A local report

Hello again to everybody.

    We are back again with no real earth shaking events to report, at least from around our little mud hut in the Sierra Madre Oriental country.   Beyond a three-day episode last week when El Gringo Viejo had to fire up the old fireplace, even the weather was tolerable enough for the December - January time of the year.   There were four mornings when the temperature hovered in the mid-30s, once even flirting with the dreaded 32F figure.   Each afternoon managed at least the mid-60s, and the departure morning, yesterday, followed a day when the temperature made it to 85 F. 

      The flowering trees and the other growies around the area and on the property are already showing signs of the "reton~o".   Our monstrous old mesquite tree is probably in its last demise.   It is an ancient tree, but now seems destined to serve for firewood.   We shall give it another year.   It is being replaced by two medium-huge ebony trees, which is appropriate, because ebony is the State tree of Tamaulipas.   The two trees are about 35 feet tall and of almost equal form and dimension.   They are also close to coming together to form a solid, dark green wall on the upper-west side of the property.   (upper-west side?)

    

Clay-coloured Robin, aka Tropical Robin

     This has also been a very intense episode of birds.   We have had bunches of the old regulars, but also new arrivals.   One of interest is a medium-small bird that is navy-blue in colour, with a black beak and apparently a thin red line across the throat.  He seems to delight in jumping into our large tray of water (we call in Lake Guerrero), and thrashing about with glee.  He'll jump out and shake off like an old shaggy dog, and then fly up to a nearby branch to air and sun dry.   The rest of the topic might prove boresome, so suffice it to say that every day, all day, almost without respite, there were passages of parrots, song birds, ground birds, warblers, etc. without end.   We even nailed a couple of really good navel orange halves onto the flamboyan tree in front, and waited for the attack of the orioles.   This time, however, they were joined by mockingbirds, clay-coloured robins, green jays, and summer tanagers, at times simultaneously.   Every now and then there would be smaller birds swarming looking for fruit flies and other treats around the oranges.

      Another sign of the times is that the Old Gringo encountered a little convoy of American fishermen heading down to the real Lake Guerrero with their boats and trailers in tow....about six trucks.    It used to be a very common sight, and perhaps the event is going to start being repeated.   The last time coming up, another little caravan of trailer/motor home people was seen heading towards the Emerald Coast of Vera Cruz probably for the Winter.   There used to be 50 to 60 rig caravans....sometimes more...."doing Mexico", which I always thought to be a ridiculous way to see and engage a country.   But...to each his own.
      Topics for the days ahead will deal with the continuing saga of  the War in Mexico, the elections to be held in Mexico in July and in United States in November, the lunacy of the gun control nuts and their allies in the Department of Justice and the ATFE, the bitter silliness of the marxists in Chilpancingo, and probably the Gringo Viejo's lecturing of the media, the dumboe missteps of the Republicans, the hypocritical jibberish of the Democrats and the American left in general, and other pleasantries.

     We shall be mulling over the dull, pointless, meandering lack of substance of the Republican Primary.   The candidate who will say...."O'bama's Socialized  Medicine Initiative will be repealed as my first act....could win the nomination and election.    If he can then say, "I shall sign the Balanced Budget Amendment and forward it for ratification by all fifty-seven States of the federal Union.... I shall order the design and implementation of a complete embargo and trade suspension with Communist Red China.....Once empowering legislation is forwarded to my desk, that legislation will implemented....I shall immediately order the lifting of any and all suspensions of deep water or any other drilling prohibitions in the Gulf of Mexico that were put into place during the previous administration......I shall immediately implement procedures that will result in the elimination of the Departments of Homeland Security, Education, Energy, Labour, Commerce,  and most of the Department of Health and Human Services.   In the Justice Department we shall de-activate and disband the Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives division of the Justice Department, and the United States Coast Guard will return to detached and independent service as America's only free-standing military service serving principally inside the territorial domain of the United States of America."
     This "America needs jobs" goat barf is tiresome.   Platitudes aspirate.

More later, and thanks for your attention as usual.
El Gringo Viejo  

Windy Return to Texas

Returned from a few pleasant days down at the Quinta.  The theme, I would guess, was that everything was perfectly boring, there were a zillion birds including various new ones, and that the mornings were quite cold....for my old bones....and that my calling as a slave to cats and dogs was well acquitted.    There will be some tales to tell and some observations coming on-line during the next few days, so stand by for a bit.    By tomorrow we might be able to put some thoughts together.

