A Gringo in Rural Mexico

Monday 29 February 2016

The Decline of FOX News......FOX and FRIENDS Leads in the Way.

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This was the bottom.

The Chris Wallace interview of Ted Cruz combined with the ridiculing of Ted Cruz by the entire Fox and Friends morning crew, including the newly selected Barbie....Ainsley Earhardt....all for the purpose of building up a clown, casino developer/owner, blowhard, liberal Democrat as if he is the Republican Presidential Nominee-designate......

It is a sad thing to see Murdoch and Company fall off the tracks so completely.
It is the fear of the hinterland that causes them to shudder when looking over the American landscape. Hickey people. People who go to beauty shops, to bowling alleys, who drive trucks. Teachers, doctors, plumbers. Small business owners....some very small business owners....piano tuners....astronauts.

These people, according to Murdoch and Co. as well as the Obsolete Press, deserve to be protected from themselves and delivered to a professional flimflam man who makes Ross Perot look almost sane. The notion that we could be delivered to such a clod makes this writer both furious with the haughty hosts of their pro-Trump shows like Fox and Friends and Chris Wallace's show with no watchers, and with the dolts who think Trump can do or will do anything that would remotely solve any problem.

So there....
Thinking about a change in scenery....
Seriously......
El Gringo Viejo

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One Simple Act For Texas Independence

Sunday 28 February 2016

And try this on for size, Biden

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"The history of nominations and confirmations of Supreme Court Justices in an election year does not bode well for the Democrats, since they are in a minority in the Senate. The most notable recent instance was the failure in 1968 to get a vote on Lyndon Johnson's nomination of Abe Fortas. Even though the Democrats also controlled both houses of Congress, they could not muster the votes in the Senate to stop the Republicans' filibuster of the nomination. And as related in this article, the last time a President was successful in having his nomination in an election year confirmed by a Senate controlled by the opposition party was in 1880."

The above is extracted from a fairly short analysis of the true nature of Supreme Court Justice nomination approvals by the United States Senate. It is an excellent, much-meat-on-the-bone examination of the issue that seems to concern Mr. Executive Order and other Legal Purists of the community organiser race.

We urge that all Official Readers of the Old Gringo (OROGs) go to this link: Anglican Curmudgeon and scroll through the recent postings. The first two are most important. The second one will give the reader all the arms and ammunition necessary to intellectually destroy anyone of the Progressive Dolt Class-warfare Party in terms of this new Supreme Court Justice appointment issue.

Read all that you want, especially now, because there is an excellent academically advanced analysis of present day education and cultural negative inertia (my term) in the first article. In quick order the OROG will find an article styled "Antonin Scalia - RIP", or perhaps you can connect by clicking upon this link:

Antonin Scalia, RIP

Both Articles together might require two readings of 8 - 10 minutes total. I frequently have to read these articles three times because I have more skull and less brain. Happy Reading.

El Gringo Viejo

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A WORD of ADVICE to the OBSOLETE PRESS and MOST of the RIGHTWING PRESS PUNDITS: Don't Count Donald Barnum Trump's Suckers Before They Are Hatched

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Lamentably, much of the supposedly rightwing press establishment appears to (and continues to) have thrown in with the nouveaux Republican Saviour, Donald Barnum Trump. The fact is that Texas has 155 delegates to send to the floor of the Republican National Convention.

Cruz seems well-positioned to take a majority of the votes in the Republican Primary, which means that he would take 90% or more of that group of delegates into his column. Other wins and/or high finishes by Cruz and/or Rubio, all of which seem possible will augment the number that Donald Barnum does not receive.

In the case of Ted Cruz, he quite possibly can surpass the totals for the rest of the active candidate group, combined, come the 1st of March. It should also serve to underscore the mis-reading of this race by the Obsolete Press and even the Rightwing Press that is the fawning and "Oh! Wow! - ing" over the endorsement of Trump by Christi. In case the above mentioned talking heads, pundits, analysts, and commentators do not remember, Christi dropped out of the Presidential Nomination Circus after spending a score-million dollars and finishing below even Kasich and Bush.

Christi is not popular even in New Jersey and cannot, could not, and will not deliver New Jersey to the Republican column in November. Cruz has the backing of the President of the Republic of Texas, and the backing of the previous President of the Republic of Texas (recently vindicated in a recent overwhelming court finding of any wrongdoing against an abusive old, sow, drunk Travis County District Attorney's Office lackey - Perry had cut her out of a budget from the coffers of Texas due to a really, really ugly DWI escapade), and numerous other Conservative Republicans, including the Lieutenant-President of the Republic of Texas.

