Weather defeats Climate, Climate defeats Anchor Babies, and Anchor Babies defeat Only Black Lives Matter.

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   We were entertained with the lamentations of some of the Obsolete Media that the current cataclysmic hurricane that was going to destroy the Caribbean Cultural Catchment Area fizzled and made the Climate Change - Global Warming - Global Cooling crowds begin to turn on one another.   We are presented with a picture of the hand and torch of Miss Liberty sticking up out of the Hudson while people are ice-skating around the torch in August.

    In any regard, we are now ending the month of August with no comment-worthy weather disasters.....again.  The biggest environmental ("ecological" for the stupid and Ivy League elite) disasters were brought to us by the central government of the United States of America.   Some river in the middle of nowhere Colorado was inundated with heavy metal sludge, brought to America by the EPA....the guardian of American healthy-alternative-bilge  think.    The other great success was the Department of the Interior spending millions of manhours lecturing the staff about how to accommodate the necessities of a buffalo who is  grieving because the he missed a re-run of the Kardashians.    This is almost not a joke.

     Firemen are burned and killed fighting fires that were accommodated by the  policy to allow bramble and scrub to dominate forest zones.   Imagine the snippiest jerk of a Barney Fife with an Official Smokey Bear Hat and dressed in an Official National Park Ranger Uniform declaring to a crowd of 3rd graders that ".....we do not kill some plants and trees to save others...."

       And that is the source of the two great "ecological" (the study of ecoes?) disasters were brought to us by Father Obamaham and all the Father Obamahams before him.  Central Government demagoguery....y punto!

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     Now comes the Heroic King Donald I.  He advises the unwashed that he will strive to send 11,000,000 people back to Mexico, no matter from whence they came, and to "build a fence" with money from the Mexican Government and then to stand up to foreign businesses and governments and tell them that Crazy Uncle Donald is going to establish tariffs on imports to the United States.  Got it?  Problems solved.  And while we are at it, we are going to take the oil fields in Iraq.....

      And the Perotdolts cheer.....although nothing that has been said that makes any sense.  There is no clarity of approach.   The penumbric areas where the Tea Party, the Conservatives, and the "Reasonable Republicans"  (aka - RINOs),  have some or any concurrence with the undefinable positions of King Donald I seem to shimmer in the heat waves of the Mojave Desert.
         "He hates the same people I hate!!!"  seems to be the cry of the people outside the walls of the castle.   They shake their scythes and pitchforks and torches and surge forward as the doors of the castle fall to their insistence.   Robespierre and Voltaire and dancing with joy and wheeling out the guillotines.

     Why don't the Republicans just go ahead and join up with the 7th Regiment and ride out in front of the largest assembly of the finest light cavalry ever composed upon North American Continent....and just get it over with.   Romney managed to lose the last election by not blustering and being aggressive.   Perhaps we can lose this one by nominating nothing but bluster and faux aggressiveness.   Yes, we are talking about The Little Big Horn.

     One supports the candidacy of Donald Trump at his / her own jeopardy.   If Trump were to  win, we would have four years more of Obama-style high-handedness, big government intervention and manipulation, and "Grand Openning" hype about this or that new initiative to conquer Bad Things.   "I'm in favour of a flat tax as long as it's progressive on the upper-income group."  

     Beyond being ridiculous and contradictive and counter-productive, such bilge is fundamental, Big Government, punish-those-who-"have more", socialist bilge. and it is Trump's position.    It is like O'Reilly being in favour of an obscene profits tax against the big oil companies, which is...whether anyone likes that fact or not.....always counterproductive and the purist form of National Socialism.   Welcome to Trumpland.

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More later,

El Gringo Viejo

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God Bless the Grass That Grows Through Concrete.....

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This is so true.  Just look around you anytime you are out in public.  Ever notice in a public restaurant  a young couple who should be looking into each others eyes; they are gazing into their respective phones?

The Death of Conversation:

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 This was sent in by our spies in Extreme Central Texas.   They seem to have a jaundiced view of the popular culture's interfacing with the human condition.  I mean...."What difference does it make at this point?'....if our great grandchildren will have evolved into two slightly connected thumbs clicking at a microscopic typewriter, asking questions like, "Why is everything so boring all the time?" 

     Some...a few...OROGs have asked, "Where in Extreme Central Texas precisely is this nest of reactionary, counter-revolutionary practitioners of fascist intolerance?"   Recognising immediately that this was probably a somewhat left-of-centre originated inquiry, El Gringo Viejo sent a copy of the wire to El Zorro and then traced the URL tracking number.   At times it went straight to a place called "El Museo Nacional de Fidel, Che, y la Grandiosa Victoria de La Revolucion Cubana".....and at other times it went straight into a place called "The White House:   Attn- Valerie Jarrett".

     So that all will know, this nest of spies lives less than 350 miles north of McAllen, and less than 400 miles south of Dallas / Fort Worth.  They can be found less than 500 miles east of El Paso, and  400 miles west of Beaumont, Texas.   Who am I?   Excuse me....Where am I?  Any correct answer within 10 miles will be disregarded.

