Texas, Canada, and Mexico - three nations, one-sixth the number of Red China's population, but substantially more GNP than Red China.

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      It is truly remarkable.  Throughout the capitalist and supposedly largely free market we take for granted the Europeans, Japanese, most of the New World,  folks from Singapore, Hong Kong, etc.  and assume that our institutions are, can we say,  malleably permanent.   Changes are made, sometimes we return to previous processes, and things can rumble along as the big-rigs thunder through the night, carrying billions and trillions of dollars worth of goods, from California to the New York Highlands.

     But, there are conditions and exceptions, as we know.  And how do we fashion a relation between one nation that is totally totalitarian and the other is marginally, at least, a free enterprise adherent?   Suddenly, now, we have found a new game in town.   It has been facing us since the evacuation of the Free Chinese under Chiang Kai Shek from China to the Island of Formosa…to-day known as Taiwan.   Now we have a brutal, no-conscience morality, communist, dictatorship strutting about as if said dictatorship is the Number One Rooster in town.   That brutal, murderous, soul-less entity is dedicated to active numerous propositions.  To wit:

     (1)   Hate round-eyes, hate Orientals who are friendly with round-eyes.  Love Mao Tse Tung, adhere to the Red Chinese National Anthem - "Oh! How I love to carry dung to the dung heap for Chairman Mao",  regard other races and ethnicities as sub-human, and…do everything to upset every apple cart in the market anywhere possible.

     (2)   Use American children as organ donors, and suck in Roundeye Capitalists to first become investors and partners in Red Chinese business and projects, and then become organ donors for keeping geriatric Red Chinese poo-bahs alive…forever.   One must admire a nation that has 1,300,000,000 (1.3 billion) citizens producing almost six trillion dollars worth of value added. It compares to the Republic of Texas, the United States of Mexico, and Canada.  The only small problem???

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      …….The three named nations…all in the tier of the highest 15 nations produce around seven trillion dollar in economic activity drawn from a population base of 210,000,000 souls…

including the Texian hero of all time, The Lone Ranger and his magical white mount Silver.  Onto, the noble Indian sidekick. and protector and his horse, Sergeant had a lamentable name, which translated from the Spanish to " silly, mentally dull".

   Which brings to mind the Canadian Sergeant Preston of the Yukon and his Wonder Dog King and his wonder horse Rex who frequently would assist in quadruple bypass operations for heart patients who happened to be short on funds!!!   The dog "King" also made a killing in the Stock Market just before the collapse of 1899 on the Stock Market (never trust anything inside of the city of New York).       

     Everyone knows that The Lone Ranger was and remains an icon forever.   He was a friend to all good people and an enemy of all bad people.  He even had a hood ornament named Tonto, whose name in the Spanish had  the unfortunate translation into the English of "silly, mentally dull" from the Spanish.  The Lone Ranger and his trusted Indian Friend each had horses  that could understand nine languages and perform analytical  quantum physics problems in their sleep.

      We finish our efforts for the evening with the reminder of another brilliant defender of his nation.

       This would be, of course, the person of a 30 year old Cavalry General leading a Mexican Army…of around 7,000 well and not-so-well trained and equipped soldiers (mainly Zapotec Indians and National Guardsmen)…meeting and defeating a thoroughly trained, well-led, well-fed, well-mounted French Infantry, Artillery, and Cavalry numbering around 32,000 moving up to take the important city of Puebla…the front door to the City of Mexico, their next stop.   Ignacio Zaragoza Sequin, Commander in Chief…was born a Texian, not far from Goliad.

    He was also the nephew of his Uncle Juan Sequin, one of the great liberators of Texas against the horrid tyrant Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna…who was defeated in 1836 the same way Gen. Charles de Lorencez would be defeated by Juan Sequin's nephew, Ignacio Zaragoza Sequin.

More later.

EL GRINGO VIEJO

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Madness, Arrogance, and Ignorance: Hallmark of the Left

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   We review on a daily basis the comings and goings of the issues surrounding the cascade of "migrants" inundating the frontier between Mexico and the United State of America.  It has become patently obvious that the worldwide consensus of the elite billionaire socialists is absolutely and totally committed to the debasement and total ruin of the American Experiment.

     The tension that exists in America is that of the group generally dedicated to the desire to be cared for by a benevolent, all-knowing government in conflict with dreamers and the self-sufficient and free-enterprise risk-takers who believe in a ridiculous thing like a Great Ordering Power such as the Lord God Yahweh.   It is an obvious dichotomy for which there is no resolution. 

      There will always be those who wish to be taken care of and those who require to be obeyed.   Texas is one of those places where a large majority of the citizenry wishes to be left alone, desiring to make their own way. Efforts to destroy the peculiar Texian ethos have been underway for scores and scores of years, with lesser and greater effect.

