"Loyalty Day"? WTF?

[sr_foxley]

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

Comments

[wicked_sairah]

*flies a Canadian flag with pride*

Yeah, I'm not Canadian, but every day I get closer and closer to becoming one.

[fdsf]

Really? Is this a "The US is screwed up so I'm going to leave" thing or an actual desire to move to Canada?

Not that there's anything wrong with the first reason, we have a tradition of taking those people in (from the Loyalists to the draft dodgers, and even some troops are going AWOL and seeking refugee in Canada). I'm just kinda curious about the mindset.

After all, as everyone knows, the real reason to move to Canada is for the weather.

[lupercus_wuff]

Bah you only started that because we white feather's run south during the opening stages of WWII, and well, as they say pay backs a bia...

[wicked_sairah]

I've always loved Canada and I have always wished to move there.

But I also feel the US is fucked up and is not going to get any better. So there is that mindset as well. I know if we did move to Canada, it wouldn't be any time soon sadly. :/

[ken_redtail]

Don't jump all over Bush. Loyalty Day has been around since before he was born.

http://ken-redtail.livejournal.com/439003.html

Maybe he could have worded his speech better.
And Loyalty Day is the polar opposite of Labor Day, not July 4th!

[sr_foxley]

He's still an idiot. He's still (either through incompetence, ignorance, and stupidity... or very scary sociopathic genius) subtly changing the meaning of things, speaking beyond where he has authority to speak, and otherwise drawing us ever-closer to 1984

[wicked_sairah]

"He's still an idiot."

*claps enthusiastically*

[teekachu]

*claps too* XD

[wolvenone]

Quite a vehement reaction to a Holiday that nobody is ever going to celebrate don't you think?

I mean, I can understand where you're coming from, but of all the things in the world to be outraged over. I would think this would be at the bottom of your list. I mean, it's benign, it isn't like say, say, humans rights violations in china or gang activity in inner cities, both of which actually hurt people.

Okay, guess I've added my two cents so I better end it there before I start an actual argument.

[sr_foxley]

Eh... it's mostly a long-irritated itch that I only occasionally scratch. It's not that I don't have strong feelings about injustices that happen in the world. It's the fact that the (arguably) most powerful person in the world is just so hypocritical, idiotic and downright irritating. And he basically lives in my backyard and pisses in my pool

[wolvenone]

It's not so much mis-direction so much as those of us who support the President simply do not understand the criticisms on the same level.

For example, I may agree that we don't need another holiday, and I wouldn't have chosen a holiday about loyalty. However to me it seems like such a benign innocent error that I couldn't even begin to address your concerns over it.

It's almost a cultural gap. You go to someplace with a vastly different culture and mindset, you do everything you can think of to put your best food forward, be respectful, be on your best behavior, but then make some small mistake that offends the locals, but doesn't seem like that big of a deal to you. Your most likely course of action isn't going to be to try to defend your mis-step, but to bring up your otherwise good behavior, because the mistake you've made itself doesn't even fully make sense to you.

Er, does that make sense at all? I think my example may have become a bit over lengthy.

[sr_foxley]

Heh! Well, I could read your response as "It's OK for Bush to screw up because he's not from Earth..." but that probably wouldn't be fair.

I dunno. I don't know exactly what's got my panties in a bunch over this. I realize the inception of this stupid holiday isn't his fault, and that it's actually his duty as president to make proclamations like this that congress has told him to make. I guess the man just bugs me sooo much-- it's his inability to even grasp that his actions are having dire consequences for himself, his political party, the government he leads, the world itself, and the entire human race that pisses me off. And when I see an example of his sloppy, half-assed efforts (ranging from things like changing the proclamation from what congress made very clear it should entail, unlike all the presidents before him... to jumping into a war in an unstable part of the world with half-assed, incomplete evidence and his own exaggerations) that... well, I feel the indigestion coming on and I feel the need to spew all over

[krugicu]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6M_6qOz-yw