Posted on 05/02/2012 12:23:41 PM PDT by Tatze
Please tell me this is from the Onion and not the white hut.
Hey John!
You forgot your “Semi-Satire” tag!!!
A May Day holiday from a MARXIST??
Who’d a thunk it?
I thought today would be proclaimed “Dance on Osama’s Corpse” Day...
No fn shtn way..............i hate these people.
This narcissistic clown is serious!?!?!
Hey, you FRAUD!
I pledge allegiance to One Nation, Under God!
And YOU, sir are NOT encompassed by my pledge, as you have proved yourself an enemy of this great nation!
“Ich schwöre bei Gott diesen heiligen Eid, daß ich dem Führer des Deutschen Reiches und Volkes Adolf Hitler, dem Oberbefehlshaber der Wehrmacht, unbedingten Gehorsam leisten und als tapferer Soldat bereit sein will, jederzeit für diesen Eid mein Leben einzusetzen.”
Before you all go nuts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyalty_Day
The holiday was first observed in 1921[2] as “Americanization Day,”[3] and was intended to counterbalance the celebration of Labour Day on May Day (May 1), an internationally celebrated holiday for the commemoration of the Haymarket Massacre in Chicago in 1886.
Loyalty Day is celebrated with parades and ceremonies in several U.S. communities, like Batavia, Illinois, although many people in the United States remain unaware of it. Although a legal holiday, it is not a federal holiday, and is not commonly observed.
It was made an official holiday by the U.S. Congress on July 18, 1958 (Public Law 85-529).[4][5] Following the passage of this law, President Dwight D. Eisenhower proclaimed May 1, 1959 the first official observance of Loyalty Day. [6]
With the exception of Eisenhower in 1959 and 1960, and the years 1966 thru 1974, Loyalty day has been recognized with an official proclamation every year by every president since its inception as a legal holiday in 1958
Only 4 1/2 more years to go with this clown.
Thanks for that back story on this. That takes a bit of the outrage out of it.
To which part do you object?
Can we still all go nuts?
Obama wouldn’t know loyalty to the Constitution if it Zimmermanned his ass.
-PJ
Nope, it’s serious.
This has been done since Eisenhower.
See my posts #11, #18,
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2878106/posts?q=1&;page=1#1
Yes, I saw that also in post #9 here. I can’t say I am a fan of supposed forced loyalty or allegiance, regardless of who started it. Like trust, loyalty and allegiance are earned, not legislated.
So exactly when is Ovomit going to start being loyal to the USA?
Yesterday?
Calling May 1 Loyalty Day began in 1921 as an answer to the Communist May Day, which in turn dates from Communist labor strikes on that date in 19th-century Parisyou know, when the weather gets so nice, you don't want to work. This was designed to inaugurate May 1 as a feast of the atheist religion to commemorate the hatred of God, hard work, and bathing in Catholic Europe. This date for 1,000 or so years has been a feast when statues of the Virgin Mary are honored by beautiful young girls with a procession and "May Crowning."
The American Federation of Labor, which turned away from international Communism in the late 19th century, in 1928 proposed another solution: calling May 1st "Child Health Day." The Communists were bitter in their denunciation.
Proposing a counter-example to the self-seeking, feather-bedding, and violence of the post-war labor movement on both sides of the Atlantic that continues to this day, Pope Pius XII in 1955 declared May 1 the feast of a hard-working guy who didn't belong to a union and didn't break many windows that we know ofthe foster-father of God Himself, "St. Joseph the Workman."
Ora pro nobis.
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