Sipsey Street Irregulars: Yes, I'm still here. No, it hasn't been fun. Will try to catch up.

Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Yes, I'm still here. No, it hasn't been fun. Will try to catch up.

Pretty rough, still, actually. However, I can see from the multiplicity of off-topic, racist and threatening posts that many of you continue to burden me with unnecessary work. This even further delays getting real content work done. For some of you, it's obviously your intention. Others appear merely thoughtless and unteachable. So, for the stupid, the neoNazi and the malevolent, the delete key will still be employed.

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WarriorClass III said...: Was getting worried about you. Thanks for posting.; December 30, 2015 at 1:08 PM
Anonymous said...: Dutchman - can we be sure the racist posts are from 3 pers and not Gov't or SPLC trolls looking to paint SSI as a racist blog site? As of late they are turning up the heat on everyone they consider a danger to them..; December 30, 2015 at 1:57 PM
Anonymous said...: Waaaaahhhhhh! Racis!!!; December 30, 2015 at 2:10 PM
Anonymous said...: Thanks again for everything you do to keep this site running.; December 30, 2015 at 3:00 PM
Anonymous said...: There is an odd lack of presence on some of the bigger sites around the net of the long present lefty trolls. Sure, there are still some, but the bots are few where they normally lurk.

I suspect they are instead now targeting smaller sites, like this one, in an attempt to go more to the source. They are showing just how thin their resources are.

Keep your chin up, Mike and know that we understand how much of a burden they put on you and we wait patiently for you to release comments as your time allows. We are not going to be baited into blaming you or stop commenting because it takes longer than five seconds to see them posted.

We got your back Mike and we are loyal beyond their attempts to discourage us from coming day after day to see what musings you come up with next.

They are losing, Mike, and they know it. This too shall pass.
As more and more trolls get nailed like that cat who had 57 twitter accounts, their ability to attack in this way will be curtailed. Just make sure to save the egregious threatening ones....It will make for an interesting piece someday.; December 30, 2015 at 3:05 PM
Anonymous said...: Ask them (the racists, trolls, etc) for their email for a personal reply. Then register them for a lifetime supply of gay porn.; December 30, 2015 at 3:15 PM
Anonymous said...: I wouldn't be surprised that it was gubmint or SPLC trolls.; December 30, 2015 at 3:31 PM
Anonymous said...: Is there someone as you can trust who would be able to help you keep the grease traps clear? Seems like you already have enough thankless jobs; you could probably spare the one. :-); December 31, 2015 at 10:37 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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Yes, I'm still here. No, it hasn't been fun. Will try to catch up.

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