Saturday 31 January 2015

Heading South

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     We shall be heading down to the Quinta to-morrow.  In all probability, we shall also be taking a bit of a trip over to San Miquel de Allende in a week or so to help our neighbour, the owners of the Hacienda de La Vega, begin the process of opening their new boutique hotel in that noble city.
     It is a six-room, colonial-style, with lots of stone work and points of finery that as of yet we have not seen in person.   For some reason or another the family seems to think that it will not be "real" until I have pronounced it such.  It is quite an undertaking and has been in process for about one year to this point.   Building anything in San Miguel de Allende is a bit of a wonderland due to the conditions concerning building standards and historical melding requirements.

     We should be back around the middle of the month.


El Gringo Viejo
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El Zorro Contemplates the Boiling Porridge.....

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Time does not support this idea but there is a scenario that one could ponder.  Just for fun imagine this: 
 
Picture - A scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream      In the circumstance that either of the obstreperous old biddies on the left, or any of their ilk including the phony Jim Webb, should become the next President;  The timeline notwithstanding, Ted Cruz runs for Texas’ Governor and wins.  Think of the position Texas is in.  If Texas becomes so fed up and gathers the fortitude to secede, Cruz becomes President (of Texas).  If Texas does not secede, Cruz becomes President (of the U.S.) with gobs of experience.




     Secession is very unlikely even though I would support it, but then this is my fantasy.  In my humble opinion, Ted is more qualified than the rest of the field as a Senator but having been a governor would be a credential difficult to ignore for a Presidential run.  Again, the timeline is an issue because Gregg Abbot will be Texas Governor beyond 2016 and likely will win a second term if he does not barf in his mess kit.
 
     Silly idea but sometimes this nature of daydream pops out of my grey matter.  Speaking of which, we would like to see TC pop out of the pack to take the nomination and win in 2016.  He is the best choice with no clear second.
    The field is strong with the likes of Mike Lee, Scott Walker, Bobby Jindal, Mario Rubio, Allen West, Rand Paul (maybe) in that order and a few others excluding Jeb, Christi, Graham, and Huckabee.  I like Dr. Carson but he will have to prove it to me. I also like Rick Perry but I do not feel he is up to the campaign… again.  If he is good enough to get the nomination I would worry about the general.  He tends to stumble and he is somewhat damaged from 2012.
 
It is too early to get excited but these are how I see it at this point no matter how improbable it may seem. 
 
Cruz for President!

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     It is nearly impossible for the folks on the edges of the Republic to stop and think long enough why anyone would support the candidacy of a person who is obviously a dangerous, radical extremist.
     Reasonable people who know the difference between a secular humanist, organic law democracy and a Common Law, Republic, governed by the rules of Natural Law and obeisance to time proven moral codes....like, admire, and support people such as Ted Cruz.  The "fantasia" described by El Zorro is not an uncommon condition that affects many who have tired of the demagoguery,
deception, obfuscation, and blatant criminality of the gaggle of vermin who have contaminated the "executive branch" of the central government for the past few years.

     We really long for the time that we shall not have to vote for things being processed in the Congress of the Republic in order to find out what is written in the proposition.   And the left thinks we are crazy....?
     Cruz for President sounds better every day.
El Gringo Viejo....  

 
From: El Gringo Viejo [mailto:privatouring@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 4:01 PM
To: james@oldmolerfarm.net
Subject: [A Gringo in Rural Mexico] The Porridge Boils


Friday 30 January 2015

The Porridge Boils

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     The news of Mitt Romney's very early departure from the "pack of possibles" is not entirely un-anticipated.  His machinations appeared to this observer as something like trying to strike matches on a wet matchbox.
Will the Elephant finally charge and
take what is his?
      It is difficult to base much of an attack when commanding an army who soldiers say, "Our general is really a nice guy."   Almost everyone agreed that Mitt is an awfully nice guy who drew a clod for an opponent in the last Presidential.   This writer extracted the impression that Romney could not believe that he would have to face an opponent who, for all practical purposes, has no soul.
     Hard medicine for a Mormon.
 

