A Social / Cultural / Historical Review and the Probable Future of Texas

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These are interesting, even if treacherous, times. Two or
 three dynamics converge to reasonably visit concern
about the assaults that might well be underway against
 the American Union.
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     We look over the pandemic that has beset us, not the one about the Martian Flu that the Red Chinese ghouls worked on over in the fable'd Wuhan Institute of Virology, but something that might be related, but less noticed.

      During the past several months, the European, Japanese, and American economic engines have been impacted by medical and social problems emanating from Red China.   For a period of about four…perhaps three and a fraction of years…in an isolated district (if anything in Red China can be isolated any longer) known as Jiangxi there are two communities, Wuhan and Huba, where substantial agricultural and chemical research is conducted.   While it was considered to be something of a glorified advanced research complex designed to help feed the 1,500,000,000 Chinese  populace (one hundred and fifty billion human beings), something else seemed to persistently whisper…"This province is a factory for death…please go away".

      It is very difficult for many humans to comprehend the social and cultural patterns that can be encountered in various parts of the world.    One could review the writings of a fellow by the name of David Southerly who did considerable study and analysis of the impact of Mao upon China, published in 1994.  It points out that perhaps the most peculiar of all governments is that of the Red Chinese government and the forever haunting image of Mao tse tung, the father of democracy with no freedom.   It is probable that Chairman Mao, during his time of service to the people of Red China, caused the extinguishment of over thirty or forty million humans lives…or quite possibly more…many more.   Some studied and reasonable estimates have reached beyond 100, 000, 000 (one-hundred million souls).

     To be sure, many reliable analysts have reasonably placed the direct and precise numbers of humans liquidated, murdered, executed, tortured to death, etc. by the order of Mao, as noted above. It could well have measured well beyond 100,000,000 souls.   Essentially, Mao was as warped and vicious as any self-indulgent tyrant.  He was committed to literally scores of cultural cleansing efforts as irrational as our "Curse of the Global Warmingcooling" asininity that our Euro and American elitist marxist "climate experts"strut about …and warning the unwashed about the End of Times just around the corner. 

     One can point out that at least the Global Warmingcooling nuts are not as destructive and perverse as was Chairman Mao.  They are simply trying to install themselves into the worldwide driver's seat so as to control what people will do in terms of eating, sleeping, social organisation, the colour of traffic signals at intersections, the prohibition of requiring people to associate pink with girls and blue for boys, calorie counting for disadvantaged roller skaters, and all that important stuff.

      The shambles left by Chairman Mao, after many "Great Leaps Forward" has brought Red China to that point that it has a remarkable military that could possibly put together several great reviews of hundreds of thousands of smartly uniformed military people, marching and mixing along with a few hundred tanks, and trucks pulling hundreds of missiles "capable of reaching America and the Sun"in important patios in Peking.   The control group in Peking frequently reminds the people of Planet Earth that Peking can also menace the nation of India, Nepal, and several other much smaller adjacent countries that don't count anyway.   Peking will use them finally to clean toilets for the Poobahs, and to provide blood and human organ transplants and corporal members when Poobahs and/or their children and mistresses lose an arm or leg or lung or something.

      The Red Chinese engine of horrors can buy the allegiance of American and other capitalists who seem to like to hang around with marxist and degenerate "revolutionary liberators",  but their true nature is such that they are actually afraid of taking on entities such as Hong Kong, Taipei, even Viet Nam, and  a score of other entities that cloud the disorder of the highly ordered and controlled nation known as the "Peoples' Republic".   The diplomatic / military forte' of the Red Chinese is the continuous spying and infiltration of places near and far in relation to the Chinese psychotic addiction to the desire to infiltrate, subvert, ruin,  and compromise other cultures and systems.

    It boils down to the proverbial contest between good and evil.   Granted…the Gringos are not "all goody-goody, religious, and pure" but the Red Chinese "uppers" and leadership group that controls their 1,400,000,000 people have no souls.   The compulsion to control and subvert the round-eyes and other lower-level forms of humanity is the main reason for living as far as the Red Chinese control group is concerned.

