Tuesday, November 17, 2009

How I work to raise Presidential Awareness

30 days has September, April, June, and November. All the rest have 31, except February which has 28 except when it's a leap year and then it's 29 days and this whole February thing ruins the whole rhythm going on.

The first of the month is George Washington Appriciation Day. He's pretty well known though, so observance is limited.
The second of the month is John Adams Awareness Day.
The third of the month is Thomas Jefferson Awareness Day.

See a pattern?

Within each month, the day is assigned to the president holding the same number. The 24th may be used as a wild card, as Grover Cleveland already had the 22nd. In addition, if you want to raise awareness or appriciation of a president with a number higher than 31, you can extend a month to go on longer, for instance a friend celebrated George W. Bush Appriciation Day on October 43rd. However, this really defeats the purpose as more Americans will know presidents FDR and onward than Hoover and backward.

It all began one night, it was the 14th, when I decided that the next day would become James Buchanan Ranting Day. I firmly believe James Buchanan is the worst president we've ever had (See November 13th for an entry), and I wanted to spread the word. It followed that I should raise awareness of my favorite president, Chester Arthur, on the 21st (See the first entry ever).

And so Zachary Taylor, James Polk, Benjamin Harrison, Rutherford Hayes, Warren Harding, Andrew Johnson, et al get a day to be in the limelight and have awareness raised of their successes and failings, their faults and their virtues.

And the American people are educated, one day and one president at a time.

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