CHICAGO MY KIND OF TOWN - Frank Sinatra - Whatever Happened to Chicago, Mr. Emanuel?

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       We have wailed and moaned about this matter, perhaps frequently or even too frequently.   We awaken after another weekend, already aware that the Houston Astros failed to sweep the Dodgers late last night.  And we had picked up on old news that is newly reposting the same old stuff because it is new stuff, and because, "If it bleeds, it leads!".

     Ah! Chicago…melting pot…but one where the ingredients of the stew almost never, finally, and resolutely become an agreeable gruel.   The Poles are here, the Germans there, the Jews are found in this or that place.  The Negroes are on the inside and the Saxons are on the edge, and the Italians have knives, guns, and submachine guns.  Over-generalisations all…but…

     Someone like Alphonse Capone can become some sort of royalty, principally by leaving somewhere between 900 and 2,500 dead bodies in Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and especially

Chicago!  Most of this was due to the necessity to protect Alphonse Capone's control of the delivery of Johnny Barleycorn's Plenty, mainly from Canada:  spirits…hooch…the lubricant of society.   After all, Carrie Nations and Margaret Sanger and my gran-gran-mere Mary Catherine Howe and all nature of social-controlistas declared that demon-likker was and is bad for men.   Of course, Women can hide their bottles in some recess of a bank of cabinets or on some upper shelf of the darkened kitchen pantry.   Men, however, have hairy legs, smell bad, and use their hooch in covered, but public, places like saloons.   Shame on them.

     Chicago can be romanticised, perhaps, but almost any place with more than 500,000 people can be romanticised, even if Mrs. O'Leary couldn't keep her cows in check.   One thing has not changed, however, as Chicago grew and became the dominant metropolitan area over a large swath of America.  With the Republicans of the 1920s - 1930s and with the Democrats of the 1960s through to the present,  Chicago remains corrupt, essentially to the core.   And Capone's death toll is dwarfed by the 7,000 or more men, women, and children that the "neighbourhood gangs" have piled up during the same length of time just in south and west Chicago.   Blessed Virgin Intervene!

     The southern half of the city is now substantially in the hands of gangs, almost all are young black men who are third and fourth generation public assistance people…most with no fathers.  The schools are graduating 12th graders who are scoring 2nd and 3rd grade levels…it is truly a place of horrors, violence, cultural decay, and…to be sure…the steady not-so-slow slide into anarchy.   These are not just words to be assembled to make a point…they are words that have been assembled to properly define the fact that Chicago is, in fifth part, completely eaten out from the inside.   The only surprise to this observer is that it is not worse than the present condition.

    To-morrow or the day after it will be.

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The violence reached a peak early Sunday, when 30 people were shot in a three-hour span between midnight and 3 a.m., an average of one every five minutes or so. Eight of the shootings during that period had three or more victims. Over the weekend, 14 children were shot and two, both 17, died. The youngest victim was 11 and the oldest was 62. The shootings were concentrated on the west and south of the city, leaving the downtown area, where thousands attended the Lollapalooza music concert, largely unaffected.

This is not a family get-together…
but unfortunately, in a way, it has become such.  

    This problem will not be solved within the next 60 - 100 years.  The problem is not that people are shooting other people without any concern about the niceties of minimising civilian casualties or frightening millions of people to the point of apoplexy every night, every day, and especially during week-ends.

     The problem is that there is a large body of participants in what is essentially a guerrilla war, conducted by people who have no sense of morality…no direction with clear yes and no, good and bad, up or down choices that should be easily and readily made by the numerous perpetrators of this madness.
  

     All the after-school, pre-school, summer-school, and mid-night basketball (to burn excess energy), food stamps, free rent, free medical, and essentially free money for various things cannot and will not cure this or any other problem on a durable basis.  Nay, and a million time nay…it is the cause.   On an island isolated, and a dysfunctional socio-cultural code, with a great density of population, nothing good can come of it.
      Dependency upon a government dole from Father Abraham is the handiwork of arrogant, vicously racist, leftist politicians who wish to reserve a body of obligated voters, who must of course, vote for their "way of life".  Such a "way of life" breeds dependency because it breeds dependent breeding.   That isolated and dependent culture has devolved to the point, that starting twenty years ago or so, single men would refer to Janie Talakalwannashabannakana Jackson as ,"…my babymother".

     A dolt such as I, or even a black man who had been blessed by a fairly normal upbringing in a standard-issue family could not comprehend what Shaktajakawa was talking about.   We had to learn that it meant, "Janie Talakalwannashabannakana Jackson and I made a baby.  That baby added on 290 dollars per month to her AFDC, 90 dollars to the 280 she makes from Food Stamps.  I helps her make extra money that way, and then she gives me a little 'walking around' money.  I pick up a grand or two from my baby mothers every month or so."

