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KURV PEOPLE POLL

Do you think President Trump's actions aimed at Ukraine warrant his impeachment?

• NO (98%, 57 Votes)
• YES (2%, 1 Votes)

Total Voters: 58

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     This radio poll was taken this morning and the results will continue to accumulate during the remainder of the day…until 18:00 hours or so.  The results can be researched by clicking in to KURV Radio 710 in McAllen - Rio Grande Valley and much of South Texas.   This radio poll is a commonly, daily entry into the general, public operation of a non-radical, mainstream news, sports, weather, and overnight radio community.
     Well over 60% of the listening audience is of Latin Origen…and we are being conservative in that estimate.   The remainder are those who are normally lumped into the "Anglo" group…although "Anglos" such as your humble servant could have 3 / 32nds Teutonic and American Indian in the "pure" mix of  "Anglo" blood. 

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     This brief note is rendered to the attention of passing readers and members of the OROG Community equally.

El Gringo Viejo

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We are stunned by all the improvement….Now if only I could communicate in spite of the improvements

    WE REGRET THE FAILURE OF OUR SYSTEM TO CORRECTLY LEAVE THE SIZE AND COMPOSITION OF THE LETTERS AND TEXT.  THE DEVICES AND MEASURES FOR CORRECTION  DO NOT RESPOND TO THE COMMANDS THAT WE PROGRAMME FOR OUR EVER INCREASING READERSHIP.   WE LAMENT THAT WE HAVE FOUND EVIDENCE THAT GOOGLE ITSELF IS TOYING WITH CONSERVATIVE AND OTHER MODERATE AND RIGHT-WING COMMENTATORS SO AS TO CAUSE THESE DISRUPTIONS.  PLEASE FORGIVE US.  WE ARE SEARCHING LEGAL AND OTHER REMEDIES AT THIS TIME. 

EL GRINGO VIEJO

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     We are pleased to note that my entire format and process has been completely cancelled and replaced with another…about which I know and understand nothing.   Another great leap forward, brought to your humble servant and to many so as to destroy any concept of comfortability and understanding.

     Frustration is the Banner Call of to-day's modernity and "improvement".    But I digress.   I have come to bury Caesar…not to praise him.   Mortality is such a dull  and final thing.  But there are always the loose ends.
      We find that, in a very predictable way, the Democrat Socialist Party of the United States of America has determined that it is necessary to team up the mules again, and load the buckboard and then deliver to the Democrat Socialists their automatic cure-all solution to all problems.
      They have a concern about the need to put all Americans into sackcloth, and into the same haircut style, and into a monochromal colour-scheme of apartments and business buildings.  It is something like a Soviet "democratic housing system".  This means any nine families living on a one-parlour, two-bedrooms, no kitchen, bathroom down the hall…one bathroom per 47 flats on the floor…electricity available year round from 7:00 am 'til 10:00 pm…sometimes.

The future of Venezuela is now (see above)

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    Not a pretty picture…but it is the picture of the efficiency of Socialism and Reasonability.   What I paint in the words above, still exists in the ''New" Soviet Union known as Russia and its dependencies.
    We move on to the topic of firearms, which is another huge problem for the control-freak community who demand that everyone be safe…all the time…forever…especially the children, and the women, and the minorities, and the recently arrived, because there is no such thing as an illegal person.
    All people have the right to anything that strikes their fancy and their needs as they themselves define such needs.   And all the rich people are swine and bad people except for the ones who make nice picture shows about how bad  America and Americans are and how truly evil America is.   The people who do those movies are good people…everyone knows that.

      Why are those people good people, one might ask?   It is obviously because the people who make movies about what a cruddy dump America is.   They are good, even if they need to carry guns and have gorillas who have automatic pistols and tonnes of ammunition, just in case Madonna has trouble opening her "medicine" container.   After all, what if someone with a gun is lurking around?

      And so here we are again.  We need to revisit the issue of firearms…because it is the hood-ornament issue that will settle once and for all whether the USA will be a good country or a country that has millions of people running around killing people all the time with their automatic semi-automatic hand-guns rifles and semi-automatic, automatic shotguns and their semi-automatic automatic machine guns…and the semi-automatic children…Oh!!! the children.
       Everyone knows that the Republicans and the rich people don't care a whit about the children who are always being killed all the time…and the women…Oh!!! the anguish of it all…and it is all Bush's, and Trump's and the Republican's fault…we never had this kind of carnage when Obama and Hillary were running the show.   Everybody knows that Dick Cheney went out and hunted Negro children and such. 

