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Is Columbus Day Sailing Off the Calendar? (Now "Fall Weekend")
Fox News ^ | 10-11-09

Posted on 10/11/2009 7:22:47 PM PDT by onehitfrag

The tradition of honoring Christopher Columbus for sailing the ocean blue in 1492 is facing rougher seas than the Niña, Pinta and Santa Maria.

Philadelphia's annual Columbus Day parade was canceled. Brown University this year renamed the holiday "Fall Weekend" following a campaign by a Native American student group opposed to celebrating an explorer who helped enslave some of the people he "discovered."

And while the Italian adventurer is generally thought to have arrived in the New World on Oct. 12, 517 years ago on Monday, his holiday is getting bounced all over the calendar. Tennessee routinely celebrates it the Friday after Thanksgiving to give people an extra-long weekend.

"You can celebrate the hell out of it if you get it the day after Thanksgiving — it gives you four days off," says former Tennessee Gov. Ned McWherter.

In California, Columbus Day is one of two unpaid holidays getting blown away by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger as part of a budget-cut proposal. In Washington, D.C., Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid canceled this year's weeklong Columbus Day recess so the senators can buckle down on health care. (They

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KEYWORDS: christophercolumbus; columbus; government
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1 posted on 10/11/2009 7:22:48 PM PDT by onehitfrag
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To: onehitfrag

Personally I’m surprised that we haven’t already traded in all those boring old holidays for something snappy that suitably honors Dear Leader.../s


2 posted on 10/11/2009 7:26:48 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: rockrr

Well he could have April one


3 posted on 10/11/2009 7:28:26 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom ;))
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To: rockrr

I sort of like having a holiday to honor the man that introduced syphllis to the euroweenies.


4 posted on 10/11/2009 7:30:26 PM PDT by AUH2O Repub (Palin/Hunter 2012)
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To: onehitfrag

Pittsburgh still had its traditional Columbus Day parade yesterday.


5 posted on 10/11/2009 7:31:32 PM PDT by I_Like_Spam
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To: onehitfrag
Truthfully, I thought we stopped celebrating it as a holiday many years ago. I’m surprised my daughter has off school.
6 posted on 10/11/2009 7:33:20 PM PDT by BallyBill (Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
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To: onehitfrag
Can we also change Black History Month to Minority Recognition Month? Can we take Martin Luther King, Jr's birthday (Jan 15) and Cesar Chavez' birthday (March 31) as bookends to Minority Recognition Month?

I mean, if we're going to lose Washington's and Lincoln's birthdays into an amorphous Presidents Day, Christmas because Winter Holiday, and now Columbus Day becomes Fall Weekend, then nobody deserves to be singled out anymore, right?

-PJ

7 posted on 10/11/2009 7:36:24 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (Comprehensive congressional reform legislation only yields incomprehensible bills that nobody reads.)
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To: onehitfrag
They could change Columbus Day to Pulaski Day. (Today is the 130th anniversary of the death of Casimir Pulaski.) Pulaski didn't kill or enslave any Indians as far as I know, and he made a lot bigger contribution to the War of American Independence than a man who had been dead more than 250 years when the Declaration of Independence was adopted.

Of course, Pulaski does have the drawback of being a white male, so part of the oppressor class.

8 posted on 10/11/2009 7:41:47 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: onehitfrag

Soon it will be called “Evil White Exploiter Day”. It may be replaced with a holiday to commemorate when Obama won his (first) Nobel prize.


9 posted on 10/11/2009 7:42:12 PM PDT by rbg81 (DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
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To: Political Junkie Too

Yep, Columbus Day has become a victim of political correctness.

Someplace was going to celebrate it as “indigenous people’s day”. I forget where this was happening, but the celebration was to focus on the native American culture before the Europeans came to America.


10 posted on 10/11/2009 7:42:42 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: onehitfrag

White guys aren’t allowed to have holidays named after them.


11 posted on 10/11/2009 7:43:37 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Obi-Wan Palin: Strike her down and she shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.)
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To: onehitfrag

Slightly off-topic, but the oldest street in all the Philippines is “Colon” street in Cebu, named after Chritopher Columbus.

Was America’s beloved “Christopher Columbus”, actually Cristobal Colon?...

Just saying. :)


12 posted on 10/11/2009 7:47:09 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (2012: Repeal it all... All of it!)
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To: onehitfrag

A-holes. Then why don’t they protest to remove Jackson from the $20 bill? He killed a lot more Native Americans than Chris Columbus. Or to remove ALL Spanish names from the Western Hemisphere? “San Francisco”, for one, brings back those ugly memories of Francisco Pizarro.[/s]


13 posted on 10/11/2009 7:47:42 PM PDT by rfp1234
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To: onehitfrag

I guess that the West will go out with a whimper.


14 posted on 10/11/2009 7:49:11 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: onehitfrag
Christopher Columbus, an Italian, financed by the Queen of Spain, discovered an island in the Carribean, and here in the US we get a day off. What a country! What a guy!

Hmm, I wonder if Christopher would qualify for free medical care and subsidized housing if he were here today.

15 posted on 10/11/2009 7:52:28 PM PDT by meadsjn
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Christopher Columbus? Wasn’t he the redneck Southern Baptist Ku-Klucker who invaded Latin America and oppressed the Hispanics? [/sarcasm]


16 posted on 10/11/2009 7:52:29 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Bere'shit bara' 'Eloqim 'et hashamayim ve'et ha'aretz.)
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To: onehitfrag
All of our holidays exemplified American Exceptionalism through our perseverance to freedom and Trust in God to get us there. The left has neither.
17 posted on 10/11/2009 7:55:56 PM PDT by eyedigress
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following a campaign by a Native American student group opposed to celebrating an explorer who helped enslave some of the people he "discovered."

Excuse me there Einstein,but to the best of my knowledge old C.C. never set foot on the North American continent.

18 posted on 10/11/2009 8:00:15 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: onehitfrag

Have a good COLUMBUS DAY, 2009!!!!!!


19 posted on 10/11/2009 8:00:17 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: onehitfrag

It depends where you live. The lib politicians would love to get rid of this holiday, but they don’t want to offend the Italian ethnic voters if they have many in their districts.

And I think some Hispanics also have a warm spot for Cristobal Colon.


20 posted on 10/11/2009 8:00:56 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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