   And the above scenario is not only common, but it is better than the worst scenario.   That setting is one of a woman, stoned by meth and/or oxycotin and/or heroin, near death, a true walking zombie with stairstep babies aged 2, 3, 5, and 6.  One was taken by her brother when he left and went to North Carolina with his wife and two children.  He, as the boy's blood uncle, could not stand to see what was happening to all of his nephews and nieces, and so he at least took one, outright and without authority.  His sister never even inquired about the boy.

     This is not the nature of the establishment of a self-sufficient family that forms the bedrock of a culture of independence, liberty, self-sufficiency, and pride in self and family.   It is not enough to be proud of being Black.  It is not enough to be proud of being Caucasian.   It is not enough to be proud of being born any particular colour or race.

    The only thing that brings true and reasonable pride is the formation of true and solid families, composed of a mother and father, with children who are guided, pointed, cared for, disciplined, and given a certain and demanding moral catechism, be it Protestant or Roman Catholic or  traditional orthodox (Anglican, Greek, etc.), or from the Temple.   Those are the ties that bind.  Those are the ties that point the way to social, cultural, and financial progress to the participant.

     The only chance there is to salvage this problem is to understand, first of all, that it will be the labour of two, three, or four generations.  It will also be fought by all the forces that have caused the problem, such as the Southern Poverty Law Centre, leftist vote-buyers (with other peoples' money), the American Civil Liberties Union, and every Jeremiah Wright - Jesse Jackson - Al Sharpton - Farakhan  Charlatan Association member, and Black Lives Matter - styled group…all these agencies and individuals who require a dependent and disengaged class of zombies to lead around.

     The jackals, buzzards, and charlatans who have invented this mass of hapless humanity are

reaping the whirlwind, and hiding behind the curtain provided by a compliant, marxist press that still hopes that entities and organisations such as Maduro, Raul, Ortega, Lula, Barry Soetoro,  the National Socialist Democratic German Workers' Party, the Bolsheviks, George Soros, the Annenberg Foundation (and similars) can save the World from itself.  They, along with the zombie factories that pass for "universities and colleges", and churches that concern themselves with the secular when they should be pointing the way to the sacred are all part of the Witches' Stew of cultural poison.
    And, sorry, FactCheck…but Soros did say it, proudly and openly in Germany, four years ago…and he has funded BLM, ACORN, Occupy Wall Street,  and was instrumental in the bussing and other transport and support for the Ferguson Rioters and Looters.   Truth sometimes hurts the evil.

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   In short, it is necessary to remove and imprison the parties who are involved in gang and/or organised crime of any kind.  Then it will be necessary to steadily, and somewhat quickly, implement a primary and secondary scholastic schedule of eight or nine grades.

     It will be necessary to involve the new wave of children in charity work, and to cleave unto a spiritual support module of some sort…even Unitarian, if need be…but preferably a spiritual house with the power of an old fashioned Negro Baptist Church Choir…or the august influence of an ancient Anglican or Roman standard mass…and subsequent community work and "looking after the elderly and infirmed" activity.   Organised sports…especially baseball, basketball, and football, tennis, and swimming along with musical studies and accomplishments can exhaust and edify a child and give that girl or boy who participates the sense of accomplishment and fulfillment he or she deserve to have in this life.

     It would be a long haul, difficult to "allow to happen", because this type of cure has to be as unstructured as possible, and as goal - objective - centred such as we have not seen since the 1950s.  I know that it is very much a pipe-dream, but what has been done for the last forty years has become the cancer that will kill America and Texas.  Continuing on this path will leave us with Boko Haram, "Palestine", Honduras, and Venezuela as better alternatives.  We can watch Europe crumble before our eyes at this time because of their increasing sloth and commitment to some form of false political correctness..

Thanks for the time and attention you have given to this very, very serious cultural crisis.

El Gringo Viejo

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A Look Into the Collusion Between the Limbaugh and Newton / Neal Families and the Involvement of the Russians and Trump, therein

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     We have decided to come clean before the DOJ and the MGM and the NFL come chasing us down like the aristocratic commoners we seem to be…or not.   Over the months and years, after my stating that Rush Limbaugh and I are first cousins - three times removed.   The pathway to the fact is not all that tortuous, nor difficult to understand.
     Records are fairly clear, especially if one rakes the millet and sheds the chaff enough times.  It is actually rather amazing how much detail can be extracted from county records, census reports, and church documents of rites of passage.   Please be aware that this is essentially a posting that is drawn from a mailing to some of my closest friends and relatives.  It is especially sent as a charge to my daughter, my son, and my niece…and to a small circle of friends.

     That accomplished, we render the information…still imperfect, but becoming "perfecter" as the Southern commentator might comment…because it is interesting in the sense that it is a quick reference of the nature of the Westward Expansion and of the nature of the times before, during, and after the War Between the States.

