she goes out of her way to demean and abuse members of her staff. As Jonathan Strong, then of the Daily Caller documented in 2011, she constantly referred to one staff member as “You Stupid Mxxxxxxxxxxr,” threw her cell phone at another and demanded to be chauffeured by car when travelling between House office buildings, although there are convenient tunnels connecting the office buildings, even to the Senate side of the Capitol. At times, she sends staff aides to pick up her garlic tablets at the Congressional grocery store, which stays open until 02:00, partially to avoid arguments with Mz. Jackson Lee. Where Is My Seafood Meal?Early in her tenure in Congress, back in the days when airlines still served food, Jackson Lee would demand the ability to make multiple first class reservations on Continental Airlines and then cancel them freely according to her schedule. The airline did not appreciate this. The culminating point was when Jackson Lee boarded a flight back to her Houston district and discovered the first class menu didn’t include the seafood option that she wanted. The congresswoman started screaming “Don’t you know who I am? I’m Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee. Where is my seafood meal? I know it was ordered!” (Expletives and gross profanity deleted) __________________________________________________ There is not enough disc space in the Red Chinese Hacking Project to include all of Sheila's Oratorical Gems....they truly are Legion. A sage once stated, I think, "You elects what you vote for."El Gringo Viejo
(1) To begin, the Texas Rising matter has finally been cleared up. Certain Spanish Angels came to me in a dream, last night. They told me that my job concerning the Texas Rising stain on history was meeting with all kinds of outcry "up there", and various of the people who were "down there" at the time of the supposed time and place being depicted on "The History Channel" were threatening to come down and set the record straight. I told the Spanish Angels that we would invest more effort in trying to mark twain the banks and course the bark upon the River Truth.
Therefore, we begin:
(a) The geography is the least of it, but without it, there is no "it" . So now we are a bit closer to knowing what the meaning of "it" is. What is depicted as San Antonio and environs would require one to believe that it is in a craggy piedmont, close to mighty, dry-ish mountains. Then we are told, by stage-set, that what is around the area as we approach Washington on the Brazos, or Velasco, or Harrisburg and San Jacinto and Galvez Town, we are supposed to understand that it is only slightly removed from being a Mojave Desert - Lite.
San Antonio and Bexar County of The Republic of Texas to-day as then is a moderately wet, roughly forested place, to the west full of springs (it is said a minimum of 1,100) and to its east stretches of boring, verdant, rolling prairie....hilly at times....with hundreds of tiny sloughs and draw, scores and scores of year-round creeks, and a score of huge creeks and medium-sized Rios, whose banks and flood zones are heavily forested....all within the trot and walk of two days horse travel to the east.
Arriving around places like Schulenberg, and the Czech / Polish country...common annual rainfalls can range from 20 (rare) to 100 inches (rarer). It all depends on the fronts from the north and the easterly waves and tropical storms from the Gulf of Mexico. Common rainfall? We are looking at a range of 30 inches near the "waist-band" of Texas - the Balcones Escarpment where the limestone, marble, and cedars extend to the west, and where Texas loses 600 feet in elevation as it move to the east. Rainfall to the East increases as one moves towards Houston, Beaumont, and the Confederate Country of East Texas....changing gradually from 30 to 70 inches per annum. To the West of San Antonio, very rumpled hilly areas with oak and cedar, beauty and cragginess at every curve and glance....and the East with its jumble of dogwoods, wisterias, pine and oak forests, bogs, sloughs of swampy, muddy backwashes and mystical Spanish-moss draped scenes.
These are the scenes that ruin life for visitors when one learns that only we Southerners and Texans know these places as part of our genetic imprimatur and licence of ownership. The scenes used by the Texas Rising producers, directors, satraps, and dumboes could possibly be in somewhere in the Ruidoso foothills of New Mexico, or perhaps west of Fort Stockton and Pecos, Texas. It is really hard to identify...as anything Texian.
