One Simple Act For Texas Independence

And try this on for size, Biden

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     "The history of nominations and confirmations of Supreme Court Justices in an election year does not bode well for the Democrats, since they are in a minority in the Senate. The most notable recent instance was the failure in 1968 to get a vote on Lyndon Johnson's nomination of Abe Fortas. Even though the Democrats also controlled both houses of Congress, they could not muster the votes in the Senate to stop the Republicans' filibuster of the nomination. And as related in this article, the last time a President was successful in having his nomination in an election year confirmed by a Senate controlled by the opposition party was in 1880."

     The above is extracted from a fairly short analysis of the true nature of Supreme Court Justice nomination approvals by the United States Senate.  It is an excellent, much-meat-on-the-bone examination of the issue that seems to concern Mr. Executive Order and other Legal Purists of the community organiser race.

     We urge that all Official Readers of the Old Gringo (OROGs) go to this link: Anglican Curmudgeon and scroll through the recent  postings. The first two are most important.  The second one will give the reader all the arms and ammunition necessary to intellectually destroy anyone of the Progressive Dolt Class-warfare Party in terms of this new Supreme Court Justice appointment issue.

      Read all that you want, especially now, because there is an excellent academically advanced analysis of present day education and cultural negative inertia (my term) in the first article.   In quick order the OROG will find an article styled "Antonin Scalia - RIP", or perhaps you can connect by clicking upon this link:

Antonin Scalia, RIP

     Both Articles together might require two readings of 8 - 10 minutes total.  I frequently have to read these articles three times because I have more skull and less brain.   Happy Reading.

El Gringo Viejo

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A WORD of ADVICE to the OBSOLETE PRESS and MOST of the RIGHTWING PRESS PUNDITS: Don't Count Donald Barnum Trump's Suckers Before They Are Hatched

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     Lamentably, much of the supposedly rightwing press establishment appears  to (and continues to) have thrown in with the nouveaux Republican Saviour, Donald Barnum Trump. The fact is that Texas has 155 delegates to send to the floor of the Republican National Convention.

      Cruz seems well-positioned to take a majority of the votes in the Republican Primary, which means that he would take 90% or more of that group of delegates into his column. Other wins and/or high finishes by Cruz and/or Rubio, all of which seem possible will augment the number that Donald Barnum does not receive.

       In the case of Ted Cruz, he quite possibly can surpass the totals for the rest of the active candidate group, combined, come the 1st of March. It should also serve to underscore the mis-reading of this race by the Obsolete Press and even the Rightwing Press that is the fawning and "Oh! Wow! - ing" over the endorsement of Trump by Christi. In case the above mentioned talking heads, pundits, analysts, and commentators do not remember, Christi dropped out of the Presidential Nomination Circus after spending a score-million dollars and finishing below even Kasich and Bush.

      Christi is not popular even in New Jersey and cannot, could not, and will not deliver New Jersey to the Republican column in November. Cruz has the backing of the President of the Republic of Texas, and the backing of the previous President of the Republic of Texas (recently vindicated in a recent overwhelming court finding of any wrongdoing against an abusive old, sow, drunk Travis County District Attorney's Office lackey - Perry had cut her out of a budget from the coffers of Texas due to a really, really ugly DWI escapade), and numerous other Conservative Republicans, including the Lieutenant-President of the Republic of Texas.

    Concerning the reaction of the Obsolete and other Press fountains? Not a mention. While anything is possible, my own best thinking is that Trump has lost a lot of glow, and was grasping at straws by "rolling out" Christi as some kind of "good-luck charm" against his ludicrous campaign. Christi is not an amulet or a magic charm by any stretch of even the most imaginative political strategist.   The dolts do not cheer quite as loudly, the message becomes more and more narcissistic and childish. Many are uncomfortable that, for some reason, an almost non-existent membership of the Ku Klux Klan white-trash has come forth to help and rally support for Donald Barnum to build The Wall and force Mexico to pay for it.

     (We insert parenthetically here that there are ways to "build a wall", and there is a way to involve Mexican officialdom to support and even assist in the establishment and maintenance of that "wall" in whatever form it might take.  The methods being proposed by Trump are summarily ridiculous, and would result in more damage than correction.   Deployments of personnel and walls of various types have served for naught during the past 10 or 12 years.  A larger and longer wall would only require wider patrolling in the Pacific  and the Gulf of Mexico by a minimum of 20 heavily armed, and offensive helicopter-gunship equipped Cutters.)