        Texians of the old school tend to remain ruralists even when found ensconced in large cities.   Marxists are dedicated to making a definite honeycomb wherein people are assigned to the proper cell of the honeycomb where they labour to the Anthem, "Oh! How I love to carry dung to the dungheap for Chairman Mao!".   The guiding hands of Marx and Engels…Hitler and AOC…Stalin and Pelosi are certain that they can guide the unwashed into the proper stall where the proles can make left-handed horseshoes from mud that is approved by Michelle and (Sir Edmund) Hillary.

        At times the George Soros Choir rises to the occasion to forward the march to the enslavement of the masses.   The general American populace falls for the siren song of the left…that convinces the dull and undiscerning that a good and benevolent government will provide all nature of human pleasure for the dull and undiscerning.  That song, of course, is the hypnotic lure into a poverty of the soul, where the "masses" are ordered what to do and who are given that which the elites deign to render.

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     We enter into an analysis of the onslaught of the thousands of people arriving, again, to the frontier which is the demarcation of where Mexico and Texas separate and join simultaneously.   This time it is a bit more serious, in that a new government has been installed in Washington, D.C.   The folks are arriving without benefit of process of any kind.   They are frequently conducted by people who steal their belongings and money and at times their children.

Guatemala is perhaps one of the top ten most beautiful nations
on the Planet.  The scene above shows also the verdancy and stunning
crops that are taken from the avocado and mango orchards and the hundreds 
of thousands of acres of tropical vegetables and fruit that feed the country and
other places that demand the excellent fare provided by the volcanically rich
soil.   The year-round growing season helps, although we must note that there
are hurricanes from the Caribbean that slow things down a bit.
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     The people come from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador generally, although thousands come from other places in Latin America, as well as many other countries around the world.  Some eighty percent come out of the first three countries, and almost every one of those are woefully unprepared for life in the United States.  Large percentages of them are people with a checkered social history, including criminal records and slight literacy.   Tens of thousands, over the last twenty years, have been residents of scores of penitentiaries in the fifty States of the American Union.   Many of those have been "repeat offender tourists", slipping back into Gringoland at the first opportunity.

This is a relatively normal-looking "caravana"

a poorly chosen word for what one sees in this

photograph.  A "caravana" can be 50 or 5,000

and they all start out damning America, hating

their own countries, almost totally limited in

terms of blue collar or white collar proficiency,

often illiterate or semi-literate.   At times women

carry babies or little ones that are borrowed or

even kidnapped, thinking they can increase

their chances of crossing into the USA. They

have the hubris to demand to remain in the

USA when they finally arrive in Gringolandia

while hundreds of thousands and millions

of others had to pay many shekels and years

of study and qualification to gain citizenship.

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     We receive our share of Arabs from many of those nations, as well as hundreds, at times thousands, from Red China and other places the Orient. The violence among the "immigrants", once again must be pointed out.  Many of those heading north are going to positions with the Mara Salvatrucha Trece (MS-13) from  the Honduras and the Guatemala gang known as Callejon-18 (callejon {kah-yeh-HOAN} is a word meaning 'large alley').

     These bloodthirsty goons have the practice of murdering their mothers or one of their sisters, for instance, in order to prove their fielty to the group.   Sometimes they are ordained in Central America, sometimes they "come of age" in Gringoland, but almost all have dedicated their allegiance to Satan.

Upon seeing  a crowd such as this, it is most 
probable that 30 percent of the males in the
 scene have an "archivo criminal"(record).
It is lamentable…..but true.
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     One can only imagine the agony of people who have filed into an American Embassy and begun the process of applying for Americans citizenship, which is a dreary and difficult and expensive matter fraught with bureaucratic dullness and sloth.  In Mexico City there are times when one can see a very long line of folks lined up around the block, waiting to enter the American Embassy.  The thing is, many of those in the line are not applying for services or information, they are holding a place in line for a particular Jose or Maria.

     These folks are frequently attorneys who process their own business, and have their own line-holders, nowadays using computer communication and hand-held at the same time in order to stay abreast of how close the client has moved towards admission into the American Embassy entrance.  It is actually a well-disciplined madness that functions well…although I am given to understand that a new American Embassy is either being built or soon will be finished, in order to replace the old worn-out Embassy.

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OKAY, GRINGO VIEJO, what is your big cure-all suggestion???

     We accept the challenge, without hubris or high-handed self-assurance.

     (1) All efforts to enter the United States of America by persons considered reasonably to be citizens of the Republics of Honduras, San El Salvador, and  Guatemala is to be prohibited.   Only under the most profound urgency involving a matter of life or death of an innocent can entrance be tolerated, and even that only for the length of time allowing a cure and recuperation.

