I hope you are enjoying your New Year’s celebration. Next year at this time we’ll have almost forgot what is was like to have Dick Cheney, Tom DeLay, and Bill Frist rule our world.
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BooMan
Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
Happy New Year!
We watched Horton Hears a Who. Played Trivial Pursuit–digital choice edition, I think it’s called–with the kids. Said “Happy New Year!” once it was midnight, and the kids went to bed. I’d be in bed myself, but we still need to let the cockatoo have some time out of her cage after making her wait all evening.
Too many people where we live seem to think that shooting off guns is a good way to celebrate. Last year, the back window of our van was shot out be a “reveler” (read: idiot). So, 2009 is already off to a better start than 2008, by the mere fact that nothing of ours was shot as midnight approached.
happy new year, boo and co.
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Happy New Year to BooMan, family, friends and all bloggers at the pond! . Auld Lang Syne
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."
All the best to everyone and a happy New Year!
Never ever again can we allow ourselves to forget this shit. We have barely survived intact. In fact…the jury is still out regarding whether we will survive, and the court in which the jury is serving has a set of judges who were hand-picked by the very people who put us in this position in the first place.
Never again.
Ever.
AG
Exactly. In terms of memory of this, the Bush-Cheney era should continue to have the same visibility as the attack on Fort Sumter or Pearl Harbor.
And remembrance should bring to mind exactly this quote from Curran. And similar sentiments from Benjamin Franklin on security and liberty.
BTW, judicial impeachments are possible.
And, Happy New Year, AG
on the “Happy New Year” greeting for this turning point 2009, Tarheel.
A HAPPIER New Year.
Progress is all.
Later…
AG