01-06-09

 

Well, Folks...

 

     2008 is history, and not a minute too soon.  In 2008 we were subjected to high gas prices, an economy in freefall culminating in hundreds of BILLIONS of our taxpayer dollars spent on bailouts to banks, insurace companies  whose CEOs went on to party like it was 1999 again. The "Big-3" Automakers went hat in hand to Washington for their own bailouts, flying into DC on private jets to ask for the money (talk about unmittigated gall). Natural disasters killed tens of thousands in China and Myanmar (formerly Burma) and oh, by the way, we voted a Communist from Chicago ( that great bastion of crooked politics) into the White House over a man who spent 5 years in a POW camp for fighting against Communism. Here in Detroit, Kwame Kilpatrick resigned as mayor and went to jail for lying about text messages to his mistress under oath during a civil trial. At this writing,  Al Franken (D),  an alumnus of "Saturday Night Live" may be sent to the U.S.Senate from Minnesota after the most contentious Congressional races in recent memory (Dennis Miller, we need you now). Voters in California chose to ban same-sex marriage and Gays just about declared war on the democratic process with lawsuits and protests against Proposition-8. It seems to the left that the mantra "Count every vote and make every vote count" only applies when they win. If they lose, it's off to the courts to set the will of the people aside.  Could it get any worse? Well the Detroit Lions did make history going an entire  NFL season without winning a game and the University of Michigan Wolverines suffered their first losing season in 4 decades of NCAA Football. Words like "Bailout", "Maverick" and "Truthiness" entered the cultural lexicon and expressions like "getting shoved under the bus" were used more frequently than in the past. 2009 has to be better, or we are all going to be screwed with our pants on......HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

 

"Enough Said"!