Why Columbus Day will STAY a federal holiday for a while yet.

It’s very, very simple:

  • Federal employees have today off.
  • Their children do not*.

…Happy Columbus Day!

Moe Lane

*This may vary by district. But certainly mine get to go to school today.

10 thoughts on “Why Columbus Day will STAY a federal holiday for a while yet.”

  1. When I was in school back in the 80s, they gave us Columbus Day off, and tickets to the State Fair of Texas, so all the kids knew it as Fair Day. I’m not sure if they still do that, though. Mmm. Corny Dogs.

    1. Fair Day varies here in Dallas. Private schools got it a couple Fridays ago, while public schools got it last Friday.

      Me, I’ve taken 4 “Fair Days” already this year.

  2. It’s been over 20 years since my state swapped Columbus Day for MLK Day, and I’m still a bit miffed over how it went down.
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    Short version: The federal government announced they were building a research institute, and put forth a list of criteria that pretty much excluded every state but ours.
    There was a catch, we’d have to make MLK Day a state holiday to be considered.
    Our legislature dutifully did.
    And the feds then decided to locate the facility in a Texas, despite that site meeting not a single one of the criteria laid out for the project. (It quickly became a boondoggle of epic proportions.)

  3. There’s been some nonsense making the rounds to simply rename it “Indigenous Peoples Day.” Because imperialism* is horrible but constant tribal warfare, human sacrifice and who-knows-what-else that *didn’t* make it into history is totally worth celebrating.
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    *Tell me the native powers wouldn’t have done the same to Europe if they had the capacity.

    1. Go ahead and rename it. With a poorly written bill. So poorly worded that Federal and union workers don’t get the day off because ‘Columbus Day’ doesn’t exist anymore.

      1. One side effect of breaking the unions, the less power they have, the less Progressives have to pander on to their last vestige of patriotism: “pro American worker.” Now they can go completely anti-American moonbat.

        1. We should free them from their shackles so they can go full-metal-moonbat.
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          It’s the humane thing to do.
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          Mew

  5. For the past several years, I have worked for an Indian nation who gave Columbus Day off, merely changing the name to honor one of the tribe’s old leaders. While I was working there, I kind of held my nose. After all, a rose by any other name still got me the day off.
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    However, I quit a little while ago, so I am celebrating today by pointedly wishing several of my friends who still work there a happy Columbus Day. Because it irritated me to have to knuckle under to PC-ism, that’s why.

  6. Apparently the Usual Suspects mistake Columbus for Cortez.

    But then the Usual Suspects probably haven’t seen “The Green Inferno” or “Apocalypto” either.

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