Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Events Up To End Of This Year

2oo8 proved to be quite momentous. An unheard of almost 2 year campaign for president; the BIG 3 automakers needed bailout(?!) because of their mismanagement of their companies over 2 decades; the collapse of the economy over Alan Greenspan's and the Republican Party's insistence that "free market" would take care of us all(where's MY trickle?); the crushing debt we ALL created by building towers of debt on credit cards, homes, and other items we couldn't get because we didn't have the cash to back up the credit; frickin' hurricanes Gustav and Ike(the latter I lived through) and finally Dubya, who is at long last worried about an f---ing legacy! Whew!
And just when we thought we couldn't take any more bad news, Israel launched a full-scale war against Hamas in Gaza, barely a week before New Year's, and just after Chanukka! Way to go, guys, who knew missiles aren't peacekeepers? Oh wait-- just about EVERYONE ELSE IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD!!!
It's been difficult trying to remain sane while some people on the other side of the Mediterranean just want to go berserk and screw things up for EVERYONE, let alone our OWN resident loonies in Washington, D.C.! They've done a bang up job, haven't they? Couldn't have done it better if they'd planned the whole thing... Well, they SAID they did, anyway...