Monday 11 November 2013

A SALUTE AT THIS TIME, and in THESE DAYS

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A special salute to all American veterans who have honourably served.
A special shout out to:
 
 
Petty Officer David Christian (retired),  United States Coast Guard, serving in Baltimore during the Muslim Extremist Assaults 

El Zorro USAF (Viet Nam) - Sergeant,  jet/tech and special out-of-theatre ops
 
Gunnery Sergeant Cesar (retired) Macedonia, Iraq,  and Afghanistan
 
El Gringo Viejo's brother-in-law Sergeant Robert USAF (retired)
 
Father-in-law who is now with the Angels, Sergeant  Jesus, United States Army Air Corps, North Africa
 
El Gringo Viejo's father, Ist Lieutenant Milton Birchard, United
States Cavalry, Ist Division, 12th Regiment, mounted (now with his
consuegro Jesus, also with the Angels)
 
El Gringo Viejo's consuegro, Petty Officer John, United States Navy, Mediterranean and World-wide 
  
And to my grandfather's two brothers, Pennsylvania 96th Regiment of Volunteer Infantry, one who died one the month before and the other one month after the Battle at Gettysburg.
 
And to my several Confederate combat veterans, eleven in total, four of whom were killed in action or died of their wounds at a later point, and seven of whom survived.


  • A toast to my brothers this Veteran's Day:

    "...This story shall the good man teach his son;
    And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
    From this day to the ending of the world,
    But we in it shall be remember'd;
    We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
    For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
    Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
    This day shall gentle his condition:
    And gentlemen in England now a-bed
    Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
    And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
    That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day." 
    -Henry V, A4 S3
 

(a quiet note to family and friends - my son was left off the list due to my own re-re-re-editing, and failure to note that he had been deleted from the list of honour.   He also had the honour of standing in the sleet and  snow on the day of the inauguration of George Bush in January of 2001, serving as a traffic and clearance guard.   Another oddity, perhaps, is that a fellow with his same Christian Name and his same surname was on board one of the planes that hit the Twin Towers.   It was somewhat disconcerting to receive calls and/or emails from various folks who knew that our boy was serving up there in the same area.  Pray for America)

Habitual Derangement

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obama clown
 
 
     We had wanted to wait until we were certain.   We are certain now.   It could be readily predicted what would happen.   The Soros and Co. cabal runs a garbage piece of legislation through a slack-jaw Congress. barely passing an income redistribution programme known as the Obama Socialised Medicine Initiative (OSMI).  The programme provides free medicine and medical services up to and including maternal pre- and post- partum, and a tempore services to men's and women's  pregnancy and childbirth issues.  It also allows unlimited re-reverse sex-change operations for those who have a hard time deciding exactly where they might stand in the old issue of "To be a man or a woman, that is the question."    In any regard, the entire issue could have been resolved long ago had the millionaires and billionaires only paid their fair share.
 
     We had tried to disbelieve Alice's wild stories about having fallen into a subterranean  madhouse somewhere in the centre of Washington, District of Colombian Redskins.  But alas, the child bore us true tidings.    Someone took a cumbersome, inefficient medical system that was expensive to operate and cared for those who cared not for themselves first, while charging those who tried to provide for themselves for the costs of the entire system.   While it was not perfect, it functioned fairly well.
    Most of the inefficiencies of the old system were things caused by overregulation and government intervention on various levels.  So the solution to what problems there were, of course, was deigned (literally) to be the passage of a Congrefsional Act of Human Bondage and Perpetual Slavery which authorised even more....yea! much more... central government intervention.
     That Act, now more commonly known as the Obama Socialised Medicine Initiative (OSMI), could not even be read until it had been passed, because the deranged sponsors and designers wanted to, in the words of the then Speaker of the House...." ....give the American people a very, very special Solstice gift of free medical care.  But remember,  we can't read it until we pass it.  No peeking."
      Santa Roberts dutifully delivered little boxes down the chimneys of all, each box containing  a card for the occupant of each Section 8, reading "This card entitles the bearer on demand to free medical care.  Call 1 - 800 - lotsoluck or click on to FREEMONEY.Com in order to select the amount you will be required to pay for your free medical care."
 
