Oddities and Contemplations of an American Life



     The OROG has become accustomed  to the frequently contrarian notions that rattle around in the brain of El Gringo Viejo.  He allows the public to wander into this conflicted mind and, at times, convoluted reasoning that takes place in that strange area. This is done to help the reader know and understand that he/she is not strange.  Other people who seem reasonable and sane, although they think differently and conclude differently, can take faith that they are not alone on an island.   The difference between me and thee, however, is that your humble servant really is substantially cuckoo,  pleasantly cuckoo most of the time, but cuckoo, nonetheless.   Cuckoos are actually interesting, fairly sane and normal birds.    There are a few reasons for my particular disorder.

      El Gringo Viejo's father had a father who lost two brothers to Confederate military action in 1863.   It wound up killing the father of the Union heroes...he entered into a near catatonic depression after about 18 months, became silent, and just died in 1867 at the age of 57.



Chickamauga 
 24,000 casualties dead, wounded, and missing

     El Gringo Viejo's mother had various great uncles and a grandfather and great-grandfather who served the Confederacy in various ways....from mundane to heroic.  One first cousin, twice removed, was killed in action in northern Mississippi, and another, a brother of her grandmother died of his wounds after 2 years of convalescence from wounds received in action at Chickamauga.  The other veterans went home and became good Americans and made good Americans of their children....but they never lost their bitterness.

     So everything is predictable, right?   Wellllllllll, not really.   The very, very, very few time my parents ever talked about the issue of The War, went some like this.   Mrs. Snooflesploot is visiting and she brings up something about a play at the primary school and that she is doing a 'Civil War' costume for her granddaughter.   Frilly hoop skirt, crinolines, lots of ribbons, parasol...she's just going to be the showiest belle of the play.
    My mother says that is nice, but it's a shame to make a happy thing out of so much devastation.  My father says that such is the nature of war, look at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  And then he goes on with, "My father always said that his father hated Lincoln because he should have left the South to go. He always said that it was better to be apart and be friends than to be forced together and hate each other.  The Negro will not win anything out of any of this, the South will nave nothing after Reconstruction and the North will be damaged because of it.   My mother said the same thing, and she was New Yorker....a real Knickerbocker.  Lincoln was the worst president in history, after FDR,"

     The social room, where the fireplace is, has a lot of pipe smoke layered in the calmish room, no HAVC in those days....it is quiet.  Mrs. Snooflesploot, breaks the too-long silence,"Well, Noli, you found yourself a good Yankee, didn't you?"
     My mother is sewing something, it must have been some of the bows she was attaching to the skirt.   She was not a seamstress, in that sense, but she was very good with a needle and seemed to excel at "project" type sewing.   She preferred needle work, it seems as I think about it now, to making things with her sewing machine.  She finally commented, "Lincoln may have been a dog or a madman, but the South would have been better off if he had lived.  John Wilkes Boothe delivered us into the hands of the rabid Republicans....Lincoln wanted to put the country back together and the Republican hypocrites wanted to punish the South".

Alexander Hamilton
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      Another two minutes passed.  My father stood up, re-lit his pipe and...Mrs. Snooflesploot cleared her throat and kept looking at her stitching activity, trying not to make contact with the "nice, married couple or even their little boy who seemed so interested in the sewing and the grading of school papers...while my father said,"Lincoln would not have had to put the country together if he hadn't torn it apart.  Almost a million people died for nothing".  And then he went outside to do some project or another, while the tortoise shell cat, "Cutie" ran in with the opportunity of the open screen door presenting itself.

     So there you have it...a five year old witnessing a....disagreement....about something that was of primordial developmental understanding by a man and a woman of the same nationality, an extremely similar race, and an very similar ethnicity, and with a convoluted interpretation about the value of a man that one would have thought should have been easily predictable. My mother would have preferred Lincoln to what we received...and her a Tennessean...with Andrew Johnson, a neighbour to her family in Tennessee coming to the Presidency by virtue of assassination.  My father, a nephew of Yankee heroes, despised Wyatt Earp, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln.....and Harold Ickes.
    They say that Johnson may have been sober once after the age of 10, but that is disputed.   Oddly, he hated Negroes, but he was good enough to be vice-president for Lincoln.   Although Jefferson Davis was much more "at home" in the company of Negroes (kind of a early day liberal)  and even Alexander Stephens, in spite of strong statements about inferiority and superiority, was concerned about "fair treatment: of the bound and free Negro" ,  the world assumes that Lincoln saw the Negro as an equal (he decidedly did not) or that Andrew Johnson was a "liberal thinker" about the Negro..(he was a dull N****r - hating drunk).   The people of Eastern Tennessee saw him as such.

