Sipsey Street Irregulars: SITREP and panhandling.

Monday, November 21, 2011

SITREP and panhandling.

Situation Report:

A reader has graciously used frequent flier miles to ensure that I get from Birmingham to DC for the next hearing. I will fly out on the 6th and come back on the 10th. It always knocks me for a loop when readers kick in to help, especially on that level and most often it happens when I don't even ask. As before, I will not be spending any money on a Hilton resort, as the DOJ's Office of the Inspector General always does when they go to Phoenix to interview whistleblowers for 15 minutes.

I will be staying with friends, in Free America south of the Potomac. However, taking on the PATCON story at this juncture has added another whole layer of expense to this Sipsey Street Irregulars proposition. There are literally hundreds upon hundreds of pages of PATCON documents that I must print out for study and circulation to other experts. My last printer broke down some time ago and I have been making do by going to the library but at 15 cents a copy and the volume required, that will no longer suffice. I will also need some folding stuff for photocopies and other expenses in DC while I am there.

The last time I was in DC, I don't suppose that I bought more than three meals myself, since my generous friends took care of that as well. This time, I will need to do better, which means that I must panhandle y'all for the resources.

I hate it, but I don't see how I can accomplish what needs to be done without it.

I can't offer you tax deduction status and I'm sure not tax exempt myself. I also understand what economic stresses y'all are under and I feel guilty about even asking. Please, for those of you who have already sent subscriptions, understand that that I'm not asking more from you. Please don't send more. But if you haven't thought to send a little before and feel like maybe now's the time, you can donate by clicking on the PayPal button to the right or by sending whatever you feel appropriate to Mike Vanderboegh, P.O. Box 926, Pinson, AL 35126.

In any case, I promise that I will not do as this lady advertises, for I truly cannot dance. Never could. Even before the cane.

19 comments:

Anonymous said...: Mike: Get your book published and you won't have to depend on the kindness of strangers.; November 21, 2011 at 11:50 AM
Female III said...: How much you talkin', Mike?; November 21, 2011 at 12:04 PM
Dutchman6 said...: Actually Anonymous, no one understands that more than me. But even assuming that Absolved is now going to be out by Christmas, and it seems to be tracking that way, it will take a while to develop much of an income stream.

And, Female III, I don't have an aggregate figure because as sure as I name one, I'll get too much from a half dozen sources. Just, well, enough small subscriptions to get me where I can do the things that need doing.

Thanks, and God bless you,

Mike
III; November 21, 2011 at 12:09 PM
MI-copperhead said...: Mike, donation sent. Keep up the good work!
Earl AKA MI-copperhead; November 21, 2011 at 12:14 PM
Anonymous said...: standby for re-supply; November 21, 2011 at 12:33 PM
Female III said...: You got it. If you need more let me know.

Pick out a printer you would like and post a link to it.; November 21, 2011 at 12:59 PM
Anonymous said...: BTW, Please confirm in the comments when you have sent the e-mail. That e-mail address is reserved for public exposure/potential spamming.; November 21, 2011 at 1:44 PM
Anonymous said...: I've purchased three refurbished HP 2200D Laser Printers (Double-side-DUPLEX-capable to reduce volume and weight) on eBay. See http://www.ebay.com/ctg/HP-LaserJet-2200d-Workgroup-Laser-Printer-/48463466

At this price when they break you just get another. Double-sided printing is the only way to go.; November 21, 2011 at 1:46 PM
millerized said...: $$Incoming$$...even though you told us not to.
And if you get a free moment in DC for a photo op, I'd sure like to hoist one for you at the Cap City Brewery.; November 21, 2011 at 2:42 PM
Bruce Krafft said...: The check is in the mail; November 21, 2011 at 4:36 PM
Anonymous said...: Donation Sent.

What time can I expect the jack-booted thugs to kick in my door, please? I'd like to be dressed appropriately...; November 21, 2011 at 5:34 PM
Anonymous said...: Mike,
Sent a little happy cabbage, KICK ASS AND TAKE NAMES!
Dixie Dennis; November 21, 2011 at 6:02 PM
Anonymous said...: I'm willing to bet that when you announce "pre-sale" your problem$ will be over in about 15 minutes!; November 21, 2011 at 6:28 PM
Skip said...: Sent.
I also have 300,000 Holiday Inn credits you may use for free nights.
You have my email address.; November 21, 2011 at 8:15 PM
Anonymous said...: I'll pay for a few copies of your book even before it is released, but so far I can't find a way to do that. In Chicago you said six weeks.

Help us help you, Mike.

Rob Morse; November 21, 2011 at 9:14 PM
Johnny Gee said...: Godspeed Mike-have some on me-you deserve it and i'll also buy 3 copies of your book when they are out- Johnny Gee; November 22, 2011 at 11:48 AM
MD Patriot said...: just a small donation...I live close to DC, in the PRMD, email if you need anything; November 22, 2011 at 11:56 AM
MD Patriot said...: resupply inbound...go with God...I am in the area if you have any issues, email me...; November 22, 2011 at 11:58 AM
Anonymous said...: Mike, I don't know you or read the Sipsey St. Irregulars. However I have been keeping up with David Codrea and I find that what you've been doing in F&F/GW is the equivalent of being a modern day patriot. Throwing boxes of tea overboard is so last millennia. Our problems now stem from within the system involving people that feel they can milk it for every last drop- for their personal gratification, for their misaligned causes and for their "lobby". While I'm pro-rights (hence, pro 2A) it's way more than just pro or anti-gun. The reporting you and David have been doing is working to reveal a horribly scaled and slimy underbelly that *must* see the light of day. It's my government and I will not allow them to do the things they are doing in "my" name as a taxpayer and citizen. Thank you for your hard work, time spent and tenacity. Please take the modest amount I've donated via PayPal and keep doing the excellent work you and David have done. I (and I'm sure the rest of America that's actually paying attention) can't thank you enough.; November 23, 2011 at 12:57 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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SITREP and panhandling.

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