Friday, 14 September 2012

Bernacke knows he is killing the dollar and America, and he careth not.

      We rightwingers like to worry about huge convoluted conspiracies that are so complicated that the conspirators probably back into each other when they leave the conspiracy planning meeting.  As a Texan, and as a fellow who used to carry very top level  oil people into Mexico to go whitewing and dove hunting, El Gringo Viejo can tell you what would happen should EXXON- Mobil make a secret deal with BritPet to fix the oil-as-spot-commodity market.    Everything would go hunky-dory until one or the other hit a big strike in the Straits of Flapsplatter and they could undercut their life-long, forever faithful ole' buds...ole' Watzhiznaim.   I'll never forget ole' Watzhiznaim, if I could just remember what he looked like.
 
      Please be aware that Ben Bernacke is doing this slow murder of the Yankee Greenback dollar on purpose.   Geitner and Bernacke and Obama and Soros and all the progressive minions are puposefully trying to murder America.  They lie, they cheat, they slash, and they burn.  Nations are destroyed by the debt run up by the Crown.   Nations are destroyed when people are paid to perform slothfully  and to produce unspoken-for progeny.   States are destroyed by turning their backs on their ancestors and the Spirit that leads them to their promised land.
       Every measure, every political decision, every "administrative action" performed by this adminstration has been purposefully executed to promote the demise of America.   The zombies in the Obsolete Press showed very clearly in their badgering of Mr. Romney for having made very normal and salient observation....a necessary observation.... that they will do anything to destroy Romney and defend Obama, even if it helps destroy America.   It was well noted that when the President spoke and said nothing more than pablum-fused bilge, they asked him not one question.  Not one.   He turned and walked, he thought. victoriously away.
 
     It is ludicrous to think that a silly film that is old by to-day's standards caused any of this uproar in the Middle East.  The whole matter had been planned since before Arab Spring.   It is probable that Barack Obama is complicit in the matter.   Any fool would have known what the result would be, if Mubareck were to be de-throned.   So, El Gringo Viejo does not ever say,"Why doesn't someone tell Obama that he needs to think about ....." .   Obama already has thought about all of it.  He  needed to destroy the medical system.  He needed to restore the unions.   He needed to promote useless 'educational reforms" that would continue to dumb down the nation. He needed to do whatever possible to destroy the value of the currency.
 
     FINALLY, We arrive at our point.   Bernacke's announcement is that he is going to print 40 billion dollars per month in order to underwrite the steady debasement of the dollar.  It became apparent about 2 weeks ago, and was made official yesterday.   Since his decision was apparently divined some time back, the dollar has suddenly reversed its fortunes, and begun to lose value, fairly sharply.   Against the Euro it has lost almost 9% of it value in two weeks.   Against the Mexican Peso it has lost about 8% since the peso itself hit its own low of around 14 to 1.   The peso is now trading in the 12.80 level   because Calderon's budgets have either been balanced or nearly so, while ours have been riding a Saturn rocket lift-off to economic Hell.
      So, guess what?   Prices will have to go up, especially for things that are derived from imports.   The price of imports go up because it will cost more dollars to buy the same amount of goods due to the falling value of the dollar.
 
      And then,  why do we not want the Keystone Pipeline?   One reason is because somebody important owns the railroad that has lots and lots of carrying capacity for oil and natural gas via tanker cars.   Yes!!  Warren Buffet can  carry oil and natural gas on his railroad.   We don't need no stinkin' high skill, blue collar employment....in a lot of non-union places especially.....to build no stinkin' pipeline.    We need to pay into the support of the assets of the millionaires and billionaires who support the government even as the government prepares to take them on their own ultimate trip to the guillotine...playing soon in a public square near you.   Perhaps, if they are lucky, they can just take an all expense paid trip to the gulag where they can make buflamps.   Nobody buys buflamps anymore, so the government wants more of them because it makes production numbers look good.
       "Can't happen," grunts the pot-smoking, beer-drinking union thug on break from the bolt a bumper position on the assembly line.   We tell Thuggo the Thug, "The French did it.   They killed everyone they could who had 10 francs or a title of any kind.   They even killed over a hundred thousand children under the age of 10 who had any pretense of title of nobility."
     "Can't happen here" Thuggo burps.  "We're too sophistical."
    "Would you care to review the art, music, theatre, philosophical thought and writing, science, and agricultural and industrial ability of the French at the time?   They were easily among the top five if not higher countries in the world, in spite of the decadence and self-indulgence of the Royalty and Louis XVI's Court.   People visiting Paris from England were stunned to see the production, the beauty of the farms, the fine draught animals,  and wealth of the common peasants, especially after hearing from French Revolution backers that the peasants were starving," informs an incredulous El Gringo Viejo.
      "Berrrrrpppp.  Need to go in and punch out." and the Union Thug takes his leave.
 
