Friday, 5 February 2016

Political Commentary from El Gringo Viejo - Perhaps sound and fury signifying nothing....but some things just need to be said


   We have attempted on three or four occasions to submit something worthy of the OROG community concerning the political situation in the United States. We lament that almost all Republicans forget the rule that Ronaldus Magnus set forth in the olden days;

     Thou shalt not eat of the meat of the pachyderm.  Not of the black or of the grey or of the white pachyderm.  Thou shalt not speak ill of the pachyderm nor disgrace him or her, neither bull nor cow nor calf,  in public or private in any way.


     So, now we move on forward, with a primary process that would embarrass any self-respecting inmate in a criminal psychiatric hospital.  The Democrat Party, now far distant from any sense of sanity....Scoop Jackson, John Kennedy, Daniel Moynihan....all gone.  We are left with Debbie Wasserman Schultz....who hath neither the intelligence of a dead rock nor the soul of a scorpion.  She, as (Sir Edmund) Hillary Corkscrew, lies without hesitation about any and every thing.  She has created chaos within her own party and presided over the single largest decline of the Democrat Party in the history of its post-Reconstruction existence.

     Nothing she says makes any sense, and upon fact checking, nothing she has said really has any orientation around truth or fact.   The Democrat Party has become a cobbling together of disparate interests whose last concern is the general state of the Republic.  Each group is intent upon clawing their way into the purse of anyone left who is stupid enough to believe in self-sufficiency, traditional values, self-defense, and deferred gratification.

     The Democrat panoply of great statesmen?   Bernie and (Sir Edmund) Hillary Rodham.....truly inspiring psychotics who are committed to demagoguery, invasion of the Nation's exchequer, and self-indulgence.

     They are the best leaders of a party composed entirely of parasitic draculas who want their hearths and unprofitable businesses paid for by others.

 THE REALLY BAD PART:


     The worst of all of this is the gaggle of Republicans....(almost all of whom would be better than any of the Democrat Party alternatives)....but, who are intent upon eating elephant steak.


     Please ladies and gentlemen....please....give us the quiet, inspiring word.   Point us to the ridge, not to be safe and secure, but where we can serve to defend the flag that is so despised by the "Progressives" and secular humanists.   Please say something beyond, "I will keep you safe."


      Say and promise something that makes sense.  Abolition of the Internal Revenue Service, whether H and R Block likes it or not.   Replacement of the insane tax system with a very simple, terminal sales tax of 12 per cent;  no "value added tax" at each stage of transfer of product.

    Propose and establish the process by which the Secretariats of Energy, Labour, Education, Commerce, "Health and Human Services", the Bureau of Indian Affairs, much of the Secretariat of Justice. and certainly the Federal Emergency Management Agency.   Simultaneously, while privatizing the entire Social Security System's mess, we could certainly do without the Secretariat of Housing and Human Development as well.
     If anyone proposes the repeal of the Obama Socialised Medical Initiative (OSMI) and its replacement with a better alternative, he/she should be sent to Alaska to keep Sarah Palin company in her dodderage, which has obviously advanced to a critical, perhaps terminal, point.   It is obviously best to simply allow the OSMI to die a miserable, painful, and permanent death and be replaced simply by competition and cash reserve accounts, now un-afraid of usurious taxation.

     Governments that seek to establish "social democracy"  and "fair income redistribution" must of necessity become totalitarian.   It is, however,  truly odd to consider that Mexico does not have an "estate (death) tax".  Draconian income taxes against the upper and upper middle income people, and a 16% national sales tax, yes.....but no "estate tax". 


     We were going to go up and down the list of the GOP candidates and register our critiques of their performance and proposals, but to what end or purpose?  There are two or three left who are worthy of consideration.  Cruz, Rubio, Dr. Carson....perhaps even Annette Funicello....but presently they are covered by shill and jive....pointless noise that demagogues bellow when they have nothing else to sell....like ''Let's make American great again!!!"

