Just a nice, calm picture…Quinta Tesoro de la Sierra Madre, upper gardens…a pleasant, jumbled mess that pleases me immensely...

Just a nice picture of what El Gringo Viejo sees in the early morning with his coffee and dog
and the birds and the butterflies.   Amalgamated Butterfly Union does not permit butterflies to
 work before 10:00 in the morning.

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Ocasio - Cortez and the re-re-rewriting of the 638th rewriting of History and the Democratic Socialist Final Solution of Evil, Poverty, and Bad Stuff…and everything…all the time

(1)     Bulletin:

From Reuters -

(1) UK appoints top cop as new anti-slavery chief, after criticism over delay

(2) Water-stressed Pakistan looks for billions in donations to build dams

(3)  Future of food under "severe threat" as species diversity disappears - UN

(4)  Insurance not enough to offset financial risks of climate change, analysts say

(5)  Prepare now for accelerating climate threats, military officials warn

(2)     FROM -     OCASIO - CORTEZ's PLATFORM for AMERICA

The clarion call for all people to be given everything they need all the time.

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     Quite obviously, the time has come to SCREAM BLOODY MURDER…!!!   We, as a nation, have stumbled along now for 240 years or so, generally accommodating business potentates, business conglomerations, labour leaders and groups, all nature of social organisation, unions, guilds, and chambers of commerce and so forth.  We have seen these crops prosper and those crops wither.

     

   We have seen factories, military bases, farms large and small produce, fail, re-establish, change crops, fail, and start over again.   We have dealt with these and those peoples with this and that language and background…who have gone and not returned, while others came to replace them.  And we have seen people who declared they would never leave, leave and die a great distance from where they were born, regretting having left or wishing they had left sooner.

     In short…we have seen it all,  done most of it…and still wonder how it can be.  Truly, how can it be?   The "Platform" for the Ocasio forces is truly the representation of a pitiably immature, totally self-possessed and involved nine-year old.  She is certain that she can sit upon a variation of a baby's high-chair, while decked out in taffeta and velour, with a silver wand topped by a a solid 19.5 K gold star with a large diamond in the middle and appoint this occurrence and dispatch that bad, evil, wrong thing to the bin of iniquity.

     It is rather much like Puff, the Magic Dragon, but done for and by little girls who wave their wands about during the sleep over…and who, as midnight draws near…decide that "staying up to see the dawn" is a little out of reach.   Some little girls are 29 years of age, by the calendar, but still cling to the notions held as pre-adolescents, nurtured by deranged college professors who think the next try at marxism will be the one that finally works.

It never works.

El Gringo Viejo

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Of "caravans" and "immigrants" and other things…along with interesting and worthwhile commentary from our other Curmudgeon...

Thoughts

 Owls and why I relate to them:

 These  "Birds of Prey" love to sit quietly and still so they observe their surroundings and strike when needed.

 Some say that the Owl has wisdom, even foresight, but they still are considered familiars of the witches.  They are creatures of the night and early morning.  Some consider them bad luck, and predictors of poor health and death.  They are still considered the main harbingers of death and doom in Mexico, much of the South, and Latin America.

    I hear and see them every evening at dusk, and early morning and have for years.   I am, and always have been, an early morning person.  Ok,  sometimes I have started to put together a re-written version of the " The time has come".    My version as  it stands is poorly written and needs help.

An Owl doing a bit of "soul searching"

   It is as follows:

    THE TIME HAS COME, THE OWL SAID, TO SPEAK OF MANY THINGS: OF SHOES ---- OF SHIPS ----- AND OF SOCIALISTS--- AND KINGS.

  OF WHY A REVOLT IS RISING--- AND WHETHER CONGRESSIONAL PIGS HAVE WINGS, AND FLY.

  THEY DO, AND THE FAT LADY IS STARTING TO SING. WATCH OUT!  AN OWL IS PASSING BY.

 El  Buho

(El Tecolote)

(The Owl)
Contributing member of the blog "A Gringo in Rural Mexico"  -   dedicated to topics of history of Texas and Mexico, political and cultural opinion and fact, with special emphasis on current events, at times, and historical milestones at other times.   No place within the three nations of North America (four if counting Texas separately) is immune from our scope.