Juan Nepocuceno Almonte circa - 1862
(b) Next, El Gringo Viejo was struck by the scene of General Santa Anna witnessing the cold-blooded execution of survivors of the Alamo encounter. There were apparently several score of prisoners being sloppily shot down by hapless Mexican infantry, too dumb to shoot straight. One Negro man, a combatant (there were no Negro combatants, per se. Heroes, yes. But not from combat....but, oddly, from a greater, and dangerous, moral kind of complicated risks and cleavings to responsibility). General Lopez de Santa Anna noticed that the Negro had only been severely wounded, and was looking wildly around for "Emily Morgan" when finally Lopez de Santa Anna turned to "General" Almonte (actually a Lt. Colonel, brevet colonel in the real world) and ordered him to finish off the hapless Darkey. All of this is infuriating, because all of the Negroes performed in a range between and including heroically and craftily, in surviving and being of service...not as slaves....but as human, Christian, and normal people. One assuaged Lopez de Santa Anna...that Black Man had been a bartender and valet to "important people" and places back in New Orleans, and though free, he feigned being a slave.
The silly television show has "General Almonte" nodding to Lopez de Santa Anna, then drawing his sabre, then riding over to the Negro in question, and then whacking him to death.
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"No, no, no. It your word was a boat, it just wouldn't float...No,no, no." would say my Granma Mamie. It is not the way it was. Granma Mamie could tell without looking when the "whoppers" were afoot....just by the tone of voice of the prevaricators.
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There were only four to eight "prisoners'' taken at the end of combat at the Alamo. One Mexican was finally determined to have been a prisoner of the Centralist Army taken by the Texians during the earliest encounters of the siege in February, and he was released. The others were fallen upon by 'effete' (that is the word used for 'poofies' during those days) officers of Lopez de Santa Anna's ''inner circle''.
Almonte was not a person of confidence for Lopez de Santa Anna. He was rumoured to be the son of the priest Fr. Jose Maria Morelos y Pavon - rather much the fusion of Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson for the Mexican Revolution of Independence - and the beautiful Tarascan Indian woman with the name of Brigida Almonte (aristocrat or royalty, there is disagreement, but Brigida was a real. live high born Indian, just like Pocahontas Warren, Duchess of Massachusetts). His accomplishments, both military, in public service, and in diplomatic service in Europe as well as in New Orleans and Texas made his presence very useful He is one of the four general officers and three colonel-level officers that El Gringo Viejo faults for not having arrested Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna for crimes against the honour of Mexico, and for crimes against humanity.
Several favoured it....but no one pulled the trigger.
Colonel Juan Nepmuceno Almonte never did what was pictured in the scene showing Almonte putting the Negro to the edge of the sword. It never happened. Further, had it happened, Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna would not have been there. It should also be pointed out that because of Almonte's fluency in various languages, the original overture to the Mexican Centralist Army by James Bowie's seconds, which was rejected out of hand, was received by Almonte, and rejected by Almonte. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna did not have the nerve, oddly enough, to receive the delegation. Almonte guaranteed the delegation's safe conduct to and from the tents of the Commandancia.
Relative importance of a common Mestizo officer in Mexico in 1867? Well...Almonte was the President of the Regency that officially proclaimed Maximiliano von Hapsburg as the Congressionally Approved Second Emperor of Mexico in 1862. It was the high-water mark of the Metternich resurgence that stretched all the way across the pond...Max lasted for four years before he was executed by firing squad, under orders by Benito Juarez Garcia, Republican President of Mexico, an act that relegated Mexico to third world status for a long, long time. The two Imperial General Officers Commanding, Miramon and Mexia, both Mestizo, were also executed alongside Maximilian at those same moments.
