Merry Christmas
The Galloping Gourmand wrote:
> Jack Tyler wrote:
>> Not to offend those who don't celebrate Christmas
>
> Oh, puh-leeeze.
>
> We've become far too "politically" correct when we feel we have to
> apologize to a very small and troublesome percentage of our immigrant
> population for celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ.
>
> We're talking about only 3% of the population are Jews, and over half
> of them are secular Jews who don't attend temple and don't belong to a
> congregation at all, but they still resent Christians enjoying
> Christmas because it violates commandments in the Talmud against
> worshipping other gods besides the nameless god of Moses.
>
> And maybe Christmas decorations would cost them a tiny amount of money
> out of their tax dollar if Christmas decorations were put up in a
> public place.
>
> Before anybody accuses *me* of being "anti-semitic", my grandfather was
> a German Jew whose family arrived in America in the 1740's. Another
> ancestor was a Sephardic Jew whose son arrived in Maryland in 1590,
> after his father fled the Spanish Inquisition.
>
> Other ancestors were English Jews who never made a big stink about what
> the Puritans were doing in Massachusetts, they moved to Rhode Island.
>
> They were the kind of immigrants that America is really all about, they
> melted into the great American melting pot and became Heinz 57
> Americans, they were a little bit
> German, a little bit Jewish, a little bit French, Irish, Scottish,
> English, Danish, Native American, and even a little bit African after a
> few generations.
>
> I waited until the last minute to book a Christmas cruise one year, and
> wound up on a ship belonging to a cruiseline I'd never heard of before.
> It was the one with an "X" on the smoke stack, I think it was called
> "Chandris Nightmare Cruises".
>
> I figured they would have Christmas trees and Santa Claus and Christmas
> carols to cater the Americans who would be the majority on the cruise.
>
> Boy, was I ever wrong. The cruise line was owned by Hindus and the
> British crew talked about "Father Christmas" giving out toys to a few
> kids on Christmas Day, but I never saw that at all.
>
> There was a variety show on Christmas Eve, and instead of having
> quasi-religious skits and singing the seasonal tunes that made Irving
> Berlin (a Jew) rich, the hostess sang a song about a lonely Parisian
> prostitute who couldn't find a john on Christmas Eve!
>
> And then she stood there and apologized to all the immigrant Jews from
> New York, saying that she wanted to sing a seasonal song, and hoped
> that nobody would be offended by it.
>
> Then she started singing "Silent Night". I don't know if she thought
> the Jews would be offended because it was a Christian song, or because
> it was a traditional German song.
>
> After that, the staff passed out Christmas carol books and half the
> audience got up and walked out.
>
> And it makes me wonder, if immigrant Jews hate Christmas so much, why
> do they go on Christmas cruises? Why do they take advantage of the
> Christmas holiday season at all?
>
> Why don't they travel some other time of the year or see if they can
> charter an all-Jewish
> ocean liner with an Israeli crew and Mosad security?
>
Plonk
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