Well, if you’re Jon Swift, it’s pretty much a pretext for jackassery, because obviously the trampling to death of the Wal-Mart worker on Long Island is the result of 8 years of failed Bush policies.
What a funny, edgy guy.
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Last time he got linked here I think we pretty much established that he’s kind of retarded and is one of those traffic whore blogger people and I’ll not be clicking today I don’t think.
This reminds me of Linda Ellerbee’s television commentary on the 1984 massacre at a San Ysidro McDonalds wherein she compared Ronald Reagan with the shooter because of their mutual interest in guns.
I think he’s got a point when he fingers capitalism as the culprit here, Dan. Don’t you remember how politely folks used to queue up in the Soviet Union?
It’s a good thing that Swift describes himself as a conservative on his blog, just like Andrew Sullivan, so you know underneath all that hilarity he is a very serious guy.
Yet another person who cannot be happy that his guy won the election. Instead, he has to keep spewing the same hate. They don’t know what else to do, really.
Nuh-uh! Its the result of successful Bush policies!
Remember: Bush TOLD us to go shopping!!!! Those peoples are teh patriotic. Plus the stompity-stomp stuff was all about the O, who is obviously-duh all just a marketing-droid product, so they are teh slaves of consumerist miasma even in their voting patterns!
Its just like an anthopological survey I’m on, all the time. When I finds my mittenz I mean
You almost have to feel sorry for someone with so little talent who has invested so much effort into a blog like that.
Almost.
Wait so I’m sorry, what you are saying is there are things which will go wrong in the next four years which will NOT be the fault of the doctrine of the dumbest evil genius dictator in history ? Well, I think that Obama should heal that gaping wound with one wave of his hand. And if he doesn’t I would say its a given its the end result of 8 years of the “Failed Retarded Policies of GW Bush(-Hitler) who singlehandedly defeated prop whatever in Ca. re gay marriage.” Bush is like a retarded Dr. No. Despite all his limitations, he’s successfully destroyed the world from his big obvious volcano base in the middle of Texas.
And if if anybody dares to blame an Obama administration of say … gross mis management, wilt not the messiah hire jesse jackson and al sharpton to call those critics racemongers ?
Hrm ok so a big Florida win, some Tgiving l-overs and I get chatty.
good ob by Swift on the human nature of stupid greed
Yes, well. Literally everything is either due to the Evil Influence of George W. Bush, or the result of Courageous Defiance of the Evil, etc. Either way, it’s Positive Evidence of Global Warming.
It makes for a really simple world. Not a very realistic one, but simple.
Regards,
Ric
Yes, and you can certainly tell by looking at the photos of the swollen crowds at the Long Island Wal-Mart that they are Bush-men.
That’s just weird if that’s what he’s saying. New Yorkers in general are stupid. It was really easy to turn them against Bush after all he’s done to keep them safe cause they are very herd-like and ruminant creatures. It used to not be that way, and they nurture an image of themselves that’s a lot at odds with who they are. Tacky graceless ruminants. Except for my friend M especially and some other people.
the human nature of stupid greed
Define greed, sashal.
Peggy Noonan is a good example. You can tell she thinks she’s quite the sophisticate but she says stuff that leaves you thinking that’s just tacky Peggy. You have no grace but you think you’re Mrs. Hotflash America or something.
Also no one with any class would be caught dead whoring on MSNBC like she does and if she were a for real sophisticate she would know that.
I don’t know if this qualifies as tragedy, but I really can’t understand how Noam Chomsky can say that Adam Smith isn’t a libertarian.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxPUvQZ3rcQ
I’d really love it if Jeff or Dan could take on some of Noam’s nonsense. I know Sowell says he’s going to include a reference of him in his new book, but I can’t wait.
Dear Mr Swift,
You are a tool.
Yrs Truly,
js
On ignorance, arguing from
Blogging is silly in many ways, yet as important as the written word itself in many ways.
Such is.
Let’s all remember to take pride in our comments and posts, especially when being in less than agreement with a person of a different persuasion.
It seems to me.
I should like to think.
I wish I may never know peace again if he doesn’t strike out promptly and follow the track of that cannon-ball across the plain through the dense fog and find the fort. Isn’t it a daisy?
Hi Vladimir. I was kinda rude the other day I apologize.
But again with the what exactly is that comment supposed to mean I think.
