Sipsey Street Irregulars: Hat update.

Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Hat update.

If you haven't yet received your hat order, here's why:

I sent out all the hats I had on hand -- 40 -- and those of you lucky enough to be on that list got them before Christmas. I am waiting to take delivery (promised for today) on the balance. Much to my frustration, the embroiderer had a machine break down and put off her delivery until after Christmas. All remaining orders should be out of here and on the way by Wednesday. Sorry for the delay. There will be hats of both types -- "100 Heads Life Insurance" & "Fight Tyranny, Shoot Back" -- still available after that, in black and dark brown.

5 comments:

WarriorClass III said...: Well, I guess I wasn't on that list. Noticed my check was cashed well before that first shipment went out though.; December 30, 2014 at 8:31 AM
Dutchman6 said...: Sorry, WC. I filled the orders in the order they came in and then was surprised by the embroiderer's failure to deliver. If there were orders that included both types or different colors, those got held until the embroiderer could deliver. Frankly I expected them all before Christmas but she didn't deliver. I was left with the option of canceling the order and trying to find somebody else to do the job or sticking with her. It was a B.A.D. decision -- best available data. Will ship them as soon as they are put in my hands. Waiting for the call now.; December 30, 2014 at 12:56 PM
prambo said...: To paraphrase Buzzsaw from "Running Man". -

I love this hat! It's a part of me... now I'm gonna make it part of *you*!

The relatives love it!! Well, at least some of them. My fiancee loves it - I'm good with that!

Le chapeau de revolution!!!; December 30, 2014 at 3:06 PM
RVN11B said...: No big deal. The hat will get here when it gets here!

I can live with that.; December 30, 2014 at 4:00 PM
Capitalist Eric said...: I'd ordered one "hundred heads" hat and one "shoot back." Got three "shoot back" hats, only one of which I have taken out of the box ( and firmly planted on my head as I write this :-).

Wanna' trade the extras for a "100 heads"? ;) I'm sure a couple of other guys our there are wondering why their hats are on my shelf... ;)

Eric; December 30, 2014 at 6:50 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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