The nightmare before Christmas
By Capt. Fogg
No one expects this to be a Christmas season retailers will celebrate. Even people with reliable income are cutting way back and when I read that local stores would be open as early as 4:00 AM today, I pictured yawning employees drinking coffee, trying to stay awake.
Nope.
A Wal-Mart on Long Island had its doors literally blown off the hinges just before 5 o'clock this morning and the stampeding mob trampled anyone who got in the way. A 34-year-old stock clerk tried to control the crowd and was trampled to death. Merry Christmas, et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis -- and we don't mean you, Wal-Mart shoppers.
We don't mean the commenter on CNN.com either, who wasted no time before blaming it on the liberals and African-Americans who will, no doubt, now that Obama is waiting to go to Washington, make this sort of thing commonplace from now on:
Joy to the world.
(Cross-posted from Human Voices.)
No one expects this to be a Christmas season retailers will celebrate. Even people with reliable income are cutting way back and when I read that local stores would be open as early as 4:00 AM today, I pictured yawning employees drinking coffee, trying to stay awake.
Nope.
A Wal-Mart on Long Island had its doors literally blown off the hinges just before 5 o'clock this morning and the stampeding mob trampled anyone who got in the way. A 34-year-old stock clerk tried to control the crowd and was trampled to death. Merry Christmas, et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis -- and we don't mean you, Wal-Mart shoppers.
We don't mean the commenter on CNN.com either, who wasted no time before blaming it on the liberals and African-Americans who will, no doubt, now that Obama is waiting to go to Washington, make this sort of thing commonplace from now on:
Get used to this folks. These are the kind of people that liberalism has created. After four years of Obama and the food, power shortages, and gas shortages that will be engineered by the Marxists in order to take down this country, this kind of thing will become routine.
Joy to the world.
(Cross-posted from Human Voices.)
Labels: Christmas, Sign of the Apocalypse
posted by Capt. Fogg at
1:12 PM
5 Comments:
I thought Wal-Mart shoppers were Sarah Palin's "real Americans."
By
Edward Copeland, at 2:20 PM
Blaming it on Sarah Palin or conservatives is equally as stupid as blaming it on liberals. It's no one's fault, and everyone's fault - a tragedy no matter how you look at it. Humans, everywhere, have brutal, selfish instincts.
By
Anonymous, at 3:30 PM
Anonymous,
Agreed. Think back. Would you have seen this sort of thing happening 10, 20 or 30 years ago? People are becoming desperate because of a number of things affecting the world today: fear that our country will go bankrupt, fear of attack from terrorists, fear that the new liberal illuminati president will lead us astray, fear that the republicans will lose control, I could go on.
It is sad that at this time in the world, a time that is supposed to be spent celebrating with friends and family, that people's selfishness, greed and fear have ruined some family's Christmas permanently.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. If we continue down this path we will become one of the countries you see on the news, people rioting, fighting and killing eachother... and for what? To be able to say that your child received the first tickle-me-elmo doll from Walmart this Christmas? PATHETIC.
By
Unknown, at 3:39 PM
Those brutal, selfish instincts aren't new. Such things have happened before and I know people who have worked in department stores who have had all kinds of tales of eyes being gouged out and teeth being knocked out over clothing items.
No matter what happens, somebody is always trying to make it prove their pet theory. My only point was irony, but yes, it certainly is pathetic.
By
Capt. Fogg, at 4:27 PM
I wasn't being serious about the Palin comment, but crazy shoppers/mobs are nothing new here, dating back to the Who concert back in Cincinnati in the late '70s, which had a body count, to melees over Cabbage Patch dolls in the '80s, which thankfully didn't.
By
Edward Copeland, at 7:10 PM
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