(001) 1960 Floyd Cramer / Last Date

    This is one of the very most important, unsung influences that guided El Gringo Viejo during his days as a pre-delinquent, preppie, and self-consumed pseudo-pianist.

     We have placed this here because the mother of our daughter-in-law has a son who is succeeding in becoming an accomplished gentleman.  He is accomplished and very civilised on many fronts, and will be the cause of scores of heartaches among the gentler sex. He is...like my son-in-law and son in many ways....very handsome.

Thanks for your time and interest.
El Gringo Viejo

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A Fellow Anglican of the Orthodox persuasion forwarded this to the attention of the Girngo Viejo. It's publication positively implies positive endorsement

Thought you might like to read this letter to the editor of a British national newspaper. Ever notice how some people just seem to know how to write a letter? 

Here is a woman who should run for Prime Minister! 

   The above introduction comes from a woman who has always backed the dull  and boring notions expressed in the ancient Anglican Rites and the ancient expressions of Human Values as noted in the 1556 English Book of Common Prayer and the preamble of the Constitution  of the United States of America, and the Declaration of Independence of the American Colonists en contra of the whims and notions of a popular and brilliant and really bad King of the British Empire, King George III.   Had he left us alone, I and all of mine, save for my Spanish Queen and mother and grandmother of our pod, we would have been all speaking with a very British accent.  

Written by a British housewife to her daily newspaper: 

    Are we fighting a war on terror or aren't we? Was it or was it not started by Islamic people who brought it to our shores in July 2002, and in  New York Sept 11, 2001 and have continually threatened to do so since?

  

    Were people from all over the world, not brutally murdered that day in  Washington , and in downtown  Manhattan , and in a field in Pennsylvania ?

I DO NOT CARE!!!!!!

           

Did nearly three thousand men, women and children die a horrible, burning or crushing death that day, or didn't they? 

I DO NOT CARE!!!

    And I'm supposed to care that a few Taliban were claiming to be tortured by a justice system of the nation they come from and are fighting against in a brutal insurgency.

 GUESS WHAT?   I DO NOT CARE!!!! 

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    I'll care about the Koran when the fanatics in the Middle East start caring about the Holy Bible, the mere belief of which is a crime punishable by beheading in  Afghanistan !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  

  

     I'll care when these thugs tell the world they are sorry for hacking off Nick Berg's head while Berg screamed through his gurgling slashed throat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

    I'll care when the cowardly so-called 'insurgents' in  Afghanistan come out and fight like men instead of disrespecting their own religion by hiding in mosques and behind women and children.!!!!!!

 

  

    I'll care when the mindless zealots who blow themselves up in search of Nirvana care about the innocent children within range of their suicide bombs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

  

    I'll care when the British media stops pretending that their freedom of speech on stories is more important than the lives of the soldiers on the ground or their families waiting at home to hear about them when something happens. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

    In the mean-time, when I hear a story about a British soldier roughing up an Insurgent terrorist to obtain information, know this: 

  

I don't care. 

  

When I see a wounded terrorist get shot in the head when he is told not to move because he might be booby-trapped, you can take this to the bank: 

  

I don't care. 

  

When I hear that a prisoner - who was issued a Koran and a prayer mat, and 'fed special food' that is paid for by my taxes - is complaining that his holy book is being 'mishandled,' you can absolutely believe in your heart of hearts: 

  

I don't care. 

  

And oh, by the way, I've noticed that sometimes it's spelled 'Koran' and other times 'Quran..' Well, believe me!! you guessed it ............. 

  

I don't care!! 

  

If you agree with this viewpoint, pass this on to all your E-mail friends. Sooner or later, it'll get to the people responsible for this ridiculous behaviour! 

  

If you don't agree, then by all means hit the delete button. Should you choose the latter, then please don't complain when more atrocities committed by radical Muslims happen here in our great country! And may I add: 

  

'Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. Our soldiers don't have that problem.' 

  

I have another quote that I would like to add, AND........ I hope you forward all this. 