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     There was a time when this observer thought that the Republic of Texas could become something so legendary that it would be able to endure until the exhaustion of the Sun.  Such notions start in the minds of people who receive their first lessons about reality from the Tooth Faerie and El Zorro.   Sorry, Santa Claus is too religious to mention, and we fear that such a thing as a religious measure has become too dangerous to bring into the public arena.  But, here we are, having to recognise that the intestinal fortitude of the Texian population now has to support a population that has become "more realistic", and drawn from areas that have turned into Hell Holes.

     Several hundreds of thousands…becoming millions…have transferred to the Lone State State for various reasons…mostly because it is cheaper than than hanging around in New York or California.  Massive numbers of people from Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador and roughly 223 other important nations have directed their populations to go to Texas and the United States so as to help the American People.  We have long since reaped the harvest of people who have moved into Texas and then begin to point out what is needed in order to bring Texas up to "Standards".   We have recently been "Ocasio'd " by Her Majesty when she came to the Border to express "solidarity" with the "prisoner children" who had been detained in cages after being chained to the inside of said cages.

Ilan Abdul Ahi Omar

Congresswoman for
Minneapolis, Minnesota
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     Of course, she and her herd of commie cows and ignorant know-it-alls were unaware at that time that the children had been detained long before and under the orders of the god-force Father Saint Obamaham.   Said saint, who lives now near the precincts of the Kopechne Bridge in a land known as Massachusetts, is writing about the further details about how many joints he smoked when he was of some age or  another.

   Rumours concerning  Omar (the Angel of Revenge), and a re-elected Democrat Congresswoman from a district where several score of my forbearers are buried in downtown Minneapolis, lamentably are all true.  Such a strange metamorphosis, one could think, when a communist,  nihilist, Islamite, atheist, anti-American strike force radical, culture-destroying psychopath  can barge into a Nation as generous as the United States, and immediately set about to destroy everything that made life worth living. Things change. Times change. But insanity, arrogance, and proud stupidity seems to prosper when one considers the banality of the Ocasios and the Ilan Abdul Ahi Omar League of mental and social degenerates.

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AS AN INTERESTING ASIDE:

THIS IS THE WASHBURN EXPLOSION
 MONUMENT.  SEVERAL SCORE KILLED
 AND INJURED BACK IN MAY OF 1878.
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   It was in 1878 when the Washburn - Christian Mills milling explosion occurred.  It was said that the echoes and reverberations down the Mississippi River endure forever.   A great-grand uncle, Charles Christian,  was the manager of  what was then the largest flour grinding operation in America.   The Washburn side of the ownership was mainly political, as demonstrated by the fact that Mr. Washburn, the majority owner of the operation, had been elected Governor of Wisconsin a couple of times before changing his path to become a magnate of industry.   He was successful in both endeavours, in spite of the disaster that literally tore the innards out of the industrial sector of Minneapolis in 1878.

  My great-grand Uncle, John Christian, was a partner in the business, and the "man on the ground" because he was the day-to-day administrator of the huge flour milling operation.

     At that time the idea that grinding seeds into 

powder-like flour could become literally an explosive problem.  Until that point, folks who were using advanced processing equipment had experienced the sudden flaming of freshly ground flour when the grinding gears overheated due to lack of hub-lubrication.

     The Washburn event, however, was due to a spontaneously free-floating powder of a very fine grade…which, when static electricity moved through a certain density of powder that floated almost undetected in the atmosphere inside the "Washburn A"  milling factory,  and when very low relative humidity ruled the moment…an explosion of absolute catastrophic  effect could…and did...occur.   Almost immediately the Washburn - Christian people set about building everything up bigger and better.   Within a calendar year the overhaul and reconstruction were accomplished.

     Poobahs throughout the industrial bases of the United States howled about defective planning, lack of concern for the poor workers, the uncaring nature of the big operators and so forth until two Minnesota University scientists, one named Peckham, the other Peck took up the challenge of solving the explosive characteristics of flour powder.   These men performed exhaustive research and testing and concurred with my great-grand uncle John Christian.   The new factory would have forced air ventilation!!

     Finally, we need to point out that there were various metamorphosises as the years went by.  The Washburn organisation steadily recovered, and then began to disperse finally in the northern parts of Illinois, adopting the name of General Mills, while the Christian people moved into banking and real estate operations, generally remaining in and around the original "Minnesota" venues.   And now we return to that which is at hand….