Concerning the reaction of the Obsolete and other Press fountains? Not a mention. While anything is possible, my own best thinking is that Trump has lost a lot of glow, and was grasping at straws by "rolling out" Christi as some kind of "good-luck charm" against his ludicrous campaign. Christi is not an amulet or a magic charm by any stretch of even the most imaginative political strategist. The dolts do not cheer quite as loudly, the message becomes more and more narcissistic and childish. Many are uncomfortable that, for some reason, an almost non-existent membership of the Ku Klux Klan white-trash has come forth to help and rally support for Donald Barnum to build The Wall and force Mexico to pay for it.

(We insert parenthetically here that there are ways to "build a wall", and there is a way to involve Mexican officialdom to support and even assist in the establishment and maintenance of that "wall" in whatever form it might take. The methods being proposed by Trump are summarily ridiculous, and would result in more damage than correction. Deployments of personnel and walls of various types have served for naught during the past 10 or 12 years. A larger and longer wall would only require wider patrolling in the Pacific and the Gulf of Mexico by a minimum of 20 heavily armed, and offensive helicopter-gunship equipped Cutters.)

In any regard, it is now a real possibility that a couple of very probable first-place finishes and two or three delegate-collecting second-place finishes by Ted Cruz will derail the New York Values Express quite effectively.

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THE HILLARY DILEMMA:

It is certainly upon all of us who can think beyond self and plunder to consider the devastation a Clinton presidency would cause the American Union. Such a self-inflicted wound by the electorate would possibly end the last remaining vestiges of republican democracy from this part of the North American Continent, and perhaps the world.

The naming of one or two or even three national socialists or "progressives" to the Supreme Court of the United States would effectively finish any practice of English Common Law traditions or the notion that the American Constitution has any true modern relevance.

Secular Humanism and "Economic Democracy", once in place and funded by an increasingly bold and rapaciously discriminating Internal Revenue "Service" will make short work of any remaining grandeur that might be associated with the old, self-reliant citizenry. Trump is part and parcel of this. He is either a Trojan Horse in his own right, or he is a lackey chosen to oppose (Sir Edmund) Hillary so that he can be torn apart by the Obsolete Press and controlling forces that manage most of the common news and information, and who control most of the financial resources so coveted by the elites and progressives. Once both Clinton and Trump are actually nominated, there will be an avalanche of stories both true and not-so-true that will destroy Donald Trump. It might well be the last meaningful election for several generations.....we could well be in for an Argentine, or Venezuelan, or Mexico (1920 - 2000) run of one-party rule and/or incessant bouts of demagogic Peronism.

The clouds darken and thicken. Progressivism, Republican or Democrat, will quickly lead us to doom. Pray for the liberation of the nation from the lesser instincts and the desires of many to obtain something for nothing.

We thank one and all for his/her attention.

El Gringo Viejo

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Thursday 25 February 2016

A fine time was had by all......The Quinta Tesoro de la Sierra Madre continues to return to its previous successes

We are awaiting the arrival of Spring, and after saying good-bye to our guests, we now await others who are arriving in a few days. Our episode with the folks who left was very pleasant.

They were extremely adaptive and capable of self-distraction and entertainment. Their questions were top-drawer, in terms of intellectual process, and they could only be considered as intellectually top-drawer.

They intensely investigated the simplest characteristics of the community....walking considerable distance in the near-wilderness and the community, house-by-house gravelled streets that connect the "secret approaches" between the Hacienda de Santa Engracia, the Quinta Tesoro de la Sierra Madre, and the Hacienda de La Vega.

Our guests walked all those spaces, for almost three hours, spotting birds and butterflies - some of whom were of considerable rarity, and generally having a pleasant contact with the folks and the dogs and the cats and the chickens and all such that make a rural community on the edge of civilisation in Mexico.

After three nights and considerable contact and conversations....including a visit to one the most elegant homes of our little corner of neo-reality.....we had to say a regretful good-bye to our new friends. Now, El Gringo Viejo is up to celebrate the new 29th birthday of my better three-quarters. We shall also be preparing to receive and accompany our next clients to the Wonderland that is the Quinta Tesoro de la Sierra Madre and the cultural / geographical area of the Santa Engracia catchment zone of the State of Tamaulipas, Mexico.