BUT,  there are these following points to consider: 

(1)   A little more than one-half of the adult American population own, legally, a firearm or multiple firearms.   Some are hunters, some are collectors, some are admirers of the peculiar relationship firearms and art have, one with the other, some are shooters for target points, and some use the instrument(s) for self-protection and family protection.   Mixing the variants above-listed for the named purposes is permitted by the Angels and Archangels.

(2)  One of the largest of the petitioning groups in America is the National Rifle Association.  They have the peculiar recognition that they are the least involved in felonious firearms crimes  in the entire United States of America.

(3)   One certain notion on the part of the "We Control Everything" lobby, is that, once all firearms are confiscated  everyone will be safe from being killed to death all the time by a Republican…who are normally associated with the act of just shooting people of colour and children and immigrants who have every right to be in the United States and who have every right to free food,  free education for their "children" whether related to us or being used as immigration shields…borrowed or bought from a dolt in Honduras.
     Among the other bennies are free accommodation, free medical services…and in short…free everything…NOW!!!!!  The judges and "leaders" and "civil rights experts" declare definitively, "No gun-nut NRA White Racist (even the Black and Latin White Racists) can keep us away from our due!!!

      The above listed endowments truly are the birthright of all people, specially the LGSHOE{#:ek%RKEKIGFEWW@dFhjKJ:KRF and La'[EHK:#E minority community.  It is a group which happens to be well over 100 per cent of the total population of this horrid, sickening country where everyone wants to be, but can't stand it here because there are too many "other people" who are lining up to watch me load the free stuff in the trunk that we came to obtain.   Racism at its worst…Bigotry at its most efficient.  Sheeeesh!!
       
And,

Guns….!!!!   GUNSGUNSGUNSGUNSGUNSGUNS…..EEEEEEeeeeeeeekkkk!!!!!    The Republicans have declared open season on people of colour.  It's like when they shot the guy on the baseball field in Washington, D.C.   Oh!! Woe is me….where is my check from the Treasury for the stress I have suffered to-day?

(4)      Please forgive.   We who are members of the National Rifle Association…in good standing or similar…have the odd characteristic of having the lowest violent crime rate in the United States.

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     It is the people who have guns that were stolen…guns that were purloined…One can think just for a second, that the Death rate by firearms in Chicago…not Chicago and the billion suburbs and pseudo-incorporated towns adjacent to Chicago….just Chicago…last year had about 600 killings caused by one of the 60 gang clusters who have affiliation with various prison / alley-gang / and affiliated clubs and gangs.

     All of the stupid, horrid, evil, totally bad individuals who have guns and who kill and wound enemies and dumboes  like me walking down the street, kill more people every year in Chicago, than all those unfortunate folks who endured the Texas slaughter bum-slime…all the way back to Whitman (1966) and the University of Texas Tower…and the Temple, Texas disaster at the Luby's Cafeteria, (quite a nice place, actually), and subsequent Texas horrid events up to the present.
     This means that over these 50 years there have been far more than the number of people slaughtered by people with the intent to kill folks.  Our slime-balls have killed over 100 here in Texas, acting as if they were messengers of Death.
     The Gangs, we must recognise, brought us the "fun and games"as they styled it.    The Chicago gamesters have done to the tune of 400 / 700 dead per year, as is indicated by Chicago's

 30,000 

dead for the period from 1966 - 2016.

   Many of those were innocents…coming back from the

 7 / 11 at 21:00 hours on a Friday night or similar.

IN CHICAGO ALONE…..

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Smith and Wesson K - 10, 38 calibre
 revolver,commonly known as
Sergeant Preston's Revolver.
Incredibly fine weapon…accurate at
 100 yards.
It  is El Gringo Viejo's and his boss's
#1 defence system.
   (Girls, hold with two hands when
firing, please.)
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     Quite frankly…the problem is not the girls with their multiple "informal" suitors.   It is the slime who have guns and do not have a catechism.   The problem is certainly not the average American dumbo who is not involved with the crime gangs.