It is all pre-planned, folks, and Barak and Bernacke are just  front men for the agents of "fundamental transformation" of America.
 
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     In Mexican 5 pesos coin, minted before 1965.................25.00 pesos

     In American silver dollar or silver coin, minted
                                                                     before 1965.................20.00 dollars

This price will include either one extra night with no extra charge, or three "shared suppers for two" during your regular three night stay.


That will give folks a good idea of what money has become worth.   The prices in silver are good, should anyone wish to take advantage of the deal.
This offer is real, folks.
EL GRINGO VIEJO

Hillary knew? did not know? Either way she loses. THIS WAS NOT A SURPRISE ASSAULT!

Only one person in this picture is the hag who was thrusting a
newspaper in the air and shrieking, "Bush knew!!! Bush knew!!!
She did this while flourishing a page that had the same six-inch
headline on its front page.   This is in reference to the assault by
 religious maniacs on September 11th, 2001.   She was accusing
President Bush of having known that the attack was coming but
did nothing....or even being complicit in the attack.
  But we have
to remember that she was distracted because she had to go down
to look for Chelsea at the Twin Towers that morning.  She knew that
her daughter had to be there, because her daughter had said that she
was going to be there, because her daughter had told her that during
their morning telephone conversation.  Madame Corkscrew (pictured
above) dashed down to find her daughter and was almost right in the
middle of everything, helping people, worrying about where her daughter
might be.
   Later, like everything else in her twisted miserable life,
 it all turned out to be a lie.   Her own daughter said that she was closer
 to the Catskills than to the Twin Towers, and that she had been staying
overnight at the apartment of her boyfriend, and were unaware
of the situation down town until they turned on the
 television that morning.
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Chelsea was NOT jogging near the twin towers when the planes hit. (http://www.drudgereport.com/mattch1.htm)

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX FRI NOV 09, 2001 11:43:35 ET XXXXX

MOTHER-DAUGHTER CONFLICT IN CHELSEA CLINTON'S TERROR DAY TALE

Curious confusion swirls around former first daughter Chelsea Clinton's upcoming essay for TALK magazine describing exactly where she was on Terror Day in New York City.

Breaking her media silence once and for all -- Chelsea writes in great detail about her personal experience on the morning of September 11.  But, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned, her account now sharply conflicts with her mother's version of Chelsea's New York adventure.

Appearing on NBC's DATELINE, Sen. Hillary Clinton told how daughter Chelsea cheated death on that fateful morning.
"She had gone on what she thought would be a great jog," Hillary Clinton explained. "She was going down to Battery Park, she was going to go around the towers. She was going to get a cup of coffee and - that's when the plane hit!"
Hillary's dramatic story about her daughter's close call with the Twin Towers became a media sensation.
"At that moment, she was not just a Senator, but a concerned parent," TODAY show's Katie Couric told viewers.

But now, in her own words, Chelsea does not mention a jog. Does not mention her plans to go to Battery Park, around the towers -- only to be stopped by a coffee break. In fact, Chelsea writes that she was at her friend's apartment on Park Avenue South -- miles from Ground Zero -- when she learned of the attacks!

"I stared senselessly at the television," Chelsea writes.

Calls to Senator Clinton went unreturned on Friday.
 
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      The biggest slug in all of this is the mendacious narcissist, catty Katie Couric, who is Oh! so much smarter than that rubette, Sarah Palin who comes from Saskatchewan or Idaho or one of those nowhere places.
    Catie, you may not know the name of the President pro-tempore of the Senate of Argentina, but you will lie for (Sir Edmund)Hillary.  Why did you not ever set the record straight about  Madame Corkscrew's mendacity?   It is because you and she are one in the same.


