lithera ([personal profile] lithera) wrote2007-05-01 01:16 pm
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Loyalty Day?

Are you freaking kidding me?

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/04/20070430-3.html

EDIT: Apparently Loyaly Day has roots in the 1920s and then later in the McCarthy Era. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyalty_Day Weird, I don't think I've ever heard of it before.
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[identity profile] saraphina-marie.livejournal.com 2007-05-01 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I am rather alarmed and freaked out by this.

Posting in my own LJ.

[identity profile] lithera.livejournal.com 2007-05-01 08:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Huh.

Apparently there is a long trandition of this day I've never heard of before - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyalty_Day

Wow. Just... Crazy.
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[identity profile] saraphina-marie.livejournal.com 2007-05-01 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Totally freaky.
"Americanization Day"??

We are a scary country sometimes.

[identity profile] lithera.livejournal.com 2007-05-01 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Completely.

Damn, those Communists have a day about labor practices and people are dacing around May Poles somewhere. Damnit. We must ... make them fly the flag! That's it!

[identity profile] jeditigger.livejournal.com 2007-05-01 08:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Sieg Heil to the President Gasman.

[identity profile] tattermuffin.livejournal.com 2007-05-01 08:39 pm (UTC)(link)
He wants people to participate in democracy, but this country isn't a democracy - it's a republic. And the last two elections put paid to any concepts of 'one person one vote' anyway.

[identity profile] lithera.livejournal.com 2007-05-01 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Three cheers for democratic republics!

[identity profile] paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com 2007-05-01 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Gee, I'm really glad I was home sick today.

If I had a flag to fly, it'd be upside down.

May 1. Labour Day.

[identity profile] seanb.livejournal.com 2007-05-01 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I have a vague memory of hearing about this before. We basically created a rah-rah America-is-awesome day to coincide with international Labour Day, in much the same spirit as a "Support Our Troops" rally showing up down the block from a war protest.

[identity profile] mike-mccall.livejournal.com 2007-05-01 11:09 pm (UTC)(link)
*looks at the Americans dealing with flag-waving*

*looks at the Communists celebrating the worker*

*giggles*

This is why being Canadian is soooo much fun.
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