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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: Rebel on November 09, 2008, 04:16:22 PM
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Planning under way for Obama holiday
The Capital-Journal
Published Sunday, November 09, 2008
Plans are being made to promote a national holiday for Barack Obama, who will become the nation's 44th president when he takes the oath of office Jan. 20.
"Yes We Can" planning rallies will be at 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. every Tuesday at the downtown McDonald's restaurant, 1100 Kansas Ave., until Jan. 13. The goals are to secure a national holiday in Obama's honor, to organize celebrations around his inauguration and to celebrate the 200th birthday of President Abraham Lincoln, who was born on Feb. 12 1809.
At 7:30 a.m. on Inauguration Day, Obama Cake will be served at the downtown McDonald's, and a celebration is scheduled for 8 p.m. to midnight Jan. 20 at the Ramada Hotel and Convention Center, 420 S.E. 6th.
For more information, contact Sonny Scroggins, (785) 232-3761, 845-6148 or at biasbustersofkansas@yahoo.com; Lamont Lassiter, McDonald's general manager, 608-2739; Ava Chander-Beard, (785) 234-9138, ava.beard@sbcglobal.net; or Rhoda Carr, (785) 220-5883.
FFS. (http://cjonline.com/stories/110908/loc_353922770.shtml) I swear, this f'er is either the Antichrist, or the prophet to the Antichrist. He's done absolutely NOTHING, and they're wanting to honor this tool.
What's scarier is that these idiots vote. ::)
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Remember, all the great American holidays got their starts in McDonalds restaurants. :whatever:
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I watched a thing on Hitler today. He was called the Messiah as well. I couldn't help but notice some of the similarities. I, of course, am not calling Obama Hitler but watching that documentary freaked me out a tad.
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Ironic, considering Kansas went for McCain. I suppose they're trying to atone for our "sin." :loser:
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Truly pathetic mindless sheep. :mental:
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I just shake my head in disgust at the utter lunacy of people.......
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Damn, that's stupid.
Am I gonna get that day off?
:rotf:
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Damn, that's stupid.
Am I gonna get that day off?
:rotf:
You'll be unemployed once it's instituted.
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oh goody goody another Holiday. we get to be off, don't work don't pay no taxes,,, that fat lady can just keep on crying about how hungry she is.. :rotf:
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I watched a thing on Hitler today. He was called the Messiah as well. I couldn't help but notice some of the similarities. I, of course, am not calling Obama Hitler but watching that documentary freaked me out a tad.
I am.
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I am.
I am as well.
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oh goody goody another Holiday. we get to be off, don't work don't pay no taxes,,, that fat lady can just keep on crying about how hungry she is.. :rotf:
You mean the one of the anti-war protestor that was pushing about 4 bills screaming, "WE NEED TO EAT!!!!"
Damn I wish I could find that video.
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You mean the one of the anti-war protestor that was pushing about 4 bills screaming, "WE NEED TO EAT!!!!"
Damn I wish I could find that video.
This one? :-) (http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,15857.0)
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[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRq1XRxrQP4[/youtube]
Gawd I needed that laugh.
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But we don't have a national day of remembrance for the victims of 9/11?
It boggles the mind....
The Big Zero can just wait a few generations and MAYBE have his name tacked on to President's Day. After all of the men before him are considered first.
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[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRq1XRxrQP4[/youtube]
Gawd I needed that laugh.
So we are supposed to feel sorry for her because she didn't care enough about her own children to provide for them adequately? I'm sorry, but my give a damn for welfare mothers has run out. You care about the kids? Let a solid family adopt them. You can visit, but leave the raising of kids to someone who can manage it. If I gotta pay for your kid, I at least want a say so in how they are raised.
I still can't believe the anti-war movement or even anti-poverty movement thought her and her chubby boy to the side of her(assumign he is hers) were good spokespeople for inadequate 'food' especially, but since they both look VERY healthy, I'm not thinking shelter is an issue either.
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NHSparky!
Thanks for giving me laugh. I never saw that video before. These people are just plain sick. If I didn't have to work to feed my family I could stand on the steps somewhere and complain about something. ::)
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I am as well.
Your chior looking for a bass? I'll join my voice to that chorus.
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Think it will be chocolate?
The cries of "RACISM" will be heard for years.
Heck no...white cake, chocolate icing. :uhsure: :rotf:
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You know, I think Angel's T-shirt/tent needed to be laundered. Either that or her belly button (maybe for her, it wasn't a "button" any more but a glory hole) was leaking grease.
Either way, I'm hoping DCS confiscated the kid that she recruited to bellow in the microphone with her. Kids need to be kids - not tools of piles of protoplasm like Angel.
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This should be on April 15th.
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So what is the basis for this? The only thing that has so far extinguished him from other President/President Elects is that he is Black. So is that why they want to make it a holiday? The first election of a Black President?
Leave it to DUmmies to make an issue of his race.
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So what is the basis for this? The only thing that has so far extinguished him from other President/President Elects is that he is Black. So is that why they want to make it a holiday? The first election of a Black President?
Leave it to DUmmies to make an issue of his race.
...especially when he's half black. Hmmmm, why didn't he claim to be white? :whatever: Hmmm, could have claimed either way. :whatever:
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Well, can't you legally claim to be a "minority" if your only 1/8th of it?
My son is only 1/4 Korean, but he's still legally considered of Asian heritage.
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At 7:30 a.m. on Inauguration Day, Obama Cake will be served at the downtown McDonald's,
Holy crap! asdf called it days ago!
http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,15857.msg189521.html#msg189521
Let them eat cake.
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We want lottery numbers!!!
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I propose that the holiday for Dear Leader be on May 1st.
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I propose that the holiday for Dear Leader be on May 1st.
April 1st would be better.
