Alas, we now have a President who would indeed subvert religion and morality.

George Washington's birthday was February 11, 1732. When the British crown adopted the Gregorian calender in 1752, his birthday was changed to February 22. Personally I like the February 11th date because it lines up nicely with Lincoln's birthday too.

This is the body of an email I sent out to my family and friends. I thought it appropriate here:

This short article may take a few minutes to digest, given its depth, but it's worth the effort and your time will be well rewarded. This is the first in a sequence of two articles on Washington, with another to follow soon.

It seems a little out of current vogue to remember and celebrate George Washington, the person - even more so than not, given that his history is no longer taught in school (at all levels) these days, and that his birthday honor has been transmogrified and thus diluted into "President's Day".

I have always held Washington in great personal esteem as my favorite president among all the great men who have led our Nation -- and this article has reminded me of why this is so. It's difficult to remain unemotional in its reading.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

http://www.city-journal.org/2012/22_1_urb-george-washington.html

How could the metrics employed in a recent assessment of the best and worst U. S. Presidents* be so skewed that President Washington was judged "last"? That is absurd!

*I do not recall the specific news item.

When Congress messed and moved the 'holiday' celebrations to Mondays and Fridays, it did nothing to enhance the meaning or value of those special days, but just the opposite. In my opinion, it causes or encouranges the public to try to do more things, to travel further, rest or recuperate less, diminish and fade in to oblivion the real meaning of the reason for recognizing the special days, and thereby further erroding the reasons or rememberances of why the holiday came about.

It was the Patriot Post that first alerted me to focus on the disaster the Lincoln presidency was: the token-ness of what abolition really meant, over 600,000 Civil War dead, and the South ravaged, burned, and left in economic ruin. All very possibly averted by a President with enough sense to explore a diplomatic solution, including economic sanctions and not interfering with a state's right to secede if it so wished.

Change it back to Washington's Birthday.

We need to get rid of Presidents Day and return Washington,Jefferson and the Founders back to their own special day and the _ell with phony,Marxist PC garbaged days like MLK Day for the Marxist/molester,etc.Of course, the cowards and wimps would not dare touch anything to do with this!

Too bad ole Honest George has to be lumped onto the same calendar date as the mediocre Presidents in the past that the media has to embellish their records as remarkable even though they were very unremarkable and often even villainous to our representative republic form of government.

Change it back to Washington's birthday. Washington never attacked his own people, or ordered private houses and courthouses burned, cattle stolen, or entire counties evicted. Today that would be called genocide.

Change it back to Washington's birthday. Washington never attacked his own people, or ordered private houses and courthouses burned, cattle stolen, or entire counties evicted. Today that would be called genocide.

Shame on the federal government for ever taking away the official birthday of the Father of our nation as a legal holiday to honor him and him only. For Martin L. King to get a holiday named for just him is an abomination. Congress needs to go back and fix the entire calendar so that EVERY holiday falls on the day of the week as originally intended. Enough of these artificially created holidays. By the way, why do we need a three day weekend in February?

I always fly our Flag on noted occasions. But at first thought I wouldn't want my liberal neighbors to think I was honoring the current President, He doesn't deserve it. But on second thought it was afterall Geroge Washington's Birthday and up went the flag. I can't be bothered about what liberals think anyway, Happy Birthday George.

Reflecting on Presidents's Day as we celebrate what has been known since 1968 as “Presidents' Day.” At this time we should be stopping to reflect on the birthdays of the two prominent presidents of the United States for whom this day is designated. George Washington, our 1st president, was born on February 11, 1731 under the Julian calendar that was in place at the time. This date changed to February 22 with the adoption of the Gregorian calendar in 1752. Abraham Lincoln, our 16th president was born on February 12, 1809 and is best known as the president who ended slavery in this country and who was the first president to be assassinated.

Both of these United States Presidents’ birthdays were celebrated on their birthdates until 1968 when Congress passed the Monday Holiday Law to "provide uniform annual observances of certain legal public holidays on Mondays." By creating more 3-day weekends, Congress hoped to "bring substantial benefits to both the spiritual and economic life of the Nation."

Unfortunately, I question how this brought spiritual benefit to the nation when people seem to have forgotten that we are commemorating the lives of two icons of our American history.

I hope you will take the time today to remember & cherish the memory of these presidents who have so unselfishly served our country.