   (2)        Beginning 90 days after the inauguration of the next Republican President of the United States, a series of projects will be put into action that will result in the following initial actions:

                    (a)    Medical assistance will be placed in clinics and hospitals so as to advance and initiate basic medical services.   This would require approximately 10,000 doctors and specialised nursing and medical technology professionals.

   cost - 5,000,000,000 AmCur.

                                 (b)     An immediate overall analysis and deployment of repair operations pertaining to the conditions and upgrading of all major primary and secondary highways.   A reasonable effort will be made to repair and maintain the tertiary road conditions of the rural areas with locals working in concert with American and Central American military engineers and blue-collar specialists.

cost - 7,500,000,000 AmCur.

                                 (c)     An immediate overall analysis and deployment of  concerning all matters pertaining to early childhood education.  All primaries (K - through 6) must be refurbished, and local women of high degree and competence who will provide a varied and locally tolerated diet for such children who are in attendance.  Men with culinary experience will certainly be considered for such duty as well.

     Simultaneously, all children will be accepted at the primaries, which will have a time-tested curriculum which will include a foreign language and which will include basic and intermediate science and mathematics.  Native Spanish and social studies will be included as well.   A principal and a steward with assistants will be in place and will be remunerated.

cost - 7,500,000,000 AmCur.

                             (d)     Simultaneous and compulsory American and allied military units, including air, ground, and marine actives, will be  integrated with units of the native troops who can achieve similar military levels of performance to the American standard.   Such a task is nowhere near impossible.

                                        cost -  7,500,000,000 AmCur. 

                          (e)      The careful and tactful integration of Mexican forces on the southern frontier of Mexico, working in co-ordination with the American, allied, and domestic forces on land, sea, and air.  Mexican air co-ordination with American air patrols in the Caribbean and Gulf has frequently been very praiseworthy in the matter of drug smuggling, especially out of Venezuela. 

                                       cost - 24,000,000,000 AmCur

                       (f)       Total cost to the taxpayers…a little less than 50 billion dollars.   Joe Biden's tribe of ghouls and marxists is calling for over 2,000,000,000,000 (two trillion) dollars just to get started on his vote buying madness and dash into the quagmire of marxist socialism.

      (3)     After three years, tourism and visitation passport for visitation to the United States by citizens of the three nations recognised in this publication (Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala) will be favourably considered to those with excellent social and professional records. 

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     The above recommendations are done at a crummy little typograph with a crummy little screen and a Mickey Mouse internet connection, at four o'clock in the morning.   I know these people fairly well, and have live among and around them for over 70 years.  My grandmother and my great grandfather pull my genes back about 150 years in matters including on-the-ground living, owning property, succeeding, etc. in Mexico, for instance.  Many people regard me…and certain of my closest friends and associates…as a reliable and studied and experienced individual concerning things Mexican and further South.

   With that, and the silly little fantasy put together in less than 50 minutes, I shall retire to my coffee machine for my second dose of the day.

EL GRINGO VIEJO

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Estimados huespedes:

We are increasingly at the whim of either our own equipment or from agencies that have the ability to corrupt the information we are happily typing up.  The prep page looks great and then I post it, but lo and behold…the uniformity of page presentation and various details of the design of the publication are askew.

I fix it, and within two or three visits by our followers (or new visitors) are greeted with alignments in the text that are out of place, and even "disappearances" of text…a phrase or two, and at times two-thirds of a paragraph.

We also have pictures that, after placement, suddenly either disappear or increase in scope from a nice little kitty to a huge Bengal tiger, so to speak.

See if this little scene of an old, abandoned

well suddenly turns into huge picture of two

or three bricks of the aperture of the well.

Usually it works fine, but sometimes it looks

like an earthquake hit the photo.

Right now, as I am typing, it is behaving

like a nice gentleman…we'll see how long 

that might last.

Thanks for your time and willingness

to listen.

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Another nail in the coffin of a corrupt Democrat Election

BREAKING: Judge Rules MI Sec. of State Benson Directed City Clerks to Ignore Signature Matching Law on Absentee Ballots in Nov. 2020 Election

After countless irregularities in the 2020 election and questions that arose due to the handling of ballots, counting of ballots, and absentee ballots, a Michigan judge has ruled that Michigan’s Secretary of State did in fact direct city clerks to ignore signature matching law on absentee ballots in the 2020 election.  However, the ruling appears to be too little too late to have any effect on the fantastically mismanaged 2020 election that millions of reasonable Americans do not trust.

State Court of Claims Judge Christopher Murray has ruled invalid Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s guidance issued to Michigan clerks in early October that instructed them to presume the accuracy of absentee ballot signatures.

