Continuing with Report and Opinions

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     We continue with our reportage and opining about various topics since our most recent return from our little hideaway in the middle of NoWhere, Mexico.   These matters will be addressed heater-skelter, due to the fact that, as a geezer, it is necessary to advance as something is remembered.

      There was a bit of a delay yesterday because of the better three-quarters requirement that we visit the Cathedral of the Roman Catholic of Diocese of Brownsville.   This is an easy-to-miss Cathedral.   Although there is ample parking in the middle of downtown Brownsville, Texas, it seems as though there is no  real rush of people going in and/or out.

     It is best that we comment about Father Pietre Keralum who was a "mounted missionary" and a brilliant, traditionalist architect.  His works, whether in the saddle or in the pulpit or in the design and construction of truly magnificent, if understated churches, are still legendary.   This fact is true after even well after 125 years have elapsed since his departure from this life.   More about this very significant preacher in the future.

    As an aside, we visited the Stillman House Museum....worth every penny and minute.  AND...we went to the old Oyster Bar in downtown, finding it pretty much like it was but up-dated (neither of us had been there during the previous 50 years).   It was all but a perfect experience.  Not cheap, but nowhere near expensive.  Service, food perfect and the ambience dull, boring, calm, and therefore also perfect.

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GUNS and BULLETS

     We were going to start from the beginning and move back to the future.  The events in England however, with the death of the Member of Parliament, caused us pause.   It was relevant to the other issues, such as the people of Orlando, Florida coming into contact with Radical Islamic Terrorism.

     Reporters have little noted, and apparently nor long remembered, that their favourite example of a place without sin is a place like Great Britain.  Complete acquiescence to the notion that confiscation of firearms in private hands and possession, no matter how otherwise legally and responsibly used, was not to be permitted.

     The United Kingdom solved all that problem with this confiscation.  With the flooding of that United Kingdom with ''Commonwealth people" during the past twenty years, and the utter Islamisation of precincts as venerable as London itself, other forms of violence has become more fashionable.   Like the Irish Republican Army (a common, run of the mill group of marxists and anarchists), the Islamic terrorists turned to just blowing up busses and subways and people with bombs or whatever.

     Somehow the French, Belgians, and the rest of Eurolandia have managed to allow Radical Islamic Terrorists unbridled access to all nature of firearms and suicide vests and pressure cookers and  whatever else can be used to destroy infidels and heretics....especially homosexuals and heterosexuals and reverse retransgendered blimp pilots, (and people who can remember the lyrics to Cockles and Mussels, Alive, Alive, Oh!).

     Our point?   Please forgive us, but with the thousands of Draconian laws and controls on firearms of any kind, a person known to be a kooky-bongo, diagnosed and certified, can still managed to shoot and knife an MP who is campaigning in public.   Shades of Arizona.

     What the Brits need is a law against guns and the use thereof.  And we need to get rid of the other 17,000 - plus law controlling, restricting, and prohibiting firearms here in the United States of America as well.

     Since the best place for kooks and Islamic Radical Terrorists to shoot and kill people with alacrity is in some designated "GUN FREE ZONE", it would be best just to get rid of everyone and make the entire nation a ''gun free zone".

     We try to talk over the noise, although our interest in doing so diminishes with each of these events   We listen to people such as those found "hostessing" The View, who lament that "....anyone can just walk in and buy a fully, semi-automatic weapon".
   The left requires a vapid, insipid body of drooling followers or they would have no significant following.  Long I have wished to have enough muster to be able to post a sign at the entrance of every progressive school and/or college.   That sign would proclaim:

 CRITICAL THINKING PROHIBITED!

 THIS IS A LOGIC FREE ZONE!

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2016 DEATH TOLL : 284

  
     As just a friendly....or not so friendly....aside.   We always like to point out that Obamaland, up on the north end of the State of Illinois, where New York Values and Chicago Values and Community Organiser Values meet in a friendly Progressive frenzy, there is almost total abolition of anything that has to do with anything firearms.