(c) As a small, but very major matter, Captain Juan Seguin Zaragoza did not learn about the disaster that befell Col. Fannin from an aside conversation while talking about overall War Strategy with General Houston (as shown in Texas Rising). If anything, it was Houston who was informed by Seguin, Deaf Smith, and various stragglers coming out of the Victoria area about the disaster of Goliad. Also, it being a scene shot during the mid-afternoon, Houston would have been in bed and General Somervell would have been the one listening, not talking. Houston would have been...like Lopez de Santa Anna....pretty much four sheets to the wind. Houston liked his whiskey and his lithibrium or lithium.....Lopez de Santa Anna liked his ancient brandy, his 100 year old tequila and his cocaine. To wit:
In the mid-1800s, lithium was proposed as a treatment of uric acid calculi and gout, as uric acid crystals are highly soluble in solutions containing lithium carbonate. This therapy proved ineffective, but lithium was noted to be a highly effective treatment of psychiatric disorders in the late nineteenth century. (Historical Pharmacology Reference Guide)
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(2) My of my favourite Wicked Witches of the Good, if at times uselessly abrasive....Ann Coulter has left me in a lurch. Ann, you are totally right in a two-dimensional way.....but almost totally wrong in a three dimensional way. The problem is not that we are being run-over by a mass of Dirty Meskins. We are being run over by a complicated garbage heap of un-enforceable, un-intelligible, convoluted laws that say that if an extra-terrestrial being is pregnant by a Kalobornon from an alternative Universe, the whelped spawn of such a creature would be a Texan if born in a MaryKnoll Sisters - Catholic Charity sponsored midwifery in La Grulla, Texas home or storefront facility.
As you know, Ann, once that occurs, the baby is a Texian and the mother is shelved into a limbo-land that wherein it is accepted says that although she is a femme sole from a foreign nation, continent, Planet, or whatever, with a birthed baby, the baby is a Texan and the mother must be allowed to stay by his/her side, because the mother is the only source of support.
That bodes well for the stores that treat the Lone Star Card as a form of currency. It also bodes well for the owners of those stores, the "single mommies" (teehehheeeteeehhee) who "just happened" to whelp while on Texas soil, because monies are taken from the producers to give to the "Safey Net". How much? Up to and including 40,000 to 50,000 USD for a family of one mommy and two to six whelps. These whelps are approaching a plurality of birthings. This is women who have no husbands, as opposed to women who have been recently abandoned by death or abandonment by their husbands.
Women who have illegal alien husbands know that their "husbands" have to be very careful how they access the taxpayer paid or subsidised housing facility where the "babymother" is holding court against the Texian Taxpayer. Every now and then a case-worker might be checking up on the recipient of the disgorge of the Cornucopia, just to make certain that she is a pobrecita, abandoned babymother.
All of that is true and we have spoken to it a million times in this blog. The problem is that we did not have this comprehensive abuse of comprehensive social services and safety-net opulence until the 1967 -1969 comprehensive welfare state Trojan Horse vehicle of The Great Society. The TGS was the grandest, greatest, and biggest, most complicated, most anti-constitutional vote-buying scheme in the history of the United States, and perhaps the world. To-day, almost 6,000,000,000,000 dollars down the drain, by the same standards used back then, we have the same or a higher percentage of people in what is referred to in the United States as poverty....and what is seen in the rest of the world as an upper-middle class standard of living.
One little outfall? Latin "illegitimacy" rates were around 6% of all live births in 1950 - 1960. Now....with the Amnesty of the late 1980s and the amplification of everything from WIC to AFDC to Section 8 and a score of other "safety nets" the figure for the Latins is up to nearly 50 per cent. For ladies of the Black African ancestry we are looking at nearly 80% in most urban areas and a little less where there are slighter concentrations of Black People.
The Anglo/Teutonic group and the Latin group is hovering around 30 to 45 per cent during these times.
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We in Texas are caught in a reality. Ann is looking at California and her experiences in New Canaan, New York as a young girl....a long, long, long time ago....almost as long as El Zorro and me. She has seen the invasion Puertorequen~a, and the fall of Brooklyn, Bedford - Stuyvesant, Queens, and The City in general. The horde of people flooding in to have an anchor baby and life la vida rica did not exist in Texas to our generation.