El Gringo Viejo

One Last Note Before Departure

This is one more rant, because if it ain't writ, then there ain't no point to tryin' to get any sleep.

     The article is cryptic, summarizing the events that left a PEMEX gasoline station attendent severly burned.    A "student demonstration" near the city of Chilpancingo, Guerrero, the State's capital, turned into the predictable and desired mayhem desired by the "professors".   First-class and Deluxe long haul busses stopped in the highway with large stones and a human mass, then boarded....thugs demand that everyone get off....pilfer money, jewelry, luggage, and whatever for "the cause", and then turn the busses sidewise to the flow of the expressway lanes that normally smoothly connect Mexico City to Acapulco....traffic count of 40,000 each way per day is common.
     The mayhem had gone on in Chilpancingo for several days...part of the common marxist tactic.  They demand this and that, and the rectory and/or the local, State, and/or national government says okay, and then the agitators refuse to agree to what they were previously demanding, accusing the other side of "being insincere, patronising", and trying to trick  the "students".
       The problem is that there were no "martyrs"....people slain by the fascist brutes who are lackeys of the filthy Capitalistas Americanos and the "free-trade colonialists".    So, like the Occupy Your Property movement in the United States and other such nihilistic narcissists in Europe, it's time to break some windows and set some fires.    After all, why should anybody have any of this stuff....what about global warming?   Think globally, Act locally!
      So a batch of thugs, driven on by their university trained urban "professors", finally attack the PEMEX gasoline station across from their school complex....quite a nice one actually....and throw a molotov cocktail into a pump.
      Enter Gonzalo Rivas Camara, a pump attendant and minor repairs and auto service person one might normally find at a PEMEX station.    He runs forward first to try to put out the fire, then runs to the shut down switch that disconnects the pressure systems for the pumps.  Gonzalo is severely burned.   He is hospitalised, receiving excellent care, but finally succumbed yesterday to the murderous, depraved indifference of marxist thugs who were trying to destroy a privately owned concession of the PEMEX monopoly gasoline operation.   Gonzalo is not a rich man....not quite a poor man.....but now he is a dead man, because arrogant, atheist, elitist "professors" educated in Mexico City's best public schools essentially at no charge, decide to change their preparatory school into a popular resistence communist training camp of some sort.    In the ensuing disorders, when the authourities finally came to restore order, two of the poor innocent students were shot to death.   The leftist media, both in Mexico and worldwide, was quick to point out that "poor, Indian students, just excersising their legal rights to protest, were murdered by trigger happy cops."    There is no common lament for Gonzalo Rivas Camara, one who complied with his legal and morally correct duty, and then some.

      It is clear that the ''students'' did everythng possible to provoke the authourities.   It is true that the largest pecentage of the  body of the "protesting students" fled the area after the molotov attack on the PEMEX station.    A dedicated group of about 30 stayed and taunted the police.   They went on one charge at the police who fell back in fairly good order, considering the abandoned autos and trucks at the scene.  The next thing is gunfire, which the leftist press immediately blames upon the police.
     It is becoming clear, as was pointed out in the previous post some days back on this same blog, that the "professors" or their agents most probably fired the shots that killed their "comrades"....thereby providing the much needed martyrs.   There is solid, camera evidence taken by neutral nobodies....like people from the busses that had been stopped....that there were at least four "professors" or their agents who were carrying rifles and lurking at the rear edge of their students' grouping.    These armed people consistently took firing positions behind cover as if waiting for some opportunity to "fire for effect" .
     Sick of it, tired of it.   These same "professor" types have been coming down to this Indian areas for years with the same purpose of fomentation of useless insurrection.   They follow the same formula every time.   It is tiresome.   It is a form of premeditated murder.   These people are pathological.   Like...I have the right to demonstrate in front of your restuarant and drive you out of business because George Bush wouldn't give me a job paying 200,000 dollars per year.   Occupy?   Protest?   Spare me.

