Sipsey Street Irregulars: Reminder to the hostile peanut gallery.

Monday, August 13, 2012

Reminder to the hostile peanut gallery.

No comment on this blog addressing me as "Mikey" will be released. Try to be more creative. As I have proven in the past, I don't mind personally insulting or even threatening comments -- occasionally I even highlight them in "Another country heard from . . ." -- but I draw the line at "Mikey." The only person I ever allowed to call me that was my Grandma Vanderboegh and she's long dead. Again, try to be more creative.

Other pet peeves that don't make it past the "Delete" button -- the "Itinerant Iraqi Painters Blew Up the OKC Federal Building" theory of Jayna Davis; 9/11 as an inside job; links to Prison Planet and neoNazi rants (which are almost always too obscene anyway). All comments have to approved by me so reposting five times just because you don't immediately see it gets you nowhere. This is, after all, my blog. Don't like it? Get your own. You can call me "Mikey" to your heart's content there.

13 comments:

Anonymous said...: Mr. Vanderboegh
Your work is much appreciated, and although your family comes first, I miss your insightful comments during your hiatus. Please know that your faithful followers wish only the best for you. H in MO.; August 13, 2012 at 9:51 AM
Anonymous said...: Agreed.. but where's the "Like" button?; August 13, 2012 at 10:58 AM
Anonymous said...: Childish nickname`s are a coward`s feeble attempt at an insult. I agree 100% on this Prison Planet deal, Jone`s makes some interesting point`s but his credibility goes out the window when he start`s slobbering and ranting.; August 13, 2012 at 11:34 AM
Anonymous said...: I understand where you're coming from Mike. My first name is William but I hate being called Billy, especially Billy Boy. In my family I have a nickname since I've had since I was born. I'll except Bill or William from my friends though.; August 13, 2012 at 12:59 PM
Anonymous said...: OK, what kind of rotten tomatoes are we allowed to throw back at them?
-JRM; August 14, 2012 at 3:34 AM
AJ said...: I dunno. I have a friend that I call Mikey, kind of a term of endearment. But I guess he's never said not to call him that.; August 14, 2012 at 9:44 AM
rdf67 said...: God Bless You, Mike. Thanks for your continued efforts to spread the truth.; August 14, 2012 at 10:04 AM
We the people... said...: "Lighten up, Francis."
Kidding... Keep up the good work.; August 14, 2012 at 2:07 PM
Anonymous said...: How about irreverent comments and tasteless humor ? I've found bloggers,
podcasters, and others who take themselves too seriously often become
dreary and depressing.

So with that, I have to ask the question,
while the Dutch are often obsessed with
building dikes. Since when did it
become reality that dykes started obsessing over tearing down dutchmen ?

Thus would follow a very long delayed fuse before someone got the
Maddow vs Vanderboegh connection, and poor humor would reach a new low. ;P; August 14, 2012 at 5:09 PM
Anonymous said...: Fast and Furious was an inside job.; August 14, 2012 at 6:29 PM
Dedicated_Dad said...: I believe I may have been guilty of "Mikey" a time or two - if so, please know that I never meant to offend, but rather was attempting to express appreciation and (perhaps unwarranted) familiarity.

I'll be sure to not do so in the future!; August 14, 2012 at 9:00 PM
angrymike said...: I agree totally sir, I absolutely hate being called that. It could start a brawl after a few drinks in my younger days...........; August 15, 2012 at 1:06 AM
john said...: What is your beef with prison planet ? or is it just the whole"linky" thing ... i will read every source of information from the huff post to natl review to RT to Fox news to Ny times to the Daily Mail. Can you elaborate what is so offensive about links to Prison Planet?; August 15, 2012 at 12:05 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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