    Some weeks later, there is another advisory that is made stating, "If there are problems in the implementation of the OSMI or in communicating with the programme, blame one of the following:
                    (1)  George Bush
                    (2)  Tea Party
                    (3)  Republicans
                    (4)  Millionaires and Billionaires
                    (5)  The guy down the street who jacked a bigger flat screen than
                            you could because you were too drunk and stoned to carry
                            anything out of the house that you all were burglarising
 
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Now, against that relatively accurate description of how we managed to arrive at this point....two airliners on the same runway, one taking off, the other landing, both doing 179 mile per hour....all the usual suspects return.   The socialists, the moderate Republicans, the un-thinking self-centred Americans who want a "reasonable and immediate fix because I'm me", the illegals who have come to trough and not to toil, the low intelligence and information personalities and all are clamouring for "THE SOLUTION".   And Beelzebub smiles.
 
     He sends Lucifer and Lucifer says, "Sign here, and your problems are over."



 
THE SOLUTION:

 




 
     Congrefs authorises 932,000,000,000 USD per annum additional free money to the budget to "....subsidise necessary expenditures that the Administration always said were necessary but which were prohibited by the hostage-taking wealthy radicals within the Republican caucus who are totally opposed to sharing the American Bounty with the people who have been historically exploited.   Now that the obvious nature of their iniquity is so clearly demonstrable, we can move quickly to subsidise all Americans in their purchase of free insurance so as to obtain the free medical services they so richly deserve.   Finally, America can begin to speed up the original purpose of the foundation of this wicked country and provide the social democracy that works so well in the ant-hill and the bee hive.
     Of course, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D - Massachusetts) affectionately known by all Americans who love her so very much as "Pocahontas" because she is a Princess of All Red Skinned Native American Aboriginal Indians,  will be named to oversee this redistribution of ill-gotten wealth from the millionaires and billionaires back to the slaves and downtrodden, huddled masses from whence it came.
    Also, Eric Holder has informed us that he has incontrovertible evidence that the Insurance Company Cartel has conspired to engage in price gouging, simply because we were requiring them to pay for life-time re-reverse sex-change operations and abortions for 79 year old men.  Therefore, we have called Barney Frank back into public service to oversee the new Federal Insurance Alliance, a division of the Internal Revenue Service, to oversee the operation of this new, fully free, free health care system for all that is totally free.   Just pay additional shipping and handling.
 
     In other words, Obama will say, "Let's just fix this by subsidising those who have had their premiums go up.  That's only fair."
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     The response to that insanity is "NO!!"   The only acceptable path in this matter is to completely reset the chessboard.   Clear all the pieces, and return to them to where they were on the board five years ago.   Prohibit any government fix.   Pass one original promissory law that allows for insurance companies to sell across State lines.   It is amazing how cheap life insurance and automobile liability insurance for responsible drivers  has become.  And, on top of it all, there is simply not the money to pay.  It would be the camel that broke the straw-stem in two.
 
     After that, privatise Medicare, and return to the States the responsibility for paying for what is now Medicaid....which is essentially the refuge for the slugs, addicts, illegal aliens, multigenerationally dependent welfare sloths, and the occasional down-on-your-luck folks that might really need it.   The States and localities can sort that out much more readily.   They will be in a better position to say "NO" instead of grovelling before Uncle Obamaham for a few more inflated, borrowed, and deficited dollars to pay for some welfare recipient's sore throat or the leavings of the last shoot out between four street corner drug dealers.
 
 
 
And that ladies and gentlemen, is the name of that tune.  NO SUBSIDIES to cure what Obama caused!!!   Nay, Neigh, Non, No, Nyet, Nein!
 
