Sipsey Street Irregulars: Good question.

Monday, December 23, 2013

Good question.

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Anonymous said...: Here's a question. WTF is going on with Sharyl Attkisson?
Several months ago she claims her computers were hacked. CBS confirmed this and she also tells Bill O'Reilly that she believes she "knows who is responsible". Like a switch being flipped, the story is sucked into a black hole with no explanation.
A few days ago she teases a "story of public interest" on twitter. Mike posts that she may have an important update on Fast and Furious. The next day - nothing. Attkisson's twitter account - no explanation.
What the hell is going on?; December 23, 2013 at 7:09 PM
Dutchman6 said...: The post was based on faulty information. I was misinformed that it was a F&F story. It wasn't, although I understand how my source got it wrong. The story she eventually broke had to do with the health care rollout. So, I took out the reference to F&F as soon as I could, but should have explained in detail what happened. Now you know.; December 23, 2013 at 7:20 PM
Anonymous said...: Thank you for the explanation about the F&F misunderstanding. After your heads up, I had watched Sharyl Atkkisson's Twitter feed. I wondered when I saw her links to the Obamacare story if her teaser had been misconstrued.; December 23, 2013 at 9:03 PM
Anonymous said...: Thanks Mike for shedding some light on the F&F thing - crossed wires and info mix-ups happen.

The computer hacking story simply dying is still bizarre though.
CBS confirmed via forensic computer analysis that Attkisson's computer was hacked.

Even if it were just some basement hacker nobody who breeched her computer, even that is worthy of reporting to simply close out the story.

But to claim to know who the culprit is and then literally the next day the story disappears begs an explanation. I wish she would give some sort of definitive update one way or another - either there's something to the story or there isn't. After all, ignorance is the fuel of baseless conspiracies.; December 24, 2013 at 1:04 AM
Anonymous said...: The guy on the left looks happy. The guy on the right look "Gay".; December 24, 2013 at 8:28 AM
John G said...: 23year old guy was based on an American Joe. The 27 year old is an Israeli and a former member of the IDF.; December 24, 2013 at 9:04 AM
Crotalus said...: What you mean "we", Paleface; December 24, 2013 at 11:19 PM
Yank lll said...: It all went south when Americans trusted teachers to educate their children about government, law and rights of the people more than themselves..
Communists run the educational system courtesy of the univeristy system that was corrupted by communist elites.

Revisit an American tradition of the 50's and 60's.. if you have to ask you're one of their victims.

Yank lll.; December 25, 2013 at 7:22 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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