Flash Mob: The U.S. Air Force Band at the Smithsonian

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     We thought that playing this kind of music in uniform was some form of treason.  Separation of Church and State, etc.  Is Nancy Pelosi going to do something about this?   Where is the Democrat Party that "Boo'd God" in their past two national conventions?   What is this world coming to?  Does anybody recycle any more?  Just where have all the flowers gone?

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Stop the Madness....

STOP THE MADNESS!

     Brits come here, Japanese come here, Mexicans come here, Jews comes here, Italians come here.   Even people from some country called Europe come here.   Judging by overnight radio, even people from other galaxies and solar systems come here.  They come here because our construct of culture and governance is more suited to the kind of lives productive and profit oriented people who also have souls wish to live.

     It used to be that the above named and many others came here with the the above-stated objectives in mind.  Now, however, we have changed.   We used to attract bees with the honey of God-given, illuminated paths to prosperity, righteousness, fraternity with the prisoners, the infirmed, and those who have had a bad spate of it.    Now we attract, along with the ever-lessening number of bees searching places to make honey, an ever increasing number of flies who come for the purpose of establishing garbage heaps similar to what they abandoned, so as to live at the expense of the host forever....because they have been wronged, they have been made tired, they have made "bad life decisions",  American capitalist imperialism forced them to work at places where they made 10 to 20 times more than what people normally made in their homelands.

     They come for AFDC instead of fighting in some way to better their truly beautiful homelands.  Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador....these are places that were, and could be again, beyond Hawai'i.  

     They are endowed with a massive resources / population ratio with which  few countries have blessed. Gold, bananas, ocean fish and mollusks, tourism, heavy agriculture, assembly industry.   Mexico has just recently entered into that environment where aesthetics, production, social order, middle - classism, respect for the true culture, and society with open doors to fall through and to rise past.  And yes I know of Mexico's problems intimately, but I choose to relate it to something larger than my brief moment upon this earth.   Mexico of 400 to 30 years ago ceased to exist.  Even with all her problems the Republic of Mexico is well on the road to reality.

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     We include this rant from one of my lesser moments in Facebookworld.  To wit:    

David Christian Newton wrote, somewhat in anger, somewhat in humour:

 

Sally Hemmings

    The slaves who worked on the building of the  White House were people of high degree and training and trustworthiness. Many were manumitted due to their industry and talent. It was a different time.

     George Washington was thought to be a liberal because he implemented and also argued actively for prohibition of the stupid practice of selling slaves apart from family. It was a ridiculous and counterproductive practice for all concerned, which, lamentably was practiced by nearly all Negro slaveholders, and perhaps a majority of stupid Caucasians.

    Nothing could be worse for the morale of the people. It was strictly a self-defeating stupidity. And yes, Virginia, many Negroes owned Negro slaves....and the fourth largest holder and the tenth largest holder of Negro slaves in the antebellum South were Negroes. There is so much so badly interpreted and so much measured by measuring sticks that did not exist during those times....Verily, How much easier it is to play last Sunday's football game on Monday morning.

    It is rather much like the Sally Hemings thing. Both sides who uselessly argue this matter; Be there A POX upon you and your houses!! Negro and Caucasian both!!

Thomas Jefferson
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     The truth of the story is that Thomas Jefferson lost his wife to the Hand of Death. He went into a steadily worsening depression. It was apparent that this genius and astounding political and scientific and agricultural thinker would depress himself into the path of his departed wife.

     Hemings was a Negress of the Mulatto grouping, that being a woman of at least two races of ancestry. She was what was referred to as High Yellow, or Quadroon.....and like some...many of such women, were noted for profound beauty and exceptionally high intelligence. She was definitively and famously one of those.

     She was inherited and owned by Thomas Jefferson, and grew to be the governess not only of the house but also became the maternal figure in the life of Jefferson's beloved daughter...the twin of this wife. Hemings and Jefferson's daughter bonded in the mystical sorority that women can have.     

     Hemings was also in love with Jefferson and wedged her way past social convention at the time....utilising her astounding brain and comeliness. When Jefferson's daughter travelled to England and Spain during a learning and finishing process, her chaperone and mistress was Sally Hemings.