  

Only six defining forces have ever offered to die for you: 

  

1. Jesus Christ 

  

2. The British Soldier. 

  

3. The Canadian Soldier. 

  

4. The  US Soldier 

  

5. The  New Zealand Soldier, and 

  

6. The Australian Soldier 

  

One died for your soul, the other 5 for your freedom!!!

 

  

YOU MIGHT WANT TO PASS THIS ON, AS MANY SEEM TO FORGET ABOUT ALL OF THEM.  

AMEN!’

GIVE THIS LADY A STANDING OVATION. 

Isn't it interesting that so many people in the Western World feel this way, but not one of our politicians, who are supposed to represent us, ever have the guts to state the situation like it is?

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     The British Lady forgets, and perhaps misunderstands the need, even in our ire, to recruit and welcome,  those of the third group of the three Abrahamic Religions...such as the doctor who advised the Americans that Usama bin Laden was at such and such a place in Pakistan.   He died because of this....as have many Moslems for similar "offences".   Obama released the information that allowed him to be imprisoned and murdered. 

       This takes nothing away from what the British lady, and our friend at the ANGLICAN CURMUDGEON's  site, because it is a 97 - 103 per cent  reflection of my own sincerest beliefs and knowledge.  The woman who forwarded this above-included transmission is a great-niece of William  Barret Travis and no admirer of her uncle.  She is a very serious Christian woman and thinker of clear and profound mind. 

      As a student and warrior....please understand...the time for "choice" has long passed.    The radical Islamic terrorists will kill any Jew, Christian, and perhaps even more especially, the Moslem who cleaves upon the word of the ancient Faith.  Remember that the "Moslem Apostle and Prophet" most mentioned in the Koran is a Jew carpenter from  Nazareth who was also a physician and rabbi.   The highest Saint in the Islamic orders among females  is a woman named Mary who birthed out that most mentioned Saint, Jesus of Nazareth.

     To my Moslem friends....you have a home...not here....but in your homeland.....and you have my respect.   All who accept the Word, rendered and fulfilled by the prophets, should be accepted by the union of believers.  Let us argue, laugh, cry, move to the next time when we can again argue, laugh, cry without having had our daughters mutilated, women massacred, and Jews / Christians treated as garbage.

AS DO THE CONSERVATIVE, TRADITIONAL ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS OF THE NOT DISTANT TIME WOULD SAY, UPON A SNEEZE, "GOD BLESS YOU"!!  AND THE ANCIENT ROMAN CATHOLIC AND OTHER ORTHODOX WOULD SAY, "INTERVENGA JESUS!!!!"  (intervene you, Jesus), YOUR humble servant retires to write a bit more about things ephemeral and physical.  Thanks to Maxine, a sainted person, and to the rest of the now-considerable OROG community.

El Gringo Viejo

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Back Home Again

We are recovering from a fairly boring and uneventful stay at our "little mud hut" in Nowhere, Mexico, adjacent to the the Sierra Madre Oriental.   The recent stay began with our drive down, I believe on the 9th of September, 2017. Everything went in good order until my having a blowout of the right-rear tire of my little run-about KIA after completing 91.5% of the journey to our home in Nowhere.   This was a bit of an inconvenience, but luckily, we were less than one kilometre (about 5/8ths of a mile) from an OXXO (private) convenience store and PEMEX gasoline and diesel  dispenser (still government owned).   So your humble servant decided to continue to the beacon in the distance, instead of stopping on the side of the major Frontier - Capital City highway connection.

     As we motored in....with the right-rear area of the motor-car making all nature of protests and  loud "clappity, clappity, clappity" sounds, a couple of young fellows took note of the matter and began to approach.  One....the very rotund one....declared, "Ay! Señor, tiene Usted tiene un problema con la llanta tracera!!!:   (Hey! Sir! You have a really bad rear flat tire!)"

