This is why I hate "Presidents Day"...

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Zkribbler

Ronald McDonald Woodrow Wilson Reagan Day.

You not only get the day off, but it comes with fries and the League of Nation home game.

I'm lovin' it!

[molly bloom]

Re: This is why I hate "Presidents Day"...

Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly

Bush ahead of Washington. Clinton tied with Lincoln. JFK in both top-fives.

Of course Americans are congenital idiots with the historical memory of mayflies, but still. So I hate "Presidents Day."

There; I feel better now.

Isn't this like those annual end of year polls when they ask Joe and Joanna Public what are their favourite albums OF ALL TIME and they name something that came out the week before ?

Like giving Duran Duran a lifetime achievement award, or Macaulay Culkin 'writing' his autobiography.

[Lefty Scaevola]

Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly


Please do tell: what the f*ck crawled up your ass and died?

But in 1971, when the Act went into effect, President Nixon proclaimed the holiday as Presidents' Day, to commemorate all past presidents, not just Lincoln and Washington. This idea was never intended or authorized by Congress; nevertheless, it gained a strong hold on the public consciousness.

Congrats on being technically correct, wrong about the larger issue, and quite the pompous ass. Well done, sir.

Wrong again, llama breath, said proclamation by Nixon is also a myth.

from snopes.com:

"President Nixon is frequently identified as the party responsible for changing Washington's Birthday into President's Day and fostering the notion that it is a day for commemorating all U.S. Presidents, a feat he supposedly achieved by issuing a proclamation on 21 February 1971 which declared the third Monday in February to be a "holiday set aside to honor all presidents, even myself." Evidence of this proclamation remains elusive, however. Presidential records indicate that Nixon merely issued an Executive Order (11582) on 11 February 1971 defining the third Monday of February as a holiday, and the announcement of that Executive Order identified the day as "Washington's Birthday." "

Double Barrel Owned!

[Odin]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
You think that's screwed up? Around here we have a holiday known as "Lee - Jackson - King Day" in honor of Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and Martin Luther King. This bizarre combination came as a duboius consession to black Virginians. A few years ago the Virginia legislature couldn't bring itself to give Rev. King his own holiday so they crammed him into the already existing combo holiday set aside for Virginia's two greatest Civil War heros.

Having a holiday for Confederate traitors:

[St Leo]

/me celebrates Benedict Arnold day in honour of the only true American patriot

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Odin
Having a holiday for Confederate traitors:

Well... technically, George Washington and crew were traitors as well

[Drake Tungsten]

Double Barrel Owned!

[Lefty Scaevola]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Well... technically, George Washington and crew were traitors as well

Yeah, rebels are typically traitors unless and until they win.