Depending on who's sitting around Americans' holiday dinner tables, there's sometimes a certain amount of host and guest indecision as to what topics are appropriate and what are not.
What follows is pure opinion and not predicated on any Emily Post recommendations but simply-some will say simple-minded-practical ideas on what should and should not be discussed while we partake of holiday fare.
Of course, depending on the nature of-and the alcohol content of-beverages served and consumed, oftentimes there are no conversational parameters but for those rare families who don't know what to talk about, I hereby present a guide for Christmas/Hanukkha/Kwanzaa/Festivus chat.
. FOR THE TWISTED: Planned Parenthood of America offered a topic for the Thanksgiving table which is applicable to all family gatherings. Why not, suggested the busiest abortion-provider in the nation, discuss "reproductive health and justice"?
That's always an attention-getter as we celebrate, no?
While downplaying the grotesque features of aborting human life, PPOA offers ideas on, among other things, how to "diffuse" debate on "the bigger picture" by avoiding slogans, framing that picture correctly, and offering proper refutations to those who believe abortions are murder.
Planned Parenthood doesn't much like pictures which depict the truth and treats the subject with a degree of levity, concluding its cheery advice with, "Good luck, and remember, if things get really bad, you can always bring up something everyone can agree on, like how much we all love pumpkin pie."
Transitioning family debate from abortion to dessert should be a piece of cake, at least in the twisted eyes of abortionists. Is it any wonder normal people want PPOA defunded?
. FOR OCCUPIERS: The Occupy Wall Street and Everything Else anarchists are a fun bunch to discuss over holiday ham or Christmas turkey, especially if a supporter or two is present at the festivities.
Out on the Left Coast in the City by Gomorrah Bay, thousands of Santa wannabes dressed up to do some occupying and marched through downtown San Francisco protesting everything from corporate excesses to bank greed to-this being San Francisco-genital mutilation resulting from male circumcision.
Many shed their costumes and protested in Santa hats and nothing else, reinforcing the opinion of rational adults that OWS, and San Franciscans, have been addled by pot, coke, and un-bridled political correctness.
Wouldn't little Johnny and little Janey just love to hear the adults chatting about naked Santas as they scarfed down their dinners?
For a graphic, pictorial essay on how Friscans celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ and make asses of themselves in the process see "San Francisco Puts the "X" Back in Xmas."
FOR DENIERS: Virtually every holiday table features someone who thinks the annual War on Christmas is a fabrication of Fox News so why not start a brouhaha by bringing up the recent case of crazed vandals mindlessly stomping on a Nativity display?
Some dinner guests would be absolutely delighted to share their own examples of the shortage of peace on Earth.
Such lunacy isn't all that unusual around Christmastime although it customarily takes less violent forms such as in the case of the frisky Santas in Frisco or lawsuits against Nativity scenes but few compare to the sheer joy evidenced by the stompers.
And, isn't joy what the holidays are all about?
. FOR JEWISH OBAMIANS: This is a hot topic during the never-ending campaign for the presidency since it poses a major conundrum for those of the Jewish persuasion while they gather to celebrate the Festival of Lights, aka Hanukkah.
One caution for both celebrators and celebrator-relatives: NEVER broach the issue of how and why Hanukkah so quickly evolved from a minor Jewish observance honoring the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in the second century A.D. into a holiday rivaling Christmas.
What is, delicately, broachable at the Hanukkah holiday table is the question of why so many Jews still support Barack Hussein Obama's re-election bid after three-plus years of his demonstrably anti-Semitic policies toward Israel.
Broachers should be prepared for fireworks from Obamian diehards on this topic so it's not recommended if elderly Aunt Rachel or Uncle Abraham is present and there's always the risk that cousin David just might gag on his sufganiyot. Nevertheless, it's worth a shot if things get too quiet.
. FOR OBAMA-LOVERS: Finally, to perk up the dinner chat there's always the option of comparing how America's First Family vacations with how the hoi polloi vacations.
The latest estimate for FLOTUS and POTUS and kids' 17 day vacation excursion to the alleged land of Barack Hussein Obama's birth, Hawaii, is $4,113,038, a figure in line with previous presidential getaways though a tad over-budget for the average voter.
The president referred to America's fiftieth state as Asia a few weeks ago but it really isn't and he loves visiting there and when he and his bitter half go vacaying, they vacay in style, at taxpayer expense.
$4,113,038 is a hefty tab for a cash-strapped country with an 11% real unemployment rate in the middle of a never-ending recession and debt up the wazoo but money is no object when the First Clan vacations. Dinner guests might like comparing their trip to the Poconos to Barack and Michelle's latest excursion.
HawaiiReporter.com did an expense breakdown for the Obamas' Hawaiian idyl since the White House refused to release cost details-for security reasons, of course.
Among the extravagances were separate flights on Air Force One and Two-at $182,000 per flight hour according to the U.S. Air Force. Two aircraft were necessitated by the FLOTUS' insistence that she couldn't wait for her hubby.
All in all, Planned Parenthood, naked Santa occupiers, Jewish Obama-lovers, and Hawaii vacations will provide more than sufficient fodder for holiday conversation, as long as we don't expect to experience Norman Rockwell's idealized America. That America died with Norman Rockwell. (See all sources at /blog1/?p=11319.)
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