MLK, Jr's Birthday observed by people who want a Monday off
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
That doesn't seem like a very good reason to observe it. In any case, peace and nonviolence are first.
ReplyDeleteAnd thanks, Listener.
Well, those who don't care about the Monday off already celebrated it on Sunday, because that was MLK Jr's actual birthday. :-D
DeleteBut! Did you know: The reason the holiday is on Monday is that enough legislators voted for the holiday because it was billed to the business world as a shopping holiday between Christmas and President's Day.
DeleteHaving your guy be one of 8 or 9 that we give a day off to seems like a pretty big deal. . .
ReplyDeleteA Firestorm of Protests Will Take Aim at Donald Trump's Inauguration; it's a lot more than the one march. [Click]
ReplyDeleteThis story had escaped me: Sanders made headlines recently when he brought a giant banner of a Trump tweet to Congress (Trump tweeted last May that he would not make cuts to social security, Medicare, and Medicaid). (Now that I look at it, it is actually a large poster, not a giant banner.)
Well, to bed soon. Corned beef hash, maybe with eggs on top, in the morning. Got the potatoes boiled.
--Alan
YUM!
DeleteGot an email from Scotty late last night that he and Sam were driving down for the afternoon. Feeling loved and put upon at the same time, lol!
ReplyDeleteYeah. That's not much notice!
DeleteAs for getting a Martin Luther King holiday on the third Monday of January, the schoolchild in me figured that it was to make up for being gypped out of Lincoln's Birthday (2/12) by having it conflated with Washington's Birthday and called "Presidents Day."
ReplyDelete--Alan
Yeah, that is a jip. And the way everything has to be on a Monday. I'm just old enough to remember getting both Lincoln's and Washington's birthdays off, no matter what day of the school week they fell on. Waiting for them to move Thanksgiving and Independence Day to Monday, not that the latter would affect children.
DeleteClinton Foundation Shuts Down Clinton Global Initiative [Click]
ReplyDeleteAnchorite wanted. [Click] Sounds like the successful candidate gets a four-month vacation every year; but I might have misunderstood.
Giant Venusian Atmospheric Wave [Click] It is my understand that the appropriate adjective would be Venereal, but that has been rather preempted.
America: behold, your Snowflake-in-Chief [Click]
--Alan
I thought it was Venusian when speaking of the planet , but...ahem.
DeleteIt is my understanding that logically and grammatically the adjective *ought* to be the one that was already preempted for other uses, and that "Venusian" was created in order to avoid embarrassment and/or confusion. I could be wrong about that, but it is the sort of story that sticks in one's memory.
DeleteAlan
P.S.: That wave in the atmosphere of our sister planet seems to be a huge standing wave; all the more interesting!
Today I had a meeting with a new (to me) seeker, so that makes 9 who come for spiritual guidance. 6 months ago there were 4, and only one came regularly. Something is making people look deeper.
ReplyDeleteLooks like you have the blog pretty much under control, Listener. After my scheduled post on Friday I'll bow out then, shall I, and leave it in your capable hands once more?
ReplyDeleteI guess so, Cat. Feel free to put something in draft any time, though!!
Delete♥ Please know that I deeply appreciate the break you have provided!!!!! ♥
If anyone else would like to have a hand at it, let me know.