School may drop Lincoln holiday in favor of Cesar Chavaz birthday [California]

Oakland Tribune ^ | May 6, 2000 | Jason Bono

[Dales]

We do already. We call it "Labor Day".

[BlackElk]

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[BlackElk]

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[Non-Sequitur]

Wake up, sunshine.

[BlackElk]

I certainly don't think you understand me but I do understand you since you continue to refuse to claim the slightest shred of conservative credential. You have, counselor, defaulted on the ideological argument and the historical argument by your refusal. Judgment has entered. Res judicata.

As to Dr. Fleming, he is my source. I respect his scholarship and his integrity and I am not going to waste time entertaining your impertinence and scholarly laziness and lack of historical integrity. Go to your slavery reparations meeting and stop butting in on conservative business. As far as doing your research for you, umm, Lincoln freed the slaves. Do something unnatural. Honest research, among other things.

[AnnaZ]

Anyway, union goons already have their own holiday with Labor Day. And Latinos already have Cinco de Mayo, celebrated in enough communities in California, virtually a state holiday in its own right. And any holiday that celebrates a victory over the French is A-OK in my book. :)

 

If only the Latinos knew what they were celebrating...

 

The news was on the night of the 5th and the reporter was touring all these Cinco de Mayo celebratory events, asking folks what they were commemorating. After asking at least a dozen people in various locales, an older man, correcting the ignorance of his children, finally came up with "It's to celebrate a battle Mexico won".

 

Until then, all the answers had been, "It's Mexico's Independence Day" or "It's the cinco of Mayo".

 

(((sigh!)))

 

 

 

From the article:

 

Board member Louis Heystek said he came up with the idea after looking at the district's demographics. To the issue of rewriting history, he said, "I would hope that our view of history does not remain stagnant."

 

Can I get a projectile-vomit-alert for a line like that, please?

[BlackElk]

Not to allow bigoted liberal ignorance an opportunity to shine in. I talked to Dr. Fleming yesterday. He may be willing to answer your inquiry. Say you are the fellow who disagreed with Jim from Connecticut on the slave-holding history of the wives of Lincoln and Grant and Grant's renting of slaves to southern Illinois mines.

As Ronald Reagan (Nonsequitur writhes as though showered with Holy Water) used to say, it may not be that liberals are ignorant but they do seem to know so much that just isn't so.

Glad to see you are still lurking. As the delightful Evelyn observed in the first Mummy movie to Benny: Nasty little fellows like you always get their comeuppance! Of course, even smarmy Benny had more integrity than some Chicago lawyers we know.

[Non-Sequitur]

I certainly don't think you understand me but I do understand you since you continue to refuse to claim the slightest shred of conservative credential.

If you understand so much then perhaps you can explain something to me. Please explain why I should have to present any credentials, conservative or otherwise, to you for your approval? Are you the sole determinant on who is conservative and who is not? If I don't meet your standards on what is conservative then I guess I'll just have to live with the disappointment.

[Non-Sequitur]

But if I ask him then where is your chance to gloat? Why not ask the good doctor yourself? Then you can post his response and his supporting evidence and shut all of us up. especially me. If I were to ask him then if you are right and I refuse to admit it, everyone will still believe that you are as full of crap as a Christmas turkey. But if YOU post the evedence that supports your ridiculous claims made in Reply 80 then I have nowhere to hide, do I? So let's have it. You say Mrs. Lincoln owned a slave? When and where? And let's not confuse ownership of a slave by Mrs. Lincoln with ownership of a slave by her father, because he was a slave owner and no denying it. Let's have then when and where of Grant's slave-renting business. The ball is in your court. I have no doubt that you'll drop it.

[CounterCounterCulture]

Actually, isn't Cinco de Mayo just a day to drink mucho cerveza, much like St. Patty's Day? ;)