Sipsey Street Irregulars: Back from the hospital.

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Back from the hospital.

That went much better than anyone expected. Stent's out, had some more scans afterward to try to locate that pesky pinhole leak in the esophagus, but at least the bloody stent is out (apparently shifted around and caused me much pain when swallowing). Anyway, after the happy juice/gas wore off, I collapsed on the couch at home for a long nap so I'll be working on Absolved this evening for a while. Thanks for all the prayers. -- Mike III

5 comments:

AJ said...: We're glad you're back. Now finish your book!! :-); November 16, 2012 at 9:07 AM
Anonymous said...: That's great news Mike, glad to
hear that you're out of there!

As you work on Absolved will the
new material/chapters be made
available either here or on David's
webpage (via the chapter links)?

Definitely ready for more quality
reading on this end!

Yours In Liberty!
Northgunner III; November 16, 2012 at 5:32 PM
Anonymous said...: Hi Mike,

Glad to hear that you're out of there
and with the stint out. Hope your
recovery keeps up and that your strength and vitality return.

As you work on Absolved will new
material/chapters be made available
to read via David's page or here?

Yours In Liberty!
Northgunner III; November 16, 2012 at 5:35 PM
NotClauswitz said...: Much gladness!; November 16, 2012 at 5:48 PM
III more than them said...: Ah, geeez, Mike. Take care of yourself. I suggest to any and all that pray for this man that he receive the Lion's share of wisdom regarding his circumstances. Pray that he has peace (without which, no one can rationally think), patience and good humor.

I hope you and your family are taking this string of issues better than most.; November 17, 2012 at 4:46 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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Thursday, November 15, 2012

Back from the hospital.

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