     So, if The War (my mother's parents called it The Woh - wah)  was bound to be lost, the people, at least in Eastern Tennessee, would have preferred Lincoln to their own...Andrew Johnson.  And many people from Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania....with 300 killed from that one County....might have preferred to have just passed on the entire bellicosity, never having heard of Abraham Whoever.

 

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    Now you all know why El Gringo Viejo is kooky.  My very Yankee father and his father and grandfather hated Lincoln, although they were, obviously, very tightly related by blood to two Yankee heroes.   And when we say Yankee, we do not mean Northerners...we mean these are people with full-scale Massachusetts, Vermont-Maine-New Hampshire, New York highlands and Hudson people.   And my mother and her people did not discuss whether or not the wrong side won The Woh - wah,  that was settled.   But they all agreed that they "would have been" better off with Lincoln in charge of the post- Woh-wah period.

     We all shared in a distaste for another Southern Icon, Andrew Jackson, because he sold out the Cherokee and the other honourable Indians who had fought and then befriended, intermarried, and become integral with the Tennessee and adjacent whites.  He sold them out to Northern business interests and lost much of his home State backing during his time in Washington.

    But I was left with a dislike and a negative understanding of Abraham Lincoln, reinforced by further study, like my father, his father, and old Hubbard before us.   And, all three brothers of this Yankee man and Confederate woman....were it to occur again, would take a Southern Stand.

 

     Convolution, contradiction, and contrarianism.  The American Saxon becomes his own enigma.   Pray for America.  Consider my path, but do not join it, lest you are convinced of it.  If not, remain an American and raise your children and grandchildren to be good Americans, but I am going deeper into Texas...my flag is changing not because of hatred but for the sake of preference.

El Gringo Viejo

Over the Weekend Housecleaning, advisories, up-dates

First, we would like to notice that the AP did a bit of an article about the boys and young men in the State of Guerrero, Mexico substantially taking matters into their own hands, and with their own armaments and initiative, establishing a non-criminality zone in their home area.  The AP article was "flexibly inaccurate and accurate" .   They do not want any notion to be presented that armed civilians, not in the constabulary, should have any right to defend themselves, especially with firearms, and certainly no right to enforce law or customs of a locale without receiving permission from (Sir Edmund)Hillary and the Peoples' Committee for the Popular Front for the Solidarity of Oppressed Popular Fronts and Committees for Solidarity.

     Please be aware that the comments and presentation made by El Gringo Viejo were and are substantially more accurate than the article prepared by the AP.   Over 90% of the area concerned is, in fact, in the State of Guerrero, and the spillover of the dispersed and disparate thugs that have been set on the run by the Military came from westernmost Michoacan and  from Mexico States that lie to the east of the area we are citing.  Also, once the young men began to defend their mothers, sisters, and cousins, and the general social peace, they were contacted by the Governor of Guerrero, who then FINALLY requested the Army to enter the area (a constitutional oddity in Mexico).   The Army, all veterans of combat with the cartels determined that the moral ground was held by these self-motivated boys and that their procedures had been in keeping with reasonable self-defence prerogatives.   The Army even assisted in refining the boys'  strategies, appearances, tactics, and understanding of detention procedures...so as to not lose in court what was gained on the battlefield.   The proof of the pudding is that these young men are operating under the guidance of the Army, but the Army is allowing the young locals to, as we stated before, do the heavy lifting.

      It is a massive victory for our side...especially during these days when vermin in the American White House and in the United States Congress and in the general agrupation of leftist eltiist snobs are in a full-court press to abolish the intent and effect of the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution.    All OROGs should become more familiar with this matter, not through the Obsolete Press however, and cram this story down their whatevers,  We can tke the AP story to the nearest kitchen lavatory disposal. !!!