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Update on the matter of the "Caravans" and "Immigrants":

     We continue to be befuddled and confused about the difference between what is being reported by almost all sources of the American and other media sources as opposed to what this observer hears, sees, and experiences concerning the "immigrants" and the "caravans".

     To begin, the entire "caravan" and "immigrant" thing is a sham.  The operation is a co-ordinated effort by extremists representing pseudo - religious interests operating under all nature of Protestant, Catholic, and even supposedly evangelical flags.

     Their objective has been frequently stated, repeatedly and they are all more or less dedicated to the same objectives…mainly more.   If you sit at a bar with some of the upper-middle leaders of the "movement" and subject yourself to the tedious lecture, the operatives and overseers of the "immigrants" and "caravan" (they are neither) will blather up a scenario of how the United States came and took all the easy resources from the Central American entities….Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama'.   Americans enslaved the oppressed masses and paid them next to nothing…and they established fascist and oppressive pro-American satraps to rule with the title of President when in fact they were dictators and corrupt.

     Many starved and were abused, and very few lived in opulence.   Of course, the United States built and operated the Panama' Canal…against all odds…a work that provided direct employment pay that was unheard of anywhere in Central America to that point.   Of course, the Europeans were quick to point out that the Americans had stolen the Isthmus of Panama' from the owner, the Republic of Colombia, strictly for the purpose of enslaving the people of Colombia, and divesting that country of a lucrative fountain of resources for some future time.

      These marxist minders of the "Caravana" movement had and have their explanations, histrionics, and propagandistic cant.   The fact is, however, that they are actually dedicated to that which they have always been dedicated, that being the destruction of the United States of America.   Their armaments are lies, drugs, violence, obtuse and demagogic reasoning, and the constant effort to drag down the United States and any other nation that remotely stands with the USA.

     The Obama administration determined to go full bore on this process of destroying any and all vestiges of the Out-of-Date American construct and the preparation for a "Democratic Socialist Society and Government".During the Obama administration, scores of efforts were put into place and function that would undermine basic American values and positive outcomes.  The "Fast and Furious" matter, the advising of Central Americans concerning how to arrive to the American Frontier and gain entry without any legitimate permitting or justification, to the incessant reliance on racial friction to roil the pot of witch's brew…such as in Ferguson, Missouri, etc.
     We watched in McAllen how sullen people dragging two to ten year old children…in clusters of three to six or a little more…would board busses at the McAllen Bus Terminal with their tickets to Trenton, Nashville, Kansas City, and Denver…all of them with "provisional entry awaiting designated hearing date" and these numbers ballooned into the hundreds of thousands.
     News leaked out that DNA tests were showing that over 40 per cent of the children were not related to the women dragging said children into Gringoland and flagging down Border Patrol personnel to "arrest and detain them".  Many of the "unescorted" teenagers had gang tattoos representing the worst of the worst of the gangs in El Salvador and Honduras…they were given passes, once they established contact with other "family members" who were also living illegally in the United States.   It was madness.
    With the arrival of Trump to the Presidency, a bit more order was put into place, but the onslaught is continuing.   Scores of thousands per month…scores of thousands…think of it!  Pregnant 14 year-olds, numerous girls in the single digit age groups, all sullen…unimpressed with the crummy food they were being provided, and the crummy clothes they were having to take for free…(actually much of the clothing was new, stylish, and quite nice…even the used clothes were like hand-me-downs of a rich family).   Never a mention of thanks (or at least very, very rarely)…and that air that if they were detained they would cause an event to occur that would be put into the media as proof that they were being brutalised.

     The blathering hyperbole of the leftist press…of people like Pelosi, Biden, and Co.  has been both repugnant and fascinating.  The ploy of showing children in a dog cage and chained, to boot was a remarkable coup co-ordinated between the Democrats and the Obsolete Press…especially when one considers that the pictures of the children in the dog-cages came from the time of the Obama administration.  
     We noticed good old Joe Biden…the one who told a convention of Black Folks that they needed to be wary of Republicans because the GOP was just waiting for a chance to put all the Black Folks back in chains….Real class, Joe ,really stellar intellectual messaging.
     But, he followed that up recently with "…the need to keep Trump from ripping children from their mothers' arms!!!"   Real class, Joe, especially when one can almost bet that the "mothers" and the coyotes who will be managing these "migrants" once they complete their transfer to Cincinnati, or Oklahoma City, or Louisville, will be turning a large percentage of these girls to forced sexual performance.   It is well known.

