Sipsey Street Irregulars: Disappointment in the principle of Karma. At first I thought this was an announcement about New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Friday, August 26, 2011

Disappointment in the principle of Karma. At first I thought this was an announcement about New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Giant Rat Killed With Pitchfork At Brooklyn's Marcy Houses.

A gigantic, white rat was killed after being speared with a pitchfork at the Marcy Houses in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn.

And Mike says you don't need a firearm in NYC?

12 comments:

Anonymous said...: You know, when I saw the headline, my first thought was:

"Somebody nailed Bloomberg with a pitchfork?! That's old-school right there. Gets the job done, though."

Then I saw the picture and experienced waves of disappointment.

Sigh.; August 26, 2011 at 10:14 AM
Anonymous said...: Practicing for bunglecrats...; August 26, 2011 at 10:23 AM
John in IA said...: A pitchfork? In Bed-Stuy...? Bloomy must be sooooo proud.; August 26, 2011 at 10:40 AM
MamaLiberty said...: Good heavens! I knew NYC had big rats, but that's incredible. I'd want my shotgun handy, for sure. Those things come in large bunches!; August 26, 2011 at 11:35 AM
WarriorClass said...: I'm sure a pitch fork would work on him too. Same breed and all...; August 26, 2011 at 11:38 AM
Howie Honky said...: I hope that is a fake / photoshop.... it would be awful too think that a rare white rat of that size would be killed.; August 26, 2011 at 12:46 PM
Anonymous said...: Reminds me of an old Barney Miller episode.

A detective on his way to the storage closet with his nightstick was advised of the "Rodent of Unusual Size" and doubled back to his desk for his .38 S&W.; August 26, 2011 at 1:58 PM
10ksnooker said...: Off topic but does anybody know if the terrorist who shot up the Mexican casino were using Obama walked guns?; August 26, 2011 at 3:18 PM
Anonymous said...: Sweet Odins Raven that thing is huge!

Grenadier1; August 26, 2011 at 3:24 PM
Sedition said...: Oh, shit...Bloomberg will be on a tear to ban those evil assault pitchforks now.; August 26, 2011 at 5:10 PM
John Smith. said...: That is so cute.. A baby wharf rat...; August 26, 2011 at 7:24 PM
Anonymous said...: Called 311 once to report rats roaming about in broad daylight on the next block. They said call back
in 30 days if the rats are still there. Guess the rats have friends
in City Hall.
P.S. "311" is the NYC non-emergency
reporting number.; August 30, 2011 at 3:10 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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