Take Our Choice: Zimbabwe or Weimar Republic? Argentina or Brazil?

El Gringo Viejo has not been on the run or in jail. We had a busy stay of it down at our place. A little bad news and a lot of good news. He returns to kind messages to both him and to the OROG community, thereby proving that Earth actually does require his humbly noble existence in order to remain in orbit around some distant sun.

   Folks who have a conservative and rational understanding of economics know that any kind of socialist, progressive, or Keynesian approach to financing the buying of cake or vodka for the masses, paid for with government free money results in the ruin of the country  under concern.   The inflation of the money supply....not rising prices....is the cause of the ruin.
     Simple cases of prices rising due to free market conditions ....(such as eggs for 5.00 dollars each in Anchorage in 1900 was due to an oversupply of miners and a shortage of chickens)...is different from Luis Echeverria Alvarez, as a socialist, deciding that the way to give Mexicans lots of money and make them rich was to force the Bank of Mexico to borrow shiploads of money and give it away, essentially in helicopter drops over populated areas.
      LEA's Obama-like spread-the-wealth notion, expressed on steroids worked fine....and please do not worry....Luis Echeverria Alvarez made sure to get his spread of the wealth.   And Mexicans were soon paying 20 pesos for a hamburger that had cost one peso the year before.

     So...we watch here and wait....but the shoes will fall, sooner rather than later.    The explanation forwarded by Lee is presented  by Professor Steve Hanke, a very solid thinker, and a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute.    The work is somewhat dry....but it reads well.  It is also pleasantly short enough to read twice.

     In a way, it points out that the reason that we have as little "inflation" as we do is because of our shirts being the cleanest of all the shirts in the dirty clothes basket.   European unemployment and social welfare obligations remain at grotesque levels, and their governmental budget deficits are ghastly.    Mexico and Canada have had several years of balanced (or some semblance of balanced) budgets and fairly steady rightward governance.  That is why the American dollar is losing against the other two nations' currencies.

 

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David,

    This may be an explanation why the dollar has not declined in value as fast as I had expected.

