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EconomyUSA: Corporations: 

Wild satire of corporate greed in America at Christmast+m

Sashay yo'self over to The Onion, America's online satire magazeen supremo.  The article of note is "20,000 sacrificed in annual blood offering to corporate America" (Nov29,2k10).   Then you sashay, after yoo reed it, sash yo'self on back here to refWr+t backpage to get all the good comments thereupon.


-- Satyriasis and Satirkos, backpage demons

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Cosider that The Onion has a bunion achin' in its shoe:

The onslawt of stores and services waving their arms frantically trying to stop the vehicles zooming past where they stand on the s+d of the road.  Corporate greed, advertizing thru all the media, and consumerist greed three Furies confluent at the very season when the Church tries to mediate on the middle-class origins of the noo w+f of a person in the building and construction business, who probably had contracts from t+m to t+m and place to place with the Roman occupation authorities.   Now at Christmast+m after the Meltdown what stands out in the everyday culture is the desperation of these big retail machines, they'd stand out most glowingly, glaringly.  But anyway, still, 'tis the season to be jolly.

Black Friday Starts to Brighten

Weekend Spending, Foot Traffic Rise From Last Year but Could Reflect Hunger for Biggest Bargains

 ELIZABETH HOLMES and RACHEL DODES, Wall Street Journal (Nov29,2k10)

The Black Friday shopping weekend signaled a rosier holiday season than last year, with early figures showing higher traffic and sales at stores and websites.

Retailers extended the shopping blitz from a day to an entire week, offering "door buster" promotions in the days leading up to the Thanksgiving weekend. And deals for "Cyber Monday," typically the first Monday after Thanksgiving, began showing up online earlier as well.

The string of promotions appeared to have succeeded in getting consumers to open their wallets. Roughly 212 million shoppers visited a store or website over the weekend, an increase of 8.7% from last year, according to the National Retail Federation.

Ready, Set, Shop!

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European Pressphoto Agency

People walked past Macy's in the pre-dawn hours on Black Friday in New York.

The average shopper spent $365.34, up 6.4%, according to the federation, which surveyed 4,306 people on Thursday through Saturday and made projections for Sunday.

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Now what I wanted to tell you, and have been holding back on, hoping I'd t+r out the weaker readers and select out for those stronger readers who coud best stomach the ins+d scoop.  Here's the belated goods:


Just hours back today, I was reeding about the evangelical Christian, former Gen. Bare Naked of Sierra Leone, now a fellow beleever who is acknowleging his sins -- and they are big and bleak.  But, in the course of the telling this former priest-warrior of the Kahne tribe, tells how he had been responsiible for the death of 20,000 persons.  He conducted rituals of sacrifice of human children. Now he's preparing to say he's guilty to the International Criminal Court, shoud they come his way.  Now I go back to The Onion story on the 20,000 sacrif+ced to the consumerist god FullBelly.  Or is that BullFelly?


And ain't truth stranger than fiction?

-- I homil+z, Owlb