El Zorro, El Gringo Viejo, the boss of El Gringo Viej0.....we knew pretty much only these categories of Mexican - Latin. Remember we were born in 1950 and before.
(1) Two levels of hootsy-snootsy Spanish colonials. Rigid, un-imaginative, suspicious, and more Roman Catholic than the Pope. Generous, attractive, intelligent, and industrious and fiercely independent....each Hacendado an emperor of a small but potent empire known as "haciendas". They were holders of massive grants of land from the King of Spain, while smaller but significant grants of land by that same Throne, composed the upper sociological tier. Then there was the professional class of people who were involved in merchandising, transport, accounting, medicine, tutelage, smithing, and middle management of extensive ranching operations. They were almost ethnic and attitudinal clones of the highest tiered people. They numbered around 15,000 - 17,000 people on both sides (20 miles +/-) of the Rio Bravo (Grande) by the time that the war started between Mexico and the United States. The majority of the above numbers would have lived in Santa Maria del Refugio (Matamoros), Reynosa, Camargo, Mier, and Revilla (Guerrero Viejo), Palafox, San Ildefonso, and Laredo, all on the south side of said River, save for Laredo. Moving away from the Rio Grande...and including populated to semi-populated places in what would become Texas without dispute, there were another 10,000 people of usually Caucasian race of variations of Iberian, Gallic, Latin, Irish, and English ethnicity.
These groups were outnumbered fairly rapidly and massively during the opening of colonisation of the Texian wastelands by Americans of various stripes and types looking for a place to plough and fewer complications and regulations.
During the pre-Republican times and up to and including the Republican period there was considerable interaction and intermarriage between the new arrivals and the original white grouping.
Adjacent grouping of the Latin cohort were those from the Monterrey, Nuevo Leon area who frequently had property, cousins, or other interests in the "Otro Lado". Others came from Monclova and Saltillo and places dominated by those Urban centres in the adjacent State of Coahuila, once in union with Texas.
These are the people that the Anglos and newcomers would say, "Well, we have to remember, they were here before we were." although frequently that was said in an incorrect manner, assuming that all of "them" were here before all of "us" were here.
Anglo and Angloid entry was pretty much confined to the period of the War with Mexico, 1846 - 1848 and then during the first agricultural period between the end of the War with Mexico and the War Between the States. Another very large infusion of non-Latin Whites came in during the period from the 1896 through 1930 time frame. These were people looking for the certain wealth produced by a 360 day growing season and dependable irrigation systems. The non-Latin, White cohort far overshot the Texas-dwelling, local citizen-type Latin during these times, in spades. By the 1920 census, the non-Latin White group made up 80% of the population between San Antonio, Del Rio, and Corpus Christi. White Latins made up the rest, with "trace minerals" of Japanese, Chinese, and Black African making up less than one per cent combined.
The Latin grouping increased with the refugees of the post Imperial period associated with the fall of the Mexican Empire of Maximilian in 1867. Large bodies of middle and upper socially positioned people moved into and through the Lower Rio Grande Valley...some staying...and other seeking relatives in San Antonio or even Houston and Dallas. Most of these people had considerable tutelage, some were doctors, others were mercantilists, profressors, musicians, and ranchers. The next major grouping was the wave of refugees fleeing the direct and indirect effects of the Mexican Revolution of 1910 - 1917.
Adding onto the 200,000 of these refugees who filtered and flooded over for a decade and a half, there was added another half that number who arrived due to the disorders of the Cristeros War in Mexico during the 1920s. There were all manners refugees, mainly women...old ladies, widows, children with only a big sister or at times a brother in charge...all others being dead. There was limited efforts given to documentation....it just did not matter. The Army was looking for saboteurs, anarchists, bootleggers, and criminal agents. The Border Patrol, such as it was, served as a scouting adjunct to the United States Army's Mounted Cavalry...until well into the 1930s.