Lee

Nothing “Hyper” About US Inflation By Steve Hanke

While inflation seems to be on everyone’s mind these days, misconceptions abound. Indeed, few concepts in economics are as misunderstood as inflation. This month I take a look at some common questions about inflation, and a few that I wish more people were asking. Is hyperinflation coming to the U.S.? No. Hyperinflation arises only under the most extreme conditions, such as war, political mismanagement, or the transition from a command economy to a market-based economy. If you compare the U.S. to countries that have experienced hyperinflation — think Iran, North Korea, Zimbabwe, and the former Yugoslavia, for example — the U.S. doesn’t even come close. Hyperinflation begins when a country experiences an inflation rate of greater than 50% percent per month — which comes out to about 13,000% per year. Although it experienced elevated inflation around the time of the Revolution and the Civil War, the United States has never passed this magic mark. At present, the U.S. inflation rate, measured by the consumer price index (CPI), is less than 2% per year. So, to say that the U.S. is on its way to hyperinflation is just nonsense. But what about Quantitative Easing? Won’t that cause high inflation? No, at least not under the current QE program. What many people fail to understand is that the money created by the Fed, through programs like Quantitative Easing, is what’s known as “state money” (monetary base). In the U.S., this makes up only 15% of the money supply, broadly measured. The remainder is made up of “bank money” — the allimportant portion of the money supply produced by banks, through deposit creation. So, while the Fed has more than tripled the supply of state money since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, in September 2008, this component of the money supply is still paltry compared to the total money supply. In fact, when measured broadly, using a Divisia M4 metric, the U.S. money supply is actually 6% below trend (see the accompanying chart). There are a number of factors that affect the growth of money, but there are two main factors that have hampered broad money growth in the United States since the financial crisis. Not surprisingly, they are both government created. The first is the squeeze that has been put on the banks, as a result of Dodd-Frank and Basel III capital- asset ratio hikes. By requiring banks to hold more capital per dollar of assets (read: loans), the regulators have put a constraint on bank’s balance sheets, which limits their ability to lend. In consequence, money supply growth has been slower than it would have otherwise been. The other factor is the credit crunch created by the Fed’s zero- interest-rate policy. This has dried up the interbank lending market, because banks have little financial incentive to lend to each other. Without a well-functioning interbank lending market to ensure balance sheet liquidity, banks have been unwilling to scale up or even retain their forward loan commitments. The end result is a loose state money/tight bank money monetary mix. And since bank money makes up 85% of the total, the money supply in the U.S. is still, on balance, tight and below trend. That said, the broad Divisia M4 measure of the money supply has started to show signs of life in recent months. How Can The Fed Avoid Inflation Going Forward? The Fed should start paying attention to the dollar. While operating under a regime of inflation targeting and a floating U.S. dollar exchange rate, Chairman Bernanke has seen fit to ignore fluctuations in the value of the dollar. Indeed, changes in the dollar’s exchange value do not appear as one of the six metrics on “Bernanke’s Dashboard” — the one the chairman uses to gauge the appropriateness of monetary policy. Perhaps this explains why Bernanke has been dismissive of questions suggesting that changes in the dollar’s exchange value influence either commodity prices or more broad gauges of inflation. The relationship between the dollar’s value and inflation has been abundantly clear for the last decade. As Nobelist Robert Mundell has convincingly argued, changes in exchange rates transmit inflation (or deflation) into economies, and they can do so rapidly. This relationship was particularly pronounced during the financial crisis (see the accompanying chart). Indeed, from 2007-09, the monthly year-over-year percent changes in the consumer price index and in the USD/EUR exchange rate have a correlation of 0.75. As can be seen in the chart, there is a roughly two-month lag between changes in the USD/EUR exchange rate and in the CPI; when we factor in this lag, the correlation strengthens to 0.94. By ignoring this, Bernanke was “flying blind” in the initial months of the crisis. In consequence, the Fed failed to stabilize the USD/EUR exchange rate, which swung dramatically in the months surrounding the collapse of Lehman Brothers. Accordingly, the Fed acted too slowly in cutting the federal funds rate to stabilize inflation, which swung from an alarming rate of over 5% (year-over-year), to a negative (deflationary) rate in a matter of a few short months. If Bernanke had been monitoring the USD/EUR exchange rate, he would have realized that he was engaging in an ultra-tight monetary policy in the early months of the financial crisis. He would have known then to act much sooner than December 2008 — almost two months after the Lehman bankruptcy. Perhaps if he had tried to stabilize the value of the greenback, the bankruptcy may never have occurred in the first place. Regards, Steve Hanke for The Daily Reckoning Ed. Note: Steve H. Hanke is a Professor of Applied Economics at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C. You can follow Prof. Hanke on Twitter: @Steve_Hanke1

We'll take your baby for a few years and raise him correctly...and we promise to give him back!

EL ZORRO WRIDES AGAIN!!

 

 

 

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James Hathorn	Apr 9
to me

THEY  AREN'T YOUR CHILDREN!!

     A far left TV host, Melissa Harris-Perry, has a program on MSNBC.  She is a professor of African-American studies at Tulane University.  She, recently, made comments on her TV show that openly displays the absurd misplacement of values regarding our children.  Ms. HarrishyphenatedPerry says that we as parents do not own our children, they belong to the state.  (See Melissa Harris-Perry)

     This is the same bilge Hillary RodhamhypenatedClinton spewed in her rag, “It Takes a Village”.  It is the same terrifying ideology that spawned the Hitlerjunge at the rise of the Third Reich. Their ayran children were physically taken from their parents and put in camps for indoctrination and education.

      The left’s persistence in the education of our youth is a viral infection which our immune system seems unable to suppress.  We (some of us) remember the “days of rage”, the weather underground and the SDS – students for a democratic society.  Bernadette Dohrn’s socialist manifesto, “Prairie Fire”, documented the movement and strategy to indoctrinate young people to join.

Back on point, Ms. Perry has outed the left’s agenda to destroy the nuclear family.

We send our young people to war to defend the country with guns.  When they come home they now find out the government they fought for does not want them to have a gun to protect their family.  The government can have guns but the citizens cannot.

The picture is clear.  We are (becoming) a commune where there is only one family the parents being the government.  Healthcare is not provided by the biological parents, it is provided by the government.  Education is not provided by the parents, it is provided by the government.  Protection of the nuclear family is the responsibility of the government, they want your guns. 

A commune as in “communism”.  We are getting there very quickly. 

As El Gringo Viejo and yours truly believe, the time is coming for the Republic of Texas to secede from the socialist union.  Texas is the last port from the perfect storm.