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The Letter
(originally sent during the past two days
to a group totalling 14 persons)

  Please be aware that this mailing is not to impress anyone, because a person should not build his fame or notoriety upon the shoulders of cousins or upon any form of nepotism.   It is simply a response to various questions about the specifics about how Milton, Norman, and I are related to Rush and David Limbaugh as first cousins, three times removed.

     What is more interesting than that fairly direct accounting of our ancestry from that   German immigrant family, and the very noteworthy George Frederick Limbaugh who was an impressive and interesting fellow by any measure, are the peculiar co-incidences that intertwined  the Limbaughs and the Neals.   Even more interesting is that Winchester, Franklin County, Tennessee would prove to be a considerable theatre for one significant branch of the Limbaughs and many significant branches of the Neals.
      And yes…as many of you know…I am as interested in your provenance as I am in my own.   All tales…especially those that are reasonable, substantially accurate, and sincere…are what this writer refers to as "of profound interest".

     This is essentially an updating of other information, mainly designed to inform my two children, my niece, and my nephews of significant portions of their more distant ancestry.  During these more recent "hunting expeditions" we accidentally encountered two more Confederate soldiers, one of whom had been killed in action.    That changes the loss count to 2 Union (brothers who were my great-uncles), and 6 Confederates.  

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     George Frederick Limbaugh, the first Limbaugh family member in America, was born in Germany (ancestral roots include Prussia, Saxony, and Bremen ancestors…all contiguous principalities / kingdoms) circa 1727 to Johannes Michael Limbach  (b. 1688?) and Marie Listerer (b. 1698?).

       Johann Frederick Limbaugh, George Frederich' first-born arrived at Berks County, Pennsylvania as a child in 1753, along with his mother and father and a couple of younger children.   Records seem to indicate that he was eight or nine years old.

Baron Friedrich Wilhelm August
 Heinrich Ferdinand
von Steuben 

     Twenty years later, Johann Frederick served as Major and 3rd in command of a large militia unit, comprising a 3,000 member battalion.   That unit was called forward by some General Officer named Washington to report to a place called Valley Forge, Pennsylvania  (early December, 1777 - mid-June, 1778).  Some of the members of that battalion could speak some English but most either spoke no English or were not totally proficient in the funny sounding language.  Interestingly, they were mainly Germanic and looked forward to slaughtering their Hessian cousins who were swilling ale across the River in the colony of New York, and singing Christmas carols and saloon songs while  supporting the English King, George the IIIrd.
     The fact that there were so many "Pennsylvania Dutch" (term in especially eastern Pennsylvania  at that time for German) soldiers and settlers is one of the reasons Washington called upon the famous German tactician, General von Steuben for assistance.  The good Baron served  at the level of General Officer for the remainder of the War, and was essentially Washington's Chief of Staff.  It is more than a little probable that Major Frederich Johann Limbaugh would have had direct contact with the good Baron and Washington.   Limbaugh's militia had served in various Indian disorders, and also during dust-ups with the French.

     Frederich Johann Limbaugh…son of George Frederick…left Pennsylvania as a sole heir of the Limbaugh estate.   He sold the entire property in Pennsylvania for 1,100 pounds sterling (1783 anno domini)…something like about 2,000,000 American dollars in this time (2018 anno domini).  He went first to North Carolina where the clan lived and farmed for a while.   This is were one child apparently "ran off" with a Spanish beauty who was also some form of aristocrat (we are being inventive here…she was apparently a very decent girl and apparently  Christian (sometimes called David) Limbaugh did well among her family and friends in Florida and Cuba).

     Later, Frederich Johann Limbaugh moved on into Tennessee, and settled among my people in what would become Franklin County…and more precisely…the city of Winchester where it was still mainly a log cabin town at that time.   His son, Peter, adapted well among the Anglo/Saxon and Cherokee populace in that area of southeastern Tennessee…many Limbaughs were then buried over the years due to Peter's decision to make Franklin County, Tennessee his permanent life home.   The name Limbaugh is still alive  in that town, and is found in the private Limbaugh estate's cemetery, and other cemeteries down into Alabama and Georgia.

     We would like to point out that the movement of Frederich Johann Limbaugh and his little "tribe" from Pennsylvania to North Carolina to Tennessee and then to Cape Girardeaux did not take place over a two or three year period.   The moving between the points of Alpha and Omega went steadily, deliberately… farming, selling farms, raising and improving livestock, etc.   But for certain, he seemed to be intent on that mid-Mississippi River area.   It seemed to make little difference, however, to the outcome for each element of the extended family.   The boy who went to Florida and Cuba did well, and the Peter Limbaugh contingent did well in  the Winchester, Franklin County area, as did the "Old Man" Frederich Johann.