     This year alone, Chicagoland deaths by felony firearm engagements number 284.   That total comes after about 160 days.  Nothing is said in the national Obsolete Media...and very little of significance is stated by the local media.   Chicagoland is on a path to have over 700 killed by guns, that by law do not exist, because they have been outlawed.

     While there is a bit of wringing of hands, shredding of raiment, and sitting in the ashes....nothing is done....and frankly nothing can be done.  Midnight basketball?  Food Stamps?  Perhaps free housing? Let them eat cake?

     No.

  The sins of the fathers will be visited upon the first and second and third generations, yea! even unto the fourth.   That is what is happening.    With thousands of families having no paternal structure or discipline, and living almost entirely upon the largesse of the public exchequer, and receiving the shallowest of moral instruction or none at all, it is inevitable  that great numbers of the young will be led into the way of iniquity.   The young will stray and follow the evil, for they know not the good.

    Until souls are restored, or until all those who dwell in iniquity and self-adoration and gratification are departed.....there will be no peace.

     The ones most responsible are those who have sold these wretches into the slavery of public assistance so that they, the elite social progressives, can live in the big houses and have the gated entrances into their exclusive subdivisions with the armed guards.   After all, who would want to live around the wretches they have created?

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We depart for a moment.  More later.

El Gringo Viejo

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A Beginning of a series of reports and opinions about Mexican and American political events...recent and future

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The meaning of the Mexican by-elections, 6 June 2016:

     The results of the fourteen States elections were, to be sure and certain, a total loss for the venerable but severely dysfunctional Partido de la Revolucion Institucional (PRI) A few battles were won.  Some allegiances and multi-party arrangements helped them a bit, but the opposition, left and right, managed to convincingly win the war.

     The leading force in this "retaking" of the general political landscape was, thankfully, the Partido de Accion Nacional (PAN), Mexico's bulwark conservative party.   Suffice to say, it is a party with as many complications as the American Republican Party, with as many thin slices and types of conservative thinking as we have.   In this episode, however, there were obvious signs that they were able to  unify forces in mid-battle, and win, win, win.
      Tamaulipas, the State wherein our little home is found, has voted the "government party" way since the Mexican Revolution.  Even during the hiatus of the PAN's holding the Presidency from 2001 - 2013, the PRI managed to hold onto various of "their States", such as Tamaulipas and its neighbour to the South, Vera Cruz State.   Both of those States have not known a governor from any opposition party for over eighty years.

     We cite Tamaulipas, for one reason, because of its proximity as a border state to Texas.  It is also a powerful agricultural State....sorghum, honey, valencia orange, industrial and fine limes, ranching, and now even forestry.   It is a major....let us say, very major....industrial State with massive maquiladora outlays employing nearly 300,000 Mexicans.   There are also an estimated 30,000 Americans (Texans, primarily) who are directly or indirectly employed or tied into these industrial concerns.
   Massive fishing and major maritime shipping concerns, petroleum / natural gas operations and refining, and terrestrial transportation (freight and human) are folded into an economy that does in a week what the "workers' paradise" of the Castros cannot do in a year, even with three times the population.

Francisco Javier Garcia Cabeza de Vaca,
Gobernador-electo, Tamaulipas, Mexico 

     On top of these figures, one must also point out that 31 of the 43 counties of the State of Tamaulipas voted PAN for the office of Presidente Municipal (County President)....including Reynosa where a female PAN president was voted in to head the local government of Tamaulipas's largest city (1,000,000 population).  In all, eight of the largest ten cities/counties went for the PAN.
     To further show the sociological impact of this vote, twelve of the fifteen smallest counties voted PAN.

