Sipsey Street Irregulars: Editor's Note. Correction and apology.

Saturday, October 8, 2011

Editor's Note. Correction and apology.

In the story below entitled "What a day. Eric Holder promoted to Field Marshal and ordered to hold Stalingrad at all costs." we made a grievous error in the illustration. We originally posted this untitled image:

This is an image of Wehrmacht Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus, assigned by Adolf Hitler to defend Stalingrad to the last man. We posted this in error. This was the image that was supposed to have been posted:

This is Attorney General Field Marshal Eric Holder, assigned by Barack Obama to defend the DOJ kessel of the Gunwalker Plot Cover-up to the last man.

The incorrect image has now been replaced by the correct image in the original story. We regret the error and the persons responsible have been sacked.

10 comments:

rexxhead said...: Moose bites can be nasti...; October 8, 2011 at 11:29 AM
drjim said...: Good one, Mike!; October 8, 2011 at 12:19 PM
Bob said...: I smell a Python in the woodpile...; October 8, 2011 at 1:00 PM
Anonymous said...: "Guderian described him as ‘brilliantly clever, conscientious, hard working, original and talented’ but already had doubts about his decisiveness, toughness and lack of command experience." -- Wikipedia

"I have no intention of shooting myself for this Bohemian private". -- von Paulus

The comparison of two leaders Hitler and Obama, more than willing to throw their subordinates under the bus when it becomes expedient hits the mark. But any further comparison of Holder to von Paulus, who as far as we know was a dedicated, concientious and honorable German Army field commander, does von Paulus a disservice.; October 8, 2011 at 2:33 PM
Son of Sam Adams said...: Correction: that's Erich von Holder. member of the Herrenvolk.; October 8, 2011 at 2:44 PM
Anonymous said...: Did 'herr holder' ever serve in any branch of the military (of any country)? If not - how dare he wear any military decoration.......

Of course he may just be the first field marshall of the civilian defense force that barry keeps saying he wants.; October 8, 2011 at 3:38 PM
Semper Fi said...: Liberals NEVER serve in the military! They have a YELLOW streak ,down their backs! I am a former Marine, Vietnam , infantry, veteran {Khe Sahn Hill Fights ,881, 1967}. We can spot a coward and they are usually progressives/liberals/communists, like we have running our government today! Semper Fi and God Bless America; October 8, 2011 at 6:27 PM
Jimmy the Saint said...: @Anonymous: "But any further comparison of Holder to von Paulus, who as far as we know was a dedicated, concientious and honorable German Army field commander, does von Paulus a disservice."

Paulus could have escaped encirclement at Stalingrad, but dithered. He subsequently surrendered with 90,000 of his soldiers. He spent captivity in relative comfort. 85,000 of his soldiers died in captivity. There aren't many commanders anywhere who ever oversaw such wholesale slaughter of their commands. "Dedicated, concientious, and honorable" are not fitting words to describe him.; October 9, 2011 at 5:41 PM
Anonymous said...: '"Dedicated, concientious, and honorable" are not fitting words to describe him.'

The quote was from one of his superior officers, Gen. Heinz Guderian, who is regarded by many as the father of the panzer division, the concept of "blitzkrieg" and one of the most effective armored commanders of WWII. I'm not in a position to second guess Guderian's assesment of one of his subordinate officers.; October 10, 2011 at 9:12 AM
Anonymous said...: You are a very sick person. I hope you get treatment.; October 12, 2011 at 12:34 AM

"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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Saturday, October 8, 2011

Editor's Note. Correction and apology.

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