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Fri Mar 12 06:00:01 EST 2021
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Slept from ten-thirty to seven.
Woke briefly around three-thirty
Cooler.
Mostly sunny.
Highs in the lower 50s.
West winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph shifting to the northwest 15 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
Work
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- Check Bag TLS cert
Done.
- Review credit card invoice
No.
- Work on ticket system
Done.
- Configure LT switch
Done.
- Send work log to Jamie
Done.
Twenty-minute walk at lunch.
Sunny, very windy, and cooler than yesterday.
Home
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- Level up Zoozeki for likely D&D this weekend
- Go to bed not late (grocery delivery tomorrow morning)
Me, to Ed, oversimplifying:
> At the far end of the spectrum, the left can be as insane as the right. But weighing the two on a simplistic good/bad scale, consider who they regard as the enemy. Giving each side the benefit of the doubt, they both want to help society by punishing its enemies (a starting point that's bound to lead to bad things). The communists regard the rich as the enemies because they gain power and wield power to hurt the working class (i.e., the in-group). The fascists regard foreigners, brown people, and non-Christians as the enemy because they debase native white Christians (i.e., the in-group). They're both wrong in ways that can easily lead to violence, though I find the fascists more odious. Plus, communist ideology is more intellectually interesting than rah-rah nationalism.
I'd hoped Ed would pull back from his right-wing opinions after Trump left office, but it doesn't seem like he will any time soon.
I don't know what to do; it makes me sick.
https://warisboring.com/irish-americans-invaded-canada-in-a-plot-to-liberate-ireland/
> Had it succeeded, a 19th-century attempt to force the British out of Ireland by invading Canada would be remembered as the boldest flanking maneuver in military history. As it failed, the reader must decide if the Irish American invaders were naive or laudable for dreaming of an ancestral homeland free of colonial oppression.
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> In reality, a million Irish died, and more than a million fled the country during just one episode of famine, the “Great Hunger” of 1848-52. The recurrent disasters were magnified by the government’s reluctance to halt the export of grain from Ireland to England and reserve it for the peasants.
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> Far-fetched military ventures seemed less so once Irish expatriates realized that loved ones were dying because the English philosophy of government forbade meddling with the economy.
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> When America’s Fenians convened in Chicago, the Civil War was on, and England was backing the Confederacy. The Fenians assumed that made war between England and the United State inevitable.
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> Accordingly, the convention adopted a resolution ending with an allusion to Homer’s “Iliad.”
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> “Resolved: That the younger members of the Fenian Brotherhood be instructed to study military tactics, and apply themselves seduously to learn the use of arms, in order to be prepared as organized and disciplined bodies, to offer their services to the United States Government, by land or sea, against England’s myrmidons.”
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> That war didn’t happen, but the Fenians benefited from the tension between England and the United States. Washington turned a deaf ear to the Fenians’ intentions, which they loudly sang in pubs:
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> We are the Fenian Brotherhood, skilled in the arts of war,
> And we’re going to fight for Ireland, the land we adore,
> Many battles we have won, along with the boys in blue,
> And we’ll go and capture Canada, for we’ve nothing else to do.
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> Other Fenians gathered in Buffalo, New York, and on June 1, they crossed over the Niagara River into Canada while those in Chicago were held in reserve for a follow-up attack.
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> The 600 or so who landed in Ontario were confronted by a larger force, the Queen’s Own Rifles of Toronto. Despite its grandiloquent name, it was a poorly trained militia whose British commander made a fatal blunder. Spotting a few horses, he formed his men in a hollow square, the classic defense against a cavalry — but hopeless in the face of the Fenians’ bayonet charge. A Tribune correspondent positioned behind the British forces witnessed the ensuing chaos on June 2.
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> “Every (British soldier) took to his heels, and the bloody ‘divils’ of Fenians take the hindmost,” he wrote. “Some took the fields, some kept to the railroad track, while large numbers deemed the woods the path of safety — each face being turned for Port Colborne, the point whence they emerged, a proud and confident army, but a few hours previous.”
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> But even as news of the Fenians’ stunning victory was telegraphed around the world, their commander recognized his untenable position. British regulars were en route, so he retreated. But the U.S. government had decided to end the game and sent naval vessels to block the Fenians’ escape.
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> An American gunboat captured many Fenians. Stragglers rounded up by the British got stiff prison sentences, though some were commuted. Eighteen Fenians were killed and 24 wounded. Ten Canadians (British) were killed and 38 wounded.
Servings: grains 2/6, fruit 1/4, vegetables 2/4, dairy 0/2, meat 1/3, nuts 0/0.5
Brunch: cucumber, banana, coffee
Lunch: Indian curry with red pepper and sausage
Dinner: left-over curry
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