    The time has come that I should discontinue belly-aching and simply post this analysis of how guns jump off the mantle and hurt people.   The fact that  NRA members and others who have a catechism concerning guns and bullets…they do not cause violence with guns.  If anything they diminish  the chances of improper and/or illegal use of guns.

     This image above is a Smith and Wesson K - 10…otherwise known as the Sergeant Preston pistol…and I think that this pistol and the Canadian Mounties have always had a high regard for each other.

     It  is truly time that we separate the wheat from the chaff and recognise that there are people who do ill with the simplest artefact such as a Coke Bottle or hammer, and there are others who save lives by invoking the power of a firearm and the knowledge of how to use it.

    Let us not cover our lamp with a shield.  Please,  take Faith, and stand at the ready to protect  the weak and the truly defenceless.

EL GRINGO VIEJO.

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Too much going on…But it is now that we must speak strongly, fairly, and accurately

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     We have to compile all nature of events, challenges, and situations to try to catch up with our audience…or what we style as the OROG (Order of Readers of the Old Gringo) community.  There was a very dry spell during the late Spring and Summer…affected by what the Mexicans call "la canicula"…and what the Gringos call "the dog days of Summer".   Canicula is a word that roughly translates into the English as "the Dog Days".

     My grandfather told me…when I was a five year old…that the dogs in Tennessee during the Dog Days would just hold up a sign that stated "Bow Wow" instead of barking and running after  intruder dogs or cats.  It was just too hot and dry to exert the effort to do a dog's duty.   We had that here, and we had the same down at the Quinta Tesoro de la Sierra Madre and our adjacent neighbour's orchards of the Hacienda de La Vega.

     Heat…dryness…day after day…scalding solar rays…wilting and drooping leaves and limbs.  The nights would restore the "growies"and at 06:00 in the morning darkness one could appreciate the flowers and vigour of the bushes, trees, and other plants.   My wife is  putting in a 10 - 12 hour day as an accountant for a public institution, and then she chases over to the nearby ultra-deluxe cottage of her parents (my father-in-law is with the Angels now) to do the mowing and other yard manicuring…the place looks like a fairy tale, inside and out.   She fights the hedges and the bouganvillas and the nozzles of the lawn spraying system…and she always wins.

     Make no mistake, my mother-in-law is a bit the senior of my wife.  But she is no real problem, completely self-sufficient, completely lucid, still able to speak a form of ancient Spanish perfectly and a form of Texian and Brittanic English…at the snap of her fingers.  She was a Valedictorian of her class…as was her brother before her.

     As lazy as I am, it is probably true that I help at least a little bit.  And now, with a series of rain events both here and down at our place 234 miles into the interior of Mexico the rains of Autumn cometh.   I just spoke with Alvaro, our Mayordomo, and he said that we have had two inches of rain and they are anticipating another four or five inches of rain to-night and to-morrow (September 2, 3, and 4th)

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     There are several loose ends and several lost ends that we are trying go get back on some kind of track or another…preferably one that does not have a train going in the opposite direction.   The whole election thing baffles and distresses me…to think that there are fourteen months to go by before the election day arrives.
     When I become Emperor of Texas, Parliament will have an episode of 30 days to campaign, and one day to vote.   We ask for reason…and must all consider that beating a saloon table or bar to death with the butt of one's beer bottle, while emphasising how important it is for this person or that to receive free money from the Exchequer…would certainly be more efficiently done in 30 days en lieu of 390 days.
     Just think of all the money if we could save the bottom rims and the necks of hundreds of thousands of beer bottles, not to mention those one-quart mugs that must set the barman back five or ten quid for every stein and mug.   You see…significant social and economic progress without the Crown spending a farthing.

    We move on to this problem of overpopulation.  At present, the Democrat Socialists feel it necessary to nominate nincompoops to important offices.  Truth be told, their entire first team and bench is composed of nincompoops who believe that government is the source of prosperity.

