Sipsey Street Irregulars: Have to be out and about early today.

Saturday, September 13, 2014

Have to be out and about early today.

Headed out to do some much-needed fund raising for the October campaigns. I'll try to have more later but it may take all day so don't count on it. I would like to thank those of you who have recently donated magazines -- both Politician and Freedom-Fighter grade (have plenty of the former now, so send no more at present) -- and sent subscription donations to help get them to their destinations. (Especially the generous fellow who sent ten of each plus.) I would also like to thank the anonymous (and somewhat mysterious) reader who sent me my new hat:

Here's a close-up of the hat without my ugly face to spoil the view:

I'll wear the hat while I'm out beating the bushes today. And here's a little traveling music as I go. Wish me luck and keep me in your prayers.

8 comments:

Storm'n Norm'n said...: The music...it has more than just a hint of Irish in it.; September 13, 2014 at 6:27 AM
Storm'n Norm'n said...: How dumb of me...It says Irish Tavern Music right on the video...I missed that the first time around...LOL; September 13, 2014 at 7:16 AM
Anonymous said...: Greetings, and God bless.

That's a nice hat, man!; September 13, 2014 at 9:31 AM
Anonymous said...: Greetings, and God bless.

As I said, nice hat, but now the natural paranoid in me is coming out (after all, in these times, if you're not at least a little bit paranoid, well then you must be crazy!)

Just how mysterious is this anonymous reader? No offense meant to the perfectly innocent anonymous reader, of course, but have you tossed the hat into the micro-wave for a minute to fry the imbedded bug?; September 13, 2014 at 9:59 AM
Anonymous said...: So, for those of us of the same persuasion, is the
har available for purchase or is it just a special production
for you Mike? If for wider distribution/sale I would
like to get my hands on one as well. Very stylish with a statement.; September 13, 2014 at 4:05 PM
Anonymous said...: Mike,thanks for the Trad. Perhaps it's time for a pint and a little more talk of treason. ;); September 14, 2014 at 3:50 PM
Anonymous said...: man I'd like to have me one or 2 of those; September 15, 2014 at 1:21 PM
RVN11B said...: I want one of those hats too!
Let us know how!; September 15, 2014 at 2:09 PM

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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. . ."

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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.

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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.

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Saturday, September 13, 2014

Have to be out and about early today.

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