The Republican Party wants alms, and they will give me a "free gift" so that they can take the money and stab me, and one of mine, and the entire mule-team pulling the wagon full of RINOs in the front, back, and/or wherever.

Dear Mr. Reince Preibus:

      It has been my pleasure to have supported Republican candidates since the age of 5, during the Eisenhower / Stevenson elections, when my brother and I passed out Eisenhower / Nixon pamphlets in front of the McAllen, Texas main post office.    My mother ran the Democrats for Eisenhower Hidalgo County Headquarters which was about 30 times larger than the Republican Headquarters….because Republican leaning people in those post-Reconstruction constructs of the Southern political scene, conservatives had to operate within the Democrat Party structure.   My grandfather did not speak to my mother (his daughter) for three years,  because she was supporting Republicans for President and Vice-President.   In that year, the Democrats and Republicans, in their primaries, voted to nominate Allen Shivers for Governor, because Eisenhower declared he would restore the Tidelands Mineral Rights to Texas and Louisiana (stolen during the Reconstruction by the Central Government in Washington, D.C.)  The Democrat Primary had almost exactly 100 times more votes cast than did the Republican Primary….because that is just the way it was in those years in Texas and the South.

     My brother (aged 10) and I (aged 5) made an agreement and a pact.  “Why should we do this game?  If we agree with the general Republican position, then we should be Republicans”….was essentially our position.  My brother went on to be a "Queso Grande" in the Republican Party, serving as the AA to John G. Tower, in Washington, D.C. and later as the Executive Director of the Republican Party of Texas….and then later as one of the founders and the Executive Director of a special impact PAC with the name of Associated Republicans of Texas, that concentrated on electing state representatives, county officials, state senators, and other significant public offices on the premise of being committed once and for all to push conservatives into a majority voting bloc as Republicans.   He also brought the notion of fund-raising via direct mail into vogue in the mid 1960s, being not among the first, but the first to perform such magic.   The checks required three people to process, full time, in the Littlefield Building  on Congress and 6th in downtown Austin.   It serves to mention that John G. Tower is/was the Godfather of my brother’s first son.

     As a younger person, during my sophomore and junior years in high school,  I served for two years as the overwhelmingly elected, against two very, very fine fellows as the President of the Teenaged Republicans of McAllen.   During our administration this Club became the largest such club in the United States with a membership of 600.   For instance, we raised enough money to lease nine busses and pay for the road meals of 400 of those members whose mommies and daddies (back when there were such things) would let them go to Austin (300 miles away) for a rally in support of Jack Cox in his race for Governor of Texas against a fellow hand-picked by LBJ…by the name of John Connelly.   The municipal auditorium of the City of Austin was filled to the rafters…..and the largest delegation???  Hidalgo County and the City of McAllen….not Dallas, not Houston, not any of the “big cities” but little ole’ McAllen.  (actually quite a nice oasis and advanced municipality).   Later, this humble servant was very active in various Republican efforts….elections, party organisation, and even running a pretty good campaign, (thanks to my wife and a few friends) for County Commissioner, Precinct III of Hidalgo County, Texas where Democrat to Republican ratio was, and pretty much still is, about 40 - 1 in favour of the Democrats.   We should point out that my wife was the official secretary of the Republican Party of Hidalgo county for two terms.

     Now, Mr. Priebus you ask for me to pick up my “free gift” for a contribution of 75 Yankee dollars or more.   You say you really need me on the “team”.  Since the time we “self-identified” as Reaganites, the Republican Party at all levels, including here in Texas until very, very recently made certain that I was perhaps qualified to nail signs together and / or run and get coffee for the “important people” in the operation.    When we sponsored the “Rush to Excellence” visit by a nobody like Rush Limbaugh in 1989, here in McAllen….it costed us a fortune….one of four small businesses that ponied up the required 1,000 Yankee dollars to sponsor the event.  It was overwhelmed at the McAllen Civic Centre.  Many thousands of people arrived,   Not present?   Local Republican officials…RNC, etc….Limbaugh to them and the Country Club Republican establishment was a racist, a loose cannon, a shock-jock, and something that would be gone within 18 months.   This was while the Republican National committeewoman of the district declared that her Mexican American voter recruitment effort was to "....run over as many of them as I can on the  way to the polls."  This was while the Latin cohort in the local party was about 40% of the total group, including the country clubbers.

