Justice Antonin Scalia, Named Grand Marshal of New York City's COLUMBUS DAY PARADE, 2005

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[Coleus]

01/29/02: New Jersey Dept. of Education removes US history (George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin) from Curriculum

Multiculturalism and the Fall of Western Civilization

Federal Observer Document

Black history now required reading in NJ schools

[Elmer Gantry]

"Justice Scalia is passionate about music, especially opera, and plays piano and sings tenor. He plays poker and an aggressive game of tennis. He is an avid outdoorsman who enjoys hunting and fishing."

Is anyone ever described as an avid indoorsman? Did his mom always tell him as a kid to go outside and play avid- like shoot out all the car windows with pellet gun? And why no adjective for how he plays poker? If he plays an aggressive game of poker, does that imply he's a little too Sin City, wearing the shades and all? An aggressive game of tennis means he can beat the olds farts incapacitated by arthritis. No one else. If you believe in meritocracy like the conservative commentators, it's a little late for Scalia to learn what drum majors learned in high school.

[Coleus]

they also ran shows stating that he was Jewish, born in a ghetto in Italy and also, that since he knew the seas so well, he may have been Portuguese.

[Coleus]

thank you.

[Coleus]

Queen Isabella: Evangelizer of the New World

[apackof2]

Sorry to some of you Italians here but earlier in the year Discovery Channel

You believe everything you see on TV?

To this Italian, Christopher Columbus is as Italian as Cannoli!

[BunnySlippers]

Awesome!

[pookie18]

OK, he's an avid indoor poker player...

[David1]

Well, they did make a persuasive case over why he wasn't Italian and of Catalan. But whatever, I think I should research the matter more because I'm interested in it.

For now, here is this link:

http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/columbus/experts/questions.html

But I will research this more.

[Tanniker Smith]

Here's a favorite stumper that I use: how many perople have specific federal holidays in the U.S. named for them? Obviously, Columbus, regardless of what you think of him, is one of them.

And can you name them?
Suprisingly, (perhaps not, really) I usually get one or two wrong guesses right off the bat.

TS

[TNCMAXQ]

I'm surprised the PC elites still allow a Columbus Day parade.

I am confused though. NYC news last night showed a clip of Mayor Bloomberg marching in what they said was the city's Columbus Day parade on *Saturday.* Was that an error? I assume this was somewhere else in the city, and not THE big parade.

[Victoria Delsoul]

This is great. I'll be praying for his safety and protection.

[Coleus]

Jesus Christ
martin Luther king
George Washington

[Tanniker Smith]

Buzzz. You have the first two, but Washington's birthday has been renamed "President's Day" (rolling Washington and Lincoln into one, I think -- we still get Lincoln in New York. But we get specifically Lincoln and Presidents Days).

So the only American with an all-American holiday is Martin Luther King.

TS

[krb]

Weak analogy.

[onyx]

ROTFLOL!

My only question is... will he be safe?

[Coleus]

2005 Federal Holidays

Federal law (5 U.S.C. 6103) establishes the following public holidays for Federal employees.  Please note that most Federal employees work on a Monday through Friday schedule.  For these employees, when a holiday falls on a nonworkday -- Saturday or Sunday -- the holiday usually is observed on Monday (if the holiday falls on Sunday) or Friday (if the holiday falls on Saturday).

Friday, December 31, 2004 *	New Year's Day
Monday, January 17	Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Monday, February 21	Washington's Birthday
Monday, May 30	Memorial Day
Monday, July 4	Independence Day
Monday, September 5	Labor Day
Monday, October 10	Columbus Day
Friday, November 11	Veterans Day
Thursday, November 24	Thanksgiving Day
Monday, December 26 **	Christmas Day

* January 1, 2005 (the legal public holiday for New Years Day) falls on a Saturday.  For most Federal employees, Friday, December 31, 2004, will be treated as a holiday for pay and leave purposes.  It does not matter that December 31, 2004 is in the prior calendar year.  (See 5 U.S.C. 6103(b).)

Inauguration Day, January 20, 2005, falls on a Thursday. An employee who works in the District of Columbia, Montgomery or Prince George's Counties in Maryland, Arlington or Fairfax Counties in Virginia, or the cities of Alexandria or Falls Church in Virginia, and who is regularly scheduled to perform non-overtime work on Inauguration Day, is entitled to a holiday. There is no in-lieu-of holiday for employees who are not regularly scheduled to work on Inauguration Day.

This holiday is designated as "Washington's Birthday" in section 6103(a) of title 5 of the United States Code, which is the law that specifies holidays for Federal employees. Though other institutions such as state and local governments and private businesses may use other names, it is our policy to always refer to holidays by the names designated in the law.

** December 25, 2005, ( the legal public holiday for Christmas Day) falls on a Sunday.  For most Federal employees, Monday, December 26, will be treated as a holiday for pay and leave purposes.  (See Executive Order 11582 of February 11, 1971.)

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Federal Holidays Home Page

US CODE: Title 5,§ 6103. Holidays

§ 6103. Holidays

Release date: 2005-05-18

 

(a) The following are legal public holidays:

New Year’s Day, January 1.

Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., the third Monday in January.

Washington’s Birthday, the third Monday in February.

Memorial Day, the last Monday in May.

Independence Day, July 4.

Labor Day, the first Monday in September.

Columbus Day, the second Monday in October.

Veterans Day, November 11.

Thanksgiving Day, the fourth Thursday in November.

Christmas Day, December 25.

[Alamo-Girl]

I join in prayer for his safety!!!

[jwalsh07]

Weak analogy.

Probably, since it was a joke meant to spread a few smiles in a sea of frowns.

[krb]

Hehehehehe....I see it now...sorry about that...