Sipsey Street Irregulars: Almost on the road this morning. Having trouble opening email.

Thursday, May 28, 2015

Almost on the road this morning. Having trouble opening email.

Haven't a clue why. This hotel computer just won't cooperate. Says AOL is a "blocked site because of content." What a laugh. Except it isn't funny. Yet it will allow me onto Sipsey Street. What a crock. More later.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...: In most cases corporate IT folks can't keep up with what sites to block so they "outsource" the list and maybe even the proxy server it resides on. My former employer, BellSouth, at one point blocked NRA but not NRA/ILA. No it doesn't make any sense but then it doesn't have to. It just needs to generate revenue for the company who lands the IT service contract. Nobody checks up on this stuff much less has the horsepower to get it fixed. And the corporate board would say "What's a blacklist?"; May 28, 2015 at 7:31 AM
Earl Flanigan said...: Most cheap content blockers use the DNS address (www.oathkeepers.org)and do not bother to lock out the actual IP address (209.188.24.130). If you can discover the IP address for AOL - there will be a ton of 'em, you might give that a shot. Also a good idea to have that anyway in case the DNS servers are shut down - will give you a bit more online time before a total shutdown happens.; May 28, 2015 at 8:54 AM
Bad Cyborg said...: I just got back from 5 days in NM seeing my son & grandkids (youngest of whom graduated HS Friday) and had constant problems with the router at that hotel, too. I have a hunch it is related to the fact that you cannot simply log into the router but can go in once accepting the T&C of the hotel's WiFi. I was constantly getting dropouts and having problems getting out.

Stay safe on the trip. Don't do anything that will get you tossed in jail without consulting Rosie first. Hope she or David can get to SSI to tell us we need to get bail together.; May 28, 2015 at 9:48 AM
Anonymous said...: White House: Epic Gun Control Failure in Baltimore Proves More Gun Control Is Needed

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/05/27/white-house-epic-gun-control-failure-in-baltimore-proves-more-gun-control-is-needed/; May 28, 2015 at 3:58 PM
Anonymous said...: If anything Mike, my prayers are with you. Have a safe and productive trip ..and give em the truth. That's all you have to do.; May 28, 2015 at 6:41 PM
Anonymous said...: BOOM: DC Forced to Issue Concealed Carry Permits Immediately

Judge Denies Stay, DC ‘Forced’to Issue Concealed Permits Now

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/05/28/judge-denies-stay-dc-forcedto-issue-concealed-permits-now/; May 28, 2015 at 9:56 PM
Mark Pugner said...: Try a different browser.; May 29, 2015 at 7:51 AM
Anonymous said...: You need to start using a VPN so you can always access anything all the time. That dude over at combatstudiesgroup.blogspot.com is selling a hardened, VPN ready tablet that is the bee knees for a road warrior like you.

Check it out.

III; May 30, 2015 at 12:47 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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Thursday, May 28, 2015

Almost on the road this morning. Having trouble opening email.

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