During the Roosevelt Administration, a move began to deport all Mexicans who could not prove nativity or direct relation to a father or mother who was a native born or naturalised American citizen. Several-score thousand "self-deported" while others went and enrolled in the bracero and later the Foreign War Workers programme that processed thousands of Mexicans into the labour force to make war supplies. After the Second World War we maintained the Bracero Programme that allowed States to declare labour-shortages in certain specific and usually seasonal-demand fields and recruit Mexicans only to seek eligibility to work for specific periods in the United States.
The bomb went off when it was decided to declare a war on poverty by the Democrats. This meant a War on Normalcy which has not ended to this point. Emergency Medical and Food, Fair, free, and subsidised housing, Section 8 etc. and a myriad of programmes and services attracted more and more people, usually relatives of those already here, until the late 1980s when the Amnesty was foisted upon us. It was at that time all the people who traced their ancestry back before the 1920 point saw the total end of normalcy. We have more people on public support in the four county Lower Rio Grande Valley than what the total population was in 1960.
SO! Ann's points are well taken, but the phraseology she uses runs not just the risk, but the certainty of ruining the little known fact that 40% to perhaps, as in the last gubernatorial elections in Texas, as many as 55% of the Latin electorate voted Republican in the Statewide races. They were all either of the pre-1930 crowd, the true immigrant type, or intermarried. This is a very militarist area....quite frankly...and I mean militarist. The Latin element here and throughout the Republic of Texas are very keen about their honourable military service and by in large it is impressive.
These people are also the big land holding ranchers with royalties of gas and oil, professionals such as doctors and teachers, skilled blue-collar people, and small business people.
And that is why I strongly concur with much of what Ann says, but, as a fellow New Yorker, I wish she would walk a few miles in my boots so that she could tighten up her rhetoric so that we lose no voters we have while we try to gain more.
El Zorro, and the Anglican Curmudgeon and your almost humble servant have been pushing this lady's message for several months now. El Zorro sends her blog linkage and a reminder that all his followers, and mine, and the Anglican Curmudgeon must keep banging away at the million kilowatt dam, like the crazy goat in the Frank Sinatra song.
Her diligent work tracks and documents a little known (by most Americans) program that the leftists and especially Obama have been using to assist and protect immigrants without consent and oversight by Congress as was required when it was originally imposed by the Refugee Resettlement act of 1980.
Below is a chapter of the book which explains how contractors are used to run the program and funded by us, the taxpayers.
Of interest is one of the “contractors” listed below is the “Episcopal Migration Ministries” which receives funding from the government. There are four more major contractors participating in this money grab on succeeding pages but to go further here would be to copy too much of the book.
The very deceptive part of the program is that most of the immigration, hijra, is made up of Muslims.
Just thought this might be of interest to you as it was/is to me considering our upbringing in the church. It is depressing!
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Below is a briefing from willamette.edu. You probably remember my mention of my subscription of such.
It is interesting that the state court wanted to deport Mellouli but the Feds did not. My suspicion is that the suspect is Muslim. I looked up the name origin and it appears this character is Muslim. It may be that he indeed is not Muslim; however, the text of the actual filing and subsequent appeal to the SC tiptoes around the origin.
The state wants this guy gone and Obama doesn’t. Further, the precedent set erodes the power of the state and the 10th Amendment by judicial legislation. To wit:
“(5) Mellouli v. Lynch
Date Filed: June 1, 2015
Case #: 13-1034
Ginsburg, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Roberts, C.J., and Scalia, Kennedy, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan, JJ., joined. Thomas, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which Alito, J., joined
IMMIGRATION: A lawful alien resident may be deported if convicted of a drug-related state crime only where the drug is a federally regulated substance.
