This Month

WARNING: Included in this post is some undesirable and offensive language. The words are NOT intended to insult, but only to make a point. It is recommended not to use them in your vocabulary.

Every turn of the calendar and realize all the designations applied to those 30 (+/-) days?

Here is my first search for what each month means:

January

• Dry January • Human Trafficking Prevention Month • International Creativity Month • National Mentoring Month • Tamil Heritage Month • Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month • Stalking Awareness Month  • Veganuary

February

• Black History Month • Marfan Awareness Month • American Heart Month • Gang Prevention Awareness Month • Oral Hygiene Awareness Month • Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month • Eating Disorder Awareness Month • Turner Syndrome Awareness Month • LGBT History Month

March

• National Athletic Training Month • International Black Women In Jazz & The Arts Month • Brain Injury Awareness Month • National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month • National Disabilities Month • Endometriosis Awareness Month • Hexagonal Awareness Month • National Irish-American Heritage Month • National Music in Our Schools Month • National Nutrition Month • National Social Psychology Awareness Month • National Social Work Month • Women’s History Month • Youth Art Month

April

• Autism Awareness Month • National Occupational Therapy Month • Black Women’s History Month • Confederate History Month • Parkinson’s Awareness Month • Financial Literacy Month • Jazz Appreciation Month • Mathematics Awareness Month • National Child Abuse Prevention Month • National Deaf History Month • National Growing Naturals Day • National Medical Laboratory Professionals Week  • National Poetry Month • National Volunteer Month • Records and Information Management Month • Sexual Assault Awareness Month • Sikh Heritage Month • Stress Awareness Month • Distracted Driving Awareness Month • National Car Care Awareness Month • National Fair Housing Month

May

• ALS Awareness Month • Asian-Pacific-American Heritage Month • Better Hearing and Speech Month • Borderline Personality Disorder Awareness Month • Celiac Awareness Month • Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Awareness Month • Haitian Heritage Month • International Internal Audit Awareness Month • Jewish-American Heritage Month • Lupus Awareness Month • Melanoma & Skin Cancer Awareness Month • Mental Health Awareness Month • Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Month • National Bike Month • National Foster Care Month • National Guide Dog Month • National Mobility Awareness Month • National Stroke Awareness Month • Neurofibromatosis Awareness Month • National Correct Posture Month • Cystic Fibrosis Month • National Apraxia Awareness Month • Brain Tumor Awareness Month

June

• African-American Music Appreciation Month • Alzheimer’s Disease & Brain Awareness Month • LGBT Pride Month • National Safety Month • National Myasthenia Gravis Awareness Month • Scoliosis Awareness Month • Migraine Awareness Month • National Homeownership Month  • National Healthy Homes Month

July

• Hot Dog Month

August

• Awareness in August • National Immunization Awareness Month • National Sales Enablement Month

September

• Global ITP Awareness Week • National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month • National Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease Awareness Month • National Deaf Awareness Month • German-American Heritage Month • National Guide Dog Month • National Hispanic Heritage Month • National Honey Month • National ITP Awareness Month • National Literacy Month • National Preparedness Month • National Prostate Health Month • Neonatal Intensive Care Awareness Month • Pain Awareness Month • Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Awareness Month • Sepsis Awareness Month • Sickle Cell Awareness Month • Trucker Appreciation Month

October

• Archives Month • German American Heritage Month • Black History Month • Breast Cancer Awareness Month • International Longevity Month  • Craniosynostosis Awareness Month • Filipino-American History Month • LGBT History Month • Muslim Heritage Month • National Arts and Humanities Month • National Bullying Prevention Month • National Cyber Security Awareness Month • National Dental Hygiene Month • National Disability Employment Awareness Month • National Domestic Violence Awareness Month • Dysautonomia Awareness Month • National Dyslexia Awareness Month • National Hispanic Heritage Month • National Orthodontic Health Month • National Pastor Appreciation Month • National Physical Therapy Month • National Pit Bull Awareness Month • National Reading Group Month • National Work and Family Month • Polish American Heritage Month • Pregnancy & Infant Loss Awareness Month • RETT Syndrome Awareness Month • Down Syndrome Awareness Month

November

• National Adoption Awareness Month • National Diabetes Awareness Month • National Epilepsy Awareness Month • National Novel Writing Month • Native-American Indian/Alaska-Native Heritage Month • Pulmonary Hypertension Awareness Month • Warrior Care Month • World Quality Month • World Vegan Month • National Caregivers Month • National Veteran & Military Families Month

December

• Christmas • Hanukkah • Kwanzaa

I’m sure there are a lot of other special days and events not noted here but every month is special.

