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cherokeeprogressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-11-11 11:05 PM
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Okay, so 9/11 has gone to bed and 9/12 is waiting in the wings... what's the next "date to hate"?
In other words, what's the next date that will have DU'ers hatin' on each other for either remembering, celebrating, or memorializing?

The first game of the World Series?

Halloween?

Veterans Day?

Thanksgiving?

There are too many for me to keep up with. I think DU needs a list of Dates to Hate, and a forum where they can be discussed/argued about.
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richmwill Donating Member (972 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-11-11 11:08 PM
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1. Duh- Christmas.
The most hated day of the DU year. The day to flood the board with "Pfft- Stupid Christians" posts. :grr:
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cherokeeprogressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-11-11 11:37 PM
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11. I think you missed the "next" part of my post.
Veterans Day and Thanksgiving are going to be hatefests that will come before that. There are others, I'm sure.
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Hardrada Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-11-11 11:09 PM
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2. Not Halloween, thank God. It's my favorite secular holiday
because it has not been militarized like all the others.. Neither has one religious holiday and that is Easter probably because it would be in poor taste to put yellow ribbons and flags on the Crucifix.
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Ignis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-11 01:11 PM
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19. Samhain isn't a secular holiday.
:hide:
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Hardrada Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-11 01:18 AM
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21. We don't have that in Iowa, I don't believe.
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Ignis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-11 03:26 PM
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24. It's the celtic festival of the dead that has become Hallowe'en.
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Hardrada Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-11 10:50 PM
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25. Maybe someone celebrates that around here.
I'll have to check.
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Journeyman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-11-11 11:13 PM
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3. This Saturday. . .
149th anniversary of the Battle of Antietam.

It'll be a conflicted hate, however - some will criticize the remembrance of the bloodiest single day in American history, others will appeal that without it Mr Lincoln could not have issued the Emancipation Proclamation.

Have at it . . .
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-11-11 11:13 PM
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4. ...
Edited on Sun Sep-11-11 11:32 PM by ScreamingMeemie
:eyes:

I think it is time for some of DU to go to bed. :hi:
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hlthe2b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-11-11 11:22 PM
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7.  I think you are right... Maybe someone will slip Prozac in the morning coffee
for a few DUers... Damn... am I glad this "momentous" date is over... Geebus
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-11-11 11:14 PM
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5. You know what day I really hate?
I hate side with the right wing and then shit all over everyone on DU who doesn't decide to join you in siding with the right wing day. It's my least favorite day of all.
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-11-11 11:19 PM
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6. Well we were in a strange good strange moid
We were directly affected and mostly we have skipped this. Talk about Town was a blackout.
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Historic NY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-11-11 11:25 PM
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8. They really going to hate 9/21 then.
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Lint Head Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-11-11 11:30 PM
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9. I hate every day Bush and Cheney are free.
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in_cog_ni_to Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-11-11 11:31 PM
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10. Ditto on war criminals walking free. n/t
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cherokeeprogressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-11-11 11:40 PM
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12. As much as I'd like to see them made responsible for their actions, it doesn't make me
hate every day.

I understand your sentiment, but I'd bet you don't HATE every day just because they walk free.
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Lint Head Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-11-11 11:57 PM
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13. I did state this to the extreme because every day for America is colored with the
Edited on Sun Sep-11-11 11:57 PM by Lint Head
fact that obvious murderers go free and nothing is being done. That does not bode well for this day or any other day murderers are in our faces in print, in statements from the pulpit, public events, the movies or television. I don't hate 'days'. Just the situation nattily dressed cowards in power have place or precious nation in.

Thanks. I do appreciate your concern with my statement.
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Zax2me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-11 01:44 AM
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14. I found it. The post today that made sense.
K&R
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-11 01:51 AM
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15. Columbus Day. Definitely Columbus Day.
Can we all at least agree that genocidal assholes aren't a good justification for three day weekends and mattress sales?
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eShirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-11 03:47 AM
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17. Yup; then Thanksgiving.
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Behind the Aegis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-11 01:56 AM
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16. I avoided TV (except for a Star Trek program) and DU, both for reasons of 9/11.
Columbus Day would be where my money would go, though Rosh Hashana is before.
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dbt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-11 05:24 AM
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18. John R. Cash died on 9.12.2003
and certain evil bastards are still walking around free on the face of the Earth. Plenty of reasons to hate this date!



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ZombieHorde Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-11 08:00 PM
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20. According to the pattern in your subject line, 9/13 should be our next target. nt
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Whats_Happening Donating Member (71 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-11 01:23 AM
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22. Maybe this season's finale of "Keeping Up with the Kardashians?" --- or
Edited on Tue Sep-13-11 01:24 AM by Whats_Happening
the next upcoming release date of yet ANOTHER major-motion-picture about some obscure little caped super-hero that most of us normal people have never heard of?

And yes, I shall be more than willing to run down anyone who shows any even moderate excitement about either of those dates.

Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide!
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lynne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-11 01:52 AM
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23. Don't forget Veterans Day!
I've no doubt that one will bring forth a hate thread or two.
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