Josephina Vazquez Mota, Accustom Yourself with the Name

We are happier to report that our favourite in the Mexican Presidential race, within the centre-right National Action Party, has pulled out to a substantial lead for her party's nomination.   We have Josefina Vazquez Mota, who has steadily built a lead and now, according to reliable polling among PAN "militantes", she has over 60% of the votes heading into the final nomination convention on 5 February 2012.    She is something like a Michelle Bachmann/Santorum cross.   She has worked privately, successfully.   She has government experience, serving as Secretary of Social Development and as chief economic advisor to the President.    The leftist press calls her "La Borracha  (the drunken woman)" because of her sleepy eyes and they refer to her as "La Nin~a con Cara de Mona del Planeta de los Monos (the little girl with the ape-face from the Planet of the Apes).    However, a centrist "body language specialist" from Mexico City....a person of considerable understatement and highly respected as a psychologist and analyst of such things....says the following:

     En conclusión, Vázquez Mota me parece, de los tres pre-candidatos, la más auténtica. Es una mujer expresiva, intuitiva y asertiva.   Su gran desventaja, la inexperiencia (en comparación a otros políticos) y la timidez que a veces refleja (a veces en su sonrisa, pero sobre todo lo observamos en algunas posturas cerradas). Evidentemente, no es nada fácil presentarse ante una audiencia, los nervios son perfectamente normales. Sin embargo, de llegar a ser la candidata Presidencial de su partido, esto sí le podría jugar en contra sobre todo ante un personaje como López Obrador (que proyecta fuerza y autoridad).

     In conclusion, Vazquez Mota appears to me, of the three pre-candidates, the most authentic (is as she looks, sincere).   She is an expressive, intuitive and assertive woman.   Her greatest disadvantage....(compared to the other politicians)....is her inexperience and her timidity that at times is reflected (at times in her smile, but above all, we observe it in certain 'barrier postures').   Evidently, it is not easy to present oneself before an audience, to be nervous is perfectly normal.  However, upon arriving at the point of being a Presidential candidate  of her party, this might play against her, above all else before a personality such as Lopez Obrador (who projects forcefulness and authourity).

     It is well to point out that this same analyst later declares Lopez Obrador (communist) to reflect his forcefulness and authouritativeness as does a drunken, braying donkey.....which makes sense because that is what he revealed in the last Presidential elections.    In that episode he made a fool of himself in the first debate and then said he would not attend the next two debates because ".....I have already won the election, anyway".     Works for me.

One of the greatest political pictures of all time.   On the left is the woman who
gave Snow White the poisoned apples.   This picture was taken when the leaders of
each party's faction in the Mexican Congress's lower house (Camara de Diputados)
were having an official group picture made.    The one on the right is our girl, when
she had been selected to lead th Partido de Accion Nacional, (PAN) on the floor.
The other one was the leader of the old, frumpy centrist party, the Partido
Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) and doubles as the head of the national teachers' union.
   She is as evil as Nancy Pelosi, but sadly she is also much more intelligent.   But would
you want to see her on the other side of the breakfast table?

     It would serve the Republicans well to follow the lead of their brethren in Mexico and support the moderate Yankee, Santorum at this point and leave the two elitist, liberal Republicans out on the line to dry.   They have demonstrated that they have only their own interests within their hearts and souls(?), and Santorum has demonstrated that he has the interest of the nation placed foremost in his pecking order.    He has also proposed "government-get-out-of-the-way" solutions....which is good.    All the problems we have right now can be traced back to central government programs and legislation...social security, medicare, medicaid, establishment and subsequent dissolution of the underclass, military diminishment, FmHA and FHA, EPA, educational decay....now far beyond repair, etc.   All predictable failures due to the fact that they come from marxist utopians and people who live in Chappaqua and want to tell the hoit poloi how, when, and where to live.

More later.

