Monday 18 November 2013

Stork Report

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File:Carl Spitzweg 029.jpg      We interrupt our breakfast of Airwick and No-doz to celebrate with all OROGs a blessed event.   A baby was mis-delivered by The Stork in charge of that particular zip code in Central Texas.   We have proof of the "failure in delivery".  One reason is because a nice man made a picture of the event, a certain Herr Carl Spitzburg, just as the Stork flew over the waiting family and passed them by.   One can see various of our extended family waiting to catch the baby, immediately below the flight path.  Cradle crib, swaddlings and everything was ready.

     Finally, after considerable wrangling with the authorities in charge of mis-directed deliveries, the Master Stork Guild finally conceded that the wrong address had received the baby and authorised the re-delivery to the correct address.

     All is really well.  And all the family of El Gringo Viejo and his better three - quarters are elated.   The mother and father of the baby and her two older brothers are overjoyed,  and the child has blossomed in her new environment in a way that not even this old man has ever seen a child respond so quickly and positively.   The child is not only attractive but she is also lightning quick of mind, which means that she is in the right place....now.

     El Gringo Viejo and his better three-quarters are the Great-uncle and Great-aunt respectively.   We are not really able to contain ourselves about bragging about my nephew and his sainted wife, and their two boys who had normal and predictable stork arrivals and their new addition.   The fact is that we are very proud of all five of them.   Each is very accomplished, and they interface with civil society in such a way that it brings to mind those times, quite a long while back, when civility and social formulae were admired and almost required.   In short...they are just good folks.


     Although they have posted on facebook and the parents are very high profile in the "extreme Central Texas" area, we defer from naming names or identifying the particular folks involved,  any further than what we have.  However, the  above-pictured  does show  our new Angel looking back up at the Angels who sent her to "extreme Central Texas", where she belongs.

     The entire clan is tickled pink, literally, and we are hoping to be able to invest a bit in the nurturing of this wonderful "bundle from Heaven.   As there are updates, we shall provide them discreetly, as we do with our other grandchildren and children.   It is strictly selfish on the Gringo Viejo's part, so that he can show that he comes out of the cave occasionally and actually does enjoy the beauty and goodness around him. 

We thank all the OROGs for their indulgence.
El Gringo Viejo
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A Trollybus of Thoughts, Impressions, and Grouchy Mutterings

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(1)   Hayley Barbour, one time Republican National Committee and Governor of Mississippi is a dolt.  He explained at length to a report the other day that it was necessary to "do whatever was necessary to win" and that is why they had to block the candidacy of Cuccinelli for Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia because there was no way he could win and he was an embarrassment to the Republican Party.   So, he and a few other country club Republicans arranged to fund the candidacy of a no-chance-to-win Libertarian because they knew that that candidate would siphon off enough votes to block Cuccinelli and throw the election to the Democrat....who happens to be a New Yorker, an arch-socialist, a Hillary Zombie, and arrogant jackass, and a hypocrite.    Thanks, Haley, for being such a loyalist, and for doing those things that are so necessary to "Win".   If this is your idea of winning, you will understand why all of us...the little people out here in nowhere land....think that RINOs are afflicted with some kind of a serious brain syndrome.


      With the slightest SINCERE positive involvement by the GOP kinder, gentler, moderate, reasonable, and real Republicans we could easily have had a conservative Republican at the helm in this pivotally important State.  But, guys like you, Haley, take votes gladly from us right wing crazies, and then ridicule us as you turn your support to your "good friend" Terry McAuliffe , as you call him, as you actively arranged to raise money for the third party candidate and thereby torpedoed the GOP chances in the Old Dominion.
 
