Pinned Against the Wall Like Basil Rathbone!

Then, after just turning in for one of my famous 4 hour sleep fests at 23:00 hours, once again there are sounds of hooves at hard gallop.   But this time the rider dismounts and can be heard striding to the main door of the Quinta.   Suddenly, a sharp thud is heard on our thick wooden door, followed by the sound of deliberate striding back to the horse...neither quickly nor slowly....and then the diminishing sounds of a long-legged Arabian beating 30 miles-per-hour, heading back to those caves in the mountains....or to another nice house on the other side, on a bigger property....there is much speculation about precisely where "where" is.

     The events force attention.  El Gringo Viejo gets up and puts on his old, stained jeans and checks on the door.  He opens it carefully, making sure not to let one of the cats in with her new pet mouse.   Lo and Behold, there is a full-scale, older Bowie knife thrust fully an inch into extremely hard Mexican Tropical Oak, and pinning a note.  Once again the note is written in fine hand on a thick sheet of elegant stationery.   It states:

       

RE: http://www.mosinguy.com/elgringoviejo/egv101812a.htm 

Estimado Hermano Gringo Viejo,

Being only a “pretty fair county lawyer”, my concern is for the tenth amendment... those rights which have already been forfeited by the States or confiscated by the Feds. All other Amendments defer to the Tenth in that all law originates in the states and by the people, those which “shall be enumerated”. Article 1 and Section 2 of the Constitution and Title 13 of the U.S. Code provide for enumeration though be it for taxes and representation; however it is law! I rest my case.

Como siempre me quedo a sus ordenes,

Z

 

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    Of course, at this hour of the morning the disposition tends to the grumpy.   But, the problem is that El Zorro is right.   HOWEVER,  El Zorro is the fellow who is not the Jack of All Trades, and Master of None.   In reality, he is the master of many trades.  Sometimes he, himself, does not see this in himself.   But, I must take into consideration that to saddle, tack, mount, and ride at least 7 miles in the middle of the night, one-way to deliver this message, and then ride back....either to those secret, elaborate caves or that house on the other side of the ridges....is a daunting matter for such thing that appears to be small, but actually is large.   It must be pointed out, of course, that El Zorro is not an attorney.   However, he understands the law in many, many areas better than barristers I have met who are held up as authorities and high practitioners.   IT IS TRUE THAT HIS UNDERSTANDING AND INTERPRETATION OF THE 10TH AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, is overwhelmingly powerful.   Had he spoken in his way concerning the 10th Amendment on the floor of the United States Senate after the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln in 1860, excusing the departure of the various Southern States from the union, there would have been no War Between the States.   There is no manner by which one can reasonably refute the fact that the Power to the People rests wholly within the 10th Amendment.   The enumerative powers in the Constitution held by the central government are aimed strictly at a census of population to determine apportionment for representation in the lower house of Congress, and to determine the method of levy for the purpose of maintaining and funding a common defense of the several united States. One thing that is certain as well is that had the 10th been adhered to, the "peculiar institution" would have been resolved to the benefit of slave and master alike.    The product of that resolution would have been much more positive than the result that the War produced, and which social engineering (all un-Constitutional) by the Progressives in the 20th Century produced.    As we have retreated during the generations from the liberty produced by the existence of the 10th Amendment, we have reaped the whirlwind  of the avarice produced by almost all national central governments.    The buying and selling of votes, bought and paid with fiat currency, bought and sold by businesses  who sell their souls and people who sell their liberty for a bit of false security.....that is our whirlwind.

      All this being said, it must be re-stated that El Zorro is not only an expert in weaponry and ammunition, but he is also an expert on issues pertaining to the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution of these several united States.   So, El Zorro will just have to take that, not as a compliment, but as a fact.

Now back to dreamland.   And thanks for your attention.
El Gringo Viejo


Here's a little sleeping music:


 

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGWs1HK8iDU&feature=related

But What If?

El Gringo Viejo has gotten over the impulse to do screed posting over the last few months.   It is rather much like the television talking heads all talking at the same time to nobody who is listening, assuming that that he who shouts the loudest wins the argument.  There are very few minds left to sway.   Those who cannot think deductively and critically are doomed to "feel" that such and such is right, just because.   Those who think, "If we do "this", then "that" will certainly occur as a reaction to "this", will never begin to be able to convince the "feelers" that paying for a string of un-fathered babies in the projects can lead to no good.

