Burning Issues Begging for Commentary

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(1)    We return to the point about the need for identification for people who intend to vote in Texas elections.  We are told by the "leaders"  and "experts" in such matters that Negroes and Mexicans are too stupid to figure out how to obtain a personal identification card or document that includes a picture.
     A radical judge, representing the Central Government, has decided that she is the one who can decide exactly how stupid people of Black African ancestry are, and the extent of mental retardation that exists among those generally lumped into what is vogue to call "Hispanic".
     We assume that her crystal ball is more powerful than that of mental processes of the lower order such as the 15, 015, 700 of us, in Texas,  who did manage to stumble down, slobbering, and dully putting our X where the old white woman with the name badge told us to sign our X.   About 80 per cent of those who signed up voted in the past General Elections.   We all had to show a passport or DL to approach the voting booth.

     One might notice that without the intervention of leftist do-gooders, Al Sharpton, or much of anything beyond the making of a joyful unto the Lord God Yahweh.....people, even at early age, can learn how to learn.   And they can learn how to fend for and provide for themselves.   It does not take a village.....it takes parents....a mother.....a father....a choir of grandparents, uncles, aunts, and cousins.....all tired from working a 60 - 90 hour week, celebrating family, friends, and neighbours.

     Pardon the never ending tendency of the writer to always point out the obvious.   The obvious is something that must be destroyed by political correctness, and the truth must run the gauntlet of judgement by people who "know better".   There are, apparently, still those who have learned that they must have "safe zones" but visitors to any given campus with "safe zones" must be aware that the visitor or speaker will be menaced and shouted down and threatened with all order of injury and damage......by the same people who want safe zones for the reverse-retransgendered whose parents were late in sending the pre-paid with 10,000 dollars of "comfort power" for the rest of the semester.

(2)   We would also like to point out that "stupid Mexicans" managed to enroll themselves in Mexico to the tune of 77, 600, 000 adults aged 18 to 102 years.    The credential below has 13 markers that many say is 99.99999999% impenetrable and secure.  It is accepted in Texas as identification over the almost equally protected Mexican Passport.   It is accepted in Mexico in lieu of the Passport or other excellent documents (military discharge, etc.).   At the voting precinct, when the voter appears, he/she will encounter a magazine of electors...and therein will be another picture, equal to the one on the Credencial Federal Electoral.....along with the address, ss number, telephone, etc. Therefore, if 90% of all eligible Mexicans can go and stand in line for a couple of hours in order to obtain the key to having a voice in their new, functioning, democratic republican epoch, certainly people in the United States of America can do the same.    Or can we? Is this just another issue the "social democrats", "progressives", people who "care", wish to flog until Hell freezes over?   It is already known that we have 2,000,000 illegally registered voters who are not citizens.  The Democrats and ACORN refugees admit to that.  They say it is the fault of the Republicans.  -?-

      When does the saying, "A pox on all your houses!!" become appropriate?   When are we going to re-take the public and private universities?   When are we going to stop hiding from the race and ethnic baiters and bullies?????   We do no favours when we swerve to avoid "offending" the unqualified.  It is the qualified who pay.  If all understood what it took in order to become an American citizen in the times of my pre-juvenile delinquency.....years, years, tonnes of dollars, the passing of several tests, the mastery of the English language.....the guarantee that the new citizen will not become a ward of the state or a user of public assistance.....It was a different time.  The Ghosts of the Decaying Smoke Over Rome beckons.......

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NOW WE MOVE ON....BUT NOT .ORG -

     We are mildly entertained by Donald Trump.   You all know that your humble servant was and is a Cruz supporter.  As an habitual and studied GOP voter since 1968, I have always, always been a supporter of the clarion call of free enterprise and the American Way.  Many of the Trumpers who came to his flag because they saw him as someone who hated people from "somewhere else", are in for a rude awakening.   Those who came hoping for tax relief for Prince and Pauper, are in for a rude awakening.

