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Twas a Bad Day Today…

by Adam L Silverman|  July 5, 20222:17 am| 18 Comments

This post is in: Gun Issues, Open Threads, Politics, Silverman on Security

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When I lived in Scotland, I was told the legend of a lone MacDonald highlander, perched on the edge of the battlefield after the battle of Killiecrankie. The story goes that he was overheard keening:

Twas a bad day today.

As bad a day as yesterday.

Will be a bad day tomorrow.

The person who related the story to me called this MacDonald’s Lament. I have never been able to validate it, but it seems to fit the weekend.

Here’s some of the living descendants of Frederick Douglass reading his classic essay What To the Slave Is the Fourth of July:

Here’s the abolitionist version of My Country Tis of Thee:

And since I know you’ll riot if I don’t post it, your daily Patron!

What's up? 😝 It's me. I decided to write to you more actively here. And I think to do it in English. 👍🏻 or 👎🏻? pic.twitter.com/Dvtf97mkZ5

— Patron (@PatronDsns) July 4, 2022

Here’s new video from Patron’s official TikTok:

@patron__dsns

Побував на уламках Чернігівського мосту…😔 #песпатрон #патрондснс #славаукраїні

♬ У мене немає дому – Один в каное

The caption says:

I visited the wreckage of the Chernihiv Bridge… #pespatron #patrondsns #slavaukraine

I’ll be back tomorrow night with a regular update.

Open thread!

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18Comments

  1. 1.

    Ksmiami

    July 4, 2022 at 10:26 pm

    How can we bring the pain to Russia? seriously

  2. 2.

    Spanky

    July 4, 2022 at 10:33 pm

    Glad I am that the title didn’t reference a turn for the worse in Ukraine. Or in Patron!

  3. 3.

    NotMax

    July 4, 2022 at 10:40 pm

    Here’s some of the living descendants of Fredrick Douglas

    Douglass.

    Please to fix.

  4. 4.

    NotMax

    July 4, 2022 at 10:44 pm

    ‘@NotMax

    Inadvertently glossed over the other oopsie.

    Here’s some of the living descendants of Fredrick Douglas

    Frederick Douglass.

  5. 5.

    Jerzy Russian

    July 4, 2022 at 10:47 pm

    Thanks for the links to the videos.    The one with Fredrick Douglass’ speech was very well done.

  6. 6.

    Bill Arnold

    July 4, 2022 at 10:51 pm

    @Ksmiami:

    How can we bring the pain to Russia? seriously

    Well, a usual answer would be delivering more PGMs.
    Also, and with less death:
    – Working international politics/economics/oil producers to keep sanctions in place and even strengthened. With ruthlessness when appropriate.
    – Vigorously countering and/or helping counter Russian influence operations, world wide/all languages. E.g. allowing Russians to paint their utterly amoral use of famine as a international political weapon as the West’s fault should not be tolerated. (Basic causality – if Imperial Russia hadn’t invaded Ukraine there would be no problems with grain/fertilizer exports.)

  7. 7.

    Ksmiami

    July 4, 2022 at 10:56 pm

    Tell Putin that if he continues the blockade, we and our Allies will Sink the Black Sea fleet. One ship at a time.

  8. 8.

    Alison Rose

    July 4, 2022 at 11:11 pm

    Damn, that My Country Tis of Thee version is incredible.

  9. 9.

    Alison Rose

    July 4, 2022 at 11:13 pm

    @Ksmiami: As much as I would love to see it in theory, you know neither the US nor any other country is going to do anything like that unless and until Putin sends his minions somewhere other than Ukraine. I hate that this is the case, but it is.

  10. 10.

    Ohio Mom

    July 4, 2022 at 11:34 pm

    The great-great-great-great-great grandchildren iof Federick Douglass remind me that although I know who my grandparents were, and a tiny, tiny smidgen about their parents, all I know about the preceding generations is that they were struggling Eastern European Jews.

    Just underlines for me the Americanness of American Blacks, even as we as a culture only half-heartedly take them as full citizens.

  11. 11.

    Gretchen

    July 5, 2022 at 12:09 am

    During the early days of Covid in New York City, when there were morgue trucks outside the hospitals, my daughter asked her husband how work went.  He told her not to ask. « Worse than yesterday, better than tomorrow. «

  12. 12.

    Bill

    July 5, 2022 at 12:09 am

    Here is macdonald’s lament:. https://youtu.be/pzjgnOYyST0

  13. 13.

    Yutsano

    July 5, 2022 at 12:15 am

    Clean-up on aisle 13 please?

    EDIT: grazie!

  14. 14.

    Adam L. Silverman

    July 5, 2022 at 12:17 am

    @Bill: That’s MacDonald of Morar’s Lament. The piper playing it is named Macleod. It’s not what I’m referring to.

  15. 15.

    Adam L. Silverman

    July 5, 2022 at 12:19 am

    @Yutsano: I have no idea who allowed that out of moderation. Was in Cole’s post too. I both trashed the comment and banned whomever that was.

  16. 16.

    Another Scott

    July 5, 2022 at 12:21 am

    @Adam L. Silverman: I didn’t see who you banhammered here, but there’s still some “Truck…” downstairs spamming the place.  Thanks.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  17. 17.

    Adam L. Silverman

    July 5, 2022 at 1:36 am

    @Another Scott: Same one as here. Trashed the and banned the spammer.

  18. 18.

    Ksmiami

    July 5, 2022 at 3:24 am

    @Alison Rose :  it’s doable in that the blockade is a declaration of war with the world and in flagrant violation of maritime law on the open seas. We need to stop being afraid and start maximizing pressure mob style

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