Michelle Malkin reviews a banner 2006. Does she focus on the disastrous foreign policies she has so vociferously defended? No.
It began with the Danish cartoons. It ended with the flying imams. 2006 was a banner year for the Religion of Perpetual Outrage. Twelve turbulent months of fist-waving, embassy-burning, fatwa-issuing mayhem, intimidation, and murder resounded with the ululations of the aggrieved. All this in the name of defending Islam from “insult.” Let’s review.
Keep hating, Michelle. It’s Christmas time. Jesus would be proud of you.
So what are your highlights from 2006? Meeting Russ Feingold was pretty high on my list.
Vegas in June
The Booman/MLW party in Vegas in June
You said it before I did.
was just thinking the same thing.
…link atop her blog for seven months. But when the Iranian Holocaust cartoon contest start putting up samples at this site, not a peep from her about freedom to be offensive.
She’s a moron, and a hypocrite and she’s not worth our time.
As above, Ykos and the election.
Joe Lieberman, the Skunk of the Year. Why do I label him a skunk?
Watch how he and his spokesman, Marshall Wittmann, end the year – will Joe be in the arms of the GOP at a New Year’s eve dance? Just maybe. (Roll Call via TPM)
Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) relinquishes his co-chairmanship of the Senate Centrist Coalition in favor of creating his own bipartisan group with Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn, halting talks with Sen. Olymphia Snowe (R-Maine) over refashioning the organization.
“Snowe, meanwhile, has begun working with Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) to refashion the Centrist Coalition into a group that includes more than just ideological centrists and which they hope will appeal to Senators from all over the political spectrum.
As recently as early December, Snowe and Lieberman had said that they and their staffs were in talks over how to refashion the Centrist Coalition into a broader alliance of Republicans and Democrats who would work to end the vitriolic partisanship that has characterized Capitol Hill the past few years.[.]”
last spring. It was wonderful to meet so many Tribbers. Hope to do it again in a few months.
I’ll try to make it down South again…that too was one of the highlights of my year. (May have to order a new BooTrib shirt, this one a size smaller…we’ll see… lol)
Not too many personal highlights — winning the “headline contest” on my hockey forum (I came closest to the actual post-election headline with “Dems take House; Senate Too Close to Call”). My prize was…a USB Massager (the guy who ran the contest has a very warped sense of humor, just like the rest of us hockey reprobates). Led the hockey pool for a good part of the season (even now, I’m only a point behind the leader). Keith Olbermann’s “special comments” giving me a sense of hope that there are a few journalists out there with the cojones to call out those in power on their bullshit. (Helen Thomas is another — I’ve got such a girl crush on her!) And the results of November 7 give me hope that a return to sanity in Washington DC might not be too far off.
Looking forward to 2007 — I will be in Chicago come August; a bad taste in the mouth and a 50th birthday to honor (for the spouse) kept me from Vegas this summer. I’ve learned to live with the bad taste…and it’s not necessarily the politics I’m going for, but the camraderie, the strength in numbers as it were. In a group that size, there’s always the opportunity to find a few kindred spirits, and I’ve already signed up to work registration so I’ll be part of that clique if nothing else, and there’s always C&J Jello wrestling as well… 😉
I do believe that overall, things will get better…because if they’re not, I might was well roll up in a ball and say “Screw it all”…
I got married. That pretty much demolished any outside world news in terms of Significance.
The look on my sole remaining Republican friend’s face the morning of November 8th.
‘Nuff said
I quit my job. That was awesome, but then I took it back again and killed the buzz. Sigh. I’m sure some other stuff happend too. Next year is already shaping up to be perfectly insane.
I’m basically with ej upthread: a high point, for me, was discovering the true meaning of ‘THE Math’.
Otherwise, I’d say ’06 sucked mightily.
eight months of insomnia followed by a huge meltdown-this has actually been a good thing. finding a lover after 8 years even if he is nuts.the possibility of several other close relationships.