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My faithful Frogfans certainly noticed the erratic functioning of the site (and probably even before me, absorbed as I was in the next major step of my blogosphere take over project) and the sporadic disappearance of the dacha over what appears to be a period of 3 or 4 days - I can't confirm the full chain of events exactly, but I know it's been up and down over that period of time.The word in the (blog)street is that a handful of preposterous Al-Qaedass lickers and other underdeveloped rug rats, launched a Denial of Service attack, in a ludicrous attempt to target Internet Haganah, the most essential online counter-insurgency that confronts Islamist terrorists and their supporters online. However, missing the smart precision of our mighty armies, they launched their attack at the provider level and momentarily disturbed the access to different blogs, among which I'm just a little fish.
They failed, of course.
Instapundit is back, so are Samizdata, Andrew Sullivan, Little Green Footballs, The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler, Michael J. Totten and many others.
Their initial primary target, Internet Haganah, has changed its host and is back• stronger•than•before.
I'm always ecstatic when I think about the one and only thing the Communist and their National-Socialist brethrens got to understand pretty well, when they talked about the Capitalist "hydra" or "octopus".
For this is exactly what we are.
Millions of independent individuals, entrepreneurs, engineers, specialists, thinkers, scientists, scholars, creators working in conjunction or in competition yet pursuing similar goals: self-determinism, progress, efficiency, breakthrough, fulfillment and happiness.
Millions of heads, millions of hands, millions of complex living organisms thriving in open societies, millions of heterocyclic minds finding a way, always.
On the other hand, be it the Leftists or the Islamofascists, we find monolithic societies, monomaniacal mindsets and pyramidal organizations of - voluntarily or not - obedient but mindless subjects.
They can't win. They're doomed to fail. The very structure of their world - the very structure of their minds - is their fatal weakness: there's little to push or to remove for the whole edifice to collapse.
A little push in Kabul, a little push in Baghdad.
See how they fail, see how they fall.
As for us, I won't conceal my jubilation to find in the French classics a much apposite answer that presents the inestimable added value of kicking back at the Leftist and Islamist rabble's teeth with their own "anti-Imperialist" propaganda.
Indeed, a bit more than 360 years later, and speaking - mainly but not only - about America, it is my pleasure to put in the mouth of the Bove, the Castro or, particularly, the Ben Laden, the alexandrines of Monsieur Corneille, from a time when French culture wasn't yet the dull nothingness it became thanks to 30 years of social-mediocracy.
Cinna, or Augustus' clemency,
Act IV, scene 2:
(AugustusNot assured and certainly counted. (The alexandrines however, did not survive the frogmatranslation. My apology.)Ben Laden)
Rome has for my ruin a too fertile hydra:
One severed head makes for a thousand reborn,
And the spilled blood of a thousand conspirators
Make my days more doomed, not assured anymore.
Anyway, now that our severed heads gave birth to thousands of others, we shall take great pride in being targeted by Al-Qaeda: this is the best Web Award one can hope.
We shall celebrate and show off.
It is therefore my honor to offer the following medals to any proud veteran of this attack wishing to parade:

As usual, choose the one that suits you best ("blog" or "site") and host it on your own server but keep in mind that it's for veterans only.
Yay sonny! stay focused and cutting and maybe one day you'll become one.
Now practically:
- Email servers went down as well. The mail will bounce back and probably reach me one day or the other but just in case you sent me something crucial (mainly Swiss banks accounts' numbers and formal offers to sponsor, adopt or marry me) I guess it would be safer to send them again.
- There is from now on a designated fallback position. Please add it to your bookmarks as I'll be sending vital signs from there at the next skirmish.
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