WSJ columnist blames financial crisis on the War on Christmas.
WSJ columnist blames financial crisis on the War on Christmas.
In his Wall Street Journal column today, Daniel Henninger argues that the “unprecedented economic ruin” that many Americans are facing is a casualty of the War on Christmas because “a nation whose people can’t say ‘Merry Christmas’ is a nation capable of ruining its own economy”:
Notwithstanding the cardboard Santas who seem to have arrived in stores this year near Halloween, the holiday season starts in seven days with Thanksgiving. And so it will come to pass once again that many people will spend four weeks biting on tongues lest they say “Merry Christmas” and perchance, give offense. Christmas, the holiday that dare not speak its name.
This year we celebrate the desacralized “holidays” amid what is for many unprecedented economic ruin — fortunes halved, jobs lost, homes foreclosed. People wonder, What happened? One man’s theory: A nation whose people can’t say “Merry Christmas” is a nation capable of ruining its own economy.
After cataloging a series of complex economic factors that do relate to the financial crisis, Henninger concludes that what really went wrong is that “the steady secularizing and insistent effort at dereligioning America” led to “subprime personal behavior by borrowers and bankers.”
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November 20th, 2008 at 1:48 pmOh, but allowing predatory lending helped everything, right?
These people are batty.
November 20th, 2008 at 1:51 pmExcuse me but the ones who want christmas to only be celebrated by their god are the ones that got us into this mess……
November 20th, 2008 at 1:51 pmOH MY GOD!! Did he REALLY write that? I knew that Murdoch grabbing the Journal would be bad news but this is just unbelievably stupid. WOW.
November 20th, 2008 at 1:51 pmMerry F*****g Christmas, are you happy now, Dan?
November 20th, 2008 at 1:52 pmOh, I forgot, the WSJ is owned by Rupert Murdoch, now, isn’t it? And the level of intelligent discourse has begun it’s descent…
November 20th, 2008 at 1:53 pmWell, at least he didn’t blame the Gays.
November 20th, 2008 at 1:54 pmJebus – grasping for straws much…??
November 20th, 2008 at 1:56 pmHey Henninger, stop stepping on Bildo’s toes. Dick Morris will be working overtime this holiday season keeping O’Liely’s toes shipshape.
November 20th, 2008 at 1:56 pmI think it’s great that the WSJ is getting into the occasional tongue-in-cheek column.
The Onion could stand some competition.
November 20th, 2008 at 1:57 pmI was raised in a predominantly Jewish community and nobody ever had a problem saying or hearing Merry Christmas. This is a myth propagated by those that only hang out with people who go to the same church they do.
That being said, this guy is definitely ready for a padded cell.
November 20th, 2008 at 1:58 pmDaniel Henninger and Bill O’Reiley…two unarmed men fighting a war in their own heads.
November 20th, 2008 at 1:59 pmPeople like this crackpot inspire me to only say HAPPY HOLIDAYS.
November 20th, 2008 at 2:02 pmAnd the WSJ finally jumps the shark….. NOW!
November 20th, 2008 at 2:02 pmI love this!!! It makes me giggle. The “War on Christmas” is the annual nonissue gift that keeps on giving…
November 20th, 2008 at 2:02 pmOh.
My.
God.
He’s serious.
Check out this gem of wingnuttery:
What really went missing through the subprime mortgage years were the three Rs: responsibility, restraint and remorse. They are the ballast that stabilizes two better-known Rs from the world of free markets: risk and reward.
Responsibility and restraint are moral sentiments. Remorse is a product of conscience. None of these grow on trees. Each must be learned, taught, passed down. And so we come back to the disappearance of “Merry Christmas.”
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.
Yep. He is actually trying to pin the blame for the financial sector losing all its bearings in a regulatory-free environment on “Northerners and theists who villify Sputhern evangelicals”.
And he appears to be dead serious.
WTF IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE?????
November 20th, 2008 at 2:03 pmRebel without a clue.
November 20th, 2008 at 2:03 pmWhat a maroon.