    The "feelers" just think it is good to feed the children.   After all, is it not good to feed the hungry?

 

     We win this issue among ourselves as structural, common and natural law conservatives when we simply point out that as moral people we allow no one to go hungry.   We also would do a better job by providing for each hungry person wth our own, local, inefficient, one-on-one, Salvation Army (and similar) approach, in the absence of a cumbersome and politically motivated welfare establishment,     The Salvation Army does not help people on the basis of justifying their salaries or by reminding recipients that their bread is buttered here, and the Republicans are going to take away both your bread and butter and put you back in chains.

      We have the sad situation wherein the once noble Catholic Charities, for instance, as a public welfare substation has become one of the little squealing piglets, squueeeeeealing for their place at the trough, pointing out that the number of hungry people and people who need "services" is just sooooooo massive.   We can only solve the problem by saying things like "There is no such thing as an illegal person".   Or....as the Maryknolls as so inclined to do, setting up storefront mid-wiferies, and enrolling baby factory illegal aliens to deliver and walk out the front door with participation in AFDC, Food Stamps (lone star card), WIC, subsidised rent program, and other benefits provided for any woman simply because she has whelped upon Tierra Sanctus Americanus.

 

     And, yes Virginia, if a French woman, or a Canadian woman, or a Japanese woman, or an Englishwoman were to be in that same store-front mid-wifery to throw herself on the American public for financial gain, it would be my will to swoop her up, give her her bag of diapers and a two day supply of formula, and drive her over to the illegal alien detention to be deported on the first flight out, tomorrow morning.   Any jewelry, money, or valuables would be taken from her and turned over to the account set up to defray the costs of deportation and attendant transportation.    For a further instance, I have known of four occasions when American girls had an inconvenient truth appear.   They brought the inconvenient truth to life, and each true handiwork of the Holy Ghost was taken up by people waiting for that particular baby, and all the babies turned into solid, productive citizens.  All the girls turned into solid mothers of their own families and productive, positive people.   That's the difference.

 

     To do otherwise is not fair to the people who come into this country after literally waiting in line forever and paying all the attendant fees and permits.   To do otherwise is unfair to the body politic who is somehow expected to pay for the wilful acts of imposition that place a such people far below the scale of life than, say, a female cat who births her litter under your house.

President John Adams Houses,
A graffitied stairwell to Hell, at this 1964-era project
in the South Bronx, picture from 12 June 1979, forewshadows
the very predictable.   Seven buildings, ranging from 15 to 21
stories high, with 925 apartments, designed for 2,347 occumpants
Typical Soviet-style "to each according to his need", little boxes.
To-day, there are an estimated 5,000 people staying in the ruin
where the main occupation is welfare, crime, violence, and sloth.

 

     The "welfare package" has become so ingrained and institutionalised that in urban areas of the United States that the common social norm is for a woman to choose a man at the 2 year point to sire another "ticket" so as to have a stairstep of cashflow, which can be as much as 4,000 dollars per month, including housing, medical, food, utilities, and other benefits.   The main requirement is to be sure that there is no man in residence.

     The result?   Detroit.  New Orleans. Great Sociological Swaths of sub-humanity, all paid for by us, and fathered by the liberal/marxist notion that government must determine what to take from those who must give, and what to give to those who must take.

 

     One can determine if his soul is damaged by trying to remember if he ever said something like, "The rich people should pay more taxes, you know, like their fair share.   It's only right, because they have more than than they need."    The conceit and vacuousness of such a statement marks that point where Satan knows he has gathered another sheave.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV3QdWIwAFg&feature=related
El Gringo Viejo puts this linkage here, just because.
 

Tedious, but necessary

     Yesterday morning El Gringo Viejo had to go out to the corral to let the mares out for a scamper.   Just as I swung the gate open to let them into the main pasture, a leather bag came into view.   It was bigger than a bullet bag but smaller than a lady's purse.   It was probably something benign, but I openned it carefully anyway, noticing quickly that a piece of fine stationery with a black Z on it, covered a ribboned collection of five or six pages of very legal and important looking stuff.