     I confirmed my knowledge of the blowout, and also suggested that it would be good to find a "vulcanizadora" (a Mexicanality, found throughout Mexico, who fix tires at very low cost, for travellers, truckers, and extraterrestrials), although the boys immediately declared....."Well, until Ciudad  Victoria....but here, there are none."   That immediately left the issue to "THE DOUGHNUT".  Most OROGs know that the "doughnut" is a useless spare of very inadequate strength which is used when the iceberg has floated away and the Titanic is already hopelessly sinking.    And before the OROG begins to think  that the boys were trying to "gain" me, there really is no good, reliable "vulcanizador" in the Old Guemez (first capital of Tamaulipas) area.

     But your humble servant is a Texian, and the Mexican boys confronting me, as usual, seemed concerned.  With my familiarity with the people of the area and with my own inadequacies, it was deemed necessary to advance with a tire change.   To-morrow would be the time to send for a "real tire" in Ciudad Victoria and have it brought to the Quinta Tesoro de la Sierra Madre.   Of course, the Hacendado (owner) of the Hacienda de la Vega happened to be available, took my "ultra-preferred" card and bought the necessary replacement, had it rimmed, balanced, and blessed and then brought it to the Quinta Tesoro de la Sierra Madre.

     We had a bit of any issue when I suggested that I had given the fat-boy (5'-11" - 300 pounds) who did all the work of extracting the "dough-nut" etc. and putting me back in motion, 100 pesos. The Hacendado was distressed because the work could be valued at 50 or 60 pesos, at the most.   Such is the nature of the traditional, and white, extreme upper-middle class and aristocracy of Mexico....whose blood is found in abundance in the veins of my neighbour.  And, of this, I would not change a thing.

     As a Southerner and Confederate, I would hope that the boy who did the work on my right-rear wheel area could make 2,000 pesos a day....because his work was clean, correct, and he replaced all of the implements in the correct place, after wiping them down with a cleaning agent.   He also refused payment because "no tenemos letrero...fue mi obligacion"- (we have no sign, it was our obligation as a friend).  All of which was true, but he saved me....and his friend saved me...from having to spend 2,000 pesos to find a taxi to take me to and from Cd. Victoria to find, buy, and return to mount a new tire.

     There will be more about this story in the coming week's "Relaciones de Aventuras in Mexico Rural"  (Tales about Adventures in Rural Mexico).    By the way...the "doughnut failed 3 miles from the Quinta, but another "boy" came to the rescue and a family put me up for an hour or so, and, once on my way, I arrived at the Quinta just an hour and fourty-five minutes later than normal.   Such is Mexico.

More in a little while....we are making a special supper because I cannot remember the date of our anniversary, but it is coming up shortly.  Also, all OROGs, please communicate with us via e-mail, so that we can notify you first....and last.  Our circulation has been peculiarly brisk, lamentably with Red Chinese figures composing about 16% of our contacts,  but we have a serious cyber razor-wire and 14, 000 - volt barbed wire fence around your data and communications. 

El Gringo Viejo

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A Further Statement Concerning Heroes and Veterans......"Benavides Crosses the Rio Grande...." ....heading south?

Benavides crosses Rio Grande in pursuit of Mexican "Unionists"

(one of many of Benavides's military successes)

September 1st, 1863

On this day in 1863, Maj. Santos Benavides, the highest-ranking Mexican American to serve in the Confederacy, led seventy-nine men of the predominantly Tejano Thirty-third Texas Cavalry across the Rio Grande in pursuit of the bandit Octaviano Zapata. Union agents had recruited Zapata, a former associate of Juan N. Cortina, to lead raids into Texas and thus force Confederate troops to remain in the Rio Grande valley rather than participate in military campaigns in the east. Zapata was also associated with Edmund J. Davis, who was conducting Northern-sponsored military activities in the vicinity of Brownsville and Matamoros. For these reasons, and because his men often flew the American flag during their raids, Zapata's band was often referred to as the "First Regiment of Union Troops." Benavides caught up with Zapata on September 2 near Mier, Tamaulipas. After a brief exchange of gunfire, the Zapatistas dispersed, leaving ten men dead, including Zapata. Benavides later defended Laredo against Davis's First Texas Cavalry, and arranged for the safe passage of Texas cotton to Matamoros during the Union occupation of Brownsville. He died at his Laredo home in 1891.