Is it such a radical idea, that the setting of safety standards in shopping malls (say) may have something to do with the decisions of — horrors! — government?
In that sense, yes, the tragedy is the result of 8 years of Bush.
— bi, International Journal of Inactivism
That’s just retarded, bi. Shopping malls are not the purview of the Federal Government.
Yes bi, and someone helpful from the govt should have been at each one of the stompers houses before they left for the stomping, to make sure that their shoelaces were tied securely. I’m sure that’s how the whole problem started, one of the stompers had a loose shoelace.
You’re a rather dim child, bi.
I wonder if the stompers were Obama or McCain voters.
Safety standards at shopping malls … perhaps if they used a balloon fence right? Let’s think outside the box people!
If they had used a mile high dirt berm, that would have slowed the stompers down considerably.
Since when did the Federal Government become responsible only for dropping bombs in faraway lands and spying on people’s private communications? Instead of, well, actually protecting citizens?
— bi, International Journal of Inactivism
“Barack” is the new American. John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, George Washington – that’s old worn out news. Tyree and Shawniqua is America now Jack.
One problem: Lyndell and Pureesha feel that the last coconut should be fought over using all of your physical skills and ain’t no way some stock boy is gonna keep them from gettin’ theirs.
This oughta bring the denouncements. Fine. When it’s Tony Dungee and Lovey Smith in the Super Bowl it’s “black” and it’s good. When it’s a hard working guy trying to keep order, do the right thing, feed his family, and hold back the crazed mob and in the process, getting trampled, that’s bad. But it’s not “black”, because “bad” and “black” in the same story is racist. Fuck.That.
This is America now. We trample for bargains.
Stretch before shopping.
bi, you apparently think all the policing ought to be left to the Federales. You apparently think that the law ought to be given to the Executive. You apparently have little or no understanding of local authority and law. You apparently are an idiot.
Like bi, I see no reason why we shouldn’t deploy the National Guard to the mostly-black Walmarts on Black Friday.
I mean, let’s be realistic.
Since when did the Federal Government become responsible only for dropping bombs in faraway lands and spying on people’s private communications?
Barack is planning to bomb the piss out of Pockeestawn and voted for FISA. Didn’t you get the memo?
By the way, why isn’t the Federal government should responsible for wiping my ass?
Ration coupons and a specific time period allocated for shopping each week, based on the first letter of your last name. It’s the only solution.
“You have no grace but you think you’re Mrs. Hotflash America or something.”
Peggy doesn’t get hot flashes.
She gets power surges.
Actually, the federal government does have a hand in education. So, it’s Bush’s fault you’re an idiot.
Ah, but that would be under the auspices of State command, and on the orders of the various Governors. So, the USMC it is.
So you consider plotting a terrorist attacks involving mass murder and untold destruction of property “private communications”?
Oh, come on, folks, any minute “bi” is going to explain how a mile-high berm would protect Israel from rockets.
You know, that episode just … what is wrong with people? Fucking animals. I have stop thinking about it now.
Hi, Happyfeet. I wasn’t aiming the comment the other day at Jeff. I’ve been admiring his writing for over 4 years.
I’m not sure what I said that caused confusion.
funny how those who screech loudest that “Bush has trampled on the Constitution and just plain ROBBED us of our civil liberties!” are the first ones you see advocating government micromanagement of everyday activities!
sorry, but i simply can’t wrap my brain around the utter stupidity of Bush-wackers.
I just happened to return from an all nighter in Tijuana on the morning of the massacre at the McDonalds in San Ysidro. We stopped and got Egg and Sausage McMuffins (I did anyway). They didn’t have the burritios yet as I recall. We got on the bus, and it happened like 10 minutes after. Got to my ship (USS Ranger CV-61 baby), and it was the news.
All those trips down there and I never saw no damned donkey show, though I did see a lot of transvestites and transsexuals. Boy as I re-read this , that’s about as funny as that dude.
It’s ok I’m not sure what my deal is really. I think the Sowell thing is just hitting me as kind of borderline spammy but I couldn’t figure a pernicious point to it or anything. I should read Sowell more but the only place I know is at that townhall site and when I go there it usually depresses me and I don’t want to be the townhall demographic. Also Noam links freak me out. I learned about Mr. Chomsky from Pacifica Radio and then after that I realized I walk by the local one every day and it’s very dirty and unkempt and you can feel that it’s very hateful when you walk by. For people that whine so much about teh earth you’d think they could clean out a flowerbed.