      It was of interest to really study this event (the withdrawal from candidacy), distilling  and centrifuging the words and trying to find out if we had brandy, whisky, rum, tequila,  or just a hang-over.   Romney's observation is perhaps salient;  that it is time someone with "new-car fragrance" should come to the fore and lead the Elephant stampede to better and greater victories.
     That observation also throws cold water on the notion that Romney and Bush flipped a coin to determine who would represent the "adult" Republicans and lead the party to another dull, moderate, daddy-socialist loss on election day.   Romney's parting words actually seem to point to the younger group of firebrands and ideological right-wingers.



   There is a batch of them, many with Executive experience as governors.   Jindal, Walker, Rubio was Speaker of the Florida House when he was 12 years old.   For dark horses, (no puns, please) we have Martinez, Haley, and Saldana who could serve well, especially as ticket balance.  This is not to mention other favourites, of mine and many, like Carson, West, and of course, Ted Cruz.

     It is amazing how the party of no inclusion has a horde of attractive, conservative / hard-case conservative "minority" - type full-blown qualified personnel available to postulate for the presidency and/or vice-presidency.

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     The Democrat National Socialist Workers' Party has the frumpy patrol:  (Sir Edmund) Hillary, Pocahontas Warren, the significantly mentally-challenged Biden, and a Mr. Webb who is going to take over the Democrat Party "from the right".   Frumps, lumps, grumps, and hypocrites.  Oh, excuse me, they also have the estimable Al Sharpton, the "Soul of America" and close advisor to the present holder of the office of the Presidency.  Of this composition of intellectual and moral debris, one non-biodegradable item keeps surfacing at the treatment plant.  It seems to be totally resistant to reconstitution, and so she has decided to not even campaign for the Democrat nomination, awaiting a coronation instead.


HRH(Sir Edmund) Hillary I
 practicing her first Royal Decree:

   "We deign that, From henceforth forward,
 it is our order and pleasure to replace the motto
 of the currency of the Queendom, changing from
 "In Whatever We Trust" to

"WHAT DIFFERENCE AT THIS
POINT COULD IT POSSIBLY MAKE?"
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     Just think about what those progressive and "caring" people have done for the Republic, for the women, for the minorities, for the polar bears, the geezerhood, and of course, for the children and for all the young black men who are always being shot all the time by all the white cops all the time, along with the New LGBT, and CCCP conmunities, (I think that these groups are the Lettuce, Gouda, Bacon, and Tomatoe people, and the Crony Capitalists, Crooks, and  Parasites - it is hard to keep them all straight, in a manner of speaking).

     So, we shall now be given the free entertainment from the Obsolete Press, watching the "reporters'' lug the Her Highness around in a wheel-barrow from one ultra-control-freak controlled environment to the next, reciting dutifully her pronunciamentos and sage absurdities.   With luck, the American Focus Group Society will come out of its self-imposed mental-process suspension and turn ever so slightly to the Right sometime just before election day, November, 2016.

More Later, and remember that we appreciate everyone's time and attention.
El Gringo Viejo

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Thursday 29 January 2015

Dysfunction and Mendacity....The White House will have to be decontaminated



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Don Quixote with Sancho and the wasted mounts
 after the attack on the Windmill
 
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(1)          We are working on the Fast and Furious matter and will be able to have a better understanding and a more complete report ready for Congress in the very near future.
 
(2)           Remember that the Fast and Furious Programme was inherited by us from the previous Administration
 
(3)           We need to get rid of Mubarak because he is a corrupt brute.  The Muslim Brotherhood has a proven record of popular acceptance and efficient administration.
(4)           We need to get rid of Kaddafi because he is a brute.  We will help a democratic government to establish itself there once he is gone.
 
(5)            The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is a silly little group of thugs who are something akin to a junior varsity team.
(6)           We are never going to "arm" radical elements in Syria such as ISIL with weapons from Libya's stockpiles.  That will never happen on our watch.
 
(7)           We shall draw a line in the sand against Assad's regime, and he will regret crossing it.
(8)           We shall dedicate this 1,000,000,000,000 dollars to shovel-ready jobs, and overhaul the infrastructure of America that has been neglected for eight years.
 