 
(2)    We have another "Lincoln freed the slaves moment" as the notion that "Bush did nothing" about Katrina continues to become an axiomatic truism that is false.   It has been repeated so much that, unfortunately, a falsity is becoming the truth.
     Governor Blanco of Louisiana dallied for four days after the failure of the essentially unattended and essentially dysfunctional system of locks, canals, and diversions that were designed many years ago to protect, at least in a small way, the interior of New Orleans from flooding.    Overflow from the Mississippi River is so catastrophic that any true breach of the improved, but essentially natural levees of the Mississippi could never be defended.
     The problem was with the incoming flow that originated in the Florida Parishes to the east of Baton Rouge and New Orleans, that inundated Lake Pontchartrain and thence overwhelmed the locks and diversions a bit north of New Orleans. 
     The next problem was that almost none of the gate keepers and engineers who are supposed to operate the locks and gates decided to stand their ground and deliver their services.  Being political appointees, making massive salaries while doing next to nothing, or in some cases, absolutely nothing...when the time for even the most basic selfless service came...they ran like the cowards, thugs, political hacks, bums, self-centred little squibs that they were and are.
Just like the school district personnel; administrative, teachers, janitors, bus drivers, and almost everybody.   Only the private schools, Catholic, Episcopal, Protestant kept their heads and tried to help others.    Mayor Nagin was nowhere to be found, as were the vast, vast majority of firemen and policemen.  Gone!  Puff!  Evaporated!  Except of course for the ones who also participated in the looting and ransacking of stores and private homes while what few cats there were left were being overwhelmed by the hordes of mice.
 
     And remember , while this is going on, Governor Blanco of Louisiana is still in Baton Rouge, 80 miles to the northwest, asking her staff if ".....these pants make my butt look too big."  The White House, of those days, thought that it was a odd thing that neither the Governess nor the Mayor had deigned it necessary to request a preliminary designation of the Crescent City and its surroundings be given a Federal Disaster Declaration.
     In a federal republic, such prerogatives must necessarily rest with the locale.   The central government cannot intervene unless requested.  They never requested until finally strongly exhorted by various heavy-lifters, including the entire command of the Louisiana National Guard.   But, by that time, the disaster was complete, people were coming out of the ghetto, wondering how in the name of the Great God of Food Stamps they were supposed to take care of themselves.   And, of course, it was all George Bush's fault, and that we know because even Shepard Smith make sure that no one,,, and we mean no one who had ever even looked at a Republican placard or television advertisement could ever again be considered remotely morally equal to him or any real reporter or any liberal...because they felt things in their hearts and the Republicans only care about money.
 
    Fault in the issue:   Blanco and Nagin and the entire corrupt New Orleans political machine.  They had 60 years to prepare for a relatively minor hurricane and a relatively minor flood episode...and failed.
 
     But Gringo Viejo, Gringo Viejo...Katrina was a devastating category V hurricane!!!!   No,  for a very brief period, while still in the distant middle of the Gulf of Mexico, Katrina made Category V.  When the eye of Katrina came  ashore near the border of Louisiana and Mississippi it was already a Category II.   The backside winds flowing from the north-northeast gusted a couple of times up to ninety miles per hour, but were sustained over hurricane force of any speed for only 3 hours.   The biggest disaster of the storm for New Orleans was State and City sloth and corruption, the blatant stupidity and sloth of the inner city residents who could do little or nothing for themselves, and the failure to make any....any....preparations.    The United States Representative William Jefferson Hamilton evidenced great heroism, however by commandeering a double-axle 7 tonne National Guard ordnance and commissary conveyance...that he used to rumble through the city...to his house....where he went in and extracted 100,000 USD in cash of bribe money paid to him by an African government for favours rendered.   Since there was no electricity he saw no reason to have to keep the money any longer in his freezer.   When they tried to leave, the double-axle became mired in the mud of Rep. Hamilton's expansive front yard and another similar truck had to be summoned to chain up and extract the first truck.    It's amazing what public servants have to suffer when they are serving the public.


(3)    Next, we have to suffer a woman who has managed to deduce that people do not like Obama.  And when people do not like Obama there is a whole lot of racism going on.  What a brilliant deduction.   A woman who is exactly like Obama in the sense that she is artificially created and controlled by an unseen management group.   They are to be lauded because they took an unattractive woman with scant interest in men, intellectual substance, or anything beyond  the most superficial and dysfunctional "charitable" operations and pulled the marionette magic of making her a "celebrity'' ...nay! a "personality"....even a "star"....and she manages to say that people do not like Obama because he is a Negro.   Brilliant.
    Uh....Opie....people who have an IQ over room temperature do not like Obama because he is a fire engine Red socialist who wants to enslave America for his Massa, George Soros...and lead as many white dogs to the guillotine as possible.   Among the first white dogs will be Herman Cain, Col. West, Mia Love, and every conservative of Black African ancestry he can root out.  Then he and Bill Ayres will start on the rest of the retrograde rightwingers.
     Oprah....good grief.   Being a slob, ugly, and very dull intellectually, one would think that you would have the grace, at least, to appreciate that you are not combing through the garbage in Nairobi searching for scraps.   Imagine the august and noble statement from Booker Tecumseh Washington who intoned, "In my estimation, it is better to have been born an American dog than an African King."  And...Opie....Booker T. was a much better human being than you....and a much better human being all the way around in terms of being an example of dignity, intelligence, forthrightness, and positive instructive influence for white man and black.