El gobernador Ángel Aguirre Rivero, el alcalde, Héctor Astudillo Flores y la sociedad civil brindaron un póstumo homenaje a Gonzalo Miguel Rivas Cámara, trabajador de Diario de Guerrero y las gasolineras "EVA" quien murió a consecuencia de las quemaduras que sufrió al apagar con un extintor el fuego de una bomba despachadora de la gasolinera EVA III; incendio provocado presuntamente por estudiantes de la escuela Normal de Ayotzinapa. (Foto: Abel Miranda Ayala)

¡JUSTICIA!

Por: Baltazar Jiménez Rosales

¡¡Justicia!!, fue el grito de total indignación que repetidamente interrumpió la ceremonia postmortem que organizó el Gobierno del Estado a... 12:42 AM

This individual was eulogized by his brother, a lieutenant in the Mexican Navy.   The Bishop, the Governor, the City Council, his mother came from Vera Cruz, and several thousand people came....at some danger to themselves....because the "liberators of the people" are very good about bullying, brutalising, terrorising, and otherwise wreaking violence on people who oppose and/or stand up to them.   The post election 2006 and 2008 stories out of Oaxaca are the norm, when people cross the commies.
     Simply please be aware that this entire incident was prefabricated by the marxist social disorder handbook.   A crummy imitation is Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals"....but it is the book of common prayer for marxist activists in these times.

El Gringo Viejo

Heading South in the Morning

     The Old Gringo will be heading down tomorrow for a spell.  The Sargento Mayor Alvaro probably was thinking that he had petrified in place and/or become a fossil.  We'll be taking down the dogs' and the cats' favourite foods and other goodies for neighbours and friends.   We'll have to measure the Labrador BiBi, and determine our plan of attack for the Spring in terms of the plants, trees, bushes, and yard projects.    Simplification will be the rule.   Alvaro says that there are people wanting to make reservations....so we shall see about that as well.

     We should be back before the end of the month.   Diana has chores line up for me here, but I always tell her not to go into too much detail about any of it, because it will all be forgotten by the time morning comes anyway.

Look for a few messages during my stay....if laziness does not consume my plans and efforts to go down to the chat-room with the good connection at the Estacion.

Until soon,

El Gringo Viej0

Banal, Drippy, Dull

Early in the morning, usually between 04:00 and 04:20, depending upon the patience of the cats and the dogs, El Gringo Viejo wakes up and stumbles in the direction of the coffee, cat food, and dog food.     At around 05:00 he tunes in to his master's voice, the SKY Satellite/Cable Service in Mexico or TWC in Texas, and clicks up  Fox and Friends, watching some of what they are airing.     Then he searches around on various Mexican local and national channels when he is in Mexico.   When in Texas, he will fish a little in the barrels  marked CNBC, Fox Business, and only rarely....just enough to refresh the memory as to why such channels are avoided...he will review the bilge at PMSNBC and other CCCPNews outlets.    

      However, one can  tire of watching Fox and Friends and almost all of FOX News programming at times, because of the banality that they manage to inject.   They forget that theirs is the network that actually does have the viewership with the higher intellectual ability.   The others think and/or say they are brainy networks...like PBS or PMSNBC or Whatever, Inc.....but it is actually Fox News.   So we should demand better.    A case in point, of many,  is the continuous pointing out that Congress only has a 5% approval rating and that O'bamaham is going to run against Congress because he can't run on his record.

       The approval rating of 5% is at once complicated and simple.   All sides are angry with both the "other side's" side and with their "own side's" side simultaneously.  My side is angry because the Republicans should (but don't) come out and explain briefly that if people want to spend 1,000,000 dollars for a box of matches in a couple of years.    They should also explain that for said reason....they are going to filibuster and block every program and department's funding until a complete budget is presented which includes an 8% across the board  cut in funding.   Only the War Department and the two stupid entitlements Social Security and Medicare will be kept at the old level.

        The Party of Perpetual Unemployment Compensation and Baby Mother Funding is angry because their "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need" drones have not already, at the least, either imprisoned everyone who has more than anyone else or better yet just taken all 100,000,000 who compose the 1% and led them to the guillotine.

What Father O'bamaham and the
Occupy Your Property Movement considers
an instrument of an applied "teachable moment".

        That is why there is a 5% approval rating.   Each side is impatient with  their own side.   Each side hates the other side's side.  It is a wonder that there is a rating as high as 5%.