 

 

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     Next, please notice how, for the next few months at least, the Obsolete Press will print articles about Mexico, but those articles will not close with "Mexico has been involved with an on-going issue involving violence that has taken the lives of 60,000 people since Felipe Calderon Hinojosa began military action against the cartels.  This action is widely unpopular among the Mexican people and has failed to curtail any of the violence".

      This is a shout around to El Gringo Viejo's closest friends and neighbours.   The Obsolete Press ran those paragraphs in almost every article about Mexico for five years.   It was an obligatory tag-on.  Why?    Because Felipe Calderon Hinojosa was a fairly popular...very popular by Mexican standards...president.   While the people did not like the disorder, the execution of the war was and is widely understood to the necessary and better than any other alternative.   As Calderon left office, the Mexican economy was entering into labour shortages, the peso was essentially stronger than the dollar due to fiscal restraints practised by the administration....especially when compared to the profligacy of the Obama nightmare.  And another thing had happened.  The war on the cartel had, for all practical purposes, tipped over in favour of the Military and other active measures.   Violence was increasing contained to cartel vs. cartel, gang vs. gang, and even that was diminishing.
 

     Lamentably, the Mexican electorate fell for a hatchet job on the PAN candidate, and elected a pretty boy from the old ruling party.   One of the ways he gained election was by convincing a bunch of RINO type Mexican Republicans (National Action Party members) that he would continue the war and military presence against the cartels, and continue to advance  pro-business, pro-independent labour unions, and tight fiscal policies of the previous two administrations.

      Some of the Rhino-PRI mastadons snickered and knew that Pretty Boy (Pen~a Nieto)would not be able to keep his word because the PRI always says whatever is necessary to be elected and then they go to McAllen to spend the (city's)(county's)(State's)(nation's) budget allocations on their daughter's wedding, porno films, and a condominium at South Padre Island.  While such a charge is a bit of an oversimplification,  Mexicans are holding their breathe to see if the once atrocious, tectonic central government bureaucracy is going to continue with its efficiency and civility that has been increasingly the rule for the last decade....or if it begins to slide back into the dark labyrinth of interconnected cavernous hide-outs for slothful, corrupt, gratuity driven slobs and their "secretaries".

       So far, the cartels have remained terribly degraded.    The military pressure has, if anything,  broken into small, almost commando-like search and destroy units...still very much under regimental and division control, but apparently dedicated to tracking down the dispersed and disorganised remnants of the Cartels evermore aggressively.  A band of 12 in rural eastern Durango State made the mistake of taking on a slightly larger Army Patrol last week.   The score was 12  -   0   after the first 4 minutes.

 

      So....it may be the case that in a couple of months the Obsolete Press will start reporting that 70,000 have died in the war that Felipe Calderon started and Pen~a Nieto is stupidly continuing and all Mexicans are begging for Andre Manuel Lopez Obrador (marxist) and Hillary Rodham Clinton  (Hillaryist) to come and save the nation.  Or, hopefully, maybe the Obsolete Press will just....fade.........away.

 

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       Next, folks....Gretchen....all press people.....all the girls.....ALL FIREARMS ARE ASSAULT WEAPONS.....ALL BB GUNS AND PELLET GUNS ARE ASSAULT WEAPONS.  When (Sir Edmund)Hillary is around, any lamp or ashtray is an assault weapon.   BUT,   an AR-15 is not a militarised rifle...that is an AR-16....although they are similar in appearance and both come in various formats.   Gretchen, please think!!!   The term "Semi-automatic" does not mean meaner and more devastating.   It only means  that a new cartridge is loaded into the breach and firing chamber by means of using the gasses that were produced by the firing of the previous bullet.   Semi-automatic...one pull of the trigger - one shot.    AUTOMATIC means one pull of the trigger ....lots of shots...
        The banning of any and/or both and/or all of  any types of weapons or weapon-like instruments will never, never, never, never, have any effect upon that individual or group that intends to obtain said machinery for nefarious, immoral, and/or illegal purpose.

         While the Brits have all but a total ban on firearm possession by dumboes like me, and they have many fewer per capita shootings of people than in the United States, they also have another little problem brought on by the dole and socialism.   Their overall crime rate, including pilfering, burglary, home invasions,  assault, assault with the intent to do serious bodily harm (intent to murder), rape, sexual assault, robbery by force or instrument (knife, bat, brass knuckles) much worse than in Texas.

