Sipsey Street Irregulars: Rough week behind, another one ahead.

Sunday, September 2, 2012

Rough week behind, another one ahead.

It seems likely now that I will be going back into the hospital to have some of the replumbing of my esophagus corrected. I still have fluid, which is apparently coming from a hole in the esophagus, leaking out a hole in my back left over from a post-surgical drain. This, plus the nausea created by the Gleevec, are my principal health problems at the moment. If my postings are a little erratic this coming week, you now know the reason.

Please keep us in your prayers.

15 comments:

Anonymous said...: Praying.; September 2, 2012 at 3:34 PM
Anonymous said...: you have my prayers. Keep up the good fight.
Paul in Texas; September 2, 2012 at 3:57 PM
Jay Higgins said...: Get Better Mike,

Knowing you're upright and firing torpedoes makes me smile.

I need to smile!; September 2, 2012 at 4:35 PM
Anonymous said...: Hang in there Mike,we're pulling for you.; September 2, 2012 at 4:47 PM
Hefferman said...: Hang in there Dutchman.
You will be in our prayers.; September 2, 2012 at 6:21 PM
FG said...: My family is praying for you, sir.; September 2, 2012 at 6:52 PM
Lori said...: God bless. You have my prayers always.
~Lori; September 2, 2012 at 6:57 PM
Mike P. said...: There's a small but quickly growing movement affot to make tomorrow, Labor Day, "place an empty chair in your front yard day"
I DO hope it catches on!

Mike P. Fredericksburg, TX; September 2, 2012 at 7:35 PM
Anonymous said...: +1 on praying Mike. Be well.

anotherZebra; September 2, 2012 at 7:38 PM
Anonymous said...: Hang in there brother. Never give up.; September 2, 2012 at 8:24 PM
Anonymous said...: You are a Worldwide inspiration.

As long as that mighty weapon - the pen - can be weilded the fight continues!

May the Gods cherish you too.

Kiwi
III; September 2, 2012 at 10:07 PM
Anonymous said...: Be encouraged, prayers are heard. We have both comfort now as well as when the Kingdom is finalized. OBTW, laugh crazily at the stupidity coming from opfor.
Ray III; September 3, 2012 at 12:19 AM
m catharine said...: No one has inspired me more to keep writing on Fast and Furious than you.

I began this journey as an ordinary citizen blogger. I started visiting your site and David Codrea at the examiner and was so outraged about an illegal government operation that politicians, including the candidates, should be shouting about from the rooftops.

Knowing that you were having critical health problems yet you kept on writing and exposing Holder's demonic plot kept alot of us going too. That is not rare feat!

Here in Virginia we are praying for you.Please know you are never forgotten by the people you have
inpspired.

Get well. We need you to see this thing through to the end.; September 3, 2012 at 4:08 PM
eddy3 said...: Prayers are up for you!; September 3, 2012 at 5:44 PM
Anonymous said...: Yes, you are in my prayers. I am so sorry you're still dealing with these other things.
I hope you're feeling better soon.
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Seen on a church sign: "God is most present when He feels most absent."

SB Smith
Texas; September 6, 2012 at 3:52 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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Rough week behind, another one ahead.

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