Laughing on the inside.   But what do we do?   Pray for the health of Jerusalem.   Pray for the repose of the soul of Anwar Sadat, the last of the Great Pharaohs....murdered by the Muslim Brotherhood, after establishing a true peace with Israel.  Remember as we consider the life of the Last Great Pharoah, that Mubarak held to his and Egypt's word and that the Copts and the regular dumboe Muslims and all the tourists....pretty much just went about their business.   Mubarak was probably not a great Pharaoh, but so long as he had his finger in the dike, the dike held.   Mubarak, like the Shah of Iran, was more good than bad.
He was much better than what the Egyptians and the Planet have now.
El Gringo Viejo


Cells and Cliques Falling

     During the hours of last Tuesday and into the early morning period of Wednesday, we were grappling with a computer problem that resolved itself in some part, and with the intervention of El Zorro, and to a much lesser degree McAfee.    Your humble servant even had to do a bit of surgery like that in the movies where an inept medic is receiving orders from a very practised surgeon via radio-telephone.  In any regard, the operation was a success and the patient survived.
     We did lose one article, a posting about the apprehension of three Hezbollah moles operating in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico.   They were taken down by State Judicial Police and a special, uniformed squadron of the Mexican Army, which specialises in very urban surprise assaults.
      There were American and Interpol warrants out for all of them.   The leader was recently released from prison in United States, after serving time for credit card fraud and funnelling money to known terrorist groups in Palestine and Lebanon.  He immediately violated parole and went to Lebanon and became 'lost'.    Later, with a false passport he entered Mexico and met up with his buddies who were carrying legal passports with a picture of Her Majesty, issued by the Belizean government.   They managed to take up jobs as waiters and cooks at one of the many hole-in-the-wall restaurants in downtown Merida....near the corner of 56th and 41st in a very dolly and gentrified and elegant part of a very nice city.   The three terrorists were taken down, loaded onto a standard commercial flight and taken to Houston's Bush International where they were turned over to American and/or Texas authorities.
     The Americans, although there was an active detention order for the all three, especially the one who had violated his ridiculous parole, had not acted upon advisories by the authorities in Mexico that the men could be picked up and such and such a place at any time. With the lack of arrival of FBI or US Marshalls, the people in Merida decided not to risk letting them hang around long enough to blow up a tour bus full of Frogs and Gringos heading out to Chichen Itza' from Merida or Cancun.
     Hezbollah takes advantage of the fact that much of the white racial part of Mexico is of the Southern Spanish, Asturian type of people who came in during the Saracen invasion, as well as Carthaginian/Iber peoples left over from the days of Hannibal.    So, they blend in, looking like any 15 of 100 Mexicans one might encounter anywhere in Mexico....especially major cities and in the north, where judeoarabe (jewarab) is an actual word.
    
     So, these guys are under wraps, if Janet Reno can divert her attention from Girls Gone Wild at HLS perhaps we can round up a few more.   In the meantime, the Mexican Army and Naval Infantry has taken down four very major actors in the Mexican Cartel conglomerate.  Four people at the very top, each ratting out on the other, and about 50 of their very important administrative (money people) and negotiator-level people.  Several are being deported to the United States or to Europe, but most are on their way, soon to the Islas Tres Marias, which is being used more and more for sergeant to general level cartel cockroaches.   We can talk about the Islas Tres Marias in later posts, but for now, let's just think of them as a kind of Hawai'i  for  very special clients.   It is also like the Hotel California....where you can check in, but you cannot leave.
 
