Wednesday, November 11, 2009

HELLOOO state holiday...

yep. it is official. i now get more days off including the state holidays. like today, veteran's day. i'm super excited about these additional days of no work, more play...so i decided to commemorate the first one with a special blog.
but what the crap do you blog about for veteran's day when you are a bleeding heart liberal that has serious issues with the disproportionately deployed, gender, race and sex biased, poorly organized american military? hmmm.
now. don't get me wrong i respect those who serve our (and many other) country(ies). i beep at the little old men who stand at the bottom of the monument terrace steps in my little southern town every friday. they have done so for MANY years...hmmm perhaps as long as the occupation in iraq?...how long has that been again? oh yeah, NINE YEARS. NINE FREAKING YEARS. NINE LONG YEARS. i digress.

i feel the label of providing "service to your country" should not be limited to time served in the military. i love president obama's focus on service at home and love the old "scrimp and save" attitudes among americans during the first and second world war. geewillikers, wouldn't it be nice (and totally logical) to apply this method of living in the grand old usa, like, TODAY? hello? economic crisis? environmental degradation? SI SE PUEDE! again, i digress.

so how does one blog about veteran's day to shed some dignity on the fact that the entire day will be spent enjoying freedom and home ownership and yard work and probably bacon and chocolate chip pancakes? i image searched state holidays and found a pretty amazing gem of a website...
www.dixierising.com. my dear lord this is a good one.
***caution: when navigating this site, perhaps turn your speakers down as an electronic version of "dixie" is played over and over again, restarting at each link. over and over and over again. ***
i have lived in the south long enough to consider myself a southern (and moved here young enough to trick everyone into thinking i am a native) but i am CONSTANTLY awestruck by the whole southern pride, the south will rise again, etc., etc. movement. it fascinates me. so http://www.dixierising.com/ is pretty much the best veteran's day present i could give myself. that or this book, available for $13...

i don't know where mr. johnson, jr. has been but if this country isn't focused on god, family and country right now....i don't know who is. maybe adding "and walmart" would catch more readers? just a suggestion.

this is a little e-card logo you can send on robert e. lee's birthday! isn't it cute and in major denial?! (lee-jackson day falls on the friday before mlk, jr day in the south btw. this state holiday will also be added to my days of freedom but i am a little uncomfortable with that one) the e-cards are my favorite feature. spend some time and send some 150 year old closed mindedness to a loved one today!
oddly enough (and the eventual inspiration for my publication of this entry) the people at http://www.dixierising.com/ do not find it necessary to acknowledge veteran's day on their list of southern holidays. hmmm. i thought southerns fought in all of the wars, not just the civil war, but i could be wrong.
either way. make sure you check out the recipes sections so you can whip up a batch of "jeff davis pie" for you next party or throw together a "white fruitcake" this holiday season. yeah i just said white fruitcake. awesome, huh?



and go ahead and splurge. get yourself a new outfit from behind enemy line clothiers. look at these ladies! tasteful and elegant.


happy veteran's day everyone. i'll eat some bacon for you.

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