Talent abounds in the Family....I wish some had come my way, at times.

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     This is our daughter-in-law's Pegasus without wings, rising pridefully from the mind of the artist.   She has had a goodly bit of success in the field of art and commercial art, and enjoyment art.  She is given to the notion that life should be something fun and rewarding and involved with pleasing people, children, and the eye that needs refreshment.

    She has ideas and expressions of eye, mind, and hand that stop old men, children, non-relatives, and yes...the proverbial heterochromatic-eyed, left-handed Eskimos in their tracks. She has notions now of how Carousels, and real-live non-unicorn Horses, such as the one above, can be composed into a story that she, herself, can illustrate and write in her own way.

     El Gringo Viejo remembers quite vividly the time when we encountered her in the drive-way of our son-in-law and daughter's place near the centre of Extreme Central Texas.   There were several children of different ages, perhaps seven or so, all making a mess of the drive-up with sidewalk chalk.

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
are astounded by our son's wife's
talent!! 

      Your humble servant was mortified and wished to close down this errant activity before Santa Claus took note and made notes.....of who had been naughty or nice.   My better three- quarters took me aside in a nick of time and advised me that the chalk would not hurt the feelings or skin of even a hypersensitive university "student" needing a 'zone of safety" or a grief counselor because he/she/it had a panic attack because he/it/she had nothing about which  to complain.     When I inquired about the poor soul of the concrete slab and the possible semi-automatic fossils that might have been ground up and turned into cement, and she reassured me that, "Every detail has been addressed.  There is no problem.  Just keep on getting a little fresh air and the nice men will be here in a minute with your special jacket and the nice car with the flashing lights." Later, at "the home", my better three-quarters said that it would be nice to watch if our daughter-in-law could put together something that had over-the-top elegant horses, Carousels, and children. And perhaps, just perhaps, a mystery to be solved.   Or an adventure to be lived.  Or even a person to be saved from imminent peril.

    Children are only children  for a little while, and we lament when they become older, wiser, and a little (or a lot) jaded.  But, more children will come, and Dragons, and Faeries, and Santa's Elves, and Angels, and such things become real again.   And it dawned on me, that we are all a little childlike; and we should be.  The Dragons, and Faeries, and Santa's Elves, and such things are seen to be Things that are with us "always ", as it is written the The Book.

     

     The Golden Rule....the Beatitudes....The Commandments.....and the circle, being complete, is never ended, and it never began.  So we shall leave it there.   So, let us stand and observe if this thing is to happen with our daughter-in-law.

We shall keep folks and OROGS posted.

El Gringo Viejo

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Dinesh D'Souza....Right about 99% of the time

This is the Confederate battle flag of the Choctaw - Chickasaw Nations.   Leftists can

pooh-pooh can say what they might; the Indians broke and ran after battle or that

they defected, etc.  But try this fact on for size.

Some of the Indians of the Cherokee Nation and the Choctaw Nation who allied with the Confederacy and fought, both integrated and as individual soldiers and military personnel

frequently doing incredibly dangerous assignments as volunteers.   Some 50,000 Indians

were involved with the Confederate effort.  The Union had none who fought as Indians of

official and organised tribes / nations.  These fellows were photographed during a reunion

forty years after the end of the War.    

Stand Watle, one of several brigadiers who were feared by the Union military.  Chief Stand

was a tribal / national leader of the Cherokee Nation.   Look him up, before the Red Chinese and

the people who do not believe in reality but who love (Sir Edmund) Hillary and the people who

think their job is to strike down monuments and accoutrement of the Confederacy have finally

destroyed everything about the epoch.    Ask yourself: Why did these noble Indian Nations decide

to ally with the Confederacy?   Search for the answers....they will sober those who think organically.

     We lament that there is also substantial re-writing of history, once the Left found out that there was "lingering truth" in the smoke of the cannons of battle.  Negroes who "stood in", Indians who "stood in",  Mexican/Spanish who "stood in'' for the Confederacy are all carefully buried in the dustbins of History.