We  shall pass along more to-morrow.
EL GRINGO VIEJO
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More missing phrases…now replaced…Ready for Reading, Now!!

We have a special notice, released by authorities at the highest level in the Mexican heirarchy, emanating from the Los Pinos compound and, interestingly, circulated publicly…although almost no one would believe such a thing, if one depended upon the "professional" obsolete media.  Reuters filtered the announcement as best possible, so as to show that the Mexican government is obsolete, stupid, and ineffective.  Reuters is substantially to the Left of even the Lopez-Obrador presidency.
    We shall try to clarify the announcement herewith.


MEXICO CITY, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Mexico began beefing up law enforcement in its most violent districts this week, officials said on Wednesday, sending the first of 10,200 troops and police to reduce murder rates in 17 hot spots, in the first phase of a program it plans to expand.
     Homicides rose by one-third last year, breaking a record for the second consecutive year and underscores the challenge facing Mexico's new president to rein in the violence that has spiralled over the last decade amid a military-led war on drug trafficking.
      Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who took office in December, has proposed bolstering the armed forces through a new National Guard, while saying the war against drug traffickers is over. He is also exploring a crop substitution for illicit crops and amnesties for low level drug dealers and farmers.
   The government will initially deploy 600 people to each of the 17 targeted districts and subsequently expand the program to other areas of the country, Mexican Security Minister Alfonso Durazo told a press conference.   The northern border city of Tijuana, which had one of the country's highest murder tallies in December with 202 deaths, began receiving new forces on Monday.
     Fellow U.S. border cities of Ciudad Juarez, Reynosa, and Nuevo Laredo are also slated for an influx of troops, along with tourist beach destination of Acapulco.  The deployments are intended to be permanent, Durazo said.  "It's one thing to do operations and bring forces from Mexico City to Tijuana, to Reynosa, to Nuevo Laredo, and then bring them back," Durazo said. "It's very different to have a permanent state of force." (Reporting by Daina Beth Solomon and Noe Torres; Editing by Steve Orlofsky)

Now….What was left out of this "news release"?

     Let us say…perhaps 60 percent purposeful misreporting, and 40 percent half-truths and deception.   The actual facts are that the gnomes of Los Pinos have decided to sharply diverge from the previously stated goals and hopes of Mr. AMLO, the new President.   There has been a unanimity of opinion that Mexican military might…which is considerable…must after all is said and done must be deployed, and deployed more vigourously than during the previous 20 years.   This represents a radical change from the original hopes of Mr. AMLO…and he appears to be in step with his "choir of advisors". 

 Mexican Honour Guard Officer's Training Academy
escorting the Mexican Golden Eagle, symbol of
La Patria Mexicana
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     The facts are that 92,000 effectives have been designated to form into an eradication strike force.   This number is eerily similar to the number of national guard / public service/ constabulary-like people Mr. AMLO seemed to envision during some of his original "pronunciamentos" shortly after the swearing-in.  Perhaps he is still sane and solid of mind after all, as it appears with this decisive decision to apply essentially full military pressure.

  Also, please remember that we have pointed out that his "Choir of Advisors" represent Left -  Centre - and Right almost equally…a jaw-dropping collection of 11 very intelligent, respected, accomplished thinkers and doers.

     Suddenly, and in keeping with some of the announcements posted above, deployments are announced in solid, stunning numbers and objectives.   First, 7, 000 Naval Infantry, Army Special Forces, and 'federal military police' were poured into Tijuana and to a lesser extent, Mexicali.   These are really the guys one does not wish to have around, if in fact one is committing on-going organised crime actions.