     The bulk of the family kept moving on that somewhat moribund French settlement area in what would be known as Southeastern Missouri before many years would pass.  As it was, they  settled in what would become Louisiana Territory in three years.  By 1758, George Frederick Limbaugh had married Anna Catharine Ritter and had six sons: Johannes Frederick Limbaugh, George Frederick Limbaugh II, Peter Limbaugh, Henry Limbaugh, Christian Limbaugh, and Michael Limbaugh.   The family settled on the west side of the Mississippi River in an area known as Cape Girardeaux, now in the State of Missouri.   Two sons dropped off along the way, including Christian who left the "tribe" in North Carolina, and married a Spanish girl whose father was some kind of titled aristocrat involved with the Spanish government. Christian did well in Cuba and was involved in the making of rum and curing of fine tobaccos.

A Typical Scene in the Winchester and
 Estill Springs Area in These Times

    The other "drop out" was Peter Limbaugh listed above as the one who stayed back in the Winchester, Franklin County, Tennessee area.   As he arrived with his family, Peter and his brood decided that  Franklin County, especially Winchester and Estill Springs and the bottom lands of the Sewanee River was his Promised Land.  He cashed out with his inheritance from his grandfather.  Supposedly, Frederick Johann Limbaugh kept 50% of the inheritance, and then assigned the remainder in equal shares to the six boys.   Seemed fair to all.   My brothers Milton and Norman, and your humble servant are descended from this line. 

     There was another family…Grant by surname…who had a member by the name of Asa.  That man came from the more western parts of Tennessee at the time and he was taken by a Limbaugh daughter, named Amelia…(called Millie or Meli by her buddies).  Asa Grant, unlike his second cousin, Hiram Ulysses Grant, was an anti-slavery Southerner.   Asa married the German girl, in spite of her funny accent…and among other things…put to flight the Stork who would deliver a child by the name of William (Dutch) Grant.

     Supposedly William Grant, son of Asa Grant and Amelia Limbaugh, learned German from his mother, and the people marvelled at his bi-lingual capacity.  It is from that ability that he was given the life-long nickname of "Dutch".

     Both "Dutch" (42 Infantry Regiment, Confederation States Army, 1st Lieutenant) and Asa Grant (4th Tennessee Cavalry, Confederate States Army, Capitan), served, were wounded, and returned to Winchester…Dutch in better shape than his father…who died, finally succumbing to wounds that would not abate caused by the arrogance of the victors and the hideous administration of the Camp Chase POW impoundment in Ohio.  

(AS AN ASIDE)

     As a child, the name "Billy Grant!!!" called out in housewife shrill, meant, my "Uncle Billy"…or William Grant Neal.  That was because William Grant Neal was named for his grandfather William Grant and actually born well out of order due to the fact that he was born in 1941…while his eldest sibling…a sister…my mother…was born in 1915.   My mother and Uncle Billy were born so far apart chronologically that "Uncle Billy" would always address my mother as "Mrs. Newton."   All of this meant that your Uncle Milton had an uncle (Billy Grant Neal) who was younger than your Uncle Milton.   We return now to the original text.

     All such verbiage is neither here nor there.   Asa Grant was a revered Confederate war hero.  He died in 1869 as stated above due to complications from his incarceration at Camp Chase, Ohio, where he had been dumped after being taken from the battlefield as a wounded Confederate officer.  His son, William was also a decorated Confederate veteran.

     These things carried down, drifting towards the present, because "Dutch" married a girl whose family had a problem staying inside the driving lanes.  Lucky for her, there were no marked lanes at that time.   But her brothers might have been (we state cautiously) associated with the Donaldson Gang which was associated with the James Boys.

     William (Dutch) Grant was not one of those, but his wife was drawn from among them.  The fact that William had moved to the eastern side of Tennessee from his father's Lewisburg environs on the western side of Tennessee gave the couple some, perhaps considerable, immunity from the lesser elements of the Donaldson family's weaker members.

     In continuing the continuum, William (Dutch) Grant and Sarah Frances (Sallie) Donaldson (3 March 1841 - 12 January 1902) bore out four babies, among them your great-great grandmother Mary Frances Grant (8 November 1865 - 25 April 1916).

     The last named lady married a fellow, your great-great grandfather by the name of William Benjamin Franklin Neal (1852 - 1936), one of the youngest Confederate veterans who rode as a Partisan Ranger towards the end of the War…during a period of potential anarchy in the southeastern Tennessee area.  Union troops did little to interrupt Union deserters and stragglers from thieving and harassing locals.  His father was an ordained Methodist pastor and had two churches in the Winchester community, and had been a chaplain to the Confederate Army…(and attended to Union troops as well)…for the last three years of the War.

     William Benjamin Franklin Neal and Mary Frances Grant bore out 12 children, all but the last surviving to adulthood.  The antepenultimate  child was your Great Grandfather Reginald (Rex) Andrew Neal (1893  -  1973)  who married Mamie Hastings Chism (1898 - 1971).  These are your father's maternal grandparents, and your Great-Grandparents.