     There are still those of us who can remember a similar dingbat named Ross Perot who specialised like the present dingbat in saying things that made no sense.   Our present dingbat appears to be a person that might possibly be chewing marijuana while taking methamphetimines....he speaks in short bursts, phrases that have no discernible meaning, that he repeats several times before moving on to another frenetic topic that is never really developed into anything coherent.  It is similar to H. Ross Perot's soliloquies such as:

     "There's no big thing here.  You're drivin' down the road and the engine acts up, you gotta get out and put the hood up....that's what you do.  You gotta get out and put the hood up, and then you gotta look for the problem, that's all....It's as easy as pie.   There's nothin' to it.     And then when you find the problem then you gotta get at it.  Yessir...you gotta get at it.   And it's not goin' to be easy, no sir.   It's not gonna be easy...you gotta get your hands dirty and get in there and fix it....and then after a lot of really hard work, maybe you can drive a little further down the road...yessir, that's what you gotta do."   Sound of the crowd roaring approval drown out the rest of Mr. Perot's instructive.
     The present braying deranged low-grade demagogue is having fun playing the role of a real campaigner.....Perhaps he still sees himself starring in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and Breaks all the China in the Cabinet remake.  My best estimate is that he is going to retire from the race fairly soon after losing interest in the new toy.  His entire performance has been so frenetic and childish that anyone who can find his own toothbrush should be able to see through this poseur.

Let me go nibble on my No-Doze and drink my Air-wick and get back on track.
El Gringo Viejo
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Thursday, 4 February 2016

We are back up from Mexico

There will be more postings and observations during the coming  hours.   But first, we start off our activity with a bit of dry humor sent down from the northern Frontier of the Republic of Texas by El Zorro. This is good for a laugh, even if it's not funny....!





COSTELLO:  I want to talk about the unemployment rate in America  .
ABBOTT: Good Subject.  Terrible Times.  It’s 5.6%.

COSTELLO:  That many people are out of work?
ABBOTT: No, that’s 23%. 

COSTELLO: You just said 5.6%.
ABBOTT:  5.6% Unemployed.

COSTELLO:  Right 5.6% out of work.
ABBOTT: No, that’s 23%.

COSTELLO: Okay, so it’s  23% unemployed.
ABBOTT: No, that’s 5.6%.

COSTELLO:  WAIT A MINUTE!  Is it 5.6% or 23%?
ABBOTT: 5.6% are unemployed.  23% are out of work.

COSTELLO: If you are out of work you are unemployed.
ABBOTT:  No, Obama said you can’t count the “Out of Work” as the unemployed.  You have to look for work to be unemployed.

COSTELLO: BUT THEY ARE OUT OF WORK!!!
ABBOTT: No, you miss his point.

COSTELLO:  What point?
ABBOTT:  Someone who doesn’t look for work can’t be counted with those who look for work. It wouldn’t be fair. 

COSTELLO: To whom?
ABBOTT: The unemployed. 

COSTELLO: But ALL of them are out of work. 
ABBOTTNo, the unemployed are actively looking for work. Those who are out of work gave up looking and if you give up, you are no longer in the ranks of the unemployed. 

COSTELLO: So if you’re off the unemployment roles that would count as less unemployment?
ABBOTT: Unemployment would go down. Absolutely!

COSTELLOThe unemployment just goes down because you don’t look for work?
ABBOTTAbsolutely it goes  down. That’s how it gets to 5.6%. Otherwise it would be 23%.

COSTELLO: Wait, I got a question for you. That means there are two ways to bring down the unemployment number?  
ABBOTT: Two ways is correct.

COSTELLO: Unemployment can go down if someone gets a job?
ABBOTT: Correct.

COSTELLO: And unemployment can also go down if you stop looking for a job?
ABBOTT: Bingo. 

