Is it Presidents Day, President's Day or Presidents' Day?

A little off topic but this turned out to be a nice 2 weekend 10 day vaca for the US government huh?  Thanks to being off all last week for snow, and two weekends plus today, holy productivity Batman.....are we being billed for this shit or what?|

Well today at least let's we celebrate when presidents were great. 

Enjoy the holiday, as next year there will probably be a movement to change the day to Obama day, Allah be with him.

Anyhow, this op ed was good, with some information I didn't know check it out ;)

CSMonitor.com: "America's literary strong suit has always been humor. It's when they reach for rectitude that Americans become comic. Take holidays. In February we try to honor our presidents, but we can't figure out which ones we pay tribute to or even how to spell the holiday.

Is it Presidents Day or President's Day or Presidents' Day?

Life used to be simpler. George Washington, the father of our country, was celebrated on his birthday, Feb. 22. But society has all but erased the accomplishments of the most dynamic figure to ever walk on the American stage. Beginning in 1971, we spinelessly designated the third Monday in February as Presidents' Day.

A perfect fit for auto dealers!

One school of thought holds that Presidents' Day now honors both Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Horsefeathers! It would seem the celebrations of our two greatest presidents are now dictated by auto dealers and department stores that lobbied for one super February holiday to boost mid-winter sales. One senses a case of commerce driving history and holidays, the result being that neither of our greatest president's birthdays is celebrated on the dates they were born (Lincoln was born on Feb. 12).

In the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, there were also attempts to celebrate and consolidate Presidents' Day into a kind of American political stew pot with regional variations. In Massachusetts, the day honors occupants of the White House who hailed from there: John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Calvin Coolidge, and John Kennedy.

In Virginia there is no Presidents' Day. It's legally only George Washington's birthday.

In Alabama, Presidents' Day honors George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. But it does have a second faux president's day: Jefferson Davis's birthday on June 3. Davis was president of the Confederate States of America and is best remembered for advocating the violent overthrow of the Constitution of the United States.

If you're not already persuaded that lumping together holidays is a bad idea, consider March 8. It's International Women's Day, National Nasty Day, and my wife's birthday. My wife was only mildly amused at the coincidence."continued

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Ronald Reagan's 1981 Christmas Address

Let's see how Obama's compares to this one (if Obama even does one that is from his Hawaiian Muslim retreat)

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Today's Daily Humor...."Carter Defends His Handling of Iran Hostage Crisis"

This is freakin unbelievable and certain confirmation Jimmy Carter has crossed over to the world of senility, so pending further psych evaluations he should be prevented from speaking on behalf of Americans any longer ..... and another thing  he better get used to is being the second suckiest president ever because the Kenyan guy is coming on strong....

This was of course his signature handiwork and for that we suffer today because those who don't know, that's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad  second from the right although he denies it....fkn Holocaust denier among other things. And we're still dicking around with him 35 years later, thanks Jimmah./

Carter Defends His Handling of Iran Hostage Crisis - ABC News: "Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said Monday he was pressed by his advisers to attack Iran during the hostage crisis there more than 30 years ago but resisted because he feared 20,000 Iranians could have died.

Islamist militants stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran on Nov. 4, 1979, and seized its occupants. Fifty-two Americans were held hostage for 444 days.

Carter said one proposed option was a military strike on Iran, but he chose to stick with negotiations to prevent bloodshed and bring the hostages home safely."

"My main advisers insisted that I should attack Iran," he told reporters in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai, where he was helping build houses for Habitat for Humanity. "I could have destroyed Iran with my weaponry. But I felt in the process it was likely the hostages' lives would be lost, and I didn't want to kill 20,000 Iranians. So I didn't attack."  more

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