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We are hoping the Spring "reawakening"

will look like this in a few days for our

guests coming from South Carolina.

As we regard the ins and outs of the present pre-November General Election period, perhaps it is enough said that we have voted in the Republican Primary of the Republic of Texas, as it allows Republicans to vote in matters pertaining to the other Republic to which we pertain during these days. Our vote was most assuredly for the Honourable Senator Cruz.

Bluntly, we regard the horrid clown and demagogue Donald Trump as a pretender, a shallow-plower, and a faded copy of something that came off of the Xerox after printing pictures of the Billy and Hilly Clintons and of Hope and her sister Change. Imagine, if one can, that there are people so stupid as to believe in a slogan of "Make America Great Again" after having been sucked in by the "Hope and Change". Frankly, it means that the electorate of the United States of America might not be qualified to even marginally participate anything like self-government.

Zombies who are attracted to the notion of "free college" and "free medical" and to the idea that "the rich should pay their fair share" are truly not worthy of the title "citizen"....perhaps even of the designation of homo sapiens. The Ship of State is taking on water quickly, and is carrying too many people on board who are not willing to bail water and make repairs.

More later.
El Gringo Viejo

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Friday 12 February 2016

Well...I am gone. We have clients for the rest of the month and then some.

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We have written vitriolic, lambasting paragraph after paragraph. We wrote about the Irene Garza case, now that the supposed, and very probable murderer of Irene Garza has finally, after 56 years, been charged by the Grand Jury and the extradition of said perpetrator of that murder has been requested by the President of the Republic of Texas from the authorities in Arizona.

Then your ever-humble Gringo Viejo let go on the sorry condition of the the intellectual quality of the electorate. The notion that that the government should be allowed to deign that from this group much should be taken and to that group much should be given.....even if the receiving group sheds that unjustifiably derived wealth on spirits, beer, lottery tickets, payments to "rides", and various forms of Cheetos.

Finally we ditched it all and wrote only what you are seeing before you at this time.

It was decided to say "So long for a while"....we have various and many clients coming to the fabled Quinta Tesoro de la Sierra Madre, for medium to long stays. Thanks be to the Mexican Army and the Naval Infantry for having been the major force for re-establishing certain order and law in our area during the past four years. Thanks especially to the administration of Felipe Calderon Hinojosa....the previous Presidente. He, and his subordinates, bit the bullet. They began and extended the taking back of their nation from the anarchical and degenerate influences that are represented by the drug trade. We have had three years of peace thanks to the Mexican military....and three years of paucity of business activity thanks to the hideous American press, including FOX Mews, AP, and various of the ignorant know-it-alls.

To-morrow, El Gringo Viejo leaves and seeks to prepare a comfortable landing for the first visitor/guests. Then in early March we have other folks who will be staying even longer....and on their first visit to anywhere in Mexico. Such visitors are to be given 100% and more. These two seem to have sparked a re-birth of interest in bookings and other activity.

Therefore, I shall return in time to accomplish my absentee vote in the Republican Primary here in Texas. Never fear.

El Gringo Viejo

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This is our rustic, but very comfortable place, out in the rural area to the northwest of Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas…the State's Capital. From a bustling city of 400,000, we placed our domicile a bit more than 20 miles into the scenes of mountains, citrus groves, spring-fed creeks and rivers with crystal clear waters, and an abundance of bird species that make veteran birders shake their heads in wonder.

We are all but adjacent to the venerable Hacienda de Santa Engracia (about 500 yards away), which dates to the 1720s and has ancient structures still in use, very elegant, and mystical in many ways. It has operated as a guest hotel since the 1970s.

Our little place rests on three and a fraction acres, fronting on the Rio Corona, which is lined with over-1,000 year old cypress trees. The nearby Sierra del Cautivo…a major segment of the overall Sierra Madre Oriental that dominate most of eastern Mexico, lies to the west by about three miles. guards the many springs that maintain the almost perpetual flow from those heights (up to 12,000 fasl) while our place is situated right at 1,000 feet above sea level.

Give us a call, come by and visit…it is truly a different venture in the most positive sense. We can be reached by our email - privatouring@gmail.com - which is our preferred method of communicating.

