Friday 21 October 2016

So That All Can Know a Little More of the Truth

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From Latin Rifles of the confederacy 

Jose' Rafael de la Garza ( 1838 - 1864). Born to a wealthy "non-slave owning" family in Southern Texas. He was educated in Kentucky and killed leading his company in a charge against Union forces at the Battle of Mansfield, Louisiana on May 8, 1864.
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Diana Ramirez Garza Wonder if he comes from Diego Montemayor?
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Diana Ramirez Garza My kids and I all have that heart shape hair line and he has my dad's eyebrows, hair line and curly hair ! 

It's why I wonder he comes from Diego Montemayor

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Betty Lou Salas he is handsome and he has the Widows peak // my family both women and men have the widoes peak // lots of history on the widows peak

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Pablo Rodriguez He seemed to be an educated man of principles... He was from Texas and fought, like many Tejanos, for his family.
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David Christian Newton It is a fact that 85% of the Mexican / Spanish element of the population at that time assisted or served militarily in the War Between the States on the side of the Confederacy. The War Between the States had the only General officer in the War who was of Mexican / Spanish origen and it was the Confederacy he served.. He was Gen. Santos Benavides. Much of the very effective military and public order work along the border and inland areas of South Texas was done by Benavides, his two brothers, and their troops who were mainly Latins although many Anglos were in his ranks. Over 80 men from the Penitas - Tabasco area of Hidalgo County enlisted in his brigade. He and his brothers were the main point of reliance in keeping the Cotton Trail open in to Mexico and even to the point of making sure the shipments made their way to Baghdad...the port facility of Matamoros in those times. Benavides was integral to the keeping of order in the non-coastal areas of South Texas...there were many deserters and vagabonds associated with the disorders brought on by the concurrent War between the Imperial government of Maximiliano von Hapsburg and the Republican forces of Benito Juarez Garcia. It is my opinion that John Salmon (RIP) Ford received most of the credit down here for what was actually done by Gen. (and mayor) Benavides and his men. Benavides and his men were the truest form of the best of the Confederacy. The man pictured receives a solemn salute from this SCV member....five dead, 8 wounded, serving mainly out of the Winchester, Tennessee area....also non-slave holders.
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Maria Thelma Salinas Clarke My great grandfather and great uncle served with Thomas' Co of Partisan Rangers. Do you know where they were located and their duties?
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David Christian Newton Maria Thelma Salinas Clarke Maria Thelma, Thomas' group appears early and may have been fused with the Benavides Regiment after serving a four month enlistment. Any other paperwork would help, but it is a recognised unit in Confederate Military Service - Read down this listing that appears in alphabetical order,,,,,, Pearson's Company, Partisan Rangers (Local Defense)

Perry's Company, Local Defense Troops (Fort Bend Scouts)
Rainey's Company, Volunteers (Anderson County Invincibles)
Simms' Company, Home Guards
Teague's Company, Volunteers (Southern Rights Guards)
Thomas' Company, Partisan Rangers, 4 months, 1862–63
Trevenio's Squad, Partisan Mounted Volunteers
Waul's Legion (Infantry, Cavalry, and Artillery)

Flag of Waul's Legion
Cavalry
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Virginia Moreno There is a book by Jerry D. Thompson called "Vaqueros in Blue & Gray" it gives the history of Hispanic men that fought in the US Civil War. It is very interesting read. I got my copy from Amazon.
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Remarkable Legacy......very remarkable.

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REMARKABLE LEGACY....VERY REMARKABLE


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  The charts alone are enough to convince any non-lobotomized person that Lucifer's work in what looks to be a vineyard has born fruit. The surprise will be when the dolts learn that the wine produced by the fruit is actually hemlock brandy.

   Once again, attribution goes to the Anglican Curmudgeon for having fished this fine piece of analysis out for the hurried horde of producers who still cling to their guns and bibles and sanity....if only by a string.

El Gringo Viejo
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Tuesday 18 October 2016

Mount from the left, milk from the right.....

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     The olde carcass just refuses to rebound as it once did.   We put off trying to formulate any reasonable and/or profound observations because there simply was not enough firewood available to even kindle a small fire in the old iron stove.   Five or six relatively minor invasions of the metabolism have lent to the problem.  Our fight against them continues to go well. 