El Gringo Viejo
 
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Sunday 10 November 2013

Chasing Our Tails? Or Psyching Up for the Big Game?

 
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The Coming Bailout of Obamacare:    This linkage will take the OROG back into the chapel of the Anglican Curmudgeon.   He excerpts a bit of a piece from the American Spectator, and wraps his own particular wisdom around other weavings of advanced thought.   A very short read, perhaps two minutes.   The OROG has already had to suffer through the sobering lamentations of both El Zorro and El Gringo Viejo....neither is icing his birthday cake with icing made of optimism.
 
     On the morrow, we shall renew the interchange....perhaps not as Emerson and Thoreau....when El Gringo Viejo will respond to El Zorro's observations.   We do wish to point out that Anglican Curmudgeon folds very salient points about the tribulations brought unto the citizenry by the present Regime ensconced in Washington, D.C. into his most excellent analysis of interior wars affecting Anglican Orthodoxy.   He includes material from other intellectually conservative fountains of information and thought....as do we.
 
    Is this a case of us chasing our own tails?   I think not.   It is necessary for us to know that there are others among us....many others....who think well and passionately.    Each of us is "....una fibra mas en el metate..."  as the country Mexicans say....."another fibre in the rope".  The more fibres the stronger and longer the rope.  A smaller force that is intelligent and resourceful can beat another that is larger and full of sloth.   And further, perhaps we are not even the smaller force.
 
   To be blunt....the conservative women.....?   Prettier and smarter.   Black conservatives?  Infinitely more intelligent and capable of critical thought and deductive reasoning.   The conservative Latin element?   There is not even the remotest comparison in terms of intellectual BTU's.  But we need to feed to, on, and from each other.
 
   We shall win.   To-morrow, more.
 
El Gringo Viejo
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DEMOGRAPHICS, GREED, APATHY, and SOLUTION

Demographi​cs, Greed, Apathy and Solution  

Attn:  El Gringo Viejo,
 
"Remember the Alamo!”
 
We are outnumbered.
 
      The results are settled?  There are more of them than there are of us?  The Haves are a dwindling species and the Have-nots are about to have it all… that being free subsistence.  We are still stunned at the progressive coup that is holding the Constitution hostage.  The ransom is to give up our freedom.  The hostage takers will take the ransom and kill the hostage anyway.  The minority of the conservative element are negotiating with the perpetrators; however, their methods are weak due to a lack of leadership.  The guys with the megaphone (McCain, Graham, McConnell, Rove, etc.) are offering compromise but the hostage takers want our soul and will not settle for less.  The bad news is, the negotiators are inept and the majority of the population doesn’t know or care.  The potential good news is Obama and the gang are aiming at their collective feet (with black rifles).
 
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    Nobody really knows the makeup of the population but it is clear that the majority consists of either those that do not care what happens to them, or they who have bought into the Obama tripe.
 
     El Gringo Viejo and El Zorro are aware of the demographics generally and how they affect the outcome of elections.  Rural areas are typically conservative.  Metro areas are typically liberal.  Throw into the mix North and South, East and West and the distribution becomes convoluted.  Other variables are divergent types such as libertarian and single issue voters.  With enough data an outcome can be predicted at a given time; however, over time swings occur due to changes in events.  Depending on how large the affected population and significant the event, the outcome can be instant and dramatic.  We saw in Virginia a typical outcome in the Governor’s race where Cuccinelli was as much as 9 points ahead until the large metro areas were counted and McCauliffe won by 3 points.
 
     If all things are equal, the metro Northeast, North, West and DC are mostly liberal.  Those populations pretty much outnumber the rest of the country which are conservative split by moderates/libertarians.  They are also top loaded with low information voters and government dependent enclaves. 
 
     There are some exceptions where there are large numbers of immigrants, mostly from Mexico, Central,  and South America who are eager participants in the welfare benefits available.
 