 

El Zorro

 

Remember the Equal Rights Amendment

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We should remember the Equal Rights Amendment that the Margaret Sanger Sapper Battalion foisted upon the unsuspecting American public some time back.   Its ghost rests withing the vacant halls of the Dustbin Museum, along with the Berlin Wall and most of Havana de Cuba.

 

     The Equal Rights Amendment was another of those things that float out of Washington, D.C.  with the total approval of all the right people, the marxist press, and  Mother (Sir Edmund) Hillary in her day, as well, as I recall.

 

      It passed both houses of the Congress with the required two-thirds vote, it had the approval of the "moderate" Republicans who believe in nothing and everything at the same time, very strongly but not in any extreme way...unless it is absolutely necessary, or not...maybe.

 

      The Constitutional Amendment to ban segregated restrooms was just fixing to be ratified by the last three or four states for the three-quarters necessary, when all of sudden, on the Johnny Carson show one night, some liberal Hollywood type girl....a very young actress of some currency....we forget her name....said to a slightly older and much more famous actress that she wasn't all that hot for the Equal Rights Amendment.  She allowed that she had a real problem using the same restroom as men...especially when she did not know the men.

    The older and wiser and much more important actress just exploded at the new bimbette who waited for the more important actress to finish her tirade.  Johnny Carson looked on with that nervously quizzical look that he had mastered, as if he were waiting for a real mud-wrestling, hair-puller.

 

    The younger girl simply responded that she still did not like having to use a restroom where there a bunch of strange men hanging around.   Johnny intoned that he understood, because sharing hairspray and eye liner would be out of the question.   The applause - 0 - metre  gave the younger girl about a 15 to 1 approval edge, and then they broke for commercials.

 

     Something caught fire that night.  Within the week several States were in the process of rescinding their ratifications of the ERA.....while the Democrats were telling those States that they could not rescind, and that the Congress was going to amend the length of time for the other States to get on the bandwagon and ratify the amendment.   Kind of like New Jersey Rules...don't you know....Corzine style...Torricelli style...

 

     The Equal Rights Amendment failed and failed miserably.  Just like (Sir Edmund) Hillary's Free Medical Initiative in 1993 - 1994.    Both were thought to have been automatic slam-dunks.   Perhaps the reasonable, calmer heads among the homosexuals will recognise that contractual is more to their benefit than Sacramental.

 

     S0 we shall see if the winds change across the desert while El Gringo Viejo is gone.  To-morrow finds us on the road south to our little adobe hide-away.   We are going to try to make it to the little chat room in the Estacion de Santa Engracia with more frequency this time, and thereby have a few more contributions.  We shall see.

 

El Gringo Viejo

 

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Tick Tock...Tick Tock....

    Folks, this is really becoming more apparent by the day.  Mexico and Canada are doing a better job of running a budget than the Americans.   Their central governments' are running something remotely akin to a balanced budget of sorts.  The centre-right of the old centrist party (the famous PRI -  privilege, redundancy, and insipidness) along with the National Action Party and the new President have been somewhat effective in keeping some sense of reality about spending by the central government.

     The Board of Governors of the Banco de Mexico (their Fed) is not printing money as is Bernacke and the cabal of anti-American ghosts who seem to be controlling him from some Ouija Board in Hell.    The Mexican and Canadian currencies have gained substantially during the past few months, and to-day, El Gringo Viejo went and bought his pesos for the coming month's administration at our little hideaway.

 

     It was an eye openner.   So far this year, the number of pesos that one dollar can buy has decreased  from 13.00 pesos to...as of mid-morning to-day...11.90 .    That is a loss of about 8.5%, which is one of the steepest, if not the steepest drops in the free market value of the American dollar against the Mexican peso since the implied parity at 12.50/1.00 was abandoned in 1976.

 

     To put all in perspective, the leftists Luis Echeverria Alvarez and Jose Lopez Portillo ran their two six year terms into a twelve year Dante's Inferno of economic morass that literally destroyed the Banco de Mexico and the stability that had been carefully crafted by very moderate left, centre, and rightwing policies from about 1945 through 1970.   Echeverria began to flood money into the reach of the populace with unbalanced budgets on the premise that Mexico's new industrial might and success with the Olympic Summer Games in 1968 would result in forcing Mexico into the ranks of Great Nations as Japan had done almost overnight.   His notion of threatening increased nationalisation of "laggard industries" and enforcement of draconian labour union rules, along with absurdly out of balanced budgets,  caused the first major devaluation since after World War II's readjustments. 