      In any regard, it is now a real possibility that a couple of very probable first-place finishes and two or three delegate-collecting second-place finishes by Ted Cruz will derail the New York Values Express quite effectively.

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THE HILLARY DILEMMA:

      It is certainly upon all of us who can think beyond self and plunder to consider the devastation a Clinton presidency would cause the American Union.   Such a self-inflicted wound by the electorate would possibly end the last remaining vestiges of republican democracy from this part of the North American Continent, and perhaps the world.

     The naming of one or two or even three national socialists or "progressives" to the Supreme Court of the United States would effectively finish any practice of English Common Law traditions or the notion that the American Constitution has any true modern relevance.

     Secular Humanism and "Economic Democracy",  once in place and funded by an increasingly bold and rapaciously discriminating Internal Revenue "Service" will make short work of any remaining grandeur that might be associated with the old, self-reliant citizenry.   Trump is part and parcel of this.   He is either a Trojan Horse in his own right, or he is a lackey chosen to oppose (Sir Edmund) Hillary so that he can be torn apart by the Obsolete Press and controlling forces that manage most of the common news and information, and who control most of the financial resources so coveted by the elites and progressives.   Once both Clinton and Trump are actually nominated, there will be an avalanche of stories both true and not-so-true that will destroy Donald Trump.   It might well be the last meaningful election for several generations.....we could well be in for an Argentine, or Venezuelan, or Mexico (1920 - 2000) run of one-party rule and/or incessant bouts of demagogic Peronism.

     The clouds darken and thicken.  Progressivism, Republican or Democrat, will quickly lead us to doom.   Pray for the liberation of the nation from the lesser instincts and the desires of many to obtain something for nothing.

   

We thank one and all for his/her attention.

El Gringo Viejo

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A fine time was had by all......The Quinta Tesoro de la Sierra Madre continues to return to its previous successes

We are awaiting the arrival of Spring, and after saying good-bye to our guests, we now await others who are arriving in a few days.   Our episode with the folks who left was very pleasant.

    They were extremely adaptive and capable of self-distraction and entertainment.   Their questions were  top-drawer, in terms of intellectual process, and they could only be considered as intellectually top-drawer.

     They intensely investigated the simplest characteristics of the community....walking considerable distance in the near-wilderness and the community, house-by-house gravelled  streets that connect the "secret approaches"  between the Hacienda de Santa Engracia, the Quinta Tesoro de la Sierra Madre, and the Hacienda de La Vega.

     Our guests walked all those spaces, for almost three hours, spotting birds and butterflies - some of whom were of considerable rarity, and generally having a pleasant contact with the folks and the dogs and the cats and the chickens and all such that make a rural community on the edge of civilisation in Mexico.

     After three nights and considerable contact and conversations....including a visit to one the most elegant homes of our little corner of neo-reality.....we had to say a regretful good-bye to our new friends.  Now, El Gringo Viejo is up to celebrate the new 29th birthday of my better three-quarters.  We shall also be preparing to receive and accompany our next clients to the Wonderland that is the Quinta Tesoro de la Sierra Madre and the cultural / geographical area of the Santa Engracia catchment zone of the State of Tamaulipas, Mexico.

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We are hoping the Spring "reawakening"

will look like this in a few days for our

guests coming from South Carolina.

     As we regard the ins and outs of the present pre-November General Election period, perhaps it is enough said that we have voted in the Republican Primary of the Republic of Texas, as it allows Republicans to vote in matters pertaining to the other Republic to which we pertain during these days.   Our vote was most assuredly for the Honourable Senator Cruz.

     Bluntly, we regard the horrid clown and demagogue Donald Trump as a pretender, a shallow-plower, and a faded copy of something that came off of the Xerox after printing pictures of the Billy and Hilly Clintons and of Hope and her sister Change.  Imagine, if one can, that there are people so stupid as to believe in a slogan of  "Make America Great Again" after having been sucked in by the "Hope and Change".   Frankly, it means that the electorate of the United States of America might not be qualified to even marginally participate anything like self-government.