     There are a few points concerning the reportage from the Left and the Right concerning the passage of people from points South of Mexico to the frontier of the United States.   These stories speak to various happenings, policies, and assumed facts that are all inaccurate to a fault.  Some of the stories are purposefully inaccurate.   Included among these stories are others currently being bandied about that are related to the inundation of "migrants" and "refugees" but not in a direct way.

(1)   Sociologically, the people who are hoarding into the United States during these times with the aid of generally leftist "religious" groups, and blatantly anti-American politicians, and the Obsolete Press as well as most of the international press, are not "Migrants".  They are, in fact, either refugees, or displaced persons, or in many cases, invaders.
     Some of the invader group has a psuedo-religious mission, in that it is composed of people who are being shepherded into the United States by leftist, liberation theology practitioners whose mission it is to overload the public assistance programmes to the point that they finally break the American exchequer.  Pastors for Peace, much of the Catholic Charities operation here along the southernmost part of the Republic of Texas, and various other previously respected charitable groups are involved in this mission to introduce millions of people into the country who will begin their indentured servitude instantly by becoming literally injected into the public assistance industry.  We shall have an Anchor Baby Boom in the coming years that might well dwarf the post-World War II, plain old regular Baby Boom period.
     Sister So-and-So who runs the Catholic Charities operation at the Sacred Heart Church in downtown McAllen bemoans the fact that "....there are so many, and they need so much".   She says that right now (this date) there are 200 - 300 women and children coming in every day, and they need disposable diapers, clothes, spending money, a place to wash up and change now that they have their temporary permit to stay in the United States as refugees.   All are going north, almost without delay to glob onto the growing neighborhoods and barrios of incredibly violent Salvadorian, Honduran, and Guatemalan "communities" that are found in most major cities of the United States at this time.
     All these women head north after receiving their permit that allows for them to stay in the United States to await their court hearing date to determine their eligibility to stay as ''refugees".  Over 80 per cent either never receive that notice due to the fact they gave a false address or other locational information, or because they simply disregard the order to appear if they do receive the order.

     It is all a loosely, but carefully, co-ordinated plan that the intellectual social engineers who are intent upon destroying America as a common law, natural law, free-enterprise nation have now placed in full function.   In other words, the engine of destruction is hitting on all twelve cylinders.   Those coming in are not "migrants".   They are, essentially, sociological termite saboteurs. 

(2)    (a) The OROGs (Order of the Readers of the Old Gringo) may have seen a long-distance picture  of a partition wall of considerable strength and height extending for miles, obviously dividing place number one from place number two.   Underneath the photo, it states, ''If Mexico can build this wall between it and Guatemala, why can't we build one here?"
     To respond quickly and accurately, that fence is not on the Guatemala - Mexico border.   It divides Israel from the lunatic jihadi Hamas and Hezbollah murderers in "Palestine".  There is no fencing on the Mexico - Guatemala border save for a few stretches of mediocre to excellent ranch fencing that demarcates property lines mainly.
     The exception might be at the very few official crossing points, there is some fencing near the immigration and processing entry points.

     (b)   The same people who publish that picture, and those who forward it on Facebook, etc. also will intone that, ".....and on the Mexican border, the Mexican Army patrols along there and they just shoot the ones trying to come in illegally."  Suffice to say, such is not the case, at least in 99.99999993% of the cases of anyone crossing in with or without papers.
     There are tales we could tell concerning other distant times, but 80 and 100 years dim the lustre of those images, and many of those tales did not build their houses upon a rock.

(3)   This matter about "The 43 Missing Children of Ayotzinapa" remains a cause-celebre among those on the Left literally all over the Planet.  If anyone sees the articles, please understand that they were not children, nor students, nor are they alive.   They were all killed in a fight to the death struggle between Bolshies and Trotskies.  It was a fight brought on the by the woman who was going to run for Governor of Guerrero and her husband (the presidente of the city/county of Iguala, Guerrero) against the admittedly communist leaders of the false "teachers' college" of Ayotzinapa.   All the aforementioned were involved in the drug transportation and trade, all were involved in sabotaging legitimate businesses that did not pay "war taxes" to their movements, and all were committed to anarchy as a quick resort in order to ply their will in the locale.  The man and wife were of the Trotsky-like group and the rest are out-and-out Bolshies.
     The woman in question, who is in prison now as is her hubby, had two of her brothers killed in a shoot-out about sixty miles away from area above-mentioned.   The shootout was between competing drug transporters and was provoked by their territorial contentions.