     I say to you….”Leave me alone”…..Will you not, as soon as you might have received this and other small contributions, stab the small contributors and me in the back, front, and side for the millionth time?  You will allow or push forward methods and maneouvers to defame, denigrate, and ridicule the “snake-handlers, hillbillies, hayseeds, hicks, Klanners, troglodytes, Tea-Baggers, and (shudder) Confederates, and foot-washing Christians”.   I say to you, take and burn any record of my affiliation with you.   We know that you have manners and methods to invent stories of defamation.  We know that even now,  you all will begin to release all nature of stories about Ted Cruz and perhaps even Dr. Carson of Sen. Paul….or any of their supporters upon whom you can “dig dirt”.

     We know that you will render any such information to the Obsolete Press, and that you think such a gratuitous act will grant you the pass to the correct cocktail parties in the Hamptons and Martha’s Vineyard and the finest saloons and restaurants in Georgetown and Manhattan….but remember, they think you are the same as us, only controllable.   Remember how many times the Obsolete Media has stabbed the “correct moderate Republican” in the back, immediately upon nomination for higher office.

El Gringo Viejo...

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An Ed Klein Report worth reading....dry, but solid and we begin to move to more pleasant things

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Be First to Know.

Why Hillary Isn’t Qualified to be Commander in Chief The terrorist attack in Paris—and the fear that such a horrific fate could befall a major American city—has recast the presidential race and prompted former secretary of state Hillary Clinton to brag that she is the most qualified candidate in either political party to be commander in chief.

That, at least, is the story line that Hillary and her campaign are feeding the American public.

But is it true? Let’s refresh our memory.

When Barack Obama offered Hillary the job of secretary of state, she was suspicious of his motives and skeptical that he would allow her to put her stamp on foreign policy.

“I don’t want to be a pantsuit-wearing globetrotter,” she told Bill Clinton in the presence of several friends, two of whom I interviewed.

Her suspicions proved to be accurate. Obama and Valerie Jarrett, his senior adviser, never let Hillary run foreign policy. As one official told Politico, Hillary practiced “odometer diplomacy,” with a “focus on globetrotting to bolster America’s relationships abroad coupled with attempts to cope with an array of pop-up crises.”

Hillary extracted a promise from Obama that she would be free to choose her own deputies, but that is not how things worked out. Jarrett insisted that Hillary hire James Steinberg as her deputy secretary of state, even though Hillary didn’t like or trust Steinberg.

As part of the Obamas vs. the Clinton blood feud that I have written about, the White House went out of its way to humiliate Hillary. For example, Hillary would be summoned to the White House for a meeting only to discover when she arrived that the meeting had been canceled without anyone bothering to tell her. Other times, she was left in the dark about the timing of cabinet meetings.

Bill Clinton urged Hillary to stand her ground with the White House and hit some foreign policy homeruns. But when she tried to follow his advice—as she did in Libya, the “reset” with Russia, and the “pivot” to Asia—the results were disastrous.

Libya became a breeding ground for the Islamic State; the Russian “reset” gave Vladimir Putin an excuse to annex Crimea; and the Asian “pivot” encouraged Beijing to create an archipelago of militarized islands in the South China Sea.

Finally, Hillary’s claim to commander in chief status was demolished once and for all by the events of September 11, 2012 in Benghazi, where four Americans lost their lives, including our ambassador to Libya.

If this tragedy had been inflicted on any other major industrialized country, the foreign minister would have been forced to resign.