           The Japanese also have almost no gun crime.   That is not because of a lack of guns so much as the fact that they have had....(we shall see if they can maintain it)...essentially a sociographic of 122,000,000 people in the upper-middle class,  492 people in other classes, an Emperor and an Empress, their children, staff, and servants...and that's all.   About 98% of the population believes that their departed ancestors are watching them in cosmic communion with the Universal Balancing Force.   While they are not saints, they all have certain knowledge of the human responsibilities as put forth in Shintoism, Confusciusism, Buddhism,  Taoism, and Christianism.....and they believe, whole or in part, some and or/all all of some combination or at least one of the "isms" cited.    They play baseball, and they all (99%) have high school, trade school, and or university.   And the girls are prettier than the Chinese girls, except for some Chinese girls from Hong Kong and Taiwan.
          But they still commit violence, and sometimes with guns, but usually with knives, autos, and blunt instruments.   Those are the instruments of the small but violent  Japanese underworld.

       It will stun the ignorant, and even the fair-minded.  The period of greatest violent crime and mulitiple assassination/murder episodes in terms of per capita incidents, began to peak back in the 1918 -  1924 period with the first real automatic weapons wars between rival Italian immigrant mafia groups and certain other immigrant groups, mixed with a bit of Southern Pride...associated with the moonshine/white lightning reaction to Margaret Sanger and the KU KLUX KLAN  inspired Prohibition.   The sharpest drop in the per-capita violent gun crime and overall crime rate has been since the late 1980s to the present time.   Almost all of that is due to the incarceration of evil and violent criminals for longer terms and because more and more States are opting to allow for the permitting of an armed civilian population.

      When El Gringo Viejo was a child, the Sheriff of Hidalgo County came by our place...on a formal call.  He had a deputy driving the Sheriff's command car...all in uniform, very formal and proper.   I was about 4 years old.  We were on the front lawn, playing croquet of all things.   The two uniformed men came from our circular, gravelled driveway over to our little game and shook hands, patted heads of the children, spoke to the workers in a proper and civilised way.   The Sheriff handed my father an envelope and asked him to read the letter, and if he agreed to the terms and conditions, he wanted to swear my father in.
     It was a weekend, I presume, becaue both my brothers were present as was the maid, my mother. my father's majordomo, and some other neighbours and friends.   I remember my brothers and so of their buds cranking the ice-cream machine.   In any regard, the Sheriff had his man hold up a bible for my father to rest his left hand upon and my father raised his right hand, and he repeated a short oath after the prompting by the Sheriff's reading from a card.
      The entire deal did not take more than six minutes.   Goodbyes were said, and the fancy Sheriff's car and the two visitors were gone before there was even time to acknowledge that they had been there at all.    The thing that had happened was that my father had been named to a fairly prestigious  thing....mainly honorary....known as the Hidalgo County Sheriff's Posse.  It still functioned, and they would, at times, ride horses in the 4th of July Parade, and rarely be called upon to come and back up or look into or assist in providing traffick monitors at big important football games or funeral parking and motor corteges to cemeteries...and very rarely to form a perimeter to close in on a known position of a desperado...a person with a serious warrant or who had escaped jail or prison.

     Tht was then, when folks had been prohibited for a couple of generations in Texas from carrying a gun around or even having one in the passenger area (glove compartment, for instance) of the auto, while "just driving around town".    Now, Texas has decided, "more guns,  less crime"....and Texas decided correctly.  By urging, legally allowing, and pushing firearm safety and reasonable use, the bad guys are less and less disposed to take on just any dumboe.   It still happens....it still happens too much, but the overall violent crime rate in Texas, per capita, has plummeted in the last 10 years...in some cases and categories as much as 80%.   !!!
      The worst criminal activity?   Where there is a culture of multigenerational welfare and other forms of public assistance.

 

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     We are trying to breathe life into another page, where would really like for all OROGs, new and old to place their questions and comments.   We are going to be using that site also for clients to make reservatins and make lengthier enquiries about a possible stay at our Bed and Breakfast.    The New Pax Mexicanus is beginning to seep into the active part of  peoples' brains and we are picking up more questions that are at times shunted off into the Spam section.   So we are providing a less efficient but more effective entry point on our side-bar.   It is still under construction, but it can be navigated...1950 technology..don't you know.