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     The fact that, while Dinesh D'Sousa is a fellow traveller of the anti-Clinton and anti-O'bama grouping of the Conservative cohort of the political spectrum, his movie about Barry Soetoro fell flat in many ways.   Firstly, the nut-cases such as I who despise Hillary and Barry of the Foreign Passport were disappointed at the first movie which was pretty much a re-mastication of things we already knew about Barry long before his election to the Presidency.
     Secondly, there were many other condemnations of Barry and his ilk that could have been made more easily such as his lies about not being really familiar with fellow Communists auntie and uncle, Auntie Zietuni and Uncle Omar Onyango Obama.....who lived as illegal aliens, large and on the dime of the taxpayers for a total of over 3,000,000 USD during their very free and very arrogant combined forty year Grand Tour of Gringolandia.  

     Because of that, we shan't be buying tickets to his second movie, because apparently we know more than he about the slime, crud, sewerage, bubonic plaque contaminated conditions, and general depravity that surround and compose the persons of Barry, Michelle, Valerie, (Sir Edmund) Hillary, Billy Jeff, the siblings of the aforementioned, Soros, the Annenberg Foundation, and the Obsolete Media.

     We still admire D'Sousa because he served hard time for doing nothing near what (Sir Edmund) Hillary has done.  He was railroaded for a 20,000 USD mistake in a political donation that he apparently thought was going to a PAC when in fact it went to a specific candidate's PAC.  We awarded him the Golden Tar-Baby Award for smiling through the same National Socialist FBI / DOJ prosecutions of  Scooter Libby / Martha Stewart / Chuck Colson / Tom DeLay and others who have tasted justice of the Left and the Obsolete Media.
     Billy Jeff and his loving and devoted wifey-poo have rolled over millions of dollars of very questionable transactions without any repercussions.

      Finally we wish to point out that Dinesh D'Souza involved the name of Nathan Bedford Forrest in his condemnation of the Democrat Party as a Slaver Party and as a horrid Confederate example of evil.   Forrest established the Ku Klux Klan as a Confederate Veterans' Organisation.  The personalities associated with the Reconstruction....mainly scalawags and carpetbaggers, (all Republicans) sought out the lower elements of the Ku Klux Klan to keep the "lower elements of the Confederate sympathisers during Reconstruction, in line.    Inconvenient Truth.

     General (retired) Nathan Bedford Forrest had a Pretorian Guard of some 40, plus or minus, Negroes who were slaves involved in his plantation and businesses.   He offered each man, as hostilities began to appear unavoidable, the opportunity to accompany him into Battle for the Southern Cause.  He told them that they would be Confederate Cavalry, close to and/or attached to his (General Forrest's command) person and command.  He also advised them that he had their manumissions already drawn up and in his greatcoat's interior pocket, and that upon the Victory of Southern Forces and the capitulation of the Union to the demands of the South, he would deliver these Acts of Manumission to each man, declaring them Freemen and Citizens, worthy of all men to be received.

     Later, during times that it seemed clear that the South would not prevail, Nathan Bedford Forrest gave each man his manumission.  None left the service.  All remained.  Incredibly, none died nor was seriously wounded in battle.  This, is spite of the fact that they were in many major battles, and many, many significant skirmishes.   Only one, who suffered an ear injury that destroy his balance, after a close-exploded cannon bomb struck near his horse, did not finish the War with his group.  All were manumitted.

     As we begin to close, allow us to state Nathan Bedford Forrest established by his hand and his bank-drafts, the first Negro School of Law in the South.....duly recognised by the Sovereign State of Tennessee....and later incorporated into the public system of post-secondary education in that State.   It is said by the histories that he was an illiterate, son of a sharecropper;  such is not the case.  Frontiersman, yes, but more in the pattern of people such as Crockett and Houston, especially Houston.   Forrest's antecedents had Plantation Culture in their background.
     He was the first true commander of what was supposed to be a Confederate Veterans' association, but he did not "found" the Ku Klux Klan.  When the Klan's lesser elements began to harass Negroes or even Union occupation troops, the fact is that Nathan Bedford Forrest (Major General - CSA retired), ordered the Klan to stand down, turn in their robes, and desist from further acts of violence or gestures of violence against Negroes and/or other otherwise law-abiding people.
     The northern newspapers and magazines love to point out that Forrest was not very forthcoming during the time he was testifying as to his sins, transgressions, and excesses during the War.  The fact is that he did answer questions carefully, and he would not bear any witness against  his subordinates nor superiors.   At the time of his testimony, the stark, raving mad Radical Republican Senators were still desirous of rendering every commissioned officer and elected public official of the Secessionist Traitors a one-way ticket to the nearest firing post or gallows.
    He was questioned very closely about the famous Fort Pillow matter, but he held his peace.  Union forces were also suspected of wholesale executions and/or abuse of Negro "combat engineers" (trench and battlement diggers), and other combat support and comfort personnel to the Confederate cause who happen'd to be of Black African ancestry.  The tales are many, and we listened to several when my brother was doing research on his dissertation for his doctorate, where the Black Folks who had been involved with the Confederate effort had suffered at the hands of dazed and confused Reconstruction officials.
     Several showed us pictures of their great-granddaddies and uncles, some in Confederate garb, and discharge papers from this or that unit, and manumission papers, and their Confederate pension approval for older survivors.   Those pensions for white and black veterans were awarded beginning in the 1890s by most States of the Confederacy.

