Spontaneous holidays
 

What the fuck!
It is bad enough that there is endless television coverage of Reagans death/funeral/second funeral/observance before funeral. Yet come on, the guy has barely even been covered in dirt and we take a federal holiday. This is complete and total bullshit.
My Government/Civics lessons may be way out of date so I could be thinking out of my ass. Does it not normally require some sort of vote or something through the various houses to get a federal holiday? Even if it is a temporary one (doubt it will be). Shit our money is being spent right now so Government employee's can sit on their asses.
Did I just miss this completely, was there a bill or something that was fast tracked? Or can the president just declare a holiday whenver he gets the whim?

it wasn't a holiday, it was a "national day of mourning"

Sure, and I am positive the postmen are sitting at home with a box of tissues sobbing about getting paid to stay home.

:1orglaugh i knew this was about the mail..

they pissed off a lot of webmasters with this one :Graucho

i'm glad the fucking mail didn't come...

what's the big fucking deal?

there was mail yesterday... there will be mail tomorrow..

Actually no, well in a round about way I suppose it is. I know my mailman pretty well, same person for many years. I give her a tip present every christmass etc. Well I had went to the store this morning (my mail gets here around noon) at around 10am and ran into my mailman (mailwoman I suppose) in the check out isle. She was there with her kids and was stocking up on soda, meat, and lots of bbq style items. We spoke and I asked if today was her day off etc. She explained to me the little event and said they were headed out to the lake. She laughed and said at least the sucker was burried on a friday so I get a long weekend.