    By the time he left office the peso had lost 50% of its value against the dollar.   (Liberal reporters, who are stupid by nature, would report that it had lost over 100% of its value, but obviously they had majored in new math).   But as the new Presidente took office, the peso continued its wobble by half-lifes....finally ending around 600 pesos / 1 dollar.    Miquel de la Madrid came in and began a slow, meticulous return to some kind of normalcy.   He allowed two tiered "official rate" and "market rate" policy to die and returned the peso to full free floating, free market rules.  By the end of his term...the people were glad to report that the peso was worth about 3,000 / 1 .....and a happy hour bill for a table of four at a decent saloon would have been paid with 0ne 50,000 peso bank note.   The people had a lot of money but a lot of money might not have even paid the parking metre.

     So Carlos Salinas de Gortari was elected and he tricked everybody...because it was thought that he would be a lefty...but Dr. Jekyll came out and Mr. Hyde was sent to the showers. Carlos began to extend and strengthen Miquel de la Madrid's conservative economic measures.  Among other things he and the Heroic Congress of the Federation decided to take off three zeros from the currency and its public appearance.   One thousand peso coins, made of pot metal, were suddenly one peso coins that were  almost pretty.  All currency lost three zeros....as well as the  bank accounts, CDs, deposits, bonds, etc.

 

     Another little shock at the end of Salinas de Gortari's  term left the peso pushed around a bit....and various issues, primarily straying at times from the balanced central government budget rule and the decision to pay off most of the foreign public debt, allowed to the peso to seek an equilibrium, about 5 years ago of between 12 and 13 to one American dollar.  Remember, that by the measurement of 1950, that peso was actually valued at 12,000 to one or 13,000 to one.   That is the price of socialist policies and over-borrowing.

 

     That is the path upon which the United States of America HAD ENTERED.    It is not the future.   It is the here and now.    So instead of picking up 13,000 pesos for my exchange to-day as I would have a year ago....the envelope contained on 11,900 and that was with the "preferred customer" bonus of 10 centavos per dollars.  The rate for the common dumboes changing lesser amounts was 11.77  per dollar.

 

    So there we are.   I believe that it takes 1.07 American now to buy 1.oo dollar Canadian.  It is well that the other countries away from us are, in the main, having worse buzzards coming home to roost.    Precious little time remains for us to either correct the problem with massive, radical entitlements reforms....or to just turn out the lights and accepting the implosion of the Republic.

 

El Gringo Viejo

 

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April - Birthdays and notions

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 The month of April has a flood of Birthdays that pop up like popcorn during the month.  My granddaughters both have such dates with the calendar, the first one and El Gringo share the date, along with that granddaughter's great-grandmother.

 

     To-day is the date of El Gringo Viejo's father, who would have been 102 years old had he not decided to join the Angels some time back.  We need to joke about these things, because as he was so did he turn in his chips...joking and playing word game tricks as he departed.

 

     He would have wanted me to remind everyone that he was particularly dismayed by the hyper-secularisation that began to occur in earnest during the final times of his journey on this Earth.  Among the symptoms that he most lamented was the demise of the Book of Common Prayer of the Episcopal Church.   He felt that the drawing down of such perfectly crafted  wording and rhetoric represented a radical move into making the Church relevant to modernity and man, instead of redirecting the attention of the parishioner to the matter at hand....saving and cleansing souls for Jesus of Nazareth.

 

     He also was distressed at the appearance of another secularisation of one aspect of the culture, and that was the Death of a person before his time, such as a student in primary or secondary school.   These creapt on to people at university, and then on to people in school settings in general.  It was felt somehow that the standard and commonly excercised methods of addressing the shock, fears, and sadness that some might feel, especially children, needed the help of "grief counsellors".

 

Irene Garza's murder was
 never solved.   Her brutal
killing dumbfounded and
depressed a community
in such a way that it
never really made
a real recovery.
Irene Garza went to
 Sacred Heart Church
 before she was killed.
Photo by Jeff Newton  

     Of course, in McAllen, we had a way of dealing with such things.   We had, during my episode of terrorising the public school system, several sudden departures of students and persons well known to the community.   Some died of childhood diseases and the polio.  Others were killed in motorcar involvements.   A very popular young woman who was highly placed in the McAllen society, a teacher, and a real beauty was murdered, plunging all of McAllen and most of the Magic Lower Rio Grande Valley into darkness un-equalled since those days in 1960.