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Once a person lands on our page, that individual becomes a member of the Order of Readers of the Old Gringo, (OROG). There are no dues or assessments to pay, no meetings, no requirements. We are not associated with the KKK, the WCTU, the French Masons, or the Global Warming Glacier

Protection Committee.

We do have a distant connection with the Knights of the Golden Circle and hold the maps to the internment sites of 34 tonnes of Confederate Gold, and 1,000 tonnes of Mexican Imperial Silver (bar and coinage) derived from the collapse of the Reign of Maximillian von Hapsburg, Emperor of Mexico (1863 - 1867). I think we can remember where we put it.

All kidding aside, we are acerbic, but we do not bite. We do believe in our antiquated philosophy, but we try to not impose our quirks and beliefs so far as to be disrespectful.

El Gringo Viejo

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Wise Words

Communism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Winston Churchill

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Be sure you are right, then go ahead.

I bark at no man's bid. I will never come and go, fetch and carry, at the whistle of the Great Man in the White House, no matter who he is.

I told the people of my district that I would serve them as faithfully as I had done. But, if such was not to be, then you may all go to Hell, and I shall go to Texas!

David Crockett

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And on and on it goes. The more the Government gives away, the more it takes, and the less Americans do for themselves, until finally, like Europe, there is nobody left to do anything, and there is nobody left to pay for, the nothing that is not done.

And, yes, Virginia, there truly is a Santa Clause, and he and Mrs. Clause and their helpers care greatly for the good children of the Planet. So long as there is happiness, kindness, charity, generosity, and the Spirit of Fellowship, Santa Clause will be there, representing those noble things, and he will always move in a spiritual way so as to provoke humankind to goodness.

El Gringo Viejo

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“There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.”

Booker Tallaferro Washington

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It is impossible to make a poor man rich by making a rich man poor.

Abraham Lincoln

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El Gringo Viejo: a fair description

Life for El Gringo Viejo began on the Texas-Mexico frontier, near McAllen, Texas literally on a real, live farm. The farmer, as one might imagine, was his father, who had moved with his parents from Gwinner, Sargent County, North Dakota in 1915 - 1916 period, down to the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas. (And yes, Virginia, that is the way Sargent County is spelled.)

His parents farmed in an area close to the new community named after its founder, called Ed Couch, in Hidalgo County of Texas. My grandfather is buried in the Weslaco Municipal Cemetery about 10 feet away from his friend, Ed Couch.

After studies, and a stint in the 1st Cavalry, 12th Regiment (mounted), Headquarters Squadron of the United States Army...riding warhorses back and forth along the Rio Grande from the late 1920s and early 1930s. He did not speak much about his service, but we determined that he apparently made rank of 1st Lieutenant.

El Gringo Viejo's Father established his farming and citrus grove-care operation just north of McAllen, Texas. Mother was a housewife and a professional woman....a learned, eloquent, well-read woman.

They were educated people, my father winding up as a Superintendent of a major school/facility of the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation in Austin, Texas after a twenty year career in education at the secondary level. He had degrees in History, Psychology, and Education Administration.

El Gringo Viejo is the last of three children, all males. Number one was Milton Birchard, Jr. who was born in 1936 and died in a vehicular incident in 1988. He was narcoleptic. He held a doctorate in geography from Louisiana State University and was head of the Department there for a good while.

Number two is Norman Francis, who was born during the WWII situation in 1942 and became an important Republican political engineer and fundraiser. He served as Executive Director of the Republican Party of Texas during the late 1960s and early 1970s and as Senator John G. Tower's immediate Executive Assistant. The Senator is the Godfather of Norman's first son.

Norman died at age 77 in Austin, Texas and I was one of four eulogists who was chosen to speak at his en memoriam at the Austin Club in downtown most Austin…within sight of the State Capitol.

It was a personal duty and very rewarding

in every way.

My arrival was in 1947, and I was destined to confound my parents and all those around me. Educated entirely in public schools in McAllen, skipping the third grade, and stumbling out of my high school in the upper 90% of a class of 606. I

attended and graduated from Southwest Texas State University (now named Texas State University, unfortunately), being one of the few conservatives to graduate out of the School of Sociology, although my treatment at the hands of my tormentor-professors was not so unpleasant in those days. Emphasis of studies were social demography, and Latin American Affairs with a concentration on Mexico's history and current political evolution, with a minors in History, Geography, and Political Science.

