Sipsey Street Irregulars: Picking up after the "Insta-lanche"

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Picking up after the "Insta-lanche"

This is an avalanche.

THIS is an "Insta-lanche."

6,176 hits yesterday. Phew. My average these days is about 1,500 or so, so you can see why they call it an "Insta-lanche." What happened? Well, Glenn Reynolds of Pajamas Media/Instapundit linked to my piece on GOP sellouts in re Holder and Steele. It just goes to show you that with a gruesome picture of the hanging corpse of a rogue circus elephant, all things are possible. A H/T to the Bitter/Sebastian NRA Tag Team of Verbal Wrestlers for getting me motivated on THAT.

As Frank Zappa famously said --

Do you love it?
Do you hate it?
There it is.
The way you made it.

From "Who are the Brain Police?", 1965.

You will also notice a bump back on Friday of 3,700 hits. (The dates on the graph are mis-labeled. What can I say? It comes from California.) That happened because John Rawles' Survival Blog linked to my piece on "Guerrilla Scavenging as an Art Form."

And the dumpster divers linked to me from Rawles. I'm getting hits from the dumpster divers' blogs now.

So welcome to all you Instapundits, survivalists and dumpster divers. Hope some of you stick around to join in the fray.

And thanks again to Bitter and Sebastian at Snowflakes in Hell. Great work, guys. Great, great work. I shall channel you again for my dark muse in the future.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...: Congrats!

What will you do with your new-found nefarious and widespread influence?

I say organize a nationwide "gun show loophole" day - just provide a counter to record millions of arms, receivers and parts sold and transferred without paperwork for the express purpose of confounding those 'in power'.

Its still legal and would be a great protest; February 3, 2009 at 10:16 AM
Anonymous said...: Hmmm... if everyone privately sold one "papered" firearm on that day, that'd put a hiccup in the list, wouldn't it.

After that the phama industry might name you "Salesman of the Year", like the gun industry did The One.; February 3, 2009 at 12:34 PM
Dakota said...: Congrats, amazing how things can "snowball".; February 3, 2009 at 4:51 PM
Anonymous said...: "And thanks again to Bitter and Sebastian at Snowflakes in Hell. Great work, guys. Great, great work. I shall channel you again for my dark muse in the future."

And now we know why you link to them :); February 3, 2009 at 6:40 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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