     We shall leave it there with just a simple statement.   These last four take downs had to come from very highly placed criminal personalities rolling over on their buds.   The four heads controlled activity in Jalisco (Guadalajara), Vera Cruz - Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon - Texas.    The Monterrey metroplex is beset at these moments....and has been for the last two weeks....with brutal killings involving neighbourhood gangs of teenie-teenagers (aged 11 - 20) shooting each other up.   They are, fortunately, killing each other, and the people have learnt to lament, but they would express more concerned for an injured dog or cat being run over than for the loss of any of these punks that have so willingly brutalised the innocent.
     It is a sad thing to say.   But please believe me.  We have it by the millions in the United States as well.   And it is not only among the black urban group.  We are stunned here in Texas when we see the more than occasional police, border patrol, and even elected district attorney level people being swept up on an almost weekly basis.   There are four counties along the deepest part of the border that have had elected Sheriffs sent to the license plate factory in the last 20 years or less.    County commissioners, County Judges (county ceo in Texas) and other elected and high appointed officials have been soiled by all of this.
     It is almost to the point where one can sit out on the veranda and read the newspaper by the light of the helicopter working a take-down here in the McAllen area.
 
More later.
El Gringo Viejo 

Thursday, 13 September 2012

The Empty Chair Roars

Unbelievable!…
Barack Obama invited Muslim Brotherhood Egyptian President Mohammad Morsi
to meet with him in New York next week.   But, not Netanyahu.



 
 
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lectured Barack Obama in the Oval Office on the dangers facing the Jews back in May 2011.
But… Barack Obama won’t meet with Israeli leader Netanyahu over Iran row.
He’s going to be
campaigning and on Letterman.Reuters reported:
The White House has rejected a request by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to meet President Barack Obama in the United States this month, an Israeli official said on Tuesday, after a row erupted between the allies over Iran’s nuclear programme.
An Israeli official told Reuters on condition of anonymity that Netanyahu’s aides had asked for a meeting when he visits the United Nations this month, and “the White House has got back to us and said it appears a meeting is not possible. It said that the president’s schedule will not permit that”.
Netanyahu has met with Obama on all the Israeli leader’s U.S. trips since 2009.
Earlier today President Muhammad Morsi promised to sue the US filmmakers who produced a movie that insulted the prophet Mohammad.
UPDATE: Barack Obama told NBC tonight “I don’t think that we would consider (Egypt) an ally.”
(Maybe he should have thought about that before he threw Mubarak under the bus!)

 
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THIS INCREDIBLE NEWS SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE.   CHECKING ON THE PART OF EL GRINGO VIEJO INDICATES THAT THE REPORT IS ACCURATE AND FURTHER THERE IS INDICATION THAT EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT MORSI AND BARAK OBAMA MAY HAVE DEVELOPED AN "GOOD" WORKING RELATIONSHIP. 
     THE ABOVE ARTICLE COMES FROM A PUNDITRY SITE THAT WE HAVE FOUND RELIABLE IN TERMS OF OFF-THE-MARGIN NEWS AND REASONABLE SPECULATION THAT TURNS OUT TO BE ACCURATE.   OUT OF THE RESPONSIBILITY TO DEMONSTRATE COMPLETE MODESTY AND CREDIT...WE ASK THE OROG TO PLEASE CLICK THIS CLEAN WEB ADDRESS LINK.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/09/unreal-obama-invites-muslim-brotherhood-egyptian-leader-to-meet-next-week-refuses-to-meet-netanyahu/

Why do you say...?

Why do you write...why do you say...?   These are questions that come to El Gringo Viejo at various times.   Usually we are too much in a stew and feeling too grumpy to remember that there are a lot of folks who have just "tuned in" so to speak.  So, here are a few answers:
 
What does (Sir Edmund)Hillary mean?
     That comes from she, herself.   She swings wide, when answering questions about her past, present, and future.   She was asked one time about the source of her given name.  She answered that her parents had always been impressed with the exploits of Sir Edmund Hillary and, in order to give their daughter the inspiration to always aspire, simply "because it was there", they named their daughter in honour of the famous, if somewhat eccentric, Brit hohenbergsteiger.
      So, there you have it.  How noble.  What brilliant, loving parents to recognise the brilliance they had whelped forth.   The only problem is that (Sir Edmund)Hillary was born three years after the conquest of Mount Everest by anybody other than the father of Janet Reno and Janet Napolitano *.   Perhaps, one might suggest, they were waiting for someone named "Hillary" to do something really noteworthy so that they could go down to the district clerk and finally register the birth.   Any explanation will do when a person has to corkscrew down to the Courthouse.   *(yeti and sasquatch have long been suspected as being involved in the paternity of the two women in question)



What is an OROG or what does it mean?
     An OROG is the Order of the Readers of the Old Gringo.  No membership fees, no benefits, but an occasional chuckle and  place where you can find somebody who is grinding his teeth just like you are.