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   Alexandria Ocasio made a fool of herself that time (again) in front of the cameras, so she went back to New York City with her covey of imbeciles and declared her new victory.  It will be years before the city crews will be able to sweep up and tidy the Rue de Broadway because of the hundreds of millions of rose-throwing, cry-for-happy trans, women, unpersons, leftists, foodstamp poisoning recovery patients, volunteer shoplifters, and people who like to wrap their headscarfs so tightly that their senses fail (something called nirvana).

     We shall close this commentary by reminding myself that Biden and Clamella have no idea what should be done, what is being done, what ought not to be done, what planet they are on and such matters.   The Republic is in serious danger due to pervasive lack of interest on the part of the vox populi,  an unwillingness of the Big Operators to wean themselves from the opiate of Red Chinese Communist thugs who see Americans as a supply of replacement organs for the Upper Commies and their children and mistresses.

     It becomes necessary by the hour and minute to refresh our relations with the smaller nations in the Far East, and to re-awaken the old-line reliant souls…New Zealand, Australia, and the like.  The other small island nations and the Japanese must guard us and our friends, as we do the same in return in order to defend ourselves from the maniacal nations such as North Korea and the PRoC and the ghouls who are addicted to their addictions and who deal in the morbidity of The Poison Trip (chemical addictions)…now compromising almost one in every ten humans aged 13 or more...who live upon the Planet Earth.

More Later.

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Can Camalalala Pull the Hat Out of the Rabbit???

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         We wrote several pages of commentary about the Vice-President and the President and suddenly there was a clickityclik and a black screen.  We are waiting to see if there will be another such event…I put in over 10 hours on the other posting that…simply evaporated before my face.   Perhaps that (my face) was the problem, so I am using sunglasses no so as to not scare the computer and its screen.

     We do have enough edginess to justify a bit of psychotic withdrawal syndrome and a couple of nightmares after seeing a sudden screening of Maxine Waters and/or (Sir Edmund) Hillary Rodham faces suddenly flashing on the television screen.  That was the accidental "return to service" when my television decided to join the Electric Age again.

      My overly acerbic rant about Kamela going to Guatemala and Mexico was snide and childish, but it was really funny.  At least we had the opportunity to see Kampala-la-la exit her Air Force 2's Air Force 2 (after the first Air Force 2 developed in-flight hiccups and had to return to somewhere near Washington, DC to pick up another Air Force 2 that replaced the Air Force 2 that could not continue to a destination that did not matter to neither host nor visitant, anyway.

Kamalalala in better times
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       The best part of that event was when Camela stepped out with her black mouth-mask when there was a simultaneous blast of tropic wind that blew Kampala's black hair over her face, complementing the black mask.   As she descended she either was unaware that she was blind or she thought there was something wrong with her contacts or whatever, but her face remained totally covered by her hair and mask during the entire descent.   It was a pleasantly degrading and somewhat humiliating "entrance enchante'" by her highness.

     I spared everyone by forgoing the nearly eight-page bomb I was going to drop early this morning.  This was mainly because I could not figure out how to restore the text after the almost insignificant break in the flow of electricity…much less than a second.   It was weird, and only one person mentioned anything about it on the radio this morning.   It apparently did not affect but very few terminals….perhaps only mine and five or six others.

     And the answer to the question in the title above….???   The answer is no.

EL GRINGO VIEJO

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Drifting Without a Direction...

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            We have been wandering about inside the well-worn cranium during the past 72 hours or so, contemplating all nature of things past, present, and future.   At 03:00 hours  on a Tuesday in May after a couple of four inch cloudbursts in the span of five days, one can at least say that there has been a bit of excitement here on the Texas / Mexico Frontier.

     At this point in my life, it has become a bit burdensome to entertain a daily cascade of misery, iniquity, violence, avarice, and the steady decline of normalcy and decency.  It amazes this particular writer how deeply mired the Democrat Party has become mired in the worst forms of graft, hubris, arrogance, stupidity, and all nature of avarice.

