W<\/span>hy I let such inconsequential things bug me so much I’ll never know. But, sometimes they do. Take our present holiday in less than 12 hours now. Thanksgiving Day. Yeah, I said it….Thanksgiving Day, not Turkey Day. Someone forward this blog to the PC police or the ACLU STAT!<\/p>\n

Funny thing is I don’t think anyone truly knows how the phrase Turkey Day instead of Thanksgiving Day got started really. When you stop and think about it you’re first thought is it’s just people trying to be ‘funny’ or like, ‘bet I know what you’re having for dinner’! And then, when you think about it much longer, you swerve into the “Happy Holidays” world staked out by the Political Correctness lobby and THAT stands as that movement’s crown jewel. Well, I shouldn’t have said crown jewel as that infers some sort of royalty or royal bloodline, bluebloods they call them. Ok, Happy Holidays is the top of the garbage heap for Political Correctness as it were.<\/p>\n

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Now that you’ve painted yourself into that 500 year old corner, you think about it and decide that yeah the Native Americans, and don’t pat yourself on the back too quick with that phrase, might not look at Thanksgiving as anglo saxons do. The people that were here first probably didn’t appreciate being called natives, Americans, or Indians all of which were terms given to them by their conquerers who were so smart they just called them the name of the inhabitants for the place they MEANT to land.<\/p>\n

Saying Happy Thanksgiving to a stranger has just gotten too messy. It’s too touchy feely now. You don’t know how many dozen generations someone may be removed from the first dinner if in fact there really was one. Is this person a Happy Holidays type or a Merry Christmas or Happy Chaunukah, Kwanza, Festivus? Just say have a Happy Turkey Day and hope the tryptophan doesn’t knock you out before the person you’re supposed to listen to isn’t done talking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s too touchy feely now. Why I let such inconsequential things bug me so much I’ll never know. But, sometimes they do. Take our present holiday in less than 12 hours now. Thanksgiving Day. Yeah, I said it….Thanksgiving Day, not …<\/p>\n

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