    From them came four children, among them the aforementioned William (Billy) Grant Neal, born in 1941 (last born) and your Grandmother (first born) Nola Frances Neal (Newton) (1915 - 1994).  Between Billy and Nola the Stork delivered Uncle Donald,  (vitae sine mentione) and Reginald (Rex) Andrew Neal (1920 - 1971).

    From thence you all can do your aggregations of the Newtons / Neal  and Garzas / Garzas…with your own studies…or your mother and I will help you to the degree that we can.

    

      We can suggest that the life and genealogical line of your Granma Mamie Chism (Chisum) (Chisolm)(Chisholm) leads into a morass of western North Carolina, during the earliest part of the 1700s.  It was her understanding that her people had come from England in the mid-1600s, landing in Virginia, and gradually farming their way into the Carolinas (similar to Frederick Johann and his little tribe), finally winding up in southeastern Tennessee.   Many Chism's with various spellings were found in Texas very shortly after the War Between the States.   Mamie "heard tell" of them but never met any of them…ostensibly her brothers? cousins? uncles?  Some day we shall figure out the Chism, Chisum, Chisolm, Chisholm thing.

		Descendants of Peter Limbaugh

Peter Limbaugh was the third child of Anna Catherina Ritter and George Frederick Limbaugh. There were six children born to Anna and George Frederick Limbaugh:  Johannes (John),  George Frederick, Peter, Henry, Christian and Michael.  Peter and Anna did not come to Bollinger County, Missouri with George Frederick and the rest of the family.     They chose to settle in Tennessee.  Christian Limbaugh stayed in the North Carolina area and later moved to Florida before Florida became a State. Peter Limbaugh was born 1770 in Pennsylvania and died about 1846 in Franklin County Tennessee. He married Anna Maria Lingle July 28,1791 and the two had eleven children. Anna was born 1772 in North Carolina and died after 1830 in Franklin County Tennessee.  Children of Anna Lingle and Peter Limbaugh  John A. Limbaugh , Leah Limbaugh, Catherine Limbaugh, Mary Ann (Polly) Limbaugh, Solomon Limbaugh, Peter Limbaugh, Elizabeth  Limbaugh, Amelia Limbaugh, Lucy Ann Limbaugh, Sarah E. Limbaugh, and Wilburn Rufus Limbaugh.

What seems to be the strangest thing is that the number one surname in Franklin County, Tennessee apparently remains Neal…and truth be known…they were very prolific.  One of the next largest was or is Limbaugh.      The Neal Cemetery, and the Limbaugh Cemetery are only about four miles apart.  And, my mother was not remotely aware of any of that…although she lived should to shoulder with them during the first 9 or 10 years of her life, before moving to Texas. A Quien le conviene hacer preguntas…la lampara esta' prendida…  To those who might wish to comment or question, the light is lit at any time. El Gringo Viejo ______________

Madness Gone Mad - Orwell's Warning Rings Ever More Loudly

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The Madness:

City report on Confederate monuments raises idea of renaming Austin

Posted: 6:39 p.m. Friday, July 27, 2018

Known as both the “father of Texas” and the namesake of the state’s capital, Stephen F. Austin carved out the early outlines of Texas among his many accomplishments.

He also opposed an attempt by Mexico to ban slavery in the province of Tejas and said if slaves were freed, they would turn into “vagabonds, a nuisance and a menace.”

For that reason, the city of Austin’s Equity Office suggested renaming the city in a report about existing Confederate monuments that was published this week.

Also on the list of locales to possibly be renamed: Pease Park, the Bouldin Creek neighborhood, Barton Springs and 10 streets named for William Barton, the “Daniel Boone of Texas,” who was a slave owner.

To be sure, the identified streets and parks are only suggested for reconsideration. And the city, Bouldin Creek, Pease Park and the Barton-related landmarks — a group that includes Barton Springs — were included in a lower-tier list of “assets for secondary review” in the report. Still, the report did identify several streets staff consider related to the Confederacy and worthy of more immediate action. Those streets are:

• Littlefield Street

• Tom Green Street

• Sneed Cove

• Reagan Hill Drive

• Dixie Drive

• Confederate Avenue

• Plantation Road

The city estimates that it would cost $5,956 to rename the seven streets.

While the cost of such changes might appear reasonable, opposition to similar renamings has tended to revolve around the inconvenience and expense faced by longtime homeowners and business owners who must deal with a new address. Complaints along those lines surfaced earlier this year when the Austin City Council changed the names of two streets recognizing Confederate leaders.

Before the council renamed Robert E. Lee Road as Azie Morton Road and Jeff Davis Avenue was changed to William Holland Avenue, the city gathered input from residents along those streets. A majority opposed the changes, which occurred in April.

Some accused the city of whitewashing history.

The latest report acknowledged the likelihood of opposing viewpoints and nodded to inconveniences to businesses and residents and the view that changing the names could be considered a threat to historical preservation. It also asked whether the proposed changes reside on a slippery slope.