Because Benson did not go through the proper rule-making process when issuing the guidance, clerks do not need to comply with it for future elections, Murray ruled last week.

C H E C K M A T E

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A Soliloquy: Wandering Around in the Fog…a Knight Without Armour in a Savage Land

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      We watch the swirling and buffeting of the events of to-day, and lamentably, I neither see nor feel the Joy in Mudville.  It seems quite evident that America is steadily swirling into the abyss.  Much of the populace would like to have "free money", and these folks will learn that there is nothing quite as expensive as "free money".

     Another racial / ethnic grouping resents that the "white folks" don't like real people who speak Spanish or some other language, don't like for those folks to speak foreign languages.   Then we have one hundred or so mega-billionaires who could buy all the European nations at one whack, should they wish.  These folks are particularly obnoxious because they have no real allegiance to anyone or anything beyond having, being happy, and looking askance at lesser human beings.   They are particularly enchanted with the idea of forming neo-capitalist linkages with countries such as Red China, which seems to be  their favourite comfort zone.

 

Richard Boone aka - played Paladin

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Your humble servant is a Paladin character, although considerably content with the idea of having a wife who is my human superior, and children and granddaughters who are complex, brilliant examples of humanity. And yes, Virginia…I have no grandsons.

     As a Paladin-like character (a Knight without armour in a savage land) it has been my pain and pleasure to have failed miserably at some things, succeeded massively at others, neglected talents that should have been developed, and refined works for self and others that ranged from  well-done to amazing.

     Watching the scenario now presented by the ever-changing, steadily degrading sociological rot, my soul has become increasingly troubled.   To think…one wakes up in

Clark Gable, aka - Rhett Butler
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the morning learning that Dr. Seuss is a scumbag and a racist.  We are already aware that Gone With the Wind is a racist movie…I think it was Joy Behar who advised me of such.  The Southern movie audiences at the time of the release swarmed the theatres to marvel at the incredible cast…choosing Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) and Mammy (Hattie McDaniel) as the top performers.  McDaniel won the Oscar that year for Best Supporting Actress, becoming the first Black African descent person to make the "Big Four" in the Academy Awards.

     Truth be known, Hattie McDaniel was castigated and howled against by the "urbane" and ever-judgemental leftist cheering-section in the metropolitan venues. Why?... because Miss Hattie had perfectly played the role of a Negress in command essentially of an entire large Southern plantation, who bossed everyone around quite well.   Her ability to control, to a large extent, the head-strong self-absorbed Scarlet…a spoiled, rich White plantation princess was especially well executed and well noted by everyone.

     We insert this example of the hyperactive condition that continuously spurs the shallow

Mammy lectures Scarlet
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and hollow leftists…especially the wealthy ones…when they put on airs about how they are more sensitive to the issues affecting the downtrodden than the middle class and poor-rich slobs who live "down there somewhere".   (poor-rich are folks whose family has 10 million dollars on hand, or less) 

    On the left, one can see the scene wherein Miss Mammy gives Miss Scarlet a straight-faced, factual instruction to her charge that she can't tighten the waistband any more, because, "You done had a baby, Miss Scarlet, and you'll never have an 18 inch waist again".   That line caused all kinds of laughter, perhaps because Scarlet, while very important to the times and the movie's construct, was seen as a forever scheming woman who made a fool of herself over the aristocratic "Ashley".

     She played a generally self-absorbed twit.  Later in the film she settled for Rhett Butler, who was more of a cad such as your humble commentator.  (This writer still believes that this movie is the greatest film ever produced. Sound track included        https://youtu.be/6qr25F9t6Es )

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     We move along, hoping we have convinced many of our growing number of readers that we are not desperately mad.   But, it is necessary to throw down the gauntlet and demand reason from those who have eschewed the usefulness of true reason and worthwhile thought.   The constant drumming of the words racist, racist, racist, and the poor, the poor, the poor has come to the point of being less than a dull pretension.   The fact of the matter is, the United States of America remains the most productive and the most distributive in terms of general wealth on the Planet.

    America would be more wealthy and more productive if the such things as Aid to Families with Dependent Children and Food Stamps were to be cancelled in the next thirty days.   All assistance to the poor or the down on their luck or victims of calamity should be a private matter, initiated by close people and not by Federal and State programmes that essentially encourage "membership" in some kind of Public Welfare Association.

      The guidance of leftist politicians, and lamentably, ostensible members of the rightwing of the American political scene, elected and appointed officials, especially in Washington, District of Colombia, merrily go on their way, ever extending the National Debt.   There is no way that any country can spend its way to prosperity.   Subsidies of salaries, businesses, banks, schools, and the like are poison designed to enslave, in our case, the common American people…numbering some 330,000,000 souls.