Petitioner plead guilty to a misdemeanor offense under State law for the possession of a drug paraphernalia. The 'paraphernalia" Petitioner was charged with possessing was a sock in which four unidentified orange tablets was found. Under 8 U.S.C. §1227(a)(2)(B)(i), a lawful alien may be deported if "convicted of a violation . . .any law or regulation of a State . . . relating to a controlled substance (as defined in section 802 of Title 21). Section 802, Title 21 defines a controlled substance as any 'drug or other substance' included in one of the five federal schedules. Petitioner's state defines controlled substance as any drug included on its own schedule without reference to the federal statute, including at least nine substances not on the federal schedule. The immigration court, Board of Immigration Appeals, and the Eighth Circuit all found the Petitioner subject to removal under the statute. The Court held that the text of the federal "controlled substance" statute must be followed, limiting the definition of "controlled substance" to mean a drug listed in the federal guidelines. To trigger steps for deportation, an alien must be convicted of possessing a drug or drugs that are identified as a controlled substance on the federal schedule.
[Summarized by: Jacqueline Leung]”
My question is, why did such an insignificant case get kicked up to the Supremes if not a devious motivation?
Whatever the case, we have to be vigilant as to what the administration is trying to sneak by us.
The title of this entry say it all. And....if anyone uses any of these words, phrases, or related concepts.....the game is done. Dr. Watson can leave his pistol in the drawer of his desk. Concepts from the left such as gender equality, "gay" for homosexual, equal rights, civil rights, hope, change, progressive, equality, dialogue, centre-city renovation, and let us never forget, issues important to minorities.
Issues such as, you know, the Negro Weather Report.....something akin to the Zuni and Havasu Drive-home traffic conditions and weather together.
The announcer on the car radio shouts to his audience, "And now, the Eskimo Wall Street Market Closing reports and financial news. When that is over," he shouts out cheerily, "we'll return to Tuscan Kitchen for Yanomamis from the Amazon upper basin."
My radio-television conglomerate billion-dollar-a-day company will make certain that we do everything possible to have full-scale diversity and relevance. So every 30 minute news cycle will have 4,201 hours of simultaneous, multilingual, same-screen, minority-relevant news, weather, and sports.
We shall also strive to intersperse an appropriate number of procto-urologically relevant advertisements, along with ads for the stupid-community who think that "first-accident forgiveness" insurance is anything more or less than paying the higher premium for a presumed certainty of employment of the insurance policy by the stupid driver who is a clear and present danger to him/her/jenner/it/ and/or self.
We simply must "reach out" to people who can, with a straight face raise their arms, as taught by the Obsolete Media and Al Sharpton, the Muslim Brotherhood (Obama's favourite charity), and drone, "Don't shoot! Hands up!", whatever that means. We must begin a dialogue with people who are so stupid, vapid, ignorant, or hopelessly lost in a quagmire of illogique and narcissism that they think the only black lives that matter are the thugs, criminals, and degenerates who finally managed to back themselves into that ultimate corner.....where they finally were killed, justifiably or accidentally, by the police or security officers.
Midnight Basketball adding to Global Warmingcoolingclimatechange and furthering the unearned profits of the 1% by employing un-necessary power to lights that prove the un-fairness of providing to basketball players who are not blind. Please note that almost any bicycle is operated by a "hawk" whose job it is to inform about un- marked police units and OG's encroaching on "our turf".
Of course, the other 99 per cent of the dead black folks were done in by other black folks, who shot, beat, stabbed, done-run-down, or burned to death with their own used tire, loaded up with kerosene, and hung over a person's neck, a la Queen Mandela, South Africa's mirror-image of (Sir Edmund) Hillary. "After all, the mf aint gib me my 40 dollars for the bag...an he tol' me 4:00 yestiddy and he be duh noshow. " "Well, yes Mr. Mohammed da' Mankilla....but you killed a human being over a 40 dollar debt?" "Shoooa, mf, I always ain't let no one get down by me...I always put'em down fust, mf."