 

     On the day following the discovery of her remains, thrown unceremoniously into a large irrigation canal near downtown McAllen, the town plunged into an emotional darkness.  Churches held special elements of service for her repose and for the health of her family.   Others prayed for the speedy delivery of the perpetrator.  She was a Latin, and Roman Catholic, a very traditional girl who could be identified by every citizen in the City.  She had been a drum major, an NHS member, first chair French Horn, active in campus and community affairs from an early age, and then a young, aspiring front line elementary teacher with a classroom of her own.  The Anglos and the Protestant Churches joined in the attempt to flood the family with kind sympathy.

      In the schools, on the Monday following the discovery, most home rooms began with an "Our Father" or with a prayer for the repose of Irene's soul and for the comfort of her family.   The prayers were rendered in a Christian context, and even the Jews among us participated without a second thought.   Mr. Tracy spoke to some of us late in the day, and he admonished us to  speak to our parents if we were troubled by this event, but he would always end his counsel by saying "....and, follow your faith."

     We had no "grief counsellors"....not for Irene, or the boy in our class who had either accidentally or on purpose hanged himself in his garage just three blocks from Mirabeau Bonaparte Lamar Junior High, and not for the three very highly placed "rich kids" who were involved in the wreck that killed  two of them and left the other diminished for the remainder of his life....one of the dead boys was the older brother of one of the girls in my class.  My brother was in their cliq, and was supposed to have been with them on their adventure across the border that ended in tragedy via their high speed meeting with the rear of a stalled bus parked on a floodway bridge in the darkness.   That brother decided to go out with a new girlfriend, and "jilt" the fellows, so he sent me out to tell them when they came by to pick him up..."My brother can't go out with you all, my parents have him grounded."    The doctor's son's brand-new Pontiac would have about 5 hours of life left before being turned into an unrecognisable mass of bent metal at 21:30 hours on that Friday night in the summer of 1959,

 

    My father was right.   Grief counsellors, of course, are the replacement by Caesar's minions for the outdated and silly notion of reliance upon faith and certain knowledge of the afterlife.  Since there is no god or gods, it is up to the secular to assist, especially children, through psychological methods, thereby removing the sacred and spiritual another step away from the vital issues of life.....and life after life.

 

Happy Birthday, dad....you were right.   As usual.

El Gringo Viejo

 

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Speaking as an Episcopalian

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Words from the sermon of the Rev. Dr. Father Luis Leon, who told the congregation it is acceptable to have doubts about their faith, but it is important not to dwell in the past.

“When we dwell on the past, when we dwell on the if onlys of life, we forget that God addresses us in the now,” Leon said.

Father Leon said that there are  members of the religious right who are trying to pull people back rather than letting them move forward, “The captains of the religious right are always calling us back, back back. For blacks to be back in the back of the bus, for women to be back in the kitchen, for gays to be in the closet and for immigrants to be on their side of the border.  What you and I understand is that when Jesus says you can’t hang onto me, he says you know it’s not about the past, it’s not about the before, it’s not about the way things were but about the way things can be in the now.”

“Will you accept the invitation from our gospel today to see things with Easter vision, recognizing reality in a different and new and wonderful way?” he later added. “Today the choice is yours. Jesus Christ is risen today. That’s the proclamation. May god bless you with Easter vision now and forever. Amen.”

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    Rush is quite wrong. He states that Father Luis is on a bit of an adrenaline high because the Real Live President of the United States is in Pew 57.   The presence of the poseur known presently at the President of the United States did not in any wise provide the inspiration and exhileration to reach new rhetorical  frontiers.   It is the same bilge that most Episcopal priests and priestesses fork over to their parishes and communicants on a regular and steady basis.    The vast majority of the clergy of the Episcopal Church has changed from a form of Orthodox Christianity to a much more hip, modern form of church that is driven by marxism and notions held wholly within the sticky nets made in the gulags and concentration camps

     One who is ordained into a great, orthodox, catholic, and apostolic church, I presume, must now dedicate himerself to the dignigration of people who must be denigrated.....such as conservatives, Republicans, and believers in common law, natural law, and such a silly notion as having a Homily or Sermon at an Episcopal Mass celebrating the Feast of the Resurrection do something like pertain to the issue at hand....like the Feast of the Resurrection....on the first Sunday, following the first Monday, after the first full moon following the vernal equinox.