That’s exactly what Hillary should have done—taken responsibility for Benghazi and resigned. The fact that she is still trying to wiggle her way out of taking any blame is proof that she is not qualified to be commander in chief of the United States.

Sincerely,

ED KLEIN

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     And, of course, we have to climb onto the crippled horse, and point out other small, but salient, points.

     It is more than certain that (Sir Edmund) Hillary slipped up a bit during the Benghazi episode.  She had poisoned her own well by making the silly, sophomoric campaign advertisement, questioning Barry Soetoro's competence and/or willingness to answer the telephone at 03:00 hours, a call that portended grave news of great import.   Could an incompetent puppet with no transcripts, with known antecedents of having had sexual harassment charges filed against him by various men that had been settled "out of court" by Harvard University, and who had no military, economic,  diplomatic, or any other understanding about anything do better than (Sir Edmund) Hillary?

     But when it came time for her to step in to deal with a matter under her purview....the imminent collapse of a consular facility complete with a trapped Ambassador.....while Barry Soetoro, the Indonesian exchange student was AWOL in Las Vegas where he had made a Royal Decree against all business executives to visit for any purpose, especially when flying corporate jets....(Sir Edmund) Hillary tripped over the gin bottle by the bed.

     Upon understanding the gravity and gravitas of the situation, (Sir Edmund) Hillary's first concern was "To whom shall I pass the cup?  I shan't take a sip, that's for sure!    So she went wringing her already trembling hands to Chief Body Man Huma Weiner shrieking about "How do I get this monkey off my back....Help me!!  Help me, Huma !!"

     A quick run through the labyrinth of sedition led to the other Huma, one Valerie Jarrett, daughter of two communists from Persia (Iran).  Although Huma and Valerie are both Persian and hate each other's guts, they also have that contradictory two sided badge they both wear, the one with an Islamic Star and Crescent Moon on one side, and a Hammer and Sickle on the other.

     Valerie says that Barry Soetoro...."...cannot be bothered right now, but there's an idea that might work.   Some guys playing computer games a couple of months ago came across a really funny video-short about Mohammed that was kind of disgusting.  We can say the Muslims were protesting this video.  We can say it had nothing to do with an organised terrorist attack.  And we'll start to cover up the arms and ammunition trans-shipments to that Islamic State group that's helping us against Assad.  Romney will step into the mess, and then we can blame Romney for being a racist and is just trying to score racist points against Barry and Islam. We'll put you on the Sunday parade of boring in-depth boring pro-Obama and pro-Hillary boring apologists, and you can repeat the same boring lie so many times that there won't be any newspaper space or television time on MTV to contradict the video story."

     To which Huma Weiner says, "Works for  me.   Look, I gotta go.  Another girl is calling me to complain that Anthony is sending her some of his naked pictures again.   Just don't know what to do with that man...."

      The last thing (Sir Edmund) Hillary knew about any of this stuff was when Huma steered her towards the right place to stand at the Dover AFB hangar where the coffins of the dead Americans and their Ambassador were being received and recognised.   "Remember, your Highness, repeat 'we're going to get that guy who made those videos' ...it's the only thing you have to tell these stupid people who want to know what their mercenary sons were doing....'we're going to get that guy who made those videos...we're going to get that guy who made those videos."

     Huma whispered to Valerie during the ceremony, "She's still groggy from last night.   She's always been really confused early in the morning and late a night....and....well....actually pretty much all day.   We give her an upper when she has to testify and we try to remind her not to look down at the floor because it's a sure sign of lying, but she goes right to it when she starts lying, every time."

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     All of that which follows below, as much of the above, is the spawn of literary license.

      But it fits so well, it might well wind up being true....However it is also an un-abashed attempt, in deference to the Father-in-Law of my daughter, and of whom I am the Father-in-law of his son, to write more about Mexico and its peculiar, touristy, non-touristy, incredible, fascinating, curative, cathartic, conduit to the Ancestors and internal peace, birdwatching, expunging of evil spells, aches, pains, memories, and general ills.   He also wants more historical portrayals and political/cultural commentary.   Actually, his advice is correct. S0....