Why do you infect your writing with English spelling and other Anglophilia? 
    This is part of an ancient war El Gringo Viejo has with the useless and pointless changes that have come the way of the Episcopal Church, the English Church, and the Anglican Communion in general.
     More pointedly, it is a protest against the flushing of the 1928 Book of Common Prayer as the basis of conduct and worship for members of the Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church Church of England and the Anglican Community.    The basic prayer book, common because it is used, commonly, by prince and pauper, remained essentially unchanged when brought out of the Latin in the 1550s.   Some changes had to be made after the American Revolution so that Americans would not be required to pray for the health and protection of King George and all those in authority.    That is where the term "Protestant Episcopal Church of America" comes from.   It is an Orthodox Church, but had to protest the little matter of praying for the health of the monarch who had just been overthrown.   So it was changed in the 1790s to this...(see if you can figure out what part was changed):
 
       O LORD our Governor, whose glory is in all the world, We commend this nation to thy merciful care, that being guided by thy Providence, we may dwell secure in thy peace.   Grant to The President of the United States, and to all in authority, wisdom and strength to know and to do thy will.   Fill them with the love of truth and righteousness;  and make them ever mindful of their calling to serve this people in thy fear; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end.   Amen.

     The entire set of services and Celebration of the Mass of the Holy Eucharist, order of officiation over Rites of the Sacraments all comes came to this poor child when he was very young.   His Grandmother Mamie Chisum Neal...a nice girl from the low hills of Eastern Tennessee ...could quote page after page after page from the the Book of Common Prayer, used by Episcopalians...and their half-brothers the Methodists, Presbyterians, and the ME Church, and the African Methodist Episcopal Church.    She was not an Episcopalian, but the King James unabridged was, literally, her Bible, and she could recite with theatrical emphasis page after page of that cornerstone of the Faith.   She would say that she was a Methodist, but her mother-in-law was a Christian (surname) and very high-church Anglican, out of New York, and back into the inner workings of that strange Island that ruled the world before it decided to rot.   Her mother-in-law, of course, is El Gringo Viejo's grandmother.
    
     So, that is the long form.   There is reason behind the madness.   Perhaps not a reason that makes sense to a reasonable person,  but it does make sense to the this writer.   It is a reasoning that asks the question, "If it is good to change, why then is it not just as good to remain the same?"    Supposedly the Episcopal Church changed and ordained lesbian tuna fish and uses "relevant" language to re-fill the pews 'with young people'.
     Holy Spirit (?)... (wine, whisky, everclear, ethanol?)...why not "Holy Ghost" ?  Were the ghosts  in Supernatural Workers Local 2256, AFofL-CIO  offended?  Did they want a royalty payment?   Did changing the Book of Common Prayer make the message more "relevant" ? No.   Did it re-fill the pews? No.  They are emptier by the week.

     So there are a couple of answers to questions that have been asked over the last few days.   If you will all be so kind as to notice, no one can accuse El Gringo Viejo with anything like blowing up a mosque or synagogue or church of any kind....or beating up a nun....or tumbling a wall onto a homosexual....or shooting a adulteress in the head for half-time entertainment at the soccer game in Kabul.   It is not the way we argue or discuss differences.
We would never dynamite the Cliff Buddhas of Afghanistan.

Thanks for the time and interest.   Other questions follow during the next few days.   The hour is drawing nigh for our return to the Quinta, so we shall have to type quickly.
El Gringo Viejo
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Shooting from the Hip, Then Taking Aim?

The Obsolete Media and the pinky pants Republicans have joined together again.  Romney is a disrepectful monster who is unqualified to comment, especially inappropriately, about matters that are far too important for him to understand.   He also committed gaffe after gaffe during his trip to Great Britain before the Olympics and then again in Israel....simply ghastly...obviously shooting from the hip and taking aim.
 