    El Gringo Viejo has always been a big fan of General Benavides and his family.  The town that he founded in the middle of deep South Texas remains to this day a prosperous little place.  It is the scene of considerable oil and gas activity, during boom time and bust.   We shall be doing more tidbits about this famous Texian and Southern hero.

Thanks, as usual, for your time, patience, and interest.

El Gringo Viejo

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Yes, Virginia....there are different types of patriots.....

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     Yes, Virginia, of course I remember you.   You still believe there is an entity that lives and is known as Santa Clause among the American children, and others.   Thank you for allowing me to post a bit of the letter you wrote to me.

     "Dear Gringo Viejo,

                There is much written about patriots, especially when we are studying about the Revolutionary War with England.   Then my grandparents told me stories about the Civil War, and one pair said that the Northerners were patriots because they were defending the unity of all the States of America.  I know I am only 12 years old, but like my mother says, 'I can get my brain around all of that'.

    My great-grandfather says, (and my Grampa Lou and Granma Lannie agree) that the Northerners who fought were patriots, but the Southerners who fought for the Confederate cause were also patriots.  In a way, I understand, but in another way....it becomes complicated.   You can tell that both sets of grandparents believe their side was right still, but they are not angry, one to the other.
        Also, I looked up the population of the United States at the time of the Civil War and found out that with the African American and the Native American population included, there were only 35,000,000 people.   The Northern part had 23,000,000 and the Southern part 12,000,000.
     The North, as best I can tell, had a lot more industry.  The South had more "tradition".  I think I know what "tradition" is, I have seen Fiddler on the Roof twice, but "Tradition" cannot win something stupid like a big War.  So why did the South fight a war they could only lose, and for a cause that was not defendable, like slavery?   Pardon the little girl in me, but a lot of good people in the South died for nothing....nothing at all.

     Still, Gringo Viejo, it seems strange, maybe spooky, when monuments can be torn down when they honour local and regional heroes and notables....(these are my Social Studies teacher's words and they seem to make sense to me).   She said, and her teacher's aide, a really cute boy just out of college said the same thing.   And yet they say the Northerners did what they had to do.

       Are these wars, wars like this, not avoidable?  It looks like, to me, that both sides were right and both sides were wrong.   Why aren't the Southern people going to the North and demanding that the Northern Civil War monuments be torn down?

        Is Robert E. Lee a bad man?  Is Stonewall Jackson a bad man, he was a Presbyterian pastor, after all?  Is Jefferson Davis a bad man?   Is James Ewell Brown Stuart a bad man?

Thank you for helping me with these matters, Gringo Viejo.  How are things down at your little adobe place in Mexico.  Be careful and please respond a soon as you can, because this will be my theme project for this new semester.
Virginia

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     El Gringo Viejo studied these words carefully.  Virginia is a special person, and when she was much younger had the audacity to write to the New York Sun newspaper and ask if there were a Santa Clause.  Her father had whimped out and told her, after she asked him, to instead, ask the Sun if there is a Santa.  He told his daughter Virginia, "If you read it in the Sun, then it is true."

     So, since I assured Virginia myself that there certainly is a Santa Clause, she came back to me to solve this other problem.   We must address this matter to Virginia and not to the OROGs (Order of Readers of the Old Gringo).  Her questions are all salient.   My answers begin:

Dear Virginia,

     It is complicated and yet there are answers that might make sense.   Let me tell you, to further complicate the issue, that my mother was from the South....Tennessee...and she had 5 men in the generations one and two back from her birth who died in defence of the South and Tennessee.  None of these men owned slaves of any origin (Those men had surnames of Neal, Limbaugh, and Grant).   Three were officers of middling rank, and two were non-commissioned officers.
     After the War, two of El Gringo Viejo's great uncles who had survived the War, approached an old Tennessee man who had prime property.  My uncles had no money to speak of, since the War had just ended, but they had their youth and their innate willingness to work 18 hours a day.
      The brothers entered into a contract of "slavery" of a sort, known as "bonded indenture", working for seven years on the condition that after those seven years, they would each be delivered of  300 acres each of prime "bottom land" for farming.   This was (and still is) the most beautiful soil and setting one could imagine, with the Smokey Mountains in the very near distance. 
       They did other work to larder the cupboard, while keeping their eye on that trophy, land that would produce, with luck, bounteous crops of tobacco, corn, oats, and even cotton and tomatoes.  Then, shortly after the end if the War and early into the process of reclaiming that beautiful property, two Old Negro Men came to the cabin to talk to my great-uncles.   They identified themselves and platicated for a bit before finally declaring that they had been Slaves of the wife of one of the deceased Confederate Veterans.   They had come to claim the rights they had as slaves of that woman to be buried in a Christian manner.  They demanded this even though they had been manumitted (freed) before the War.

