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Have you ever had that feeling that, while your back was turned, someone was carefully, quietly, trying to take over the world?

Well, you were right.

If I were you, I would move to Antarctica and start stalking up on bug spray.

So much for the horse-and-carriage

The Wall Street Journal today reports that a rise in conspicuous consumption creating an inflationary bubble, followed by a panicked rumor in the wake of the beginning of the recession, has destroyed the Tri-County Land Trust, an uninsured loaning co-op owned and operated by, and catering exclusively to, the Amish. Apparently these were more modern Amish, capable of indulging themselves in such luxuries as Dutch Harness Horses, and carriages lined with LEDs and velvet (I don't know how the LEDs got there) powered by a booming furniture business. Now they're back with their ancestors, using their horses to plow fields, and desperately trying to ambush passing cars to sell them whatever furniture they have in house.

Obviously, they should have gotten a bailout. Maybe they could have gotten it in chickens.

(Hattip to lolfed, which also reports that the FDIC has some lawnmowers that they would like to sell you.


ETA: Fixed broken link.