Lift a Pint for a New Federal Holiday

February 28, 2008 RSS Feed Print

Finally, a federal proposition we can all get behind. The gang at Guinness is pushing Proposition 3-17. Yes, March 17, St. Patrick's Day. The goal: Make it a federal holiday. "The spirit of St. Patrick's Day is too much to contain in one day alone," Master Brewer Fergal Murray tells us. "By officially recognizing March 17, we are in essence providing people with another day on which to celebrate one of the world's greatest holidays." Guinness is seeking 1 million signatures on a petition it will submit to Congress on St. Paddy's Day. Too bad they didn't try this last year. It might have given us a three-day holiday this year.

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what a crock..Just what we need another freebie for federal employees to party. They already have more holidays and time off then anybody else for producing nothing more then rules and regulations.

wsd of NY 10:51AM February 16, 2009

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