The fact is, is IS all the left’s fault, they want to destroy our society. With Obama’s ill-gotten victory over the will of the people, they may get it. But not if here in the Heartland we can help it.

How did name of Vida Guerra’s luscious ass did the Wall Street Journal go from smug passive-aggressive pussies in ties to barking shithouse rats with bat wings?

How, Satan? How?!?!?
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Uh?

Waiter… a plate of snotchos for Mr. Henniger, please.

He doesn’t invoke gay marriage as the villain? Yaawwwnnn.

Boing boing boing boing boing

Man I was just reading a post by dday @ Hullabaloo about this fuckwit’s witless mindfucking about WTF and I thought I bet sadlyno is on this and them bam I click over and here it be. Sometimes life just works out so sweet. Thanks Brad.

Everybody! A one, a two, a one, two, three, four!

I have a little dreidel
I made it out of clay
And when it’s dry and ready
Then dreidel I shall play
CHORUS
Oh dreidel dreidel dreidel
I made it out of clay
And when it’s dry and ready
Then dreidel I shall play
It has a lovely body
With legs so short and thin
And when it is so tired
It drops and then I win!
CHORUS
My dreidel’s always playful
It loves to dance and spin
A happy game of dreidel
Come play now, let’s begin!
CHORUS

Jesus H. Christ–I assumed that was from Renew America or some such. Then I saw it was the WSJ. Wow.

Is it me, or does he look like a villain in cheap Bond knockoff?

Okay, I’ve now read it. I’d wonder how he could look himself in the mirror if I didn’t know he can’t see out his asshole.

By the by, This American Life – the radio version – had an excellent explanation of the mortgage meltdown. As told through interviews with mortgage brokers, bankers, et. al. It’s not anything like the version Miss Henninger tells. $0.95 to download the podcast.

Man, that is one big assload of crazy.

I’m all over the map on this one. There’s so much to mock.

First, it was published in the amoralist’s paper of record, so if I’m a doctrinaire running dog capitalist reading this, I’m thinking “how can I bilk this rube?” Second, “please” is the magic word, not “Christmas”. Third, slavery. Discuss. Fourth, capitalism — motherfucking capitalism — is in ruins because of a magic incantation? If I were a libertarian, I’d just give up right now. They whine about going Galt on us when their own allies in the business world are saying that without religion we miss the true meaning of capitalism.

I can’t stand the free marketeers, but at least I completely understand their motive: gimme, gimme, gimme. The rubes, though. Fuck.

It has been 300 years.

They whine about going Galt on us when their own allies in the business world are saying that without religion we miss the true meaning of capitalism.

Are you kidding? Christianity is vitally important to capitalism. You just have to ignore every thing Jesus is on record as having said or done, including the prepositions.

Henninger:

Christmas, the holiday that dare not speak its name.

Oh, really.

It has been my view that the steady secularizing and insistent effort at dereligioning America has been dangerous. That danger flashed red in the fall into subprime personal behavior by borrowers and bankers, who after all are just people. Northerners and atheists who vilify Southern evangelicals are throwing out nurturers of useful virtue with the bathwater of obnoxious political opinions.

Take that, Kathleen Parker. No evangelical GOP base, no Christmas.

One had better explain that.

No please, really, I’d rather you didn’t.

It has been my view that the steady secularizing and insistent effort at dereligioning America has been dangerous. That danger flashed red in the fall into subprime personal behavior by borrowers and bankers, who after all are just people. Northerners and atheists who vilify Southern evangelicals are throwing out nurturers of useful virtue with the bathwater of obnoxious political opinions.

Oh dear god you had to anyway. “Nurturers of useful virtue”??? I need another shower. I’ve already taken five and I still can’t get the stench off.

Crap, foiled again. I need a faster PC to keep up.

Is it me, or does he look like a villain in cheap Bond knockoff?
More like Peter Cushing’s role in Scream and Scream Again.

Thanks. Thanks a lot, Sadly, No, for shaving a good 30 points off my IQ with the link to that blather.

So after all these years, Henninger tells us that the Invisible Hand of the Market is not an optimum mechanism after all, because the pursuit of their own personal interests by the various actors in the market will lead to corruption. Unless they are self-regulated by a shared belief in an Invisible Sky Fairy.
Has he considered the alternative of regulating them by, ummm, regulation?

More like Peter Cushing’s role in Scream and Scream Again.

I’m getting more a “Vader! Release him!” vibe.

“Has he considered the alternative of regulating them by, ummm, regulation?”

HA HA, socialest!

What’s ‘Christmas’?

Crap, foiled again. I need a faster PC to keep up.

Variations on a theme, noen. I don’t see it as a race.

Holy shit! You weren’t making that up. Wow.

I don’t see it as a race.

Oh come on. Threads are for win win WINNING!

In this instance, the system has been badly used — by mere people.

As compared to whom, Nimrod? Molluscs?

WSJ always prints mounds of this crappola. I mean, two words: Peggy Noonan, fer crissake. Okay that was four.

And I want to know why all these whingers about socialism this and socialism that aren’t turning themselves inside out with rage over all the socialism-ing going on with government bailouts of banks and other financial institutions and automakers and so forth. Where’s yer free-market invisible hand there, huh? Huh? Stupid wastewads.