     The newly elected governor-to-be won the election with 51 per cent of the vote, with his nearest opponent gaining about 35 per cent.  The depiction of Garcia-Cabeza de Vaca we have placed here, speaks to the emblem drawn his maternal surname, Head (or skull) of a Cow.
    The surname is associated with a famous character from the Spanish Colonial Period, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca (1490 - 1558) who was a survivor along with his valet-slave of a shipwreck probably just north of what is now present day Corpus Christi, Texas.   He and his Man Friday Esteban (an Arab), and two other Spaniards survivors of the maritime misadventures, dealt with very un-whiteman friendly Indians...but amicably and successfully in the final analysis....and walked from their 'point of disembarkation' all the way to a Spanish outpost presidio in a place that would become the international urban complex of Juarez - El Paso in these times.
   Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca's two surnames indicate that he was most certainly carrying large amounts of Sephardic Hebrew genetic material in his genes.  He was also a Spanish aristocrat, adventurer, and lived a good a prosperous life.....with setbacks and success.  He is a combination of El Cid and Don Quijote, (and let me add Jose de Escandon y Hilguera, 1700 - 1770, Conde de la Sierra Gorda y Governor-General of Nuevo Santander), a true and noble aristocrat as well as a type of liberal do-gooder (for his time). 

     We close this analysis with a bit about neighbouring Vera Cruz State.   There an alliance with the centre-left Partido Revolucionario Democratico allowed the PAN to carry the State against the PAN candidate's own first cousin being the "official" PRI candidate.  The PRI candidate was working with an alliance of four other smaller left-wind and "environmental" parties.   There the PAN carried the vote very substantially, spite of the fact that the PRI candidate declared victory on election day, early and often...but finally accepted that the PAN had won a decisive victory.

    Why the alliance between the right-wing PAN and the left-wing PRD?  Primarily because the PRD required only to be allowed to continue governing, if they were to win, in the counties where they had been installed and done good to excellent local municipal where there have been noteworthy community advances and improvements.   There are, to be sure, about ten or so such places in Vera Cruz State.   The PRD in Vera Cruz is decidedly un-like the near-Stalinist PRD's national complexion or the spin-off....Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's Partido Moreno (Brown Party).   Lopez Abrader is an old lefty warhorse who led the PRD to defeat in two presidential elections.  He was also famous for having caused traffic chaos in Mexico City for months, leading useless occupations of major traffic arteries and plazas.

     Finally, these by-elections might well become the coup-de-grace of the PRI.  The reconstitution of the revitalised National Action Party (PAN), showing a growing maturity, a defined and understandable mission, and really fine candidates seems to be prepared to re-assume governance and the willingness to continue the disassembly of the organised crime elements.

     There will be much more to-morrow, especially about the issues facing the American electorate.
El Gringo Viejo

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El Gringo Viejo returns from Nowhere for a stay....

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    We have come back for a bit of a rest from resting up down at the Quinta.  In the morning there will be an attempt to make sense of the recent by elections in Mexico, along with commentary about the American political scene.  Some interesting stuff....to be sure.

El Gringo Viejo

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Heading south to our place in Mexico

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     We shall be heading out to-morrow to the Quinta Tesoro de la Sierra Madre during what should be some interesting times.  On June the 4th there will be by elections held in 14 of the States of Mexico, including my State, that being Tamaulipas.   We are in the middle of a massive surge in agricultural, fabrication, and transportation boom which has impulsed quite a bit of parallel activity in construction....private and public....domestic and commercial....and educational, like medical school expansions etc.

    The relative prosperity and the tightening down on the remnant groups that are now pestering the general society since the breakdown of the cartel organisations seems to portend well for the old ruling party, the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI).  Their problem is the popularity of a present Senator to the National Congress from the State of Tamaulipas, who name is Francisco Javier Garcia Cabeza de Vaca.  
    His campaign logo is, as one might guess,  the skull and horns of a longhorn....underscoring the fact that he is generally known by his second (maternal )surname Head of a Cow.   He was a very popular municipal president / mayor of Reynosa, which became the largest city in the State during his term of office.   He was born in McAllen, Texas and generally educated there and in Mexico and universities in Texas.   He was the first National Action Party figure to win a major city/county race in Tamaulipas, and appears to be heading for a victory in the race for governor of the State.

