Comments on: Holiday

By: Mrs. Who

Mrs. Who — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:52:56 +0000

Very revealing post about our country’s progress.

Down here in Alabama, school children are off for the MLK/Lee Day. BOTH names are listed for the holiday.

By: Capitalist_B

Capitalist_B — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 02:26:49 +0000

Amen and preach it!

By: nightfly

nightfly — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:10:35 +0000

Huzzahs are in order. Good job, Basil.

By: Hale2701

Hale2701 — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:37:27 +0000

I will always celebrate it as Robert E. Lee day now. Awesome.

By: NunyaB

NunyaB — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:57:08 +0000

#27 & #38: me too.

By: Waleed

Waleed — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:14:40 +0000

Awesome! Love it! That really hits the mark of why I didn’t vote for Obama. Not because he’s black, but because his ideas stink.

By: RightWingKiller

RightWingKiller — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:23:30 +0000

If only 10% of the millions standing on the Washington Mall tomorrow would read that and see the real meaning of MLK’s Dream our Nation would be several steps closer.
Outstanding work.

By: 4 of 7

4 of 7 — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:57:37 +0000

Amen! Brilliant!

By: todd

todd — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:43:09 +0000

That’s the most profound thing I’ve ever read here! Thank you!

By: Granny Boo

Granny Boo — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:42:13 +0000

Thanks, Basil. Wonderful post.

By: Mgbfred

Mgbfred — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:26:02 +0000

I could not agree more with Eros #31, and Hapkido #21. All hyphenations and/or qualifiers added to the title of American SHOULD be regarded as belittling to all. Consider this, “Any man who says he is an American but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag……and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that loyalty is to the American people.”
Theodore Roosevelt in a letter to the American Defense Society in 1919. He was referring to illegal immigration, but I believe we should ask no less of ourselves.
It is the individuals that insist on pointing to ANYONE”S ethnicity that perpetuate a racist attitude in the country.Ethnicity is important when considering a medical background, NOT an ideological one!

By: D-lo

D-lo — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:44:09 +0000

Any one else miss WUZZADEM?…..anybody……Bueller, Bueller

[Oh, my gosh! Yes, we miss John greatly. - B]

By: Eros

Eros — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:09:02 +0000

You hit the nail on the head! It’s funny how many times libtards would invoke Dr. King during a political debate in this last electoral farce. “You just don’t want to see an African American in the white house (boiling over as liberals often do)!”
“No, I won’t vote for him because I despise the content of his character…isn’t that what really for which Dr. King was crusading? Besides…if you are so tolerant, why do you call him an African American…I consider him American, and nothing short of a thinker on par with our founding fathers. To brand him a hyphenated American would be to consider him something less, and doesn’t that go against everything in which Dr, King believed?”
(Liberal’s head explodes from input of reason and fact).

By: billhedrick

billhedrick — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:40:05 +0000

This made me go and look up Gen. Lee. I knew this stuff about him, but it's good to remember his greatness and nobility

By: Capa

Capa — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:40:01 +0000

Thanks +1, Basil! I am blessed to have read that. I hope that I am not alone.

By: WV Conservative

WV Conservative — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:39:44 +0000

Basil, Excellent job. I’m So glad I’m living his dream. If he were still alive and had ran for Pres I’d have voted for him. Just because of his character.

By: Plentyobailouts

Plentyobailouts — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:23:17 +0000

So I am living the dream. I voted against that one on the content of his lack of character.

By: Patrick Britton

Patrick Britton — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:13:32 +0000

Great thoughts, sadly, it will pass through too many ears without any consideration.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:41:33 +0000

I was expecting a big laugh at the end. Instead I got something much better. Well done, Basil.

By: Goldwater Disciple

Goldwater Disciple — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:39:37 +0000

Glad to see I’m not the only one who shares the opinion from “tomorrow, a black man becomes president.”

By: ussjimmycarter

ussjimmycarter — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:07:40 +0000

I get the day off…YAYYYYY…wait a minute…I’m an independent consultant…I don’t make any money if I don’t work…umm…Hey…!!!

By: Abigail

Abigail — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:55:02 +0000

This is excellent. Thanks, Basil!

By: Hapkido

Hapkido — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:37:05 +0000

Excellent! I have liberal friends who seem to think that voting for the Obama is their chance at being part of history. Never mind that a vote cast based on skin color is inherently ignorant & racist; but they also fail to realize that all this “first-adjective” talk about him being the first black president is patronizing. Any person elected to the office of POTUS is president, there’s no qualifier in front of that word.

By: January 19th, « Big Al’s Dismal Swamp

January 19th, « Big Al’s Dismal Swamp — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:08:01 +0000

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By: comatus

comatus — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:02:48 +0000

It’s Penney.
J. Cash Penney. Philanthropist, Mason, and born-again Christian.
Who met his payrolls after the crash by cashing in his personal life insurance.

Revile if you must, but spell his name right.

[Corrected. As a JCPenney card holder, I should obviously know better. - B]