The "Silent Majority", silent no more.
Merry Christmas and God bless you all.
Ahhh.. but as I did as a kid.
Of course back then it wasn't "Presidents Day". It was Lincoln's & Washington's Birthday (12th & 22nd respectively) and if they fell during the week we got both days off from 'publik skool'.
And the sleepless excitement was because the neighborhood movie theater always showed Abbot & Costello double features for us kids on those days and admission was only $00.25 :-)
Exactly! That's what I've been saying! I notice the ACLU doesn't get worked up about e*ster, and St. Patrick's Day and "halloween" completely bury Purim and the High Holy Day-Sukkot seasons respectively, and no one even notices.
Way back in the "19th century" none other than a Kentucky redneck named Richard Mentor Johnson (Martin Van Buren's vice-president) called for declassifying the holiday status of sundays because "religion and irreligion have equal rights in the United States" (this was back when the heartland was radical and the coasts conservative). Yet the ACLU, which so enjoys finding villages of eighty people in Nebraska to sue for having chr*stmas parades, can't even bring itself to call for removing chr*stmas day from the list of federal holidays. Hypocrites, all around!
Since it seems that the ACLU is attached to nearly everything that is anti-American in this country, I would think that an enterprising investigative reporter would do well if he/she looked into this group a little closer?
How does the ACLU raise its money? Who are the major players in this group? How many members do they have? Which politicians are card carrying members of this group? Were either of the Clintons ever a member of the ACLU?
I understand it was Newt Gingerich's decision in the 90's with the politically correct name of the Capitol holiday tree. Look what you started, Newt!