(With thanks to Jesus' General.)
Monday, May 01, 2006
Take yr stinkin' May Day...
May Day, of course, has for a long time been associated with unsavory and unAmerican Leftism, movements to liberate workers, to provide equal rights, to improve working conditions, and to do other nefarious things that go against everything that our current Congress and administration stand for. Thank heavens, this truly unChristian, unAmerican, and (most importantly) unCapitalist celebration has been replaced by what the Dauphin and his Capitol Hill supporters have named "Loyalty Day." All together now, let's take the oath...
(With thanks to Jesus' General.)
(With thanks to Jesus' General.)
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This reminds me of when I was growing up in Alabama. We had "character development" mottos on the walls, mandated by the Governer, most of which involved patriotism or nationalism or some other formulation of Loving Our Great Nation. The law was that teachers had to teach "character development" for 10 min each class, but none of them did--not because they were liberal but more because of a libertarian streak ("the gov. can't tell me what to teach in my own classroom" was a mantra of particular usefulness to the science teachers after Eagle Forum got a law passed that all science books had to have a disclaimer about how Evolution was just a theory but Creation was god's word).
Anyway, during my sophomore year I had a German exchange student, who was little more than a flat-out runaway (she did attend school but she never went back to Germany). Our first period was German III. On the first day of our classes together, the principal came over the PA system to lead us in the daily Pledge of Allegiance. at the first crackle, the students pushed their chairs back (squeeeeak) to stand up and dutifully, in unison, slapped their hands to their hearts and said the well-worn oath with the PA system leader. Viola completely freaked out and spent the rest of the class calling us Nazis. Wed' never look at it that way before.
[I got away with not saying the pledge by using the insane Christians' ethics against them. I said that I could not take oaths. I forgot which denomination believes this but I knew at the time. The only way to trump The Law was with one's supposed adherence to God's Law.]
I never said the pledge in school either--I was a Jehovah's Witness. I don't recommend converting.
By the way, it's the third anniversary of Mission Accomplished day as well.
April 30 is Burning Day in Sweden. That's right-- you make huge bonfires, very Pagan. I think we should do that. Although Sweden only has like 9M people and they don't burn, like, tires, so maybe they only make a slight ecological impact where we'd make another hole in the ozone layer.
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