November 20th, 2008 at 2:04 pmMoney’s tight, times are hard, so here’s your fu[king Christmas card.
November 20th, 2008 at 2:05 pm“the steady secularizing and insistent effort at dereligioning America” led to “subprime personal behavior by borrowers and bankers.”
Banging.Head.On.Desk. The stupid – it honestly does hurt.
November 20th, 2008 at 2:06 pm(sorry — that should be “Northerners and atheists”.
I presume Mr. Henninger would have far fewer problems with theists. They weren’t the ones who caused this meltdown, after all. It was the Dirty Fu(king Hippies who misused all that power they have over the financial sector.
My apologies.)
November 20th, 2008 at 2:07 pmNo “Merry Christmas” ruined the economy.
OR
A ruined economy makes it harder to have the “Merry Christmas” spirit.
You decide.
I’ll be over here laughing at fools like this guy.
Happy Holidays (all of them)to all of you.
November 20th, 2008 at 2:07 pmwhere do these morons come up with this stuff? This is another wing nut example where I wish we didn’t have freedom of speech !
November 20th, 2008 at 2:11 pmShorter Dan Henninger: “Real Americans – by which I mean Real Christians – know that the true meaning of Christmas is shopping.”
November 20th, 2008 at 2:11 pm.
Merry Commerce everyone!
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November 20th, 2008 at 2:15 pmOh.
My.
Dear.
Lawd.
I am ashamed to share his first name! And I really do hate so called journalists and experts using hypotheticals to make a point.
Here. I got one for you: Ignoring the fact that the last 7 years have brought us 9/11, Katrina, a recession, and a misleading occupation costing taxpayers billions of dollars a month, I feel the reason for the financial crisis is because of the abysmal record of the Detroit Lions.
Makes about as much sense.
Oh.
November 20th, 2008 at 2:15 pmHappy Holidays to all!
is it just me, or do they seem to push this holiday out earlier and earlier every year… I mean… it’s not even Thanksgiving yet.
November 20th, 2008 at 2:16 pmThe “Theater of the Absurd” has now hit the WSJ as well. I guess this is to be expected now that Murdoch has his fingerprints all over its editorial policy.
In view of the kind of trash opinions the WSJ is now producing, I think I understand why Little Billy Kristol is indifferent about the renewal of his contract at the NYT. After all, there’s always room for him at the WSJ.
November 20th, 2008 at 2:16 pmYep, that’s why those nonchristian nations like China, South Korea, India and Japan have such perpetually lousy economies.
November 20th, 2008 at 2:17 pmHow does a guy this out to lunch even have a job as a pundit or anything else? The self induced blindness of the Right is out of hand.
November 20th, 2008 at 2:20 pm“Notwithstanding the cardboard Santas who seem to have arrived in stores this year near Halloween…”
It was Labor Day in my neighborhood.
Dereligioning is a new word, I hadn’t heard that one before. So new it doesn’t pass the spell check.
May I suggest dereligionizing, it has a better ring to it.
The best part was the “subprime personal behavior” by borrowers and bankers.
This phrase (subprime personal behavior) is going to come in handy…
November 20th, 2008 at 2:21 pm:)
WTF?
November 20th, 2008 at 2:22 pmAll I can say is what kind of drugs is this guy taking that can make him so f-king delusional?
Quick! Somebody say “Merry Christmas” to me! Otherwise I’m liable to go out and sucker some poor unlucky soul with a lending scam! Or I’ll throw my money away instead of investing it! I’ll find some way to drive this economy into the ground! Quick, help me! Wish me a Merry Christmas to save me from myself!
November 20th, 2008 at 2:24 pmNext, we’re going to blame skyrocketing health insurance costs on the lack of nativity scenes in government buildings.
November 20th, 2008 at 2:26 pmNeil Cavuto’s Go-To Guy…
The depth of Henninger’s stupidity is inversely proportional to the length of time he seems to have spent researching the causes of the current, world-wide financial crisis.
