"Values voters" step up War on Christmas

The self-anointed guardians of morality are really in the Christmas spirit!

While I celebrate the season as one of service, mercy, and love, the "let's get offended by everything" crowd celebrates it by getting offended. And this War on Christmas isn't even limited to the good ol' U.S. and A.

In Sydney, Australia, a U.S.-based Santa Claus recruitment business has told its store Santas not to say "Ho ho ho!" and to change it to "Ha ha ha!" The reason? Because of the raunchy U.S. slang term 'ho'.

I swear I am not making this up.

Is there anyone in the world besides the "values voters" who consider Santa's laugh offensive? The Australians are laughing their asses off that the Americans who run the recruitment firm can be so prudish. Nobody is going to seriously mistake this time-honored Christmas greeting with being called a crude slang word, so this effort to sanitize Santa falls flat.

I remember once in the '90s, after reading a story about radio stations censoring the word 'ho' from songs, someone joked that maybe they'll censor Santa Claus next because he says, "Ho ho ho!" Now it's actually happened!

What's next? Are we gonna stop teaching our kids that the Pilgrims said, "Land ho!"?

Are we gonna stop buying them HO scale train and car sets?

Maybe everyone should just gouge out their eyes and stuff rags in their ears forever so they never have to see or hear anything that remotely resembles something offensive ever again.

(Source: http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gvdJyDWh2yr4yOrHqjz98FM-eqAg)