     Snarkey nay-sayers point out that elements of the military are corrupt.  Well…gee whiz…elements of the American military suffer from corruption and criminality…likewise the British,  and the (enter name of any nation) militaries.   Fact check…the Mexican military is about as corrupt as the American military.

    But, as the successes of the La Limpiada (The Cleaning) take hold in the far northwest of Mexico, heavy infantry elements moved into other areas of concern…the Northeast…such as Reynosa and Tamaulipas State in general.  Nuevo Laredo is included in this sweep.  Other areas are being penetrated at these moments…Michoacan State, the Acapulco - Chilpancingo axis, and certain locales in Vera Cruz State, Culiacan - capital of Sinaloa State and centre of (you guessed it) the Sinaloa Cartel (El Chapo's old stomping grounds).

Red Chinese Container Ship
preparing to enter Manzanillo's port
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   Moreover, these deployments are meant to be mobile, on-going, night and day equipped with air support via helicopter and higher fixed-wing reconnaissance craft…and increased, armed and dangerous, Navy warships sent to encounter Red Chinese freighters coming into and out of Manzanillo and Mazatlan ports of entry and exit, and to check for ammunition, drugs, and other such nefarious stuff. 

      These interruptions on sea - lanes and land - lines are common and almost not special events.   And in the past two months the number of surprise nocturnal and diurnal  boardings by  the Mexican military and navy have intensified most profoundly. The tonnage of meth and other ingredients for making meth and other very destructive drugs  has been nothing short of staggering.  All along the frontier…a few hours ago…a few days ago, huge interceptions of well-packages drugs have been intercepted on the American side, after "heads-up" warning from the "other side".    We refer to loads with values from one million up to 10 million dollars worth on the street.   All of this within a couple of miles or less than a score of miles from McAllen, on the Texas side of the Rio Grande.

     The basic contingents of full-scale infantry in Reynosa and Nuevo Laredo during these moments is supposedly 7, 600 effectives each, and they are what is referred to as "de planta" or "permanently stationed" for at least the next several months.   Ciudad Victoria, the capital of the State of Tamaulipas is also receiving a similar contingent.   It is news of a most welcomed kind among the rank and file Tamaulipas citizens and those foreigners who have business and/or properties in that State.

     It has been something similar to a yo-yo mixed with a centrifuge during the first months of Mr. AMLO's term…but these new measures have proven to be very popular at all levels.   We shall continue to monitor the application and the effects.   More later.

EL GRINGO VIEJO

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She loves me, she loves me naught, she loves me, she loves me naught…

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    Two quick points:

(1)   We have some 'splainin' to do, Lucy.   While I take some blame, most must be thrust upon the present occupants of the two Presidential Palaces…one in Washington, District of Columbia and the other in Los Pinos, District Federal, Ciudad de Mexico, Republica de los Estados Unidos de Mexico.   We shall develop that topic as best can be done.

(2)    There have been some peculiar procedural changes in our counting machine service(s).   Our normal count comes from what hits this computer, in this home, only.   There are three other secondary and tertiary counters that barnacled on to AdSense and other Googlebuddies.   Suddenly, about six months ago, we began receiving updates every three to five days.  Our daily graph showed very little activity which then on any random Thursday or Saturday or whenever, a "dump" of 2,500 would show up, citing "North American Catchment" or something to that effect. Another two or three days and suddenly a dump of 1,500 from"international receivers".   And so forth.

     We were aware of the background counters and the fact that they were measuring things "out there", but now we have to wonder…or know…or quake in fear…about the fact that my brain is being monitored by an extraterrestrial work-group under contract to Maxine Waters and Richard Simmons.  

     We leave these things to the common run-of-the-mill geniuses who compose the audience of A Gringo in Rural Mexico, and allow for them to ponder the import of this information.

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     She loves me.   She loves me naught.