He should stick to what he knows best: writing articles praising Sarah Palin.
November 20th, 2008 at 2:28 pmWhat I’m taking away from this is “Blame the Jews & Asians”
Northerners = Jews from NY
Atheists = Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Indians
I’m surprised he didn’t find some way to fit ni**ers in there, too.
These people are vile.
November 20th, 2008 at 2:30 pmI know just how his Holiness Prince Daniel feels. I myself was going to go out & bolster the economy by spending bazillions on Xmas presents till I found out the clerks weren’t going to wish me a merry Christmas. And I won’t shop in stores where they don’t print “thank you” on their receipts. It’s so demoralizing.
I’ve got news for his Holiness. Jesus didn’t say merry Christmas either, largely because the church didn’t make up Christmas till the 4th century when the holy fathers decided it would be a good idea to give Jesus a birthday party to fit in with the winter solstice celebrations for the other sun gods like Mithras & Adonis. But, Mr. Henninger, according to the Gospels of Matthew and Mark, Jesus did offer up a whole lotta hellfire & damnation for HYPOCRITES. Merry Xmas to you.
It’s comforting to know that at Rupert’s Wall Street Journal, the gold standard for American financial rags — the experts really understand the causes of the financial crisis.
The Constant Weader at http://www.RealityChex.com — where nuts like Daniel Henninger are weaded out.
November 20th, 2008 at 2:30 pmDoes that absolve Harvey the invisible rabbit of all responsibility?
November 20th, 2008 at 2:33 pm“Happy Holidays everyone.”
November 20th, 2008 at 2:34 pm“I’m a Christian, that doesn’t make any sense. Say Christmas!”
“You’re right, I didn’t know what I was saying. Even though I’m counting New Year’s and not everyone in the room is Christian, I should have said Christmas. I’m the rude and ignorant one.”
“You just hate Christmas, don’t you?”
This guy’s insane – another of the O’Reilly sheep.
November 20th, 2008 at 2:36 pmWhere is Daryll/RuptureReady at to blather that Henninger is right and tell us Huckabee or Palin will really be the one sworn in Jan 20?
November 20th, 2008 at 2:36 pmIn the spirit of the season and all, this guy is a total FRUITCAKE!!
November 20th, 2008 at 2:37 pmI think its because people dont speak to each other when they pass on the street.
“Just say HI!”
Idiots
RIP
November 20th, 2008 at 2:39 pmSGT Stephen R. Sherman
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It’s a setup for Dan Henninger to appear on Murdoch’s new business channel. They have to do something to draw viewers.
One might expect the last few months to compel people to watch business news channels, but Fox’s ratings are pitiful.
By blaming the “War on Christmas”, fueled by liberals, Repugs can steer blame to the Democratic Party.
All of it is patently laughable. Who packaged and delivered credit default swaps? Not Santa!
November 20th, 2008 at 2:40 pmThe Wall Street Urinal…
Moving into the 20th Century just in time for the 21st!
November 20th, 2008 at 2:41 pmIf these religious rightwing nutso keep invoking religion in any and all arguments they will be run over by a third party or a spinoff of the Republican Party. The last election wasn’t a repdiation of religion, just a repudiation of invoking it in EVERY discussion and debate. I am an atheist and it surely turned me off that people couldn’t make a deision with out consulting their Bible. As though the Christians have all the answers. So look back over the last 8 years and see what God brought us. 9/11, (sorry that was because of homosexuality) Guantanamo, illegal witrtapping, a magnificant response to Katrina,(snark)Corruption,(real corruption, not a BJ) Gonzales, Rove, Cheney, Libby, on ad infinitum. If God brings all the good, He has to take credit for the bad too.
November 20th, 2008 at 2:42 pmThe bast-ards are looking to blame anyone and anything — this is really a stretch, however. That whether or not people say Merry Christmas is a factor in the financial crisis, is so ridiculous that I am surprised he admits to saying it.
