Hope the surgery went well.

Looks like you made it - here's to a speedy recovery.

Lookin' good. Here's to a speedy recovery.

To a speedy recovery.

More prayers heading your way.

I always tell the Dr. that I want two things when I wake up. A Foley and a morphine drip. Looks like you got the same. Hope that you are better soon.
george

Ah, the picture worth a thousand words.

Looks like you made it ... prayers for a speedy recovery coming your way.

That's the spirit, fighting every inch of the way.

I'd hate to see what happened to the other guy!

Get well!

Looks like they poked enough holes in ya. Hang in there!

Hopefully they put everything back together right! I'm glad to see you survived!

May you be in Heaven 30 minutes before the Devil knows you're dead, 20 years past the time he was expecting you.

Get well soon!

Don't know ya but I like your attitude. Hang in there and go kick some ass.

God bless you! Attitude counts!

And now the getting well begins!

Get well soon.

Looks like someone just told you that obama-care is coming to your hospital and your room, heh, heh.

Watch where you poke that finger!

Good to see the proper attitude, though! I ask again: Need anything? Let us know.

Watch that finger, or they'll tape it up, too.

Um, why the eye patch? (I just watched an episode of House, M.D. where Dr. House breaks into an operating room to stop a procedure he now knows isn't needed. "Don't touch his eye!" "Uhh...this is an appendectomy." Long pause. "Like I said, don't touch his eye!" House's patient's surgery had been pre-empted by the busted appendix patient....)

Whatever, glad you made it through the surgery.

Love the attitude! Continued prayers for a speedy and complete recovery.

Now is the perfect time to maintain an even strain. Semper Fi.

Fits

Are you telling the nurses that gave you the cold bedpan they are number one?

Get well soon!

Hope you marked the spot where they were supposed to operate. Sure would not want them to take out the wrong thing!

Get well soon. With NK about to start a nuke war, America going broke, and Obama wanting a national sales tax (and still the same income tax) we need you in one piece to keep up with that is happening!

Get well and keep blogging!

Wishing for a speedy recovery. Freedom needs more friends like you.

Looking good!!!

It must be the morphine.
Get well soon, David.

Stay defiant, David! It'll give you strength.

And keep the morphine coming!

A man's man, to be sure.

Continue, sir, in your pursuit to perservere.

Best David has looked in a while! Keep going!

Best wishes, get well soon!

Great to see your fighting spirit is intact. Here is to a speedy recovery

If that's your attitude when your in ICU, I'd hate to mess with you when your feeling good!

(Glad your doing ok, Get well soon)

Looks like you've maintained the right attitude. We're pulling for you.

TC

That's the spirit! Hope they get you to more comfortable accommodations soon, and then out the door and back to your normal routine shortly thereafter.

Thanks for the update, and best wishes for a fast recovery.

I read your blog often. I hope you have a speedy recovery.

Glad you're still able to sign... ;-D Prayers will be said nonetheless.

Give em' hell!
And get well soon...

You need to do that to the nurse chick right before she pulls your catheter...I double dare you!! ;-)

Still Kicking. Very good!

You magnificent bastard. Get well soon.

When I suggested you get in there and FIGHT ... I had precisely this picture in mind!

Good on you. Keep those spirits up!

[...] David Hardy shows his mettle [...]

Godspeed and full recovery!

Would make an excellent drivers license photo!
http://hamptonroads.com/2009/05/virginia-bans-smiles-drivers-license-photos

Stop laying down on the job! You ain't done yet! God speed in getting well.

Here's some reading for ya!

Jakub Grygiel, The Power of Statelessness, Policy Review, April & may 2009, no. 154, pp.35-50 in bookstores now but it is also online at: www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/41708942.html

Article focuses on new technology that enables the masses, from ordinary John Q. Public to constitutional "rights extremists," to organize outside state control. Very interesting article.

It takes Flash Mobbing to a new level, from social pranks to civil disobedience, to criminal activity, to even rebellion and revolution.

REWRITE:

Article focuses on new technology that enables the masses, from ordinary John Q. Public to constitutional "rights extremists," to terrorists, to organize outside state control. Very interesting article.

Here's one more current study everyone may find interesting:

State Supported and State Associated Gangs: Credible "Midwives of New Social Orders"
www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=876

The author addresses the subject of the multifaceted nature and predominant role of gangs operating as state and nonstate proxies in the modern unbalanced global security environment. In every phase of the process of compelling radical political change, agitator-gangs and popular militias play significant roles in helping their political patrons prepare to take control of a targeted political-social entity. As a result, gangs (bandas criminales or whatever they may be called) are important components of a highly complex political-psychological-military act—contemporary irregular asymmetrical political war.
Published May 2009, Authored by Dr. Max G. Manwaring

...See you're still the last of the angry, young men. :-)

Glad to see they fixed your hang nail also ;-) +1 to all the other comments.

Hang in there, pard.

Awesome!! And bonus, you can replace that cotton with a rockin' pirate eyepatch! I love a man in an eyepatch. (Get well soon, mister!)

Never say "die"! Recover soon and well, amigo, the battle awaits.

That's our salute!!

I would describe this photo as "making the best of a low-glamour moment."
We're sure it's the reduced mobility that makes your salute a bit low and short on fingers.

Best wishes for a smooth and speedy recovery!!

Get well soon! (I wish I'd been thinking that clearly when I came out of surgery!)

Looks like you're feeling up-to-snuff, here's hoping for a speedy recovery!

David, wish you the best and a speedy recovery.

Received a Twitter from David Codrea on new Second Amendment video from JPFO.

www.jpfo.org/filegen-a-m/movieplay-ngn-swf.htm

Get well soon, David. The Tribe misses you.

I can see you are taking to heart the Latin proverb: NIL ILLEGITIMUS CARBORUNDUM. Good show.

Rock On!!

Hope you got some cute nurses to watch over you......

You look great. Best of luck.

You gave me a great laugh before I head off to bed. Speedy recovery, Mr. Hardy.

Get well you crusty old bastard!

I know the story behind that picture!

As the nurse brought him into his room in the ICU, He said to the nurse, "I hope the porn channel in my room is disabled."

"No," she said, "It's regular porn, you sick bastard."

At least that's the way I heard it! ;-)
Get well soon!

Get well soon!! We're all pulling for you Dave.

Hoping and praying you'll get well soon. We need you!

I've been frequenting your site for a few years.My first time posting and ironically I wasn't aware of your medical condition.

That being said,I wish you good health and a swift recovery.

You have an excellent blog,and keep up the good work.

Extra blood and morphine. I guess that explains the irreverant hand gesture and laconic facial expression.

Been there, done that.

Get well soon.

Good on you for a speedy return to health.

God Bless.

Dude, like get a comb for that beard...

Great photo of a deform finger and you paid for this operation and you're a lawyer, LOL! You kill me David! Yo brother use the Yellow Pages for contacting a lawyer for malpractice because your doctor did a piss poor job so you will never type correctly ever again.
David, on a personal level, just how much juice are they feeding you?

So what are you trying to say with that finger . . . ?
Oh, you mean, "You're Number One!"
But wait, I can think of so many anti-Second Amendment scoundrels out there who are also "Number Ones" that now I don't know which one you are saluting!
Actually, when I first looked at that photo of you, I could not help seeing your happily defiant grizzled visage as an embodiment of the embattled Second Amendment itself, "bloody, but unbowed," as the poet William Ernest Henley wrote in "Invictus" (the title being a Latin word meaning 'unconquered'), quoted below:

Invictus

OUT of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.