     Sally Hemings committed no adultery, no more than Ruth of the Bible. Nor did Thomas Jefferson. Their bonding saved and made two truly fine and  worthwhile Lives of Greatness. Sally Hemings should be put on the same level, or even higher, as Martha Custis Washington and Betsy Ross, etc. She saved Jefferson's life and gained freeman's manumitted status for her babies....a biography of the Hemming descendants reveals solidly good citizens....and it is a worthy story worthy of all men/women to be received and studied. It is a clumsy yet noble and positive story of Americana and the Southern manner of obsolete, romantic, noblesse on both sides, almost always thrown under the train by Progressives and their ignorant followers.

So there.
El Gringo Viejo
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It swirls around us, like a poisoned gas, and cannot be escaped......

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We awaken around 04:00 hours most mornings;  sometimes a bit earlier, sometimes a bit later.  This morning it was slightly later.  The morning chores and maneuvers include making a complex type of coffee with honey, cinnamon, whole milk, and at times ginger.   Whether in Texas or Mexico one must always feed the cats who are waiting at the first sign of life within the hearth-stead.  In Mexico that means dogs as well, but for now, we are positioned in what is becoming the shambles of what had been the greatest nation on Planet Earth.

We tune in a bit early for the Trump News (Fox and Friends - Weekend), thankful that we have a remote control whose volume button can reduce the volume of news blather and the offensive advertisements to zed.  After catching up a bit on the comics that went to sleep on my chest shortly before the midnight hour, I tune up the blather.

Upon hearing the new Trumpisms, even I, ever so accustomed to the ever-subjective "Donald", almost spill the coffee and stain my comics page.   It turns out that after being castigated by some poor Muslim man who had suffered the loss of his son in Iraq, Donald decided to take the bait and make an ass of himself (apologies to the Donkey-American community).

A person with any class at all would, of course, respond only with sympathy for the parents of the boy, a captain in the Army's infantry, who obviously sacrificed himself so that others under his command could continue in this life.  The parents resented Trump's resistance to Muslim immigration or something, and they were still (and forever will be) grieving about the loss of their son.

But Trump went out of his way to say obfuscative and pointless things about the father who had been very pointed in his remarks.  Trump also observed that the mother, who was present at the lectern of the Democrat National Convention, said nothing, and suggested that she was probably prohibited by her husband or her religion from speaking.   At each turn in his painful, self-oriented soliloquy he revealed his trademark egotism:   he explained his position from the point-of-view of a narcissist...that the matter was important because it was about him.   He could not say, "We must first consider the reasonable grief that the couple has, as would any parents at the loss of a child.   I will comment no further, and certainly not deny them any feeling the have about me.  End of statement."  That would have been, as it is said, Presidential.

But, Trump was, is, and apparently will remain, the overstating egomaniac, full of bluster and threatening of posture...thinking about his persona instead of the big picture.  He is exceeded only by (Sir Edmund) Hillary's cackling and shrieking about how she is going to give this group that, and that group this.  I mean, after all, is it not time that working women have "free" child care??After all, Miss Sandra Fluke with a law degree from Georgetown University needed to have 3,000 Yankee dollars worth of condoms per years provided "free" by Nancy Pelosi and the Central Government.  It really did seem like a small price to pay, especially if the rich would finally pay their fair share of taxes.   After all the top 10% only pay 90% of the taxes:  does that seem fair? They can always pay more.  

The lunacy of the left knows no bounds.   And as a matter of fact, there should be no income tax of any kind, in that it simply give the Central Government the ability to monitor every move a citizens makes and every breathe he/she takes.

We return to the axiomatic truth.  If somebody requires that something be purchased, subsequent inducements by the seller to the buyer are no "free".   One can say , "At no extra charge".   Or it can be stated, "Included in the price of purchase is a wobdoddle of the colour of your choice."   When politicians wave their hands and declare, "The minimum wage will be 15.00 USD / hour, how do they arrive at that point?   Why not, if their science is so pure and calculations so accurate, such as Global warming, cooling, changing, etc.  Why not 15.32 USD / hour?

