AUTHOR: Dave Sypniewski DATE: Monday, February 20, 2006 ----- BODY: It's hard to believe that today's holiday has been tweaked again! As recent as 25 years ago, there was a George Washington's Birthday and an Abraham Lincoln's Birthday. Corporate America decided that having a day off work two Monday's in a month would cripple the economy. Schools didn't like that idea either. That's why depending on where you lived in the U.S., you were given off for one and not the other. In Illinois, it was obviously Lincoln's Birthday that was observed. But, considering Washington was the first President, it was a bad thing to just ignore him, so someone decided "Why not combine the two days for the two President's into one?" We knew that "President's Day" was in memory of those two. In 2006, the holiday has again been changed! Someone, somewhere, has decided that President's Day is not to recognize the two Birthdays...instead, we are to honor ALL President's living and dead. In other words, send a Hallmark card to Bill Clinton because today belongs to him too! That's just plain goofy! I don't know who starts these things. It's only a day to get a good deal on a new mattress and some sheets to go with it! I think it must have gotten started by Jesse Jackson because think about it: Stores have a "White Sale" on President's Day. Considering Lincoln freed the slaves, tying him together with a "White Sale" is contradictory to the Emancipation Proclaimation. It all started with a book. Last summer a book was published about Lincoln in which the Author suggested that Lincoln was a homosexual. Sure, he may have been married to Mary Todd but that was more than likely a front. Had the truth been told in that time, he probably would've been booted out of office. The book is said to talk about a love affair with Carl Sandburg in South Chicago. He supposedly rode the train up here to visit the man quite often and the book says, when it was time for him to marry Mary Todd, he became severly depressed and suicidal at the thought of having a woman as a bride. Sandburg talked him out of calling off the wedding however, the two corresponded regularly and still visited one another until Lincoln's death! Now, some say the book is hogwash. I say, there may be a ring of truth to it...we honor his Birthday as a holiday and at the same time, he was such a respected man that the best they could do in the beginning was put his image on a penny! I don't know about you, but when I see a penny on the sidewalk I step on it and keep going. It's useless! If you take a pillowcase full of pennies to the bank, you think you'll be going to Cancun. By the time the teller gives you the money in paper, that pillowcase comes out to $9.73! John F. Kennedy however, SHOULD have a holiday all his own considering his profile was worthy enough to put on 50 cent piece! To honor ALL President's today just doesn't make any sense! I already mentioned Clinton but didn't mention Monica Lewinsky...enough said. How about Richard Nixon and Watergate? How about our current President? If you go back in time, there's only about a dozen President's that are worthy to be put together in the same category for "President's Day" and you can cross off the ones still living. As for the others, even Kennedy was no choirboy ala Marilyn Monroe and The Rat Pack and popping pain killers. He was said to be out of his mind on pills during the Cuban Missle Crisis where the world came within hours of ending by nuclear war. Maybe in 2007 someone should come up with a new purpose for the holiday such as, scaling down the list ro only the one's that REALLY deserve it. We would just be going back to plain, old Washington's Birthday and that's fine by me. Now, THAT'S the way I see things today! -------- Squealing Pig WORLDWIDE!: "1-800-MATTRESS and Linen's and Things"

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Monday, February 20, 2006

"1-800-MATTRESS and Linen's and Things"

It's hard to believe that today's holiday has been tweaked again! As recent as 25 years ago, there was a George Washington's Birthday and an Abraham Lincoln's Birthday. Corporate America decided that having a day off work two Monday's in a month would cripple the economy. Schools didn't like that idea either. That's why depending on where you lived in the U.S., you were given off for one and not the other. In Illinois, it was obviously Lincoln's Birthday that was observed. But, considering Washington was the first President, it was a bad thing to just ignore him, so someone decided "Why not combine the two days for the two President's into one?" We knew that "President's Day" was in memory of those two. In 2006, the holiday has again been changed! Someone, somewhere, has decided that President's Day is not to recognize the two Birthdays...instead, we are to honor ALL President's living and dead. In other words, send a Hallmark card to Bill Clinton because today belongs to him too! That's just plain goofy! I don't know who starts these things. It's only a day to get a good deal on a new mattress and some sheets to go with it! I think it must have gotten started by Jesse Jackson because think about it: Stores have a "White Sale" on President's Day. Considering Lincoln freed the slaves, tying him together with a "White Sale" is contradictory to the Emancipation Proclaimation. It all started with a book. Last summer a book was published about Lincoln in which the Author suggested that Lincoln was a homosexual. Sure, he may have been married to Mary Todd but that was more than likely a front. Had the truth been told in that time, he probably would've been booted out of office. The book is said to talk about a love affair with Carl Sandburg in South Chicago. He supposedly rode the train up here to visit the man quite often and the book says, when it was time for him to marry Mary Todd, he became severly depressed and suicidal at the thought of having a woman as a bride. Sandburg talked him out of calling off the wedding however, the two corresponded regularly and still visited one another until Lincoln's death! Now, some say the book is hogwash. I say, there may be a ring of truth to it...we honor his Birthday as a holiday and at the same time, he was such a respected man that the best they could do in the beginning was put his image on a penny! I don't know about you, but when I see a penny on the sidewalk I step on it and keep going. It's useless! If you take a pillowcase full of pennies to the bank, you think you'll be going to Cancun. By the time the teller gives you the money in paper, that pillowcase comes out to $9.73! John F. Kennedy however, SHOULD have a holiday all his own considering his profile was worthy enough to put on 50 cent piece! To honor ALL President's today just doesn't make any sense! I already mentioned Clinton but didn't mention Monica Lewinsky...enough said. How about Richard Nixon and Watergate? How about our current President? If you go back in time, there's only about a dozen President's that are worthy to be put together in the same category for "President's Day" and you can cross off the ones still living. As for the others, even Kennedy was no choirboy ala Marilyn Monroe and The Rat Pack and popping pain killers. He was said to be out of his mind on pills during the Cuban Missle Crisis where the world came within hours of ending by nuclear war. Maybe in 2007 someone should come up with a new purpose for the holiday such as, scaling down the list ro only the one's that REALLY deserve it. We would just be going back to plain, old Washington's Birthday and that's fine by me. Now, THAT'S the way I see things today!

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