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Don’t let them steal our history!

By: Doc Holliday (Diary)  |  February 21st, 2011 at 03:08 PM  | 

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The Federal Holiday today is George Washington’s Birthday, it is NOT “presidents day”.  It does not matter how many times Fox News says it is presidents day, it is still not the case.  Here is a link to the Federal holiday calendar.

<a href=”http://www.opm.gov/Operating_Status_Schedules/fedhol/2011.asp”>”Federal Holiday Calendar”</>

I believe that almost everyone calls it Presidents Day is a conspiracy of monkey see monkey do.  Every year I hear less and less about George Washington and more and more about “President’s Day”.   Yet the fact remains that the Federal holiday is George Washington’s birthday and my state’s holiday is George Washington Day.  Technically the holiday does not fall on our first presidents actual birthday, which is February 22nd because Congress passed a law making most federal holidays fall on a Monday, in this case the third Monday of February.

Some say the origin of “president’s day” was by northerners who thought Abraham Lincoln was getting shortchanged.  I guess this became a North vs. South thing; which is odd to me because one would think we all should revere The Father of our Country.  And it is true that some mostly northern states recognize a “president’s day” holiday.   But many other states celebrate only George Washington’s Birthday.  I would be all for a national holiday celebrating Lincoln, surely he is deserving of remembrance.    If people who think today is president’s day realized the original intent in some northern states was to celebrate both Washington and Lincoln, things woud not be so bad, but this is not the case.

What this fake presidents day national holiday has become is a way to diminish George Washington, and in a way, even Lincoln.  These men are diminished when their greatness is compared equally to Chester A. Arthur, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and Barrack Obama.  There was a time not long ago when this was done on purpose.  Nixon pompously was the one to first suggest all presidents should be revered on this day.  But I will say one last time, this was NEVER an official federal holiday.  Now I think people just hear the term President’s Day so often on newscasts and by retail stores trying to make up another excuse for a sale, that people start to believe it must be true, I mean everyone calls it that.

Please people, don’t let them steal our history!  There was only one George Washington; “first in peace, first in war, and first in the eyes of his countrymen”.  If you care to see whether your state celebrates the Great Washington, look it up online, I know even Massachusetts does.  If you are unlucky enough to live in a state that does not celebrate Washington on this day, at least know your nation does, or at least it is supposed to!

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  • Doc Holliday

    this should work

    http://www.opm.gov/Operating_Status_Schedules/fedhol/2011.asp

    I really tried this time, you can even see the <h ref and all that jazz

    • http://www.nighttwister.com NightTwister
    • http://www.thejoyofreason.com Greg Garrison

      You open your link tag with a less than sign and an a href=, like you did in the diary. Then the link within quotation marks. Then a greater than sign.

      Then you put in the words that you want to show up and direct people to your link.

      Then comes a less than sign, a forward slash, an a, and a greater than sign, like this:

      [a href="http://www.redstate.com"]Doc is a good guy.[/a]

      Replace my brackets with less than and greater than signs (“”), and that will do it.

      • Doc Holliday

        and what about the quotes I made on the words I wanted to show up, are they needed?

        Another thing I don’t get is why I can’t just type the website and it become “hot” like in a post.

        btw, thanks GG and Street for helping

        • http://www.thejoyofreason.com Greg Garrison

          First, it looks like you typed this in a word processor and pasted it in. You can do that (I do for diary entries), but I think that you have to replace the curly-ended quotation marks (?) with straight ones (“).

          Second (style thing), you don’t have to put the visible text (Federal Holiday Calendar) in quotes.

          Third, yes, you missed the terminating a.

          • http://www.thejoyofreason.com Greg Garrison

            My iPhone turned the “straight” marks I just used into curly ones. Oops. And good diary entry. Thanks for the reminder.

          • Doc Holliday

            thanks for the help and reading the diary too. I was sickened hearing about Presidents Day constantly on Fox today. And they did include Clinton as one with characteristics we should revere; I believe his was perseverance.

    • Bill S

      I prefer it over the HTML one. You just highlight the word you want to link and click the Link button. You get a little popup where you can paste your link. Pretty basic.

      • Doc Holliday

        maybe if I write more diaries I will download it. I mostly comment so I am used to just typing in an IP and having it go hot.

  • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

    column from last year:

    http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2011/02/17/obama-files-desperate-motion-to-clarify-to-save-obamacare/#comment-10035

    Good job Doc

    • Doc Holliday

      I think I wrote about this before too. Someone seems to need to do it every year unfortunately. Kind of like Rush reading from his book about Thanksgiving. I have also sent emails Fox today, most rejected saying the email box is full. I once sent an email to someone in the Bush admin to tell them to get it right.

      People are not even trying, even those that know it such as public officials. So sad, this country used to be crazy about Washington. I read not long ago that about 7 public schools a year change their name from Washington to something else. Several changed from Washington to Malcom X for what that’s worth.

      • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

        the values that built the nation and kept it strong.

        • Doc Holliday

          if holidays are just three day weekends why even name them?

          • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

            to try and emphasize how important they are to maintaining our national identity and regularly bemoans to moving of so many to Mondays.

  • Menlo

    When I was in school, there was no holiday in February. I’d never heard of “President’s Day” or “Washington’s Birthday.” The school district still does not recognize any holiday, nor does any of the rest of the city or county government.

    • GregInFla

      Lincoln’s Birthday on the 12th and Washington’s on the 22nd. We had tow days off from school. I had always thought that when they added MLK Day, they merged the two into President’s Day to keep the same number of holidays.

      • lvjohnston

        .. we had school holidays on Washington’s and Lincoln’s birthdays in Chicago back in the 60′s. Having both helped crystallize the values we were supposed to emulate. Quotes from each would be posted around the classrooms and halls. Sad that they’ve watered down those teachings… along with so many other things.

        I remember the arguments for combining them – in Illinois anyway – was to reduce the number of days off so we could have more class days in February (and my little 4th grader brain knew that was not a good thing).

        Now the kids get even more days off for Teacher’s Institute days (aka “Professional Development” days) and I admire how so many times they are able to schedule those half days just before the three day federal holidays as they did this past weekend. Wonder how many doctor’s notes for ‘migraines’ were turned in on Tuesday?
        :)

  • Scope

    right here at the RS “create new diary” section, you will see the section right on top of the diary body page. Have your http etc address ready, and type in the diary something like “from this article” , highlight article, for example, and then click on the 10th icon over on the list which will be the “insert/edit link”, and enter the address in the box that will be displayed, and, choose “open in a separate page” option. The highlighted word in the diary, in this case “article” will be blue. When anyone reads the diary, they just click on the blue article word and they are redirected to your source.

    • Doc Holliday
  • Doc Holliday

    but thanks for the two reccos guys :)

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