     This time the message was about the appeal of the decision of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, in the service of the central government with reference to an appeal by the State of Arizona, wherein said State prays for relief from the 9th Circuit's decision to set aside Arizona's recently passed legislation concerning its method of qualifying electors and conducting elections within its pertinent territory.     The State of Arizona is appealing on two points; one that asserts that the 9th Circuit is ruling against existing precedent established in other Appellate Courts  of the central government, as well as the Supreme Court of that same central government.   And the second point being that the 9th Circuit specifically overreaches by setting the National Voter Registration Act as applicable to, and superior to, law passed by the State of Arizona, to wit: requiring that potential electors provide proof of eligibility to register to vote.
      El Zorro provides the linkage necessary to delve into the nuts and bolts of this important case.   The Roman erred by expanding the definition and pathway to citizenship to the point that the status of Citizen ceased to have any status, once it became apparent that anyone could become a citizen and exercise his rights without concern about addressing his responsibilities.    So these cases become more interesting, even if tedious to follow.   The investment of the time, and the cleaning of reading glasses lenses frequently, in the opinion of El Gringo Viejo, is well worth it.   El Zorro is better than a "pretty fair" country lawyer, especially considering that he is self-trained.   He is an expert on 2nd amendment law, par excellence, and a worthy commentator on most United States Constitutional issues.   He is not the guy at the end of the bar bellowing, "Well, if there ain't no law agin it, there oughta be!"  He makes more sense than the  $1,000/hour big-city attorneys.

 

     Date Filed: October 15, 2012
Case #: 12-71
Court Below: 677 F.3d 383 (9th Cir. 2012)
Full Text Opinion:http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2012/04/17/08-17094.pdf

PREEMPTION: (1) Whether the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
erred in creating and applying a heightened preemption test contrary
to the Supreme Court's authority and in conflict with other circuit
court decisions; and (2) whether the Court of Appeals for the Ninth
Circuit erred in holding that the National Voter Registration Act
preempted an Arizona law requiring proof of eligibility to register to
vote.

The State of Arizona passed Proposition 200, which amended state
election laws to require proof of citizenship when registering to vote
and when voting. The trial court held Proposition 200 valid, but the
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit applied a heightened preemption
test and reversed in part. The circuit court held that states have no
reserved authority over federal elections and that requiring proof of
citizenship to register to vote directly conflicted with the National
Voters Registration Act's (NVRA) requirement to "accept and use"
federal forms when registering voters for federal elections. The
circuit court affirmed the voter ID requirement at voting stations and
the Supreme Court granted certiorari to determine whether the circuit
court erred in holding that the NVRA preempts Proposition 200.

On appeal, Petitioner argues the circuit court erred in using a
heightened preemption analysis that is incongruent with set precedents
and federalism principles. Additionally, Petitioner argues that
because the NVRA and Proposition 200 can be enforced without conflict,
the NVRA does not preempt Arizona's law. [Summarized by Katie Hoesly]

Once again, worth the effort.   If I can work through it, any OROG can!\
El Gringo Viejo

Debate Surprise

The below-included passage is an observation that co-incided with El Gringo Viejo's impression at the very second that Obamaham the Mighty began his disjointed response to one of the questioners at last night's debate. 
     This is from Jennifer Rubin's "Right Turn" editorial comment in the Washington Post, this date.   She draws the following from American Crossroads analysis of Obama's problem with being a chronic, pathological liar:

There is another problem with Obama’s response. Recall this part of his answer: “So as soon as we found out that the Benghazi Consulate was being overrun, I was on the phone with my national security team, and I gave them three instructions. Number one, beef up our security and — and — and procedures not just in Libya but every embassy and consulate in the region. Number two, investigate exactly what happened, regardless of where the facts lead us, to make sure that folks are held accountable and it doesn’t happen again. And number three, we are going to find out who did this, and we are going to hunt them down, because one of the things that I’ve said throughout my presidency is when folks mess with Americans, we go after them”

     To begin, Obama and all the King's men flooded the airways during the days following the attack on the Counsel in Benghazi to make certain that the affable hoit poloi did not connect the dots that 11 September....crescent moon with Venus nearby....multiple uprisings throughout Muslim Arabia...and all nature of other nefarious manifestation...meant that perhaps Al Qaeda is not quite as much "on its heels" and the Naked Emperor wants us to think.   His secretary of state, his ambassadette to the "United Nations", his chief press spokesman. his chief of staff of the campaign (odd), and a score or so more of mendacious lurkers certainly flooded every venue to pull wool, blow smoke, and put wings on the pigs.

