Trying to re-engage: A battery of approvals and disapprovals

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     The following is my attempt to return to the Braying Barn Commentary Service as a full-time contributor again.  We shall also attempt to avoid long complex articles and justifications of logic that one normally finds in Apologia and Positions.  We now continue.

(1)     We shall begin at these later moments.  The retirement of American troops from Syria, as ordered by Mr. Trump, seemingly from one day to the next, is puzzling to say the least.  We now find ourselves abandoning the Kurdish fighters and their homeland with almost no warning whatsoever.

     The Kurds have been loyal allies, good fighters, and realistic militarists.  Now, they have been relegated to becoming the head of a sandy dust cloud following about 12,000 troops and various vehicles, heading home…as if in retreat or even surrender.   Our President, Mr. Trump, decided to exchange the Kurds for the Turks as per an agreement with Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the President of Turkey. 
     The Turks have had a generations-long commitment to the extermination of the Kurds, and now they feel that they have been vindicated to an extent by having the Gringos clear their own allies (the Kurds) from a theatre of war…to be followed by the Americans in a full-speed retreat from Syria.   Upon the arrival of Turkish forces into the hinterland of Syria, the world will see a repeat…in per capita terms…similar to Mao's starvation and firing-squad elimination of over 60 million Chinese who happened to be "inconvenient" to the newly established Communist regime in the late 1940s.

These are Kurdish children…they look like my  grandchildren.  There
 are Yaddish, and Kenta and other such subdivisions of the ethnic group.
  They will "grow up", but they will always see the world as children.
   Very generous, truly warm people who actually love and worship (almost)
 Gringos. 

   We are neither in favour of, nor in opposition to, the matter pertaining to Syria.  Syria is a septic-tanque of scorpions, black intrigue, duplicity, and corruption.   The Kurds have demonstrated that they are child-like in many ways, while at the same time being fierce fighters in defence of their home territory and culture.   I admire Turkey and the Turks…but as a Texian, it is very easy to draw a parallel between Kurdistan and Texas…men and women who age but never mature…workaholics and celebrators of celebrations…friend to any visitor who arrives and does not offend…family…three generations back and three generations forward…and cleanliness.   I have personally engaged and heard of Gringos who said that they were going back because of a pledge made to a Kurdish girlfriend…aiming a marriage…after their tour.   In each case it appears that the commitment remained.

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(2)   With reference to matters on the border.   There are literally scores of "Everybody knows that".   People who say such things are being purposefully totally unaware of the inaccuracy caused by their lunacy and decrepit conclusions.  Such is a serious breach of the rule of logic and should prevent folks who think in said manner from holding property and/or voting, in local, State, and/or national elections.

Vicente Fox Quesada
First  of the Partido de Accion Nacional (PAN) to win
 the Presidency in an honest election in the Presidential
 Election of each six years since 1922 (and a little more).
He entered as an heroic figure, and left as an incoherent
 anti-Gringo somethingoranother.  Sad case.
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     The people flooding and who have flooded up to the border in order to "catch the wave" of automatic wealth by blobbing onto the "Sue~no Americano" are, in the 85 per cent, frauds.   To begin, it has been proven that 30 per cent of the children who arrived with a supposed adult parent(s), actually pertained to another birthing party.   Many of the "migrant children" were sons and daughters of nobody, or were sons and daughters of people who "leased" or "rented" or "sold" their children to those who were "brave enough" to face the American Iron Curtain.
     The once admired slayer of the one-party system in Mexico…a fellow who started his professional life as a Coca-cola delivery driver (as did my Ph.D brother) made a lot of sense during his essentially American conservative Republican catechism.  But, late in his term and thereafter he decided that all ills in Mexico were caused by the Americans because all Americans have and the Mexicans have nothing.  In other words, he reverted to the teachings at University by his professors that all evil flows from the United States of America.
    As the days have gone by, even other intellectual conservative politicians and thinkers in Mexico have tried to, "politely", disregard the first non-Partido de la Revolucion Institucional (PRI) presidente electo since 1922 (date of the infancy of the PRI before it became the PRI).
     And "Yes, Virginia.  You are right…the PRI period had leftists, centrists, and marxists as Presidents of Mexico during that formative period from 1922 through the "solidification" after World War II when things were supposed to close in upon a narrow "democratic socialism" and a "kinder  and gentler capitalist / free enterprise" environment.  That period clumsily bumped ahead from 1969 through the year 2000 when finally a non-PRI candidate won the Presidency of Mexico, the famous Vicente Fox Quesada. 
    Next…it must be repeated with all fervour, with absolute certainty, and with the Iron Will of the Truth…the children latched into cages on the border were not brought here by your humble servant or any other Americans or any other agents save for those in Honduras, El Salvador, and to a lesser extent in Guatemala.  It was and is a complete Real Live Communist offensive backed by George Soros, the Annenberg Foundation, and various European radical organisations. 
     Those children were photographed back in 2013 or 2014, chained into a dog-kennel style shipping crate.  The last time I checked…all such activities were under the control of the Lord Obbamaham and (Sir Edmund) Hillary, and others of their ilk who are dedicated to the destruction of the last remaining hope for the salvation of the Planet.   Donald Trump is not a free-enterprise and capitalist-type "Freedom Loving American", but he is the only limping donkey available to the due process confronting us at this time.   We have to admit that he makes good golf courses and he does have a vision of American larger than he, himself.

