Today by act of congress, we celebrate George Washington’s Birthday. Most public school students – and sadly public school teachers - have come to think of today as President’s Day. It is sort of like the Christmas Holiday being morphed into the Holiday Holiday. As in - "We are have our office 'holiday' party this Friday." To which my reply is always the same, “What holiday is it?” The Christmas Holiday is going the way of Washington’s Birthday.
We used to celebrate Washington’s Birthday on Feb 22, which oddly enough was the date on which he was born. How dumb is that? Celebrating birthdays on the actual date of birth? That arrangement does absolutely nothing for the White Sale down at the local department store.
Since some dopey idea called the Uniform Monday Holiday Act of 1971, we’ve celebrated Washington’s Birthday on the third Monday of February. Somehow Jesus’ birthday, Veteran’s Day and the 4th of July were exempt from the Uniform Monday Holiday stupidity. I guess celebrating the 4th of July on the 6th because that happened to be first Monday of July made little sense even to the dopes in Washington – or is it President’s - D.C.
Washington’s Birthday was also the only holiday honoring an American Citizen until MLK day. So now, the Father of the Country is all but out and King is the only federal holiday celebrated in honor an American citizen. It’s not meant to, but I’m sure some would take this next comment as racist, comparing Washington to any other American is absurd.
Happy Birthday President Washington! We would not be here were it not for you. You remain the indispensable American, and for that you deserve your own day.
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Obama's birthday is August 4th. I am sure it will be a national holiday. My reasoning follows the same reasoning as the selection of Al Gore for the Nobel Peace Prize. His award was based on a fuzzy relationship of global warning, celebrity money, whales, polar bears, Darfur, and Haliburton. Obama's Holiday will be a day of community activism whereby Acorn will lead the parades, handing out $10 bills ($20 bills in depressed Chicago) for votes for upcoming elections. The government will also hand out coupons to stay in exclusive hotels with digital TV's. By the way this is in the Stimulus Bill on page 161,437 in subsection M of paragraph 15, hand written in the side column, under the Starbucks coffee stain for everyone to see. I am requesting my Obamarama Birfday for Activits coupon to spend the day at West Palm Beach Ritz Carelton. I hope you can have a job and still be eligible. The Griffin.
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