      Donald Trump is a typical New York Republicrat.....or Demopublican....depending of how the OROG wishes.    Trump ridiculed Ted Cruz because, during the Republican primaries counting down from the number of aspirants drawn from the extras from a Cecil B. DeMilles Epic Motion Picture, Cruz had used the term "New York Values" in a disparaging way.  But one notes, after all was said and done, all the votes in the "Republican Primary Super Tuesday" with 10 States in the Northeast  put together  in the Republican Primaries did not come up to the margin by which Ted Cruz had won the Texas primary alone.....sorry, Steve Douci and Fox and Friends....but you all are not Charlie the Tuna even. 

      And New York values continue to be represented, daily, hourly, and by the minute, when one recognises that the present mayor, who is a marxist by his own declaration, and the city council by their own preference and selection....maintain that New York City is a "Sanctuary City".  It is a city and State awash in taxes.  In all the urban areas, there are entire sections that are combat zones where control of any corner might be settled over a two month period that will include a dozen dead and wounded.   The local poobahs say it is because of the availability of guns....the conservative sociologists say it is because there are no fathers.....one more aspect of New York City values....repeated in 500 cities throughout the Republic.
     There is no solution to this problem.  Not new housing programmes, not free lunch service, not baby-sitting service (free) for junior high school girls, not free lottery tickets....nothing will work.  If it is done by bureaucrats and "elected officials", it will not work.  Until we have a complete generation brought up in traditional nuclear families, and brought up with some reasonable catechism and other instruction concerning ethics and morality, the rot, killing, promiscuity, thieving, corruption, and degeneration will steadily continue.

     We are arriving at the point now where colleges and universities have essentially turned into Citizen Courts as in the French Revolution....already, it is accepted that, due to any flimsy and/or false reason, authorities are expected to allow the "offended parties" to destroy glass fronts, buildings, and even major parts of whole cities, as in Ferguson, Missouri.   If this continues much longer, I will assert with confidence, that we are only three turns of the anthropological screw before the guillotines are hauled out.

     None of what Mr. Trump is offering the adoring Make America Great gang will solve any problems.  The idea that we will have a tax cut, but make up for it with a border tax and a reworking of deductions to disallow charitable contribution, is exactly the same thing as squeezing a balloon that is filled with water.  It is a fool's game made to entertain imbeciles and / or people who are hoping that guy's ox is gored and that his own ox is spared.   Lunacy.
      No Plan.  Nothing to put before the committees.  On purpose, so that he can blame the committees and then strike a deal with "reasonable Democrats and moderate Republicans" so that we can play a few more strains of "And the Band Played On".

Nuff sed, More Later.
El Gringo Viejo

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Monday in Holy Week

Almighty God, whose most dear Son went not up to joy but first he suffered pain, and entered not into glory before he was crucified:

      Mercifully grant that we, walking in the way of the cross, may find it none other than the

way of life and 

peace; through the same thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who 

liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, 

for ever and ever. Amen.

Amen.

El Gringo Viejo, via the desk of Milton Finch and the Northern Plains Anglicans

Our Traditional Potpourri of Notions, Thoughts, and Curmudgeonry

     (1)    We still become grumpy when it is stated, "And if you buy these things right now, we will throw in the reverse illuminated, dog-carrier, frying pan, automatic spray-painting machine, ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!!"   If a person has to pay this in order to obtain that, then it is not free.  I tire of allowing for the dissolution of the American and English language.   We refuse to witness without protest the steady reduction of our language into a grouping of gruntings and snortings as are the various Teutonic dialects.

     (2)     What to do?  We are used having rolling cannons on the deck during the storm.  After all, we are Confederates.  Who else would decide to fight a war against the 5th most industrialised nation in the world, and howl about States' Rights until all the stars and the Man in the Moon tire of listening to the explanations about "The Cause"?