     The boys checked out the story of the Old Negro Men and assured themselves that they were true and truthful persons.  Several of the older Negro and Caucasian citizens who had lived in and  about Winchester said that they were known persons of good repute.   Our understanding is that they still sleep in the Neal Cemetery out north of Winchester, twixt that city and Estill Springs.  Although they were old upon arrival, neither died in the 19th Century....each died in what is called in the old Southern language, "...the nineteen aughts", or the first decade of the 1900s.   Both arrived at, or crossed 100 years of journey on this Planet.   According to my Aunt Maggie and her friends, they conducted themselves as the gentlemen they were. 

    And now, Virginia, concerning attitudes at the time:   My mother felt than the assassination of Lincoln brought something worse than what Lincoln intended in order to put an end to hatred and belligerence of the War Between the States.   I well remember the oft-spoken old saying in the South, that being, "At the end of World War II, Germany received the Marshall Plan - At the end of the War Between the States the South received Reconstruction."    Reconstruction was a bottomless pit of Hell and badgering and capricious enforcement of floating military judicial rules.  In Texas, the Reconstruction lasted for a decade.

     My father said that his father said that Lincoln was an egomaniac who wanted to bring on a war so as to assure his position.   My father lost two uncles in the War Between the States fighting on the Union side, Regiment 96 of the Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry.  One was in northern Virginia (New Salem Church), a month before the engagement at Gettysburg and the other a month after Gettysburg at a place in southern Virginia.   It indirectly killed my great-grandfather Hubbard (Banty) Newton at the age of 57 over the (what he considered) useless loss of his two sons.

     So, there we have it.   A father who had real live Yankee blood (Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont, New York, Pennsylvania), and blood spilt by blue-clad boys fighting the Confederacy, and he said that his Father's father faulted Lincoln.   And then we have a mother who declared that the South would have been better off had Lincoln remained in office after the War.

     And then, considering the issue of the imbalance of power, we need to recognise certain realities.   There were many causes to the War Between the States.  One was that the South wanted absolute Free Trade and hard currency.  This was because the South exported everything from high quality dried and salted fish, and tobacco, cotton, and a myriad of other things.
       The Northern financial interests wanted high tariffs, low and punitive quotas of imported goods, and a flexible monetary system.  The industrialists also a resolution of the problem created by the Southern railways.   That problem was brought on because the South used the English 5 foot gauge, and the North used "standard" gauge (4feet 8inches).  To wit: 

     Using historical freight traffic records, recent research has shown that the conversion to standard gauge instigated a large shift of North–South freight traffic away from coastal steamships to all-rail carriage.^[12] These effects were especially strong on short routes, where breaks in gauge were more expensive relative to the total cost and duration of carriage. However, the data indicate that the gauge change had no effect on total shipments, likely as a result of anticompetitive conduct by Southern freight carriers which prevented the railroads' cost-savings from being passed through to their prices. This research suggests that had Southern carriers not been colluding, the gauge change would have generated a sharp reduction in freight rates and immediate growth in trade between the North and South.

     This is an unknown fact, but it is published in the generally leftist Wikipedia, of all sources.  But, we shall be contradicted, undoubtedly.  It must be pointed out, in any regard, that many, many Ph.d dissertations have been written concerning this topic.  Almost all agree that the Southerners wanted to obstaculate, as much as possible, the movement of people and freight via rail.  In other words, more of a local service, and little concern for trans-continental transportation matters.