     It amazes this particular observer of the American scene of the moment, that a woman such as Nancy D'Alesandro Pelosi could achieve such position considering her many shortcomings.   One of my favourite marks of the stupidity and lack of tact and intelligence of her less than royal highness is when she held an apparent impromptu news conference on the sidewalk outside of the Vatican.   She responded to a question from a dunce reporter about some point of Papal thinking, to which she declared,"The Pope is not well-informed about whether abortion is against church rules or not." (or something very close to this revelation by Her Highness)

     This individual, with her flurried hand and forearm jiggle-jaggle flapping while she searches through the cockroaches of her brain for "just the right word", gives a reasonable observer the sense that she is…in the Southern lexicon, "tetched" (to Yankees and other normal people, "tetched" is a Southern word which means "touched inside the head, and not in a good way").   As an Episcopalian of various generations, married to a girl for the last 50 years who is a good Episcopalian, and still at home with the Romans with about 700 years of Roman Catholic inculcation…we both almost "splooted" all our oatmeal through our noses when Her Highness reminded the gathered gaggle of reporters outside the Vatican that "… the Pope is not the final authority about these matters."

     And she is still here.  Almost daily she can roll out the most pitiful halting form of speech and blather, while her eyes dart from here to there…as if looking at spectres who are transcribing her lies.  The entire cadre of Pelosi and her posse of dolts are truly something to behold.  Thankfully, my guys and gals are by-in-large, dull and boring and correct and careful, almost always mostly to totally accurate in their pronouncements.   BUT….Whenever an Elephant misspeaks, however small the insult, ABCCBSNBCPBSETC calls for the lynch mob.

Stacey and Nancy

Sisters in the Fight for Equality and
Justice for all who just want it "free"
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   One of my favourites (pictured left)  is the woman, apparently of Georgia...Stacey Yvonne Abrams, who is postulating for Governor of said State.   She is but one of many doltish Democrat Socialist dolts, feted and honoured, esteemed and lauded, awarded and admired by all, more or less, and for whatever!!!   Especially, whatever.

      She is especially admired with her ever increasing dirty novels (numbering eight in circulation at this point) that she writes up while saving the masses from the GKOKPK.

       Miss Stacey is famous for being famous, and for always siding with those who want something for no cost to themselves.   She fully intends to run for and win the Gubernatorial race in Georgia this next time around.  Odds are about even in this matter.   Miss Nancy fully intends to run for Grand Wizard of America and San Francisco's Wonderland of befouled sidewalks and public places ruined by "Democrats for Drugs and Sidewalks" (a new Democrat PAC).

     We wonder if Miss Nancy can come up with a person to blame for the sidewalk messes in San Francisco, or if she can keep finding a place in her fancy precincts where she does not have to take serious care of where her next step might be. (WE REGRET THAT OUR 'MINDERS' HAVE DETERMINED THAT AN IMAGE or IMAGES THAT WE WERE ANTICIPATING USING TO SHOW THE DEPRAVITY AND HORRORS OF URBAN PARTS OF THE CENTRAL CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO WERE EDITTED OUT. 

       SAN FRANCISCO IS ONE OF THOSE PLACES WHERE VISITORS CAN BE ADVISED TO WATCH THEIR STEP WHEN WALKING ABOUT IN DOWNTOWN AND OTHER NEARBY PLACES.  IT IS, IN THE VERNACULAR OF MANY SOUTHERNERS AND TEXIANS REFERRED TO AS …"…IT COULD PUKE A BUZZARD OFF'N A GUT WAGON.)

       It seems so strange that all these little no-where places in the USA…in Texas…one can drive in and find civil, understated (or overstated) living situations…predictable sanitation…still a near certainty of security…still a nice home and shopping and dining set of alternatives.   Almost everywhere Miss Nancy or Miss Stacey or Miss Maxine seem to go, there are people who feel like they need to go somewhere where those three girls are absent.

REPRESENTATIVE 

MAXINE WATERS

  Child psychologists might recommend to parents

 that a quick flick of this photo will instantly

 bring a child to good order.

   Some children might require several weeks,

 or months, or years of deep therapy,

 however, in many cases.

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     We mix washes of depression and sour humour concerning this matter of watching the ruin of one of America's beauty marks for 100 years or so.  "I left my heart in San Francisco"…as the song said at one time.