 
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      In the recent 2013 election there was a proposition to amend the Texas Constitution as follows:
“Proposition Number 8
(HJR 147 and SJR 54)

HJR 147 would repeal the Texas Constitution’s maximum tax rate for a Hidalgo County hospital district; the maximum rate is currently set at 10 cents per $100 valuation. This rate is lower than the maximum tax rate allowable for hospital districts in all other counties in the State (75 cents per $100 valuation). The repeal of the constitutional cap would authorize hospital district tax rates in Hidalgo County equal to the hospital district tax rate laws applicable to all other Texas counties.”
 
     This is a special consideration that was written into the Texas Constitution at a time when 10 cents per $100 was higher than the rest of the state.  This was a special consideration for South Texas.  Now that the population of Hidalgo County is much higher, the taxes collected for the hospital district are insufficient to support the overwhelming indigent use of the emergency rooms and those who do not pay for services.  This proposition was on the ballot for the entire state.  This was a fair proposition but the point is that South Texas is a demographic that is more liberal than the rest of the state (exception being Austin).  This proposition passed. The elimination of the maximum rate for Hidalgo County will not alleviate the condition of misuse of the hospitals because of Obamacare mandates that the states cover what it will not.  In fact the 75 cents per $100 will not cover the costs for underinsured, subsidized, and pre-existing condition provisions in the law in Hidalgo and surrounding counties.  The repeal of Obamacare and sensible immigration reform are desperately needed here.  At the time El Zorro was a young man growing up in the Rio Grande Valley, Hidalgo County was rural.  Today it is metropolitan in nature. 
    
     The population of the United States is upward toward 330 million.  A rough breakdown hold the conservatives at 39%, liberals at 23%, and moderates at 37% (Pew Research Center).  So why do the liberals have so much control over the electorate?  The moderates obviously vote democratic and republicans stay home.  It is clear that moderates like free stuff and republicans (we didn’t say conservatives) don’t care.  The democrats are the elite handing out cell phones.

In order to change the tendency of government toward socialism the conservatives have to participate.  The moderates have to detox from dependence on Uncle Candy.




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     We have strongly supported Mark Levin's "The Liberty Amendments but have been some what critical (unfairly) that he has written the book and stopped there.  Mark still works at his radio show and with his legal foundation to work for us.  What we have to recognize it that he has done his part and it is time for the rest of us to do our part.  The challenge is to find charismatic leaders who can consolidate and coordinate the effort to set state conventions leading to amendments to the Constitution that will strengthen it per the intent of the Framers.  One individual has raised his hand and we should follow this closely and see where we can fit in.

     Indiana state senate president, David Long  - (R) has invited all states to participate in a meeting to discuss conventions as allowed in Article 5 of the US Constitution.  This is encouraging.  It is hoped this keeps going.  It will be a long hard slog.  It has taken 100 years to get to where we are… we have to have commitment, focus, and patience to make this work.  We also have to find and promote true conservatives to displace all democrats and RINOs.  We have to primary those Republicans who are doing as much or more harm than the progressives i.e. McCain, McConnell, Lindsey Graham to start with.

     To reiterate, more conservatives need to displace progressives/liberals/democrats/RINOS to gain majorities in the Congress in 2014 and the Presidency in 2016 for the short term.  Then the Constitution needs to be strengthened to stop this downhill slide to Marxist, socialist hell. 

     Support your local Tea Party if only to subscribe to their email.  It is an individual responsibility to keep oneself informed.  Do not do so at your own peril.  America needs all of us or she won’t be America any more.

We are only outnumbered because of apathy and greed.  We can overcome both of these.  Then we can say, “The results are settled”.  We cannot wait!


Attentamente.
el_zorro

Saturday 9 November 2013

"We weren't as clear as we (could)(should) have been."

