Sipsey Street Irregulars: I am a grandpa . . . again.

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

I am a grandpa . . . again.

Olivia Laura Vanderboegh, my new red-headed grandaughter, was born around 0400 local time in Germany, 28 December 2011. Baby is great, momma is great, brother is excited and daddy is proud. He'll be sorry in a few years, but for now, this is the best belated Christmas gift we could ask for.

18 comments:

Jeff said...: Congratulations Mike!! Glad to hear everyone is doing well.; December 27, 2011 at 10:58 PM
Anonymous said...: Congrats!

Sean; December 28, 2011 at 6:40 AM
Female III said...: Welcome to this world, Olivia. Hopefully we can make it a better one for you by the time you are ready to leave it.

And don't let your grandpa buy you one of those sissy pink guns either.; December 28, 2011 at 7:13 AM
Anonymous said...: Hey, that is super news! Pure innocence, doesn't get any better than this. Congratulations!; December 28, 2011 at 7:53 AM
Hefferman said...: Congratulation to you and your family.
God Bless you.; December 28, 2011 at 8:25 AM
Armadillo said...: Wonderful, how exciting!; December 28, 2011 at 8:27 AM
We the people... said...: Congrats!; December 28, 2011 at 8:32 AM
johnnyreb said...: The best benefit from having children.

Blessings to you all.; December 28, 2011 at 9:03 AM
ParaPacem said...: YAY, And welcome, Olivia! To our world and our hearts.; December 28, 2011 at 10:21 AM
Ron Thomas said...: That is great Mike! A new life! Congrats to all involved. It is nice to have some news on your blog that does not make me a) sick to my stomach, or b) red-faced and enraged.; December 28, 2011 at 10:21 AM
Anonymous said...: Congratulations!! What a terrific Christmas present.; December 28, 2011 at 10:47 AM
Anonymous said...: Congratulations Mike. Enjoy the new addition to the family. Best wishes to you all.; December 28, 2011 at 11:11 AM
AJ said...: Congrats!; December 28, 2011 at 11:33 AM
MamaLiberty said...: How marvelous! Hope we can see a picture eventually. :); December 28, 2011 at 11:44 AM
Anonymous said...: Congratulations Mike, glad everyone is doing well. God's blessings on you and your family.

Kevin III; December 28, 2011 at 1:52 PM
eddymatthews said...: Congratulations! I have 4. I hope with the help of people like you and God, we can save this country.; December 28, 2011 at 8:11 PM
Anonymous said...: Great news Mike. She will be able to get lots of neat stuff for Christmas and even more just 3 days later for her birthday. Wonderful news that the Nimrods in DC (especially the Justus Dept) want is ANOTHER Vanderboegh.; December 28, 2011 at 9:22 PM
III More Than Them said...: You old fart, now you get to pass on more tradition. I hope things hold together long enough for her to have some ability to help herself.; January 1, 2012 at 3:38 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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I am a grandpa . . . again.

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