  And now we have Miss Nancy and that horrid hag Maxine Waters who actually shrieks to her minions to destroy, damage, and hurt people. Her BLM lackeys (most of whom are Caucasian) love to try to intimidate people who are being comfortable and enjoying a moment in public settings…a civil saloon, a nice restaurant.  Maxine is a wizard in the art of unleashing her BLMs mobs on unsuspecting folks trying to relax whenever she can fit it into her schedule.

     We have been given to understand that Maxine may be going to have some financial conflicts and other problems involving improprieties, although these rumours and rumours of rumours seem to remain, to this point, just rumours.

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The American Military - A Communist Front Organisation?

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     This should be a happily brief note to the OROG community and the other followers who seem to be bunched up in the northeastern part of the United States and western Europe, and to some extent in Japan and South Korea.  Odd.  Perhaps I should send some advisories to Australia and and New Zealand about our radical policies.

     We have been increasingly concerned about the new head of the Department of Defense, a fellow by the name of General Lloyd T. Austin III, recently confirmed to his office after being named by President Biden.   Normally, these matters come and go…perfunctory things that require procedure and process.

Lt. Gen. (retired) Lloyd T. Austin, III

Secretary of Defence 

United States of America

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     This time, however, we have had that unwanted unease that suggests something is amiss.  It is sort of a cat's intuition when there has been no sound…or a dog, asleep, suddenly opens his eyes, but does not move…as he sniffs something that interrupted his sleep.  The brief advisory to Lieutenant General (retired) Lloyd T. Austin, III by the President and his people was a classic demonstration of how a hand and a glove can fit so well at the first fitting.

    To wit:   The following paragraph can provide some guidance to the things to come from the Department of Defense.   For so long as imbeciles such as the present holder of the Office of the Presidency of the United States of America and  his cadre hold sway in of the rudder of the Ship of State, we must expect the worst in our construct, deployment, and application of our military.

Main article: Stand-Down to Address Extremism in the Ranks

Shaken by concerns of possible right-wing radicalism among the troops, incoming Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on February 5th announced that every single unit of the United States military; Active, Reserve, and Guard would be required to stand down within the next 60 days in order to conduct sensitivity training. The training will last at least one day and will be focused around discussions including the importance of the oath of office; a description of impermissible behaviors; and procedures for reporting suspected, or actual, extremist behaviors.^{[67][68][69][70][71][72}

     We are not actually stretching a point, because there are several analysts, observer, and interested parties mixed up into this matter.   Your humble servant tends to minimise but not ignore a peculiar characteristic about the good General's service.   To be sure, on the surface, the General is a man of almost constant service up until a few years ago.  In a way, his image is made bright and positive because of that length of service and the attaining of the rank of Lt. General…which is about as high as a soldier can go.

     There were very, very few who ever attained the rank of five-star general.  My recollection calls out this group for muster:

     (1)  General Henry H. Arnold       

     (2)  General Omar Bradley

     (3)  General Dwight David Eisenhower

     (4)  Admiral William Halsey, Jr.

     (5)  Admiral Ernest King

     (6)  Admiral William Leahy

     (7)  General Douglas MacAurthur

    (8)  General George Marshall

     (9)   Admiral Chester Nimitz  

     Three men were endowed with honourable five-star status based upon their 

service before the rank had been recognised or even proposed.  They are:

     (a)  Admiral George Dewey

     (b)  General George (Black Jack) Patton

     (c)   General George Washington

     My sense is very much that the Good General (retired) Lloyd T. Austin will be at the ready to assure that all left-handed albatrosses who wear ballet outfits when they are pregnant will be given adequate lectures about not discussing any positive material concerning Robert Edward Lee, and that homosexual, reverse re-transgendered bionogribsticklers are given first positions in the lo-cal, non-fattening, dietetically correct cellophane December Holidays turkey-vinyl, food-like substance celebration.   Remember…no names or assignment of purpose for "Holidays" of any kind.

     The idea of having a celebration with holes punched in it should be repugnant to all.

     We are in for a ride, folks.

EL GRINGO VIEJO…

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The Roaches Run when the lights are turned on…suddenly...

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    We watch from our somewhat removed area in the bleachers, seeing all manner of things that are good and things that are bad.   As one travels to the destination ahead, it seems clear that good has has been diminished and ill has been allowed to flourish.