El Gringo Viejo is one of the old, unreconstructed high-church Episcopalians. Politically, he is very fundamentally conservative. He prefers Baseball to football, and considers that baseball with a designated hitter for the pitcher should be called "poofy-ball". Favourite major league team of all times? The Brooklyn Dodgers of the 1950s. It will never be the same again.
El Gringo Viejo's father was born to a Hudson Valley-type girl and a man who had lost two older brothers who served in the Pennsylvania 96th Regiment of Volunteer Infantry during the War Between the States.

The surnamed line (Newton) originated from East Anglia, not far from a place called Washington in northeastern England. They came into Boston Harbour, Massachusetts in 1642 (the 1st voyage of the Mayflower had overbooked), and settled there and in Maine as well as spreading out to Vermont, New York, and Pennsylvania, over the generations for the first 220 years.
Another batch of folks, mainly Anglo, settled in the middle Hudson Valley. There was another group of Celto-Teutonics types from Saxony and Prussia, establishing and settling along the Hudson River from around what is Catskill County northward to Duchess and Rennselaer Counties around a place named Red Hook. The main group came in during the early 1650s.

My mother's people were another English line of long-term Southern and Tennessee people, from the Eastern part of that State, who originally came in during the 1660s through Virginia and North Carolina, and finally into Eastern Tennessee, settling in and around a county to be named Franklin, and helping to establish the city of Winchester. Almost all of these people originated from southwestern England, near the frontier with Wales.

Only recently did we verify that she had many people involved in the service of the Confederacy. One died in northern Mississippi, another Captain Asa Grant, 2nd Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry, was severely wounded and succumbed to his wounds finally in 1869, and another hung around in an Ohio POW camp (Camp Chase) for about 13 months, while three others were either wounded or died in action, including David Limbaugh, Lieutenant, 42 Tennessee Infantry. Another five made it through relatively unscathed.

Almost all were, oddly enough, related to the great-grand uncles and gggg-grandfathers down to gg-grandfathers of Rush Limbaugh. The gggg-grandfather came into the Colonies in the early 1740s from a Prussia and Saxony background, and served in both civilian and military capacities to the Continental government and Army. He was the XO of a Militia Battalion of 3,000 Pennsylvania effectives. They honed their military readiness under the supervision of Gen. von Steuben and someone named Washington at some place called Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.

A grandson of his, Isaac, settled in Tennessee after the War for Independence against King George III. So Rush and I share grandfathers, four generations deep on the American Continent.

It should be stated here that were I to be called to declare, my allegiance would still be with the Southern Cause, although I bear no rancor against those who feel the same about their instinct to maintain the Union. Oddly enough, both my mother (a Southerner) and my father (a true Yankee by blood) believed that we would have remained closer if we had separated, and each side gone the ways of their own yearning, but amicably.

The last of the English (El Gringo Viejo's) line came during the time between the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. They left County Wicklow, where they had been involved, apparently, in that peculiar Anglo - Scots/Irish practice of making whiskey by the use of peat for fuel. They were also involved in the business of production and processing of various types of grains as well as the production of whiskey, gin, and beer. By their surnames one would know that, while coming out of Ireland, they were actually English, one with the surname of Christian and the wife, Webster. They had, in fact, married in Christ's Church Cathedral, Anglican, in downtown Dublin in 1796. They landed in New York, set up shop in the City among previously arrived relatives, and then in Albany. We have some record that this Christian who married the Webster had actually lived in the colonies, but travelled several times back and forth between the Spirits businesses in England and Ireland and the New World. They wound up as the generations progressed in and around Minneapolis (St. Anthony) & Saint Paul, Minnesota, and Racine, Wisconsin. My particular line went from New York to Alabama, then North Carolina, and then Wisconsin to join up with the rest of the extended family, finally in Minnesota, before the War Between the States.

The Time Line of entry of all lines of my children's blood ancestry on their mother's side in the New World begins in 1578, when Spaniards of mixed Hebraic and Iberian peoples, and others of ancestry from Portugal, Galicia, and southern Spain entered into what was to become Monclova and Saltillo, Coahuila. They are brought under the auspices of the Explorer, Conquistador, and Colonizer Jose Luis Carvajal y de la Cueva, with elements settling in Lampazos and Cerralvo (Nuevo Leon), in Palofox (Texas), and Revilla (Tamaulipas) on the Rio Bravo.
Also, the Count of the Sierra Gorda, Col. Jose de Escandon brought another group of mainly Spanish, Portuguese, and Azoreans in the early 175os, settling along the Rio Bravo (Grande), and then on the north (Texas) side, spreading up to what is now Yorktown, Texas (near and southeast of San Antonio de Bexar, more or less) before and during the Texas Republican period.