Is it such a radical idea, that the setting of safety standards in shopping malls (say) may have something to do with the decisions of  horrors!  government?
I hereby decree that henceforth all Wal-Marts shall be surrounded by a moat of sufficient size to deter civilian assault, and a drawbridge which shall not be lowered until the peons have calmed to a dregree allowing safe passage.
So it shall be!
dregree? Off with the head of the Royal Scribe.
*sorry, but i simply can’t wrap my brain around the utter stupidity of Bush-wackers.*
Here’s the way I’ve learned to deal with it. Simply accept they’re irrational AND stupid. The two terms are not mutually exclusive. Yes, they may make irrational decisions based on their stupidity but I find irrational people make poor decisions because they rarely think about those decisions.
Soooooo, bi…you really think the government, busy as it is dropping bombs and listening to your chats with elderly Auntie Mavis, should get involved with managing the safe ingress of shoppers to stores?
With what, some kind of Disneyworld maze, only made out of concrete instead of rope, and narrow enough in passage to allow one 300-pound shopper or two 150-pounders at a time to proceed? Or maybe affix electronic anklets with timers to each shopper, and provide a painful shock if the shopper attempts to enter before his/her allowed time? How about sharpshooters posted at the entrance of each store, with the posted promise that any shopper walking faster than 3 mph will be kneecapped?
I don’t know if this qualifies as tragedy, but I really can’t understand how Noam Chomsky can say that Adam Smith isn’t a libertarian. I’d really love it if Jeff or Dan could take on some of Noam’s nonsense.
Chomsky flips the meaning of the word “liberterian” on its head and (predictably) claims Americans have perverted the meaning. For starters, he claims (1) Adam Smith was anti-capitalist(!) and also (2) claims that Adam Smith said, and I quote, “in any civilised society, something has to be done to prevent division of labor because it’ll turn people into creatures as stupid and ignorant as possible for a human to be”. #1 is absurd, #2 is simply false. Adam Smith did not say “something has to be done to prevent division of labor”. He did say:
But Smith’s proposed solution to this problem is decidedly not “to prevent division of labor”, his solution is to provide public education. In fact the title of the section that quote comes from is titled Of the Expense of the Institutions for the Education of Youth. To paraphrase Orwell, only an “intellectual” like Chomsky could misread something so stupidly.
Then Chomsky goes off in a messy argument that libertarians in America want tyranny, at which point my eyes glaze over. He’s a moron.
BTW, in that same section of Wealth of Nations, Smith discusses the importance of the people having a good “martial spirit”, which some may find relevant to current discussions on the terrorist attacks on Mumbai.
“Only intellectuals are capable of believing certain kinds of nonsense.”
-George Orwell
Chomsky’s primary tactic is argument to ignorance. He counts on his readers to be too ignorant of the troublesome facts to be able to smell his bullshit.
Chomsky has set the cause of Semantics back about 400 years prior to its inception.
The empty-headed old bigot is such a waste of words, I’ve _already_ said too much about the subject.
What, indeed, is tragedy?
Not this Swift guy’s take. Nor is it the sad death of a stock clerk underfoot of a crowd. Nor an injury to a child who has run into a street and been struck by a passing auto.
It used to mean something particular and pointed. Something worth knowing, something worth writing about.
Most everyone has forgotten what that was. More’s the loss. And the pity.
Isn’t it WalMart’s fault for having low prices? If only they charged super high prices that only libs in government and the acadamy could afford everything would be peachy keen. Oh, and where were all the white faces in the marauding crowd? Another item that doesn’t make it into liberal print. Crowds acting like savages? Militants singling out Jews and Americans and British. You must leave out important details if you’re LMSM.
Happyfeet- I think that if the site that Sowell’s columns appear on bums you out you could always just grab one of his books. I’ve read a few good ones the past year/two years including “Black Rednecks and White Liberals”, “The Quest for Cosmic Justice”, “Conflict of Visions”, “Ethnic America”, “Vision of the Anointed”.
Otherwise, you can find his column at this site….
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell.html
Because: when at a complete loss of an answer to the question, change the subject.
It’d make a good Onion headline. “Gen. Petraeus testifies on his efforts to increase security in Iraq, Walmart”