     We have gained much comfort.   But I remember well that we were very comfortable at one time when we lived in a rambling house in the country that had electricity.  And since natural gas was available in abundance, although it cost $1.79 per month to use, we could cook without a second thought.   Electricity was a different matter.   Sometimes they wanted $5.53 per month…just because we had electric lamps, and a fridge…and a radio or two…it was all so complicated.

      For the eons of time that your humble observer has been a humble observer, we have taken note that each great technological leap ahead, matters have become a bit more complicated and expensive with each leap.   With each leap to greater pleasure the miseries intensified for some reason.  A song written by boy born of Russian immigrants, steeped in Jewish tradition,  seems to sum it up for me at times…"I Got Plenty of Nuthin' "…from Porgy and Bess…a Negro Anthem.   But that was yesterday…and yesterday is really gone.

     Jews, Russians, Negroes…it must be purely an American thing…it was certainly a masterpiece in the Arts…and to think that George Gershwin died at the age of 38 of a brain tumour, a couple of years after the brilliant "Porgy and Bess" presentation.  But I digress…

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     During the period that marked the changed from a Trump administration to a George Soros administration most of the American populace took a ho - hum attitude and continued on their appointed rounds.   There was some jubilation when Dopey gained the presidency   and there was lamentation among those who followed the enigmatic orange-haired phenomena known as Mr. Orangehair.

    During the last campaign the oppressors, who have have strived for generations to develop a multitudinous mass of dullards and shysters combining forces.  There have been previous versions and attempts foisted upon the electorate and we continue lurching into the theatre of what we call "elections" but now with greater mendacity and ardour. 

Alexandra Ocasio Cortez
She is proof that there are people who are
 absolutely clueless but believe they know
 everything over the sun. 
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           The fact of the matter is, there are a lot of people who do not have the intellectual armament to vote in any intelligent manner. There are literally millions of people throughout the United States who are voting who could not identify the difference between a Supreme Court and a parking meter no matter how much they have been bribed.

       We have been assuming for the past several years that people with college educations are educated and are qualified to attempt to discern the difference between an apple core, an appendectomy, and a dichotomy. It's still a bad assumption.

While all Uighurs
don't look like this, many do.
  There are many tribal people still who
 are attractive, intelligent, and independent
with an array of colours and raiment.  There
are perhaps 20,000,000 mainly  in western
 China.
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  But folks working with their hands and brains without stopping in between to read modern educational tomes are probably better off in many ways.  Traditionalists tend to remain traditionalists as one might imagine…but unfortunately, those folks will not be around after the next four or five generations.  The Sons of Chairman Mao will lead them off to the plantations of the Uighurs.   George Soros might still be alive in that future time then, prolonging his life by the consuming of various livers and hearts of volunteers like Uighurs and Australians and Americans and others, while governing from the 5th moon of Saturn while he counts his lucre, and feeds on stardust for dessert.

Recently "released" detainees detained
without warrant by Red Chinese authority.
It helps this writer to allow the readers to
see how heterogenous these Uighurs are.
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     While the above comments and observations might border on the frontier of Fantasyland, we are facing a cadre of people dedicated  to the proposition of controlling everyone else's lives.   To that mass of people…the ultra-leftists…the consumptive totalitarians…there is no greater mission than to line up all  the little people and make them do precisely what is ordered at every corner and on every page and at each command.   The fellows above-pictured pertain to a group that the central Red Chinese governing cadre had under their control and detention, until having been liberated by "extracurricular elements among the Uighur citizenry".

     It should be pointed out that various nations bordering and/or close by those areas having Uighurs, tend to accommodate folks looking for a way out of China.   One must understand that in western China there is almost constant harassment being served up by Red Chinese military and constabulary.  As a little fluff on the icing, we like to point out to folks a quirky thing about the Uighurs in western China concerning the architecture of the holy places where services are held.