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     Yes, Barry, you and your minions of gnomes and gargoyles mince your words in the kitchens of some horrid camp made up of Occupy Wall Street vermin, and you throw your minced-up words into a kettle of venom.....shrieking with laughter about the truth of what one of your great leaders said not so long ago.  It translates poorly, but it come out close to, "How easy it is to govern people who are so stupid" (Adolf Hitler - 1937)
 
     Your universe of supporters, consisting of the dull and dependent, the parasitical and nihilistic are custom-made for the madmen that you and your controllers are.  But please remember that there is still a large body of people in the hinterland who know that when you speak the words George Soros and Co. tell you to speak, you lie.  We know now that we must hope that we can change back to a time when we could be counted on to take care of ourselves and a few others.
     You bring us...."You must....".   We are greeted with alternatives that are set by a commissar.  We have three choice of this, that, or the other.   We MUST adhere to the limits of the program as established by some set of regulations that no one can understand, and almost no one has ever read.
 
     At any point along this journey into sociological and cultural psychosis, when the crooked bends in the road swing wildly this way and that for no particular reason, we know that you, Barry....the unaccomplished, mean, vicious, America-hating, incompetent, arrogant, narcissistic Barry....will blame somebody.   At one time, back in 2008, you scoffed and scorned at the secretive and exclusive way of the Republicans, who were always making shady deals behind peoples' backs, and behind closed doors.   We remember so clearly how you declared that you were going to have negotiations of importance to the American Public presented on C-Span.  Those of us familiar with the nature of the hard-core socialist mind, roared with laughter and shivered with the chills of fear that are produced by the images of the Nuremburg Party Conventions and Rallies.
 
(20 or so minutes of some of the most
intelligent people in the world
 acting like low-information
and low intelligence
 voters of to-day )
 
 
    Barry, we appreciate that you are hiring ex-ACORN "community workers" to serve as "navigators" for those who think that they would like some of your "free medical care".  We are also aware that these same "navigators" frequently have criminal records and have long been involved in things like registering Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck to vote....multiple times and in multiple venues.  Perhaps you could say to the public, "I assure you, that if you give your private data to any of our hard-working navigators, that your private information will be absolutely safe...period!"
 
 
FINALLY:
      The issue is about the nationalisation of the entire medical and medical insurance industry in the United States and the outfall and fallout of the effects of those efforts by the Progressive and socialist elements within the  body politic.   It was not caused by a Tea Party Anything, by Ted Cruz, Bob Lee or any of those who are named by Barrack Hussein Obama, et al. 
      The movement to establish the Obama Socialised Medical Initiative (OSMI) came first.  The Cruz and Lee crowd came in as a response to said OSMI.  And, unlike the OSMI people, the Cruz and Lee crowd came in saying that they would do such and such, and they have complied with their word.  It is the one thing that gives the OSMI people the heebie-jeebies....straight-thinking opponents of the socialist movement, foreign and domestic, who do not waver from their word or beguile their constituents with false promises.
 
     This issue will not be over until every page, paragraph, sentence, and letter of the Obama Socialised Medical Initiative (OSMI) is repealed, rescinded, and shredded into a vacuum cleaner connected to the deepest parts of the Luciferine Precincts.
El Gringo Viejo
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Friday 8 November 2013

He did not really cheat or lie

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     We must remember that marxists have no true morality or sense of fair play.   One of the most basic rules of those who cleave unto that system of ordering lives is the certainty that anything that advances socialism is truth.   It matters little how far removed from the truth their truth is.    So, in defence of our Dear Leader, he certainly thinks that his mendacity should be seen as a different form of truth.   That truth, which seeks to dress the populace in grey muumuus and eat low-fat tofu throughout the entire 30 years of their lives, requires whatever necessary to force everyone into some form of the NHS.
 