     We now have the return of an inundation, again.  And yes, we are aware that the first sentence prompts a redundancy…because we are living a redundancy.  A perfect storm is forming.   The Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States, a certifiable dolt, is attempting to establish a national rule without the restrictions that had been put in place during the construction of the Constitution of 1787.   That document has survived for lo, these many years with few concrete amendments.  It was designed to allow the greatest latitudes of discretion to be left to the various States of the new Union. 

     We are moving quickly into a new Constitutionality that is quite brief, and which will authorise daily arbitrary changes in laws and rules without the permission of the governed.   These statements seems ridiculous, but if one stands back and looks carefully it will be quickly understood that all rule…within the next eight to ten years…will be arbitrary, endorsed by a small gaggle of power elite, similar to communist Red China, and making the United States essentially a dull, grey, sad, rotting and rusting dump like Russia.

     For those who might resist these predictions as being probable, please consider that entire cities inner areas are put to the torch and looted now as a common event.  Perpetrators are almost never detained or arrested.  Those who are handcuffed and transported very frequently are quietly released and bonds cancelled.   This has occurred in Chicago, Portland, Seattle, Detroit, and scores of other places.

     The crassness, arrogance, and hubris demonstrated by the "protestors" during these events is nothing short of flabbergasting. The national media…television and major newspapers…blame Republicans for everything and lament that racism forces people to destroy downtowns anytime and anywhere.  This is not racist cant, it is something that has become part of the "American Way of Life".  Peoples' businesses and abodes destroyed while druggy stoners and thugs cheer and hoot and chant and dance.

     We face again the renovation of the hordes of people coming up to the Rio Grande and other places on the border between Mexico and the United States.  The Official American Press refer to them as "migrants", but they are not "migrants".  They are invaders.   Most folks think that these "migrants" come from Mexico, but the fact is that they actually come from all points imaginable on the Planet.   The three leaders, however, are Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras in Central America.   These three nations with a population combined of  35,000,000 people are found adjacent and/or relatively close to Mexico.

     For several years now, it has become a reality with hundreds, then thousands, then scores of thousands coming up to barge into the United States, especially coming through Texas, and of course, Arizona and California.  For various reasons there are relatively few "migrants" who choose to make their break into New Mexico.   This year has become a particularly heavy traffic march because Joe Biden was elected President and the word went forth that the time had come to go to Gringolandia and plop out a baby on American soil, or whine and moan about the treachery and danger about living in northern Central America, and I am looking for my children who were kidnapped, etc. etc."

     As it turns out, of course, over thirty percent of the males (age fifteen or more) have criminal records.   Many have been deported from the United States on several occasions.  The women have children, sometimes not their own, and others come with a belly full of baby.   Few have completed high school, and many have not even completed primary in the native country.  This writer's blood boils when he sees the famous nun talking about what noble work they are doing on behalf of the "refugees".   She is helping people who will become hapless clingers to whatever welfare they can dredge up in the towns and cities of their destination.  If they are allowed to continue on after crossing the Rio Grande, for instance, they receive an entry permit, and then they are put on a bus to Topeka…or some such place where ostensibly there will be family or close friends who will receive them.   The individuals are required to return to the place of original entry and submit to a hearing to determine if that applicant is qualified to remain in the United States.   Very few, about 15%,  ever come to the required proceeding.  They have "become invisible".   They will be found, however, in delivery rooms at various hospitals, plopping out babies without benefit of shekels.

     Another small problem that the "friends and helpers" of the "migrants" fail to mention in their propaganda messages is that the whole system from Central America to the border is wrought with danger of the highest order.   Cartel people kidnap and hold for ransoms and frequently simply liquidate a dozen or a score or more of inconvenient "clients".   A couple of years ago, in a rural area near San Fernando, Tamaulipas, about 50 miles south of McAllen, the Cartel people stoked up on weed and began taking advantage of the women and finally took measures that wound up killing 75 "migrants" in a ranch compound off of the main highway.   A lone wounded survivor walked to the City of San Fernando, about eight miles away, and encountered the Mexican Army compound, and reported the massacre.    The next morning the Mexican Army personnel searched out and surrounded the eight or nine miscreants who failed to surrender and suffered the consequences.  Autopsies indicated that they were full of drugs and alcohol.

     It is my opinion that there is nothing humanitarian to help people across the Rio Grande when in fact those same people are most likely going to wind up in very unpleasant straits.   The thundering blather by the Democrat Ghouls about how "Trump didn't help the Migrants!!!  Trump kept children in chains (actually photos and episodes that pertained to the Obama regime's rule), Trump was dividing nations, Trump is a bigot" continues to this day.

