Sipsey Street Irregulars: My apologies for the lateness and paucity of posts, but I'm on the road in Ohio. . .

Saturday, August 1, 2015

My apologies for the lateness and paucity of posts, but I'm on the road in Ohio. . .

I'm talking a little treason with me comrades, as Michael O'Flynn in The Quiet Man said. I am also going to attend my 45th high school class reunion, something I have never done since graduation. (The fact of my graduation was actually the subject of serious wagering at the time, with my math teacher losing out ten bucks to the journalism teacher on the proposition that I would not graduate. The journalism teacher thought I just might sneak by, and I did. It was, however, a close run thing, as Wellington said of Waterloo.) This is the first trip in a while that I have made principally just for my self. Rosey is with me, and we have an armed house sitter so everything should be hunky-dory. Should be either fun, strange or a severe disappointment -- perhaps all three at once. We'll see.

11 comments:

Anonymous said...: Having been to a few reunions, you're probably going to be wondering who all the old, fat, decrepit people are. ;-); August 1, 2015 at 11:10 AM
Bad Cyborg said...: Whew! I'm just glad nothing bad had happened. Was kinda worried when I went to SSI and nothing new was up including comments from yesterday.

Enjoy the "reunion". I missed my 10th - was literally on the wrong side of the planet (Tokyo, Japan to be exact). Went to my 20th to see, as I told my wife, who got fat, who got bald and who got grey. Surprising who got bald or fat - including a couple of the "hot chicks" from my class. A few whom I really WANTED to see weren't there.

Enjoy the trip, Dutchman. We'll keep.; August 1, 2015 at 11:30 AM
Sam said...: Obviously your journalism teacher was a visionary.; August 1, 2015 at 11:50 AM
rexxhead said...: Aha! So it's "Michaeleen O'Vanderboegh", bejazus!; August 1, 2015 at 11:55 AM
Unknown said...: "Should be either fun, strange or a severe disappointment -- perhaps all three at once. We'll see."

Expect all three.; August 1, 2015 at 4:16 PM
Anonymous said...: Have found that reunions are much like facebook. All your high school "friends" (whom you haven't said one word to in 20+ years)are just there to see how well you're doing socially in comparison to themselves, and could care less about anything else aside from one-upmanship.

Just my humble opinion, but I believe you've out-shone the entire lot. ;-); August 1, 2015 at 6:11 PM
Anonymous said...: It isn't treason if you are being true to your country and your fellow patriots.; August 1, 2015 at 9:33 PM
Anonymous said...: CONFIRMED: Garland Terrorist Bought Gun From Operation Fast And Furious Dealer At Height Of Scandal

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/08/01/confirmed-garland-terrorist-purchased-fast-and-furious-gun-from-doj-approved-dealer/; August 2, 2015 at 1:10 AM
Anonymous said...: BREAKING: Obama Fast and Furious Weapon Used in Garland Terrorist Attack

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/08/breaking-obama-fast-and-furious-weapon-used-in-garland-terrorist-attack/; August 2, 2015 at 1:24 AM
skybill said...: Hi Mike,
We grow up and graduate from "High School." Some of us just become regular people and some really, just a few, become "Soldiers of Fortune" just like John Russell and Chick Chandler "Tim Kelly" and "Tubo Smith" in the old B & W 30 minute TV series. After seeing that show there was no way I was going to sell Life Insurance!!! 'Ya show up at one of those "reunions" and it only serve to ground you on where you are, the galaxy's you've visited and the adventures you have experienced. Ben there, done that and got the t-shirt!!
Got the "Itch!!"........OUTLAW!!!,
III%,
skybill-out; August 2, 2015 at 3:27 AM
Bill Sullivan said...: I went to my 40th and 45th. Very interesting, and a nice adult party both times. Went to my wife's 40th, and some drunk woman kept trying to get me to dance. Nice looking, but my wife is a batter shot than me. Scared to go to another of hers.; August 2, 2015 at 8:03 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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