El Gringo Viejo

The Quiet War in the Anglican Communion

     El Gringo Viejo was moved to respond to the kindly Rev. Father Wier, a nice Episcopal priest whose concerns are well placed, I am sure.   He seems puzzled that the Republican people would think it appropriate to rely on tax cuts for the investing class....and lower taxes overall...as a method of providing employment and economic prosperity for what is generally termed the "middle class".
     El Gringo Viejo is not a kindly, nice old man.   He is a curmudgeon who has tired of placing ugly, evil, sloth, filth, arrogant sense of entitlement, violence, coarseness, vulgarity, perversity, and treachery over Divine order and natural law.   El Gringo Viejo is now too old to learn to be kinder and gentler to people who expect someone else to provide food for children whose parents care naught about them.  And food for those same parents, as well, also comes along with the package.

     The Gringo Viejo's over-reaction on the blog of the Anglican Curmudgeon is placed here for the view of all.  He feels bad for having to state the matter in the way it is stated, but does not apologise for the defense of the Natural Law of Creation.

The Old Gringo said...

     The Rev. Mr. Wier is a well-spoken man. His ideas deserve some reasonable comment, obviously. The question he raises is about calling Mr. Obama "the food stamp President". My comments are not reasonable. They are founded in a passion originating in reality.
     The fact is that Obama is.    That is the meaning of is.    Democrats and socialists desire the death of a sinner's soul and that he become the slave of Man, not of Good. The Democrat Party...all leftist parties....desire the death of a man's soul and that he replace his loyalty away from Yahweh and towards those on Earth who know what is best for each man.
      Large businesses also sell themselves to the call of Lucifer's enchantment by pointing out that farmers, food processors, transporters, and grocery outlets, along with school feed-the-fat-afdc children, all benefit from Lucifer's feeding the people and the children. After all, if the elites and Lucifer do not feed the people, who will? They themselves? Who will feed the "minority children"?    Will it be the "minority parents"? Who will feed the "majority children"?   Should it be the "majority parents"?  What a brutal notion.     However novel, it is silly. How quaint and backwards to think that people should feed themselves and their own children.

          We are told that it is better to give than to receive. We were told, in the Olden Tymes, "Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in Heaven".
       Now we are told,"If you have, you are evil. If you support yourself and give the second gleaning to the poor then you are a Republican. You are evil and part of the one percent."
       The only good people are those who whelp without plan, who demand to be supported, and who strive to become grandmothers when they are younger than 26 years. The only good businesses are those that depend on Lucifer's subsidies. And the only good churches are those who doubt every element of the Creed of Nicea, who know that homosexuals are better than perverted normal people and that aetheist women should wear cleric's collars and traditional women should be spayed.
Thank you, Father, for you time and patience.

January 30, 2012 9:57 AM

Thanks for the readers' time and patience as well.

El Gringo Viejo

Grumpy Old Grumpy Old Men

(a)    Why do the pinkoes at Google think they have to change the foremat for composition and posting processes on the blogspot.com system?    Is there a  "no sleeping dog left un-kicked" policy that is universally enforced by all pinkoes and leftists?    Is there some bastard son of Ernesto Guevara who works late at night and finds out that the Gringo Viejo is comfortable making his rants and grumbles with the same crummy system that he has used for 327 years?    Is is (Sir Edmund) Hillary I,  Eternal Queen of the Universe and the Duchess of Chappaqua?  Is it Eric Holder, working under orders from Father O'bamaham?    Before long, after a person realises that the entire world is out to get him, he becomes a bit paranoid.....or quadranoid.

     In any regard,  yesterday we were attending a bit of a parade, celebrating the founding of one of our locale's early industries.....grapefruit production.   It is the 75th anniversary of the event so in keeping with the theme of diamonds and such they decided to have a Mardi Gras theme in order to celebrate grapefruit and diamonds.   Such is the living proof of the usefulness of committees.    It was pleasant enough, however.

