Sipsey Street Irregulars: Back on the ground in Birmingham, prasie the Lord.

Saturday, December 10, 2011

Back on the ground in Birmingham, prasie the Lord.

And the problems with the blog still are happening. Look, you don't see the problems (except for the fact that the text runs together). The real problems are behind the scenes in what I can and cannot do compared to what I used to be able to do. Trying to sort out now.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...: I know that google has a "new" blog interface but you can go back to the 'old' one... just a thought.; December 10, 2011 at 6:38 PM
Anonymous said...: "Look, you don't see the problems... The real problems are behind the scenes..."

Like the DOJ.; December 10, 2011 at 7:53 PM
Scott J said...: The problem might also be local to your PC. You might not be fully virus free.

The test would be to use the same version of the blogger interface at one of the library's PCs.; December 10, 2011 at 8:09 PM
Skip said...: A person might think the NSA was jerkin' you around.; December 10, 2011 at 10:07 PM
drjim said...: Welcome home, Mike!; December 10, 2011 at 10:19 PM
Anonymous said...: Dont forget that the CEO of google is one of this administrations biggest supporters.; December 11, 2011 at 6:55 AM
Travis McGee said...: Thanks for taking the battle to the enemy of liberty for all of us!; December 11, 2011 at 8:15 AM
Toastrider said...: This doesn't strike me as terribly effective though. If Blogger somehow 'misplaced' SSI, I could buy it. But finky little HTML code errors? Eh.

I would think if they were gonna go DTB on Mike, they'd do something a tad more impressive.; December 11, 2011 at 8:16 AM
Anonymous said...: typo in title; December 14, 2011 at 11:31 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.

Sipsey Street Irregulars

Saturday, December 10, 2011

Back on the ground in Birmingham, prasie the Lord.

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