Old Gringo to Fox News:   Don't waste air time with innocuous bilge.    Instead of doing a "FOX News Alert!" about how  "John Wilkes Booth is surrounded by Union troops and the barn where he is hole'd up is a'fire!".....it might be better to run articles about how the farmers and the the grocery stores and the food processors have made an alliance signed with Satan and the professional food stampers union.....

       They could do a special report on how the farmers and the bureaucrats signed another accord with Satan to put ethanol into perfectly good gasoline.     Did anyone ever notice how the miles/gallon falls about 10% when we put ethanol-poisoned gasoline in our tanques?

       Another article could be done on (Sir Edmund)Hillary Rodham's 40 biggest whoppers.   That could fill an entire season with reality shows that are real....Camel rides, anyone?    It could be called "Getting to Know America's Most Admired  Lady" . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBOf8HggAb4&feature=related   Some of it could be filmed at that Epic Picture about the War Between the States setting...the Plantation....what was the name of that plantation...????   Oh! But of course....Corkscrew-Flakjacket on the Sewanee, such a romantic  place with Magnolias and fried green tomatoes and smoking compounds of religious kooks burning in the background.   The smoking compound is the forerunner of the present day "Fast and Furious" program to strip Americans of legal firearms ownership.

    It just seems like the time has come to fight.   Every social program set in place by the central government has failed in its stated purpose and led us to the ruin that was predicted at each point of enactment.    They are using the armed forces to promote....what?   Lesbie-smooches?  They want lesbie-smooches but they don't want a major parade or a set of parades to celebrate the return of victorious troops who fought and won a thankless war that Harry Reid pronounce once...."This war is lost!" on the Senate floor?????

More later.....

El Gringo Viejo

        

Odds and Ends

Resolutions for the New Year?   No, we avoid making commitments that neither can nor will be fulfilled.    Stopped smoking, about 20 years ago....not because of being told by them or him or her or the central government ''surgeon general" .    Just stopped....no nicomatic, no tobackyblaster, no Chief Ludvig von Barfing Bear's Wigwam of Holy Sweatrocks 53-Step  Smoking Remediation Program of  the Stars (approved for Medicare and Medicaid).   I already stopped beating my wife because my hand started hurting too much, and I stopped taking six newspapers from the dispensing machine instead of just one because my pet parrots and owls all escaped and there were no cages to be cleaned any longer.

     During a recent visit upstate, we were exchanging a visit with the in-laws of our daughter.  They are a fine couple, very intelligent and generous and the perfect grandparents for our two granddaughters.    My comadre, after an excellent buffet she had arranged for us, her parents, our son-in-law and daughter, and our granddaughters finally asked the Old Gringo to explain ...."when it all happened".    She and her husband are very accomplished and polished people, more than a tad more intelligent than the Gringo Viejo....so it was a bit of a challenge to inform someone who has more of an intellectual edge than oneself.    Her point of reference was, "When did the idea of total courseness in deportment and total assault upon the conventional mainstays of of the culture begin?"

     At first it was thought a bit of a joke, because her analysis would be as good or better than my own.   Discussion concerning matters such as this question is what has kept university student union buildings full both in the coffee shops and the meeting rooms for many generations.    But, the Gringo Viejo painted out his own answer....Lincoln establishes the right of the central government to force people at the point of a bayonette to submit to the will of another group of people on the basis that the latter find the former objectionable.

      This seminal concept changes the Constitution of the United States from an instrument of guidance for governance of a Republic into a vehicle of legal leverage that will finally result in the establishment of an organic law democracy.   Leftist, populist, labour, anarchist, and finally "progressive" movements began to form up a persistent, new, and seductive policy during the period from the late 1880s through the early 1930s.

       That policy had three heads:

                                   (1)    The certainty that human psychology and society could be perfected

                                   (2)    The necessity to put only "elites" in charge of the necessary changes

                                   (3)    The correct vehicle to obtain "change" is government force.

     The answer to my comadre's question in short form then was that the elimination of the traditional culture became the active central focus finally, in the latest part of the 1960s and especially in the 1970s to the present.   Saul Alinsky, an atheist Jew, is feared and loathed by the American Right because he wrote the definitive instructions for the turning of America into an uncleanable septic tanque.    This writer sees Alinsky more like compiler of Bolshevik rabble-rousing tactics, and perhaps a thwarted stand-up comic from Hell.   He was a person of sufficient intelligence to know that his policies would bring ruin upon any country that followed them, and he also did not care....he simply hated America because he felt that he was not allowed to "fit in".