     However, now cometh the strange creature, from Alsace, to the Yukon, back to Deutschland, and finally back to America, and finally grandfathering a Loose Cannon, the likes of whom has never or rarely ever been seen.   It is interesting to watch, but not comfortable to be within the range of close contact.   It is, as you know, the Abominable Trumpman....aka- Trumpsquatch.  Some refer to him as Trump Kong.  

      He opposes "wild intervention" in the affairs of other nations, but at the first opportunity, bombs the slop out of an installation in a 12th World dump, led by a renown ophthalmological surgeon who decided to be a cad.

        He is accused by the Nouveaux Illuminati (the Obsolete Press) of being a consort of Vladamir Putin.   During the past hours our "Loose Cannon" just blew up the fondest hopes of Mr. Vlad and his ophthalmological comrade.  The Obama cohort of the Washington D.C. - West Coast - New York - Ivy League set must have been choking on the Savouringon Bleuphotepew Scorescion  127 year old wine......when the Tomahawks destroyed a significant part of Syria's weapons of mass destruction.

       This now swings over to my disgust with the Bushes and King George II in particular.  Cheney also deserves some blame.   It is known that just before the Second Iraqi War, large convoys of triple rear-axle, semi-tractor trailer rigs were seen lumbering through Iraqi / Syrian border check-points.  They were filmed.  They were, supposedly, carrying chemical, biological, and almost certainly,  ingredients for atomic-application stuff.
       BUT BUSH NEVER BROUGHT THIS UP, NOR DID CHENEY as is required in the theatre of American politics...it is necessary to repeat over, and over, and over again....it is a VERY necessary thing in when it is required in order to convince and influence an increasingly self-consumed and geo-politically ignorant country.   Bush would only very occasion give an 19 minute, dried-toast speech, saying the same thing he did six months before, and then sign off and go back to the residence section of the White House.  This makes me think that they were either too small or too timid to fight back against  the Anti-Flyover Country Cartel.

       The Russians' hierarchy, almost all of whom are born without souls, assured Father Obamaham that Russia would bring Assad, dictator of Syria, into the 17th Century.   Father Obamaham waved his scepter and declared, "That's another great victory in the Quest for Hope and Change!"   And it all resulted in a pre-planned disaster.....much to the joy of the perpetrators. All the reasonable leaders in the Middle East were left without a "big brother" for the past eight years, so at the very least there might be a kind of regrouping of slightly similar mentalities as it relates to tyrants, rogue regimes, and such realities in that part of the world.

     Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Bahrain, and a few other countries can be cobbled together to bring some kind of predictable order to the mess left behind by Hope and Change.  We shall see as the hours and days go by now.  Buckle your seat belts....the ride should be interesting.

More Later,
El Gringo Viejo

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Presidential Largesse: A Few Examples.....

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   In recent days it was learned that Donald Trump is accepting his Presidential salary only,  so as to be able to cast the lucre towards things that might need the money and that fit his and the general public's fancy.   He chose, I believe the National Park System.   His various family members who are labouring on behalf of the nation are actually working pro bono within the White House administrative structure.   Their projects seem laudable enough, even if Ivanka thinks that Equal Pay for Women is anything more than a very heavy bell with no clapper.

     There was a bit of a dust up over the issue, and a very interesting fellow...man about town...very adept at various businesses, pursuits, and interests, commented that Trump was the only President to give away his salary.   This fellow is a member of one of the Spanish colonial families in the Hidalgo Country area, and....like I say....a very interesting and positive personality...well-known and widely respected.   I consider him a favoured close acquaintance.
     Without a minute to waste there were commentators, your almost-humble servant included.  It was a flag thrown on the football field, with no penalty, however.  Those of us who are pompous and stuffy like to show that, in spite of a general lack of any justification for using natural resources, at least I can still pontificate and bluster.  I wrote:

          Hector's point is in almost all cases correct. The points about John F. Kennedy and Hebert Hoover are correct....as well.   It is also of interest that John F. Kennedy did not have any reservations about dispatching his brother Robert to the Halls of the Department of Justice, as Secretary of said portfolio.  It was probably a good appointment anyway. 

