20,000 Sacrificed In Annual Blood Offering To Corporate America

[joeybee12]

WILMINGTON, DE—The nation looked on in reverence Friday as 20,000 citizens were decapitated, dismembered, and burned alive in the name of Corporate America, continuing the age-old annual rite to ensure bounteous profits in the coming fiscal year.

"Corporate America has always provided us with plenty," said High Priest James N. Cahill, who opened the ceremony by plunging the horn of a bull into a fair-haired child's abdomen and using the freshly spilled blood to write the current value of the Dow Jones Industrial Average upon sacred parchment. "JPMorgan Chase, General Electric, and all in the great pantheon of publicly traded entities will continue to watch over us so long as we appease them each year with human lives."

"The prophecies are clear," Cahill continued. "As we utter the hallowed incantations and make our humble sacrifices of flesh, so shall the shelves of retailers overflow with the most desirable consumer products."

The blood offering follows last week's Feast of Increasing Market Values, a yearly celebration during which Americans gather with their families under the second Q4 full moon to give thanks to corporations and to pray for cash dividends during the holiday shopping season.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/20000-sacrificed-in-annual-blood-offering-to-corpo,18542/

[Sinistrous]

1. I see the point, but this is way beyond the pale,

even for The Onion.

[joeybee12]

2. Really? I think it's fairly tame...nt

[Sinistrous]

7. Blood sacrifice = Tame???

:wtf:

[patrice]

9. Not an attack here!! Just really curious: How do you evaluate the War on Iraq?

And its consequent limitations on how our shared resources are used?

Not trying to prove you wrong or anything, really. I just don't understand why this issue is not considered "blood sacrifice".

[BlueJazz]

3. I'm looking forward to the "Ceremony of Laid-Off Workers". I can usually take..

...advantage of some poor single-mother.

[Arctic Dave]

4. We may look at this article of satire in ten years and think, "How prescient..

I think I will start my alter building now.

[Arugula Latte]

5. I was thinking the same thing.

I just read about a DUer who died because she didn't have health insurance. Corporate profits over lives -- it's the American Way right now.

[crikkett]

6. White socks? Seriously?

:eyes:

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. That is pretty intense.

I think this will be a classic.