Posted on 12/30/2009 4:45:29 PM PST by Publius804
It was a year of Hope -- at first in the sense of ``I feel hopeful!'' and later in the sense of ``I hope this year ends soon!''
It was also a year of Change, especially in Washington, where the tired old hacks of yesteryear finally yielded the reins of power to a group of fresh, young, idealistic, new-idea outsiders such as Nancy Pelosi. As a result Washington, rejecting ``business as usual,'' finally stopped trying to solve every problem by throwing billions of taxpayer dollars at it and instead started trying to solve every problem by throwing trillions of taxpayer dollars at it.
To be sure, it was a year that saw plenty of bad news. But in almost every instance, there was offsetting good news:
BAD NEWS: The economy remained critically weak, with rising unemployment, a severely depressed real-estate market, the near-collapse of the domestic automobile industry and the steep decline of the dollar.
GOOD NEWS: Windows 7 sucked less than Vista.
BAD NEWS: The downward spiral of the newspaper industry continued, resulting in the firings of thousands of experienced reporters and an apparently permanent deterioration in the quality of American journalism.
GOOD NEWS: A lot more people were tweeting.
BAD NEWS: Ominous problems loomed abroad as -- among other difficulties -- the Afghanistan war went sour, and Iran threatened to plunge the Middle East and beyond into nuclear war.
GOOD NEWS: They finally got Roman Polanski.
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
several times!
Dave B. has always been one of my favorites. His sense of humor is off the wall.
Long read but worth the trip. Classic Barry!
Happy New Year
It would be hilarious if it were not so true. My heart is breaking for America.
A strong protest was issued by North Oregon.
That was a great article!
Years ago Dave wrote a book called “Big Trouble”. It was hilarious. They made a movie of it but had to delay its release because of 9/11/01.
In the book and movie was a scene of Muslim terrorists detonating a suitcase nuclear device in an airplane.
Neither the book nor the movie were funny anymore, not to me anyway.
Dave Barry’s genius lies in how close he skates to reality. I still enjoy his writing, but sometimes it hits a little close to the bone.
IMMORAL, INCOMPETENT, NOT VERY WISE
Tune: "Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise"
Immoral, incompetent,
Not very wise;
This year of Obama meant
Murphy applies.
The change they believed in
Since Bo was a pup
Got shortchanged and even
Got all wee-wee'd up.
The bailouts, the skeptic
Said, won't stimulate;
The failure was epic--
A ten is worth eight.
The shovel is ready
To dig a new hole;
The trend line is steady--
It's Dear Leader's poll.
Insurance guy smirking,
But you might be jailed;
The system is working,
The underwear failed.
Incompetence conquers,
It's running amok;
But don't tell the Congress--
On stupid they're stuck.
On Holder, on Nappy,
On Crusty and Joe!
Is anyone happy
With Barry's Team O?
Let's all call a summit
And cry in our beer;
The worst thing about it--
It's just the first year!
The line about Purell made me laugh out loud.
Many thanks for the ping.
PING FOR LATER
Businessman Bernard Madoff pleads guilty to bilking investors out of $65 billion in a Ponzi scheme, forcing the Obama administration to withdraw his nomination for secretary of commerce and make him the head of the Social Security Administration.
Well done! I’m forwarding it to my sister-in-law, the church organist.
ping
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