COSTELLO: So there are two ways to bring unemployment down, and the easier of the two is to have people stop looking for work.
ABBOTT: Now you’re thinking like a Democrat. 

COSTELLO:  I don’t even know what the hell I just said!  
ABBOTT: Now you’re thinking like Hillary.
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     We should have various matters for comment coming up during the next few hours.  Mexico, Texas, and the political mess will be covered.

El Gringo Viejo
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Saturday, 16 January 2016

They can dish it out, but cannot "take it" - Remember the comfortable words of Governor Andrew Cuomo.....

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   Why would Ted Cruz speak the truth before the arrogant?   Why would he say mean things about a place that would fine someone 125,000 USD for making a negative comment about Bruce Jenner?  Is National Socialism now so weak that it must widen and deepen its treachery?    If New York City is such a fine place then why do the police have to turn their backs on the Mayor, who is a marxist dolt, when that mayor make an appearance among the police.   The mayor was elected by generally low intelligence, low information people who want something for nothing.  It is what New York City wants and needs.   And we are blamed for not really being too warm to such "New York Values". 

     You of New York are entitled to your opinion about us because of some sense of supposed, albeit unwarranted, superiority.   The fact is our fire departments would have done the same, but better, job than yours did at the Twin Towers.  We respect what was done, and we lament that massive losses. But what was done by the people would have been done the same or better here in the backwards South and in the Republic of Texas.  Do Not Doubt It.
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The Wisdom  of Governor Cuomo


Gov. Cuomo has a message for conservative Republicans — "You don’t belong in New York."

Cuomo said Friday that members of the GOP with “extreme” views are creating an identity crisis for their party and represent a bigger worry than Democrats such as himself.

“Their problem isn’t me and the Democrats; their problem is themselves,” the governor said on Albany’s The Capitol Pressroom radio show.
Who are they? Right to life, pro-assault weapons, anti-gay — if that’s who they are, they have no place in the state of New York because that’s not who New Yorkers are.”
He added that moderate Republicans, such as those in the state Senate, “have a place in their state.”
Cuomo hammered Republican activists whose views he said were out of step with the majority of New Yorkers and said the party has to back moderates to have any hope of winning seats in this fall’s elections.
(El Gringo Viejo inserts here, for the sake of the Governor's edification that his party of distortion, galloping socialism, demagoguery, illogic, and Spend, spend; elect, elect; and tax, tax....is a hollow, devious cabal of parasites who delight in putting other peoples' money where their mouths are.   The by-elections in November of 2014 were a disaster for the Democrats, and desire by the Governor to have only "moderate Republicans" is because the governor despises people who believe in the truth, and who want common law, natural law, and constitutional government.)
“You have a schism within the Republican Party,” Cuomo observed. “They’re searching to define their soul. That’s what’s going on . . . It’s a mirror of what’s going on in Washington.”
On another front, Cu
omo declined to give his unqualified support to State Education Commissioner John King, citing concerns over the controversial Common Core curriculum.
“I don’t know that anyone has my 100 percent support, some family members included,” Cuomo said flatly. “I think John King has done a good job, by and large. I think there are some real questions about Common Core.”
When pressed about his “tepid support” of the education chief, Cuomo quickly added, “I think he has done a good job. I support the job he’s done.”
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We simply could not resist the temptation, concerning the governor's prognostications about what kind of candidates actually win elections in the real world outside of New York.    We also would like to point out that after "Super Storm Sandy" (a category 1 hurricane when it hit New York - New Jersey) caused the mobilisation of many firefighters from Texas, Alabama, and other places associated with the Wild West and the Confederacy.
     Upon arriving in the precincts where the damage was most severe, these people, travelling primarily on a combination of their own money, contributions from their locales, and contributions from their political entities, received obscene gestures, cat-calls of "Go Home, Scabs", along with garages of rocks and vile verbal epithets.
     Some of the firemen were amazed at the reception, as well as with the fact that the Fire Department had not turned off power in an area where thousands of frame houses where built almost touching each other.  The power should have been shut down before flinging power cables ignited transformer pots and other flammable material.  Failure to do so resulted in billions of dollars of unnecessary losses.  To wit:

New York was severely affected by Hurricane Sandy in 2012, particularly New York City, its suburbs, and Long Island. Sandy's impacts included the flooding of the New York City Subway system,[2] many suburban communities,[3] and all road tunnels entering Manhattan except the Lincoln Tunnel, and the closure of the New York Stock Exchange for two consecutive days. Numerous homes and businesses were destroyed by fire, including over 100 homes in Breezy Point, Queens. Large parts of the city and surrounding areas lost electricity for several days, and several thousand people in midtown Manhattan were evacuated for six days due a crane collapse at Extell's One57Bellevue Hospital Center and a few other large hospitals were closed and evacuated. At least 53 people died in New York as a result of the storm.[4] Thousands of homes and an estimated 250,000 vehicles were destroyed during the storm.[5] Economic losses across New York were estimated to be at least $18 billion.[6]

    The above summary in Wikipedia tried to be nice about it, but the fact is that  for a city presumably so advanced and kind and gentle, it was an arrogant hell-hole of incompetence and union thuggery.  It brought back to mind about how "brave" the firemen were who were caught in the collapse of the twin towers.  They were caught because the communications systems overloaded because they were hopelessly out-of -date.  Stories also proliferated about pilfering, but all big city fire departments have those stories told about them....there is no active proof beyond various citizens saying, "You should have seen what I saw...."
     The very clear fact was that the firemen in the New York - New Jersey area were horridly rude, arrogant, and threatening when folks from an area that is Right-to-Work came with competent....better than NYFD quality....help.

Thanks for your time as usual!
El Gringo Viejo
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Important Meeting and Important People.....and a bit of Bio concerning Billy Jeff Blythe: forwarded by El Zorro



   The dead guy, second from the left,  is Lurch, who worked for the Addams family, after returning from Viet Nam as a certifiable hero.  He managed to fake three scratches into three Purple Hearts, thereby qualifying him to return Stateside a lot sooner than his deployment was scheduled.  He would also have a new identity, essentially as North Vietnams agente plenipotentiary  with a new identity.
     With that new identity he managed to meet and then wed the widow of Senator Heinz of Pennsylvania who had died in a terrible plane crash.  She was worth 59 quadrillion Somalians.  The Heinz fortune fell to Mrs. Heinz who was and remains a drip.  Lurch, however, managed to soak her fortune for a run for the Presidency.
      He is most famous for cursing reporters for standing in the way when he would flail and swerve while skiing, or bicycling, or just standing there.   He also gained fame for parking his yacht (actually his shrew-wife's two - master) in Providence Harbour, Rhode Island so as to avoid the taxes levied by his home State of Massachusetts, which were ten times higher.

     Only the UK Prime Minister David Cameron could stay awake at this important meeting.   His staying-awake-during-boring-moments stamina had been improved after having been lobotomized  by HH the Prince of Wales, Charlie Mountbatten-Windsor during another Medicine During Climate Change Conference.
     The other four dolts with big titles (DWBTs) took advantage of the lecture, "How Climate Change Causes the Heartbreak of Psoriasis".   His solution was to have United Nations troops take over Fort Leavenworth and transfer all the gold to Robert Mugabe, in Zimbabwe for safekeeping.

     After the speech, the Hero of Viet Nam was drained and re-embalmed for another important conference, "Climate Change, Toenail Fungi, and Dog Breeding: Past, Present, and Lane-changes".   The other three were quick frozen  and will be thawed out next Thursday for another very important meeting with Al Gore about distances between parking meters in the undevelopable world.
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    And now we have Billy Jeff Blyth, who might wind up being first pervert and chief slug in charge of destroying decency and self-discipline.  To wit:



Oh! You didn't know he had a military career?

