Popocatepetl, rumbling and huffing and puffing

As Popocatepetl threatens, Mexico central highlands wait

The level of alert has been raised to 5 out of a possible 7.   This mountain, along with its sister Ixtaccihuatl  (Ish  tock  see  wahtel) form a barrier between the City of Mexico to the West and the City of Puebla, to the East.   Popo is almost 18,000 fasl, while Izzie runs up to 16,300 fasl.    Each peak is 2nd and 3rd highest in Mexico, respectively.   The Pico de Orizaba is the highest, stretching to just shy of 20,000 feet.   All three maintain a snowy cover above the 15,000 foot level, although the area around Popocatepetl is a little stained by effusions from the volcano.

 Another view of the chapel of Santa Maria de los Remedios de Tlachihualtepetl

      It appears, reasonably, to be a little chapel built on the top of a hill.   The fact is that it is a fairly large church built on top of the largest pyramid known to exist in the world.   The Nahuatl name means "unreal mountain"  or "ghost mountain", because the Indians of the pre-Conquest period...Tlaxcalan and Otomi' nations....arrived long after the abandonment of this particular pyramid, built by the same folks who had built the Pyramids of the Sun and the Moon in Teotehuacan, 60 miles to the northwest, and the site of Tula 100 miles to the west.    That nation called itself the Toltecs and moved during the 600 AD period to the area now known as the Yucatan, merging with the local Maya peoples there.

     So as to have some idea of the size of the Pyramid of Cholula, it is built upon a perfectly square base, and each leg is one-fourth of a mile in length.  The foundation excavations go down almost 100 feet below what is thought to be the original surface, and the structure from surface to top of structure rises almost 80 feet in height.   On the highest patio in these days, one can see Orizaba, Ixtaccihuatl, Popocatepetl, and La Malinche peaks, and that is covering a lot of territory, almost the size of New England.

      The 2,000 pound gorilla in all of this is Mexico City.   Puebla with its Volkswagen factory and its Cholula suburb is very impressive, and a place worth living in or around, but Mexico City....or better stated....the Federal District....is in the sights of Popocatepetl.    A huge effusion of smoke, pumice particulate, and/or lavic flow heading to the west from the high ridges would bring various levels of catastrophe to 23,000,000 people in the District and surrounding areas.    It is such a severe problem that Mexico City and Mexico in general has responded in recent polls that the impending natural disasters, including the up-coming hurricane season, have displaced the cartel violence as the number one concern of the populace.

       We shall await the will of Popo and give you all reports and updates.   As of yet, we have had no ash-fall on our place outside of Victoria, Tamaulipas.  Upper level winds have been moving some of the effusion in our direction, however.   It will be interesting to see if Obamaham and his secret service will be able to make the trip to Mexico City for the schedule diplomatic events in the next couple of weeks

El Gringo Viejo.

Peas in a Pod - A true band of brothers

The following submission is placed so as to beseech all OROGs and their friends, family, neighbours, and associates not to unduly comment about any matters that might have to do with nurses who kill mothers in order to steal babies, or the fact that 30,000 African-Americans are killed every year by other African Americans, while whites, both "Hispanic" and non-"Hispanic", kill about 300 African Americans usually during drug deals gone bad, every year.    These facts are known and there is no need to engage in discussion of them. 

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El Gringo Viejo truly believes that these people co-ordinate their activities so as to maximise their fund-raising and overall anti-American objectives.   Remember that the Klan, like the Obama administration, is dedicated to National Socialist principles, and like all good Nazis they seek the ruin of America.   All socialists hate America.   It is also worth noting that Margaret Sanger, like all leftists and eugenicists, was a big backer of the KKK back in the day when Robert Byrd was "forced" to be a Grand Exalted Recruiting Gizzard for the Klan....(according to William Jefferson Blythe, protoge of J. William Fulbright, also a big supporter of the Ku Klux Klan.) 

The persons above-depicted
depend upon the existence of
 the below-listed for their existence

These guys depend on the ones above for their
existence.   Peas in a pod.

The Basic Problem with Everything

The obvious needs to be re-stated every  now and then.    This is a short reminder to all what the basic, radical, fundamental problem is with every trainwreck presently affecting our governance and culture.

     (1)     Hubris of homo sapiens  who think they can violate the Laws of Nature as established by Yahweh.

     (2)     The provision of subsidies to the poor, ie Section 8, AFDC, Food Stamps, utility subsidies, school feeding programs, WIC, and several score other programs designed to "help" the "poor".   The programs sustain intergenerational decadence, dependency, deviancy, and degeneration.

      They also pay for interests in farming, food processing, large scale food sales, banking, home rental and leasing interests, and a myriad of other businesses that latch onto the Government trough of "free money".   These otherwise good and properly involved producers fall into the quicksand of sewer sludge by thinking that they are "helping" people by facilitating the addiction of intergenerational slugs to public assistance.

      If all the above programs were to be phased out completely over the next seven years, there would be a reduction in housing costs and less overall tax and spend justifications "for the children".   There would be an overall decrease in the cost of foodstuffs due to the inviolable rule that dictates that the price of anything must rise as a function of the amount of government money that is applied to the issue.   This is because the government money provokes the overproduction of goods and the overconsumption of goods that are not justified by a free market environment.   Prices will seek the limit of the money available to spend. 