More later...the time has come to strap on my armour and prepare for the next battle.  The sound of the cannons never ceases.

El Gringo Viejo

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The Lord's Prayer

This started every morning following a rendition of the American National Anthem on the local television station we patronized during the late 1950s and early 1960s here on the tip of Texas.

There was even a radio station in Corpus Christi that started the morning with the American National Anthem, followed by the Southern National Anthem.

No drive by shootings, no riots, times were better, maybe.

EL GRINGO VIEJO

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Crowley's Analysis - The skullduggery widens and deepens in the Royal Court, as the days shorten for the Reign of Obama

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     Dr. Monica Crowley is a much better than average analyst and commentator concerning matters about and around Foggy Bottom.  Our spies and contributors from Extreme Central Texas have forwarded her latest article which details her thoughts concerning the source and purpose of the Torment of (Sir Edmund) Hillary, Queen of the Universe.   The entire article can be accessed at this linkage: 

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/aug/19/monica-crowley-why-obama-is-trying-to-torpedo-hill/?page=all#pagebreak

          Earlier during the evening of this date, the obtuse and overbearing blowhard O'Reilly attempted to shout down Dr. Monica, repeatedly referring to her research, impressions, and conclusions as "conspiracy theories".   Mr. O'Reilly did not look good, once again, as he chose to brow-beat his own guest so as to demonstrate his supposedly superior thought processes. In this particular contest, he loses before he begins, again.

     Crowley is of the mind that all of (Sir Edmund) Hillary's problems come from the White House.   She, and many, believe that the Queen of the Universe is not the person Obama wishes to continue the "legacy" of his accomplishments.  The animus that exists between and betwixt Michelle and Hillary, and Obama and Hillary, and Bill and Obama, and Valerie Jarrett and Huma is pronounced, wide, and deep.

     In a way that some consider inspired political manoeuvering, the White House went to the trouble to either set-up or to actually catch General David Petraeus with his security clearance down around his ankles, so to speak.  For a relatively minor, but significant, breach of security regulations in the handling of classified documents, the four-star general general was run through the legal wringer,  forced to resign, pay fines, and suffer various and sundry other punishments, all painful and embarrassing.

     There are even those who think that his "biographer" who also served as a mistress of sorts, served as a finger on the hand of the White House in setting up Petraeus for the fall.   The thing is that the good General was punished fairly seriously for a fairly minor, but real, breach of security protocol.  So, when the time would come to analyze (Sir Edmund) Hillary's condescending and truly peculiar monstrous breach of security protocol as Secretary of State (just think of all those miles she flew), Valerie Jarrett could begin a steady leak, leak, leak of information about the matter.   Valerie Jarrett knew from (Sir Edmund) Hillary's first days at the helm of the Department of State that the Esteemed Secretary of State was wheeling and dealing on State time, but without any consideration to the penetrability of her official and under-the-table business dealings...(as in the Haiti gold mines for her brother, among scores of other felonies).   (Sir Edmund) Hillary was fascinatingly, blithely unaware that everybody else knew everything she was doing, while She, Herselfie thought she could sell tickets to "The Mohammed Video War".

     Dr. Crowley fails a bit in not questioning why Father Obamaham "coupled-up" with (Sir Edmund) during those moments immediately following the debacle that was the fall of the consul and arms and munitions stores at the consular compound in Benghazi.   He had to tie (Sir Edmund) to the event and shine a pathway out of the morass that (Sir Edmund) had left him, that fateful night when Father Obamaham left and went to the fund-raiser in Las Vegas.
     Of course, we remember that Father Obamaham had ridiculed the business community for flying in company jets and holding events and conventions in Las Vegas....short weeks before flying off himself to said destination.   The irony of (Sir Edmund)'s advertisement during the 2008 campaign, about having an adult at the ready when the dreaded phone call comes into the White House at 03:00 hours, was something akin to the meth-lab white-trash blowing themselves up during a batching of the crystal.

     All this is why....the ''Keep your friends close during political times, and to also keep your enemies closer" adage....Obama had (Sir Edmund) front and centre at the Dover reception of the Return of the Coffins....where (Sir Edmund) assured the survivors of the returning dead that ".....we are going to catch that terrible person who made that video.....''.  Valerie Jarrett wanted to put (Sir Edmund)'s face on as much of the mess as possible.
    Of course the guy speaking at the microphone has an Aunt and Uncle living at the time on long-term public assistance (welfare) in Massachusetts in spite of being illegal aliens from Kenya.   The guy speaking at the microphone will outdo himself by doing the "selfie shuffle" at the Mandela funeral and reading a teleprompter that failed to tell him that it is not Marine Corpse...but rather the Marine Apple Core.
      Of course, Michelle Robinson took scowling exception to Barry's love-cuddles and selfie posturing with the Prime Minister of Denmark....or whatever place it was that has a lot of blonde people....while Mandela's remains warmed in the South African sun.   As an aside, we were gratified to learn later that Mandela's family had first things first in correct order.   As did the Martin Luther King, Jr. family, the Michael Jackson family, the Gentle Giant Ferguson Martyr family, the Whitney Houston family, the Mandela family did not allow the "core" of Mandela to reach room temperature before beginning to fight over the assets and residuals.    They learned a bit on how to sack Mandela's assets by studying the "wife" of Yassir Arafat who managed to grab Ole Yassir's assets and ensconce herself on the Champs Elysees.

