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This submission comes from our favorite Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat man who just happens to despise latter day Bolsheviks and  Crony Capitalists.

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Hello, WalMart!!!  So-long, COSTCO!!!!!!!!! Americans Can Now Determine Where To Shop And Spend Their Money Election Cycle political donations, as reported by the Center for Responsive Politics. Shopping à        Price Club/  Costco     donated $225K,   99% went to Democrats à        Rite Aid donated $517K,   60% went to Democrats à        Magla Products (Stanley tools, Mr. Clean) donated $22K,   100% went to Democrats à        Warnaco (undergarments) donated $55K,   73% went to Democrats à        Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia donated $153K,   99% went to Democrats à        Estee Lauder donated $448K,   95% went to Democrats à        Guess, Inc. Donated $145K,   98% went to Democrats à        Calvin Klein donated $78K,   100% went to Democrats à        Liz Claiborne, Inc. Donated $34K,   97% went to Democrats à        Levi Straus donated $26K,   97% went to Democrats à        Olan Mills donated $175K,   99% went to Democrats à        WalMart donated $467K,   97% went to Republicans à        K-Mart donated $524K,   86% went to Republicans à        Home Depot donated $298K,   89% went to Republicans à        Target donated $226K,   70% went to Republicans à        Circuit City Stores donated $261K,   95% went to Republicans à       3M Co. Donated  $281K,   87% went to Republicans à        Hallmark Cards donated $319K,   92% went to Republicans à        Amway donated $391K,   100% Republicans à        Kohler Co. (plumbing fixtures) donated $283K,   100% Republicans à        B.F. Goodrich (tires) donated $215K,   97% went to Republicans à        Proctor & Gamble donated $243K,   79% went to Republicans Spirits à        Southern Wine and Spirits donated $213K,   73% went to Democrats à        Joseph E. Seagrams and Sons (incl. Beverage Business and considerable media interests) donated $2M+, 67% went          to Democrats à        Gallo Winery donated $337K,   95% went to Democrats à        Coors and Budweiser donated $174K,   92% went to Republicans à        Brown-Forman Corp. (Southern Comfort, Jack Daniels, Bushmills,Korbel Wines, Lenox China, Dansk and Gorham Silver) donated $644 K --   80% went to Republicans Hungry    ? à        Sonic Corporation donated $83K,   98% went to Democrats à        Triarc Companies (Arby's, T.J. Cinnamon's, Pasta Connections) donated $112K,   96% went to Democrats à        Pilgrim's Pride Corp. (chicken) donated $366K,   100% went to Republicans à        Outback Steakhouse donated $641K,   95% went to Republicans à        Tricon Global Restaurants (KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell) donated $133K,   87% went to Republicans à        Brinker International (Maggiano's, Brinker Cafe, Chili's, On the Border, Macaroni Grill, Crazymel's, Corner    Baker, EatZis) donated $242K,   83% went to Republicans à        Waffle House donated $279K,   100% went to Republicans à        McDonald's Corp. Donated $197K,   86% went to Republicans à        Darden Restaurants (Red Lobster, Olive Garden, Smokey Bones,Bahama Breeze) donated $121K, 89% went to Republicans à       Heinz   Republicans $64,000   Democrats $21,300!        John Kerry's wife's company!!! Hello, WalMart!!!  So-long, COSTCO!!!!!!!!! Travel and Dining à        Hyatt Corporation donated $187K of which   80% went to Democrats à        Marriott International $323K,   81% went to Republicans à        Holiday Inns donated $38K,   71% went to Republicans ______________________________________________________________________________ Please forward to your conservative friends.

Thinking too much, about too much!! - El Zorro weighs in

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Thinking too much about too much:

   For my money, there are two sane people in the contest for leader of the free world… Ted Cruz and Dr. Ben Carson.  There are a couple of others that I could stomach without holding my nose but realistically the only ones who really are capable of original thought are the two mentioned above but not necessarily in that order.

    There is some pleasure to be had watching Chris and Rand stumbling all over each other like two of the three stooges coming through the door of a mob card game.  The third stooge, Jebster is knocking himself off (also tied with Lindsey Graham who thinks he is somebody).  Unfortunately there are other clear thinkers who should be, but are not, really in the contest.  Those would be Bobby Jindal and Rick Santorum.

   There are too many more with something in mind to take time with here but get mention because they come to mind e.g. Marco Rubio, George Pataki, Scott Walker, John Kasich, Megan Kelly (Oh wait, she hasn’t declared yet), Carly Fiorina, et al.  I did not mention Donald Trump or Mike Huckabee but I guess I am now.  There is one in the pack I don’t know but heard him once, Jim Gilmore.  He sounded kind of smart but I don’t think anybody knows him.  Bringing up the rear would be Rick “I Don’t Know When to Quit” Perry.

   But the bottom line would be anybody, of those with name recognition, but Rand Paul, Chris Christi, Lindsey Graham or the Democrats.  

    I am okay with Trump for now but should he get the nomination, things could get ugly.  For now he is keeping the pack pointed in the right direction but as President,
no mas no!!!

 I agree with El Gringo.

                    El Zorro

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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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