(9)            Spain's unemployment has been reduced to nearly nothing by investing in ''renewable energy" like wind and solar.   (?)
       The truth is that youth unemployment in the southern half of Spain has fallen all the way up to 73%.   It has, with no humour, increased nationwide for all sectors, especially dating from the "big push" for energy renewables.  There are six provinces that have between 34 and 43 per cent unemployment, as one can discern in the real, live "fuzzy figures" to the left of the map of Spain.  






      Map of unemployment by province. Unemployment is a big problem in the south and west of Spain, especially in the least industrialized zones, 2014.   Windmills and sunlight had some kind of impact on unemployment by introducing the interconvulate retrogerablic factor over the socio-chronographic invervivision factor to all unemployed people who have been dead for more than three years and less than 50 years, except for Muslims and  Scotsmen living in the southern half of northeastern Western Spain.
     At some later date, we shall study other magnificent mendacities foisted upon the Focus Group Citizenry who are celebrating still the fact that "......and if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor...and if you like your insurance plan....you can keep your insurance plan.....period."
El Gringo Viejo
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Tuesday 27 January 2015

So much out of focus

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     We state with a bit of humility, and we have at least one wife who can bear witness to the accuracy of the following declaration, we surmised yesterday morning that any snowfall of 36 inches falling in Central Park of New York City would have to be from the blowing dandruff of the mayor of the city, with the help of Al Sharpton's breath condensation.
 
    It is all the urgent need for intellectual slummers like (Sir Edmund) Hillary and AlGore and George Soros and their little lackey-slaves like Barry Soetoro and Valerie Jarrett to control every second of every life in every country on the Planet.
 
   Which, since the hip-bone is connected to the thigh bone, means that it is necessary to have a body politic that cannot differentiate between the War Between the States and horseradish.   Common Core?   No child left behind?   Take in the image of a common core of ignorance and enforced stupidity, with extra helpings of procto-urological fixations and foul-mouthed profanity among the student body.  Fold in a teaching corps that is "professional" instead of "called by a higher authority". 
    Imagine then, high school graduates who can barely perform at a seventh grade level (now ), who will be celebrating that they are performing at a third grade level within the next five years.   We shall measure success by how many "students" were fed, and what the average daily attendance for the year was.   Perhaps there will be given extra credit for beating up a teacher.   We cannot comprehend the sloth and degeneracy found in public schools to-day, although there are a few who will excel, in comparison.   Those who "excel" by graduating from University without being able to differentiate the continents of South America and Africa have become the norm.
 
    The incessant reference to "Superstorm Sandy, easily the worst hurricane in the history of America"....when in fact it was a plain and simple Category 1 hurricane, poorly prepared for and misdiagnosed almost every step of the way.   What made the hurricane as bad as it was?  Bureaucracy, corruption, and an unwillingness to prepare on the part of the populace so as to defend itself.
 
    It was exactly like New Orleans, whose Gomorrah-like nature brought ruin upon the city, not the strength of a category 1 storm.  A now adjudged and imprisoned mayor, a stupid and insipid Governor, a worthless police department (in the main), a school system that is just as stupid, lazy, and self-centre'd  as the populace, a police department that broke and ran (a majority), while entire trains waited at the station to take refugees to safety, but nobody came.....the rail passenger cars sat empty.
 

The nouveaux Zombie intellectual class

 
    One tires of it.  There is no abnormal meteorological activity that can be traced to any Global warming, Global cooling, Climate change, nothin', naught, nix, nada, zed, zilch.   It is all a design meant to transfer money to the hands of people the likes of which compose the General Assembly of the United Nations.  Those hands, of course, immediately put their money into the banks that are controlled by National Socialists who pay Obama to give them money to build Solyndra solar panels....because of Global Warming-Cooling-Climate Change.   It is a wondrous game called "Look at the Emperor's elegant raiment!"
 
     And an ever duller, ever more ignorant, ever more self-absorbed populace falls in line.  Ya basta!
El Gringo Viejo
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So True.....in three generations our babies will be index fingers with small thumbs (this reconnaisance sent from Extreme Central Texas)

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Surely it isn't really this bad......is it?(Pssssssssst.....Yes, and worse)


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


Sigh.....,
El Gringo Viejo
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