 

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Please make sure to check the over-the-weekend-postings.   There is a bit of video and a few other interesting things.   Please purchase all your automobiles from out adsense postings and have a good start to this sure to be interesting week.   We are not depressed about the Texans...they did good against the best....and next year we'll know which trees and rocks to hide behind and when to attack them Yankees.

Watch this lady stuff it down the gun grabbers' gullets

   This is the girl who ran for the Texas Congress's lower chamber, the House of Representatives shortly after this testimony and successfully brought the Texian populace the right to carry concealed weapons.   Her legislation vindicated millions of Texas who had responsibly been armed without incident for years.   Her initiative liberated Texas to become perhaps the least affected, per capita, by violent and/or serious property crime of all 57 States in the United States at this time.  With the Grace of Providence, sooner rather than later there will be a maximum of 56 States in the old federal Union.

      All OROGs must review this film and forward it to all the corners of the Universe.   Suzanna Hupp is a true Jean d'Arc, a Texian Heroine for all times.

YOU MUST SEE THIS TESTIMONY!!! THEN SHARE, SHARE, SHARE!!!

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Fatalities from this shooting included:

Name	Age	Hometown
Patricia Brawn Carney	57	Belton
Jimmie Eugene Caruthers	48	Austin
Kriemhild A. Davis	62	Killeen
Steven Charles Dody	43	Fort Hood
Alphonse "Al" Gratia, Jr.	71	Copperas Cove
Ursula Edith Marie Gratia	67	Copperas Cove
Debra Ann Gray	33	Copperas Cove
Michael Edward Griffith	48	Copperas Cove
Venice Ellen Henehan	70	Metz, Missouri
Clodine Delphia Humphrey	63	Marlin
Sylvia Mathilde King	30	Killeen
Zona Mae Lynn	45	Marlin
Connie Dean Peterson	43	Austin
Ruth Marie Pujol	36	Copperas Cove
Suzann Neal Rashott	30	San Antonio
John Raymond Romero, Jr.	29	Copperas Cove
Thomas Earl Simmons	33	Killeen
Glen Arval Spivey	55	Harker Heights
Nancy Faye Stansbury	44	Harker Heights
Olgica Andonovsk Taylor	45	Waco
James Walter Welsh	75	Waco
Lula Belle Welsh	64	Waco
Iva Juanita Williams	64	Temple

 

 

May they continue to rest in peace.

El Gringo Viejo

An Armed Citizenry, Valour, Commitment....

     Emboldened by the Mexican Army and certain regional authorities, young men in a remote location in the State of Guerrero, in far southern Mexico have decided to take up arms against residual groups of cartel members who have been tormenting some significant villages and agricultural and seafood production areas.    The first thing that was done?   The relaxation of the idiotic gun laws for a number of contiguous counties in the State, and the call for a militia of civilians to formalise their already operational resistance to the bandit/extortionists.

 

     They youngsters have been given a point of administrative connexion to the  Mexican Army and they have been authorised to exercise powers normally reserved to the constabulary.  They have been authorised to inspect traffic entering their communities, to board busses, and to serve arrest warrants....using any necessary force to bring such individuals before the bench.

 

     Most of the miscreants are left-overs slugs from the semi-organised band that were loosely incorporated into one of two different cartels   (the "Caballeros Templares" [knights templar] and the cartel de Michoacan/Sinaloa).   Both of these groups were fighting over the control of the area and both were severely degraded during the past two years.   The centre of operations was around Apatzingan, Michoacan, somewhat near the zone of activity under discussion here, but in the State of Guerrero.

 

 

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     BUT....this is not the really big news.  What is interesting is the reaction of the people in the area and throughout the Region.  What is telling is one Mexican's writing in to the newspaper with these comments....

 

 

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"La razón más fuerte para que la gente retenga el derecho de conservar y llevar armas es, como último recurso, protegerse a sí mismos de la tiranía del gobierno."
-Thomas Jefferson

"La democracia dejará de existir cuando les quites a aquellos dispuestos a trabajar y les des a aquellos que no lo están."
-Thomas Jefferson

México deberia tener una milicia completamente idependiente del Gobierno, ya que la milicia a diferencia del ejercito, esta primera esta a los intereses del pueblo y a diferencia del segundo que esta al mando del presidente en turno, (vease tlatelolco 1968, chiapas 1994, Sindicato Ferrocarrilero 1959, Asesinato de Rubén Jaramillo en 1962 a manos del ejercito, Asesinato del profesor Lucio Cabañas Barrientos a manos del ejercito nacional).



