Comments | sr_foxley: "Loyalty Day"? WTF?

sr_foxley

"Loyalty Day"? WTF?

May 01, 2007 13:09

So, Teeka just pointed out this whitehouse press release in which our idiotic president decided that celebration of pagan holidays be damned, May 1 is now gonna be "Loyalty Day" in the U.S.

After reading through the press release my initial reactions are:

So what exactly are we supposed to be celebrating on July 4th?
Does "Loyalty Day" stike anyone ( Read more... )

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jeffreycwells May 1 2007, 20:24:45 UTC

Dear Mr. Bush:

PLEASE DO NOT TELL ME WHAT I BELIEVE.

thx ok bye

kliefox May 1 2007, 20:26:00 UTC

I can't f***ing believe the SoB got re-elected.

As you said, election day can't come soon enough.

giza May 1 2007, 20:30:23 UTC

If it's any consolation, look what happened to Nixon after HE got re-elected.

kliefox May 1 2007, 21:24:57 UTC

Touche! XD

harliquinnraver May 1 2007, 20:45:01 UTC

ooh how much you wanna bet that we end up with at least 3 more "holidays" before he leave office? *eyeroll*

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dragondazd May 1 2007, 20:28:50 UTC

is that in spite of, or despite, the protests being run today?

sr_foxley May 1 2007, 20:34:25 UTC

Well, the press release was issued yesterday, so I imagine it's "in spite of." There isn't a pure motive anywhere in that idiot's body.

jonbuck May 1 2007, 20:37:04 UTC

I hate to break it to you, but this is not Bush's invention:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyalty_Day

It became an official holiday in 1958.

jeffreycwells May 1 2007, 20:40:04 UTC

Good to know, though his language still rankles me.

sr_foxley May 1 2007, 20:46:59 UTC

Yep, I agree-- Although I don't think we need yet another holiday to celebrate patriotism in this country, it's his totally idiotic unfortunate wording and linking to the Revolution times in this country's history that just make my brain hurt. It all smacks of pre-1958 McCarthyist paranoid thinking to me.

sr_foxley May 1 2007, 21:32:52 UTC

Meh. I suppose you're right... and Bush certainly likes to proclaim every obscure official US holidays. (I suppose he views this as one of his vital roles as president.)

Still, I do find pretty-much revolting anything that comes out of the man's mouth. Compare Bush's declaration with one released by Clinton when he was in office.

Of note: The not-so-subtle implication in Bush's proclamation that anyone who doesn't fly a flag today is not showing loyalty to the country. (Also keeping in mind that the original declaration passed in congress in 1958 of Loyalty Day calls upon government agencies to fly the flag on this day, and says nothing of the general citizenship of the country other than they should celebrate appropriately.)

giza May 1 2007, 21:29:21 UTC

I'm going to "celebrate" Loyalty Day[1] the same way I "celebrate" Labor Day and Presidents' Day.

[1] Although Bush hasn't come out and said it, I get the impression that he'd like to really call the holiday "Loyalty to the Republican Party Day".