(4)     We thank the Lord that Texas had the good sense to  remain away from the Sirens' call to take the "free money" for Medicaid that Obama offered to those whom Father Obamaham and Valerie Jerrod considered to be dunces enough to take the dreaded poison.    One thing that the dumboes who took the poison have to understand, of course, that once that State takes the filthy lucre, within two short years, at political entity must pick up all the cost, AFTER the program has globbed on several million dregs, slugs, addicts, wounded drug traffickers, and others who are incapable of self-management.  AND, those entities will be allowed that great favour of dealing with those nice folks, like Uncle Omar and Auntie Zietuni, EXACTLY AS PRESCRIBED BY FATHER OBAMAHAM AND THE CABAL OF ANTI-AMERICAN SOCIALISTS DEMAND.

Ulysses lashed to the mast to avoid the
lure of the Sirens.  Look carefully to see
the wax in his ears, placed there to silence
the irresistible song of the seductresses.

 
     The OROG should be aware that only about 10% of Medicaid participants are people who arrived there through no moral or social fault of their own.  Only 10% are actually folks who are "dealt a bad hand, or down on their luck, or who have had a catastrophic event overwhelm them."

     As an addenda to this topic, all welfare and charity should and must be as locally administered by private agencies as is humanly possible.   It cannot be done as part of a National Welfare Scheme such as did the National Socialists of 1930s Germany nor the Bolshevik programmes of the past century.   We see even the ruin that national programmes have brought to the insignificantly small countries in northern, eastern, western, and southern Europe....all of whom have proud histories....and each of whom are now drab places filled in their majority by proles on the doles.   Grey, grey reality.
  (5)     Finally....there is no apology when a person apologises and says...."I am real sorry that the dolts and dumbasses of the American Union failed to understand my teleprompter."
       Obama has ridden this horse exactly to where he hoped it would be.   Promise much....cause a train-wreck....go back to the "Rules for Radical Playbook, Rule No. 3" and blame the capitalist structure (in this case the Insurance Industry) and finally run from third base to home plate.....and home plate is the implementation of the Obama Socialised Medicine Initiative (OSMI).


(6)     Benghazi gun-running to Al Qaida sponsored "Freedom Fighters"?   Was it possibly a "for profit" operation being run for personal interests within the Obama administration?   Why was Mubarak driven out of office ?
The only possible result would be massive destabilisation of Egypt...a more than nominally reliable and almost noble ally in the complicated Rubik's Cube geo-political game in the Middle East.
     Where have all the Generals gone?
     Where have all the very, very highly trained actual combat Sergeants gone?  (El Zorro and Sgt. Cesar know from when El Gringo Viejo speaks.
     Why is homosexual tolerance and women in front line combat more important than actually having combat units whose job it is to break things and kill and wound the enemy?
      Why is it okay to invent stories out of whole clothe about "offensive videos about Mohammed, when such inventions can only be used to further humiliate an already diminished image of American competence?

     And, who will answer for 600 Mexicans who are totally innocent or involved in honestly going about their duties who have been killed in cross-fire incidents and in combat with the Cockroach Infestation that is the assembled cartel sub-human contamination.   The Fast and Furious programme was designed strictly for the purpose of defaming legitimate gun dealers and legal and compliant American private firearms owners.   It is like the Hillary - Reno - ATF and E conspiracy to do the same defamation job against private firearm ownership that resulted in the burning down of a religious kook's compound with the resultant deaths of 43 children.  There, an in the case of Fast and Furious, every possible explanation made by Janet Reno and her lackeys wound up being an assembly of lies....much of the mendacity aimed at protecting the fact that (Sir Edmund)Hillary and Reno co-ordinated on the project and somehow managed to coerce the willing participation of Gen. Wesley Clarke, the Hero of the Battle of Mt. Carmel, to violate the rule of Posse Comitatus by the employment of combat helicopters from Fort Hood in the execution of a matter that pertained to civilian, domestic affairs.
     About the Mexican thing, El Gringo Viejo has issues with real and perhaps imagined indignities inflicted by the Mexicans upon the Americans' best interest.   But in the main, they are an overwhelmingly positive factor for American interests and it serves no good to allow or facilitate the killing of so many solely for the purpose of advancing the cause of disarming legitimately armed Americans.  Good Grief.....and the explanation?  Lies.