 

A bunch of Gringos, foolishly enjoying themselves. when there

is so much income disparity and starvation and  obtuse 

cresellisbquadong, a disease as yet not known but

killing millions of minority children per/week in

America's inner cities even as we

write this.

   Valerie Jarrett leaned over, not knowing El Gringo Viejo was listening and intoned, "Listen, we go through the same thing with Barry...his dance card is a little...strange.  His golfing buddies are all billionaires, but they mainly dance at the other end of the ball-room, if you know what I mean.   He still prefers weed and beer, but that water buffalo I set him with only wants him to drink white wine at the state dinners and banquets, and with an ice cube in it to boot.   When all of this is over we can go to Zihuatanejo and have some fun, okay?"

A shopping lane for deranged females who

 suddenly have to buy something they 

could not live without, although

 they had never seen it

 before.

Condos on the hill...with correct plastering.

   Their 11 room place is somewhere mid-way

 up and carries the bank guaranteed

 notification and local real estate

 tax payments. The property 

taxes are very low, but

 the National sales 

tax is 16%

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   These places, pictured above,  is where Huma and Valerie might go for triple-islamic-margaritas, shopping, and entertaining while they compare notes about the pair of honkeys they had to spoon feed for a generation.   They took out the 99-year lease-transferrable to heirs package for their tiny 11 room condo with 3 bathrooms and two jacuzzis, where they can read the Quran and laugh about the Gentiles and Jews they tormented during the years they were running America.

    That lease is important, and handled by a bank of registry, because foreigners cannot own land within 50 kilometres of a maritime boundary or 100 kilometres of a terrestrial national boundary.   The bank...you choose the bank...will administer the title and lease preference with honest and open procedure.   You will be responsible for the city and county taxes, and you will be responsible for the taxes, exhibited by the bank,  which are, in Gringo terms, ridiculously low.   They make up for it with a 16% national sales tax, among others.  The bank can, and usually does, fold these nominal taxes into the monthly or annual lease payment.   Our payment for a wholly-owned, "we pay the county/city/state taxes direct sometime in February, for bit less than two acres and a relatively large House (for the area) 2 / 2 with a parlour, some air-conditioning, and niceties, is presently about 200 pesos per year (14.00 / American dollars).

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       El Gringo Viejo confesses that some of the later part is promoted by the fact that the Father-in-law of my daughter (and of whom I am the Father-in-law of his son) has charged, impelled, and compelled El Gringo Viejo to write more about Mexican and Texian history and cultural matters.   And, oddly enough, El Gringo Viejo agrees.   It is just that I am an addict....in recovery, but I am an addict.

     The sneaky lead-in about people who should never been anywhere near the White House, we move quickly to the problematic question...."If things are so bad in Mexico as O'Reilly says and the Obsolete Press says, and everything is totally corrupt and there is no law, and everybody is killing everybody all the time, then why do we hear about people going to this "Playa" and the other "Playa" and this "Zona Colonial" and that "Zona Colonial", etc. ?

     It's true.  All the gringos have been killed and are being killed all the time.  Everybody is dead and they dig them up and kill them again.   In spite of the free and  equal press, however, the fact is...right now....there are about 450,000 Gringos at this moment, wasting their time in Mexico.

    This does not count the resident Gringos who spend 50% or more of their time in Mexico or who have micro-businesses to entertain themselves in an active "retirement"...(figure another 100,000).   Baja California is not even imaginable in terms of most Americans' understanding.....it is essentially an extension of the United States of America, as California is an extension of Mexico.

     So, we ask you all.  Please review the various vignettes that have been placed here, above this commentary.  These are not done for, by, or with the people who made the video vignettes.    Remember, we are not here to sell anything.   Just enjoy.

El Gringo Viejo

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A Taste of Mexico--San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico

We watched a little of the Democrat "debate"....and it waZZzzz zzzZZZzzzz zzzzzz.

