The Glade 4.0

What a bogus holiday...can we get rid of this one yet? I know it's nice to have another bank/postal holiday, and for some govt employees having a day off was nice....but does anyone even "celebrate" Columbus day anymore? Did we ever celebrate it?

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

Never get rid of a holiday. Always make more of them. A day off work is sufficient reason for celebration.

For the record, yesterday was Thanksgiving here. I love working statutory holidays...regular pay and 12 hours off for sitting here doing nothing for 8 hours.

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But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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The Italians around here go bonkers for Columbus day. Parades, feasts, etc.

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Columbus is rather barbaric compared to the metrics of the modern day. He lived in a different time though. I'm not saying only good things came out of his work. Most nations going back that far have some skeletons in their closets.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

Columbus is a major part of the reason why all of us except pureblood American Indians are here. As far as national holidays go, that's actually a rock solid holiday.

Christmas and Easter are fancy, so are Yom Kippur and Eid al-Adha, but none of those are American holidays. St. Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day - these are not American holidays.

Columbus Day commemorates the Europeans discovering the Western Hemisphere. Like Independence Day, Veteran's Day, Memorial Day, Presidents' Day, and Martin Luther King Jr. Day, it actually is an American holiday.

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

You forgot Thanksgiving Coro.

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Thanks. I meant to include that first.

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

And here I thought you were all happy I got to stay home with you.

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"It is true that democracy undermines freedom when voters believe they can live off of others' productivity, when they modify the commandment: 'Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.' The politics of plunder is no doubt destructive of both morality and the division of labor."

Yup. Just because the guy was a Euro-centric ******* doesn't lessen his contributions to what made this country (you know, coming back and telling the world "Hey, there's some nice stuff over there, and lots of space").

And, there's a lot to be said for the notion that *everybody* in Europe was Euro-centric at the time, because they were pretty sure that there wasn't much else out there.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

I was, but you chasing me around the house in that Christopher Columbus outfit yelling something about claiming me for Spain got kinda old after the first 6 hours....

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

*snerk*

Well if you had given me 4 minutes and 38 seconds to plant my flag, I wouldn't have bothered you the rest of the day!

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"It is true that democracy undermines freedom when voters believe they can live off of others' productivity, when they modify the commandment: 'Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.' The politics of plunder is no doubt destructive of both morality and the division of labor."

ROFL!!! This is why I love you. Hurry up and get home, the kids are gone for the evening.

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

FOR SPAIN!!!

Uh, TMI, dude.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

but

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

Columbus was a douche

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"None is more important, none more legitimate, than that of rendering the people safe as they are the
ultimate guardians of their own liberty."- Thomas Jefferson

"Yeah, I'm rehearsing my poker face. I don't handle stupid well. *sigh*" - Farsky

Not only do you walk into their house and tell them they no longer live there, but you insist that they be called an indigenous name from a country they aren't really from: "I don't care how much you protest, yes you are a Nigerian."

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Les Zombis et les Loups-Garous!