Sipsey Street Irregulars: Guess he found out the truth of Grandpa Vanderboegh's dictum.

Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Guess he found out the truth of Grandpa Vanderboegh's dictum.

"Son, you don't poke a wolverine with a sharp stick unless you want your balls ripped off." -- Grandpa Vanderboegh.

Alaskan Wolverine

One Tough Dude – Alaska Man Survives Three Days At Temps -35′ and Holds Off Stalking Wolverine Until Rescue…

11 comments:

FedUp said...: He fired warning shots at the Wolverine before fighting it with a stick? Why didn't he shoot it and eat it? Was he too far gone from the cold to aim a gun?; December 30, 2014 at 8:42 AM
Anonymous said...: Here is a general rule for operating in Alaska: If you are traveling in the bush, and do not carry something to signal the rescue helicopters (flares, laser lights, led flashlight, ELTs, etc.), you are asking to meet the wolverines up close and personal. Most grownups know this.; December 30, 2014 at 10:04 AM
Anonymous said...: Some animals get downright aggravated when you fire warning shots at them. Wolverines, nutria, pigs...; December 30, 2014 at 11:44 AM
Anonymous said...: FedUp...I was wondering the same thing?? But you gotta give this guy some credit. Most kids nowadays could get lost in midtown Manhattan..; December 30, 2014 at 11:59 AM
Sean said...: Looking at the picture, I see that my ex-wifes'looks have actually improved.; December 30, 2014 at 3:05 PM
prambo said...: I LOVE Wolverines - even have Wolverine "ink" - Oops!!

Admitted I am an "inkie".; December 30, 2014 at 3:14 PM
Derrel Carter said...: Looks like a regular wolf to me?; December 30, 2014 at 3:50 PM
Anonymous said...: "He fired warning shots at the Wolverine before fighting it with a stick? Why didn't he shoot it and eat it? Was he too far gone from the cold to aim a gun?"

If it came out that he killed an endangered species, he probably would have gone to prison for life.; December 30, 2014 at 7:32 PM
Anonymous said...: "He fired warning shots at the Wolverine before fighting it with a stick? Why didn't he shoot it and eat it? Was he too far gone from the cold to aim a gun?"

Wolverines are very ill tempered. Perhaps so ill tempered that shooting one and not killing enrages it and it goes beserek and kills you. Or will significant injury cause it to wimper away like many other animals?; December 30, 2014 at 7:34 PM
Crotalus said...: Why does that look like a wolf's face superimposed on the body of a wol\/erine? (Back slash & forward slash! Got around a broken letter!); December 30, 2014 at 9:08 PM
prambo said...: Just checked a crap-ton of wolverine pics, and where their teeth are showing, they are VERY impressive.

The wolverine is not to be trifled with.; December 31, 2014 at 5:53 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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Guess he found out the truth of Grandpa Vanderboegh's dictum.

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