My children and theirs are qualified to join the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Sons of Liberty, The Sons of the Grand Army of the Union, The Sons of Confederate Veterans, and the Daughters of the Confederacy. By my side they are 16th generation English Colonial - American and 6th generation Texian. By my wife's side, my children are 23rd generation northernmost New Spain, Texian, and American. Isolating Texas alone, my grandchildren are 15th generation Texian.

LIKE?

Cats, and then dogs.

Fishing, even a bit of bird watching, now and then.

Really good music..antique, old, 1950s and early 1960s rock and roll, classical - Hayden, Mozart, Beethoven, both Strauses, and many others, African tribal sounds en chorus, Mexican bolero...mariachis when they play out-of-doors, some country and quite a bit of the old western (Sons of the Pioneers, the Texas Ploughboys, Marty Robbins "Gunfighter Ballads, for instance.), even some of my own piano works, bagpipes, Enya, marimba, Caribe.

The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess always seemed to me to have been, and remains, a true masterpiece of Americana.

Well maintained Firearms, smooth running small equipment, old autos that respond to repair and upkeep and keep going. Used to have BMWs and so forth, but being old helps tone things down a bit.

Antiques, and antiquities...Meso-American archeology...and religious history. Formal religious services among the Orthodox..as in Anglican, Roman, Orthodox and Conservative Jewish services and celebrations. Hard to find, now.

Overnight radio, rightwing talk radio until it becomes overly tedious and repetitive.

Weather and climate.

And strangely during the past few years,cooking. Not just barbequeing...but actually dishing up gourmet-type stuff...and gardening to a purpose.

We grow a lot of our own spices for our little bed and breakfast and we specialise in flowerng plants, bushes, and trees that attract bees and literally hundreds of species of common to extremely rare birds to our place.

Lifelong Republican, honourably discharged - United States Army (conscripted).

Now drifted into the position of favouring the amicable withdrawal of Texas from the American Union. My grandchildren are 15th generation Coahuila/Texas by my wife and 8th generation Texas by me and my will is to have them answer for the debt of Texas and not for the debts incurred by the National Socialists who have taken possession of the central government in Washington, D.C.

DISLIKES?
Any kind of socialism...bolshevik, national, marxist, social democratic, Trotskyite, progressive, ....and any kind of socialist.

The Ku Klux Klan and such types who figure that they have to hate somebody because of how he/she was born. They are just role players, resucitated by the Communist Party USA in the 1920s, whose members are fueled by a well deserved sense of inferiority.

And almost all social activism.

Almost all labour union officers and almost all labour unions. (There are some exceptions.)

Public assistance of any kind. All welfare and/or charity should and must be privately handled in order to avoid the trap wherein we have fallen, that being the multigenerational slide into the abyss of forlorn hopelessness that is government slavery and dependence. That slide is cheerfully supported by politicians who love to buy votes with other peoples' money.

Lotteries operated by governments.

Litter, filth, graffiti, gangs, and waiting in line for people using food stamps whil'st they argue with the cashier about how they "need" this or that to be covered...when they have three carts with 450 USD of snacks and things we cannot afford because we are in an 'upper income" category.

Church reformers who want to change my church instead of them going to another church and just leaving me alone.

Medications for boys who are over-active, and medications in general.

Lite beer, lite Coca Cola, fat-free, lo-cal, artificial sugars and sweeteners, anything marked "healthy" on food packages, sugar-free, margarine, and driving 23 miles to buy gasoline over there because it is 2 cents per gallon cheaper.

Any government programme designed to help anybody; 94% of the time the programme winds up morphing into some kind of monster. Then liberals and do-gooders will propose another programme, twice as costly, to cure the ills caused by the first cure-all.

Officiousness, and the term "non-profit", as if there is some kind of moral superiority in the failure to produce wealth.

Physical abuse of an animal, an extraterrestrial, a child, slave, woman, or anything like a tractor or power tool, firearm, sewing machine, or an auto, etc.
Loud and/or sharp noises, especially when such noises have no particular purpose.

Wasting anything, from paper towels to Clorox to cake and cookie batter...anything. And....waiting in a line.