Why not 22.22 USD?  Actually, the 22.22 USD figure is what it costs an employer to pay a full time employee a nominal 15.00 per hour.   The dolts who think they should be paid 15.00 hour because the government says so, as well as a great bulk of the American population, are unaware of what the actual cost of labour is, once "employer's contributions" are figured in, along with, where possible, retirement and health care benefits.   Even when the employee is "splitting" the cost with the employer, the fact is that the employer is paying all of the cost of the employment and the employee is earning all of the share of the cost.   That one truth is almost never considered by the Dolt Community and the everyone-is-picking-on-me Community.

Courtesy of Charliecatnip
 master cat portraiture

If these comments hurt peoples' feelings, sorry, but reality is real. Another reality that is all too real is that every government fix is designed to correct a problem that most frequently was caused by that same  government.  And, as before, every fix of the previous problem, of, by, and for the central government will lead to ever increasing programming by "specialists" and "experts".The proposals rendered by the wise men and wise persons will always be another form of midnight basketball for the numerous double reverse, re-transgendered, left-handed, Eskimos and heterochromatic-eyed cats.

Trump, for so long as he considers that Donald Trump is the issue and not America, only reveals by his conceit that his ill-defined platforms are simply variations of "Hope and Change" meant to assuage the dolt-community and dullard-community.  He is only very slightly better than (Sir Edmund) Hillary and her Song of the Gulag aimed at those who want anybody else to pay for their comfort and supposed wants and needs.

So far we are caught between Juan Peron and some feminine form of Uncle Joe Stalin. Each of the two major party candidates is worse than the other.  Nothing good can come from her, and very little seems possible from him save soap opera-like reality show episodes for four years.  We do not trust him, frankly, to appoint Constitutionalist Constructionists to the bench of any federal court system, much less the Supreme Court.  Both candidates are laden with the possibility of an avalanche of felony criminal charges and / or civil suits that lurk in the near shadows even as we type here.

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Making matters worse:

The fancy saloons of Georgetown and Manhattan are abuzz with theories about the recent murders of two Democrat party operatives / employees who were murdered while out walking, and who had been thought to be co-operating with an FBI investigation involving (Sir Edmund) Hillary.   This is actually new, old stuff.   Massive efforts are being employed by the Obsolete Press, and even FOXNews, to keep the stories removed from public view.   Just enter something like "suspicious murders - Democrat National Committee and United Nations".   This follows, by a few days, the peculiar death of a UN slug who had been called to testify, who wound up with a barbell bar crushing his throat in the UN exercise room.   Purely happenstantial.....????

We shall look under the bed and through all the closets, then turn in until to-morrow's coffee and kitty routine.

El Gringo Viejo

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Newly discovered video of the "Gentle Giant" Mike Brown!

     This is the Gentle Giant of Ferguson.   The Left and the Obsolete Press had this since the beginning.  They preferred to allow Ferguson, Missouri to burn than to print the truth.  We know now why the six who bore witness, as Black Men, deserve medals for heroism.   We now know why the Grand Jury deserves medals  for common decency and heroism.

     This is the cultural construct when paternity is replaced by a distant Uncle Sam who always has free money and no judgment or guidance drawn from scripture to bring progeny up in the ways of the righteous.    Planned Parenthood's mission to eliminate the Black Race by "birth control" did  not work, so now they try to eliminate the Race by an incomprehensible killing-field rate of slaughter in the inner cities throughout the United States.

   And while this continues, guns are blamed for the cultural rot and violence found in almost every middle sized and large American city.  The fact is that liberals, progressives, marxists, and various other anti-American philosophies tear down the moral fibre and traditions of this Republic.  And with that degradation of standards and conduct, violence and disrespect of the law and the people of the land abounds.  

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Bob Kitsemetry

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     With each turn of the screw our American civilisation is further degraded.  When someone says, "The Government ought to do something about this!" remind that idiot that the mess appearing on your screen was brought to reality by the central government of the United States of America.

   
It was thought by some to be in the interest of "helping" people.  But the fact is, and always has been that the programmes aimed at "helping" people were actually meant to enslave them as proles dependent upon the Central government, and forever obliged to vote for more of someone else's money.   Remember that one of the better definitions of a leftist is that he is someone who is more than willing to put someone else's money where his mouth is.