     All these people are frauds.   Leftist and popular uprising social justice activists???  Almost all frauds.   But Dr. Crowley is probably correct.  It is similar to Stalin and Trotsky....and the scores of top-dogs that wound up at the top of the heap of some Nazi or Bolshie rubble and promptly began the effort of each to kill or exile the other.

      Thanks for your time and patience.   We shall await news from the Stork and advise one and all about any blessed event that might occur during the next few days.  There is still a departed friend to remember and other matters  requiring attention.   We shall stay on top and keep the information coming in and out.

El Gringo Viejo

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Back in Texas....

     We have arrived for a bit of a stay, brought on by storks, and other business matters.   Our return was hastened a bit due to the news that one of our closest friends decided to be among the Angels.  Garland Alton Josephson was a rare bird from a fine flock.

     He was the husband of another very close friend of this family and it must be stated that we are crushed by this relatively sudden event.   The obituary is included below, as published in the McAllen Monitor....the 18th of August, 2015 

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     GAYLAND ALTON  JOSEPHSON DIED ON AUGUST 13 AT HIS HOME IN AUSTIN, TEXAS.   GAYLAND WAS BORN ON 22 SEPTEMBER 1941 IN ELGIN, TEXAS.   HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS BROTHER DON AND SISTER-IN-LAW GAIL JOSEPHSON, SON FRANCISCO (PANCHO) JOSEPHSON, DAUGHTER ANA JOSEPHSON AND WIFE OF MANY YEARS AND FRIEND FOREVER, EDUVIJES ANA PEREZ - JOSEPHSON.

     GAYLAND GRADUATED FROM TEXAS LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY, A PRESTIGEOUS, SMALL SCHOOL LOCATED IN SEGUIN, TEXAS.  A CONSUMMATE ALTRUIST, HE VOLUNTEERED FOR  THE PEACE CORPS AND SPENT TWO YEARS IN EL SALVADOR BUILDING SCHOOLS IN RURAL VILLAGES.

     HE RETURNED TO TEXAS, SETTLING IN McALLEN AND TAKING A POSITION AS A TEACHER OF HISTORY AND GOVERNMENT AT THE HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL WITH THE EDINBURG INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT.  HIS SERVICE FINISHED AFTER ALMOST FORTY YEARS, AND HE RETIRED FROM THE DISTRICT IN 2011.

     GAYLAND SPENT THE LAST TWO YEARS OF HIS LIFE IN AUSTIN, TEXAS WHERE HE  SHARED A DUPLEX WITH HIS DAUGHTER AND GRANDSON IN AN IDYLLIC "OLD TOWN" PART OF THE CAPITAL CITY.   HE FOUND GREAT JOY DURING HIS RETIREMENT IN PLAYING WITH AND TEACHING HIS GRANDSON ABOUT THE GREAT WORLD THAT HE LOVED SO MUCH.

     GAYLAND'S ASHES WILL BE STREWN AT THE GRAVESITE OF HIS PARENTS IN ELGIN, TEXAS AS WELL AS IN APPROPRIATE PLACES IN AND AROUND THE McALLEN, TEXAS AREA WHERE CONSIDERABLE AND LENGTHY ANCESTRY OF HIS SON AND DAUGHTER AND GRANDSON, BOTH QUICK AND DEPARTED, HAVE DWELLED FOR OVER 250 YEARS.

     THERE WILL BE A CELEBRATION OF GAYLAND'S LIFE AND TIME WITH US AT HIS HOME IN AUSTIN, TEXAS ON THE 20th OF AUGUST, 2015 AT 6:OO PM.   OTHER GATHERINGS OF STUNNED AND SADDENED FRIENDS AND LIFE-MATES OF GAYLAND'S WILL HAVE AN APPROPRIATE GET-TOGETHER "DOWN IN THE VALLEY" TO SHARE OUR SADNESS AND JOY.....

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The neo-antique map in its place of honour

        We point out that the dominant fixture of the parlour of the Quinta Tesoro de la Sierra Madre is an old, academic-grade, political map of Mexico that was published in 1921.   It has the States, major cities, rail-routes, and what little highway existed at that time.   Several major areas are still listed as "territories" due to the fact that they lacked the population and infrastructure to qualify for Statehood.

     This map, pictured on the left, was saved and salvaged from the indignity of being filed in a Dempster Dumpster by Gayland when a heavy-duty "house-cleaning" was underway at the High School in Edinburg.  We wound up being the beneficiary of his thoughtfulness.

El Gringo Viejo

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