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CLINTON: "Since we last debated in Las Vegas, nearly 3,000 people have been killed by guns. Two hundred children have been killed. This is an emergency." She said that in the same period there have been 21 mass shootings, "including one last weekend in Des Moines where three were murdered."

THE FACTS: 

The claim appears to be unsupported on all counts.

The Gun Violence Archive has recorded 11,485 gun deaths in the U.S. so far this year, an average of just under 1,000 per month, making Clinton's figure appear to be highly exaggerated. The archive had more detailed data for children and teenagers, showing 70 from those age groups killed by firearms since the Democratic candidates debated Oct. 13 - not 200 as she claimed.

Asked to explain the discrepancy, Clinton's campaign pointed to 2013 statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and 2010 figures from the Children's Defense Fund. But that's not the time period she said she was talking about.

The only mass shooting recently in Des Moines was Nov. 8, when four people were shot at a night club. One was killed, not three.

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     It was a breathtaking display with so much Trotskyite "from each according to his ability"  and marxist "to each according to his need", and everyone's favourite, the Partei Nationalsozialistsche Deutsche Arbeiteerparte defining how to force private American business, commerce, and industry to comply with the mono-class ideal of deranged social engineers in Berlin.

     The "Vince Foster Effect" was very much in play, in that the two emasculoides present, playing real live candidates, were apparently required to do obeisance by saying, "With all due respect, Madame Queen Goddess Secretary Senator President for Life and Eternity (Sir Edmund) Hillary Corkscrew......" before saying anything that might possibly offend HRH twenty years before her birth until such time that AlGore's Climate Change kicks in, (presently scheduled precisely between the next 30 months to 40,000 years from now). 

     (Sir Edmund) Hillary declared many things to be fact that were obviously false.  In that sense, she stayed true to her game.  Lie like a rug, and have the Obsolete Press fawn over her "powerful performance", and "coolness under fire" from radical Tea-baggers.  Next, promise everything to a select group of consumers and takers and blame everything on the very people who fund her Dreadnaught Person-of-War with scores of millions of shekels, drawn mainly from profits made by doing business with the Central Government, a la Solyndra.

    Lastly, please remember that when a person consistently looks down, and especially to the right, while responding to questions, the overwhelming likelihood is that the person responding is lying like a rattlesnake's belly.   (Sir Edmund) Hillary drilled a hole in the floor with her viperous, bored gaze, always down....raging with ire because of this inconsequential obligation to have to expose herself in any way to the plebeian class.   She will say anything, as the first  included paragraph and the subsequent analysis by the Associated Press, no less, demonstrate to make up out of whole clothe anything she wants to say.   I mean, after all, the killings she was citing was caused by the KKK making mean Youtube videos about Al Sharpton.   Everyone knows that, and we were surprised, frankly, when (Sir Edmund) Hillary did not just go ahead and release that information, once and for all. 

     We are done for the night, probably.   It was good just to relate that the AP had felt compelled to reveal how full of goat-puke the three "candidates" at the "debate" were.   But at least they had 15% of the audience that the Republicans had in their last debate, which was far more substantial and consequential.

El Gringo Viejo

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(1) Please review the last four or five blog entries and, (2) An OROG sends a message she knew would be appreciated.

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Please check Mr. Richard Beckman's complete death announcement

The OROG community just has to embrace a fellow who has 

his priorities right, even from the beyond.   This was sent into

A Gringo in Rural Mexico by the daughter of the outlying scouts

who contribute to this blog from Extreme Central Texas

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Lies and purposeful ignorance make for a poor foreign policy

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     Please.   Enough of this incompetent poseur;  he who is more concerned about bringing into the United States un-vetted Syrian and Middle Eastern refugees while he allows Syrian and other Middle Eastern Christians to rot and the Kurds to go un-armed. 
   Please, let us bring an end to this ghoulish personality who is more concerned about whether homosexuals here can marry their transgendered sisters, while in the middle east where Sharia rules, homosexuals are slaughtered without a second thought.  This is in spite of the fact that so many of the ISIS rank and file as well as commanders, actually are homosexuals.

