Sipsey Street Irregulars: Free Republic picks up on Sipsey Street, the Window War, etc. A little poetry by "outhousepatrol."

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Free Republic picks up on Sipsey Street, the Window War, etc. A little poetry by "outhousepatrol."

Louise Slaughter's brick continues to be discussed in the blogosphere, including here at Free Republic.

Perhaps this is why Sipsey Street Irregulars got over 7,000 hits yesterday.

I got a chuckle out of this doggerel by "outhousepatrol."

If one of these “Rat Holes” is suddenly a victim of spontaneous combustion, how then will that affect the yes votes?

One if by brick
Two if by flame
Three if by hearse
If the rats continue the game

7 comments:

Taylor H said...: I knew we had creative minds in the movement.; March 20, 2010 at 9:49 AM
Anonymous said...: a paraphrase:

"One brick is a crime; a million is a statistic."; March 20, 2010 at 10:51 AM
Anonymous said...: Another good quote from ARFcom: "I deem that window not to have been broken."

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I declare today, National Slingshot Procurement Day.

And the balance of March through April 19 as "David Versus Goliath Remembrance Season"; March 20, 2010 at 11:12 AM
JokersWild said...: Beware the Freepers. They have proven again and again that despite whatever talk comes from their quarters that they are and always will be GOP loyalists. If they court you they intend to use you like a whore to get their wants and then readily discard you once they find that when you say freedom it doesn't mean the GOP.; March 20, 2010 at 1:27 PM
Anonymous said...: "I declare today, National Slingshot Procurement Day.

And the balance of March through April 19 as "David Versus Goliath Remembrance Season" "

Thats hilarious.; March 20, 2010 at 7:21 PM
Anonymous said...: I suspect that the folks in charge of local Democratic Party HQs are not reporting the vandalism to the police in an attempt to keep a lid on this powderkeg. I know for a FACT that more windows have been broken than have been reported.

GIII; March 21, 2010 at 8:42 AM
I Buried My Guns said...: Dearest Joker's Wild:

I am a Freeper.

I am not a GOP loyalist.

My loyalty is to family and Nation.

I stand opposed to totalitarianism, and thus Obama.

That said, a lot of Freepers are tools and I do not like them one bit. Mostly old farts.; March 31, 2010 at 8:25 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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