not to be a usurper, but...

[mrhtbd]

Although I am 50% Irish, I find myself not celebrating St. Patrick's Day, as does the staus quo.
First of all, St. Patrick was English, and the English perpetuated their ideologies on Ireland and it's people for too long, robbed them of their land, and drove them into poverty.
Secondly, he was a papist, sanctioned by the pope, from Rome, and I don't like being subjugated by Rome either.
Thirdly, I don't think the Pagan religions were all that bad
(after all, they were around 6,000 years before Christ).
Fourthly, I don't like the social stigma that all Irish people are drunks.
So, rather than celebrate St. Patrick's Day, I choose to celebrate the Spring (or Vernal) Equinox instead.
That will occur on Friday, March 20, 2009.

And PS: Global Warming is a hoax!

 

[Scotsmark]

Nice post, good to see someone that doesn't do somothing just because "everyone else is doing it"

I take it you don't celebrate Christmas either?

Watch Zeitgeist, you can find it here ---> http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/

 

[bigkarch]

how are you 50% not 51 or 60% but 50% whats your other half

 

[mrhtbd]

Of my great grand parents:
3 were born in Ireland,
1 was Scots-Irish, born in the USA,
2 were German, (descendants of Hessians who fought in the revolutionary war)
2 were English of Norwegian descent

I am a fifth-generation American on my father's side and a seventh-generation American on my mother's father's side.

Concerning Christmas, I haven't celebrated it since 1988 when my father ended up in the hospital on Christmas Day with a collapsed lung. He died 4 months later.

I buy presents for the kids but try not to spoil it for them.