Sipsey Street Irregulars: Rough night.

Friday, August 2, 2013

Rough night.

Not sure how many posts I'll get done today. My right hand is immobilized with a positional IV through which they are hydrating me and administering antibiotics and dextrose to keep my sugar from crashing, so I'm typing this one-fingered with my left. Right now I'm hungry enough to eat a sick snake as they say up in Winston County, but it sounds like even sick snake is off the menu until at least Monday. On a brighter note, plans for future smuggling are coming together. Do they have sick snake in Colorado? Other than in the state government, I mean.

"Did you bring the sick snake for Vanderboegh?"

8 comments:

Anonymous said...: Hang in there Mike. You are in our prayers.; August 2, 2013 at 6:31 AM
Anonymous said...: Ruck up Dutchman. The resistance needs you!; August 2, 2013 at 7:31 AM
Sean said...: In my prayers, as always. Hang in there, I had to do that routine several times, and I know the bleh. After you go without it a while, food will taste sweeter, chilled water will be like wine, and small kindnesses will seem like an inheritance.; August 2, 2013 at 7:42 AM
MamaLiberty said...: Gov. Hickenloopercrap in Colorado is certainly a "sick snake," but I think it would be poisonous to eat... and maybe even dangerous to be to be in the same room.

Hang in there, Mike. We're all pulling for you. :); August 2, 2013 at 9:42 AM
FG said...: We're praying every day for you and your family, Mike.; August 2, 2013 at 1:00 PM
tom said...: When I went to gunsmithing college at the Ackley school in Trinidad, there were some sick snakes, but mostly in the non-gunsmithing administration.

Talked to a friend there the other day who is about to give up the sinking ship, and, sadly, it looks like the school P.O. Ackley founded is circling the drain. If it goes, it's the dumbest thing they ever did as most gunsmithing students paid cash or GI Bill money, not loan money...but I guess the whole country is all about bad loans and dumb gun laws now. Get Well.; August 2, 2013 at 5:33 PM
Anonymous said...: Did they successfully plug the hole this time?
How long are you gonna be in hospital?

- Old Greybeard; August 2, 2013 at 9:23 PM
Anonymous said...: LOL (Laugh out Loud) You crack me up Vanderboegh. Wish you well. Hope you heal up and are allowed to be a professional irritant just a little while long. God bless you, Mike.; August 3, 2013 at 7:29 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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