      We are flooded with what seems to be a Cecil B. DeMille casting call for Muddy-thinkers by the Millions…starring Bernie, Pocahontas, and whatshisname, and that other woman over there who is dedicated to change, along with about 20,000 other declared candidates, including the Lord Mayor of Bedford Stuyvesant…all wishing to be President of the United States.
     This is living proof that we are suffering overpopulation…it is the overpopulation of fools and schemers.   Change, change, change!!!   Perhaps they  are correct, because in America right now,  in spite of the dirty legitimate birthing, there are probably several million people who need changing right now.   Almost all  are aged two or less, but they still need changing.

    We have one fellow who wants to be the Socialist Democrat king of change.  He is advising us that he is qualified because he has driven a nice, nowhere, small city into the dirt and turned it into a  crime bedridden, corrupt, fourth-rate living area that has joined the Lemmings' march to the Cliffs of Dover.   He always seems to be able to remind people that he consults with his husband about important matters, and  in so doing reminds us…the little people…that he is our moral superior and he is careful to remind one and all that he is a combat veteran of the Iran and Afghanistan Wars…as well…although most veterans…combat or otherwise…are reluctant to talk about their time in the Fog of War.   He is also careful to demonstrate his moral superiority because he can destroy the word "gay" when he means to say "homosexual".   

     Then we have this incessant beat of the drum.  Climate change…climate change…climate change…and very few people have the least notion about the matter.   Twenty-five years ago…Global cooling, Nuclear Winter...ushering in another overnight ice-age…we only have 12 years before everything is frozen.   That did not work out so well, so we endured Global Warming…a campaign of 15 years that claimed we only had 12 years before the entire planet Earth would be immolated.   Time passed, there was no such event…although the University of East Anglia arch -marxist "meteorologist and climatologists" had irrefutable proof that the Earth only had 12 years  before Climate Change would irrevocably bring on the ambient destruction of planet Earth forever.   You know…after forty years of lies and obtuse "scientific mendacity", one would think that the charlatans would drift on over to more friendly environs…such as Red China or the hell-hole that is Russia.  There they could be among their own kind of mendacious vermin.

     It has become a catechism without a sin or a redemption being cured or rewarded.   One of the worst environmental problem we have on the Planet is garbage, litter, and refuse.   This ambient and ground and waterways contamination is dominated by Red China and India.  These are horridly filthy countries, try as they might to make it filthier they just don't have the per capita oomph to produce, together,  more than 92 per cent of all the solid garbage floating in the oceans and on land masses.

     The United States of America produces 0.27 per cent of the unprocessed garbage…a amount roughly equivalent to Mexico's…but remembering that Mexico is only one-third the size of the United States in terms of population.   But Mexico, when compared to Red China and India, is like a surgical salon compared to a soldering open-pit garbage dump.   But the anti-American marxist "community" and the new Islamic community of perpetual grievance now present on American soil will never allow these truths to be repeated with any frequency.   They will persist in blaming America and Americans for all  the ills in the world and for all the problems real and imagined being suffered by the most fortunate people on Planet Earth…those who live in this Nation.

     It is a gaggle of ghouls within the Socialist Democrat panoply…each trying to buy votes with other peoples' monies…and changing positions a conveniently as a stage actor performing a role in this play to-night and a different role for the next play to-morrow night.  The shifting of positions about immigration of illegal aliens by the leftist Democrats from 15 years ago to their present position now…is one of the most cowardly, deceitful, arrogant, and pointless manoeuvres in American political history.
     The idea that a political party would  be so willing to shift from one position to another simply to undermine the cultural and political integrity of the legal processes of the Nation is patently repulsive.  It is also indicative of where the Socialist Democrat political party in these times…when any assembly of lies and any collusion with press agents in the Obsolete Media can be cobbled together in a few minutes a spewed out over scores of pages of dull, marxist printing and radio and television broadcasting.

     (Sir Edmund) Hillary, Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, and the gaggle of dullards and self-involved miscreants have all but destroyed the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation…by self-destructive methods.  There are forty or fifty of those a the highest first and second level in that particular useless division of the central government who genuinely need to make license plates for good long while…and then be banished to some place like Zimbabwe.
     The stench of the activities concerning the matter of Christopher Steele's cut and paste dossier and James Comey's clumsy, mendacious conduct in his quest to railroad Donald John Trump out of the oval office will long contaminate the halls of many, many offices and government buildings.   It was bad before…and it was made worse by the ghouls of the empowered, badge carrying,  gun-toting leftist thugs.