(7)    Finally, in the matter of subsidies, we are fortunate that we are bald.  There is no more hair to pull out....(very little anyway).   Father Obamaham even stated, as he trots out explanation number 232 about why George Bush forced him to lie at every turn in his administration, that if a person wants to keep his "sub-standard, old, private plan" a little longer, that's okay with him.  And what if it costs more when that plan is given the "breath of Lazarus"?   No problem, they will qualify for a subsidy.  Stroke of a pen; Law of the Land.  Stroke of a pen; Law of the Land. Stroke of a pen; Law of the Land.

 
 
My Country 'tis of Thee, Sweet Land of Liberty.  
 
 
We resign from this submission with the fervent hope that The Republic of Texas can be re-established at the earliest time possible so as to avoid these useless foreign entanglements with foreign powers, over which we have no real and final control.   It would be much better, obviously to be a friendly neighbour than a floor mat for every foolish socialist scheme that can be dreamed up for which Texas must ultimately pay.
 
El Gringo Viejo
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Friday 15 November 2013

In the Spirit of Intertwining Messages Among the Adam Smith Crowd....We are many!

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This young man stuck it in their pipes and lit them up.  El Gringo Viejo urges a Secondary Diploma at the end of the 10th grade, the return of the office of :"teacher" to the ranks of "calling" and that the notion that teaching is a profession to be abolished.   No feeding of children in school.  No bus transportation to the schools.  If football, basketball, and baseball are necessary, the various baseball programs have demonstrated that sports and band. including ensembles, can be developed more than adequately in the community.
 
Furthermore, people who feel like they can teach should be allowed to do so without the need of having an "education" degree.  The tiers of administrative levels bespeak of a force designed to impose political correctness, and to teach to the test ad infinitum until the horizon arrives to our front porch.  We send our children to school to learn that Washington owned slaves and that Earth is going to explode in a flame of CO2 fuelled horror while also being barraged by asteroids larger than the moon.  And that it is all the fault of white males, especially George Bush.  It's just not worth the taxes we pay to have a place where insolent snots can shout profanity and perform degrading and disgusting acts and gestures without the fear of any discipline, and where the main activity, besides sexual innuendo, is eating....free breakfast, free lunch, free afternoon snack, free summer lunch program.
 
     "Mommy, Mommy, I went to Mary's house after school, and her mother was walking around in something called a kitchen....boiling stuff and putting things in a really hot box with a glass door.  I bumped into it while I was texting and almost burned myself.    There was a man who came home, but he wasn't stoned or drunk like the boys you bring home....Mary called him 'daddy'....what is  'daddy'?   Can we have a daddy?   He's taking Mary and her brother to Port Isabel to fish for flounder.   Mommy, what is fishing?   What is flounder?  Mommy, where is Port Isabel?"
 
     McAllen football team in 1953 went all the way to Port Neches.  Two coaches, one volunteer doctor and a Latin fellow who said grace over the equipment.   McAllen's populace leased a special 14 car train, plus a diner and a club car.   Twenty-four hours up and twenty four hours back.   The entire budget for the athletic department, including golf and tennis was less than 100,000 USD, including salaries.  That would be right at 1,000,000 USD now.
That 1,000,000 USD presently does not even touch the beginning of paying the salaries of the 12 coaches that the football team has now....and almost  every male coach is pregnant, and wearing spray on outfits that make them look like some kind of pregnant clown doll.   And back in 1953 the stands were full of townspeople and students....now, if it's a good night, maybe the stands are 1/3 filled.   The opposition side is almost entirely empty.   Sometimes there are more players ....considering the band and the athletes...than there are spectators.
 
 
Oh, well.  Such is life.
El Gringo Viejo

What Means the "Upton Bill"??


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What Means the "Upton Bill"??
      At 1:36 PM ET November 14, 2013 the United States House of Representatives passed a bill (H.R. 3350: "Keep Your Health Plan Act of 2013") that would require insurance companies to reinstate individual insurance policies lost due to Obamacare and also allow policies to be issued to new customers.  The Senate is not in session today so it is uncertain what that body will do when the “Upton” bill comes across to it.  If it is remotely possible this thing becomes a part of the law, “If you like your insurance, you can keep it”.
 