“What’s next and where do we stop?” the report asks.

Any changes to road names would require public hearings and action from the City Council. Before the city changed the two street names in April, the city’s staff had reached out to all residents to seek their input.

A change to the city’s name, meanwhile, likely would require an election since “Austin” would have to be struck from the city charter and replaced.

The report also identified numerous historical markers related to the Confederacy on city property that could be targeted for removal. Those include a marker for the Confederate States of America that’s located at Congress Avenue and Cesar Chavez Street.

However, the city would need approval from the Texas Historical Commission and the Travis County Historical Commission to move them.

Any new street names might fall in line with a 2017 recommendation from the Austin Commission for Women that called for the city to address gender and racial disparities in the naming of public symbols. The commission also suggested preference should be given to individuals connected to Austin and having a “positive relationship and history with the community.

The Equity Office’s report concludes, “It is essential to acknowledge that societal values are fluid, and they can be and are different today compared to when our city made decisions to name and/or place these Confederate symbols in our community.

“It is also important to acknowledge that nearly all monuments to the Confederacy and its leaders were erected without a true democratic process. People of color often had no voice and no opportunity to raise concerns about the city’s decision to honor Confederate leaders.”

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The facts:

     These things have been pointed out over and over again.   The normal fear one might have is that a well-founded Republic, or monarchy, can be lost due to the willingness of a population devoid of a reasonable moral catechism and a devotion to productivity.   Without intervention against the "progressive movement" this can and will cause the sacrifice of the cornerstone of  good, plenty, and beneficence on the Planet at this time, that place being the United States.  The Gods of Avarice are grooming their Carrion Buzzards even now to glean every sinew, be it meat or bone, from what is now known as the United States of America.

     This newspaper article, from the ultra-left Austin American Statesman clearly steers  around facts while searching for arcane and pointless comparisons to the goodness of nihilism as opposed to the badness of common law, limited government, and good moral and cultural order.

     We have arrived at that point where university professors and politicians who specialise in buying votes with other peoples' money have trained up a solid two generations of sophomoric robotrons.  They fit well into the class of proles who would learn to listen to the never ending public address announcements in Orwell's "1984".

      It will, or perhaps already has, caused the end of American character and exceptionalism.   These believers upon the Government have fulfilled the prophesy of a culture where…"…Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right…(Orwell - 1984)"

    Oddly enough, by that point in life, Orwell's words and his method of thinking seem to increasingly give credence to a hidden, conservative, traditionalist, and limited government way of thinking.  Perhaps he was not even aware of it himself.   His leftist and egalitarian notions served him well enough for the greater portion of his life.  I think, however, one could tell that the little genie of correct thinking, somewhere in his brain or soul,  told him that socialism and communism and other forms of totalitarianism would always bring hardship and disaster to any country or culture.

Stephen Fuller Austin
1789 - 1836

     The notion of changing the name of Austin, the Capital of Texas is well beyond ludicrous.      Stephen Fuller Austin was essentially a good Mexican, during the time he was a Mexican. It was the numerous excesses and unpredictability caused by Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna that brought about Austin's, almost reluctantly, leading Texas into a war, and an ultimate separation from Mexico.

    He moved well among the Mexican / Spanish cohort of populace that existed in Texas before the arrival of scores and hundreds of colonists, principally from the American Southland, Ireland, and a few from western Europe.
     He suffered unjustifiable imprisonment at the hands of the volcanic, drug addicted, and manic / depressive Lopez de Santa Anna.   During his time of incarceration in Mexico City, a friend came to his side at the prison…an attorney and political activist…Lorenzo de Zavala.  As things would lead on, de Zavala would manage to argue for Austin's release for lack of reasonable charges.   Austin returned to Texas, trying to stave off the looming war, but finding the matter next to impossible.

Manuel Lorenzo Justiniano
 de Zavala y Saenz
(1789 - 1836)

    Lorenzo de Zavala who was from the Yucatan, but had travelled widely in the world, including the United States, France and  Spain where he served as Ambassador from Mexico, as well as Governor of the central State of Mexico also held property in Texas. He arrived shortly after Austin's return, apparently convinced Austin that because of the slaughter and destruction of the City of Zacatecas and much of the agricultural and mining might of the State of Zacatecas that Texas had to prepare for war against a large, well-trained, well fortified army that was moving north.
     It is known and needs no further elucidation in this publication concerning the fact that the Texian forces somewhat miraculously defeated the main corps of Lopez de Santa Anna's force, including the capture of the Generalissimo Presidente himself.   But what is not known widely is that Lorenzo de

One can note the name,
Estevan F. Austin on this
formal Mexican document

Zavala, with his legal knowledge, and being a republican democrat, as well as a very active York Rite Mason, agreed to "help" script the Declaration of Independence, as well as the first Constitution of the Republic of Texas.  Lorenzo also is thought to have contributed the equivalent of 3,000,000 dollars to the Texian cause (…it is difficult to calculate the value of that sum now, but it would be massive, perhaps 100,000,000 dollars).
     He also served as the first Vice-President of Texas (interim), while Estevan (Stephen) Fuller Austin served as the first President of Texas.   Lamentably both men would die late that same year of multiple involvements with influenza and pneumonia, thereby forcing Sam Houston to serve an interim term before the election of Mirabeau Bonaparte Lamar to the office in 1838.
     The point of all of this is to prove that one of the reasons Texas was born as a Republic was because of the bond between two profoundly close friends…both drawn from places distant to Texas, from two different lands, two different languages, but who understood each other perfectly.