     In short, things in the South were and are a lot more complicated than they look then and now.  High-handed thinkers and people of ill-motive love to forget the Irish children who were thrown into the streets after losing too many fingers working around the gears and spindles of the textile machines in Manhattan.....and the race wars that found the Irish and other dealing brutally with Negroes who thought that they would be better received by fleeing their position and condition in the South.   Hundreds died in these riots, in New York, Boston, and other places in States of the Northern persuasion  during the War Between the States.
     Dinesh perhaps should expand his two-dimensional view of the situation then as opposed to now.  As my Tennessee grandma would say, "He ought'n to measure things with a broken ruler."

We point out these things.  Only one person of Mexican/Spanish descent, Santos Benavides of Texas, served in line of command with the rank of General during the War....of all people of Mexican / Spanish descent who fought in the military during the War, only one side had over 85 per cent of the total of that grouping.....Only one side in the War had a person who served as Secretary of the Treasury and Secretary of State who was a Jew....Only one side during the War had over 1,000 heads of local government who were Jews -  while the other side had fewer than 10.....only one side had three Indian Nations as formal allies, Cherokee, Choctaw, and Chickasaw to formally declare War....only one side had more Roman Catholic brigade level or higher commanders than the other, by a wide margin.....Only one side in that horrid, terrible War had Robert E. Lee.   The other side had George Armstrong Custer. 

We thank you for your kind attention and patience.
El Gringo Viejo 

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Sage Advice from El Zorro....who knows a little bit about firearms, one might say

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    During these days of listening to useless dribble about guns, ammunition, safety, need for self-defence, 'the Australian Option', and the million different rationalisations about why guns kill people but pens do not misspell words, one finally just tires of it all.  We shan't argue or explain the point any longer.   We take our solace in the witty and / or wise things we pick up from around us.

    The following submission is one of those little smiles that make our task easier and immensely more pleasant.  To wit:

nuff sed!

El Gringo Viejo

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Let's Hear Again, from the edge....the Mexican Credencial Electoral Federal

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This is the level of encryption and processing hoops

the common Mexican National Voter's Registration 

Card has.   And every polling place now has a tie-in

 to the "Big Computer Bank" and every polling place

has a catalogue of register voters for that precinct

with pictures of each voter and other card information.

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David Christian Newton writes on his Facebook:

     We have considerable concurrence and agreement on this end. We would suggest, however, that the interference by computer manipulation, as claimed by the South American fellow who recently made quite a dust-up in the international press, by saying that he does it as a profession for American and Mexican politicians, as well as others, is very improbable, in my opinion.  

     Also, since the measures now in force in terms of voter qualification have been implemented, it is noticeably more difficult to determine who will win a given election at any level in Mexico. We wish to point out as well that it is the Democrats and the Left of the American political panoply who suggest that the "Mexicans'", and Black folks, and left-handed Eskimos (Inuits, I know)  are too stupid and lazy to register to vote. It is "too complicated" for "minorities" according to them. Such an observation is a very telling point about the "Left" in America and its opinion of the "minority intellect".
     Were anyone on the Right Wing of the political spectrum, or in the Republican Elephant Corral, to suggest such a thing, that person would be well on the way to the Political Purgatory for several million years, yesterday.

