Buyagunday.net Opens!
March 10th, 2009Do Some Shopping in Honor of Pelosi
I have some wonderful news. Aaron has just opened Buyagunday.net!
Just about everyone has heard of “Buy a Gun Day.” The idea is that you mitigate the pain of paying your taxes by buying a gun on April 15. What you may not know is that Aaron is the person who came up with the idea. A lot of people have used it without crediting him, but a quick Google will show that Aaron was promoting Buy a Gun Day six years ago.
Now Buy a Gun Day has its own website. Here’s the link. Buyagunday.com was unavailable, because an imitator bought it.
I don’t know what his plans for the site are. A forum seems like a natural. If I were him, I think I’d sell buyagunday.net email addresses.
Historical note: Aaron is opening the site on the 25th anniversary of the day I surprised him by showing up in Israel.
March 10th, 2009 at 2:01 PM
It is also Purim. If one reads the Book of Esther.
8:10-11: And they wrote in the name of king Ahasuerus, and sealed it with the king’s ring, and sent letters by posts on horseback, riding on swift steeds that were used in the king’s service, bred of the stud; that the king had granted the Jews that were in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, and to slay, and to cause to perish, all the forces of the people and province that would assault them, their little ones and women, and to take the spoil of them for a prey,
9:21-22: 21 to enjoin them that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly, the days wherein the Jews had rest from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to gladness, and from mourning into a good day; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.
There is a post-messianic era aspect to Purim as well, as it is inscribed as an eternal holiday.
9:28 and that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, nor the memorial of them perish from their seed.
March 10th, 2009 at 4:58 PM
Now, there’s a day with its own special celebratory food:
Beef Buyagunday!