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kristin31
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 Posted: 10/11/04 - 14:30 Post subject: Columbus Day?
Do you think it should be celebrated? Or do you feel it's a travesty? Just curious.
(There's one guy down here by the library protesting).
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mickeyvw98
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Posted: 10/11/04 - 14:31 Post subject: Re: Columbus Day?
| kristin31 wrote: | Do you think it should be celebrated? Or do you feel it's a travesty? Just curious.
(There's one guy down here by the library protesting). |
You'd have to ask someone who has it off from work. 
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Posted: 10/11/04 - 14:40 Post subject:
Outside of when I worked for the county, I have never had this day off
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keltic63
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Posted: 10/11/04 - 14:46 Post subject:
it seems like gov't people are the only ones who get this day off. AND, not all schools have it off. I'm working. it would have been nice to have today off too. No holidays until Nov. 11. unless we have a snow day 
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Posted: 10/11/04 - 14:49 Post subject:
Our school district managed to make it a 4 day weekend. 
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kristin31
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Posted: 10/11/04 - 14:54 Post subject:
They closed the banks down here too. And the library. Which is somewhat ironic as that is where the one lone protestor is doing his thing. He looked lonely. Maybe I should bring him a sandwich.
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keltic63
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Posted: 10/11/04 - 14:56 Post subject:
| kristin31 wrote: | | They closed the banks down here too. And the library. Which is somewhat ironic as that is where the one lone protestor is doing his thing. He looked lonely. Maybe I should bring him a sandwich. |
what's the thrust of his protest? Native Americans? Leif Ericksson? the Huns?
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Posted: 10/11/04 - 14:57 Post subject:
| kristin31 wrote: | | They closed the banks down here too. And the library. Which is somewhat ironic as that is where the one lone protestor is doing his thing. He looked lonely. Maybe I should bring him a sandwich. |
A crap sammich? 
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camelia bedelia
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Posted: 10/11/04 - 14:57 Post subject:
| keltic63 wrote: |
what's the thrust of his protest? |
I suppose he's making the point that Columbus didn't in fact discover America.
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kristin31
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Posted: 10/11/04 - 15:02 Post subject:
| keltic63 wrote: |
what's the thrust of his protest? Native Americans? Leif Ericksson? the Huns? |
I don't know, really. He just has a sign that says "Columbus Day" with a, "X" through it. If he's still there when I get done with work perhaps I will ask him.. Maybe that Columbus didn't "discover" America, but merely ran into the West Indies? Actually, if you think about it, no one really "discovered" anything. It was here. They just ran into it.
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Posted: 10/11/04 - 15:16 Post subject:
Travesty. In the extreme.
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Posted: 10/11/04 - 15:22 Post subject:
But the State Stores* are open, right? Right?! RIGHT?!!!!!
*Only place to buy booze in PA, FYI
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Posted: 10/11/04 - 15:28 Post subject:
| RexRacer wrote: | But the State Stores* are open, right? Right?! RIGHT?!!!!!
*Only place to buy booze in PA, FYI |
If not that would be a Travesty! 
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Posted: 10/11/04 - 17:13 Post subject:
eh, its just another day for me. added bonus though is that traffic was light today.
i might care more if i got the day off...
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Posted: 10/11/04 - 17:17 Post subject:
| camelia bedelia wrote: |
I suppose he's making the point that Columbus didn't in fact discover America. |
More likely, it's the "Columbus initiated the European subjugation of the native (sic) North Americans - introduced alcohol/tobacco/diseases to a trusting people, nearly wiping them out" type of protest.
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