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More later,

EL GRINGO VIEJO

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They could have heard a pin drop

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JFK'S Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, was in France in the early 60's when DeGaulle decided to pull out of NATO. DeGaulle said he wanted all US military out of France as soon as possible. Rusk responded, "Does that include those who are buried here?"
DeGaulle did not respond.

You could have heard a pin drop.

When in England, at a fairly large conference, Colin Powell was asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury if our plans for Iraq were just an example of 'empire building' by George Bush.
He answered by saying, "Over the years, the United States has sent many of Its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for In return is enough to bury those that did not return."
You could have heard a pin drop.

There was a conference in France where a number of international engineers were taking part, including French and American. During a break, One of the French engineers came back into the room saying, "Have you heard the latest dumb stunt Bush has done? He has sent an aircraft carrier to Indonesia to help the tsunami victims. What does he intend to do, bomb them?"

 A Boeing engineer stood up and replied quietly: "Our carriers have three hospitals on board that can treat several hundred people; they are nuclear powered and can supply emergency electrical power to shore facilities; they have three cafeterias with the capacity to feed 3,000 people three meals a day, they can produce several thousand gallons of fresh water from sea water each day, and they carry half a dozen helicopters for use in transporting victims and injured to and from their flight deck. We have eleven such ships. How many does France have?"
You could have heard a pin drop.

A U.S. Navy admiral was attending a naval conference that included admirals from the U.S., English, Canadian, Australian and French navies at a cocktail reception. He found himself standing with a large group of officers that included personnel from most of those countries. Everyone was chatting away in English as they sipped their drinks when a French admiral suddenly complained that, whereas Europeans learn many languages, Americans learn only English. He then asked, "Why is it that we always have to speak English in these conferences rather than speaking French?"

Without hesitating, the American admiral replied, "Maybe it's because the Brits, Canadians, Aussies and Americans arranged it so you wouldn't have to speak German."
You could have heard a pin drop.

AND THIS STORY FITS RIGHT IN WITH THE ABOVE...
     Robert Whiting, an elderly gentleman of 83, arrived in Paris by plane. At French customs, he took a few minutes to locate his passport in his carry on. "You have been to France before, monsieur?" the customs officer asked sarcastically.

Mr. Whiting admitted that he had been to France previously. "Then you should know enough to have your passport ready."

The American said, "The last time I was here, I didn't have to show it." 

"Impossible. Americans always have to show their passports on arrival in France !"

The American senior gave the Frenchman a long hard look. Then he quietly explained, ''Well, when I came ashore at Omaha Beach on D-Day in 1944 to help liberate this country, I couldn't find a single Frenchmen to whom I could  show my passport."
You could have heard a pin drop.

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       To the OROG Community and other readers of this wandering minstrel, we  lament that El Gringo Viejo will have to tolerate the fact that he shall be having to go in for Grief Counselling and Special Consolation and three huggy-bear Emotional Reconstruction Sessions for the next 3 to 33 months.

    WHY???   Because the people who sent this misdirected electronic mail to my personal and private address failed to take into consideration the following:

     (1)   In 1952, my mother was one of the co-chairmen of the Hidalgo County-wide Democrats for Eisenhower in McAllen, Texas.   The middle Newton brother, at the age of 10, was passing out Eisenhower / Nixon propaganda leaflets in front of the McAllen Post Office, and I was, at the age of 5, helping him at that same place.

The main flood release gates and spillway for times of
heavy flooding, especially during hurricanes.  The spillway
is flanked by Mexican (on the right) and American electric
generators that provide to this day, considerable power. 