     (3)      Every bureaucrat's number one objective is to justify his useless job.   After that, he is involved in a quest to demand, require, and establish an assistant bureaucrat, a secretary for him and his assistant, and an increase in staff and successive budget increases to address a problem that was much greater than previously thought and becoming worse by the day.

      That way, the Office of Compliance with Metric Conversion, Commission for Conversion Studies of Weights and Measures, Assistant-Secretary of Defense for Civilian Impact Programs and Studies, Army Corps (Korpse) of Engineers,  InterAgency Working Group for InterGovernmental Studies, Applications, and Environmental Impact in Civilian Environments,  New Orleans District, Southwestern Regional Office of the Executive Office of the President.....(whew!)..... can address critical issues affecting women, minorities, children, and Eskimoes.....and white Hispanics.....and transgendered parking metre attendants of partial Polynesian and/or Oriental Ancestry.

The solution, obviously is to abolish not only the Departments and agencies named below, but also any of their functions.

     Transportation Security Agency

     Federal Emergency Management Agency

     Department of Agriculture

     Department of Education

     Department of Energy

     Department of Health and Human Debris

     Department of Housing and Urban Decay

     Department of Veteran'' Affairs

     Department of Homeland Security

     Department of Commerce

     Internal Revenue Service
     Bureau of Indian Affairs
     Army Corps (Korpse) of Engineers
     Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Agency
     Interstate Commerce Commission
     National Labour Relations Board

     For Starters.

(Before OROGs jump El Gringo Viejo's bones about the Veterans, it is our position that each branch of service...including the Coast Guard, which would be re-militarised under our proposal, would be required to deal with its own veterans.    Each of the services would do a better job of taking care of their own brothers and oversight would be better for hospitals, pensions, etc.)

Thanks for waking up with the ravings of a terribly frustrated laissez faire nut-case.

El Gringo Viejo

    

Michelle Obama: 'This President Has Brought Us Out of the Dark and Into the Light"

     The number of OROGs is increasingly numerous.   It is a gratification and each reader is sincerely appreciated.   El Gringo Viejo shall re-double his efforts to present a slightly different, but coherent point of view, and to mix a bit of humour and information about Mexico into the marble cake batter as we go.

     The title of this entry summarises the issue.   Suitcase Michelle has gone pretty and soft on us, although, to any reasonable observer, she is neither pretty nor soft.   She is a hardened marxist warrior, schooled and trained up in the ways of Saul Alinsky and dedicated to the overthrow of America as a free-enterprise, faith based Nation under God.    Her most famous utterance for the history books is ".....for the first time in my adult life, I am proud of America."

     This means, of course, that her idea of a good America is an America that drinks enough Kool-Aid so as to stumble into a situation that finds the Nation nominating and then electing a Negro simply because he is a Negro, to the office of the Presidency of the Union.     She lauds a person who is un-examined concerning his credentials, untested concerning his motives, with ample evidence that he is a complete and total marxist abounding in all directions emanating from his present and past, and whose very writings and gyrations concerning nativity indicate is a clear and present danger to the Republic.

     There is ample evidence to support the fact that he is an unpublished, un-distinguished holder of titles such as Editor of the Law Review, and the title of "professor of Constitutional Law" although he knows and/or cares nothing about the Constitution of the United States of America.  It is fairly well accepted, even by his own camp, that his books were ghosted by a totally dedicated communist terrorist, and that he was pretty much cut out of whole cloth by the most corrupt political organisation within the most corrupt political party in the United States, that being the Cook County, Illinois Democrat machine, which is union local of the Amalgamated National Socialist Workers' Party of America.

Permanent Member of the Democrat
National Socialist Labour Party's Executive
Committee

      But enough of this chewn cud.  Simply be aware and rest assured that it is basic communist tactic, and at times strategy, to employ powerful linkages between whatever "leader" is being adulated at the moment to the immanence and importance of the Supreme Deity and/or his Son.   It is an axiom of the warfare template of those who cleave unto the Atheist Religion of Liberation Theology.    It has been practised within the Anglican Communion for three generations (at least), and almost every major sect and denomination of the Christian and Hebraic Religions for at least as long.

     To be overly cutesy, a man who brought us Solyndra and Solar One, and the Chevrolet Volt, and 20,000 wind energy job losses in two years....did not really bring us to the light.   He is the darkness, related to his not-to-distant Uncle, revered by Saul Alinsky who dedicated his major literary work to that Uncle of Obama....a fellow named Lucifer.

      Sorry, Michelle....but Star Kist really does prefer tuna that tastes good....not Red.

Thanks for your time.

El Gringo Viejo 

A few images of the grounds of the Quinta Tesoro de la Sierra Madre

 Bouganvilla growing into
ebony tree

An image from above to below, looking

in the direction towards the Rio Corona

On the left is a powder-puff with red blooms,
and our free-standing rock wall made of malaquite
stones, hauled up from the Rio Corona.  On
the right is a huge rosemary bush that we use
in some of our recipes.