 

"Mercenary 1945 writes: 

     The strongest reason for the retention of the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resource, to protect they themselves from the tyranny of the government......Thomas Jefferson

 

      Democracy will cease to exist when substance is taken from those who are disposed to work, and substance is given to those who are disposed to not work..............Thomas Jefferson

 

     Mexico should have a militia, completely independent from the Government, since the militia is different from the Army, firstly it is the interests of the people, and the difference, as a second point, that the Army is at the disposition of the President of that particular term. (consider Tlaltelolco1968, Chiapas 1994, Railroad Workers Union strike 1959, and the assassination of Ruben Jaramillo in 1962 at the hands of the Army.  And, the assassination of Professor Lucio Caban~as at the hands of the National Army).

 

 

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     This particular column had several score "readers' comments" , all of which were overwhelmingly in favour of the 600 lads who had formed up their militia and required that the State and National authority recognise them.   The submission by "Mercenario 1945" however was the most interesting because it is the confusion of a marxist's notion of order,  while condemning the brutality of a socialist, paternalistic, corrupt, and politically all-powerful government (the PRI) using its power against communists who were (are) dedicated to the violent overthrow of the Mexican federal republican union. 

     Tlaltelolco was the site in central Mexico City where communist insurgents had called for a demonstration against everything from the War in Viet Nam to the fascist prostitution of Mexico in favour of  the interests of the industrialists and corrupt politicians by having spent so much money on the Olympics.   Their intent was to stop the 1968 Summer Olympics.  After several day of increasingly violent confrontation, and then furtive people firing upon the cordon of soldiers (clearly shown in various filmings), the large contingent of soldiers fired, without warning shots, directly into the crowd of agitators and university level students and such hangers-on who might normally be found in a group such as that.   The communist organs declared that it had been a massacre...over 1,000 shot down.  The government said that various soldiers had been wounded and that it was lamented that the prevaricators had taken refuge behind the demonstrators who had been told repeatedly to desist and disperse.  They estimated the number of dead at 12 and the wounded at something like 100.    The order to fire had been given on site and personally by the Secretary of Government  (number two man in the Mexican governmental organisation)...the famous extreme marxist Luis Echeverria Alvarez.   He was to become president himself two years later, and begin a destruction of the  Mexican economy (lots of shovel ready projects and wealth redistribution and unbalanced budgets) that would take 25 years to cure.

    Chiapas, of course, is the Grand Movement of sub-Comandante Marcos, a tragi-comedy funded by the widow of Francois Mitterand... he a famous Nazi collaborator during the Vichy period, then arch-Socialist anti-de Gaul maniac, President of France for a time, before the devil came to collect his debts.   Marcos (actually the scion of a well to do doctor's family from Tampico...a white Mexican born to wealth...) led his "indigenous socialists' revolution" into a quagmire of never-ending pontificatory, pointless plans, pronouncements, and proposals that would ultimately solve all the problems of the perpetually poor and exploited again, just like they always had.   In other words, things are worse for the Chiapaneco and Lacandona now than they were before.
    The Railroad Workers' Strike of 1959 was another communist effort, in solidarity with the advance of the Cuban Popular Marxist Democratic Revolution,  to take over a union that was one of the biggest emeralds in the clunky, massive Crown of the  Institutional Revolutionary Party (the PRI) that had ruled Mexico, by that time, for two-plus,  iron-handed, paternalistic generations.   The Communist agents trying to take over the union, also tried to take over the locomotive and rolling stock of the National Railways of Mexico....and at the end of the day....they lost.  Many learned a very brief lesson about the exercise of political power,  and were carted off in meat wagons to the funeral homes in various major Mexican rail termini and centres.   Some estimates rise to the level of 240 or so went to be with Joseph and Karl and Nickie in nirvana.

     All of this is in keeping with the nature of marxist, progressive, and communist commitment to sacrifice the common dumboe union member, daft-brained 20 year old universitario, or peasant who have been loaded up with ten or twelve beers or half a bottle of new aguardiente (literally fire-water...125 proof sugar cane pre-rum ..aka "anticongelante" which means anti-freeze). 