     As in most Universities, it is very lamentable that the Episcopal Church USA, the bulk of the Methodist, Presbyterian, and even Lutheran Churches....with few exceptions are much more concerned about reminding their dwindling congregations that churches are echo chambers for secular humanist talking points, and Christians are "out of style...not modernising...out of touch with the popular culture".

     Christians of the dull old style are lumped into the  snake handling, homo-phobe (what is a homophobe, anyway), group that  does not accept liberation theology as the new norm.   We are known to be the nouveau Klanners, fascists, conservatives, Republicans, conformist, self-sufficient, independent, and a hundred or so other epithets are thrown at the ancients who were the parishioners and the clergy of the Episcopal Church  and  the Anglican Communion.  These new,improved churches and clerics  preach acceptance of things that do not work, things that produce vile and horrid illness, and political systems that have failed at each instance of their imposition upon a gullible and/or helpless population.

 

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    So, as an Episcopalian, I stride to the door and leave this tacked to the portal of the Sanctuary of Saint John's Church, Episcopal, situated not far from the White House, in Washington, District of Columbia.


     Father Luis Leon,
     Vicar,
     Saint John's Church, Episcopal
    Washington, District of Columbia

         We have surveyed several of the 1928 Book of Common Prayer type people, reverend Father, and we have none who are in favour of returning Negroes to their place in the back of the bus.  Several of them who are old enough were not in favour of said practise when it was more common, principally because it was a governmentally imposed and generally useless provision designed to put Caesar more in charge of the affairs of man.   Nor, reverend Father, did we encounter any people who were in favour of hauling immigrants back "...to their side of the border".   And, we found that none of our membership had required their wives, maidservants, female slaves, or concubines to be chained to the stove, bedpost, or any other fixture in the house or hovel of their abode.

     Why do you accuse us of such things?  And why do you think that in giving of our  gain to the hand of Caesar that any good will come of it?  Do you not see the ill of central planning of public assistance?   Are you not saddened that so many children are born into welfare dependency....live a life of dullness that is filled with crime, killing, multigenerational dependency upon food stamps, AFDC, public housing, drugs, free school lunches, promiscuity, depravity, filth, graffiti, and hideous addictions?   That is the path for humanity that you endorse.   Pointless "change" designed to  destroy the Church and the Republic so as to establish that perfect, classless society where none need be judged.



Historical photo of St. John's Church,
Episcopal, in 1918 - public domain

     Is it so difficult to admit that our "side" sees your motives and we understand that you are on a mission to destroy the Church and the Republic.  You needn't pose and blame the people who made the nation a wondrous, largely pious, and hopeful sanctuary among nations.   You should disabuse yourself....you and your fellow adherents to the heresy of 'liberation theology'....of the idea that you are operating on a plane that the "common folk" cannot understand.  Therefore you can also disabuse yourselves of the need to try to obscure your intent to subvert the religion and the culture without the "common folk" knowing or much less understanding your motives, tactics, and strategies.   We know.   We have known for a long time.

     It would have been so much better for you and yours to have studied something other than "Rules for Radicals" and sought to deal with poverty as does the Salvation Army.   How sad that you and people of your philosophical alignment use the establishment of systems that destroy entire generations....as has public assistance....as a method by which you can gain more cannon fodder for your totalitarian schemes.   There is no health in you, reverend Father.   Your tommin' for the man during the Mass for the Feast of the Resurrection is lower than classless, lower than minor league, and clownish.   So, after all is said and done, maybe it really is the best you can do....no substance....all meaningless posturing....nothing for the soul of humankind....only rhetoric designed to denigrate people about whom you know nothing and yet love to revile.   Not quite what one might call a Christian milestone, but apparently it is the best you and yours can do.

This is nailed to the door of your parish.

El Gringo Viejo

 

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The OROGs know that we are not hiding behind a nom de plume.  Our identity is easily recovered.  But...El Zorro and El Gringo Viejo have to put on their riding clothes before they launch out into the night at full gallop!  Also, we think that it is Pew 57 that is historically used by the President when, over the many years of the Republic, Presidents have come to the inspiring facility.  But, it could be 54 or fifty-something else.
El Gringo Viejo