Sipsey Street Irregulars: Happy Birthday Mike

Sunday, July 24, 2016

Happy Birthday Mike

28 comments:

Anonymous said...: Happy Birthday to Mike! :); July 24, 2016 at 5:11 PM
W W Woodward said...: Happy Birthday, Mike. I pray that you're having a good day, Not just a good day but a wonderful day.
[W3]; July 24, 2016 at 6:21 PM
Joe said...: Happy Birthday, Mike !; July 24, 2016 at 7:03 PM
Overwatch said...: Happy Birthday, Mike! From a fellow patriot in Massachusetts.; July 24, 2016 at 9:25 PM
tjbbpgobIII said...: Yea, happy birthday Mike, hope you can move around a little, at least.; July 24, 2016 at 10:22 PM
Unknown said...: Happy Birthday dear Mike.; July 25, 2016 at 2:04 AM
Anonymous said...: Happy birthday, Mike.; July 25, 2016 at 6:22 AM
Anonymous said...: Happy Birthday, Dutchman! May the wind always be at your back.

Tom762; July 25, 2016 at 7:53 AM
Anonymous said...: Happy Felicitations of the Day!
And may you enjoy a nice fat slice of Birthday cake with Matt and Rosie!

B Woodman
III-per; July 25, 2016 at 8:05 AM
Tom Skoch said...: Happy birthday, Mike! God bless you and your family.; July 25, 2016 at 8:49 AM
Robert Fowler said...: Happy birthday sir, I hope you're around for the next one.; July 25, 2016 at 9:39 AM
BetterManThanBefore said...: Happy birthday, Mr. Mike.; July 25, 2016 at 10:14 AM
Sean said...: Happy Birthday, Mike, you're a good soldier.; July 25, 2016 at 10:19 AM
Moe Death said...: Happy Birthday and many more, Mike!

Bill and Domino
III; July 25, 2016 at 12:05 PM
shawn w said...: Happy birthday Mike!; July 25, 2016 at 1:50 PM
Paul said...: Happy birthday Mike. May you have some more!!; July 25, 2016 at 5:05 PM
Anonymous said...: Happy Birthday to an old friend who I have never met in person. God bless you Mike.; July 25, 2016 at 9:08 PM
skybill said...: Hi Mike,
A Big Happy Birthday to you!!
You and yours are in my Prayers...
Blue skies,
skybill-out; July 26, 2016 at 1:33 AM
KMM said...: Happy Birthday Mike! I heard you speak a few years back in Hartford CT (July 4th). I've been stopping by SSI blog since then. I greatly admire your fighting spirit and your love of liberty, and I thank you for that! God bless you!; July 26, 2016 at 8:53 AM
Millwright said...: We too often forget its not how much we have as what we do with what we have. Mike, you did plenty ! Happy Birthday !; July 26, 2016 at 7:53 PM
Anonymous said...: outstanding!
Happy Birthday!; July 27, 2016 at 2:59 PM
doubletrouble said...: Happy Birthday Mike!; July 27, 2016 at 9:15 PM
Sedition said...: Happy belated birthday, my friend.
I hope you celebrated it with those you love and had a great day.; July 29, 2016 at 12:57 PM
Happy D said...: Belated Happy Birthday Mister V.; July 31, 2016 at 12:17 AM
Anonymous said...: Ooooops,sorry for the late timing but Happy Birthday Mike,hope you had a good one with family/friends!; July 31, 2016 at 10:07 AM
Anonymous said...: Dang! Only 64 year old. So much, so much done, so much patriotism. Well done, Mike, well done. We all salute you.; July 31, 2016 at 7:23 PM
Allen said...: I would like to remind everyone that today (August 1st) is the 70th anniversary of the start of the Battle of Athens,TN in 1946; August 1, 2016 at 3:59 AM
Anonymous said...: Dutch 6 may God bless you and all you do furthering the causes of liberty. Behind enemy lines Ct.; August 2, 2016 at 11:17 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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Happy Birthday Mike

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