A slightly different view
with a flamboyan tree anchoring
the right margin

The climbing rose
'that ate Tokyo

The north wall of the Quinta, with our
little 2 hp electric water pump.  It's a Spanish
pump, made in Mexico, with a three year
warranty.   It's going on 10 years now.



Our little emerald island of carpet grass. along
with the parrilla and Alvaro's prep table.
This is another corner of our small but
complex "front yard".

These are just a few of the pictures we made during our last stay down at the Quinta Tesoro de la Sierra Madre. We are anticipating quite a bit of further enhancement of all of this, especially in June when the flamboyan trees begin to bloom.

Thanks for your attention.
El Gringo Viejo

Whose mote, and whose beam?

	BOLETÍN INFORMATIVO DIRECCIÓN DE COMUNICACIÓN SOCIAL BUSCAN ALTERNATIVAS PARA CONCILIAR LA PAZ ENTRE COLONIAS (Informational Bulletin, Directory of Social Communication:   Alternatives are sought to conciliate the peace between city subdivisions)
	El Presidente Municipal, Ing. Jaime Rodríguez Calderón, ocupado por mantener la tranquilidad de los ciudadanos de García, Villa Metropolitana, se reunió con ciudadanos del sector poniente para conocer sus necesidades.  (The County President, Engineer Jaime Roriguez Calderon, worried about maintaining the tranquility of the citizens of Villa de Garcia, a village within the Metroplex, met himself with citizens of the western part of the community to learn of their necessities.)   Vecinos de la colonia Villas del Poniente aprovecharon el diálogo con el Presidente Municipal para exponer las inquietudes y problemáticas que tienen con los habitantes de la colonia Alianza, del Municipio de Monterrey. (Neighbours of the Colonia Villa del Poniente took advantage of the opportunity to have dialogue with the County President to expose the inquietudes and problems that they have with the inhabitants of the Colonia Alliance, in the County of Monterrey.)     El problema más sobresaliente es el derrumbe de una barda que fungía como división entre ambas colonias, lo que ocasiona la molestia de los ciudadanos pues las pandillas se cruzan de fraccionamiento a fraccionamiento para hacer maldades. (The problem most apparent is the tearing down of the wall that physically serves as a division between the two colonias, and which causes the molestation of the citizens of Villas del Poniente because the thug gangs who cross themselves from one subdivision to another subdivision to do evil things.) La solución que se propuso, por parte de la administración, es la reconstrucción de la pared, así como la colocación de puertas de acceso en los planteles educativos, que dan hacia el lado de la colonia aledaña, para que vecinos de la Alianza puedan llevar a sus hijos a la escuela sin ningún problema y no tengan que rodear hasta la avenida Lincoln. (The solution that was proposed, on the part of the administration, is the reconstruction of the wall, along with the placement of gates of access near certain educacational campus settings, which would give access to and from the adjacent colonia to the end that neighbours in the Colonia Alianza can bring their children to school without any problem, and so as to avoid having to make the circle all the way out to Lincoln Avenue.) Por su parte los miembros de la colonia Villas del Poniente se comprometieron a poner la mano de obra para dar solución al conflicto y mejorar la convivencia entre vecinos. (For their part, the members of the Colonia Villa del Poniente committed themselves to put the hand-labour into the effort to give a solution to the conflict, and to improve the convivience between neighbours.)
	--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THIS NOTE:      As one might imagine, the Colonial Villa del Poniente, you can see their house in the background of the last picture, are middle and upper-middle class people, often of blue collar background.   Many are small business owners or independent specialty construction contractors.   For some reason they do not like having to have gangs from a different Colonia, and from a different city/county that just happens to be adjacent to them, coming into their Colonia to conduct their gang-wars.   They do not like the grafitti, the crime, the vandalism, and the unsupervised nature of the children and adolescents next to them.       The lower element....the perpetually poor....resent the idea that some one would do something so inhospitable as to build a wall between the two colonias.   The solution to rebuild the wall that was torn down by the lower element in many places, and to provide a few check-point style gates so as to allow the enrolled primary students who pertained to three or four of the primary schools in the Colonia Villas del Poniente that are within the district of attentence for the urchins of the Colonia Alianza.        Of course, the gangs in Colonia Alianza came and dismantled the gates and took them off to sell for scrap to raise money to buy glue, paint, and marijuana.   So all the agreements identified above, last year, have been scuttled and dumped into the dumpster.   The people on the Villas del Poniente of the community of Garcia have unilaterally rebuilt their Wall of Protection dividing the two colonias.   They have also formed a community supervision group, and hired armed professional security service to patrol the wall, day and night.   The local police of Garcia have also begun parking along the wall as an additional presence.      The cartel people are complaining, because it has suddenly become more difficult for them to recruit urchins from the Colonia Alianza for training in the criminal profession.   Most of the boys and many of the girls in the Colonia Villas del Poniente are taking kung fu, along with their baseball, soccer, and ballet after school activities.      This is not an endorsement of the Border Wall, but it is an example of why and what people do in order to defend themselves against a foe with no soul.