holiday bashing?

ok. so i have much to respond to, and a post i been waiting to have time to write, but this week is a little hectic right now and i think i'll settle for replying and write about guns later...

so in response to the completely valid question about whether there are any holidays i do like, after dissing christmas, v-day and presidents' day (although the last was not a diss, but more of a question): i love holidays. hell, i'm from trinidad+tobago, a country that's in the top 5 list of countries with the most holidays. my specific problem is with holidays that try to force us to act a certain way just because of an arbitrary date chosen by people i don't know or trust, that isn't actually even jesus' birthday in the first place (yes, i just dissed christmas again and i do consider vd to be arbitrary).
so with that said, i have to stick with jake and actually pick presidents' day as one holiday i like, once i'm allowed to ignore the presidents themselves (they weren't my presidents so i don't really care about them).
so jake, that responds to your comment as well- i'm officially leaving your federal holiday alone, and possibly partaking next year, if i'm still here.

now i revisit jake, on a other topic: you pointed out that if you said 'those kind of things' about trinidad i might not speak to you anymore, so i just wanted you to know that the triggering post itself was not an america-is-bad rant, with the exception of my complaints about last call and bad dancing. it was a carnival-is-so-good post. so i hope that's not what you were referring to. and since i'm assuming you were actually referring to my reply to 'anonymous'- that was my gut response to someone who read something i wrote and knowing nothing else about my situation, told me i was missing the point. in spite of the fact that it was my point.
so i was fucking pissed when i wrote my comment, and as such, was thinking of the negative aspects of america- which i make no apology for, considering that the post that prompted the asshole reply in the first place was a here's-what's-good-about-america post. and i think that may be what made me so pissed- i felt good about saying something positive, and 'anon' fucked with that.

i think there was something else i wanted to respond to, but i forget, so i'm off to eat.
more later. guns coming soon.
walk good.