     My anger forces me to withdraw from droning on further.   The notion that Austin, as a man of his time, would be literally thrown into some convenient dustbin in order to placate a zombie mass of snowflake marxists is infuriating beyond my point to reasonably control my further writing this evening.
May the force be with us.
El Gringo Viejo

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Marty Robbins ‎– Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs [Full Album]

Many, many nights El Gringo Viejo was put to sleep listening to this and about four or five other albums such as the soundtrack from Porgy and Bess, and the Trio Los Panchos, and other such manifestations.

Sunset Grill

Aggravating, but the "Re-uniting of the Children with their families" is wrought with ill and horror.

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    Folks, it is not my wish to praise Ceasar but I cannot allow this burial of facts and reason to go on any further.   This is not a defense of Trump, nor Pena Nieto, nor AMLO, nor is it a condemnation of those personalities.   Please believe that I am certain in my knowledge, and that I have had seventy years and a little more of life, much of it involved with Mexico, Mexicans, Americans and Texans of Mexican and Spanish ancestry, along with a considerable bit of Central American understanding, study, and analysis.

     There are those who have accused me of being "hopelessly pro-Mexican", and that is a falsity.  A lesser number has said that I am a real live hater of the Latin sub-race…the response must be, "No, I am not".  The simple fact is that I was born into an environment that included numerous Mexicans from the "old Country" who were involved in the Bracero Programme of the WWII through early 1950s period.  The latter part of that episode were the years of my childhood.   From age 0 through age 10, except for school, Mexicans were a major part of the recipe of life on our farm and citrus care business.

     My studies advanced my understanding of the pre-Colombian times, and the Colonial Epoch, and the Republican Epoch of Mexico.   My eldest brother was a Ph.D. graduate faculty professor of very high regard.  He and I had common brainwaves and communicated on a level similar to twins.  He was an authority on historical linguistics, climate and geomorphology, and matters pertaining to historical and present day cultural geography.

     My wife and I operated an upper-case excursion company that toured all corners of Mexico, and we were in service for well over twenty years in that endeavour.   So please take these following words seriously, as truth that is true.  The clutching of the chest, and pointing to the sky, and howling about the horrors of "separating the children from the mothers and family" is such a shallow, ignorant, at times purposeful theatric sham that it must be contradicted in the strongest terms.

TO WIT:

     The entire event of the flood of Central American "refugees" and/or "migrants" was contrived by the Obama Administration when the State Department was under the command of Hillary Rodham Clinton and later John Kerry.   Your humble servant listens to a lot of overnight radio while he stays down at our home in the interior of Mexico.  AM radio transmissions reached my radios from broadcast positions located in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, and Guatemala (2 different big cities), and San Salvador, El Salvador.   Those AM radio stations would come in and fade out, but there were many nights and early mornings when their signal was excellent and prolonged.   We received Radio Rebelde from the Peoples' Republic of Cuba that unloaded literally tonnes of anti-Gringo and anti-American bilge continuously, with breaks every now and then for long and repetitive replays of Guantanamera.

     During the late night, around 22:00 - 24:00 hours, there would be talk shows wherein the guest, frequently and apparently an American consular official would opine and comment about the best way for people from Central America to access entry into the United States.  After the initial bilge talk about waiting lists, fees for application for an entry visa, the declaration of intention and purpose for visiting or wishing to enter the United States, the need to have a passport from the country of departure along with other life documentum vitae, the conversation would always turn to the inevitable.
     Speaking in conditional tense, it would be pointed out that a person, especially a woman with children, the younger the better, could possibly arrive at the banks of the Rio Bravo / Grande, arrange for passage with an inner-tube driver or similar, and then surrender to the first Border Patrolman encountered, declaring oneself as a "refugiada" (refugee).
     One night the 'locutor' (radio host) asked his guest, "But what if the woman has no children?  How can she leverage acceptance as a truly needy and urgently concerned person."
     The guest responded on that particular night…this time in Guatemala…"Ask around of family, perhaps a niece or nephew, or perhaps a neighbour might be willing to forward a child, especially if there are already relatives in the United States, established."

