Sipsey Street Irregulars: Apologies and errata.

Friday, December 6, 2013

Apologies and errata.

er·ra·tum

noun

plural: errata

1. an error in printing or writing.

Folks, I'm sorry, but I crapped out on you yesterday. Was out running most of the day raising a little scratch to undergird the next phase of the smuggling campaign and, between the chemo drug's lingering side effects and me overdoing it, by the time I got to Rosey's work to pick her up at five I was done in. Fell asleep during the drive home (no, I wasn't behind the wheel) and by the time I got home I had enough left in me to get a bite to eat (I had puked lunch) and then promptly passed out. I just woke up a few minutes ago. Thus, I did not give you any more posts as promised. I let y'all down and for that I am truly sorry.

I also need to correct some errata and neglects of due diligence in previous posts. For example, I used this photograph as an illustration for my response to LTC Bateman, with the caption, "Why is this man smiling?"

This is not the author of the egregious column in Esquire. It would appear that there are two LTC Robert Batemans and THIS, not the above, is the correct image of that tax-feeding oath breaker:

I am indebted to Stewart Rhodes of Oath Keepers for the correction and have made the edit at the original post with my mea culpa.

Also, my post of the Mencken quote below was forwarded to me without provenance. I have since learned that it was originally a comment by Bismarck over at WRSA. Again, my apologies.

No excuses. I will try to do better in the future.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...: Mike, you are a beacon of humility and personal responsibility. Knowing what you've been through and go through with your blog, and most here do, it's easily understandable mistakes happen. At least you correct them and apologize vs some of the blogs out there. As much as I hate the word..kudo's to ya.; December 6, 2013 at 3:40 AM
Anonymous said...: Bismarck was merely quoting:
http://tinyurl.com/pw2pja3; December 6, 2013 at 7:05 AM
Chaplain Tim said...: Clearer pic:
http://2002-2009-fpc.state.gov/93207.htm; December 6, 2013 at 5:14 PM
Chaplain Tim said...: An older picture, from 2001-2002 when he was a major. Bottom of the page, Center for Strategic and International Studies. He's on the right, standing.
http://csis.org/program/military-fellows; December 6, 2013 at 5:24 PM
bubba said...: These turds purposely say provocative things just to rile up the natives. One reason they do it is to see what people will say and perhaps do. They believe their plan is working to perfection and that they are in complete control.; December 6, 2013 at 10:11 PM
oughtsix said...: I sent Mike that quotation of Mencken without, at first forwarding, the attribution to "Bismarck," wrsa comments.

I corrected that almost immediately, but Mike beat me to the punch. Mike is in no way at fault. What fault there may be is mine. I would suggest that it is a minor slip and that "Bismarck" would not be offended.

Inasmuch as Mike did not try to pass the buck to where it belonged is further evidence of his high moral character.

Apologies, Mike and one and all, and thanks for all you accomplish here.

Jon III; December 7, 2013 at 12:31 AM
rexxhead said...: I'm confused.

Mencken --DID-- say something like that in the 20s (actually, he just said "complete moron" without all the extra adjectives), so why is Mike apologizing?

Besides, as simply "complete moron", I always thought it meant Dubya.; December 7, 2013 at 1:10 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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Apologies and errata.

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