     Pre-election polling is a bit spread out...but the more reliable ones seem to indicate that he may well be elected, thereby creating another first.  We shall watch with great interest.  The fourth of June will be a dry day in terms of beer and liquor sales.   People will also be on edge to see if the disparate bands of leftover gangs who have lost any control and order from the old cartel bosses might try to create an "incident".   So the times they be interesting, and we shall inform everyone upon return of how which cow ate what cabbage.

     Concerning the event of the week, perhaps, although it was generally un-noticed by the wise-ones, must have been the nomination of the Libertarian Party Presidential candidate.   He is already scoring 11% in polling and has taken certain moves to increase that percentage so as to qualify for a place in the nationally televised debates.   It might well make things interesting down the road.

More upon my return,
El Gringo Viejo

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Food City Grocery Chain Salute - Bristol Tennessee....Statement with no words, sent from our consulting physician, last seen in San Antonio

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Another Potpourri of thoughts and notions - we shall be brief, promise

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     This will be one of those potpourri types of write ups. Beginning now.   Please do not associate the demonstrators at Trump events with anything beyond an extension of the mendacious and totally scripted posturing of every marxist-nihilist-anarchist grouping on Planet Earth.

     The reason there are those, feigning serious emotional injury, waving Mexican flags at these events is to cause the knee-jerk Archie Bunker reaction to such a thing.   "Well if you want Mexico better than America, then go back to Mexico you worthless ingrate....blah, blah".

     The people doing this and similar acts I have seen all over Mexico doing the same thing, and even burning the Mexican flag.   Why?   Because they want all businesses nationalised.   They want free food for the poor.   They want the rich to pay 90% income tax.  They want the original laws in the Constitution of 1917 prohibiting the right to vote to Roman Catholic (and certain other) clerics to hold property, or appear in public in sacred frock or raiment (even collars).

     They demonstrate for "justice", "dignity of the working class", "freedom from oppression"....and they leave behind police horses blinded by the acid that has been thrown in their eyes, plate glass windows of store...windows that cost 10,000 pesos per plate....knock out by the hundreds....at MacDonald's, at banks, at anywhere.   Autos set on fire, police and soldiers dripping with fecal matter and urine from bags thrown by the "students" who are "only looking for a chance to redress their many grievances, of course in a peaceful way".

     It is the same world-wide.   The Occupy Wall Street maggots with lice are found throughout Europe....they smoke dope, they copulate, they steal, they are paid frequently by Soros-type backers to "demonstrate spontaneously", and they always....always....refer to themselves as students.   Many OROGs may remember the write-ups El Gringo Viejo did about the Iguala, Guerrero matter.  During the disorders, elements of the "students'' who were actually "professors" at the government's "normal university for teachers" sent one of the students to firebomb a PEMEX full-service station with adjunct convenience store.  The student threw his Molotov-cocktail successfully at a premium-fuel pump, resulting in a massive, immediate conflagration.   A retired lieutenant of the Mexican Navy, retired honourably and partner of the business and its hands-on manager...a really fine place...clean....excellent service....grocery store prices in the convenience store....clean restrooms....You know...Navy....went to put out the blaze with two medium-sized canisters.  A secondary, moderately large flameout caught him.

     The Lieutenant (retired) died three days later in a very fine hospital in Mexico City with a division specialising in fire and acid burns....died.  Leaving wife and children.   The American, European, and Mexican leftist press did not give a damn.

     So El Gringo Viejo requests that the OROG, who is of a higher order of intelligence and discernment, remember that the useless pieces of fungus on camel vomit who were demonstrating at the Trump rally are paid "confrontationists".   Please do not allow them to have "earned" their money.