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(3)   But Trump is not a free-enterpriser and he will throw us under the bus if he can make some "Greater Compromise for American Culture" in order to "Ensure His Legacy".  Our job, as I see it, is to remain loyal to our catechisms and to our pledges, codes, and given promises.
      For instance, I shall always remain loyal to Texas, which provided me a home.  I shall always remain loyal to the South and the Confederacy…but never to the oppressors such a the Ku Klux Klan…because I am a Confederate…and not a Klanner…which was a pseudo- "veterans' group", closed down by (Retired General) Nathan Bedford Forrest, who shortly after the War, sponsored them.
    The facts are that the KKK was spawned more by the occupying Yankee invader  and their "businessmen" friends than anything else.…Many of the white-trash pseudo-Confederate soldiers (enter 'deserters') at the end of the War, found "employment" with the newly arriving Northern investors.   We enter this truly leftist, but honest, analysis of the life of the Confederate General:

Confederate General Nathan
Bedford Forrest

(Following text is derived from Wikipedia.  It is somewhat accurate.)

     Forrest joined the Ku Klux Klan in 1867 (two years after its founding) and was elected its first Grand Wizard. The group was a loose collection of local factions throughout the former Confederacy, some used violence and the threat of violence to maintain white control over the newly-enfranchised slaves.

     The Klan, with Forrest at the lead, suppressed voting rights of blacks in the South through violence and intimidation during the elections of 1868 (?).  (The elections of 1868 were pure sham.  The entire exercise was controlled by the occupation army and civilians,  mainly northerners, who wanted the South to suffer its arrogance.) In 1869, Forrest expressed disillusionment with the lack of discipline among the various white supremacist groups across the South, and issued a letter ordering the dissolution of the Ku Klux Klan and the destruction of its costumes.

      He then withdrew from the organisation  In the last years of his life, Forrest publicly denounced the violence and racism of the Klan, insisted he had never been a member, and made a public speech in favour of racial harmony (Forrest declared that he was ashamed of the posture of many of the KKK cells and their leaders, so he resigned "from beginning to end" of his service.)

     We should point out that Nathan Bedford Forrest also funded the establishment of the first Negro Law School, requiring of the University of Tennessee that graduates would be sponsored to the Bar.  The University complied.  That was in 1872, I believe.

     He also had a Praetorian Guard of forty-two Negro slaves of his plantation enterprise.  They were excellent horsemen and very dedicated to Mr. Nathan. He spoke to the men at the beginning of the War and guaranteed them manumission at the end of the War.  In reality he gave them their letters of manumission after about 10 months, when it became apparent that the War would not be a short one.

     Oddly enough, although they assembled formally at times at the side of "Gen'l Nathan", they also served in the ranks. Their "camp" however, was always near the tent of General "Marse Nathan".  As stated before, Forrest delivered their manumission papers to them long before the end of the War…due to their incredibly brave and effective service. 

     Stranger yet, of the 42 or 43 previously "slave" soldiers, all survived without serious wounds, vigorous horrid warfare save for one who was blown off his mount by a Yankee "cannon bomb"…thereby suffering an incurable inner-ear insult…preventing him from ever climbing ladders, mounting mounts, or such things.  He could barely walk a straight line.

      All the other Nathan Bedford Forrest's command combat Negro Confederate Heroes survived the War, and all would receive, whenever recognised in public, reverential treatment even from Yankees, white-trash, and of course, the common Southern People, rich or poor or indifferent.

