Sipsey Street Irregulars: Two Basic Types of Yoga

Monday, January 12, 2009

Two Basic Types of Yoga

There Are Two Basic Types Of Yoga

1) Yoga from India

2) Yoga from St. Clair County, Alabama

There is, however, one very important difference. If you attempt to take the liberty of the first man, he will beg your forgiveness for offending you.

If on the other hand you attempt to take the liberty of the second man, he will kill you first in righteous self-defense, and go out for a hangover remedy later.

8 comments:

ParaPacem said...: I just hope that the other end of that bench doesn't hold their reloading equipment.... Lord only knows what they might have loaded up, as alcohol is known to cause illogical experimentation with explosive materials.
"Wha, Hayull's Bayulls, Cletus, cain't NOBODY far a casin' that's loaded with powder plumb up the neck!!! That thaing'll blow the barrel out, an' prob'ly shoot that bolt rat through yore headbone!"

"Hey, doubtin' Bubba, I figgered this load out jest now, in mah own haid - this oughtta get that thirty ought six to spittin' out 200 grains at around 5900 feet per second with about 2600 foot pounds. Set that bottle up on the back steps and hand me my Sprangfield an' jist you watch!"; January 12, 2009 at 9:41 PM
Vanderboegh said...: Ah, you HAVE been to St. Clair County, Alabama.; January 12, 2009 at 9:52 PM
ParaPacem said...: Well - Bessemer is close enough ;o); January 12, 2009 at 9:55 PM
Sean said...: I don't reckon a man in his likker kin shoot straight, so I'll stay sober, jest the same.; January 12, 2009 at 10:42 PM
triptyx said...: Couldn't have said it better myself.

As you've stated so well so many times, "they have us surrounded, the poor fools".; January 12, 2009 at 11:20 PM
Qi Ji Guang said...: LOL! ParaPacem!

It doesn't just apply to St. Clair County, Alabama either :D My former Wushu lao shi (teacher) said that whoever tried to violate his civil liberties would experience first hand what it feels like to have your head turned 360 degrees, twice. It was a conversation about gun rights/Holocaust/Nazis, and I am not surprised at what this wise old gentleman from Szechuan, China would do if anyone tried to hurt him or someone he cared about.

When I talked to him how important it is to own a rifle and practice with it, he replied "I do not own a single gun, because my enemies will bring me the guns I need if it comes to that". "When we first started to fight the Japanese, all we had were just swords and spears. The Japanese were kind enough to give us their guns", he continued with a chuckle.

I could only think... WOW! And that was years ago.

As for this thread, I have to agree with Sean, thats why I don't drink. These two guys in the picture are tough, no doubt, but if they stopped drinking and stopped putting their livers through all that harmful pressure, they can be even tougher. "First, if you want to possess righteous feng shui, your body must be cleansed of all poisonous miasmas"; January 13, 2009 at 3:00 PM
Orygunner said...: Am I the only one that noticed the bottles of beer are poorly "photoshopped" into the picture?

It actually adds to the humor rather than detract from it, but someone could have put a little more effort into it...

( Apologizes if the "someone" is Mike V. ;) ); January 13, 2009 at 3:57 PM
Vanderboegh said...: No, I didn't photoshop it. It came to me in an email from a fellow Alabaman and is an inside joke on St. Clair County boys.; January 13, 2009 at 4:16 PM

"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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