November 20th, 2008 at 2:43 pmAccontability, responsibility and the ability to recognize one’s own faults apparently are not contained in these wealthy bloviators. Typical of a Fox contributor. Maybe he is looking to fill in for Billy Kristol who should be out on his a$$.
Capitalism, through consumerism, took the spirituality out of Christmas long ago. Henninger and his ilk will never look for or find fault there.
November 20th, 2008 at 2:43 pmThis is why this country and the rest of the world is so fu(ked up. These great financiers, these wonderful diplomats, these powerful lawyers and business men and women. This is a perfect example of their mindset. Shift accountability and blame anyone and anything for whatever shortcoming that has befallen us. And yet, these people are the very ones that the MSM keep parading in front of us as if they are all knowing and right. These people are not Americans. They certainly aren’t recognizable as human. They are sick automatons that care about nothing but their self agrandizement, self righteousness, power and money. All else be damned.
Let me preface my next statement by informing everyone that I am an atheist:
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
November 20th, 2008 at 2:44 pmAnother example, that wingnut welfare makes the writers of the right intellectually lazy.
Getting paid for writing poorly conceived and executed articles has ruined a generation, and the only way to cure them of this sloppyness is to institute some sort of conservative pundit work-fare.
November 20th, 2008 at 2:46 pmHenninger is right, Sweet Baby Jesus has turned his back on America because we refuse to spend the last few dollars in the kitty to celebrate his mythological birthday.
I have the solution. All the Christians out there who want to get back in His graces, need to send me $10.
Send it now.
Send it right fcking now.
And I will add your name to the list of good people next time I chat with the Man. Don’t think of it as money spent, it’s seed money and it will be returned tenfold. I promise.
Remember Santa is just another way of spelling Satan.
Sincerely, Benny Hinn
Honestly, don’t the real Christians get shit full of these charlatans pissing on Christ’s image? If I were a Christian, I would tell these idiots to STFU.
November 20th, 2008 at 2:46 pmWhat these idiots don’t understand is that the word “holiday” comes from “holy day.”
Talk about majoring on the minors!
November 20th, 2008 at 2:47 pmOK. I’ll give him that the Christmas season (aka Commerce Day) is a big part of the store revenue for the year. But are people not buying for Christmas because the Walmart Greeter said “Happy Holidays ” ( in which case how shallow can they be. Not to mention what idiots). OR are people not buying widescreen TVs because they are living out of their cars and the widescreen won’t fit on their dashboard.
I’d also say, the low revenues extend back at least 6 months. And the Christmas shopping season doesn’t start till recently.
I would ask,in the past 10 years I’ve seen the Christmas season move forward on the calendar from starting at Thanksgiving to this year, a Halloween season started in August (judjing by Walmart selling the stuff then) with one continuous push from then till now of one long season of multiple “give gift” Halloween, T-giving and Christmas.
Could the retail slump also be influenced by over inflation of the gift season ? That is, have they killed the goose that layed the golden egg NOT by the War on Christmas, but rather Extending the season so that Christmas is no longer special ?
November 20th, 2008 at 2:48 pmI love the seasonal lights that can be staged to run around the house like lights on a marquee, in different patterns or intervals…it’s like you’re living in a ‘fun house’ by which it only accidentally resembles the state of my mind most of the time..
November 20th, 2008 at 2:53 pmIt is finally confirmed. Christmas is really just another marketing plan to get pepople to buy more crap we don`t need.
November 20th, 2008 at 2:54 pmI think the Republican party should make this issue central to their platform for at least the next three election cycles. It’s a sure winner!
They just get stupider and stupider, don’t they? The WSJ used to have a reputation for not being utterly retarded. This guy just killed it.
The Christian Taliban is trying to take over this country. I say if they hate the Constitution so much, they can just go somewhere else and start their own damn country. America – love it or leave it, bible thumpers!
November 20th, 2008 at 2:55 pmYes, because nothing says “Let’s celebrate the birth of Christ” like rampant shopping sprees. Fail.