El Gringo Viejo

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Choir sings 'Battle Hymn of the Republic' to honor fallen Houston soldier

As a Confederate, I reserve some objection to this Anthem.  However the Anthem does recognise the Almighty, Maker of Heaven and Earth, and all things visible and invisible.  It has become, by accident, a National Hymn of sorts.

Young people of a school choir rose from their airplane seats and dedicated this Song of Majestic Celebration to an American KIA whose remains were being repatriated to the United States from a cemetery in Europe.

They did not know, care, or ask if the remains were that of an American Indian, a Negro, a Caucasian, Jew, Christian or an agnostic.   They did not care.  He was a hero and a close relative to those who lost him as he fought one of the most hideous cultural contaminants in the known history of mankind.

Mix into that batter that the ones who were singing are young people who recognised in this event something greater than themselves.  They rose and did something that in many ways made them equal to the hero they were honouring.

It seems that every time my soul wilts and turns inward, some single entity comes along to say, "Please, just a few more steps.   We can make it."

EL GRINGO VIEJO

Bubble, Bubble, Toil, and Trouble....(with a small but very important amendment sent in by El Zorro)

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We have been having considerable problems with our little blog engine.  Coupled with having an Apple instead of a computer, we have the feeling that we are the knight who has lost both arms and both legs, but who continues to bravely fight on.

     Undaunted, El Gringo Viejo tries to wade through the mess that popular democracy, demagoguery, and an electorate incapable of critical thinking can make.  No small blame is passed to the "information industry", including FOXNews, for allowing this horrid construct.   Imagine two more flawed candidates than these two.   Can anyone remember Kennedy and Nixon?  Stevenson and Eisenhower? Reagan and Carter?  Neither of these two could hold an intelligent conversation with Adlai Stevenson, and Adlai was a Liberalus Maximus.

     We are left with two candidates suffering from terminal narcissism, illogic, mendacity-on- steroids, bluster, shallowness, patronising this and that group.  It truly is madness.  We are left with sad, older women and even some younger, stern-jawed professional women (and women whose profession it is to be 'women') who can say things like, "Hillary understands my needs and cares about them."

      We are surrounded at times by people who can say, "We need change." and really, really mean it.  We bump into people who droll forth with sparklers like, "He's going to give us free college."  Perhaps the biggest two flopping whoppers are "I'm going to build The Wall and make the Mexicans pay for it." and of course "I'm going to bring all those jobs back to America...right...back to America.   I'm going to do that.  Count on it.   America."  Holy brain synapse breakdown, Batman. 

     So we carry on...still not knowing what November 8, 2016 will bring to my hand in the voting booth.  Electoral vote from Texas will probably not be in jeopardy.  If (Sir Edmund) Hillary is still not in prison, Texians will turn out to vote for Clem Cadiddlehopper just to make certain that HRH is denied a second chance to defile the White House.  It was bad enough to have had Lincoln, Wilson, and the Roosevelts there.   Perhaps if HRH (Sir Edmund) Hillary could return she could channel that meddlesome old battle ax Eleanor Roosevelt simultaneously with Vince Foster and have a wonderful seance.   But I diverge.....

     Writing in Ted Cruz would be an option, knowing that the bulk of the Texas electorate will probably hold its nose and vote for "Make America Great Again" (hear the echo....hope and change....hope and change.....hope and change),  But, what if they don't? 

     Then again, perhaps the FBI will have a change of heart and go arrest Lois Lerner, Loretta Lynch, and (Sir Edmund) Hillary, Sidney Blumenthal, Huma Weiner, and Susan Rice and transfer them all to le Isle Saint Helene where they can commune with the spirit of Napoleon Bonaparte, who died there in 1821 of stomach cancer. (El Zorro causes me to add Debbie Isaman Shultz, should they decide to do the right thing).  They can contemplate on three of Napoleon's most profound guiding observations:

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

    Please pardon the gentle banality of this submission.  My indisciplined computer and blogging system, plus the problems that the political theatre have presented to my otherwise well-cluttered and enjoyable mind leave me in a bit of a quandary.  This quandary is something akin to the ancient Brea Tar Pits.   Top that off with the fact that to-morrow at 08:15 I am required to report to the dentist.  And it's not even my birthday.

More Later.

El Gringo Viejo

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