      The low point of the episode was when we went into the supermarket to by some inconsequential this-or-that and fell in behind the people in the express check-out.   Turned out there was a committee at the check out and they were sending members out to refine their wish-list of selection.   After about 5 minutes of waiting around on their coming and going, going and coming, debatinig about whether a 202 ounce Mountain Dew would be better than six 2-liter Coca Cola and would it be better to have ten mega-bags of Doritos and 20 tubes of Pringles or maybe just the 40 pound industrial strength jalapen~o Frito bag.....a non-nourishment-challenged girl searched through her several Lone Star Cards (automatic food stamps in Texas) and finally decided to ask a female relative for one of her cards...and they paid....finally...the sum of  $26.44. 
     I had to restrain my poor wife.   She had to restrain me....Even the cashier was angry and depressed.   "Please help me, I have to see this all day everyday at this store."....His words helped us calm down a bit.

Earth to Newt....Earth to Mitt...Dust Bin of History Approaching

Newt was right.    When he asked the CNN interrogator about wasting time with questions about things other than presidential level policy alternatives.    So, one can assume that   Newt likes irrelevancy when he wants to have a hissy-fit about whether or not Romney has stock in this or that company or a bank account in Switzerland or the Caymans,  or any number of other mind-numbing, pointless matters.

Mitt Oreck
for President

     Newt,  IT'S REALLY NOBODY'S BUSINESS.   Your private income is not my business, Romney's is not my business, Mrs. Gluberstiens's income is not my business.   If there is something illegal about the method of gaining income, about the method of investment,  some day it will come out.    You were the one who was floating (aka: kiting) checks during your time as a United States Congressman.   In fact, your taking advantage of zero-net-negative-checking-account-innovative- personal-financing ranked you up at second place as a privilege abuser.

      And, Mitt....Your presentation of Newt's lobbying for Freddie and Fanny is patently untrue.  A government consultation contract of 1.6 million dollars was not a payment made in cash in some dark alley....composed of used and un-marked 5 and 10 dollar bills.   Furthermore, as you know, the money was turned around in payment for office lease, salaries for clerical people and researchers, and telephone and computer connections, insurances, and all the other paper clip and toner things involved in running a doctor's office or a consulting firm.     That is was a waste of government money goes without saying.    Franklin Raines retirement bonus of 60,000,000.00 dollars was also a bit of an invasion of the exchequer as well, but at least Franklin did absolutely nothing for it save for successfully deleting all of the White House emails from the 1994 through 2000 period.   That's when Franklin was White House Communications Director.   Then Clinton appointed him to head the Freddie quagmire.   Quid pro crook....

     The point of it all is that you both should be named Oreck.   Mitt Oreck and Newt Oreck.   Or maybe Hoover.   Newt and Mitt Hoover.   Because your childish sitting in a muck-slump and pouting and snivelling over totally pointless personal details has demonstrated that neither of you is qualified in the final analysis to be president of the Welcome Wagon Committee.   You remind me of two sophomore girls in the dorm cramming for finals while suffering PMS and pimple outbreaks.

Newt Hoover, GOP Candidate

for the Presidency

While suffering their problems they begin to fight over which one of them will get to have first access to the make-up mirror in the morning.   That is the discomforting image that El Gringo Viejo has of the two of you.   During their next encounter, perhaps we can be treated to a mud-wrestling match with the two of them dressed in cheerleader drag.

     This is not what we were hoping for when we were told that you both were "aspirants"  for election to the office of the Presidency of the United States of America.   Instead of being "aspirants", you both turn out to be "aspirators" instead.     It becomes necessary to reiterate ones support for the best available candidate in the mix, and that would have to be Sen. Santorum.    He is the only one who understands that we do not need any further "adjustments" or "temporary debt ceiling authourisations" .   The Republic is running at 28 knots in the Adriatic....in the dark.....near the shoals....near an island named Giglio.

     The display presented by last night's "debate" leaves a person rather much like surviving a shipwreck.   Gee, I'm alive....but nobody knows where we are and we have these other idiots here on the same un-charted island....Gilligan, Mary Ann, Thurston, Tina, the Professor, Mr. Howell....

Thanks for putting up with the ever-optimistic
Gringo Viejo 



Lunacy of Leftists

(歌舞伎

One of the Old Gringo's favourite kabuki dances is the one liberals and other marxists pull off on the "waiting for a Republican to say anything about public assistance" game.