November 20th, 2008 at 2:55 pmOne piece of advice: Keep your religious superstitions, like your genital shortcomings, covered up, and nobody will laugh at you–well, at least not for that…
November 20th, 2008 at 2:57 pmI feel like there is some kind of a contest going on out there that we don’t know about. It’s the “who can say the stupidest thing contest” being run by the Republicans. I think this guy will win the contest hands down.
November 20th, 2008 at 2:59 pmReally, Daniel? Then kindly explain why the economy had the greatest continued expansion in its history under BILL CLINTON the secular hedonist and tanked big time under the religious Dubya. Twenty-two million jobs created under Clinton and four million and dropping under Dubya. Does the attitude towards Christmas explain this? DJIA up 350% under Clinton and down 30% under Dubya. From record deficits to record surpluses under Clinton—opposite under Dubya! Does religion really explain this?
Of course not! It would be clear to a seventh-grader.
November 20th, 2008 at 2:59 pmYay! The American right continues to front a bunch of out-of-touch morons! Merry Christmas indeed!
November 20th, 2008 at 3:02 pmWell this is a blessing, normally the gays get blamed for everything – so before Dan notices he let this one slip past the gays I’m jumping on his bandwagon and blaming the heathens that don’t say Merry Christmas. Whewwww!
November 20th, 2008 at 3:03 pmWasn’t Jesus born in like March and the December celebration is from pagan winter solstice rites?
November 20th, 2008 at 3:03 pmI heard the scariest thing today on Air America. It seems that financial institutions are foreclosing on homeowners who haven’t missed any payments. They are doing it to homeowners with a lot of equity in their homes. What they are doing is sending a letter to the homeowner demanding a huge amount of money for past mortgage payments. Then when the homeowner calls, they get someone in India who says to fax their proof of payments to a fax number in Florida or some place like that and that someone will get back to them. No one calls them back and all you can do is call India again. Next thing the homeowner knows, they are in foreclosure. And, apparently once you are in foreclosure, you can’t get back out. I new these financial institutions were slimy, just not how slimy they are. If something like that happened to me, I would sue the pants off the company.
November 20th, 2008 at 3:04 pmIf it will make him feel better, AFA is selling “It’s OK to Say Merry Christmas” buttons. Act NOw! These won’t last.
http://www.tips-q.com/content/speaking-fundie-fund-raising-american-family-assoc-it-it
November 20th, 2008 at 3:06 pmOR, “Just say HIGH?”
November 20th, 2008 at 3:09 pmKeith Says:
Wasn’t Jesus born in like March and the December celebration is from pagan winter solstice rites?
It’s doubtful anyone will ever know when Jesus was born…
November 20th, 2008 at 3:12 pmAll of the Christian holidays supplanted already existing Roman/Greek/pagan/earth-diety/animist holidays when Christianity became the official religion of the Roman empire.
“Religion is the opiate of the masses”
Nevar, I believe I heard the tree and exchanging of gifts came from German “barbarians”.
November 20th, 2008 at 3:16 pmA nation drunk on greed and leverage can ruin their own economy.
Christmas had nothing to do with it, unless Santa sat on the Board Compensation Committee of Wall Street Investment Banks.
November 20th, 2008 at 3:17 pmI don’t know about that, Bilbo… Michelle Bachmann claiming as “urban legend” something that has been widely circulated on tape has to be a strong contender.
…although that MAY be eligible in another category…
November 20th, 2008 at 3:17 pmI’m no genius writing for the WSJ but it seems to be the economy started tanking when the oil companies were gouging us for gasoline. Most people with credit cards probably still owe money from that rip off but lets not blame the oil companies or the bankers. Noooooo.
November 20th, 2008 at 3:19 pmPredatory lending is in the Spirit of Christmas? Who knew?
November 20th, 2008 at 3:26 pmWages have gone nowhere but down since 2001 (when adjusted for inflation). The little spending that Americans have done the past eight years has come from home equity loans. When the housing bubble burst, the house of cards came tumbling down. Trickle-down does not work. Trickle-up does. The vast majority of Americans must have extra money after their neccesities or our economy does not work.