 

A small multi-family cemetery, very near the
Rio Grande not far from McAllen, Texas
with interments dating back into the
 latter 1800s.
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   What is certain is that strong fences make good neighbours.  I am not a big fan of the Million Mile steel fence…it seemed unnecessarily rough on the vegetation, wildlife, and frequently the sawing of houses, historic cemeteries, and properties into two sections (literally).   One thing was certain, however, and that was that the Cartel people and other "malcreantes" had to face very difficult alternatives in areas where The Fence was functioning.  It required a lot of rethinking, and cost a lot of time and money,  in order to deliver their commodity of habitual ruin and death to the American public.

     The Mexican military liked the wall, and while it is not stated, there were many, many passively and/or informally co-ordinated actions by American Border Patrol, Texas River Patrol, and the Mexican Infantry.   These matters are simply not mentioned, and co-ordination as a matter of fact is generally a matter of both sides helping someone who is drowning in the Rio Grande (Mexican formal name is Rio Bravo del Norte) or who is tangled in a river weed mess…also a really bad way to croak.

     Another thing to remember about all this commotion is that Mexico received and gives out very poor public relations.   There it plenty to complain about in Mexico, there are ridiculous political posturings, long-delayed projects half-constructed, incessant argumentation on the floor of the Mexican Upper and Lower Houses of Congress, and State governments with mono-cameral congresses that bicker and bray, yet succeed in much significant State-level advances.

    But all in all, Mexico functions pretty well…not perfectly…but pretty darned well.  Good restaurants, from the very humble to the regular nice place, and places where one would not be surprised to see business magnates from around the world..and Mexico, and other Important People.  There is a lot of diesel and gasoline of good quality (actually much of the high-test fuel comes in from Exxon in a trade).   Mexico exports medium-low and medium-high quality oil to Exxon and Exxon refines the high-test for significant PEMEX gasoline, and also keep for themselves a certain radioactive mineral that is used various advanced applications.

      Perhaps some day there will be no more Cartel stuff…nor rapacious, psychopathic corruption amongst so many of the middle and high ranking bureaucrats and elected official.   I shall resign for the moment from the screed and allow the sane people to return to their sane activities and productive natures.

     There will more to come in short order.

EL GRINGO VIEJO

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About Ruben Navarrette, Jr. - The Improbable Commentator

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     A person of very advanced intelligence, Ruben Navarrette, Jr. , is a well-known commentator concerning cultural and political matters, and routinely takes a broad-brush stroke to make his points, both pro and con.   He is among the most intelligent among the leftward observers in print at this time, and in this place.

     My grumpiness about Sr. Ruben is not so much that he is a leftward sort, although one must wonder how anyone as intelligent as he can possibly still sit on the left side of the Forum.   I also think that he dwells pointlessly about ethnic issues by supposing that only the Latin cohort of the human race suffers the ignominy of bigotry, racist frictions, or the pain of being disregarded by people of lesser intellect and social finesse.

     But, all in all, even though this writer has said, perhaps 30 or 5o times, "This is the last time I shall waste my time reading Ruben's anti-gringo huffing and puffing bilge"…it is necessary to stop and think about Ruben's world view.   Enter the issue of Ted Cruz heading down to Cancun while "everyone" in Texas was suffering!   How dare Ted Cruz use his prestige as a Senator in the Congress of the United States, leaving all the proles, peons, and oppressed in the cold and snowy wastelands of Texas…with no electricity.

     We recall the episode, now a bit more than a week past, when even in the areas around McAllen, Texas bitter below-freezing temperatures, a little sleet, a little snow, essentially closed down well over half of the magic Lower Rio Grande Valley.  Broken pipes, no electricity, no gasoline, no grocery stores, etc. etc.  Strangely enough, my wife and I went through the five days without one power failure…only about one-fifth of the population in Texas could say that when all was said and done.

    Our children and grandchildren in the central part of Texas had snow ranging from six to twelve inches…and a week's work of sub-freezing weather.   It was a major league gut-punch for the entire Republic of Texas.   Ted Cruz enters our commentary at this point.   Ted had a daughter who was going down to Cancun in Mexico where several of her gal-pals were also heading, along with a various mommies and daddies.   It had been programmed several weeks or months before.

     So, Ted told his progeny…"I will take you down there, maybe hang around, because with this weather, nothing is going to be going on!"  And off he went, fulfilling a promise that had been made earlier, and leaving behind what was essentially a "freeze-frame" in almost the entirety of Texas.   Once arriving in Cancun, Ted picked up information from people in Texas that things were going from bad to worse.   Leaving his daughter with known responsible friends and a gaggle of daughters of various parents present, he decided to return to Texas.