(4)     Finally, it would to well to tell everyone that we have actually had an up-tick at the Quinta over the past several months and weeks at the Quinta.  Much of the reason is due to the increasing recognition in our extended area that a reasonable and deepening calm is steadily re-establishing itself to the extent necessary to impulse the actual milling around people used to do before.
     By "before", we mean before that time that the previous three governors tried to limit military "presence" in the State of Tamaulipas.  Many folks might be unaware that Governors of States in Mexico are in most ways subordinate to the Central Government, but they do have wide discretion in terms of accepting or dispersing regular Army or Naval Infantry deployments.   There are exceptions but in the main, it is a rule that is very gummy, sticky, and politically tricky.
     Our new Governor, Francisco Javier Garcia Cabeza de Vaca, a conservative and PAN party member (Republican-equivalent), has made certain that "more is better" and that Tamaulipas is "military friendly".  That is a policy widely, very widely endorsed  in every corner of the State.

More later.
El Gringo Viejo
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Saturday 15 October 2016

An Accurate and Cunning Observation of the American Political Theatre

Dialogue of the Self in Modern Times

Article produced and published by the Anglican Curmudgeon,

A. S. Haley (click on the "Dialogue" title just above.....etc. link to go directly to his site.)

Q. Is Donald Trump crude, and coarse, and pompous?

A. Indubitably.


Q. But we knew that about him already, correct?


A. Yes.


Q. So what is “new” in regard to a tape of his crude and coarse

remarks made in 2005?

A. Nothing.


Q. So how can the left [sc. the Democrats and their camp-followers]

claim this development as “news”?

A. They can’t. But that doesn’t stop them from doing it anyway, since

they see a political advantage.

Q. And just what is the political advantage they see?


A. That they can trumpet [pun intended] how crude, and coarse,

and pompous Mr. Trump is.

Q. Wait — we already knew that, right? [See first question.]


A. Right. Just as we already knew that former President Clinton used

his position to exploit women, and on occasion to assault, batter and
even rape them -- with no fear of reprisal.

Q. So what possible advantage can they gain from raising as “new"

something that everyone already knew, and that is hypocritical of
them, to boot?

A. Ah, now you’ve gotten to the heart of the matter.


Q. I have?


A. Yes. The God of PC [Political Correctness] demands from His

devotees incessant sacrifices of the same thing over and over again.
Thus the left can once more (ad nauseam) profess and show how
much they adore their God of PC: they kneel and prostrate themselves
before His altar, but are careful to offer only their political opponents
(and never one of their own) for sacrifice. Those on the right, on the
other hand, are left [pun intended] — with a quandary.

Q. What quandary?


A. They don’t relish worshiping the God of PC — but they will, and 

will sacrifice even their own chosen candidate if that’s what it takes to 
get themselves re-elected. And that’s why so many of the right have
chosen this particular moment to abandon their previous
[albeit lukewarm] support of Mr. Trump.

Q. And just where does that leave Mr. Trump?


A. Just where you now find him: gazing in the pool, admiring his

own reflection, and not caring a fig for what anyone else may
think -- all the while that his erstwhile “supporters” desert
him in droves.

Q. That’s not a very pretty picture.


A. It’s not. But politics is never pretty. If you wanted Mother Teresa

for a candidate, you could never have gotten her, because half
(or more) of the electorate would have rejected her just for what she stood for,
namely the welfare of everyone else but herself. The majority of this
motivated to go to the polls today ask only: "What will this (or that)
candidate do for me?"

Q. Well, even if that's so, what's wrong with that? Shouldn't

they vote based on which candidate can deliver the most for them?

A. That approach renders them incapable of placing themselves in

anyone’s shoes but their own. Consequently they end up with
candidates whose vision likewise cannot extend beyond their
own selves, e.g., Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. In short,
they get just those whom they have asked for, and whom they
certainly deserve.