Io, Saturnalia!

I turned on the news this morning to check the status of our impending “big snow” and heard a story about the “secularizing of Christmas.” Namely these psycho people are complaining that stores, and dear God even President Chimpy, are substituting “Happy Holidays” for “Merry Christmas” and having “Holiday Sales” rather than “Christmas Sales.” One guy was quoted as saying something along the lines of “they [these evil corporations who use “holiday” instead of Christmas] are ignoring the fact that the origin of the holiday is the celebration of Jesus’s birth.”

WRONG WRONG WRONG!

I hate idiots like this, who a) perpetuate the myth that Jesus was born on Christmas Day as we know it (December 25) for their own, self-serving purposes and b) ignore the fact that a holiday celebration near the winter solstice was taking place long before their Lord and Savior was born and finally c) choose to ignore the millions upon millions of other Americans – indeed humans – that do not celebrate Christmas, but might like to shop at this time of year. A certain other religion (uh, Hanukkah anyone?) also has a holiday celebration at this time of year too. Should we just ignore them altogether? (Don’t answer that!)

For those objecting to Commander Cuckoo-Banana’s “holiday” card – screw you. You seem to ignore the fact that the man is supposed to represent about 200+ million Americans, not all of whom are Christians and celebrate Christmas (and frankly, you can’t discount the influence of the Jewish/pro-Israeli lobby here either – they’re powerful people). And why, oh why, if you are trying to keep the spirit of Christmas in this time of year, do you care if the little red sale sign above a rack of tacky, over-priced, 100% acrylic, Made-in-China sweaters says “Holiday Sale” rather than “Christmas Sale.” I mean, really.

Man I never knew that I could get this incensed about something at 7:00 in the morning.

P.S. No offense intended with the Jewish/pro-Israeli remark... I just meant that they are powerful enough to keep a more even keel with the whole "Christmas" rigamarole with out current President. Damn I hate political correctness too.