     This blurb in the video posted above, was set up like a T - Ball stand with a faux baseball to hit, so that Barry could take one more  victory lap around the stadium with his multicoloured flag of "inclusion" and "pride".  It was so reminiscent of that magic moment when HRH Barry reminded Candy Crowley, during the 2012 presidential debates with Romney,  that he did say the word "terrorism" in the White House Rose Garden, "Don't you remember, Candy, we agreed to that," he deigned royally, and of course Candy lied and said, "Oh! Yes.  I remember now." 
      Presidential debate history, you gotta love it!

     Pres. Barry took the bait yesterday  swung, and hit the non-impact inertial-negative baseball for another homer, and completed his run around all three bases, and jumped over the net to hug Stephie, just in time to hit the links, or go back to that Big White House all lit up with Gay Pride lights for Friday the 13th, to learn that his side had committed one more act of workplace violence.

     The Acolytes of the Religion of Peace had struck at places where people work.....deservedly famous family saloons and young heterosexual lover's saloons serving the finest beers, wines, and canapés.....a centre of debauchery where people could listen and dance to ghastly, loud, heavy metal American "rock and roll" wearing skimpy  and outlandish clothes,   and a silly soccer game where people wasted their time watching men run up and down a playing field, kicking a silly ball.   HRH Barry, do you not agree that their time would have been better spent, as your communist friends Bill Ayers and Bernadette Dorhn think, killing Hebrew children in occupied Palestine instead of these other self-indulgent pursuits?

     I mean, the problem is not that we have too many totally deranged Moslem nutters who kill more Moslems than anyone else....more Jews and Christians and Agnostics and others....The problem is those T-baggers who are so racist that they think government budgets should be balanced.   Right, President Barry.....?

     We await the spill over about the arms and munitions shipments from Libya to ISIS-controlled territory.....where you painted yourself into a corner by having (Sir Edmund)Hillary a bit to close to that action.   You should have kept a closer eye on her chief operative, Sydney Blumenthal....but now you have to sweat out whether (Sir Edmund) Hillary's noose might also fit your measure.   Will the literate tire of you before or after your useless remaining days?

     You have to worry about whether the National Enquirer might finally decide that the story about three sexual harassment lawsuits brought by three different men at Harvard will finally be "discovered" before 20 January 2017.  One might have to wonder if just one member of the Obsolete Media would, or could, or should finally actually print or post something to tell the adulating masses that their Emperor caused Harvard to have to negotiate three different settlements with men who declared that they had been sexually harassed by the guy with the Indonesian Passport in the name Barry Soetoro, exchange student.   Carney did state that the White House was "vaguely familiar" with the story.   (inquiring reporter never reposted to White House duty)
     Will there be one so brave with heart so strong so as to point out that both Barack Hussein Obama and Michelle Robinson were given the chance to surrender their law licences in lieu of having them taken by disbarment.   Very much like those other icons of propriety, Billy Jeff Blythe and (Sir Edmund) Hillary Corkscrew.
      We should point out that in the case if Billy Jeff, his was ordered surrendered by a judge who had at one time been a student in his class at the University of Arkansas Law School, and in spite of that, actually did not suffer a lip-bite severe enough to take stitches.

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     One might wonder from which part of Dante's Inferno this foursome ascended.  One might wonder why Ben Carson and Ted Cruz and Mario Rubio are vetted, framed, gotcha'd! to death, and essentially harassed to the extreme.    And none, save for the rarest of occasion,  of the felonious foursome receive questions beyond  "boxers or briefs?" 

     Dynamic social democracy at work.  Guard your wallet, and protect your children and grandchildren from the mindless soul-eaters from Hell who want to give those children "free education" and 1000 other nice things.

El Gringo Viejo

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