     We feel like we are watching one of those cartoon scenes of Yosemite Sam shooting up the Saloon while Bugs Bunny is dodging bullets at the Bar.   To-day Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador decides in his Presidential glory that Mexico will lock arms with the Gringos and begin to tightly control immigration coming into Mexico from the southern nations in Central America.
     To-morrow hordes of un-checked, unwashed, unknown, unrecorded supposed humans with baby humans come pouring into Mexico with little interference from Mexican military or constabularial intervention.  The next day a spokesman declares that the newly arrived "guests" in Mexico are being offered worker-authorisations and full benefit packages for positions at various of several thousand venues where there are labour shortages in and around the Mexico City metroplex.   It is known that there is a severe labour-shortage in that area as well as other industrial areas in Mexico.  The labour contracts are quite good especially considering the medical and other benefits.
     The Central Americans gobble up the papers and sign everything that needs to be signed.  Two days later they are found  forty or four hundred miles further north, on their "migration" to America.   "Hey!  Why didn't you report for that job in Ecatepec?", to which the Centroamericano will respond, "We decided to go north because the Gringos have to give us everything for free.   No need to work, everything free."   And folks…this is not a joke.   It is VERY especially true of the young women who are aware that they need only drop a baby in an alley-way in McAllen and thereby become the "sole caretaker" of an "American citizen infant".  From that point everything is free…medical, food, accommodation, schooling…everything.

      Then we hear of more "caravans (they are not caravans)" heading out to the north on the Great Human Cattle Drive to seek redress for the damage the Gringos have done to the poor simple countries that America has cannibalised during the past 200 years.   This "caravan" with 2,000, then the next from the Mara Salvatrucha 13 factory also known as El Salvador another 4,000 leaves while the Hondurans contribute a couple of days later 4,000 innocent young mothers simply looking for a small morsel for their babies to eat, once or twice a week.

     Everything is tightly under the control of United Nations "handlers" who are tightly en league with the overall world marxist movement.   Peoples Without Frontiers (Pueblos Sin Fronteras),  and the Soros people, unapologetically serve inside and outside the "caravan", being especially welcomed because they have friendly relations with the Mara Salvatrucha and the Callejon 18 and various other criminal and arch-marxist agents united in the common bond of "HATE AMERICA FIRST".   These gangs are the one who deliver fresh meat to to on-going porno and slave-labour  found in the Sacramento-type Cities and other towns and States in the hinterland..  

     The first group arrives at Tijuana  (not TIA - Juana) and they stormed the gates of the hated Gringo garita (stockade or garrison) at the international entry point the next day.   They are turned away by the local American defence force…with billy-clubs and noxious gasses.  
     Two days later, the drug cartel people come into the presence of the disorganised "migrants" and set upon them.   There is a period of 36 hours of mayhem and on-again / off-again violence and brutal hand to hand between the organised crime elements and the "migrants" who are well marked with their gang-insignia (accompanied by almost no Obsolete Media or even FOXNews coverage).
     The Federal Mexican Uniformed Police and the Army came in and cleaned up the mess…making many arrests of people with old and new wants and warrants, principally by Mexico and the Texas and the United States authorities.   Nothing is reported to Notimex, FOXNews, CNN, and the other "official news sources".

    THEN INTERESTINGLY,  the next  "caravan" comes up from the South and determines that they will go to the Piedras Negras - Eagle Pass international crossing at the Rio Grande.   A week earlier in Tijuana everything turned to rot pretty quickly.   So, they figure, we'll go to the Texas frontier where the people are really stupid and hicks and we'll walk right over them. 
    The Governor of Coahuila State of Mexico, which includes the City of Piedras Negras (Black Rocks …or actually Coal…which is found in abundance in that area, both on the surface and subsurface)…advised a FOXNews reporter in Mexico that these people were being helped to the Texas frontier.  A total of 55 ultra-first class and de luxe busses had been leased by the State of Coahuila to carry the "caravan" people from Saltillo to Piedras Negras in style (this is not a sly joke…the busses are ultra first-class and de luxe units…very, very posh).    He told the FOXNews reporter to talk to his secretary about the details.
     As a de luxe excursion operator for a quarter century in Mexico, I can assert some authority over these comments.  The cost to the State of Coahuila for the lease of these vehicles, even with the appropriate discounts for group and public service considerations, would have been around 15,000 pesos / each for the one day delivery and the dead-head back to the terminal facilities in the State Capital (Saltillo).  That charge would be about 700 dollars per bus, paid by the Coahuila taxpayers in the amount equivalent to over $35,000 (am.cur.)

