Yes, today is all of those things!
Except in the Canadian territories because, much like the U.S., Canada could give two shits about territories.
Apparently, also the French-speaking province of Québec and the English-speaking province of Newfoundland and Labrador don’t get a holiday today.
Who did they piss off?
Don’t answer that.
Let’s take them one at a time, shall we?
LOUIS RIEL DAY
Louis Riel was a, you know what? I can’t. I cannot discuss the significance of this man, the controversies surrounding his life, and his legacy in a short Open Thread intro.
Please do yourselves a favour and do a Google search on him and read about why the province of Manitoba has declared today Louis Riel Day.
It’s a fascinating story. It involves First Nation peoples, the Roman Catholic Church, real estate holdings, corporate mischief, the French, royalists, ineffectual government leaders, exile, rebellion, and executions (plural!). Our Canadian friends may correct me, but I have a feeling that if you ask 5 Canadians from different parts of the country about Riel, you’ll get 5 different points of view.
Family Day
So, apparently a bunch of provinces decided they wanted a holiday in February to coincide with the United States’ Presidents Day. Perhaps for the shopping opportunities?
They decided to create a holiday that celebrates the importance of families and family life to people and their communities. Hence, Family Day!
I still say it’s all about the shopping.
Nova Scotia Heritage Day
Certain provinces like Nova Scotia, however, thought that was too crass, commercial, and obvious, so they decided to make the holiday about something else.
In Nova Scotia, schoolchildren decide each year which famous Nova Scotian they want to honor each year. This year, Heritage Day 2019 honours Maud Lewis, a world-famous folk artist. Lewis painted scenes that evoke feelings of innocence and child-like exuberance that is as enduring as the spring times she loved to paint.
Islander Day
Not to be left behind in the “I don’t want to be like the others” game, the people of Prince Edward Island have decided to make today Islander Day.
Because fuck your family if they aren’t from Prince Edward Island.
BTW, how the fuck is Prince Edward Island a province? It’s super tiny!
I’m calling it the Rhode Island of Canadia. There is no reason I can see why those entitled pricks get to be a province while Yukon, Nunavut, and the Northwest Territory are not. Tell me I’m wrong.
Presidents Day
Finally, the stupid holiday that brought this whole holiday expansion in the first place: Presidents Day.
Presidents Day is bullshit because there used to be two holidays: George Washington’s Birthday and Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday. Each was celebrated separately and some states gave both days off.
However, the good ole American work ethic of screwing over employees took hold and changed things so only one day was taken and it combined both Presidents.
The problem is that now people think this holiday honours ALL Presidents and there are too many idiot presidents (from all parties) for them to be honoured alongside George and Abe.
If anyone tells you this holiday celebrates anyone OTHER than George Washington or Abraham Lincoln, please give them a swift kick in the nuts or ovaries.
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To wrap up, let us remember the reason for the season as we get 25 percent off our favourite dildos, cock rings, and vibrators!
Which ones did YOU buy today? Tell us in the comments!
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Movie day today. Saw Arctic. Absolutely worth seeing. Good film.
Wear a jacket because just watching it you’ll freeze your ass off.
Inauguration Day 2021: is Donald Trump in prison, back in Trump Tower, or being sworn in for his second term?
If this was the 60s or 70s, I’d posit a fourth possibility:
6 feet under.
In your opinion, what in hell was roger stone’s goal with that post?
I honestly haven’t followed all the details that closely. What post are you talking about?
He posted, on Twitter or instagram, an image of the judge in his case with a crosshairs beside her head. He quickly deleted it. Then, he had his attorneys draft a motion of apology, which apparently doesn’t exist, to the judge in the hopes that he’s not incarcerated first thing tomorrow morning.
Ha ha ha! He’s a moron.
As far as his goal, it’s defacto assassination. They don’t do it like in the old days anymore with an outright killing. Now, they try to ruin enemies’ lives and their families’ lives financially and politically so that they suffer more in life than in death.
Pretty gruesome, if you ask me.
I also think some of these guys are so dumb that they think this deep state bullshit works and they can try and get the judge to recuse herself because clearly she’s biased against him since she was appointed by a Democrat. They are idiots and evil.
Our drive to my son’s basketball games takes @ half an hour. When he hopped in the car, he said, “I’m gonna get TWO baskets today!” So I told him, “OK, you just imagine that happening. Over and over. Just see yourself scoring those two baskets. Plan how you’ll do it, and it’ll happen.”
He put his music on the car stereo and turned away. He was doing it! Like a little human Bad Brains record. He had that positive mental attitude going on. And he did it! Scored two field goals, He looked for me, too, and did I disappoint?! HELL NO!! He’d already asked me to not cheer too loud, but I stood up in the back row of the bleachers with my arms straight up like a demented pterodactyl, and met his smile with a beaming, BEAMING dad smile, and let him get on with it. He put together a nice little triple-single. I think I did a good parenting!
