Google's 2011 'US Holidays' Calendar Includes JFK's Birthday, Omits Reagan's 100th
Here's a little something I stumbled across today while looking through my Google Calendar settings.
I subscribe to Google's "US Holidays" calendar, which adds to my personal calendar tags for U.S. federal holidays as well as some major non-federal religious or cultural holidays like Easter and Groundhog Day respectively.
But oddly enough, also on the list if John F. Kennedy's birthday, May 29. Were JFK still alive, he'd turn 94 this year.
The only other presidential birthdays marked are Washington's and Lincoln's, although Lincoln's is fixed to February 12 while Washington's floats over different calendar years, marking what is sometimes called "Presidents' Day."
Yet February 6 will mark the late President Ronald Reagan's 100th birthday. Major public and private celebrations are set to take place for the centennial, yet the day is curiously absent from a "US Holidays" list that include Cinco de Mayo and Earth Day.
See screen captures below for the full agenda of 2011 "US Holidays" according to Google Calendar:
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In my opinion
Submitted by One on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 5:06pm.
Neither JFK nor Reagan belong on a calendar list of holidays. If our government chooses to honor past presidents by creating holidays in their names, I'm all for it. Until then, these names belong on a calendar of presidential birthdays, and should end there.
Missed the point there man of a 1000 names.
Submitted by The Vet on Fri, 01/14/2011 - 12:40am.
Mr. Shepherd subscribes to a calendar put out by a private company, not the U.S Government.
Kinda hard keeping it semi-civil until you got the new account settled in, ain't it? And yeah, you still ain't quite caught on to the whole subject line thing. It is there for people to get acquainted with the SUBJECT of your post. Not as an opener to what you want to say.
Dolts
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 5:13pm.
They also got Tax day wrong, it's the 18th this year.
Cinco de Mayo is not a US
Submitted by stratman on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 5:22pm.
Cinco de Mayo is not a US holiday.
But it is a slick marketing tool for beer.
Also, wasn't it a minor observance in Mexico?
About half of the "holidays" are not holidays at all, just observances.
I don't always google, but when I do,
Submitted by SickofLibs on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 5:28pm.
I prefer Bing.
Me too, SOL
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 5:34pm.
Goodle decided to go "Instant" on me, deciding for me what it was I wanted to search even before I was finished typing.
Couldn't find a way to remove "Instant" without disabling it every time I invoked it.
Bing works great.
Supposedly you can turn
Submitted by stratman on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 5:58pm.
Supposedly you can turn "Instant" off from the "Preferences" page found in the "Search Settings" link I see in the upper righthand corner of the Google page. Another way to get there is clicking on "Instant is on" (or "Instant is off" if you've turned it off) and then click on "More about Google Instant".
I do not sign onto Google and I've not tried to permanently turn off Instant, so don't know if this preference change will last between sessions, ie if it is a cookie saved on your harddisk. (probably is)
Yes, strat
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 5:32pm.
Cinco de Mayo is the celebration of teh Battle of La Puebla, in which the indigenous inhabitants banded with the mixed blood Mexicans against the French, winning the battle.
It must be noted, however, that the Mexicans lost that war, and lived under French subjugation for 7 more years.
But since it was the French, at least the young daughters were safe.
Cinco de Mayo
Submitted by Jebster on Fri, 01/14/2011 - 4:00am.
True, but this is only celebrated locally, not nationwide. It was used to sell liquor in the U.S....
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Google
Submitted by Jebster on Fri, 01/14/2011 - 3:58am.
As I usually say, eff google. Never use it, never will. Like Facebook, just a bunch of cocksucking socialist pigs.
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Oh, that was classy.
Submitted by Rukus on Fri, 01/14/2011 - 9:01am.
/sarc
You kiss your Mom with that mouth
Submitted by Boudin on Fri, 01/14/2011 - 9:07am.
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