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(4)     We respond to folks who write or email and ask about recommendations about where to go in Mexico that might be relatively safe and also of interest to a visitor looking for interesting venues.  My first recommendation to anyone(s) who want to see the "real Mexico"…go to Guanajuato, Guanajuato.  One can walk onto a first-class or deluxe autobus near the airport …literally scores of clean, well-conducted drivers…it might take an hour or thirty minutes…more or less…but relax.   You will be in Guanajuato, Guanajuato in "poco rato" (a short time).   The run for a direct or semi-direct autobus will take about four hours to Guanajuato, Guanajuato.   San Miguel de Allende is an equivalent destination…about the same price and time.  Both are in the State of Guanajuato…the true finest jewel in the Crown of Mexico, in my humble opinion.  There are probably 1,000,000 other places that compete for that crown…in Mexico…but if you are just stepping off into the morass of busses and taxis and whistles and yelling and vendors with slop wrapped up that cannot be identified in any zoo…be aware…these are your friends.  And the slop they are wrapping in tortillas and otherwise dishing out is actually delicious and fortifying.  And cheap.

      It is difficult for a person to understand or believe.  If one might wish…take a taxi outside of the airport building…(there are several thousand landings during a 24 hour period at the Mexico City Airport)…and there are lines of taxistas waiting to take you to Acapulco or Guatemala City or to the nearest convenient hotel.  It is disciplined and there are monitors watching every move the taxistas make.
     We hear of horrid Bus Crashes in Latin American…sometimes Mexico…but the very, very sophisticated American and foreign reporters…all leftists…and who hate Mexico because Mexico's leftism is "peculiar"will write up copy that is full of the truth….to an extent.  Normally their submissions will include slightly incorrect to blatantly and intentionally wrong commentary.  New York Times and the Associated Press people like to sensationalise problems in Mexico and disregard Mexico's accomplishments.   It is very rare that I review an article from the Obsolete Press that pertains to Mexico and find it accurate.

    But we digress…if you wish to go a shorter distance and can put up with first-class instead of deluxe…one might leave the Airport and go to the nearest huge bus terminal in the North part of Mexico City…the taxi might be five or ten dollar's worth of pesos.  One can check at the "de luxe" bus service, because there might well be a vacancy, cancellation, or just available space.  It depends upon time of day, etc.
   Try and change at least 300 dollars into Mexican currency at the "change houses" in the airport.  (remember that your American Express, Visa, and/or MasterCharge are all en force and you can do well with a good secured card.    To give you an idea, my wife (who did most of the work and all of the accounting) or I would go and change dollars into pesos when we were starting our business, at times carrying more than 2,000,000 pesos in cash for a 14 day excursion..
     Towards the end…it was all credit card…almost no cash…although I did carry a massive amount (in Mexican terms) of Mexican paper in the outback areas where the people were suspicious of credit cards and such demonic things.   To-day, 98% of the territory is covered by the "little black box"that miraculously moves money from your card to the correct bank or business.

      REMEMBER, IF YOU ARE GOING TO MEXICO BY AIR…IT IS REALLY, REALLY, REALLY IMPORTANT  TO KEEP YOUR PASSPORT, YOUR MEXICAN ENTRY PERMIT, AND SUCH CLOSE TO THE HEART.  MAKE CERTAIN THAT YOU NEVER SAY,  "I am an American…you cannot detain or interrupt me." to the officers at the Airport in Mexico City or any other first landing airport  (Puebla, Guanajuato, Guadalajara, Mazatlan, Merida, Monterrey, etc). One will learn quickly that it is simply best to follow the instructions of the duly appointed officers.

    When I was born, in 1947…there were about three airports in Mexico that could tolerate landings by significant airliners.  All the airports, about 25 of them, at these times have an A++ record in terms of safety.  I do not fly because I hate flying.   But…the reader can be reasonably assured that the Mexican common carriers have a record at or above the best carriers in terms of more or less on-time and very professional safety procedures and process.

     At our little bed and brunch adobe hut…we have a Mulligan Stew of patrons.  We have had people coming to attend a wedding, people coming to take advantage of the over 500 species of birds, both common and exotic, to people coming to "finally see the stars" because of our very dark nights…and people who come specifically "be be bored, to read a good book, and drink decent beer".   I have become a fairly good minor league "cooker" and we have a very limited saloon selection…but no one has ever gone hungry or without "basic-deluxe" provisions.  We are genuinely at the edge of reality…although you will find the people very "associative" and kind and essentially proud of the fact that foreigners and out-of-towners are staying among them.
    And yes, Virginia, I did have a French couple who had their bedrolls and asked to sleep on our corridor.   They were essentially hiking through Mexico.  I allowed such…although it was required of myself by me that I stayed up all night due to the fact that we have the occasional major mammal…and there were snakes.   During the past 15 years, however, we have had no snakes save for a few non-poisonous types who keep their distance.  The French couple did use the television, the bathroom for showering and makeup, and so forth.  I charged them 1/2 price.  They left happy.
DCN (aka - El Magnifico)…..

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This will conclude my ramble.  More will follow.  Thank you all for your kind attention, your commentary, and your ideas for future articles.

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EL GRINGO VIEJO

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There are still people who can think critically...

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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