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Next:    The OROGs know that, if anything, your humble servant could possibly be charged with being pro-Japanese.  My experience with the Japanese began after World War II.  My Southern and sainted grandparents admonished me to always be nice to "northern people" because, as my grandmother would say,"None of them had much if any a hand in The War."   I had to assume that Japanese were no worse than Yankee bluecoats.

     My father and other farmers went to guarantee the patriotism and fielty of the Japanese - ancestried people who were fellow farmers here in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, by paying a bond if necessary to avoid any "internment".  They blamed the whole internment thing on Roosevelt's racism.   And they were right.
    BUT, while not repudiating any of the above....it will never be appropriate for an American President to visit the Hiroshima or Nagasaki sites so long as President is still in office.   If he/she wishes, he/she can visit the places under concern after leaving office.   In no case should an American, an American official, especially an American holding high office remotely infer an apology concerning the atomic-bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 

     John Wayne never served in uniform.  Had he served, I would imagine he would have been a good Soldier or Marine.   Maybe even exceptional and highly decorated.
     He did say one set of lines in a movie, however, that this observer has always remembered.   It was a scene wherein he was admonishing his platoon of Marines that,"....I'd like to tell you that we are going in to confront a stupid and cowardly enemy.  But...."

     The Japanese, though battered, still had 10,000,000 well-trained troops in China, mainly in the east of China.   They were making their way back to the Homeland, and preparations were being made for the crossing over to the homeland, via devices ranging from fishing boats to canoes.   Do not ask me how...but we need to remember that if had been seven Japanese on Gilligan's Island they would have been in Honolulu in time for Happy Hour at the Magic Ukulele Beach Saloon.                 
   My father always used an ethnic joke when people were damning the "Japs"....he would ask, "Do you know what a Japanese retardate is called?"....everyone is either silent or left without response...."They are called geniuses, like Jews".   It was a very good joke....and all good humour is based in truth.

    With all this said, and acknowledging the back-door deal made by Theodore Roosevelt about dividing the world up so that the Japanese would have hegemony over their "obvious inferiors" in the Orient, the Second World War was brought on.  There were many and sundry exit doors presented to both the Japanese and the assembly of Occidental countries and governments.

     We in McAllen remember Tsuneo Yahiti who was the Japanese exchange student.  He looked very similar to  Kyu Nakamoto (all Orientals look alike? No, not really)....and he was the epitome of the staid, elegant, Japanese gentleman.....almost excessively polite.   "Tsuneo, you don't have to do that.  You are too concerned about offending...''   And he would respond, " Yes, madam, but I know no other way".  Tsuneo had less hair that Kyu.  Several hundred went to the airport in McAllen to see him off. Many were crying....yes, even men.   Tsuneo was a treasure to the Empire of Japan....in defeat or in prosperity.
     BUT!   Forever and a day.....we as Americans, even Americans who admire the Japanese as do I, we must remember.... No Pearl Harbour, No Hiroshima......No Pearl Harbour, No Nagasaki.   A personality as base as Barry Soetoro has no right or authority to represent America at that place (Hiroshima), or at Pearl Harbour for that matter.   And, further, anything he says there reeks of nothingness save self-promotion.   It is almost as if he is advising all, "I shall be the new President of the General Assembly of the United Nations. I am the President, therefore of the World."

    Certainly for people as agile intellectually as the Japanese, a phone call to or from the high command and the Emperor....could have avoided that final act of confrontation.  The error of the Japanese was the same as Lincoln's when he determined to bring on the "Inevitable" by trying to re-supply Fort Sumpter in Charleston Harbour.   For that error Lincoln paid with the lives of almost 500,000 union soldiers, many of whom were impressed (forced military draft) Irish, stepping off the boat in New York and others who had nary a generation in the American panoply of problems and solutions.

There shall be more about this and other topics during the next few days.
El Gringo Viejo

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