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April 1st would be better.
True. But it would fall in line with the May Day celebrations in China and Russia.
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Well, can't you legally claim to be a "minority" if your only 1/8th of it?
My son is only 1/4 Korean, but he's still legally considered of Asian heritage.
I think the requirement for "minority" status is either 1/8 or 1/16. A woman I know is part Cherokee Indian, 1/32...and it wasn't enough to get minority status. She was trying to get a small business loan....hoping she would qualify as both a woman and minority.
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Don't bastardize May Day just because the commies have....
Well, it is a fact that May Day, which the children do enjoy with all vibes, is not an overly prominent holiday in America. Yet, it does have a long and notable history as one of the world's principal festivals. The origin of the May Day as a day for celebration dates back to the days, even before the birth of Christ. And like many ancient festivals it too has a Pagan connection.
For the Druids of the British Isles, May 1 was the second most important holiday of the year. Because, it was when the festival of Beltane held. It was thought that the day divides the year into half. The other half was to be ended with the Samhain on November 1. Those days the May Day custom was the setting of new fire. It was one of those ancient New Year rites performed throughout the world. And the fire itself was thought to lend life to the burgeoning springtime sun. Cattle were driven through the fire to purify them. Men, with their sweethearts, passed through the smoke for seeing good luck.
Then the Romans came to occupy the British Isles. The beginning of May was a very popular feast time for the Romans. It was devoted primarily to the worship of Flora, the goddess of flowers. It was in her honor a five day celebration, called the Floralia, was held. The five day festival would start from April 28 and end on May 2. The Romans brought in the rituals of the Floralia festival in the British Isles. And gradually the rituals of the Floralia were added to those of the Beltane. And many of today's customs on the May Day bear a stark similarity with those combined traditions.
May day observance was discouraged during the Puritans. Though, it was relived when the Puritans lost power in England, it didn't have the same robust force. Gradually, it came to be regarded more as a day of joy and merriment for the kids, rather than a day of observing the ancient fertility rights.
The tradition of Maypole and greeneries:
By the Middle Ages every English village had its Maypole. The bringing in of the Maypole from the woods was a great occasion and was accompanied by much rejoicing and merrymaking. The Maypoles were of all sizes. And one village would vie with another to show who could produce the tallest Maypole. Maypoles were usually set up for the day in small towns, but in London and the larger towns they were erected permanently.
The Maypole tradition suffered a setback for about a couple of decades since the Puritan Long Parliament stopped it in 1644. However, with the return of the Stuarts, the Maypole reappeared and the festivities of May Day were again enjoyed. One of the great Maypoles, was
The changes brought about by the Reformation included attempts to do away with practices that were obviously of pagan origin. But the Maypole, or, May tree, was not issued in practice at the behest of the second Stuart.
Although they succeeded in doing this, Maypole with most of the other traditions, many still survived. And Maypole is one of them. In France it merely changed its name. In Perigord and elsewhere, the May Tree became the "Tree of Liberty" and was the symbol of the French Revolution
. Despite the new nomenclature, the peasants treated the tree in the same traditional spirit. And they would dance around it the same way as their forefathers had always done.
Maypoles and trees:
Trees have been linked to a part of celebration, perhaps, to the days ancient New Year rites. The association of trees to this celebration has come riding on the back of the spring festival in ancient Europe. Trees have always been the symbol of the great vitality and fertility of nature and were often used at the spring festivals of antiquity. The anthropologist E. O. James finds a strong relationship between the ancient tree related traditions of the British and the Romans. According to James' description, as a part of the May Day celebration, the youths in old Europe cut down a tree, lopped off the branches leaving a few at the top. They then wrapped it round with violets like the figure of the Attis, the ancient Roman god. At sunrise, they used to take it back to their villages by blowing horns and flutes. In a similar manner, the sacred pine tree representing the god Attis was carried in procession to the temple of Cybele on Rome's Palatine Hill during the Spring Festival of March 22.
Roots of May Day celebration in America:
The Puritans frowned on May Day, so the day has never been celebrated with as much enthusiasm in the United States as in Great Britain. But the tradition of celebrating May Day by dancing and singing around a maypole, tied with colorful streamers or ribbons, survived as a part of the English tradition. The kids celebrating the day by moving back and forth around the pole with the the streamers, choosing of May queen, and hanging of May baskets on the doorknobs of folks -- are all the leftovers of the old European traditions.
I remember celebrating May Day way back in Kindergarten.
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Don't bastardize May Day just because the commies have....
I remember celebrating May Day way back in Kindergarten.
Commie bastard.
:-)
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All through elementary school....MayDay was a big deal....making May baskets and leaving them on friends doorsteps early in the morning before going to school.
It's pretty much ignored down here.....however....May 5th is a big deal.... :uhsure:
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All through elementary school....MayDay was a big deal....making May baskets and leaving them on friends doorsteps early in the morning before going to school.
It's pretty much ignored down here.....however....May 5th is a big deal.... :uhsure:
Hey COOL!!
They celebrate my birthday in Tennessee... :cheersmate:
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An update... (http://www.cjonline.com/stories/111108/loc_354642609.shtml)
Scroggins hit another roadblock when the downtown McDonald's, long his staging ground, heard about his upcoming planning sessions...
"You absolutely do not have permission to do any kind of Obama planning," owner Karen Tyler said in a voice mail left on Scroggins' phone and played for The Capital-Journal.
Scroggins said he has held court at the fast-food joint for years with no problems and wasn't sure why he was being kicked out now.
Tyler couldn't be reached for comment, but the longtime advocate wasn't relenting. He will be at the downtown McDonald's at 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. today as planned to let those who show up know of the new plans.
Obama's been elected, now this guy thinks his neighborhood Mickey D's is the public square.