There are also National Heritage Celebrations per month:

January - None to date

February - African-American History Month

March - National Women’s History Month & Irish-American Heritage Month

April - None to date

May - Asian-Pacific-American Heritage & Older-Americans Month & Jewish-American Heritage Month

June - Gay-Lesbian Pride Month

July - None to date

August - None to date

September - National Hispanic-Latino Heritage Month

October - National Disability Employment Awareness Month & National Italian-American Heritage Month

November - National-American Indian Heritage Month

December - None to date

As you notice there are a few months without any cultural Heritage designation?

So how can we fill in the empty spots?  Didn’t research if these are national assignment required by voting in Congress or a Presidential proclamation or just a lobbying group declaring an empty month be assigned to celebrate our cultural heritage.

Seems we have the injuns covered along with the Aunt Jemimas, chinks, coolies, coons, dagos, dinks, fritzs, gooks, guidos, half-breeds, hymies, jerrys, jigaboos, kebabs, kikes, limey, micks, nips, paddys, polacks, sambos, spics, wetbacks, and all those other immigrants, thought I thought Jewish was a religious denomination not a regional origin. We got geezers and crippled and them queer folks all recognized along with the cunts.

So what do we do with January, April, July, August and December?

Heritage is often used to discuss a cultural aspect or tradition that has been passed down through generations. Heritage can also refer to a person’s ethnic or cultural background. In a legal sense, heritage is property that you inherit.

Looking at current news reports on what designates our American Heritage culture?

 How about a “White Supremacist Heritage Month”? The Confederate Heritage is already covered in April by being the ‘Confederate History Month’, but the gringos, crackers, rednecks, hillbillys, honkys, palefaces, wasp, white trash may be offensive and perhaps not politically correct, they do have some legacy elements different from some of these other groups?

The racist and bigots who serve you breakfast or repair your car and perhaps sit next to you in church. This would give them a month of pride to drive their pickups up and down the main drag drinking beer and shooting off their guns while waving the confederate battle flag and shouting obscenities.

No?

What about “National Gun-Owners Heritage Month”? That seems to be in the public awareness and covers many other cultures. An entire month discussing guns, shooting, bullets, hunting, open carry, concealed permits, war, murder, etc. Maybe just call it the ‘Second Amendment Month’? The congress could get behind that and could be paid for by the NRA.

No?

What about “National Religious Heritage Month”? Seems all us immigrants started coming over here to escape persecution of our religious beliefs. It could encompass the Christians, Muslims, Catholics, Buddhist, Jews, Hindus, and even the Atheist. Each day could be a different chapter or team or club of every variation of belief and only the witches will burn.

No?

OK, here is the perfect answer to all the ‘other’ cultural groups: “National Stupid Heritage Month”?

Definition of stupid:  • Slow of mind: obtuse • given to unintelligent decisions or acts: acting in an unintelligent or careless manner • lacking intelligence or reason: brutish • dulled in feeling or sensation: torpid • marked by or resulting from unreasoned thinking or acting: senseless

Not talking about mental disability, but the one’s who should know better but ‘just stoopid’.

You see it on YouTube like folks jumping off rooftops or lighting their grills with gasoline.

‘Stoopid’!

You see it everyday with people driving looking at their cell phones.

‘Stoopid’!

You hear it more frequently with congressional interviews and read it on social media comments.

‘Stoopid’!

‘Talk like a Pirate’ has its day and ‘Gummi worms’ have a day, so why not have a “National Stupid Heritage Month”. We are already doing it, so why not celebrate it?

Just like following the zodiac for the horoscope to define your day or watching time or watching some talking head ‘news cast’ entertainment to form our political beliefs, we be….

‘Stoopid’!

As we drift back into the dark ages, casting aside any knowledge gathering or logical reasoning for microwave mentality entertainment I await the next crusades. Will the church(s) guide us or will we fail into the abyss?

If every day becomes more stressful and violent making us creep into corners of our basements as the bombs fall and our waste drowns our planet, survival will dissolve our desires until the plague comes.

The snow is melting now and the Farmer’s Almanac says we will have a good spring.

Truly sorry for this rant, but sometimes the toilet backs up. I will find my fairy garden and get my Zen back but snowed-in days listening to 24-hour news is most disturbing and needs a release. Please tell your children to not to repeat any of this language or a good mouth washing maybe required. As they walk out of schools tomorrow to get our attention should we not listen to the next generation? WARNING!