Bill & Hillary got about $12 million for their to-be written memoirs.
Here's some help for them since their memories are getting old

                                   BILL CLINTON'S MILITARY CAREER
Bill Clinton registers for the draft on September 08, 1964,
accepting all contractual conditions of registering for the draft.
Selective Service Number is

326 46 228.

Bill Clinton classified 2-S on November 17, 1964.

Bill Clinton reclassified 1-A on March 20, 1968.

Bill Clinton ordered to report for induction on July 28, 1969.

Bill Clinton refuses to report and is not inducted into the military.

 
Bill Clinton reclassified 1-D after enlisting in the United States
Army Reserves on August 07, 1969, under authority
Of COL. E. Holmes.

Clinton signs enlistment papers and takes oath of enlistment.

Bill Clinton fails to report to his duty station at
the University of Arkansas ROTC, September 1969.

Bill Clinton reclassified 1-A on October 30, 1969,
as enlistment with Army Reserves is revoked by
Colonel E. Holmes and Clinton now AWOL and
subject to arrest under Public Law 90-40 (2) (a) -
registrant who has failed to report...
remain liable for induction.

Bill Clinton's birth date lottery number is 311,
drawn December 1, 1969, but anyone who has
already been ordered to report for induction is INELIGIBLE!

Bill Clinton runs for Congress (1974), while a fugitive
from justice under Public Law 90-40.
Bill Clinton runs for Arkansas Attorney General
(1976), while a fugitive from justice.

Bill Clinton receives pardon on January 21, 1977,
from President Carter .

Bill Clinton becomes the FIRST PARDONED FEDERAL FELON
ever to serve as President of the United States .
All these facts come from Freedom of Information requests,
public laws, and various books that have been published, and 
have not been refuted 
by Clinton .

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After the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, President Clinton
promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished .

After the 1995 bombing in Saudi Arabia, which killed five U.S.
military personnel,
Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished .

After the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia ,
which killed 19 and injured 200  U.S. military personnel,
Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished .

After the 1998 bombing of U.S. embassies in  Africa ,
which killed 224 and injured 5,000,
Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down and punished .

After the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole,
which killed 17 and injured 39  U.S. sailors,
Clinton promised that those responsible be hunted down and punished .

Maybe if Clinton had kept those promises, an estimated 3,000 people
in New York and Washington , DC , who are now dead
would be alive today .

THINK ABOUT IT!
It is a strange turn of events.
Hillary gets $8 Million for her forthcoming memoir.
Bill gets about $12 Million for his memoir yet to be written.
This from two people who spent 8 years being unable to recall
anything about past events while under oath.

Sincerely,
Cdr. Hamilton McWhorter USN (ret) 
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Friday, 15 January 2016

Repost about Los Arrierros

Saturday, 3 November 2012


Story told by an Old Man About Another Old Man's Story

      There was a noble old man, by the name of Agustin Salinas, who was my father's mayordomo in charge of the day to day issues of our citrus grove care business and general  farming activity back in the days when north of McAllen meant   "way out in the country".  Don Agustin would at times refer to certain roads in Mexico as "caminos burros". We thought he meant that they were crummy roads or that they had been used by arrierros in their deliveries or whatever. Later, he and my father explained that during the building of the new modern paved roads (starting in the 1930s), there were always big city engineers who would come out and plan and design and really work up a good attack at getting over this or that mountain range.
      Then the rustics would show up to request work on the highway, and ask about the overall plan and schedule. The smart Mexico City engineers would say, " In a couple of weeks we'll have all our plans drawn and then about a week after that we need to start excavating."
 An arrierro with his remuda de burros.   El Gringo Viejo

has seen this scene countless times in the mountainous
parts of rural Mexico.   While the artist might be a slight
bit generous with the quality of the animals and the  fine
hat and attire....we add quickly...Not much.   The remudas
were frequently fine, and the men were, although rustic
quite highly regarded, usually preenish with well trimmed
mustachios, and very fine hats during market days.
      Then the rustics would say, "But why sen~or, do you plan with the papers? The Burros, they know the route that you want."