     The Northern industrialists knew that unification by rail transportation of the powerhouse of a very strong Southern agricultural engine and the almost equal industrial ability in the North would mean that the World would quickly have to yield to the American Prosperity Engine.

Hattie McDaniel and Vivien Leigh when
"Mammy" breaks the news, "...you just had a baby;
you're not going to have no 18 inch waist no more!"

     The Southerners had a feudal concept of the organisation as life.    They believed in Traditionalism over profit, and the The Episcopal Book of Common Prayer as the standard of life, and toleration of the Protestants and the Romans.  Negroes were seen as almost all being inferior intellectually  (watch it, because Lincoln and almost all Northerners believed this as well) and we (the Southern white person) must guide and protect them.   Of course, laterally, we have to submit that about one-third of all Negroes in the South  had been manumitted by the time the War Between the States broke out.
     Margaret Mitchell, in her book Gone With the Wind, pointed out that frequently the number one Man and the number one Woman among the Slave and or Freeman group actually had considerable sway and latitude in terms of "running the show" of a household and / or a plantation.  This was represented in the movie when "Mammy" was lacing Scarlett into her corset, all the while scolding her, even as Scarlett howled in pain, demanding that it be laced tighter.

     After riding around the plantation of information, opinions, and beliefs several times myself, I have arrived at my point.  Many people in the South thought that their first responsibility and loyalty was to their hearth and home and State.   Robert Edward Lee was offered the command of the Union Armies at the period just before the War Between the States broke out.  He advised his commander, General Winfield Scott and the Commander in Chief, Abraham Lincoln during a personal meeting between the three that he would have to wait for the wishes of Virginia, because should Virginia secede from the Union, he would be obliged to serve his State.
     Even the construct of how people thought of Statehood could be discerned by the way they referred to the name of the Nation.  Until fairly deep into the 20th Century, the United States Department of State would write or say, ".....and the United States of America are in agreement with the position of the United Kingdom concerning the issue at hand."   The concept of a free-standing State and its sovereignty was commonly accepted.  Southerners especially always assumed that each State in the Union had as much power as the central government in Washington, District of Columbia, and as much importance as any other State, large or small.

     It is for these things and those reasons, Virginia, that the people who supported secession and the War of Between the States thought that they were patriots and not guilty of sedition and treason in any wise.   It has been my personal belief that had the South been allowed to drift on away from the Union of States to the north, that the two nations would have still remained close and perhaps even friendly, due to their sharing considerable common heritage.  In other words, being apart might have guaranteed their being closer together, especially on international matters.
      To be sure, Robert E. Lee was referred to by Gen. Winfield Scott as 'America's greatest soldier" after the War with Mexico (1846 - 1848), and Jefferson Davis had a very successful political career, including cabinet positions as Secretary of War and other high missions.  James Ewell Brown Stuart and Stonewall Jackson were, like Lee and Davis, good men defending their hearth and home.   It was a bad war. 

These are just a few of my observations, Virginia.  Perhaps we can cover some more again soon.
El Gringo Viejo

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Various Posts....some deferences rendered....some sociological and cultural observations about Texas

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     There are so many topics.  They are like the rain lilies that sprout with the rains that follow a drought.    I shall try to be brief with my impressions, although it is my opinion that they are salient observations for these times.

(1)   The "Texas Navy":   This body, augmented by the Cajun Navy from some country out east of the Republic of Texas, and even some from distant jurisdictions that have monuments to war heroes from a war long ago such as Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, and other blessed places.

     These people went out when the water was still rising.   They did not ask, "How much is that house worth?"or "Are you legal, black, Indian, extraterrestrial?"

      They paid their own fuel and upkeep on John-boats, air-boats, kayaks, some pretty fancy middle-sized rigs, pontoon / party boats....and frequently worked 12 - 18 hours and/or through the night with cottonmouths - rattlesnakes - water moccasins looking for boats or logs or something upon which to cling.   Charge?  $00.00 USD.