Jose Maria Fraustro Siller
Secretario del Estado de Coahuila

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     In Mexico the "secretary to the Governor" is not the steno-girl down the hall.  It is the 2nd most powerful, empowered, and important position in the administration of any reasonably operated State Government.   The Secretario del Gobernador, Jose Maria Fraustro Siller declared yesterday that those presenting themselves to the American authority at the Eagle Pass International Boundary without papers-in-order were going to be returned to Mexico.   Those who remained adamant about not working in Mexico will be removed from the group and returned to Central Mexico.   Early to-day, there began a removal of several hundred people back to Mexico City, and supposedly to the frontier with Guatemala where several hundred of those intent upon breaking into Texas illegally will be sent back into the ephemeral zone known as Centroamerica.

     In the meantime, over in Tijuana, Baja California where some of the "refugees" from the failed assault by the "caravan" essentially went for naught, combined forces from the Mexican Federal Police, the Mexican Army, and the Mexican Naval Infantry (all formidable forces) did some housecleaning in downtown against both Cartel people and the caravan people (essentially the same people).   Sociologically and demographically…about 80% of the migrants were dispersed, some being transported back down to Central Mexico and then on to the Guatemalan frontier to be deported.   They were only about a third of the original number that had arrived a week before.
   Some went to jail in Tijuana, some tried to break into the United States facility at Mexicali, somewhat east of Tijuana…they failed and some were arrested.   A small gaggle of assorted mixed groups of invaders tried to cross near the old Columbus site in New Mexico, and they were detained for processing in El Paso, Texas and then deported into Ciudad Juarez (although they should have been divested of their valuables and flown back to their point of origin in Central America).

Where are my oats and honey!!!

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     In short, I am trying to diagnose private information and substantially credible information from local and private and Mexican sources, while trying simultaneously keep up with the different interpretations of the will and mind of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Presidente de Mexico.  His "kitchen cabinet" of truly (I am not being 'theatrically sarcastic) highly intelligent and substantially morally correct people…a couple or three whom I know personally.
     It is the opinion of various people who are in the know that AMLO is substantially "bronco"- that being a fine, but unpredictable stallion.   AMLO is an old draught horse, in actuality…a socialist warrior from the Ghosts of the Calles and Cardenas days of expropriations and arbitrary executive orders commanding confiscations of properties and Stalinist types of public shaming of the rich.   True enough, AMLO did a creditable job as mayor of the ungovernable metroplex of Mexico City.  But most observers say that his success was due to his absence and his leaving in control a second level of very adept engineers of motor vehicle traffic, water quality and pressure improvement,  up-grading continuously the metro uniformed and mounted police,  forcing judicial process to be made functional by browbeating                      the stupid, lazy magistrates who handled misdemeanours and minor felonies…always waiting for "jurisprudential lubrication"…AMLO did receive the credit, but many will suggest that a cadre of people without imaginations, who had watched a lot of LAW and ORDER and such programmes decided to force English Common Law rules on the Mexican legal chaos.  It resulted in improvements for everyone, foreign and domestic.

    Not a lot really, really changed, but there were improvements during AMLO's administration. Mexico City is oddly a pleasant place to waste four or five nights…the food, the civility of the people, the massive buildings that stun the senses, the peculiar weather, the views of the snow covered mountains to the east, the mix of red people who cannot speak Spanish, crossing the same 16-lane boulevard with the high-heeled model-looking white woman who speaks Spanish better than a Spaniard, helping the Otomi Indian woman with her plastic bags of merchandise.  The best saloons with decent music and entertainment…if you are willing to stay up until 23:00 hours for the show to begin…and a million other things all conducted at 7,400 fasl.