When Nixon waved, far too jauntily, on the steps of his helicopter and bid farewell to the great country with whom he had dealt so shabbily, among his nefarious schemes was the Monday holiday fiasco. Retailers, counting their expected sales receipts, kissed every part of his anatomy, exposed and otherwise. Teachers, endowed with the responsibility of inculcating patriotism in their students, breathed an awkward sigh of relief. The holidays untouched by Nixon's fiat, including 4th of July, Christmas and T-giving were already so sales-oriented that none thought it a problem. Why, one should ask, was Flag Day not included? Who would have cared? Well, how can you sell lots of nothing-items on a day commemorating a flag? The business of business runs the country and that is just one of the reasons we've been sliding out to sea.

Would that we could return to the republic designed and defended by Washington, Jefferson, Adams and their ilk. We'd be much the better for it and the struggle would be worth the gain. As I age, rapidly, I expect no such miracles. Still, I look for a sign in the heavens. Perhaps, somewhere there is an intellect that can come out of the wings and lead us boldly to the America of old, the country in which I have spent my life.

I, too, have a dream.

Why was the holiday ever changed from George Washington's Birthday Holiday to President's Day? We have had presidents who do not deserve any type of recognition. To replace a holiday honoring George Washington, one of our country's greatest Americans, with a holiday that includes someone like Obama, is a miscarriage of justice.

INTEGRITY is the one word that best seems to sum up George Washington. He is the one founder who was most indispensable, without whom the revolution would likely have failed and the Constitution would never have been ratified.

To me, his name should never be mentioned in the same sentence with the Tyrant Lincoln. I will always observe Washington's birthday as such. We should never forget the Tyrant born Feb. 12th, but always with somber remembrance of the death and destruction he caused when more sane alternatives were available. I would not oppose smashing the Lincoln Memorial to rubble. Rubble is the best symbol of that tyrant.

Lincoln frequently paid rhetorical homage to Washington and Jefferson, but he was a hypocrite in so doing. No thinking person can support the ideas of Jefferson (states rights) AND those of Lincoln (coercion, might makes right, empire)---who was the enemy of liberty.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/eboch1.1.1.html

Washington was not an angel nor a saint, but he had integrity. I offer Thomas Jefferson's assessment of Washington from 1814:

"Perhaps, the strongest feature of his character was prudence, never acting until every circumstance, every consideration was maturely weighed... but once decided, going through with his purpose, whatever obstacles opposed. His integrity was most pure, his justice the most inflexible I have ever known... He was, indeed, in every sense of the words, a wise, a good and a great man." --Thomas Jefferson, January 2, 1814

When it comes to Lincoln, I have one question, what section of the Constitution says a state can not secede? When you consider Sherman's March to the Sea, Lincoln should have been tried as a war criminal. The Emancipation Proclamation was issued as a war strategy, it was hoped that the slaves would fight against their former masters. Surprise most did not and many blacks fought with their state against the Northern Invaders. And the Emancipation Proclamation did not apply to the Northern States. It is amazing what is not taught in govmint skools.

Well said by all, and I especially like John Zee's comments.

Recently saw a TIME magazine special edition featuring George Washington. The author of the lead article was some "historian" who declared that George Washington would have been delighted with present-day policies, especially Obamacare (aka the Affordable Care Act). Well, folks, it is TIME magazine. I put it down, unable to trust another word of their pompous revisionisms.

It's time for all the presidential candidates to follow in the footsteps of Washington and live up to the oath of office.

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Our greatest hero's have been down played and grouped into one day of rememberance and only one public holiday in the United States honors a single individual. Of all the great leaders in our Nation's history - none of them have their own holiday. All of our great war heroes share Memorial Day. All of our great presidents share President's Day. Yet Martin Luther King - a man who was a phony, a cheater, a traitor, and a sexual degenerate - gets a day of his own. I have a big problem with that.

To truly honor George Washington, we should rename the District of Crooks. As I stated earlier, INTEGRITY was the word that best sums up the man, but it more certainly does NOT apply to the capitol city named for him.

I am open to a good brain-storming on the most appropriate name for D.C.

Suggestions:

The Trough

Grafttown

NeroFiddlin

LateRome

Gomorrah

Shystertown

Liarville

Corruption

Vortex of Failure

Hotairsburg

Whoppertown

ForSale

ElmerGantry

MoneyChanger's Temple

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