     "It is obvious that the police in Cambridge, Massachusetts behaved stupidly...."  and the really deeply thought out and meaningful, "Treyvon would look a lot like a son I might have had...." or some bilge to that effect.
      Shooting from the hip might also include, "....an' we're gonna have our hearings and discussions about major legislation on C-Span...no more behind closed door deals with big donors...."

     Actually there is not enough computer storage space in the universe to process all the mendacious bilge that this pretender dumps out on the populace.   It is well that there are so many of the drooling  dullards and fifth column people who are available to digest O'bama's microwave emissions within their own heads, thereby reducing the amount of toxic radiation that hits the literate and straight-thinking populace. 

     Drooling dullards and fifth column people are well represented in the Obsolete Press, and they outshone themselves by co-ordinating a banal questioning barrage on Mitt Romney for having pointed out the errors committed in Cairo....mainly because it was blatantly necessary.   The Obsolete Press managed to question Barry Soetoro none at all for his incompetence, anti-American apologetic response, and his lack of preparedness for something that had been warned about for considerable time.
    With guilt dripping from the spot that marxists use where other people normally have souls, Barry points out that the matter is entirely the fault of Mitt Romney.   If it weren't for people like Mitt Romney there would be a lot more understanding in the world.    The sub-human dregs who allow themselves to become the fools they are assumed to be, and the cannon fodder for every wild eyed notion of religious maniacs, are at fault.   Their leaders are at fault.  They are at fault at the VERY INSTANT THAT A ROCK IS RAISED AND LEAVES THE HAND OF THE FIRST PYSCHOTIC DEMONSTRATOR.
    
     Hillary Clinton sent her "great and admired friend" into Libya (he and three other State Department workers are dead now) on State Department assignment, and yet somehow was unaware of the intelligence being provided by Muslim, Arabic people to the State Department, the CIA, and probably other intel channels.  Their information warned of Al Quaeda impulsed, organised 11 September Reprisals Movements.   None of these disturbances have anything to do with a relatively ancient, relatively benign look at certain aspects of the Prophet Mohammed.   We can know the foibles of  King David, and make movies about Esua, son of Yahweh and Mary having "relations'' with M.Magdalin or whoever...and we do not riot.   But it is understandable, and a just response, if the Muslims do it.   Elephant dung on the painting of Saint Mary, being called art and paid for with government money?   Very sophisticated.   Pushing the envelope.   Objected to by the narrow minded, say the arts and croissant crowd from the Hamptons.
         But, HRH (Sir Edmund)Hillary was busy "being absent"  from the Democrat Convention.  She was busy doing nothing and being blackmailed by her own FBI raw data personal information file.   She was busy staying away because Michelle Robertson and Valerie Jerrod did not want the Number One Bull Cow possibly causing a barracks uprising on the floor.   (Sir Edmund) Hillary could well have had her Jean d'Arc moment and inspired the apprentice bull-cows and the Flukie-dupes to storm whatever styrofoam Bastille might be available in  the Demo-prop warehouse.   We couldn't have that ...nope....we don't want no bull-cow stampedes on the Convention floor.
 (Sir Edmund) Hillary shortly after receiving
her commission from Xena, the Warrior Princess
and Gloria All-Red to save the world from Alar.

We are everlastingly grateful to have found a group of people....the Obsolete American Press, the Progressives / marxists, and the dull cannon fodder people with the personalised licence plates of AFDC666 who have come together with such perfectly matched leaders...so as to provide us all a better life for free.

Backing Romney, and hoping he can go back up on the mountain and find the tablet he must have dropped on the way down last time....the tablet that said...."THOU SHALT REPEAL AND THOROUGHLY RESCIND THE OBAMA SOCIALISED MEDICINE INITIATIVE.  THOU SHALT NOT REFER TO THE LEGISLATION AS ''HEALTH CARE'' AND THOU SHALT NOT KEEP EVEN A SYLLABLE OF ITS TREACHERY AGAINST SELF-STEWARDSHIP AND SELF-RELIANCE.  THOU SHALT REPEAT HOURLY, THAT MAN CANNOT ESTABLISH PARADISE AND PERFECTION ON EARTH.  CHARITY IS TO BE DONE PERSONALLY, NOT BY THE RULER's WILL OR OFFICE.

El Gringo Viejo