     As one might imagine, I was aware of this trickle of departures leaving the mess and disorder, especially of Honduras and El Salvador, even as far back as the 1980s.  The Guatemala thing seemed strange to me because it was not such a basket case as the other two.  One reason is because 35% of Guatemala's population is native…still with many who speak little or no Spanish and who seem content with their position and activity.   Honduras and El Salvador were in dire straights in 2004 - 2009 and after that things became even worse.
     Why were things worse?  Simply put, it was because of the growth of the horridly depraved gangs of subhuman murderers, extortionists, rapists, and generally violent individuals.   These gang members knew from their older brothers that causing havoc in the home country was fun, but only in the United States could a MaraSalvatrucha XIII or Callejon 18 really get down and boogie…murder, robbery, torture, drug trafficking, prostitution of children, extortion…almost always of their own "carnales" (same meat and blood).
     Every now and then they would venture out and harrass the Mexicans and the Angloids, but they concentrated on terrorising their own people into submission.   They are found in Houston, Chicago, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Phoenix, and lamentably many smaller cities and towns that have long been famous as citadels of tranquility and blessed boredom.
     Even the Mexican drug cartels had trouble with these types.   One time, a group of MS13 were contracted to guard a group of "migrants" (future illegal aliens) outside of San Fernando, Tamaulipas…this about 10 years ago.   During the detention, inside a barn with no facilities or food or water, the custodians demanded of the "migrants" to volunteer to "mular la mota"…a slang expression meaning "to become marijuana mules for the cartel".

This is not what the bad guys want to run into
in Mexico - A column of the 65th Regiment of
 Infantry on a patrol, search, and engage operation.

     The detainees demanded to be taken to the border according to the agreement that they had made and paid for.   After a 18 hour session of tequila, beer, and weed, the six MS13s slaughtered the entire group of 75.
     Only one person survived.  That individual remembered that there was a Mexican Army facility some miles back to the South, and he made his way there, although he was wounded.
     Some locals gave him a ride to that military facility south of San Fernando, where he made his report and received needed medical attention.  A detail en force departed, and encountered the barn on the ranch as described, with 75 dead "migrants" inside.  Later that day, there was an encounter between a company of Mexican heavy infantry up near Reynosa (McAllen's sister city) and a group of about 25 MS13 types and certain allies…two soldiers were wounded and 9 MS13 were killed, with the rest being wounded and captured.   Those who survived were transported to Mexico City for debriefing, then incarcerated.
     Later it was divulged that over the years most of those individuals had been killed in prison due to their contentiousness and violent disposition.  That has been their record in the prisons of Honduras and El Salvador as well.  Pointless violence, violence, violence.

    Moving right along to processing the illegal alien arrivals, we should point out that many, many children and other minors came in without any adult relative…auntie, sister, grannie, or male equivalent.   In fact, adult males doing much of anything to "help" the invasion of illegal aliens from 2012 through to the present constituted less than 2% of the total tsunami of humanity that came into just Texas alone.
     Recently released data, as of the 10th of July, 2018 shows that a minimum of 20% of the children of 5 years of age or less who were separated from their "mommies" had absolutely no biological relationship to said "mommies".   This fact was developed by DNA analysis.  Another grouping showed the "possibility" of collateral relationship of another 20%.
     The fact is that people who remained back in Honduras and El Salvador were (1) "loaning" their own children, for a price to a woman to use as a ruse, or (2)  having their children ripped away by MS13 operatives kidnapping tots and infants to thrust upon a supposed "mommie", once the "mommie" or her family came up with the price for the child, or (3) older children were being kidnapped and marked…and we are talking about girls aged 8 - 10 years of age…for service into forced prostitution when the time would be "right".  This in fact was and is the actual facts of this "migration".
     On top of that, even the ones who had "legitimate" concerns about health and safety for self and offspring were almost uniformly dull, unappreciative, sullen, and even contemptuous of volunteer gifts of food, money, clothes, or reading material, etc.   This matter of "separating families" is absolutely one of the largest red herrings ever presented to the body politic.  It is a mendacity truly engineered by people who have not the slightest sense of the value of truth in the discourse between citizens.  The leftist opposition to normalcy seems to be willing to leave no stone unturned in order to forward the purpose of nihilism, socialism, and the steady degradation of America as the true beacon of hope, progress, and the opportunity for the fullness of life.

     So many people…Mexicans, and other foreigners…come into this country legally, AT GREAT EXPENSE and TIME and TROUBLE…and leave and return, and leave and return…compliantly, daily, going about their daily business, tourism, shopping, and such legal and pleasant pursuits, and yet we are supposed to give special deference to people who jump the line, pay nothing, and then disappear into the ether of the "population unknown and unseen".  Shame on the "progressives" who delight in the passive enslavement of hundreds upon thousands of people who genuinely should be shouldering efforts to improve the homeland they chose to abandon.

Enough!
EL GRINGO VIEJO

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