     What your humble servant wishes to point out is how similar the little "Mohammedan Church" looks like a little downtown "Anglican  Church".  Actually, it could have passed for a Methodist or Baptist church…or even a Synagogue.   Images such as the above chapel remind the writer that the Koran has more references to the Nazarene than to the founding force of the the Islamic religion, Mohammed.   If they had their Stars of David (Saturdays), Crucifixes (Sundays), and (Fridays) Holy Crescents…the clerics could roll their eyes and send the sextants up to change the symbols as per the day of the week.  Think of the efficiencies and savings and increase in attendance by the faithful…not to mention tourists who could choose their visit so as to take advantage of this or that religious and/or cultural event taking place that particular day or days, depending upon one's flight arrival or departure time.

     And yes, Virginia, your writer is making a sour and silly comment in the above paragraph, but when one ponders the possibility, perhaps it would be a good idea after all.  Anything that would confound or cause consternation among the Communist Chinese apparatchniks would be appreciated in these precincts.   Below, please find words that might adequately orient the reader concerning what meaning the word "apparatchik" or (for Russians) "apparatchnik".

 

Synonyms & Antonyms of apparatchik

• camp follower
• flunky
• (also flunkey or flunkie),
• hanger-on
• henchman
• lackey
• lickspittle
• minion

We are being called to a higher calling at these moments.  Perhaps during the the afternoon we can continue our stream of doubt, conclusions, and observations.  Please check in to-morrow.

EL GRINGO VIEJO

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The Mire Being Fomented by the Agents of Anarchy

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     There is advantage and disadvantage to being a geezer.  On the one hand, time has run out and the geezer will be gone sooner than later.   And, on the other hand, if the geezer is still somewhat in control of his or her faculties, considerable understanding can be enjoyed by the geezer simply because of years of learning and experience.

     The ancient petition of the following words;

Almighty Father, Grant unto to me the serenity to accept the things I  cannot change, the Courage to change what things must be changed, and further, Grant me the Wisdom to know the difference, one from the other.

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(THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE IS LAMENTABLE GIBBERISH.

PLEASE CONTINUE WITH A WRY SMILE. )

Arctic warming and diminishing sea ice are influencing the atmosphere

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The researchers of the Institute for Atmospheric and Earth system research at the University of Helsinki have investigated how atmospheric particles are formed in the Arctic. Until recent studies, the molecular processes of particle formation in the high Arctic remained a mystery.

During their expeditions to the Arctic, the scientists collected measurements for 12 months in total. The results of the extensive research project were recently published in Geophysical Research Letters.

The researchers discovered that atmospheric vapors, particles, and cloud formation have clear differences within various Arctic environments. The study clarifies how Arctic warming and sea ice loss strengthens processes where different vapors are emitted to the atmosphere. The thinning of sea ice enables more iodine emissions while broader open waters enable more emissions of sulfur-containing vapors.

Higher concentrations of vapors result in a higher amount of particles. This on the other hand will lead to more clouds, which can—depending on the season and location—either slow down or accelerate the Arctic warming. Detailed knowledge of these processes is crucial in order to understand the consequences of global warming.

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     It struck me that this announcement…certainly a clarion harbinger of  bamboozleglubflap,  which always announces the interception of inversion seasons from tropical to treadle Singer Sewing machines and back to cuckoo clocks…is solar powered, of course.

    Soros Universal and the Free Democratic Communist Red China are making the offer at this time to allow you to send an organ for transplant to the Red Chinese oligarch of your choice, and you can do this for only $999.99 (am. cur.) per organ.   In order to make this offer possible, it is required that the donor use an organ of his/her own body or of the body of one of your offspring, preferably under the age of 13. 

     The campaign is known as "Organs Across the Pacific".  Now back to Helsinki Institute for Atmospheric and Earth system research?

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     We return to other events and considerations that happen to be wandering in the recesses of what little is left of my poor old debilitated brain.   Thanks for staying in!!

     Let us now travel to Hennepin County, Minnesota.  Minneapolis…the life's blood of a significant portion of America's geography and industrial output.   My family, in the ancient times, moved among the shakers and doers, dealing in considerable development of industrial production and huge efforts to produce millions of tonnes of wheat and other grains in what should have been nearly impossible weather characteristics.   To be short, they were part of the Washburn - Christian Mills which over the years gradually became a company now known as General Mills.