     In Mexico, approximately 88% of the qualified electorate is registered to vote. In Mexico, no-one goes around hand-walking "registration applications" to the County Elections Registrar. What one sees, as do I in my dwelling among the Mexican populace on a prolonged and frequent basis, are long lines of people waiting with stoic looks, as the line moves steadily, if slowly, along, at numerous stations of the Comision Nacional Electoral that are established throughout the Republic.   Sometimes, towards end-of-registration-time, the lines wrap around a block two or three times.

     It is amazing how such offices flourish early each year. The Credential Electoral Federal that is issued to each potential voter is built up on the basis, first and foremost, on the photograph of the elector, taken at the CMN's intake facility. When all is said and done, there are 13 qualifiers that establish, very soundly, who the carrier of this card is and where that person lives, and where that person must vote, if he/she wishes to have influence in the coming elections.
     That is not the amazing part. During the election process, where the Dry Law is in effect, in some States for three days (stock up early), the elector goes to his / her casilla (precinct) to vote, and in that location there is a voluminous catalogue that holds the names, residence, picture, voter's identifying registration number, and other vital information concerning the elector who stands in front of the qualifying officer.
     The qualifying officer is supervised by a committee of observers, normally composed of one representative from each party with a horse in the race. That same committee will also count each vote that was casted, one by one, and each of the political parties' observers must sign his / her accordance with the count of the casilla (precinct).
     The document, above-pictured, is so important to a Mexican of any class, race, age, or condition, that it is favoured over even the official Mexican Passport or American Laser-Visa ( both very respected and readily validated on both sides of the Rio Grande/Bravo).  The Laser Visa is the somewhat costly American computerized bio-accurate entry visa for Mexicans who make many or several crossings on an annual basis.
     So, once again, whenever this comes up, I laugh and howl at the Pueblo Unido en Contra de Todo y El Maltreat Intencional de La Raza Capitalista Fascista y Opresiva blah, blah, blah....who actually think they are fooling somebody when they moan about "restrictions'' on voter registration. Just the day before yesterday, North Carolina released the number of people they had registered and on their polling lists (which of course have no picture of the elector) who were over the age of 110: the number? 2,100 and some odd. Others with names such as Pluto Dogg, Daisy Duque, Flash Gordon came up to about five times that number....also with no photographic reference point, because that would inhibit the registration of minorities, extraterrestrials, and victims.
     We would also point out that during the past presidential General Elections, of the several hundred precincts that voted over 100% of the registration of those relevant precincts, 97% were in "inner city" precincts. We publish on our blog (privatouring.blogspot.com) with some frequency, details about the Credecial Electoral Federal de Mexico, and, of course, very few people believe me.   But the problem is theirs, not mine.  I live it, see it, believe it, and have seen the direct and indirect impact it has had.
     One additional note:   While Mexico is better off with a national registration, I still feel that the United States would be better served with States - by - State registration.


To end:   Jorge Ramos and Barry Soetoro condemn me because I say that NO aliens, not just illegal aliens, should be allowed the franchise in local, regional, State, or central government elections anywhere in the United States.  I say this, while simultaneously complying with the Mexican law in Mexico which, by Constitutional Provision, forbids foreign citizens from participating in any election in any manner including passive campaign support, under penalty of deportation and permanent expulsion from revisitation to Tierra Sanctus Mexicanus.
El Gringo Viejo

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Flash Mob: The U.S. Air Force Band at the Smithsonian

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     We thought that playing this kind of music in uniform was some form of treason.  Separation of Church and State, etc.  Is Nancy Pelosi going to do something about this?   Where is the Democrat Party that "Boo'd God" in their past two national conventions?   What is this world coming to?  Does anybody recycle any more?  Just where have all the flowers gone?

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Stop the Madness....

STOP THE MADNESS!

     Brits come here, Japanese come here, Mexicans come here, Jews comes here, Italians come here.   Even people from some country called Europe come here.   Judging by overnight radio, even people from other galaxies and solar systems come here.  They come here because our construct of culture and governance is more suited to the kind of lives productive and profit oriented people who also have souls wish to live.

