Sipsey Street Irregulars: Overslept.

Saturday, December 27, 2014

Overslept.

"Well it's a nice, soft night, so I think I'll go and join me comrades and talk a little treason." -- Michaleen Flynn in The Quiet Man, 1952.

I have to be in a nearby county early this morning to talk a little treason to the Empire and I intend to scavenge brass in the predawn darkness on the way there (early bird gets worm). I am working on a series of posts wrapping up the year and comparing 1774-1775 to 2014-2015. Hope to have the first of those later today. Sorry I overslept.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...: I am looking forward to your insights. I have been bouncing comparisons of the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, and other events of the past around in my head.
I am trying to figure out which part of history we are repeating.; December 27, 2014 at 8:04 AM
Anonymous said...: Don't apologize for sleeping. It is a blessing to get it when you can.; December 27, 2014 at 11:07 AM
Anonymous said...: Mike that is known as "Recharging your Batteries" Get all the rest you can get since I think we are going to have a rough upcoming year with all the Nit Wits in DC and those Gun Grabbing States.; December 27, 2014 at 1:34 PM
CowboyDan said...: I saw "The Quiet Man" the other day and paid pretty good attention this time. There are some good lines in it, aside from the one you quoted above. The first (or second) time Dannaher challenged Thornton to a fight set, in the bar, had a good one. "If you count three, you'll never hear the man count ten." I got that right off the bat.

There were a few places in and near Cong that we knew from our trip to Ireland. I'm not sure but that the tavern in which many scenes were set is one in which we ate. I don't recall the menu, but I do remember the food was good.

They're proud of their meat in Ireland. You see signs everywhere "We proudly serve beef, (pork, fowl, whatever) raised in Ireland.

I don't think we had a bad meal in the whole country.; December 27, 2014 at 3:29 PM
TRex said...: I agree with one or more of the three "Anonymous" posters who said:

Mike that is known as "Recharging your Batteries" Get all the rest you can get since I think we are going to have a rough upcoming year with all the Nit Wits in DC and those Gun Grabbing States.

Thanks for all you do.; December 27, 2014 at 5:01 PM
Gregory Hinners said...: We had the equivalent of "The Powder Alarm." That seemed to have started after Sandy Hook and still seems to be going (.22 shortage).; December 27, 2014 at 7:19 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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Saturday, December 27, 2014

Overslept.

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