This is the monument that
commemorates the Washburn
Mills Explosion of
 2 May 1878 -
Sunset Cemetery and Grounds
Minneapolis, Minnesota
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    The Washburn folks, along with the Christians, decided at one time to establish a special place for employees of the Washburn - Christian Mills where folks could bury their departed.   A special section was also set aside in the elegant and manicured cemetery for the poobahs and socially elevated types associated with Washburn - Christian Mills in the beginning and continuing ahead for many years.  To make a long story longer, many of my people who emigrated into the United States from Britain during what was then the colonial period moved through Massachusetts and New York and other places as they obtained considerable wealth and position in their industrial and agricultural pursuits.

     My great-grandfather Peter Bonesteel Christian and my grandmother are interred in the aforementioned cemetery which to-day is essentially menaced by the despicable decay and social malaise that is the city of Minneapolis.   The elder Christian was interred there in the late 1920s and his daughter (my grandmother) followed in the mid-1930s.   I never had the chance to see or know them.

     My father took his mother up to her family people in Minneapolis,  riding in baggage all the way up, and in compartment back down…a matter of about one week, according to his remembrance.   He was given an opulent apartment above a five car garage within the confines of a very large mansion and formal grounds.   He met with none of his family, only servants, and a servant took him to the train when the time arrived to head back to southernmost Texas.  

    My soul suffers from knowing that good and great people managed to prosper and establish legacies in the area of Hennepin County, Minnesota and the entire State of Minnesota.   Even though the family of my grandmother had little or no use for my father or anything associated with "…the  people down there…", I can still lament that a fascinating and complex State in the American Union has been steadily reduced during the past three to five years to a declining, atrophying and increasingly pointless political subdivision.

The best bet for New Age and Marxist engineers, building
 another, final perfect society and culture.  I mean, like
 who cares if the toilets don't flush and the traffic lights
 don't function, etc.?

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     The events during the last few weeks point clearly to a group of people who have no concern about truth, honesty, self-respect, self-reliance…it has become a cultural quagmire.  As in the case of New York, and Washington, and Washington, D.C. , and Portland, and etc. etc. etc. the Duchies fall, collapsing on their own weight and degeneracy, their socialism and ridiculous efforts at establishing Nirvana through marxism and graft.

     One watches and listens to the four imbecilic women who pontificate and blame and bleat and blather without end about the shortcomings of the United States…AOC, for instance, has never spoken a truthful or coherent paragraph, to my knowledge, ever.   She and her cadre, and the Biden / Camela team, along with the entire gaggle of third-string - playlike marxists who form the Cabinet put in place by Uncle Joe can easily take up residence in any nice psychiatric facility out in the country…and end their days reforming their anthills and beehives according to their likings.   Perhaps Uncle Joe could possibly give us some accounting concerning how much Red Chinese lucre his son kicked "upstairs" to dear old dad.   But we must move on. 

 https://youtu.be/RjsLm5PCdVQ?t=138 

Greta Thunberg
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     Now comes this pitifully deranged child, Greta Thunberg, who has been foisted into the consciousness of the masses…with her soliloquy of absurdity that seems to come out with some form of socialist blather stating something like…"THIS TIME there really will be global warming and cooling, and floods and droughts, and everything; and you old geezers have forced us to suffer all the time and everything…and  you geezers made it happen so as to kill all the children and right thinking people…and the proof is the fact that all of America was inundated once because all the water went away and now its coming back again and you old people killed everybody all the time."

   It's almost enough for us to start up a full time broadside publication again, like the years past.   Back then, of course, I had the OROGs who would  forward ideas and commentary…OROG being an anagram for Order of Readers of the Old Gringo.   All who were and/or are members of the OROG, you hereby remain members in good standing in perpetuity!!

      Please forgive my somewhat less than precise depiction of Thunberg's arrogant, insipid, pointless, and mendacious monologues. Her  particular excesses are products of her own, and of her handlers.

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    My excesses are a form of sad humour, that essentially bilge out until the saloon closes, and the lights go out.   Some of my grumpiness is due to the very recent loss of one of my three remaining "Best Buds". I shall be somewhat recovered in the coming days, and I appreciate the patience of our membership.     There will be more to come concerning this topic in the next few weeks.

Oh!!  And, I have no handlers.

El GRINGO VIEJO

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