     An attachment to this is Obama's effort to confuse the issue by reminding people that Romney had spoken without permission without knowing all the facts.   Romney shot from the hip, so to speak.   The problem with that admonishment is that Romney's first, and correct, shot across the bow was to condemn the knee-jerk blame-America-first statement from the Embassy at Cairo, Egypt wherein they apologised for the "anti-Mohammad" video.

      That, by itself, should have resulted in the immediate dismissal of whichever employee made such asinine statement.   But, not only was it made the first time, but again during the full scale mob vandalism of our Embassy.   Romney was right, even during or especially during the middle of a presidential campaign.   Grovelling before deranged religious maniacs who are being led by agents of Lucifer does not gain respect.    It gains nothing.   It loses everything.

 

     Romney actually said little about the actual murderous assault of the American facility in Benghazi.  But, Obama, last night, transferred the one condemnation and "inappropriate over-reaction" about Cairo over to the situation in Benghazi, and thereby implied that Romney had made things worse by his meddling.

 

     But, leaving that behind, we are told by Obama that as soon as he found out that the facility in Benghazi was being overrun, he immediately communicated with his national security team.   That is a lie.   Had he done so, he would have known that some frumpy lady at State was following the issue in real time, in video and audio.   He did not fish with much bait to try to assemble the best people, closest to the scene.   It was several days later when the Ambassador of the United States of America to the Youknighted Nayshuns went out to assure the Crackers and religious nuts and gun nuts that all this row was caused by one of them.   It was all due to an offensive video about the Prophet Mohammed, done by a Christian extremist.   She went to five different morning shows on Sunday to say the same thing, with the same words, to leave the same erroneous impression.

 

     As word further leaked out from here and there....(please scroll down to previous post concerning the value of the President of Libya's word as opposed to the value of the word of the President of the United States...19 September 2012....TRADE PRESIDENTS, ANYONE?)..it became more and more obvious that Obama is a liar, and that Al Qaeda had destroyed a significant American facility and murdered four Americans, one a full ambassador, in the process.

    With that said, the rest of Obama's answer to the questioner was totally Styrofoam peanuts and horse feathers.   There were five other massively egregious acts of aggravated mendaciousness that, thankfully, were relatively easily detected by large numbers of the audience last night.   Hence, the pundits said..."Wow! Obama really showed everybody!" while the polling and general reaction of the Nobodies was "Why does that guy who plays the part of President lie and avoid direct answers to all questions?"

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WASHINGTON POST OPINIONS

Who won the debate?

Barack Obama

Mitt Romney

You voted this way:

Mitt Romney  -  58%

 

Barack Obama  -  42%

61283 people have taken this poll.

 

Source - Washington Post, this date

 

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Thanks for your time and attention.   Remember, we won this one. too.  And, after Romney makes it to the White House, we shall have to fight him and his "reasonability" in order to keep the ship of state steering more centre-right than centre.  It will be easier to argue with him than with Obama, because Mitt has a soul and has always been proud of his Country.

El Gringo Viejo

Another 200,000,000.00 Flushed

      The total damage done by the money-laundering device dreamed up by the Saul Alinskyite marxists has long since gone past the jaw-dropping dis-belief stage.    Solyndra was the classic formula, followed frequently:   take government money, give money to Democrat campaign donors, say words like "green" or "sustainable" or "friendly" mixed somehow with the words "battery" or "electric" or "ecological" and go down to get your check for a few (or many) hundreds of millions of dollars from the tax-payers.

