Sipsey Street Irregulars: That's it, that's all -- for tonight. Plus, mail report and subscriptions via PayPal.

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

That's it, that's all -- for tonight. Plus, mail report and subscriptions via PayPal.

Well folks, as I count them that's thirteen posts for today, and there are some darn important ones in there, too. Sorry there were no praxis posts today, or the last few days for that matter. This Gunwalker thing is breaking wide open. Between the news and the flood damage abatement, man, am I beat. So, even though I have more stuff, that's it for tonight.

You should know that although I haven't had time for Mail Report posts lately, it now seems to be flowing every other day so we are getting a bit better delivery out of the federal mail readers. God bless those of you who sent some subscription monies with your "test envelopes."

Also, for those of you who have been asking -- a couple of you were demanding, actually -- I now have a PayPal account under the name Mike Vanderboegh, Email address GeorgeMason1776@aol.com, which is convenient because that's my name. (Some folks tried to donate subscriptions under Sipsey Street -- don't do that, it just bounces back.) I don't know how to link it yet to the whole blog/tip jar thing. One day when I have time to figure it out, I'll post it on the right sidebar.

Until then, thanks to all of you for coming back daily and for all your support in whatever form you give it. I am a very blessed individual to have such friends.

Mike
III

9 comments:

Backwoods Engineer said...: Mike,

I know it might be a breach of OPSEC, but all we need to donate via PayPal is the email address you used to sign up for PayPal.

Also, there are a lot of us Sipsey St. Irregulars who would be willing to help you set up a PayPal tipjar link for your blog.

Just ask, good sir. Your contributions to the fight will soon be fiscally rewarded, albeit only a small fraction of what you deserve.; September 7, 2011 at 10:34 PM
Anonymous said...: God bless you, Sipsey Street Irregulars.

Snoop-Diggity-DANG-Dawg; September 7, 2011 at 10:35 PM
Anonymous said...: Paypal is notoriously 2nd Amendment.; September 8, 2011 at 12:08 AM
CharlesVegas said...: Mike, just your name is not enough info to find you on PayPal. Need your email address or get a PayPal button for your blog.

See here

https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donate-intro-outside; September 8, 2011 at 3:23 AM
Dutchman6 said...: Fixed email address above, will do the other stuff later. The Doctor calls.; September 8, 2011 at 7:02 AM
millerized said...: Ain't much, Mike, but all I could afford at the time.

ALL: If you send it marked as a 'gift', Paypal usually doesn't take their 'fee' for use.

Also, go look for Paypal's stance on 2A issues, and you'll find no reference to anything anti-gun.

BUT, they are owned by eBay, and most of us know of eBay's anti-2A cant.

I love sending money for 2A issues through Paypal. It's like using the anti's own car/gas to deliver your arms and ammo to the resistance. Bit of a smirk when I do it.; September 8, 2011 at 8:06 AM
Mickey Collins said...: Subscribe v donate v gift:

Subscribe implies that Mike is offering a service for pay, in other words, engaging in a business, in other words, taxable income (but he can deduct internet expenses, story related travel, and home office depreciation if he chooses)

Donate implies that Mike is falsely holding himself out as a charitable institution. I've never seen Mike use the word donate and we shouldn't do it either.

Gift: Anything you choose to give to somebody else is none of the government's business, unless an individual gives more than $13,000 to another individual, or a married couple gives more than $26k to an individual, or a married couple gives more than $52k to another couple in a calendar year. I suggest it's easiest if we refer to anything we give Mike of our own free will as gifts.; September 8, 2011 at 8:46 AM
Mickey Collins said...: "Paypal is notoriously 2nd Amendment."

You left out the word 'Anti'. Their acts of discrimination against firearm related businesses are legendary. It's also possible that they will freeze Mike's account just for fun.

Mike, you should transfer your Paypal balance to your linked bank account, and from your linked bank account to another bank account, on a daily or as frequently as possible basis. In other words, don't leave a substantial amount of money laying around in a paypal account or a bank account that paypal has access to.; September 8, 2011 at 8:50 AM
Anonymous said...: I do not know if this has been brought up before. I have been following since March, but I have never posted before, nor have I read any of the posts. PayPal is a decidedly anti-gun company. They make no bones about it, nor do they hide it. You need to find another way to accept donations, because out of every donation that is made, 2.5% or so is going towards an anti-gun company. Think about it.; September 9, 2011 at 9:00 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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