Tim Scott is congratulated by supporters at his victory party

in North Charleston after winning

the seat of the 1st Congressional

District in North Charleston, South Carolina

    "We must strive to address the disintegration of the family" becomes something that Maxine Waters calls ...."an insensitive racist blame-game used by Republicans to divide America".

      The next day, this or that "official" spokesman for this or that aggrieved "minority" group trundles to the microphone after the big official government meeting concerning institutional poverty and declares, "The failure of President (Reagan, Bush, Nixon) to move quickly to address the issues of hunger, poverty, and family stability is a form of racism of the worst sort.   It is intended to destroy a race of people by starvation and neglect.   A child cannot learn if he is not fed.   A child cannot learn if he has no place to lay his head.   A child cannot learn if he is dead.  The racist "Klanners in Pin-stripes" are killing the future of the (enter minority) by not providing the most basic necessities that are the right of all children....the right of all people....to have."

      Republicans put forth the silly notion that a two parent family....a man and a woman, perhaps....raising a family selflessly and working one or several employments or running this or that business....is a better format to apply in the quest for spiritual and material comfort.  Then, Sheila Jackson Lee waddles out to remind people that the GOP is the bastion of racism because they will not even approve a huge increase in (food stamps, school lunch, emergency diapers, section 8, WIC,  AFDC, public housing, free legal, medicaid....add infinite etceteras).

Col. Allen West, Florida
Republican Congressman

     So, public welfare and assistance programs, if mentioned by Republicans becomes a euphemism for a racial slur.    If they are mentioned by leftists, Democrats, and marxists, they are the measure of a certain right to reparations for the oppressed darker skinned masses.

     

Dr. Thomas Sowell
Certifiable Genius

   One need only compare the appearance of Black and Latino Republicans to the images presented by people such as Maxine Waters and Al Sharpton       One need only listen to Negro conservative commentators and compare their logic, facts, construction of thought, and presentation to the likes of Jesse Jackson and Mayor Nagin and recognise that the cure for poverty is obviously to become an African American who is also a conservative and perhaps associated with the Republican Party.     My racism is showing, perhaps, when I understand and agree with Herman Cain, Col. West, J.C.Watts, Walter Williams, Thomas Sowell, and several hundred thousand more.   Those several hundred thousands will be integral in leading many millions out of the desert of political and cultural slavery in the years to come.
      The notions the mainstream media and the professional race slugs have about "minorities" will ultimately fail.     The "community leaders" and "community organisers" are like the gang members and labour unions, as they imitate in their tactics, trying to force the "poor" and the "minorities" into gulags of dispair, to be used as cannon fodder in the cultural war to destroy America.    It will take a while, but the Kabuki Theatre will collapse upon them

      Please forgive the use of the word "kabuki".   Kabuki is among the most impressive theatre arts and a tribute to the advanced intellectual and artistic ability of the Japanese people.    
     And, remember to pay your fair share.   We have already filed and are awaiting Father O'bamaham's largesse to twinkledinkle a few of his generous farthings upon those of us in that percentage who actually pay income tax.    Abolish all income and inheritance taxes.
El Gringo Viejo

Southern, Crockett, Whig, and Confederate

     El Gringo Viejo recuperated long ago from brain-strains caused by his peculiar political and philosophical positions.   He retreated into the intellectual wigwam of his ancestry, his people in Tennessee, and took the advice of one of those people.     This advisor from beyond the veil spoke to many....both contemporaries and those who would dwell in Earth's future....by instructing them to "Be sure you are right, and then go ahead".