(2)    Fellows from Rockport....which essentially no longer exists, down just north of Corpus Christi....went up to volunteer in Houston because......?   "Well, there wasn't anything down there we could do.  Everything is gone.  So we decided to come up here where there were still some people we could help."

(3)     Everybody knows that Texians are a bunch of racist Jethros and Bubbas and that they are a couple of hundred thousand years behind on the evolutionary charts.    Please remember, O! Ye who can well discern the mote in thy neighbour's eye and seeth not the beam in thine own.

     Scene after scene of Black African ancestried people helping Latinate and Brittanic looking people.  Real Jethros and Bubbas helping people of Black African Ancestry without a second thought....cradling their babies, helping their old ladies "aboard" whatever floating device was readily available.   Take all the groups and combinations of groups,  a bunch of Latinate people pushing an Anglo's fancy pickup up to high ground.....400 yards through chest-deep water. 

     A Black women, a little older than she might admit, on crutches being delivered to high ground and crutching her way up, still thigh deep in the water, and saying,"You all go on about your business, there's a lot of people back there (she swings her chin to a clear over-the-right-shoulder gesture) who need a lot more help than I need."   (Do unto others as you would have them do unto you........)   The White Boys did as they were directed, by the Southern / Texian Code, by their social superior....the Southern / Texian Social Law:  She was older and she was a lady.   Do what she says.

(4)     I shan't belabour the inter-ethnic, inter-racial unthinking Samaritanism that might surprise the East Coast - West Coast people who read this screed third hand.  (yes, we can track up to the sixth cyber-generation of our followers)   Here it is normal.  A profound statement was received by this listener one time several years ago, during a civil insurrection in Austin.  An old white cop, with whom I was riding as part of a sociology course in criminology, confided in me that, "I guess I am enough of a racist that I would shoot a white looter before a black one."   (Texian logic)

(5)   We were aghast to see Melania wearing shoes!!!!   Wearing Shoes!!!!!  Expensive, designer shoes!!!!!  And to a hurricane!!!!  Doesn't she know that you can't wear white after Labour Day? In other words we were fascinated that the Obsolete Press made over a previous First Lady as if she were the Queen of Sheba.....in spite of certain...uh....er....uh....physiological realities.  But, when it comes to accepting or rejecting the quality of of this or that First Lady of the American Republic, it seems that the Obsolete Press is much more concerned with whether or not the First Lady is a dedicated socialist and abortionist and "alternative lifestyle"advocate, than the positive things that a First Lady can convey to the American and World's population.
     She acquitted herself quite well in her tennis shoes and black baseball-style cap while she was on the ground....still looking better than certain other first ladies, some of whom had to run across the tarmac dodging sniper fire.  Don't you just hate it when the infantry helmets ruin your hairdo?
      
      Who knows?  When she goes bowling with some wounded warriors or something, and she is wearing bowling shoes....perhaps they will say....''Melanie goes grandma!!!"



(6)     There are various female-type OROGs, who have been drawn as a moth to the flame, and are burdened with the yoke of progressivism.   Most of the OROGettes are rightwing crazies.  But the former group will be glad when I throw the necessary bone to members of the left.
     Nancy Pelosi and the Mayor of San Francisco Jesus Arranguia, and certain other liberal University presidents and CEOs of important places have declared that Trump is correct.   In this case Trump agrees with me, not visa-versa.  The Progressives, however, have "come out" and said that the "Antifa" is a terrorist-type group driven by violence and by the suspension of discourse.They have suggested that many events including Charlottesville were provoke by "Antifas"
      It has become apparent to all that this group is not composed of "principled political activists" who are searching for the "common good".  They are criminal...many with records and warrants outstanding....and they have no political or social mission beyond nihilism, anarchy, and oddly racism.   Almost all are Caucasoid.   Almost all have had some relationship with the old Soros group know as the Association for Community Organisations for Reform Now! (ACORN).  These are the people who signed up Mickey Mouse and Marilyn Monroe and similar for the voters' registry.   These are the people who dropped out of Occupy Wall Street because it was not anarchistic enough.

