Now is the time for all good dogs and cats to act normally...

A TIME TO RETURN TO DUTY - PART TWO

 A TIME TO RETURN TO DUTY

continued from our preceding entry…..

     Relying upon the intelligence and integrity of the writer of the newspaper report concerning what is regarded as essentially a shutdown of the Rio Pecos, one could reliably take the writing and use the material for kindling.   The article essentially points out that the Rio Pecos is either dead or dyeing or both.  The article was somber and authoritative  and perhaps even believable.  However, one must remember that throughout the world there are people with many degrees, much experience, all nature of ideas, analysis, and best interests at heart that reassure the human race that The End Is Near.

     I mean…everybody knows it.   Doctor Fauci couldn't be either that wrong or that deceptive…he's a nice little old man who is just trying to help the poor and the downtrodden.

       BUT…there is a little problem as we move along.   The drought and shortage of water in the subterranean  areas in West Texas has been a bit severe, but it has also been confined to a relatively small area.   It is also a river that can "pick it up and  dump all over you and your ranch" or it can enter into an eight to twenty month "dry-spell" and pick up one-tenth or less than what the Good Lord allocates to the rainfall in the Pecos River (in Texas ) area, that being 15 too 24 inches per year.   There have been times when there was little or no rain in that area for 12 to 20 months.

     The massive Lake Amistad that has depths in some places as deep as 400 - 500 feet, and it fed primarily by the Rio Grande and the Rio Concho which comes in a ways upstream from Mexico   The Devil's River is a smaller course, running generally North to South, and feeding into the Rio Grande, and that flow is relatively steady and spring fed…although it is much smaller than the catchment areas of the other mentioned sources.

     And, to draw the noose tight, we can be sure that Gabriel will blow his horn some time in the very distant  future.   The regular and irregular rains, the regular and irregular springs will fill and feed the 200,000 square miles of that part of Texas (and New Mexico) drained and fed by the various aquifers and surface carriers.

    Thanks  one and all for your time and interest.   We are trying to get back in the saddle again…and apparently our response has been been than I thought it might be.   Thanks to everyone!!!

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A TIME TO RETURN To Duty…Madness and Imbecility Runs Amuck

We return to the Field of Combat and Contention

      Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.   Perhaps I am not the good man needed for these times, but we shall try.   As an entry and aside, we have been in a jumble of extremely compressed action, taking care of large and small problems and projects during the past couple of months or a bit more.

     We dawdled and procrastinated, helped and sweated, felt inadequate for not doing things better…and so forth.   Cats to feed, dogs to re-assure, lawns front and rear and both sides to mow and nurture…all rewarding and challenging, especially when one is normally disposed to hanging around, whining and moaning, and grumbling about the political situations…in Texas…in Washington, D.C., and with our friends and enemies throughout the planet.

WE TIRE OF IMBECILES:

     During the past few years, and especially during the last four or five years, we have been witnessing one of the most ridiculous assaults without punishment ever to afflict the Republic of Texas and its surrounding political entities.  For instance…during the months of October and November, 2021 the number of people detained and processed by the Texan and American authorities totaled in excess of 350,000 humans, of all imaginable ages, races, ethnic types, and citizenship.

     It was left to people in the southernmost  

A Clarion Call

     This is a bit off my route, but it is something that must be circulated throughout the common law, Judeo-Christianic, free enterprise world.  The below cited woman styled what this writer must consider to be a classic re-statement of the obvious.

     Our problem for the nation, as it is for Texas, is that we must struggle to remain viable in the face of decadence and the abandonment of Holy Creeds and proven successful codes of social and moral conduct.  Business conduct, social activity, the rearing and guiding of children and the pre-adult individual obviously must depend upon that which is dependable…and honest…and straightforward.

     There have been several contributors to our local newspaper here in McAllen, Texas and it is fairly certain that a tenth or more of the one million people who maintain an orbit in and around Hidalgo County of Texas probably review the commentary provided by the McAllen Monitor on a regular basis.   I do not wish to delve into the transformation of the culture and social complexion of Hidalgo County, for it is far, far too complex…as it pertains to the past, present, and future…to discuss within the structure of this missive.

    Suffice to say that Hidalgo County became an official entity back in the early 1850's.   Places such as McAllen, Edinburg, Weslaco, Mission, and Mercedes (please forgive the failure to mention the many-score villages, towns, and cities that also form much of the population of this County) back in pre-War Between the States, the Maximilian / Benito Juarez War of the early 1860s, and all the subsequent activity since make a patchwork quilt of a complexity never imagined by those of us born in the 1930's - 1960's in Hidalgo County.   That part of Texas, at the very frontier with Mexico and the Rio Grande, has witnessed all but incomprehensible changes and forms of common and extremely advanced commercial, agricultural, and industrial activity.  It is an awesome metamorphosis in my lifetime.

     We render now the submission of one Hortencia Camargo, a contributor to the McAllen Monitor newspaper.   She is one of several observers and analysts in this area,  very astute Latins of one or two generations on up into 20 generations in this part of the North American Continent, who have committed to the Free Enterprise, Judeo-Christian approach to cultural viability.   Without further droning forth, we present Hortensia Camargo's view of Hidalgo County and essentially the World in very few words…all gilt in wisdom and glistening in silver.

