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My personal musings about anything that gets on my radar screen--heavily dominated by politics.

2009-01-02

Good-Bye, 2008 

and Good Riddance!!

Let's review. 2008 was the year that saw the Dow Jones go from 13400 to below 7600; it was the year that saw a war won but nobody noticed; it was the year that saw the very-near collapse of the American financial industry, and the abandonment of the Free Market system to save it; it was the year that saw mortgage chickens come home to roost; it was the year that saw the Big Three automakers in Washington, hat in hand (very reminiscent of the scene in "Cinderella Man" where the Russell Crowe character goes in to the big wigs to beg for charity--except he didn't fly in on private jets carrying union contracts; other than that . . . .); it was the year that saw a newly-expansionist Russia overrun a smaller satellite (meet the new boss, same as the old . . . .); it was yet another year in which the Republican Party proved unequal to the task of convincing the American people that it has solutions for the country; and it was the year that saw the demise of Mike Shanahan as the head coach of the Denver Broncos.

Don't let the door hit you in the butt on the way out, 2008!
Posted by: Michael / 1/02/2009 01:56:00 AM

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