     David Crockett would not have fit into this day and time.    He was a showman, like Wild Bill Hickock, and an orator/humourist like Will Rogers.   He was a rustic man of the Smokies and the mountains of Eastern Tennessee.   He was also among the sharpest political and cultural analysts of his generation.    He gained fame as an Indian Fighter, and was also one of the foremost defenders of the Nations of the Cherokee, Choctaw, Cree(k), and other Indian peoples.  He was a Republican of sorts in that he was a member of the prototypical Republican Party, known as Whigs, at the time.    This placed him in the northern, industrial, and banking political group although his personality and loyalty was distinctly rustic, traditional, and individualistic.    While there is some question about his ancestry, it can be assumed by his colour that, like many white people in the South, he had one or two strains of Indian blood.
     He informed people of his "evolution" as a conservative politician having been provoked by a Tennessee farmer.   While out visiting constituents one day, Crockett came upon one of his supporters, Horatio Bount, pushing his mules in the black soil of Franklin County, on the back side of the Smokey Mountains.   Crockett stopped and waved-ho the farmer who reined down his team and put them at rest.   The farmer walked over to the rail fence and shook hands tepidly with the famous Congressman and said nought.   Crockett sensed that there was some recalcitrance dwelling inside the farmer's soul, and immediately sought to plumb his motives.   He enquired of the health of the family and the major animals of the farm, and after receiving the briefest of answers, finally asked,"What seems to be the problem, Horatio?   Is there something we need to take care of?   Something I can do?"
     The farmer elbowed onto the rail fence, and leaned into an instructive pose, "Yes, Davy, there is a problem.   The news came by the paper that you all met in session and heard the plight of a widow who had lost her husband.   She's a known lady in the Washington area, and everyone was moved by her new problems....having children and accounts to pay and all."
      David Crockett brightened up, and interrupted a bit,"Yes, yes Horatio.   You're talking about Widow Baker, she was in a tight way and we voted her a goodly sum to dispel her cares.   It was a great amount for her but less than a copper for the Republic.   You can be sure that we took care of her.   Yes sir."   Crockett beamed with pride over this quick disarming of the issue.     But, his broad smile did not last long.   Horatio, the farmer, continued to look down and was shaking his head in the negative.
     The farmer took off his hat, and beat the chaff off'n his leg a bit, and then responded, "Well, Davy, here's the problem.   I am sure that the widow woman is a lady and that she had a cause for help.   It was good to help her.   But there is a wrong here, and you were part of it.   If you and your Congress friends felt so moved to help this woman, then you should have taken up a collection from among yourselves....or held a social....or informed the various churches and asked for a portion...or any number of other things.    It is not right, moral, legal, or in any way correct for you and your Congress friends to take money from people in Tennessee or New Hampshire or Pennsylvania and give it to anyone as a matter of charity...no matter how distressed that person is.   It is not your money to give.   Had you begged a dime from every Negro, a half-dollar from every wealthy man within 20 miles of that poor woman, she would have had a willingly given estate of several thousand dollars.    But, you chose to raid the national treasury and displace the Samaritan with the will of a messenger carrying his master's money and spending it in a saloon.    The messenger feels good for a moment, perhaps, but he is committing an evil."
      David Crockett was left with nothing more to say, save for this promise, "Jesse, you have spoken well.   I shall return to the Congress and place my share of the award to replace the money and I shall attempt to compel my colleagues to do likewise.   Your words have cleared my mind as to the nature of my duties, and I thank you."

(This is not taken from a "wire" worn by the farmer Horatio Bount.  It is solid lore and something that was passed to El Gringo Viejo by his grandfather.   The writer's mother was born in Franklin County, Tennessee which was the residency of David Crockett and his family during his service in Congress and from whence he left to go to Texas.   The Gringo Viejo's mother's family settled into the area of Franklin County during and shortly after the time of the Revolutionary War.   While the above conversation was not personally heard by the Gringo Viejo or his family members, he can hear his grandfather telling and re-telling the same story many times and in the same accent and rhetorical composition as might well have been used by Horatio and David.   El Gringo Viejo has to this day many, many 2nd and 3rd cousins living and buried in and around Franklin County, Tennessee.)

