Sipsey Street Irregulars: SITREP

Monday, March 12, 2012

SITREP

Am in the hospital, with IV in arm, waiting for tomorrow's gutting. Still working with laptop.

14 comments:

Anonymous said...: Just remembering what happened to a friend of mine. He was about to float off when someone in the OR said " Ok, now we're going to make a girl out of ya!"

He woke somewhat rapidly.

Best wishes and I know you'll do fine. Little prayer anyway.; March 12, 2012 at 4:34 PM
Anonymous said...: Our prayers are with you...; March 12, 2012 at 4:37 PM
Chaplain Tim said...: You've been in my prayers for a few days now, I'll keep it up and ask for some assistance for tomorrow. Good luck and God speed.

Tim; March 12, 2012 at 4:53 PM
Anonymous said...: Good luck from Florida from an old diabetic cracker.; March 12, 2012 at 4:57 PM
fireplaceguy said...: Wish you success tomorrow and a speedy return to your customary crankiness, Mike.

Very telling that out there in the "polarized blogoshpere" there isn't a mention of you - not even a call for prayer on general principles.

I'm turned off by that kind of conflict, and it's not lost on me that this kind of dissent is our side's achilles heel. But, I do pay attention, and if that's the best behavior these so called Christian patriots can muster, I'm glad to know who they are!; March 12, 2012 at 5:22 PM
Anonymous said...: Mike, I hope you have a successful surgery with a rapid recovery.

Get well soon and keep the good work going!

Cheers and best wishes!

Geezer in KS; March 12, 2012 at 5:47 PM
WarriorClass III said...: My prayers are with you brother.

WarriorClass
III; March 12, 2012 at 7:20 PM
root@localhost.localdomain said...: Good luck Mike! Recover quickly and get the heck out of there.; March 12, 2012 at 7:34 PM
bondmen said...: Give that alien HELL Mike and when you're finished with it, put it in a jar on the shelf with all your other conquests and trophies. I know we'll all be hearing from you not long after you wake up 15 pounds lighter. There are still monsters to slay, fish to fillet and dirty bastards that need their clocks cleaned; you're just the guy to do it! Give him a hug for US Rosie.; March 12, 2012 at 8:37 PM
Grumpyunk said...: Prayers for you and yours, Mike.

Just went down this same road 2 weeks ago. Think positive.; March 12, 2012 at 10:06 PM
pdxr13 said...: Might as well replace the water pump, leaky valve seals, and rusty ball joints while in there.

Magic Marker the area to cut, and put cautionary notes on the parts to leave alone. ------->"remove tumor only, please" <-----------

Drug regularly and vigorously post-op. You aren't ever getting anything so nice as hospital morphine drip at home (they are total nazi's about good dope!). My Mom described it as "the softest pillow you ever felt". zzzzzz.
Plenty of time to be grumpy and uncomfortable, later.

Best wishes.; March 12, 2012 at 10:55 PM
johnnyreb said...: God bless Mike.

Keep a positive attitude.; March 12, 2012 at 10:56 PM
aughtsix said...: Nothing but love for you, Brother.

Come through all, flying the Colors and carrying onward!

Jon III; March 12, 2012 at 11:15 PM
DC Wright said...: Prayers are going out for you, Mike, my brother-in-arms. We need you on the line here. And when we go on the offense, we'll need you then, as well. Get well soonest.

D. C. Wright
USMC Retired
III/OK; March 13, 2012 at 2:00 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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