November 20th, 2008 at 3:26 pmKeith…Most “holiday traditions” have roots that go way back, and many are common to cultures all over the world. Tibetan Buddhism and Native American Spirituality are amazingly similar, and have no known historical connections.
November 20th, 2008 at 3:29 pmThe Tree of Life is a very ancient concept, and has traditions throughout world cultures.
Gift giving also is very ancient and universal.
qwe are all one species, we have all evolved at different rates and in different places, yet we share a common ancestry, and a common future.
Happy Whatever!
ucsb, unc plays you Friday. Go heels!
November 20th, 2008 at 3:30 pmNevar, interesting. Native Americans were in China/Mongolia before they came here.
November 20th, 2008 at 3:32 pmWell Keith…
yeah, I’m not going to say anything, but if that game gives our team experience they could use in the Big West, so be it…
November 20th, 2008 at 3:35 pmucsb, unc has 4 lost to injury, meaning we only got about 7 good ones. I live about 100 miles north of SB now. Might go if I can.
November 20th, 2008 at 3:38 pmAhhh yes… and the cause of Hurrican Katrina was because of the gays.
Srsly… when are we as a nation going to shut up all the Christian morons that want to ignore that America is a melting pot? It’s not just X-mas… it’s Hannukah and a handful of OTHER holidays too, because of the celestial placement of stars and other religious groups. We get it.. you’re Christian.. you’ve been the top dogs for what… 2000 years now? How about stop trying to play the ‘poor me’ card?
November 20th, 2008 at 3:46 pmWhy, oh why do a$sholes like this get any ink or air time at all, what a load of crap.
…yeah, because a couple of stores or government offices don’t use the term, “Merry Christmas” does not mean the rest of us don’t.
…these morons are just so stupid that it is hard to describe their stupidity.
November 20th, 2008 at 3:46 pmThen how do you explain the Big 3’s demise while gun sales are reaching out-of-this-world numbers ?
There should be plenty of drive-by’s ; so what’s the problem there ?
What a fu(kin’ idiot …………..
November 20th, 2008 at 3:59 pmGood point, Keith.
November 20th, 2008 at 4:04 pmI bumped into Buddha at a cliff dwelling once…
“the steady secularizing and insistent effort at dereligioning America”.
November 20th, 2008 at 4:13 pmThis country has been secular for 232 years. He may want to read what the Founding Fathers have written into the First Amendment, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion…”
Nevar Says:
I bumped into Buddha at a cliff dwelling once…
Might want to cut back on the peyote. :)
November 20th, 2008 at 4:19 pmIs this guy for real?
November 20th, 2008 at 4:25 pmSomeone has been sniffing too much glue.
This is a multi-cultural, multi-religious, multi-ethnic nation with citizens whose origins or ancestries come from nations all across the world. We are not a homogeneous society, and not everyone celebrates Christmas. It is simple POLITENESS to wish someone “Happy Holidays” when one doesn’t know their religious identity.
No one is going to stop anyone from saying “Merry Christmas”, but neither should anyone be forced to do so. Considering the PAGAN origins of the modern Christmas holiday, if we really want to be sincere then we should be wishing one another a “Joyous Saturnalia” instead.
This guy who claims that the so-called “War on Christmas” is the cause of our economic problems is a LOON and should be fired on the spot. No one with such a ridiculous and childish view of the world should be given a platform to promote such stupid ideas.
November 20th, 2008 at 4:31 pmActually, it may have been the Nepalese temple sticks.
November 20th, 2008 at 4:45 pmWow…just wow.
How do retards like this actually keep their jobs!?
November 20th, 2008 at 5:04 pmI never had a problem with saying Merry Xmas until some of these A-holes started making a point of it. Now I reply Happy Solstice and hope their brain tumors explode!
And O is the economy ruined? Begs the question: What took it so long? What did these rightwing capitalist cultists expect after decades of selling out American workers so that their purchasing power will soon be shrinking to zero. Those responsible should hang.