   It is little known, but Jefferson Davis was another American President who eschewed his Constitutionally prescribed salary.....25,000 dollars / annum for his six year term, and accepted only the Grey House....a modest mansion in Richmond, Virginia which served almost exclusively as a home for the Davis family.
   Also, Davis and his brother Joseph left the entirety of their sizable, back-to-back plantations in Mississippi in the hands of General Manager, Ben Montgomery, who happened to be a slave. He kept perfect records, had good labour relations with both free and slave, and oversaw the activity of numerous white employees.  
    On top of that, Davis was the only President until the last one to have children of Black African Ancestry.   How did this come about?    His wife and several ladies were horrified one day to see a Negro, who was also a slave owner whipping a frail young black boy with a cane in full public view, and without relent in downtown Richmond. The ladies, black and white, came over to the scene and began arguing with the Negro man. He declared that the boy was a slave of his, and that he owned various slaves, and required their submission and adherence to his orders.
    Mrs. Davis sought legal relief for the boy, Jim Limber, and was told by a judge that Virginia did not have adoption, but she could file for him as ward (essentially adoption at that time), and a suit could be filed for admonishment and quitting of the man's ownership of the the boy. She did so, with the ladies bearing witness in court, and the judge awarded the boy to the Davis family.
  While there, he was "table'd with the Davis Children", and the oldest Davis boy and Jim became quite bonded. Union troops, during the evacuation of the family from Richmond towards Montgomery, Alabama at the end of the War, made it their highest priority to find Jim Limber.  The Union military finally found him outside of Montgomery.
    From there he was probably taken and sent to British islands off Florida or in the eastern Caribbean. His name and presence were generally erased from history although much has been studied and published about the boy.
   It should be noted also that George Washington supposedly used almost all of his salary for eleemosynary activities especially concerning adapting the "coloured freemen" to the general society. Washington was assumed to be the richest man in America at the time, although most of his wealth was based upon the estate and wealth of Martha Custis, his wife.

     The stories will all fade.  Ten thousand years from now almost nothing will be known of those days or these.   But somehow, it seems to me, ornery so-and-so's will be arguing about Davis, Lee, Lincoln, and Grant & Co.  and the whole stupid War.   The smoke will never clear, and I am just as guilty as anyone for perpetuating its ghosts.

El Gringo Viejo

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FBI-Hillary Clinton Song-"At this point, what difference does it make"

We shall be leaving to-morrow. We leave this rambling assembly of observations, lamentations, and notion.....

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(1)       We were distressed to note that about 800 American "Spring Breakers" in Cancun decided to become hopelessly inebriated and entered into depraved debauchery and ridiculous, offensive behaviour worthy of "The Snowflake Generation".     It seems that, in spite of the well-known over-all friendliness and generally good treatment of Foreigners by the Yucatecos, the dull, un-trained in common manners and courtesies by their indulgent, stupid, insipid parents, the Snowflakes began chanting, "Build The Wall, Built The Wall", and generally began to do things that were insulting to staff and normal clients all about.

     Your humble servant had to check this out on a few levels, because reports such as these can be bent, twisted, and re-designed by to-day's Obsolete Press sources.  Some time back, for instance, there was a major soccer game between Mexico and the United States that took place in the magnificent stadium of the University of Guadalajara.  All went well until the American National Anthem was played.   That was when a large number of "students'', also pretty well tanked-up on German Rocket Fuel, began chanting "Osama, Osama, Osama" (at least the chant was easy to remember).   This story circulated in the American press to demonstrate what lugs and bums all Mexicans are.