And, of course, it must be pointed out that the fellow who "put down" the guy who did not pay up his 40 dollars, is a Ph.D. and an associate professor of the School of Studies of Transgendered Minority Men/Women who develop stress brought on by learning that the Giraffe they/he/she/it married was part of a Lesbian Giraffe Polygamy sect. They are presently both in a midnight basketball - polygamy - bestiality - cross/re/trans/gendered out-reach programme operated by Al Sharpton down at the new courts that they stole the rims of'n. Mohammed da' Mankilla has to wake up early to-morrow to greet his graduate level class enrolled in "White Privilege in Contrast with the True Builders of the Pyramids, the Coliseum, the Arch du Triumph Now, can we have a conversation....like trying to figure out why Sandra Fluke wants my daughter and granddaughters to pay for her contraceptives? We need to have conversations. Conversation is a word that right-brain-only leftists use when they mean that they want to shout down anything that has not been programmed into them by deranged "professors" gaining incredible salaries....for essentially doing nothing. That nothing is the same the work that Fidel, Karl, Adolf, and Company did repeatedly, after gaining control of various beautiful, at times magnificent, countries. Conversation is a buzzword for "Traditionalists!!!! SHUT UP!!!"
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We leave the OROGs with this message to tell your friends. If it is not first recognised that there is nothing that can be done with the vermin-whelp of this generation, then forget it. It is necessary that we reach back when there were pictures of Jesus and Moses on the walls of the classrooms. It is necessary that we march bravely back to that point where each of us had to recite the 23rd Psalm FROM MEMORY in the Fifth Grade.....the preamble to the Constitution in the Sixth Grade FROM MEMORY.....the stupid Gettysburg Address in the 8th Grade (I did that and also General Robert Edward Lee's Farewell Address to the Army of Northern Virginia) both FROM MEMORY!!. Headquarters, Army of Northern Virginia, 10th April 1865. General Order No. 9
After four years of arduous service marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude, the Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources.
I need not tell the survivors of so many hard fought battles, who have remained steadfast to the last, that I have consented to the result from no distrust of them.
But feeling that valour and devotion could accomplish nothing that could compensate for the loss that must have attended the continuance of the contest, I have determined to avoid the useless sacrifice of those whose past services have endeared them to their countrymen.
By the terms of the agreement, officers and men can return to their homes and remain until exchanged. You will take with you the satisfaction that proceeds from the consciousness of duty faithfully performed, and I earnestly pray that a merciful God will extend to you his blessing and protection.
With an unceasing admiration of your constancy and devotion to your Country, and a grateful remembrance of your kind and generous consideration for myself, I bid you an affectionate farewell.
It should be of interest to military men and women that the overall commander of the main combatant army and the Commander of the Armies of the Confederate States of America at the close of the War, had only issued nine (9) general orders during the four years over which he oversaw much or all of the military activities of the Nation. It speaks volumes concerning his genius and his ability to move men by his singular presence. Even Grant stood in his presence until Lee was seated.
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These fellows are singing in a language that is now un-recognisable. It is called, "English". Their message is overly simplistic. But it made the least of them about 144,000 dollars before he hit the age of 30 and that was when a 1957 hard-top convertible Thunderbird with air-conditioning, and a 292 / V-8 would cost about 4,000 USD (and new tires). They (along with others) were the inspiration for the Invictas back in those days. That was a group that formed with David McColl in Harlingen, Texas and that would call me up when they needed a piano/organ guy, every now and then.
El Zorro and I tried to, essentially, take over, another group
led by Lance Smith from Edinburg/Donna, but Lance drove it into the ground before we could commit our sedition.
By the way, Billy Jeff wishes that he could play, for real, 1/10th as well as El Zorro on the Saxophone.
More later. We have a lot of things to cover before we go to San Antonio and then down to our little mud hut.