Sipsey Street Irregulars: "Killing" Vanderboegh, one test at a time. ;-)

Thursday, March 8, 2012

"Killing" Vanderboegh, one test at a time. ;-)

David Codrea's illustration of my stress test:

Well, I survived my stress test and ain't dead yet. They haven't told me that I've passed so I can be cut on next Tuesday, but I suspect I will be shortly. Again, God bless you all for your prayers and support. Actually, I have a feeling that God ain't done with me yet. My son called me from Germany yesterday and told me "Drink water, drive on!" So I guess it isn't time to lay down and die.

5 comments:

CowboyDan said...: "I guess it isn't time to lay down and die."

Glad to hear that. I don't think it's my time, either. Hope not.; March 8, 2012 at 2:48 PM
Anonymous said...: Stress Test. Bah! I've been getting them about every two years or so since '98. Since '08 they have to do the chemical version due to the pacemaker. Feels like your head is gonna explode like in the flick "Scanners". I remember one time I asked my cardiologist how the test went. He said "There were a couple of things I didn't like but I'll call it normal." Made me feel SOOOOOO confident that he was gonna "call" the EKG "normal".

Hang in. Things WILL get better. They say only the good die young and 60 is considered young these days so you should have several decades left in you. ;-); March 8, 2012 at 7:29 PM
Anonymous said...: Hang in there Mike.
Here's one for you:
May the Lord Bless you and keep you, may He make His face shine upon you and be gracious unto you, and give you peace. In the name of the Prince of peace, Jesus the Messiah.
Amen; March 8, 2012 at 8:35 PM
Anonymous said...: Only lie down when you stop breathing.

Spartan; March 8, 2012 at 8:46 PM
parabarbarian said...: "I guess it isn't time to lay down and die."

Animals lay down and die. Men fight. When Death come for me I plan to go kicking, biting and gouging eyes all the way.; March 8, 2012 at 10:37 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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