      The problem, as Paul Harvey knew, was in the rest of the story.  Horrified for many good and neutral reasons....all mixed in the code of fraternity, deference to the visitor, "hands across the border ethic", and such.....adults and younger men also of college age, came down and exhorted the ruffians to show respect to the visitors who genuinely are friends and neighbours.   The drunks persisted.  At that point, the "normal people" began a rain of destructive blows upon the miscreants.   It was the two-beer crowd, heavily out-numbering the ten-beer crowd, beating the slop out of the drunks.  Various elements of the police carried off the "Osama" crowd, and normalcy was restored.

     The American press did not report the intervention of the two-beer crowd and their victory over the culls and scum of the ten-beer crowd.   Later when the Houston Texans played against whoever in the Great Azteca Stadium last year in Mexico City, there was concern that, in the environment of a really left-wing populace which dominates in Mexico City,  that there would be trashy behaviour on the part of some of the fans.    The game was a sell-out....107,000 paying fans...10 dollars to 250 dollars for most general seating.... everything was clean....all the restrooms functioning.....everything was okay.  The young Mexican girl took to the microphone, paused, and the belted out the Star Spangled Banner with just that perfect bit of Spanish accent to remind the people that it was being sung by a Mexicana.

      At the end, there was a strong and sustained applause from those gathered.   The Mexican national anthem followed, and received a bit more endorsement from the audience, but the Americans there stood and applauded, appropriately, for the Himno Nacional de Mexico.

     We return to the issue at Cancun....the display put on by the "Spring Breakers", where the young hellions have arrived to "escape the pressures" of their studies....(????).....and blow their mommies' and daddies' credit cards to Hell and Back....and we wonder, "What is the use? Is there any reason to care about, worry about, give a flip about....anymore?"  
     El Gringo Viejo has long felt that the Mexican authority should have invoked the rules that are normally applied to the locals and Mexican citizens.   Generally speaking, anywhere one might be in Mexico, if it happens to be beneath the stars...or under the blue skies....it is against most States' laws to be imbibing.  Beer, pulque, tequila, mescal, rum, and tesquino, etc. are to be "taken in" while one is under a roof, or at least within an enclosure, or well within a tract of private property. Public drinking of "inebriantes" in public view, on a public thoroughfare, or generally under a blue or black sky is essentially a serious misdemeanour, and can be...in Mexico as in Texas...an aggravating condition to criminal charges.
      But for financial and for "understanding" reasons....the Mexican authority does not want to hurt the feelings of the Snowflakes with their parents' credit cards...and they do not want to have any of them jump off the balcony of the 19th floor of the Hotel California.

     It is all very sad.  Some Americans are meant to travel to foreign countries, others are not.

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     (2)   And now we return to another issue....one that has haunted the area around El Chorrito and Santa Engracia and the places known as La Hacienda de La Vega....and La Quinta Tesoro de la Sierra Madre....and the homes of two or three other people in our little community....(some might say, 'our little calamity').   The very well known, Falstaffian character, Don Jaime Salazar....uncle by blood to the owner of the Hacienda de La Vega, and long known as the "defender of the wildlife and culture of the Tamaulipeca"....before his untimely death about six or seven years ago....always envisioned a"Guanajuato Style" make-over of the area around the Hacienda de Santa Engracia.

    Truth be known, this area....wherein my wife was tolerant enough to allow me to invest her money into a folly, is a true area of distinction and cultural / environmental treasure of the State of Tamaulipas, and by association....Texas.  The present PAN Governor of the State (just think Republican Conservative), is a person of the privileged class, who lived and studied beyond university level in Texas, and who speaks English in a rhetorical and literary sense.  He graduated from a Baptist University.

      His deepest desire is to capitalise on Don Jaime's futuristic pipe-dream...and make it happen to-day, and forever.....enshrining the natives, the colonists, the religion, the geography / wildlife / vegetation, the ranching and farming, and the industrial transformation that Tamaulipas has undergone in LESS THAN ONE GENERATION.