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AMERICA IS A JOKE

Hortensia Camargo

     President Biden is burning the candle at both ends.  The near, near future will clearly show Biden and his supporters that money and resources truly do not grow on trees.  The endless stimulus checks, blanket loans, and strain on America for Americans, plus the blanket cost of living tab for the entire world simultaneously will cripple America.   Small businesses will fail, taxes will be raised to try to support this ridiculous grab for "free everything" in the name of feel-good and warm-inside sentiment.

     Have you ever boarded a plane?  There is a reason they clearly instruct you to protect and secure yourself in case of an emergency before you help your neighbour.   Why?  Because when you are both weakened and compromised, the chance of you both perishing are almost guaranteed.  That's America and its neighbours.

     Right now the burden of keeping American citizens afloat and the entire influx of illegal aliens will eventually affect all of us.  It'll be with higher taxes, major crime, an uptake in COVID - 19 infections and variants, lack of resources, overpopulated schools and congested classes, more colonias, inflation, lack  of medical resources and ICU  beds, and…eventually Social Security will be attacked to help foot the bill.

     Each and every one of us will feel the horrific effect of the absolute worst and first quasi-communist socialist president ever, Joe Biden.  He has created the most volatile economy America has ever seen.  Awe, but like children: all the candy your heart desires looks extremely attractive, but America must accept that it will come with rot and a world of pain.

     The American Dream is no more.  Hustle, drive, ambition, creativity,  entrepreneurship and capitalism are gone.  The current system puts fear in its citizens to excel.   The famous income tax return pie-in-the-sky keeps the masses purposely trying to not excel and to instead settle; to live not to lose instead of living to win.

     To-day, parents literally teach their kids how to get an income tax return and not pay taxes.

   And, Oh!  critical race theory is totally racist.   If there were white-only, groups, advocacy centres, and organisations, society would be up at arms.   Yes, racism still exists today but the new colour of abused victims is white.

     To truly end racism we must collectively accept and acknowledge that all races face it every single day.   Being White in America to-day is almost a crime.  Don't let certain movements and organisations fool you…racism is racism, regardless of colour.

     Biden's America is a joke.   The entire country is being pandered to.  It is insulting and sad.   

HORTENCIA CAMARGO

McALLEN, TEXAS

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Mired…as the world continues in a fog...

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Mired and no recourse to cure anything:

      Sunrise, sunset…Sunrise, sunset…seems to be our situation at this time.   We were rather much put into dry-dock about a year ago when,  for a number of reasons, there was a necessity between the three major powers of North America to restrain cross-border visitation for business, pleasure, or just milling around.  Mexico, Canada, Texas, and the United States determined that people could fly to Cancun and have a good time, but they could not drive or take a ground conveyance …this in spite of nearly five first-class busses per hour come in and departed to and from McAllen, for instance, connecting the southern tip of Texas with scores of destinations in Mexico.

     While dull and travelled over and over again, it was somewhat of a purifying experience to either go down or come back to and from our places in Texas and our place down in the middle of Nowhere, Mexico where we have our little mud hut.   Each month would pass by, first with Trump declaring draconian migratory regulations that essentially did nothing beyond increasing the number of illegal aliens entering in to Gringolandia, and extending the ban, month by month.   The day before yesterday was the most recent, and it extended the ban to travel terrestrially into Mexico to 31 August 2021.

 Where my son-in-law and daughter hang-out,
on the eastern side (Caribbean)...
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     Similar constraints are imposed on people coming into the Texas or the United States, if entering via ground transportation.   People crossing either direction on the border have to have "justifiable cause" for entering the other country.  My children, interestingly, like to take a run to the east coast of the the Yucatan Peninsula…Cancun…Cozumel…Tulum and such places; they like the adventure of swimming with the non-violent sharks who seem to relish providing "horse rides" for the tourist.   Even the more aristocratic porpoises seem to like interaction with the tourists, and the treatment of the beasts seems to be quite benign.

    All in all, it seems confusing and counterproductive, but tourism in Mexico along their thousands and thousands of miles of interesting and impressive coastlines business is still relatively good.   Mexicans with credentials and a "legitimate purpose" still come into the frontier of Texas to do business purchasing and export / import business. My understanding is that Mexicans with an active and valid visa can still go to Port Isabel / South Padre Island as before.

     We can also suggest that the Peninsula of Baja California has steady Gringo and foreign business, and there are even significant developments for permanent Americans and foreign investors in various places in that part of Mexico.  Mazatlan and a score of other places along the Pacific Coast still pack in the airline arrivals and hotels and cottage-village places in that area.

     But…in the main body of the country, pointless touristic milling around is still either prohibited…more or less…seemingly dependent upon the moment.   It is all rather peculiar.   Perhaps things will normalise back into the abnormal to which we were accustomed.

Later to-day,  and during the morning to-morrow, we shall be writing up a bit about the horrid invasion that the George Soros and Co. have thrust upon Texas and the southern part of the United States as well as all the rest of the places that have been cleared by the Bidenites to allow into the United States of America without permit or permission that normally had been required.   The matter is one of definitive jeopardy for the reasonable people to understand as a distinct danger to the Texas Republic and the strength of the United States of America.

More soon.

EL GRINGO VIEJO

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