     It used to be that the above named and many others came here with the the above-stated objectives in mind.  Now, however, we have changed.   We used to attract bees with the honey of God-given, illuminated paths to prosperity, righteousness, fraternity with the prisoners, the infirmed, and those who have had a bad spate of it.    Now we attract, along with the ever-lessening number of bees searching places to make honey, an ever increasing number of flies who come for the purpose of establishing garbage heaps similar to what they abandoned, so as to live at the expense of the host forever....because they have been wronged, they have been made tired, they have made "bad life decisions",  American capitalist imperialism forced them to work at places where they made 10 to 20 times more than what people normally made in their homelands.

     They come for AFDC instead of fighting in some way to better their truly beautiful homelands.  Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador....these are places that were, and could be again, beyond Hawai'i.  

     They are endowed with a massive resources / population ratio with which  few countries have blessed. Gold, bananas, ocean fish and mollusks, tourism, heavy agriculture, assembly industry.   Mexico has just recently entered into that environment where aesthetics, production, social order, middle - classism, respect for the true culture, and society with open doors to fall through and to rise past.  And yes I know of Mexico's problems intimately, but I choose to relate it to something larger than my brief moment upon this earth.   Mexico of 400 to 30 years ago ceased to exist.  Even with all her problems the Republic of Mexico is well on the road to reality.

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     We include this rant from one of my lesser moments in Facebookworld.  To wit:    

David Christian Newton wrote, somewhat in anger, somewhat in humour:

 

Sally Hemmings

    The slaves who worked on the building of the  White House were people of high degree and training and trustworthiness. Many were manumitted due to their industry and talent. It was a different time.

     George Washington was thought to be a liberal because he implemented and also argued actively for prohibition of the stupid practice of selling slaves apart from family. It was a ridiculous and counterproductive practice for all concerned, which, lamentably was practiced by nearly all Negro slaveholders, and perhaps a majority of stupid Caucasians.

    Nothing could be worse for the morale of the people. It was strictly a self-defeating stupidity. And yes, Virginia, many Negroes owned Negro slaves....and the fourth largest holder and the tenth largest holder of Negro slaves in the antebellum South were Negroes. There is so much so badly interpreted and so much measured by measuring sticks that did not exist during those times....Verily, How much easier it is to play last Sunday's football game on Monday morning.

    It is rather much like the Sally Hemings thing. Both sides who uselessly argue this matter; Be there A POX upon you and your houses!! Negro and Caucasian both!!

Thomas Jefferson
By Charles Willson Peale - Extracted from Keeping
 the Seal in Good Hands poster, part of a U.S. Diplomacy
 Center (State Department) exhibition  225th anniversary of
 the GreatSeal. Direct PDF URL [1] (24MB)Courtesy of
 the Diplomatic Reception Rooms, U.S. Department of State.,
 Public Domain
 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5547394

     The truth of the story is that Thomas Jefferson lost his wife to the Hand of Death. He went into a steadily worsening depression. It was apparent that this genius and astounding political and scientific and agricultural thinker would depress himself into the path of his departed wife.

     Hemings was a Negress of the Mulatto grouping, that being a woman of at least two races of ancestry. She was what was referred to as High Yellow, or Quadroon.....and like some...many of such women, were noted for profound beauty and exceptionally high intelligence. She was definitively and famously one of those.

     She was inherited and owned by Thomas Jefferson, and grew to be the governess not only of the house but also became the maternal figure in the life of Jefferson's beloved daughter...the twin of this wife. Hemings and Jefferson's daughter bonded in the mystical sorority that women can have.     

     Hemings was also in love with Jefferson and wedged her way past social convention at the time....utilising her astounding brain and comeliness. When Jefferson's daughter travelled to England and Spain during a learning and finishing process, her chaperone and mistress was Sally Hemings.

     Sally Hemings committed no adultery, no more than Ruth of the Bible. Nor did Thomas Jefferson. Their bonding saved and made two truly fine and  worthwhile Lives of Greatness. Sally Hemings should be put on the same level, or even higher, as Martha Custis Washington and Betsy Ross, etc. She saved Jefferson's life and gained freeman's manumitted status for her babies....a biography of the Hemming descendants reveals solidly good citizens....and it is a worthy story worthy of all men/women to be received and studied. It is a clumsy yet noble and positive story of Americana and the Southern manner of obsolete, romantic, noblesse on both sides, almost always thrown under the train by Progressives and their ignorant followers.

So there.
El Gringo Viejo
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