     WHAT IS MOST DISTRESSING....is that we had to listen to long and tortured blobs of rancid bologna and fungus-bearing, road-kill, goat-guts from King George I (George Herbert Walker Bush) and King George II (George Walker Bush) along with another person I once admired as a truly reasonable "moderate", Bishop Mitt Romney....etc.    This collapse of admiration began with Barbara Bush, whom I served as an "assistant" at a couple of fund-raising occasions.

      When she said that she felt as if Billy Jeff Blythe was like a son to her, my withdrawal began.     She has said it at various times and places since the first time.   When her husband and eldest son said that they favoured Soros Zombies over the obviously less-than-perfect Trump, it was 'The End'.

     And then, finally in the case of the Prescott family, and the super-clean Mormon Romney family.....they declared that Trump was a piece of garbage because he equivilated the nice, clean protestors against oppression and slavery with a group of rightwing KKK, Nazis, and Bad People.

     In the case of Charlottesville, both sides were delivered by the Soros group.  That entire matter was constructed and designed by the Soros Anarchy and World Socialist Movement  (SAWSM).    In other words, both sides were on the same side.

     They were hoping some white-trash young male or lost soul who had been given drugs during their lifetime that  psychogically might finally cause conditions that would cause "hyperactive young boys and  men" to come up and shoot, run over, or blow-up with a home-made bomb, any-or-all nature of "demonstrators".    There is never a shortage, it seems, of male juvenile/adolescent Caucasians who, after years of "hyperactivity medicine", decide that the most fun might be to go out and kill people or beat up little kids who are somehow "different".  This is how we lost nine of the most honourable people of the Old or New South in South Carolina the other day.....and the students at Columbine....and the children at Newtown.
       
      The Soros vermin, who have been well instructed in their tactics and strategies, come from this ilk.  In Europe it abounds.  Millions of Muslims, and non-Muslims on the dole....young men parasiting off of various girlfriends and their dole resulting from numerous birthings,   taking support payments from "the government"....like our AFDC.   In America it is found in what is called "...the immigrant community" as well as anywhere else in society that where parasitism is thought to be a "square deal" .
    In fact,  frequently they are not "immigrants".  They are invaders, entering illegally with illegal intentions.   The invasion by the Muslims in the UK, France, Germany, and the rest of Europe.   And the worst ones are British Angloids and Muslims who have had granddad, daddy, and self on the Queen's dole....50, 60, 70, or more pounds-sterling per week or fortnight.  For doing nothing.   Then consider that  all of Europe taken with this hemlock juice.   All of Europe.

      While bringing on Muslims who hate European peoples and culture...whatever is left of the little culture they had....we have the perfect soup.  The Bushes, the Budweiser - McCains, the pseudo-Republican moderates who "understand reality" and yet endure in the psychotic unreality of unbalanced budgets and government control and social deconstruction, we begin to see the shadow of America.    Shadow because it is no longer a solid thing, but an ephemeral thing that has no substance and dwells in the past.... a past  which will soon be erased...along with the tumbling down of statues of greater men than many we have now.  Testosterone and morality were once made of sterner stuff. 

     Bolshevik Socialism, Collectivism, National Socialism, Progressivism, and Liberation Theology all lead to moral and social death.   Nancy Pelosi and Jesse Arranguia apparently saw this a the very moment they were entering the tunnel to eternal death.   The Bushes, the Romneys, the McCain-types.....not so much.
     They used the opportunity to take a foggy, intentional misreporting of the Charlottesville "confrontation" to uselessly try to wound Trump...who is an impetuous jackass....but he a loveable jackass I guess, and a better man than those blue-bloods who deny the South, deny the Paladins, deny the competent blue collar class, deny the independent and true dirt farmer and rancher and small business person.
   McCain, the Bushes, Paul Ryan, the Romneys and other "enlightened Republicans" all sided with the Soros zombies.

A real shame.  Time to get rid of the Secretary of State and the Secretary of War.  Time to get rid of all of the Country Club, Progressive, pro-abortion "Republicans" in the Trump administration.  These Secretaries are all nephews of Brutus.   

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More Later,

El Gringo Viejo

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