     What is compelling is that  our friend, Mercenary 1945 on the one hand lauds the idea of a citizens' militia, and invokes the democratic-republican notions of Jefferson, which directly contradict the marxist precepts he seems to honour by his further citations. Yet, we as straight-thinking conservatives could only join hands with him and his apparent gradual abandonment of tumbled down marxist windmills to side with the self-provident.  We must remember that the greatest Mexican philosopher, poet, and writer of modern times was Octavio Paz who journied from beyond Diego and Frida, finally winding up at home with Adam Smith and Milton Friedman long before his death.

An armed citizenry, eliminating their
tormentors.   These boys from the coastal
areas in western Guererero State brought
peace through strength and fortitude
to their home, freinds, and family.

 

     It has been several weeks now  that these boys (essentially boys) have restored order in five counties, scruffed up about forty snivelly scumboes with serious, serious warrants out on them, and done it all with their beat-up old shotguns, .22 revolvers and semi-automatics, co-ordinating and taking a little better than basic training and guidance from the Army...and all without any known breach of honour or abuse of power.  These lads, and many like them, were frequently "chaperoned" by small contingents of Regular Army, but it was the Army's decision to let the boys genuinely do the heavy lifting, thereby gaining the respect and confidence, both ways, of everyone concerned.....except for the bad guys.

Enough venting for to-day.   Everybody can relax again.
El Gringo Veijo

A Note to OROGs - Archive Access

     We are finally doing a bit of tweaking and upgrading, trying to drag ourselves up to the early 1800s as best we can.    This particular note is just to advise all readers that we have brought all of our ancient writings that were recently uncovered in a cave in Judea back to the Republic of Texas.
  A Bedouin goat herder found the cache, and he retrieved them all just before his camels and goats ate all that wonderful history.

    The shepherd shook me down for three Euros....he would not take the 1,000,000,000,ooo dollar platinum coin, because he said that it  had an image of Obama on it.   Nobody seems to want it.   Now, where did I put it?   Hey....Camel....come back here!!   Mohammed..Mohammed!  Wait!  Your camel ate my 1 trillion dollar Obamacoin!!!!  Wait, Mohammed...Camel...wait....!

Unknown Person Trying to Loot Our Archives from Secret Cave

 

 

     Oh, well.   If you all will check on down and to the right, you will find a chronograph, and by clicking on, you will be able to know more or less where the  particular blog entry you for which you might be searching.  Or, an OROG can just page through and be overwhelmed by the modest brilliance of it all.   There is quite a bit of somewhat funny stuff....a bit of profundity....a few jewels in the  gravel...a few sparkles of gold in the sand.

 

It's open to you and thanks for the interest, as usual.

El Gringo Viejo

Secret Messages Between Fathers and Sons

We have noticed that when my son is eating at his parents' table, he always eats everything that his beat-up old father makes and seems to genuinely be interested in the preparations and procedures.  So every now and then we talk about the fine points of preparing goodies that seem to please palates and result in being skinny, no matter how much is eaten.  Truth be known, El Gringo Viejo learns as much or more from him than visa-versasrev-asiv.

     So, we sent the poor lad an addenda to the last set of notes that were transferred telephonically.  This will give him something to use instead of a sedative to-night.  It is also in keeping with the purpose of this blogsite.  We really do mean to keep it somewhat eclectic, even when the deranged Democrat nuttpolitik people run out of the asylums and start raving in front of the microphones....flooding us with material about which to comment.

 

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 The secret communique' went as follows:

 

     Anyway, with the smoothie thing...it is all like a batting stance. I would urge against mixing a cat's hairball, corn starch, bacon grease, garbanzos with rancid buttermilk fungus and old mushrooms....and calling it a "smoothie", but any reasonable intuitive notion is valid.

       For instance, I have had success by throwing in freshly diced strawberries....blueberries....and of course, canteloupe, honeydew, and wassermellon.   Oranges, Mangoes, and Bananas are basic building blocks...along with sour cream and/or yogurt....just make sure that it is not "lite" or "fat-free" or "lo-cal" or the chemistry will not work in the mix or in the gizzard.

