If the veterans want their own holiday, fine. They get the day off. The rest of us will go to work.
I’m a little annoyed at the veterans for demanding that, and having, Veterans Day put on some day other than Monday. I want three-day weekends, dangit. Every federal holiday should be moved to Monday. Yet the veterans whined, “But then nobody will pay enough attention to us,” so now they get their day today.
I think Veterans Day would be more appropriate if only the veterans got the day off. If they move it to Monday, they can even have the three-day weekend they’re depriving the rest of us from having. The rest of us who didn’t do our civic duty to fight for our country can just go to work as usual. We’ll celebrate some other holiday, like Jurors Day or Voters Day or Taxpayers Day; something everyone can celebrate (unless you dodge jury duty, don’t vote, and don’t file taxes). We can put it in August because that month needs a holiday. We don’t need two holidays in November anyway.
And then there are the people who want to move to Canada because Bush won.
What is it with all these idiots threatening to move to Canada? Bush won the election, so they’re moving to Canada. God help Canada.
Notice this, though: They aren’t threatening to move to Mexico. They don’t want to move to Europe or Asia or South America. They don’t want to move to France, whose populace fits better with their ideologies than most other countries. They want to move to Canada—which, in too many ways, is indistinguishable from the United States. Say what you will about the U.S.; most Americans don’t want to live anywhere else.
I knew I wasn’t serious when I joked in 1988 about moving to Canada if Dukakis was elected. (I wasn’t old enough to vote then anyway.) I expect it’s the same sort of thing. I knew a lot of idiots who threatened to move to Canada when Bush was first elected President; they never did. If they were really serious, they’d move to France. But they’re all talk.