Ah. I've checked a shitload of political blogs - no mention of Loyalty Day.
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tommyrot - May 01, 2006 11:31:17 am PDT #4774 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Allyson - May 01, 2006 11:31:57 am PDT #4775 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I found it on Wonkette.
tommyrot - May 01, 2006 11:33:35 am PDT #4776 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
OK, I see it there.
I thought it was a new thing, so I was expecting outrage. Sorry.
msbelle - May 01, 2006 11:33:38 am PDT #4777 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
What today REALLY is, is the 75th Anniversary of The Empire State Building. WOO HOO!
Burrell - May 01, 2006 11:33:46 am PDT #4778 of 10002
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
May 1st has apparently been Loyalty Day since the 1930's.
Really? Really?! Dang, Loyalty Day has a piss poor publicist.
§ ita § - May 01, 2006 11:34:01 am PDT #4779 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Burrell, tell me when you find out your plans, and let's arrange a little something.
Hayden - May 01, 2006 11:34:03 am PDT #4780 of 10002
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
First celebrated unofficially as "Americanism Day," officially made Loyalty Day by Eisenhower in 1958.
Because "Americanism" in the 1930s meant "immigrant bashing," and everyone knows that Republicans don't engage in that sort of thing.
Typo Boy - May 01, 2006 11:35:54 am PDT #4781 of 10002
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I guess May Day is just too unamerican - involving that famous foreign city of Chicago and all, and before that Maypoles and all.
tommyrot - May 01, 2006 11:38:17 am PDT #4782 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Because "Americanism" in the 1930s meant "immigrant bashing," and everyone knows that Republicans don't engage in that sort of thing.
Well, if the holiday was orginally created to oppose May Day (a Communist holiday) so maybe it was mainly "Americanism" as the opposite of "naughty communism."
Just a guess, anyway....
Jessica - May 01, 2006 11:41:52 am PDT #4783 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Dang, Loyalty Day has a piss poor publicist.
I'm sure I'd be able to remember it much better if we got a three-day weekend. Lousy non-federal-holiday official day...