      He has one big Ace of Spades in his deck.   That is two aces....the Ace of Spades and the Ace of Hearts.  The Naval Infantry and the Mexican Army.   That presence is huge....and we have been assured, re-assured, and re-re-assured that every cockroach will have been eliminated from among us, and still the Army will remain in Divisional force for the State and Regimental force for the area around Santa Engracia.   Please understand....these are troops trained by Mexican, Israeli, British, and American trainers.  These are troops who declare that 'Mexico is my Mother, the Army is my Father."  They have a 98. 4% approval rating from the populace. 

      In recent episodes, something that El Gringo Viejo knew but did not wish to comment upon, was revealed on the NAT-GEO channel.   Odd that it should come from a pinko-channel, but if I say it, then fellow right-wingers need to understand that it is true.   During the last couple of years, and against Obama handlers' wishes, the American border agents began to be able to access and advise the Mexican military of failed drug and 12-year-old-girl, white-slavery deliveries across the River (Rio Grande y Bravo del Norte y del las Palmas). Also known as the Rio Grande.

      The Mexicans had already developed quite a good extradition track-record....the sending back and taking  back....of really disgusting offenders of the general sensibility and law.   They take back their really scumbag people....and we take back the really scumbag people who have been caught hiding in Mexico.   The Central-American nexus is a problem, because they and the Red Chinese are a much greater grouping of people who are seeking "a better life"(meaning a more comfortable life at the expense of taxpayers, and an easier life in terms of killing, raping, and stealing, usually from their own nationalities).   Trump and Co. do not understand any of this.   Donald thinks that having an "olde Scottish Bible"  has some kind of special effect, and that his barking aimlessly at the moon has an effect, but it does not.
     Only a few days ago, the Border Patrol was "exposed" transmitting to the Mexican Army a message of "return to Mexican shores" by  people transporting drugs, marijuana, and human female slaves.  The Nat - Geo cinemafotagrafos continued filming, as the smugglers managed to gain ground on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande (Rio Bravo).   While they might have celebrated briefly, the 'thudududatu' of the combat personnel helicopters could not have been a restful relief.   Once they could differentiate between prisoner and captor, a hell's fire of machine-gun bullets began to rain down on the criminals. Two late model pick-ups were almost instantly destroyed.   Several of the "bad hombres" were literally torn apart.  The Mexican Army films that were released were a bit more explicit.  Nat Geo probably has a agreement to not show guts and organ pieces splattered over an acre of God's Green Earth.
     The purpose of this transmission is not to "off" the reader with the gore, but to make the OROG aware of the fact that very serious tactical and strategic co-ordination between the American and Texian Constabulary and the Mexican Military has been put into operation, irregardless of Trump and "Mexican Sensitivities".   

       What will happen is that the Hacendado (owner of) de La Vega, a friend and fellow PAN political party member, and our neighbour.....and the nephew of the Old Nature Warrior....the now departed for more hallowed precincts, Don Jaime Salazar.....and I are in the position of impressing various magnates of Mexican heavy industry and other investors that our locale is a worthy setting for up-grading, as has been San Miguel de Allende, Real de Catorce, and about 100 other places in the central, northeast, and north-central part of Mexico.   We are talking about what is essentially billions of pesos of private investment and many millions of pesos of public up-grades.  The investment made in the replanting of the Hacienda de La Vega in the new-fangled limes that are going to be the "rave" in a few months, and the two or three million pesos that the Quinta has cost in its operation and maintenance since the turn of the century, and also including the very elaborate and close-by mansion of "La Maestra" who is also part of this mix of pleasant eccentrics, has already impressed the "Captains of Industry" who are seeking to re-start" the gentrification of the area.
     Remember, fellow OROGs. the venerable and ghost-infested Hacienda de Santa Engracia is the huge "anchor store" and it it as impressive, one could say, as the Statue of Liberty is to the New Yorker / New Jersey people and their visitors. 

There shall be more later.
El Gringo Viejo

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