Hee.

I just screeded on this myself earlier today:

http://roseyv.livejournal.com/90627.html

Unbelievable. Simply unbelievable.

In this instance, the system has been badly used — by mere people.
It will come as a great consolation to those who have lost their jobs, houses or retirement funds to know that the System did not fail (it cannot fail!), but rather, was failed (by mere people).

nurturers of useful virtue
There’s a strong whiff of “noble lie” rhetoric around this guy. I am picking up that sub-text of “The sentimental nonsense of the Sky-Fairy belief system does not apply to my readers or me — we are intelligent enough to stand above it — but the economy runs more smoothly if we teach it to the commoners, and to investment bankers in particular, to instill them with a sense of virtue.”

Sub-text? The Jonah, KLo crowd? gurrrlgle wrrrrr, fart… that’s the only sub-text they know.

Aren’t Tek Markitz supposed to make their own morality — everyone participating in the market acts according to his own self-interest, but in totality it ends up benefiting everyone?

Only Real Americans – by which I mean Real Christians – know that Christmas is all about spending.

First they gave the baby Jesus a sub-prime loan,
but since all my assets were in General Motors, I said nothing.

Is it me, or does he look like a villain in cheap Bond knockoff?
More like Peter Cushing’s role in Scream and Scream Again.

I’m thinking Grandpa Munster’s even more vampirier and sense-of-humorless brother.

Why does a whiny little shit who doesn’t have the balls to say “Merry Christmas” when he wants to blame it on someone else? Just say it, for fuck’s sake.

It’s not a conspiracy. It’s not a war on Christmas. It’s that people like Henninger have an empty ballsack.

By that logic homeless people aren’t allowed to panhandle anymore because assholes sometimes tell them to go get a job.

If your all-powerful sky fairy can’t protect you from snide Jews, how’s he supposed to prevent rich people from being greedy?

It is true that places where there is no war against Christmas the economy is thriving. Look at Saudi Arabia, Yemen, the UAE… And the last I checked China owns our asses unto the 7th generation, so it’s evident that without the WAC there’s no market meltdown.

What do you mean “I’m missing something”?

Oh come on. Threads are for win win WINNING!

I thought threads were like an orgies, where EVERYBODY WINS. I will point out that I remarked on the “Northerners and atheists who vilify Southern evangelicals are throwing out nurturers of useful virtue” in the Wankee post, but I will refrain from using the phrase “sloppy seconds”.

And he looks like a downmarket Christopher Plummer to me. As a vampire.

Preview, come back my dearest darling. It’s just not an orgies without you.

One day I was on the ground
When I needed a hand
And it couldn’t be found

that might be the worst thing i’ve ever read on the Net. my eyes are literally boggling around in my head like floppy grapes. wall street journal? huh?

Christmas, the holiday that dare not speak its name.

Huh? What is this “Christmas” you speak of? I live on an isolated desert island, and I’ve never heard of this “holiday”. And plus, I don’t know any other people.

Leave Bond to me.

Well, back in 2005 Fox News did link a potential economic crisis to the evil liberals and their War on Christmas (I have an old post on it), but blaming the existing crisis on the WOC would be a big step up.

It’s important for (some) Christians to get the government to pass laws against drinking and teh gays and saying bad words and seeing a nipple, because Jesus SaulPaul said those were bad, but if you suggest actually making people “sell all they have and give to the poor” like it says in the Gospel, or even, you know, “give the poor a portion of what you got by having some coked-up investment banker move imaginary money around a balance sheet on your behalf” they’re all “OH NOES I EARNED THAT UNEARNED INCOME AND TEH SOSHALEST HITLERS ARE PUTTING ME IN A GOOLOG”.

I gotta say:

I don’t personally know ONE SINGLE PERSON who is the least bit offended by the casual use of the phrase “Merry Christmas” between, say, Halloween and January 1.

Now, then, conversely, I know loads of people, most of them are where I work, who get genuinely pissed off and offended by “Happy Holidays” and Holiday Break and so on.

(I like to say “Happy Holidays,” after which I apologize for not being politically correct enough … and it is very politically incorrect to call conservative out on their inconsistency.)

I like to mix it up. Sometimes “Happy Holidays” and sometimes “Death to America”.

Did anyone tell Bill that France is the most Catholic country on the planet, and that they have even more progressive policies than most European nations???

So the problem is the people who make you say “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas”? So it’s all the fault of the Jews? Where have I heard that one before?

Christmas, the holiday that dare not speak its name.

Christmas is not alone in this. The bulk of holidays are unable to speak their names.

He could play a Batman villain:

Ra’s al Ghul is an international terrorist and assassin whose ultimate goal is a world in perfect environmental balance. He believes that the best way to achieve this balance is to eliminate most of humanity. Ra’s usually tries to assault the world’s human populace with a biological weapon, such as a genetically-engineered virus. He is aided in this quest by the Lazarus Pits, reservoirs of rejuvenating chemicals that restore the dying to life; these pits have granted him a lifespan of several hundred years.