    Zombies who are attracted to the notion of "free college" and "free medical" and to the idea that "the rich should pay their fair share" are truly not worthy of the title "citizen"....perhaps even of the designation of homo sapiens.   The Ship of State is taking on water quickly, and is carrying too many people on board who are not willing to bail water and make repairs.

More later.
El Gringo Viejo

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Well...I am gone. We have clients for the rest of the month and then some.

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     We have written vitriolic, lambasting paragraph after paragraph.  We wrote about the Irene Garza case, now that the supposed, and very probable murderer of Irene Garza has finally, after 56 years, been charged by the Grand Jury and the extradition of said perpetrator of that murder has been requested by the President of the Republic of Texas from the authorities in Arizona.

       Then your ever-humble Gringo Viejo let go on the sorry condition of the the intellectual quality of the electorate.   The notion that that the government should be allowed to deign that from this group much should be taken and to that group much should be given.....even if the receiving group sheds that unjustifiably derived wealth on spirits, beer, lottery tickets, payments to "rides", and various forms of Cheetos.

     Finally we ditched it all and wrote only what you are seeing before you at this time. 

     It was decided to say "So long for a while"....we have various and many clients coming to the fabled Quinta Tesoro de la Sierra Madre, for medium to long stays.   Thanks be to the Mexican Army and the Naval Infantry for having been the major force for re-establishing certain order and law in our area during the past four years.   Thanks especially to the administration of Felipe Calderon Hinojosa....the previous Presidente.  He, and his subordinates, bit the bullet. They began and extended the taking back of their nation from the anarchical and degenerate influences that are represented by the drug trade.   We have had three years of peace thanks to the Mexican military....and three years of paucity of business activity thanks to the hideous American press, including FOX Mews, AP, and various of the ignorant know-it-alls.

     To-morrow, El Gringo Viejo leaves and seeks to prepare a comfortable landing for the first visitor/guests.     Then in early March we have other folks who will be staying even longer....and on their first visit to anywhere in Mexico.   Such visitors are to be given 100% and more.   These two seem to have sparked a re-birth of interest in bookings and other activity.

     Therefore, I shall return in time to accomplish my absentee vote in the Republican Primary here in Texas.   Never fear.

El Gringo Viejo

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Typical meal selections served our clients

SUPPER MENU

for guests of the 

Quinta Tesoro de la Sierra Madre

FIRST EVENING

Filet of Bass a la VeraCruzana on spaghetti bed,  spinach balls, maritime tropical salad including citrus of the area...pastry, etc. for meal's end.   Includes a pleasant chilled white wine with the meal.

El Filete de Robalo a la VeraCruzana, sobre cama de espagueti, bolitas de espinaca, ensalada marina-tropical incluyendo productos cítricos de la zona...postre, un cafe' muy especial, etcetera al terminar.  La cena incluye un vino blanco, muy placerable...

    9.00 USD / person
175.00 MXP / persona

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SECOND EVENING

Ribeye Steak, accompanied by a stuffed, double-baked sweet potatoe, grilled asparagus, along with grilled white sweet onion...pastry, etc. for meal's end.  Includes a pleasant red wine with the meal.

El Bifstek Ribeye, acompañado por camote horneado y relleno, asparago a la plancha, y cebolla dulce, tambien a la plancha...un postre, etcetera al terminar.   La cena incluye un vino rojo, muy placerable...

    11.50 USD / person

220.00 MXP / persona

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THIRD EVENING

Poulet de Provencal, quarter select chicken, marinaded overnight with balsamic vinegar, red wine, and local fresh orange juice, slow cooked for several hours with carrot, celery, onion, and selected herbs from our own semi-domesticated stock...pastry, etc. at meal's end...a favourite over the seasons and years.  Includes a pleasant red wine with the meal.

Poulet de Provencal, un quarto pollo seleccionado, marinado sobrenoche con vinagre balsamico, vino rojo, y jugo de naranja fresco del local, horneado sobre varios horas con zahanoria, apio, cebolla, y hierbas seleccionadas desde nuestras jardines semi-domesticadas...postre, etcetera al terminar.  La cena incluye un vino rojo, muy placerable...

    10.50 USD / person
200.00 MXP / persona

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