     Not having more information we can only guess of the content or consequences but theoretically this could be good or bad depending how it plays out.
 
     Such a change to the law, if constitutional, will not only reinstate the 5,000 plus policies lost and will likely add thousands or millions of new customers who fear the alternative ACA/Obamacare (and affectionately called the OSMI, Obama Socialized Medical Initiative).  One stipulation that could alter that scenario is the expiration date of December 31, 2014.  The insurance industry would most likely not, under real law, have to provide new policies nor would it even if they could.  Potential new customers would also be deterred knowing that on expiration, they might again be subjected to the same potential loss of private coverage in 2015 and so forced into Obamacare.
 
     The positive news is that such a change would exempt so many people from Obamacare it would be weak of starvation by expiration of this change in the law.  At the end of 2014, before the elections, there will not be a taste for Obamacare by the majority of Americans.  It will be up to the conservatives in the Republican Party to continually remind the populace of the original supporters of Obamacare in order to keep a majority in the House of Representatives and secure a majority in the Senate.  There is now tremendous pressure on Democrats and RINOs to keep the private sector insurance industry alive simply to preserve their seats.  This is something of a double edge sword; however, if the conservatives in the Congress keep their eye on the ball we can unseat the progressives (in spite of their weak opposition to Obamacare too little too late).
 
      These are ramblings, which should be considered simply that, because we know that the left will not roll over.  We cannot underestimate the power and compulsiveness of the progressives.  We cannot expect the president to all of a sudden start observing the law. 
 
     It is probably not even possible that the insurance companies can or will reinstate the expired policies or issue new ones.  They have prepared for years and adjusted business models and financing to accommodate Obamacare.  Obama knows that the industry cannot turn on a dime (to coin a phrase) and has vowed a veto of this bill. 
 
   This is a last ditch effort by desperate politicians (a few well intentioned representatives not withstanding) to save their political careers.  It could work.  It could provide relief for those who have lost their policies.  It could persuade millions to obtain private insurance including those not previously insured to circumvent Obamacare.  Ultimately, if this bill passes we will have some time in which to move the public against the ACA and those who supported it.  In any event, this is a stick in the spokes of Obamacare if it is made a part of the law.
 
El Zorro y El Diablo
 
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Urgent Warning for Texans and other civilised folk

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     The Texas Nationalist Movement (TNM) has issued an urgent warning pertaining to the infestation of cockroaches known as "navigators" in the lexicon of the Obama Socialised Medicine Initiative (OSMI).  We have followed this terrible plague.....worse than the locusts announced by Moses....as the availability of the "free medical'' services infrastructure began to be established.  The TNM is concerned almost exclusively with matters that affect Texas.
 
     It was known that the old ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) was being integrated into the front lines of in-take clerks for the OSMI clients and gimmeslugs.  This is a really neat deal because it combines the triple moral corruption of setting up a free government service, with money taken forcibly from the productive, to be administered by people with a proven criminal and nefarious background of voter fraud, extortion, and inappropriate administration of public funds.   ACORN was so embroiled in so many criminal activities that it was finally forced to disband, and the two brothers....both communist organisers with close ties to Obama, Jerrod, and the Annenberg Foundation (Bill Ayers, anyone?).   The old "community organising" group was gradually re-established under other names in various places, essentially playing The Phoenix while the American people underwent the standard fortnight of lobotomy.

To wit:

Obamacare Brings Organized Crime To Texas
The Truth about Navigators 400 pixelsThe Democrat Party and the Obama Administration have brought 'Texas sized' fraud and organized crime to Texas in an unprecedented way as was reported today in the National Review article online: The Truth About Navigators, by John Fund - http://www.nationalreview.com/article/363699/truth-about-navigators-john-fund
The under-cover video is incontrovertible evidence that the 'Navigators' are operating in Texas as a criminal enterprise and are apparently using fraud and deceit to encourage Texans to defraud the federal government and become criminal accomplices as a result of the explicit instructions of these people operating under the auspices of the federal government and the Democrat Party.
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We already knew that several branches of Planned Parenthood have received hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants to serve as Obamacare “navigators,” defined as “an in-person resource for Americans who want additional assistance in shopping for and enrolling” in Obamacare insurance plans. National Review reports that another such navigator is a group started by ACORN founder Wade Rathke.
 