       After much laughing and hooting and howling, the engineers would say, "How is that possible?  You are all just a bunch of dumb, rural, Mexican Indians. You know nothing about engineering such a difficult transit, and yet you confide in Burros. jajaaajjaaa jajaaajjaaaa."

      The the Indians said,"Sen~ores, do you want this road to go from here to Mitlalchitepec?"

     "Yes, of course, that is the only pass that can be used to build the paved highway through to San Lorenzo." responded the engineers.
     "But Sen~ores, if you want to have a highway for trucks to San Lorenzo, you have to use the Camino del Burro. Please take your trucks and load the Burros and us upon them, and take the Burros and us to San Benavidez*. Then you can follow us back to here and then you will know the route you must take to Mitlalchitepec."
     The Indians seemed sincere, and the distance wasn't that far, so they loaded up the eight or nine mares and two jacks and six Zapotec Indians and drove them about 16 miles to San Lorenzo on the old unserviceable road.    The Mexico City professionals and their Gringo sub-contractor smiled knowingly and thought they were being very accommodating to the rustics by entertaining their foolishness as though their idea had any merit.
      After an hour and a half they arrived and unloaded their living cargo. The Zapotec rustics set about organising the return, calling loudly and sharply,"Arre! Arre! Maria, Arre! Consuelo....Arre tu!! Napoleon. Arre!...and off they went. "Hasta la casa, sonsas! hasta la casa!!! Arre!  (getty-up! Maria!!  Getty-up Consuelo...getty-up!! Get thee up!!  Napoleon, getty-up!! "Until the home, silly girls!! Until the home!! getty-up!)
     The burros began to canter into the chapparral, weaving here and there, but cantering fairly slowly all the while, just fast enough to where the men had to walk a bit briskly to keep up. The engineers followed, having sent the truck back around.    They had been going for about an hour when the engineers said, "When does this end?  Are we going to camp out here overnight?"
      The Indians laughed, and pointed to the summit just ahead, about 300 yards away. "We have arrived. Just over the 'ceja' (crest).    And then we are there."
     "You Indians are either lost or lying, because we have only been walking for an hour, and we have only covered 2 miles at the most."
      But about that time three burro colts came running up to meet their returning mothers, a soon after that the entire party arrived and looked  down where they had left, by truck, about 3 hours ago.    It was, indeed, a two-mile walk back, and it was almost totally level ground except for one 400 yard stretch of a slight incline.
The new paved highway to San Lorenzo was built where the donkeys had told them to build it. 
(and yes, there really is a Mitlalchitepec  [I believe it means "Corn field full of (weeds) (wild flowers) of the mountain" in Nahuatl/Zapotec...in Oaxaca.])
     And that was one of many, many stories from Agustin Salinas that kept me spell-bound from age 0 - 6....a long, long time ago in a never never land on the Mexican border.  His stories all turned out to be true, or at least reasonable understandings of what he knew to be the truth.
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* Of course there is no "San Benavidez"...Benavidez is a Portuguese - Sephardic Jew surname not uncommon among western Iberian Peninsulars.   This is kind of a joke I trade with my elder brother who is in a higher place, tuning harmonicas and tubas for the Angels.

(Excerpted from email exchange with an OROG, who served multiple tours in Afghanistan in forward areas and who is something of a son/nephew/brother figure to El Gringo Viejo, and who was a chum  of EGV's daughter and a member of her graduating class in High School.  The original email was amended, editted, and smoothed out a bit, and made more accurate in some minor detail.
     We had been talking about things, and then the topic veered into horses [I think because he knows that my father was a "real live" horse cavalry trooper back in the late 1920s and early 1930s.]  So, I signed off this email to him with, " Thanks for your observations. Sometimes they bring back memories.")
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