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IT DOES NOT HAVE TO LOOK LIKE THIS.  THIS IS PAELLA.  YOU CAN, FOR A HOT
OPTION, POUR IT OVER WHITE OR MEXICAN/SPANISH RICE.  YOU CAN USE OKRA
OR ONE OF THOSE REALLY FINE CENTRAL TEXAS SAUSAGES IN THE OVER ALL
MIX.  GUMBOES AND PAELLAS INCLUDE ALL NATURE OF THINGS, EVEN POULTRY.
FOR THE COLD SERVICE, ALSO CONSIDER ENGLISH PEAS, ASPERAGUS, GREEN
ONION (fine sliced) OR A MYRIAD OF OTHER THINGS.  THE NOSE AND PALATE
AND GOOD REASON SHOULD BE EMPLOYED, NOT YOUR FATHER' S RULES.
CONSIDER THYME AND GUMBO FILE' FOR YOUR SEAFOOD SMOOTHY, EVEN
A BIT OF CHILI POWDER....EXPERIMENT...IF NO CATS SHOW UP, YOU'RE
DOING SOMETHING WRONG, PROBABLY.  IF NO DOGS SHOW UP, THEN
IT'S FOR SURE YOU ARE DOING SOMETHING WRONG.

  

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     Tricky is something like a seafood smoothie. Quality shrimp, oysters, mussels, and clams, mixed with a quarter cup of lime juice, with an 1/8th of a cup of decent vodka or tequila or rum (only one of those three), small handful of cilantro (90% leaf), three hard shakes of dried dill or one large fresh sprig, an 1/8th cup each of diced tomatoe, chopped celery, chopped white onion, purple cabbage (optional), and one tablespoon of minced garlic, and one serrano pepper (optional) w/seeds removed. Use a couple of tablespoons of EVOO and a good, straight clear vinegar.

     The liquids of the meats involved....here is where it becomes tricky, and very easy at the same time....should be mixed as you wish, using one, several, or all as you wish, to your taste or Carolina's taste, for instance, (This works, believe me). Set back one-third of the meats to keep as whole. Throw the other two-thirds into the blender. Throw in enough liquid, including the hooch, EVOO, vinegar, and lime juice to make contact with the meats and the dill and cilantro all the way up. Make sure there are no cats within six square city blocks.

BLEND VERY BRIEFLY...Only seven (7) seconds. This will make a magnificent anti-cancer, high protien, and very flavourful gruel.

PLEASE NOTE: Your father will eat/drink all this without any cooking. You delicate pipples might wish to STEAM the meats (take care not to turn them into rubber...steam under high steam for one minute...or 90 seconds....no more....have the water boiling really hard before putting the seafood OVER the water and not in it...basket or colander required, obviously). After subjecting the ingredients to the blender...very briefly....you can add the reserved whole meat ingredients...the oysters, shrimp, clams, and mussels....also consider at this stage a bit of octupus or squid rings, VERY LIGHTLY STEAMED...so as to avoid making very fine rubber bands. This means a salad fork or nice spoon will be in order.
 

      This is well-served in a LARGE Brandy snifter, or a HUGE Margarita cocktail glass. With guests, a neat-o spriglet of dill or plume of celery. At night, with guests and with warning or invitation, you can offer to "strengthen" the gruel with a bit more of the same hooch used in the original preparation. About 1/4th of a cup should be more than enough. The serving size can be up to 3 cups as a meal replacement, or 2 cups as an apertif or after dinner or as a free-standing light meal. Necessary additional seasonings in the opinion of this writer are horseradish, freshly ground black pepper, tabasco, and I have even added chunk fish (trout, flounder, ocean perch, or red snapper is best...only salt water fish!)

This is sent just as a backing to the notion of "Let's go jump off the cliff. If Superman can fly, so can we." And, it's true. This recipe will work for seafood monsters like your father. A week of it will probably cause rashes and all kinds of histamine problems....but once a fortnight is very, very "healthy"....(I hate that word)..  I have served it to clients and two of them ate almost a quart each.    To catalogue this in your brain's Dewey Decimal System, think in terms of...really good gumb0es...and/or paellas...It can be served very chilled, or you can warm it up and serve it over nice hot steamy rice...very flexible.

So there. Put all this in your pipe and send it to Santa Claus!

El Gringo Viejo