wade rathke
 
 
Federal funding of ACORN-related groups was banned in 2009 after the organization was caught on video by James O’Keefe coaching people in illegal activities. Fox News reports:
The government has given out $67 million in Navigator grants to help with the controversial rollout of ObamaCare. It was not clear if Local 100 got a grant of its own, but it has set up a help center with Southern United Neighborhoods, a charity founded in March 2010 with many former ACORN members, to enroll people in ObamaCare. Southern United Neighborhoods received a Navigator grant of $486,123.
That $486,123 was for the Louisiana branch of Southern United Neighborhoods, which also won grant money for its branches in Arkansas ($270,193) and Texas ($600,678).
Rathke hasn’t tweeted much about Obamacare aside from links to his blog, where we learned Oct. 1 that “once you answer the first simple questions and enter your information, you will get a real-time, meaning virtually immediate, response if you are enrolling on-line.” Sounds great!
 
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     We have a soft spot in our gall bladders for ACORN, remembering their effective voter registration procedures. designed to clog up registrars' offices with Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck applications, along with thousands upon thousands of real, unqualified, multiple-registered individuals.   There is literally no way for normal people to calculate how many ACORN Zombie voters there were / are who have voted multiple times in how many elections.   It is not in doubt however that ACORN involved people have been found in possession of scores of actual active and valid voters' registrations.   We mean, like one person in possession of 10 or 15 valid registrations.  If an organisation can pull off three or four hundred individuals being so equipped, then it becomes a very valuable tool such as in the case of the Al Franken Minnesota Senatorial debacle of the election in 2008.

For instance:

FoxNews.com)
        
     Senator Al Franken likely owes his Senate victory to felons. With a razor thin victory over Senator Norm Coleman in 2008 of just 312 votes, felons convicted of crimes such as murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assaults may have given Democrats the filibuster proof sixtieth vote that allowed Obamacare to be passed.  Americans have good reason to ask how this could happen.
      Consider this:  A conservative watchdog group Minnesota Majority has gone through voting records reportedly finding that at least 341 convicted felons voted illegally in just two of Minnesota's 87 counties during the 2008 general election.  Undoubtedly other felons voted illegally in other counties. After culling through 500 initial allegations of felons illegally voting, the Ramsey County Attorney's Office told The Minneapolis Star Tribune Monday that they are seriously investigating about 180 cases.  Another 28 felons have already been charged. Hennepin county, which includes Minneapolis, winnowed 451 initial cases down to 216 that they are still looking at.  Some other felons have already been charged.  Both the Ramsey and Hennepin county attorneys are Democrats.
 
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     El Gringo Viejo has to confess that his grandmother, great-grandfather, and great-great grandfather are all buried in the Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minnesota in various of several large family lots in the centre of said cemetery.  And, yes, my Grandmother, whom I never knew, was a suffragette and a WCTU (gasp).  She was a liberal Republican of the Ripon and La Follett order.  There, it's been said.  But she was a nice girl and very intelligent, in spite of all that.
 
     This employment of old ACORN operatives as integral intake personnel for the OSMI portends nothing but ill for the Republic of Texas.  The same awaits our brethren in the American Union.
 
Thank each of your for your kind attention and investment of time and patience on this day.
El Gringo Viejo
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Thursday 14 November 2013

Potpourri of Important Stuff.....A note from El Zorro and a Haunting Glance to Chill Your Bones

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     The other day, tired from the drive, and after working pretty much for three weeks on stuff that involved quite a bit of heavy lifting....and (ugh) spending money, El Gringo Viejo was shot (exhausted).  For thirty-six hours he moped about, feeling sorry for himself and trying to "get straight".  But then he read the planning notes from about three weeks earlier that El Zorro had sent...just some nebulous thoughts, but experienced notions about how to attack this issue festering in Washington, D.C.   Before the next six hours was up, El Gringo Viejo had hopped to and was making submissions, contacting this and that party and generally making a pest of himself.   It went to the idea that El Zorro had about insertion where and when possible...at every opportunity....without being forbearing.   But it was necessary to back up our team.   Neither of us is a Tea Party member per se, but intellectually, we cannot believe that any victory is worth winning if it is not grounded in principle...and the willingness to implement said principle while in governance.   Our principles are grounded in a view of the future without debts for our progeny...our nation.   Your humble servant is convinced at this point that the re-establishment of The Republic of Texas must occur and that it will occur.   But I genuinely do not wish ill for the American Union. My grandchildren come from a line that has 400 to 450 years on the North American Continent depending upon which line they follow back to Boston Harbour or Vera Cruz.  El Zorro is in the same situation in many ways.   We know that burdensome debt is a greater slayer of nations and the will of the populace of those nations than even War.
     Welfare dependency, crony capitalism, overly entitled labour unions, a fractious citizenry arrayed group against group for economic and/or cultural reasons....all represents internal rot of the soul of the nation.   We are forming a wave to re-instate equality before the law and sociological union of the populace and freedom from central government largess and bondage.  In short, we are going to re-establish Americanism.   Texianism we have already, just about as close as it can be.  We'll work on that some more as well.
 