     All of this was interpreted by the abominable, mendacious pseudo-journalists' cabal who howled for several days about how Ted Cruz turned his back on the suffering masses back in Texas while Ted twinkled fine white sand through his toes while he fed the porpoises by hand.   None of that happened, of course. His manoeuvre was essentially and down-and-back trip.   

       Mexican telephone service stayed functional…a bit moreso than many areas in Texas, and nothing happened by Ted's hand that affected anyone negatively.   So, as a matters as predictable as the sunrise, the cabal of ''journalists" who commonly mislead the public about matters pertaining to conservatives and/or Republicans had their field day of mendacity. 

     And…so…who comes forth to set the record straight?  Ruben Navarrette, Jr. is told by his buds that he should bash Cruz for a Cancun trip…other friends of Ruben say condescendinly that he should choose his friends, "more carefully".   Ruben Navarette responded, "…Thanks for the tip.  But you do you.  And I'll do me.  My readers don't pick my topics, and my followers don't choose my friends."

     So, I sum up.   You're a good man, Ruben.   I'd prefer that you use your magnificent brain within the Republican and/or conservative field…but however the pie is sliced…you are a good man, and  I shall return to reading your columns.

EL GRINGO VIEJO

David Christian Newton

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Of the International Frontier and All Things Biden, etc.

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       We are sitting around at 02:22 on a chilly morning on the border at the final southernmost point of the Republic of Texas, trying to assemble some order in what little is left of my inclination to think with clarity.   We are now adrift with a Captain of State who is intellectually adrift, under the full control of marxist analysts who are valiantly committed to turning the United States of America into a socialist-democratic anthill.

     It is apparent that the newly installed President is something different from the Vesuvius prone previous Head of State.   One could suggest by whispering to a close friend, " Methinks our king be daft" and hope that the new Vice-Head of State, a woman totally dedicated to banality of thought, word, and/or deed, can somehow keep the Ship of State from the striking the iceberg.   We lament that she is hopelessly incompetent and self-absorbed, as well as being a full-time hater of she sees as the Imperialist American construct.   She is an example of a person born to title and position who is totally vacuous and self-absorbed to the extreme.   Like (Sir Edmund) Hillary Rodham, she is a convenient democratic marxist.  Like Ernesto (Che) Guevara, she is good for causing destruction but knows nothing beyond self.

     Our peculiar leader who can barely stumble through a paragraph of bolshy-blather without trailing off into a lecture about how many tiddlywinks it takes to build a shoe-horn. The critical observer…and there are a few of us who still have not been assigned to the gulag…can readily deduce that the Ship of State is being administered by a small cabal of "democratic" socialist cultural engineers who a sure of their ability to establish a perfect society and culture, once and for all.   A goodly number of these engineers are multi-mega-billionaires who know perfection and how to achieve and maintain perfection.

      Most universities and colleges are now lined up to handle and enforce the task of training marxist bees of the hive how to think, what to think, when to think, and how to nod knowingly when Maxine Waters says whatever Maxine says.  If there is doubt, one need only review the brilliant and incisive opinions of Bernie Sanders, who is a brilliant socio-cultural engineer in his own right.   We have watched and listened to these howling dunces during the "transition" of Uncle Biden assumption of office.

     For instance, and this is an example of the entire construct of the Biden - Democrat - International Intellectual Cabal:    We watched a person explain on the imbecile news networks (ABCNBCCBSPBSETC) that the matter of the people coming up to and across the border between the United State of America and the Estados Unidos de Mexico is not a serious matter.  The wise ones agree there are matters of concern, but all matters pertaining to extra-legal entry into the United States from other countries of origin for the purpose of remaining in the United States is a matter that Uncle Joe and Auntie Kamala can easily resolve.  With assistance from the magic Wonder Girl - AOC they Joe and Kamala and (Sir Edmund) Hillary can make everything perfect simply by wrinkling their noses…

    … but a couple of days ago...a rickety van with room for seven people including driver just happened to be carrying over thirty people.   Some estimates were up to forty persons.  The van had loaded up somewhere near the USA - Mexico border and took off to destinations of wonder and opportunity and Disneyland and free food and free money and free medical services, ad infinitum.  The only problem was that the van was a rolling wreck looking for a place to have a wreck.  A loaded tractor-trailer long-haul truck essentially broadsided the van, killing 13 - 14 people.  Some pieces had to be reassembled, and we are not talking about the van.   Thirty or more people were counted, while another at this writing had died in a hospital somewhere near the event.  Some observers indicated that there were a few passengers who blended into the crowd and evaporated.

