i wish this was a joke: "another Padme moment"

[trochee]

"The Congress, by Public Law 85-529, as amended, has designated May 1 of each year as Loyalty Day. This Loyalty Day, and throughout the year, I ask all Americans to join me in reaffirming our allegiance to our Nation." - GEORGE W. BUSH, April 30, 2007. link

In the rest of the world, it's called "labor International Worker's Day" [or some translation thereof], or Beltane, both of which honor people, not some abstract (and oddly capitalized) "Nation".

the second half of the title refers to this observation from drshorn. Story discovered via BoingBoing, though their page on it seems to have been taken down.

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[apollinax.livejournal.com]

Well, it looks like it originated at the end of the second Red Scare.

[trochee.livejournal.com]

indeed.

that doesn't make it okay, of course. The Wikipedia entry for Loyalty Day notes previous presidents' proclamations; it's interesting to note that only Truman and Nixon are absent.