JH commented on your status.
James wrote:

      "DC, I am in!
     The current major issue is the audacious deceit perpetrated by Obama regarding the OSMI (Obama Socialized Medical Initiative). The projected number of Americans being ejected from their formerly private sector medical insurance is 93 million. That is something under one-third of the population. These people had insurance that would qualify as an exemption from Obamacare but because of Obamacare they have lost the exemption and are forced into it.
 
     This is such a blatent fraud by the president it should qualify him for impeachment, indictment, and felony conviction. He has knowingly and intentionally misled everybody. That by itself, not including all the above, is worthy of removing this man from the presidency. Where are the representatives that could have stopped this before it has become all but impossible to stop? Are there any among them to stand with Mike Lee, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and a hand full of others to call for impeachment?
 
     Folks, this is serious. It is not just a handful of trouble makers who know what needs to be done. It is the entire conservative culture, most of the independents, and a growing number of democrats who are awake: however, the lead has to come from incumbents to make real change back to the Constitution. If the incumbents now cannot handle the job we need new incumbents. That is what we can do now. In the longer term, we can strengthen the Constitution with the method prescribed in Article 5. That has to start now. We cannot wait. We should be very concerned that if this cannot be initiated peacefully now, other not-so-peaceful methods might be employed later to restore the letter and intent of our beloved Constitution. I and many others are with you."
 
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     Yes, it is very serious.  El Gringo Viejo has set forth a call to the Blogosphere of the Right, calling on all the serious minor league rightwing bloggers to begin the beat of the drum.   The organisation of the troops.  The preparation to make noise....noise that is wide and deep....that can be heard in Boise and Mobile, Reno to Lexington, Massachusetts and Virginia and Texas.   This is being done so that the "Quesos Grandes" will be able to quickly click on to any laptop or PC and see that several score thousand of bloggers who have friends and followers and readers numbering into the millions are logging onto sites with which they have substantial agreement.
     Compatible issues are, for instance, the melding of the Fifth Amendment Movement with the pressure to bring the "I' and "C" words to the fore.  Impeachment and Conviction must be held over the head of a man who would blame some poor dumbo Coptic Christian for inciting a "riot" so as to cover up his and his Secretary of State's own dereliction....criminal dereliction...resulting in the deaths of several Americans, including a full Ambassador...and several Libyan guards who were compromised and probably murdered for having held in with the Gringos.  Nothing important, save for those of us who believe in honour and the compliance of the American way, of protecting our own and being loyal to those foreigners who stand with us.
    Further dereliction comes in the form of the president's citing of the specific group "Seal Team 6" when speaking publicly as if he was somehow the strutting, ball-spiking general who braved the bullets on Normandy Beach and led the way to the killing Usama bin Laden in a far off land.
 
     Enough!   This show to-day, at the "press conference" and "statement" about a "fix" by a person who thinks he can write some laws and not enforce other.   By the Constitution he is wrong on both points.
 
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     And this is the person who pre-supposes that she will succeed the current poseur.
 

"I know I saw him.   I tell you, it was him.  He was sitting right back there!
Listen to me, dammit!  I know Vince Foster when I see him.!  I've been
seeing him more and more recently.   Him and that Ambassador. What
was his name?   Oh, what the Hell difference does it make."

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It is really, really strange how so many people wind up dead, once they
cross paths with this person.   Perhaps that is what comes as a by-product
of having done so much for women.....and children.....and minorities,
and everything.   Just think of all she has done for others.
Ah! Benghazi...if only she could have answered the
call at 03:0o....but it might have been Ron
Brown, calling from the "other side".
The eyes are the mirror of the
 soul;  Assuming that
 there is a soul to
 be mirrored.
 


 El Gringo Viejo
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