      Daily, nightly, we receive from three hundred to one thousand trundling Third-Worlders who cross the Rio Grande solely along the frontage of ONE TEXAS COUNTY, HIDALGO in daylight and dark via rickety jerry-rigged rafts and inflatables that have as many air-leaks as passengers.   People of all sorts touch land somewhere on the Texas side and begin their trek, preferably to where they can be detained by the Border Patrol and/or at times now Hidalgo County Constables.   Why do they want to be "caught"?  It is simply because the cumbersome and purposeful task of the leftwing "do-gooder" requires that all these folks who have jumped the line for (a) obtaining a tourist visa, (b) a petition for employment of seasonal or permanent visa, (c) a petition for educational visa, (d) a petition for immigration and citizenship in the United States, or (e) various other legal ways to enter the Republic of Texas and/or the United States of America.   All the petitions mentioned here are things Mexicans and others have to pay in terms of hours and hours and days and months, and for the Citizenship path, years.This is the fact.  Those are the facts.  We are receiving scores and hundreds of "unaccompanied minors", sometimes five or six years old…most are middling teenagers, some a adults trying to pass for teenagers.   The number of these minors who are sexually abused, sold into unpaid labour, or farmed out to "employers" who pay $2.00/hour under the threat of turning the undocumented over to the Immigration…it is a Hell beyond Dante's inferno, and it goes on daily.   Medium-sized and large metroplexes are filled to the brim with these people.   A very few somehow manage to find a few manoeuvres that allow them to come out into the light and participate in a normal, lucrative, and beneficial way.   But they are a very few.

     And, every night and sometimes all day, Hidalgo County…and thirteen other Counties fronting on the Rio Grande / Rio Bravo receive a hundred…three hundred…a thousand more people who will soon be wrapped in the comfortable rebozo of free everything.   And for every new baby, there will be massive outlays of "public" money.  And the half who fall into the paths of iniquity will become slaves to mafia-like slave masters.  These are not fanciful dreams and tales of a Mexican-hating gabacho…these are actual facts that I have lived, my wife has lived, our parents and many generations have lived, our children have lived.   The County of Hidalgo, for instance, is a bustling place, probably one million people live here…and thirty per cent of that number are on substantial…very substantial public assistance.

     It is one of the ways a woman can come into the United States or Texas after having been visited by a miraculous thing called "being pregnant".   Frequently these women have no idea how this happened, but it really does not matter.   According to the law and standards of the United States and Texas, a woman who bears and delivers a baby on Sacred Soil of Texas delivers a citizen of the United States and Texas.   And since the baby has no method of fending for him/her self, the practice has always seemed to be that the mother will remain with the baby, permanently.   These are the rackets.

These are the faces of the famous gangs, now advanced
organised criminal businesses
  Membership estimates range from a quarter-million
 to one million"members".  Scores of thousands
 are found in American and Mexican and Central
 American jails.  There is a super-overload of MS-13
and Mara Salvatrucha in jails thoughout Central
America
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     Many folks might be surprised to know that the great majority of these people swarming the border, night and day, 400 days per year are not Mexican.  The northern Central American grouping of  "El Trio de Tristeza" (The trio of sadness) are Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.   The second or third greatest number of "refugees", "immigrants" and other such noble titles who come from those countries are gangs.  These are well-known, well organised,  as soulless murderers, thieves, rapists, and the like.

     It is said that to be a member of gang a candidate must suffer a beating, and/or he must kill his mother or sister. In every gaggle and grouping of people who are apprehended at the border, there will be…almost always…people who are fleeing neighbours or relatives who are associated with these "gangs".   In the attempt to escape them, they will almost certainly be dealing with these gang members no matter where the "migrants" wind up hiding in the United States.  And  the gang members will take their Mafia-like portion.

   In order to shorten this missive, it should suffice to declare with all certainty, that the "New Flood" of these gang members, and other unqualified "immigrants" began with the arrival of the new President of the United States.  At a time when the Mexican authorities had begun to take very seriously the "transmigratory" nature of these people coming up from Central America, and yes, to a lesser degree now from Mexico,  the change brought on by the last election in the United States was a disaster for the American scene.  We, on the frontier suffer it most, perhaps…but the degeneration of the degraded old cities, especially in the northeastern sectors of the United States will or already has deteriorated many…perhaps most…of those urban areas.

     As what occurred with Rome so shall it be with the United States of America, if we do not re-establish some since of regularised domestic discipline concerning the entry and exit of people who are not beneficial to the national interests of the United States of America and the Republic of Texas.   The previous President, for all his huffing and puffing, swagger and over-statement recognised this situation and had made significant progress in the matter.  He also "grew" in my opinion in the respect for the Mexican people…and for the people of Texas.   We suggest that all remember the last election in 2020, when the heavily Latin counties of the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas had an almost 50/50 turnout of Latin voters pulling the Republican lever…an unheard of percentage for this area. 

We retire for the moment, and we appreciate your patience and interest.

EL GRINGO VIEJO

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