Loyalty Day?

    Wow.  It's May Day today, and I don't really care...

    I'm sorry, but that whole dancing around a pole thing just doesn't seem to suit me.  However, if I do suddenly find myself overcome with the urge to celebrate the holiday "old school," I'll pack my pockets full of dollar bills and take a quick jaunt over to the strip joint by the airport where they have a pole, and someone dances around it to the classic Tone Loc tune "Funky Cold Medina."  

    That's about as Medieval as I'd like to get today.  Besides, lutes and fifes are soooo pre-Magna Carta.

    One of the perks of May is that I no longer have to fear the snow, and I can actually cook dinner on the grill as opposed to trundling through the elements like a Sherpa risking hypothermia.

    On the other hand, one of the things which really irks me is when King Goerge, our blathering little infant of a President, issues a proclamation stating that today, May 1st, 2007 will now heretofore be referred to as "Loyalty Day."

"The Congress, by Public Law 85-529, as amended, has designated May 1 of each year as "Loyalty Day." This Loyalty Day, and throughout the year, I ask all Americans to join me in reaffirming our allegiance to our Nation.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim May 1, 2007, as Loyalty Day. I call upon the people of the United States to participate in this national observance and to display the flag of the United States on Loyalty Day as a symbol of pride in our Nation."

    Such a delight!  But, one thing:  can we just call it "Pointless Nationalism Promotion Day?"  You see, if you don't display a flag today, then obviously you are not "loyal" to America nor are you proud of our nation. 
   
    Here's the thing.  I am proud of our nation, but I am not proud of how it's being run by illiterate children.  In fact, as a result of the utter ineptitude of this bungling, corrupt administration, I am embarrassed to my core to call myself an American.  And, the fact that ouridiot in chief has the audacity to even mention the founding fathers (whose principles, hopes and wishes for this great nation he tramples upon every chance he gets) only angers and embarrasses me further. 
   
    We've become a nation whose citizens are kept hostage by fear and forced to show allegiance and loyalty not to a nation but to a coward of a man whose popularity is sinking to the point where even the tiniest display of false pride in his administration is seen as a positive thing in his eyes. 

    George Bush is not America, and any sort of loyalty TO George Bush is hardly loyalty to the America of our founding fathers nor the America we should strive to be.

-DP     

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