     When Miss Fluke was demanding that my granddaughters and my daughter pay for her birth control, because Miss Fluke was a poor beset-upon girl who had to pay 3,000 USD per year for her pills, Obama came forth with his choir of white-coated dullards standing behind him to pronounce, "I am ordering that all insurance companies must include FREE contraceptive coverage in their policies according to the provisions of the Obama Socialised Medical Initiative (OSMI)."
     There are so many mandated conditions and inclusions that insurance companies were and are faced with either raising rates or retiring to the sidelines of the industry....veterinarian, body-parts insurance, professional athletes and belly / ballet dancer injury insurance, etc.   Finally, even those things would be brought under the control of the Central Government.
 
 
 
NOW FOR THE COMPLEX PART:
 
      For the "reasonable Republicans" who think that we need to have some "amendments" to the Obama Socialised Medicine Initiative (OSMI), please understand that it simply cannot be done.   They immediately began to suggest that a bill should be passed to allow people who have lost....or who are in danger of losing....their medical insurance policies (incorrectly referred to as 'health care'), to keep their policies.   Such cannot be done.   Insurance companies are not going to offer policies for long-term health considerations when the political barometer is so volatile.  They are not going to offer policies that are subject to the review to lunatics such as Janet Napolitano, Kathleen Sibelius, Eric Holder, Valerie Jerrod, and Nancy Pelosi.
 
     It simply cannot be done.   The only solution to the Monster of Frankenstein
Socialised Medical Initiative is to turn "settled law" into kindling and garbage wrapping paper.   The Act of Revocation could replace 2,900 pages of "settled law" and its accompanying 180,000 pages of rules, regulations, and requirements with perhaps two pages of legal construction that overturns page alpha through page omega.   It will simply require a veto-proof United States Senate, which would then be, by definition, a filibuster-proof Senate...ready to overturn any last-ditch defence of the horrid legislation by the horrid Community Organiser in Chief.  Republican control of the Lower House is all but certain, but it would help to hold a few more seats, and then perhaps there would be enough Democrats to join with a unanimous Republican commitment to become a 290 vote block total required to overturn a veto from the White House.

      Perhaps Hizzoner, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Wise Latinas could hold off finding the veto of the Obama Socialised Medical Initiative un-Constitutional.



AMONG THE ARGUMENTS THAT BORE EL GRINGO VIEJO:

     The press is pointing out that the sign-up for the OSMI in Kentucky for the is doing very well.  Almost 300,000 people have visited the fairly well-functioning web site operated by the State's OSMI Registry.   We invite the OROGs to use whatever search engine and look for the glowing reports  about the "Kynect Miracle".   The only problem is that the State of Kentucky fell for the deal about "free money" from Father Obamaham.   That free money came in the form that the OSMI offered States two "free" years of Obamastash money....and that at the end of that time, all people signed up on the OSMI Medicaid section would have to be converted to the State's budget.
     That is why Governor Perry and the great majority of the Republic of Texas's population favoured not participating in the "free money" offer from the OSMI.   Thank the Lord we refused that millstone.

    So, when analysed only a slight bit it turns out that over 80 per cent of the people being signed up for the OSMI are being assigned into the Medicaid Program.  They will never pay any premiums of any kind...opting for some degrading, parasitical relationship that can only serve to dehumanise the participant.    What will they do when the two years have passed?

     Another argument is the ancient saw one hears when a particular Senator or Representative is being lauded or is lauding himself before a campaign crowd,".....and we have to really give old Kennedy credit for having BROUGHT HOME THE BACON!!"   (roaring cheers in the background).
     The cheering stops for a moment when a hayseed in the crowd asks to speak, and Old Kennedy recognises the man and tells him to take the floor.  The man draws himself up and asks, "I was jist a-wondering, if'n it took all that work and trouble to bring all that bacon back here from Washington, then why did we send it up there to begin with?"

    All charity begins at home.   That feeds into the steadily increasing realisation that the Republic of Texas is a theoretical and spiritual reality. It must become a concrete legal reality.

Storm clouds and earthquakes....  
 El Gringo Viejo 
 
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