      There is something odd....very queer....about a Jew who embraces communism.   There is something creepy about a Jew who hates Judaism and Jews, but then blames his lack of social adaptation on the fact that he is Semitic.

     Violent and "non-violent" agents for "change" in America all used his book as a Bible for their relentless insurrection.   Barak Hussein Obama keeps this book on his bedstand.    Everything he has done during his public life has been based on the simple rules laid down by his "guardian demon".    Isolate your enemy....ridicule your enemy....saturate the universities with professors who will spend 50 per cent of their class-time with marxist indoctrination.   Always express your cause and objectives in short phrases....always find an "ethnic" victim and blame his plight upon the "system" or upon "White America".   Always remember the first objective is to destroy America and then rebuild a new country based upon the precepts of pure marxist dogma.    The Democratic Socialist Peoples' Republic of Free Atlantis.

     The joke in all of this is that Saul Alinsky and all his ilk are derived from social thinkers like George Bernard Shaw, Woodrow Wilson, Annie Wittenburg, Eleanor Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Margaret Sanger, Adolf Hitler, Nikolai Lenin, Carrie Nations, Leon Trotsky, Che Guevara, and a host of other similarly- inspired social engineers.    Whether we like it or not, Franklin Roosevelt would not shake hands with Jesse Owens, and Margaret Sanger found her greatest inspiration in the "advanced" and socially progressive techniques of the National Socialist (Nazi) medical industry.

WCTU Beauty Contest
Judged to have been safe from
assault by even a sober saloon patron.
The one on the far left (lavender
dress)is Barney Frank's great-grandfather.

    By the term "his ilk", one must include Bill and Hillary, Barry and Michelle, Ted and Hanoi Jane, etc. etc. etc.     But Old Gringo....it's not nice to always drag out the "Hitler Word" when making these baseless accusations....and terms like socialist.... and bolshevik.   And that is true.   But...worse than true, it's also factually accurate and necessary.

      The irony is certainly that these people use the American Negro as the skeleton key to turn every lock, and yet, their first and continuing objective was and will continue to be the elimination of the Negro race from American soil, and ultimately from the face of the Planet.  They have the same fate planned for all the inferior races, including Slavs, most Jews, all Arabs, most Orientals, all people from the South...(aka - white trash)...mentally retarded people, Mexicans and most other people with any Latin background.    You see, only the chosen will be allowed to determine that foul-mouthed, communist Whoopie Goldberg is a "Good Negro" and Herman Cain is a "Bad Negro".   We know because Gloria Alred took side on that case....and Gloria, like Nancy Pelosi, is one of the "enlightened".   Gloria Alred also loves Guatemalan illegal aliens....for 3 minutes and 32 seconds.

       But, to the point, the abolition of prayer in public schools, the extension of AFDC and food programs of many kinds, and other public support for the indolent, all coming from the entitlements etched in stone on the face of American social structure in the 1960s....and the continuing onslaught since....is why the Gringo Viejo says that the stone began its inexorable roll down the mountainside in the late 1960s and 1970s and will probably continue until such time that there is a massive rejection of public assistance at the polls....or when all is destroyed by the return of the guillotine and all the producers are beheaded and their pants pockets rifles for the last brass shilling.
      This little Christmas episode with the people identified above was something of what El Gringo Viejo refers to as a Rockwellian Moment.   We are all so dull and boring.....the old man of the group had quite a business career and flew B-17's over Germany.  My compadre is a Navy type and, (your humble servant is Army), worked all over Mexico in the oil business and other places in the world during interesting and dangerous times, literally hundreds of spellbinding stories and personal friends in high places.  The Gringo Viejo is the least of them with similar experiences and accomplishments, albeit to a lower scale of accomplishment.    The younger man, the son-in-law is somewhere in the stratosphere of a major computer company as is his wife (our daughter ) and the grandchildren look like poster children for a poster about poster grandchildren.    They are even polite and civilised.
      Why would any of them ask a blowhard like me my opinion about anything?   They are very good company one and all.   I do not deserve to be favoured by them.

Happy New Year.   We'll be heading down to our little place on the side of the Sierra Madre in a couple or three days.   Be sure to write in with questions should they arise.
El Gringo Viejo