Wednesday

As time goes on, the populace has more dates to consider as significant for memory's sake.  Many calendar's today do not recognize the day today...the birthday of Abraham Lincoln.  It didn't even receive nominal recognition on the front page of the local Illinois paper (which I find a little surprising).  A quick check of the Chicago Tribune's web page found no recognition either.  That's even more curious. 

George Washington's birthday, February 22, had been a National holiday for a long time before they decided in the late 1960's to do something about unifying a date for President's Day.  Wiki has the details. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington%27s_Birthday The Powers-That-Be must have consulted with the Chamber of Commerce so that business's could have a three-day-weekend for selling cars, refrigerators and bedding materials.

Times change. 

Lots of stories in the media celebrating the football player from Missouri who has come out of the closet.  There was a similar frenzy last year when the pro basketball player made similar headlines.  For someone who walks on the more traditional side of the street, I am amazed at the effort of the politically correct class to express extreme support for the guy.  This in contrast to the trashing that Tim Tebow has received for proclaiming his Christian beliefs. 

I'm not a big fan of Tebow's...or the golfers or race car drivers that have to "thank the Lord" at every turn (unplanned pun!).  But the incongruity of the media's differing acceptance factor of these divergent life-styles is breath-taking.  You can say absolutely anything you want about white, Christian...especially Catholic...conservative, yada, yada, yada, heterosexual males.  But woe to you if you even suggest that you might not agree with even one of these other points of view.

Speaking of race cars, Speed Weeks at Daytona officially starts tomorrow.  They have a variety of events and some minor races scheduled Thursday-Saturday, and then the Big Boys (and Danica) qualify for the 500 on Sunday afternoon.  The race is on the 23rd.  Here's a link to the website: http://www.daytonainternationalspeedway.com/Tickets-Events/Events/2014/Budweiser-Speedweeks/Schedule.aspx


All for today.  BTW, what day is it people?

All together now...






Make it a good one in your neighborhood.

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