Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for February 19, 2012

government tries to regulate, business just does what it wants regardless

Or better yet, why should she care?

why no mail delivery from the goverment post office?

Much better to have a permanent Head of State, like we do in the UK. Nobody cares who the Prime Minister is, and we can get another one any time.

well, I know I’m not dead yet – I learned something new today.

That’s so bad it’s not even wrong

In the original Monday Holiday Bill there were two holidays…Washington’s Birthday and Lincoln’s Birthday. They omitted Lincoln’s Birthday to create MLK day.

Like I said in the comments on yesterdays strip lets have a Nat Turner day, someone who died for something they believed in.

We honor all presidents on President’s Day. Stores still have sales featuring Washington “cutting down” prices or featuring Honest Abe, the two we traditionally honored in February (althought Lincoln’s birthday was never a federal holiday).

Just checked Wikipedia and Arlo is right. That is, if Wikipedia is right.

@msowards is absolutely right. There was no Lincoln’s Birthday holiday in the Uniform Monday Holiday Act of 1968. (In fact, Lincoln’s BD was never a federal holiday.) The bill that first proposed MLK Day as a holiday was introduced in Congress a decade later, in 1979. It wasn’t signed into law until 1983, by Reagan.

Lincoln’s birthday was observed only in some states (northern).I don’t understand why business would prefer President’s Day. They still feature Washington “chopping” prices or talk about Honest Abe.

Did you not read any of the comments above? Lincoln’s birthday was never a federal holiday. Do you not like 3-day weekends? That was the purpose of the Uniform Monday Holiday Act. Federal employees get off for all federal holidays. Other employers can choose which and how many to observe.

Down here in Florida we never got nothin’ off nohow. Of course the mail is affected on President’s Day, but I don’t think anything else much is affected.

Illinois state employees get Lincoln’s birthday off. The rest of the country does President’s Day, if it does anything.