     Wink and nod, because it is well understood by anyone with the IQ of a two-foot tombstone that two things are going to happen:   (1)   the money will never be repaid, and  (2)  there was never even the merest, most remote chance that any of the "investment" would ever produce anything remotely resembling a viable automobile power plant.    The entire deal was designed to move money out of Washington, D.C. to lackeys within the Democrat Party, who would take the money, pay inflated salaries for "administrators" and "technical people" and then to harvest small but important percentages from said personalities to shovel back into the  pockets of the Obama re-elect effort.    Ditto the United Auto Workers.....and various of the too-big-to-fail banking slugs on Wall Street.   Corzine, anyone?   Marc Rich, anyone?  Franklin Raines, anyone?

     Frankly, Republicans do something similar.  El Gringo Viejo has been involved in some of it.   But, when the deals are being cut by people seeking some kind of government contracts, the poobahs will always make a point of demanding due diligence and compliance with the objectives being funded.   That's why Republican shenanigans produce better results.   It's similar to Mexico where Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI)projects produce about a 50% effectivity, while the Partido de Accion Nacional's (PAN) projects are more like 96% effective.

     This next news is out almost at the same time.   No temperature change of significance during the past 20 years.   Studied more closely, that actually was the climate change zombies trying to hide the fact that the overall "world temperature" as they have been measuring it has been static to diminishing slightly.   The ice skirt surrounding the Antarctic Continent is passing record extensions.   It's just a bad day all around for AlGore.  At least his California coastal love-nest gift to his new squeeze is not in as much danger of falling into the Pacific for another 300,000 - 600,000 years.....more or less.   But Wait!!  There's more, the present count of 30,000 polar bears will probably blossom to several hundred million before the end of this century.....Planned Parenthood, Where are you when we need you??   Are we all going to be forced to quarter Polar Bears instead of British Soldiers? 

IT IS/WAS ALL A SCAM FOLKS.  EL GRINGO VIEJO'S BROTHER, WHO WAS HEAD OF THE GEOGRAPHY AND EARTH SCIENCES DEPARTMENT AT LSU-BR BACK IN THE MID-1970S WAS IN THE MEETING OF THE MARXISTS PROFESSORS FROM A CONSORTIUM OF "PRESTIGIOUS UNIVERSITIES" ABOUT HOW GLOBAL WEATHER CHANGES WERE GOING TO BE CITED AS JUSTIFICATION TO ADVANCE ISSUES CONCERNING "SOCIAL JUSTICE" AND "INTERNATIONAL EQUITY".    HIS ADMONITION TO THEM AS THEY SNEERED AT HIS OBJECTIONS WAS," You can entertain yourselves with your delusions, but you are wrong and you know it.   You will also fail in your efforts.  Our delegation takes its leave".



CHALK UP ANOTHER SHOVEL READY DISASTER.  VOLT, Anyone?

Electric Car Battery Maker A123 Systems Files for Bankruptcy

Jeffrey Sauger/Bloomberg

A123 Systems Inc. fell as much as 16 cents, or 70 percent,

 to 7 cents a share in over-the-counter trading as of 9:43 a.m.

 



This is about as far as the El Gringo Viejo can go.  It's time to relax and let the old blood pressure go back down to moribund level.   Thanks for your time and interest.

El Gringo Viejo

Laugh as one might, Texas Independence has contemporaries

Elections just concluded in Belgium resulted in the expulsion of the Socialist Party from the mayoralty of Antwerp.   The somewhat conservative Flemish National Movement people won the election by an overwhelming majority.   Belgium is another of these European countries cobbled together from ancient duchies and even smaller aristocratic sub-divisions.   It is split between four different forms of Dutch, and two different types of French, within a population that is a bit more than 12,000,000.   That number includes the contaminant of being roughly one-fifth Muslim, of which over 60% are on almost complete welfare.

     The Flemish-speaking group (Dutch) around Antwerp has longed for the past 90 years to gently re-establish total autonomy over its affairs.   Theirs is the clean part of Belgium and theirs is the part of Belgium where public assistance is least availed upon.  Theirs is also the part of Belgium that pays the greatest part of the taxes on a per-capita basis.    Like Texas.

      There is a bit more of ethnic "purity" in their identity, but by this time a new Texas "ethnicity" is almost forming.....an "ethnicity" of philosophy if not of chromosomes.



 Antwerp, Flanders

 

 



We'll rest for a bit and come back to grouse later.   Thanks for the attention.

El Gringo Viejo