     Crockett left the Congress, tiring of the hypocrisy of his own party concerning the lack of compliance with the Indian Treaties and in utter disgust of the vicious, dictatorial nature of Andrew Jackson.   It is probable that he and Samuel Houston both came to the same conclusion about Jackson....Houston being a close personal friend of the Old Hickory....and like many Tennesseans, they decided to plight their troth with Texas.    Like many, he thought that it would be a great final adventure to move his family to that golden place and establish a new future for his children and grandchildren.
      It is thought by many people that Crockett was an unwilling participant in the issues that confronted him in Texas.   He was used to being comfortable among people of different races and extractions, being in contact with Negroes and Indians on a very close basis.   But, once in Texas, he found that he was confronting another Andrew Jackson, but this time in the form and presence of one Generalissimo Presidente Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna.   He walked into a fight, that like back home, pitted the Centralists (led by Lopez de Santa Ana) against the local control liberal federalists (Zacatecas, Coahuila, Texas, Yucatan, Durango, Jalisco, Morelia, and many, many other entities) who were supporting the Mexican Constitution of 1824.   It was that Constitutionalist tri-colour that flew over the Alamo that enraged the Mexican dictator to unreasonable military measures that indirectly led to his losing a war that he had already won decisively.
     This is not to say that he was not a fighter at the Battle of the Alamo.   It is almost certainly the case that he was a fallen hero.   That he went down swinging "Old Betsy" and waiting for Buddy Ebsen to come riding up with reinforcements is very doubtful.   Best indicators suggest that he was spared by elements of the 2nd Batallion of Combat Engineers...known as the Segundo Batallon de Zapaderos, a truly heroic and militarily correct group....and brought as a prisoner to the presence of Lopez de Santa Ana.    Before the commanding general could speak to Crockett and two Latin Alamo defenders, several particularly effeminate lesser officers fell upon the two Mexican Texans and Crockett and hacked them to death with their parade sabres.
    According to Lt. Col. Enriquez de la Pen~a, XO of the 2nd Sapper Batallion, who had respect for Crockett and the other fallen in the actions of March 6, 1836, he included the above observations in his accounts of the battle.   His unit was the first to bridge the Sacred Walls.   He also wrote a long, detailed account of the war in Texas and was bitterly critical of its conduct by a person he considered to be a vainglorious fool.   He wrote:
     

Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna

The diversity of opinions expressed concerning the Texas campaign; the accumulation of lies told to falsify the events, published in national as well as international newspapers, but especially in the latter, and the cheap adulation have rendered to the men least deserving of it; the ignorance, stupidity, and cruelty displayed by the ministry and the commander in chief of this war; the honor of the army, unjustly censured even by its own members, who without adequate knowledge have superficially or inaccurately passed judgement; the honor and self-esteem of every military man who participated, so deeply hurt by the inaccuracies in the official records as to dates, deeds, and places; and above all the honor of the country, deeply compromised by its leaders and no less by the truth and the atrocity of its crimes – these are the principal causes which compelled me to publish the diary I kept during the time I served in this unfortunate campaign. 

     The "Disney" historians would not like for this to be revealed, and others who prefer a hollow myth to the hallowed truth resent the telling of the true story.   The Lieutenant Colonel's account....lengthy, over-flowery like other writings of its type at the time, and detailed have been challenged.   But it becomes increasingly clear as the years go by that his accounts are true....his charges of war crimes, incompetence, corruption, and cover-ups by the Generalissimo and his lackeys have steadily....like tales from the Bible....become more and more plausible.    El Gringo Viejo finds his writings, having read them in both the original Spanish and in translation, to be veritable and worthy of regard as truth.
     Enriquez de la Pen~a's description of timings, unit movements, results, the weather and climate and geography, the support of the Anglo-Irish to the south in Texas and the opposition among the Latins in the northerly parts of Texas....among many other things....point to his veracity.   He regarded Crockett's death and the two Mexican defenders deaths as murder.
      This winding account of very small moments in Col. Crockett's life shows, perhaps, a better understanding of the thought processes of a typical Southern, Confederate, Crockett, Whig.   The typical Democrat....the typical leftist....the typical stereotyper who accuses us of stereotyping while portraying us gleefully as Beverly Hillbillies....has neither the depth of understanding of history nor the native intelligence to truly comprehend things like the Tea Party movement, philosophical conservatism, or the difference between private charity and welfare.
The Gringo Viejo feels better now...for a little while.    Thanks for your time.
El Gringo Viejo