     These are all things that clash together in my mind and the minds of others who truly understand what is going on here on the Rio Grande Frontier.  We are accused of being 'meskin-hatin' Southern bigots' but one who says such loses the argument in its entirety.   We have many generations studying, living, doing business in the environment of the Frontier and the Republic of Mexico.   My wife has over 15 generations as a lower level titled aristocrat person that defined Spanish / Jewish colonists of what would become that area of north central Mexico and most of Southern Texas.  We know.  We understand.  Leftist Democrats do not. 
     The people coming up from Central America are not "migrants"…they are not "refugees"…they are not "looking for opportunity in America"…save for about 10% or less.  Almost all are dedicated to "anchor baby entry",  and/or cleaving onto a cell already in Trenton, New Jersey where there are opportunities that almost always result in being prostitutes or pawns in shell-games, or where they work for wages that are normally paid in India in some dark hovel in a ghetto of slaves, or where, with luck a 9 year-old girl can get her first big break in the "movies".  

Nancy Pelosi…do you meet Lady MacBeth during your ambles in the stairwells at night in your Castle?   Do the stains of your inequity ever leave you hands….?

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Expansion upon previous remarks…Pocahontas

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     We are reluctant to kick a sleeping dog, but this will be more like scratching the dog's back with the point of my boot…very gently.

     Pocahontas was very distressed when it was learned that Pocahontas was not really Pocahontas.  She pointed out that it was Donald Trump's fault that Pocahontas actually was another person by the name of Karla Marxene, the Queen of Goodness and Light and senior senator from Massachusetts, Home of the Chappaquiddick National Historical Centre.

     We were sincerely affected by Karla's apologetic letter to the verification agency concerning relevance of legitimacy as a Cherokee ancestried person.   Everyone knows that one does not write a letter to Big Chief Crossed Arms advising him that one has decided to tell the Chief, ''…Hello, Chief…I'm just like you because I'm a Cherokee, too!"

     With almost all the extant American Indian nations, there are serious scribes, historians, genealogist, document analysts, attorneys who work on matters of "degree of linkage" of people who have small, medium, or large portions of their bloodline being of American Indian Origin.  
     It is not enough to say, "My folks always told us we we're part Indian."   This could mean one part per one hundred and twenty-eight or 87.5 (7/8ths), or perhaps, nothing at all, quite frankly.  In the South, it has, for certain, been commonly thought that 90% of all White Southerners who could prove colonial presence (…born in country before 1770…) had Indian ancestry to lesser or greater degree.   For those of principally Black African ancestry, people would say, "Sixty per cent of the Black Africans in the South have Indian blood in their veins."
      Those suppositions were commonly held beliefs among Southern people during those times when I was growing up in Texas.

    What is required to establish one's Cherokee or Chickasaw membership and citizenship is a large retainer, and a reasonable account of the ascendency of this or that tribal member in History, and then turning everything over to a committee or tribal secretary and staff who will attempt to draw a straight line of ancestry between the petitioner and the Indian ancestor.
     The retainer can be 1,000 dollars or even up to 3,000 or more dollars, most of which will be used in the research required to verify a line of blood descendancy from a verifiable Tribal ancestor.

      To remind both myself and the noble reader, the DNA sample that Miss Pocahontas submitted to the nice man with the DNA service some months back was processed and did in fact reveal that Pocahontas did have a possible marker for a Native American DNA strain…of less than 2 per cent.  It also pointed out that the indigenous group providing that marker was located in what is now Ecuador, Peru, and/or Chile.
     While Pocahontas was overjoyed with the knowledge, finally, that she was 1 / 2,650th indigenous, possibly, there remains an insurmountable problem.  The problem was and is that she is so stupidly ignorant that she failed to understand that the nice young man at the DNA place was trying to tell her in a nice way that the Indians to whom she might or might not be related had a Polynesian - Southeast Asian origin.
      For  Pocahontas to have been a real, live Injun of the North American sort, she would have had to have Indians of the Mongolian and far East Asian strain of humanity.   The Great Nations, including the Iroquois and the Cherokees and all those scores of significant and cousin tribes and nations come from a completely different ethno-racial bio-schematic.   In short, Pocahontas's DNA test proved that she could not have been "part Indian" in any true American biological sense.

So, we are very sorry,  Pocahontas, or Karla Marxine, you are just a old white woman taking a subsidy you did not deserve and lied to obtain…presenting yourself as a deprived native American who had suffered the abuses and discrimination of The White Majority…when in fact you were part of the leftist stain that is always demanding preferential treatment when none is merited.

EL GRINGO VIEJO

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