    (2)    In 1953, (October 19th, I think) Dwight David Eisenhower came to dedicate the bi-national Falcon Dam and Lake project, in conjunction with the Mexican President, Adolfo Ruiz Cortinez.   Both Presidents were wearing dark suits, and they did not seem to mind the heat, wind (gusts to 35 mph)…it was an extremely windy and hot day (103 degrees)…and I wormed my way through the sea of legs and managed to make it up to the side of President Eisenhower.  Speeches had ended, National Anthems played, pomp and circumstance observed, etc.
       I pulled on the President's coat on his left side a couple of times, and…as it is said,"Ask and ye shall receive." , the President looked down, shook my hand, and asked something about where my mother was.

http://bit.ly/2RDh0fz  -  for a summary of Falcon Dam Dedication

     My response to him, after he had hoisted me up like his own child, was to blurt out that,''…my name is David, too…just like you".   He laughed robustly, and, at that point, I re-blurted out, " I can spell your last name".
     The President - General beamed a bit…actually from this point in my life, it is probable that he was a bit embarrassed, but he said, "Okay, how do you spell my name?"
     I went through the whole long assembly of letters, and those nearby assembled applauded.  At that same moment, my mother and Godmother came bustling up…(my mother had had a brief fainting spell, upon learning of my shameful barging in on someone else's party.).  The President seemed pleased for the episode and equally (at least) pleased to be rid of me.  He told me to remember to always be a good Republican, even as my mother dragged me through the dust on the way back to our Brown Box Jeep.

     The President's admonition held…and infected my two older brothers as well.  We all metamorphosed from moths to butterflies.  When everyone in Texs was Democrat…the three of us (my two older brothers and me) swore loyalty to the Elephant Herd.  And, in reality, we never changed.

     (3)     Your humble servant joined the Teenaged Republican Club in McAllen at the ripe old age of 12, (1959) and by the age of 15 he was President of that Club.  It also happened to be the largest TAR club in the Nation, but more importantly it was the largest Teenaged Republican Club in the Republic of Texas.   We had  up to 600 members, especially during times of special political interest.   We were the ones who changed Texas from a collection of semi-feral donkeys to a massive reserve of noble Elephants. (Lamentably, some of the Elephants later turned out to be "reasonable Elephants" who felt the need to "reach across the aisle".)

     (4)     We have voted only in Republican Primaries, and we have voted in each and every General Election…and always straight-Republican.  I, along with some other men…Latin and Anglo…ran stiff Republican opposition in 1980 to local Democrat politicians for significant local positions…Hidalgo County Sheriff, State Representative, and in my case for Hidalgo County Commissioner, Precinct III.

     Therefore…All OROGs and other readers here can be cognisant that I must take a long respite to recover this horrid assault upon my persona, my history of service, my left big toe's inclination to have an ingrown nail, and my efforts to clip the nose hairs with those really small scissors made for that purpose.

Thank you all for standing by me at this moment.   In a serious vein, however, I was pleased to think that the Democrat Socialist operatives are so pitifully stupid that we would even think about considering making a contribution to the Bernie and Biden and Pocahontas Show…

WAIT!!! WAIT!!!  Just a moment!!
     My Ocuvite vitamin and aspirin regimen just kicked in!!!  It's stopped raining!!!  Everything is bright again.   Let's forget about the Emotional Reconstruction Therapy…let's mount up and ride against the enemy!!!

Thanks for the Memories…and I think we can avoid having to go into therapy after all.  Pardon the intrusion.

EL GRINGO VIEJO

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A Finch giving a Hummingbird

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    Australian photographer Christian Spencer, who lives in Brazil took these beautiful photos of a hummingbird that looks like its wings are made of a rainbow. It took patience, skill, and some luck, but he managed to take many shots of a bird with light diffracting through its wings, making them look colorful and magical.

     Why the label "A Finch Giving a Hummingbird"?   Milton Finch, who resides in South Carolina is, among other attributes, a relatively serious bird watcher who is quite expert in the topic.  I am a fairly good minor-league dilettante.   One cannot have a place in the particular area of Mexico where we have our "little mud hut'' without being overcome by what turns out to be well over 500 different species of birds on an annual basis.

     They all  take seasonal turns at barging in on our grounds to bathe, eat, brood, and make racket…without apology.  They never pay us anything, except the joy of the comfort and beauty they bring upon the property.  So we presume that the balance works out evenly for all parties.

     Thanks to Milton Finch for having posted this remarkable bit of photography by Mr. Spencer.  Mr. Finch is a client of ours, having visited out humble abode and property in NoWhere, Mexico not long ago for a nice stay.  He is also an avid star and UFO aficionado, a solid lifetime Christian student and a person with an almost identical social, moral, and political outlook as the writer.   He and the Mrs. are of those couples who make America function.

El GRINGO VIEJO

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