Nice job!!
Outstanding. Moments like this make the grueling job of parenting pay off.
The machine seems to be seeding the ground for a military intervention in Venezuela. People seem to be suffering horribly there. Are we going to be in the right here (he asked, expecting the answer “no”)?
As always, no. This situation is, as always, partly due to US creation. Sanctions have caused problems which Venezuela can’t fix. The US, as always, picks who they want to support based on what is best for the US, not what is best for other countries.
We do not really have a right to intervene in another country, but since when has that stopped us?
So OUR sanctions are why Venezuelans are fleeing into Colombia? Spiffy.
Well, not completely, but they don’t help either.
Let’s put it this way:
Trump : Democrats in Congress :: U.S. sanctions : Venezuelan presidents
With the Venezuelan people in this scenario represented by the federal government workers that didn’t get paid during the government shutdown.
Are we blocking aid from other sources?
Yes. That’s part of the problem. This is a good article:
https://nacla.org/news/2018/05/18/united-states’-hand-undermining-democracy-venezuela
Word.
Nova Scotia? Why the fuck would anyone want a NEW Scotland?
Ay. The ole one is perfect.
It is indeed. I adore Scotland.
I prepared Yeah Right’s Chicken Ala King for dinner tonight. Goddamn fantastic. Thanks for the throwback to my childhood pal!
I can’t recall if yeah right was in the military (I want to think he was), but I’m waiting for his take on SOS, better known as Shit on a Shingle, aka creamed chipped beef. That’ll take me back to my childhood, and somewhat younger-than-now years.
Aw, he hate me. Oh wait…different SOS.
Your best in show, Howard The Dog! He’s part dauschund, part bloodhound and the rest, god knows what!
I thought Howard was a duck.
He might’ve been part duck too.
https://www.hallmarkchannel.com/american-rescue-dog-show/meet-the-dogs-2019-american-rescue-dog-show/23#listheader
Bad life choice.
https://www.click2houston.com/news/father-spinning-gun-on-finger-accidentally-shoots-self-at-daughters-birthday-party
What is the bad choice? Bad trigger discipline or living in Texas?
Yes.
Seriously, what the hell was this moron not thinking? Was trying to be Murphy being JT Laser?
It just won’t stop raining here, and it’s a good thing. Caught this on my way home from work.
Remember: A rainbow means God’s having gay sex.
Going to a french school in Manitoba Louis RIel was revered.
Watching History Channel’s “Presidents at War”. I definitely have a bit more respect for George H.W. Bush than I did before.
found a funny:
me: (counting on my fingers)
bouncer: i just asked how old you are
me: can you shut the fuck up for a second
Budget crunch from President Trump? Good ol’ Simpsons.
cooL!
Airplane! was a near shot-for-shot remake of 1957’s ZeroHour!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-v2BHNBVCs&t=8s
Theodore the albino-Maltese mix looks like a vampire.
I need this rescue dog show in my life so I can forget what a shitscape this country is turning into.
i’d like to see the American president murdered.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxudIpbKdjk
No you don’t. First, it’s murder and that’s awful. Second, he’d become a martyr and get a big memorial on The Mall in Washington. No, what you want is an incumbent president to lose his re-election bid, which is the definition of A LOSER.
538-0 is not a big enough loss. Can he get negative electoral votes?
Losing on a national level is the worst case scenario for his ego
I’d settle for a pulmonary embolism created by a chunk of Quarter Pounder lodging in one of his heart valves (not sure of the medical probability or possibility of such an occurrence, am geologist not physician) while he’s sitting on the crapper tweeting at 5 AM. He could have a “Castle of Arrrrrrgh” moment with his last tweet.
What is the quote? “I’ve never wished death upon any man, but I’ve happy read many obituaries.” ?
I’m having some personal difficulties.
I’m angry. Very angry, for having bounced up and down the east coast for (the apparently no longer) tWLS. Fixing things for her. Then being told I was only making things worse? And being called an asshole not once, not twice…but three times.
She’s not a bad girl….but holy shit, why does my timing with lady types always have to be so bad?????
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE1oIhSgTgI
I even offered to drive back to Florida after I got my legal stuff in NC situated, so we could get her stuff taken care of, and talk about our stuff and try to fix it.
The response I got?
“No Thank You”
I hate to be petty, but I hope every time she goes back to the house in MD and sees the repairs I did, I hope she realizes how badly she fucked this up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA2Hu-JEvNA
Yes, I’m really pissed off.
My old man has been telling me for almost 50 years, if they didn’t have a pussy there’d be a bounty on them.
I’m Hoping that you both just need some time to yourselves and you can talk whatever it is out in a few days
If family day is all about the shopping, then why is everything closed today?
/bought popcorn at the movies
I used to get President’s Day off. Stupid buy out…
That was just on!