Then that indeed will be a Merry Christmas.
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November 20th, 2008 at 5:17 pmOne man’s theory: A nation whose people can’t say “Merry Christmas” is a nation capable of ruining its own economy.
Then that one man’s an idiot, apparently.
November 20th, 2008 at 5:38 pmThis made me laugh. This guy gets published? In the WSJ?
November 20th, 2008 at 6:04 pmYou know what the real tragedy is here?
There are millions of people who can give more informed, more intelligent, more relevant opinions than this guy. Many of them are underemployed or unemployed. But he gets paid an above-average salary for this kind of poor performance.
If your job is to provide an opinion, then if you provide opinions that are stupid, ignorant, evil or all three you should lose your job and it should be given to someone who can provide a better quality opinion. The “marketplace of ideas” needs to start functioning like a real marketplace: people who sell crap should go broke.
I’m not saying everybody should agree with me. But they shouldn’t be so profoundly stupid. They’re just doing a simple formula:
1) pick one problem facing the world today
2) pick something the right-wing wants
3) say that the lack of #2 is the cause for #1
4) get paid
I suspect they’re just rolling dice on this formula now, rather than picking anything that even has a chance of being relevant.
November 20th, 2008 at 6:05 pmNail, meet Hammer.
November 20th, 2008 at 6:16 pmHappy Holidays, y’all.
November 20th, 2008 at 6:19 pmaccept dan henninger as your personal economic advisor… or burn for eternity in secular credit hell.
November 20th, 2008 at 6:20 pmAs I have said before – this moron is part of the O’Reilly “anti-Christmas” sheep. Frankly, they should all flock off.
November 20th, 2008 at 6:25 pmNevar Says:
Actually, it may have been the Nepalese temple sticks.
Thank you Sir, may I have another?
November 20th, 2008 at 7:08 pmNevar, when you said cliff dwelling, I thought of New Mexico. But you were in Nepal? No peyote there. :)
November 20th, 2008 at 9:29 pmI am laughing so hard it is now difficult to find the appropriate level of rage this opinion piece deserves. The Grinch is responsible for the economic meltdown? Not the unabashed pilfering by the subprime goons, not the debt bundling driven by outrageous fees to the bundlers, it was The Grinch!?? Cindy Who save us – it’s time to sing in a circle in Whoville. Oh wait – that’s deriligionization isn’t it? Darn, I was so close to the answer! I mean the Who’s in Whoville, they didn’t actually say Merry Christmas did they? They sang a song of cheer and love in their own language! Ok, I’m going back to laughing at this fool. Will try to figure out his madness later.
November 20th, 2008 at 10:40 pmMore religious nuttery….
November 21st, 2008 at 5:23 amMuch Ado about Nothing. (Do what you like and let the rest go.)
November 21st, 2008 at 9:35 amThis is a new twist blaming the atheist for the economic meltdown………a typical Reich Wing statement.
November 21st, 2008 at 10:05 amthis is the commercial where you go to the bank the bank robs you and then they get the government to tax you and get more money.where did the money go why won’t they show us.this thing is like a flat tire.business is the flat they refuse to repair the tire they would have to change.money is the air.they want the government to keep giving up money so they can continue to hemmorage the air the tire may not inflate and we’ll have the greatest deppression none to man.fix the tire.stop driving on the tire.inflate the tire with sense.we may not like it.its like green vegetables their good for you,but not good to you.
November 21st, 2008 at 6:34 pmWe need to fight the War on Christmas!!! We can win this thing people… all we need is good cheer and even better Christmas music from This Guy…
http://www.thisguysingschristmas.maltesemedia.com/
You can’t run from the holy spirit forever!
-This Guy
December 9th, 2008 at 6:27 pmWe can win this thing people… all we need is good cheer and even better Christmas music from This Guy…
http://www.thisguysingschristmas.maltesemedia.com/
You can’t run from the holy spirit forever!
-This Guy
December 9th, 2008 at 6:28 pm