SENATE BILL: Holidays Act (Law'd)

[MaxQue]

I'm opposed to favoring one sport over another one.

[MaxQue]

Also, our elections are days-long and 24 hours on 24, so, it's a bit useless.

I support more holidays, but those are a pretty bad choice.

[MaxQue]

NAY

I suppose adding holidays, but not those ones.

[MaxQue]

It's clear the Labor SEnators hate workers and don't want them to be able to vote and think thy should be forced to go to work hungover. Oh well

Votes are three-days long, over the weekend. It's more than enough.
As, you think than people are only drinking on Super Bowl? It's nonsense and you know it.

I support more holidays, but not those ones.

[MaxQue]

So? If business are thinking than Super Bowl is harmful to the productivity, they just have to lobby NFL to change the date from the event from Sunday night to Saturday night.

If we name a sport in a law, all other professional leagues will complain and will want an holiday for them, too. At worst, I would accept the the Monday following the first Sunday of Februay being a holiday, but it would need a name and to commemorate something.

Anyways, February doesn't have an holiday, I think, so, it would be a welcome addition.

[MaxQue]

Depending on Napoleon's answer, I may present an amendment.

[MaxQue]

Well, I'll already put the first amendment, which was already discussed.

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As the voting is done online during three days, an holiday is really not needed. If someone can't bother to log on the Internet during three days to vote, giving him an holiday won't make him vote more.

[MaxQue]

Thanksgiving is a religious holiday and I must say I have issues with removing Easter.
I have a big issue about removing the september Labor Day, as there would be no holiday between July and October. They must be well-distributed inside the year.

I also fear than Section 3 could lead to downright rewrite history and to shove that part of the history under the carpet.

Avrerroës, given my previous post, why Election Days should be an holiday?

I withdraw my amendment, too.

[MaxQue]

Why don't we just leaving this to the regions? It seems like an awfully particularly thing to focus on...

Leaving that to the regions will considerably complicate interstate commerce.

Napoleon: I still want "the Monday following the Super Bowl" to get a name.

[MaxQue]

I'll not be voting for a bill with Section III in it.

Being on the fence on section III, could you please expand more your argument, please? It's in your interest.

[MaxQue]

Section III prevents any organization receiving government funds from even recognizing the people and ideas behind the Civil War.  That tramples on the heritages of 11 states and millions of people.  It's an attempt to whitewash history, and not give both sides of what happened.  While we may not like the reasons behind the Civil War, we cannot prevent the South from celebrating the people.

We're preventing you from whitewashing history with your celebrations of slavers and Atlasian bloodshed. These people do not deserve to be honored with their own day. It's a national disgrace that we allow it.

I'm pretty sure than we do not have the power of banning it. It would be a breach of the free speech and I'm honestly surprised than some Northeners still behave as if we were still at war.

I could support a Section III which is more limited, focused on more precise persons and things. I won't support a blanket ban, not considering the specifics of each case? Did someone which fought for the Confederation but had an exemplary life after? Which did good things? Which founded a town?

Alo, why not putting that ban on commemorating all Japaneses, Italians, Germans and all British which fought for their country during a war against us?

That's ridicously broad and I can't support that.

[MaxQue]

Aye, but it will need further amendments.

[MaxQue]

We do not have Adolf Hitler Day celebrated as a holiday, we do not honor the British monarchy and Mussolini doesn't get honored with a day in his name anywhere in this nation. We do, however, have locales that believe that a man such as Robert E. Lee deserves a day in his honor. A traitor, a racist, a killer. These areas have the nerve to celebrate a man who fought to preserve slavery instead of Martin Luther King Jr Day. What does this say about our country?

I have no issue with defunding "Robert E. Lee Day", I even said that in the previous communication. I just want a clear list of leaders, so it can't be used to defund various Confederate soldiers which just had the bad luck to live in the wrong area of the World during that War.

Also, it doesn't consider at all the actions made by men after the War, when they may have redeemed themselves. And what is a "Confederate concept"? Are Line item vetoes and regional autonomy are Confederate concepts? It's in the Confederate Constitution, after all.

It's so badly worded than it's way overreaching.

[MaxQue]

Aye

[MaxQue]

Aye