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By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: December 31, 2007

2008
It wonÂ’t be boring

©Bryan Zepp Jamieson
http://www.mytown.ca/zepp
12/30/07

I came up with a great idea for a column that was a retrospective of
2007. I wrote about 70 columns last year. All I need to do is pick
twenty words at random from each column, dump them all into one Word
Perfect file, and voilá! Instant column!

Now, there IS the fact that the column wouldnÂ’t make much sense, but
columns that are annual retrospectives usually are pretty fragmented,
so probably no one will notice. Right wingers will further argue that
I don’t make any sense anyway, although if the word “Clinton” appears
more than twice, IÂ’ll still get hate mail.

But opening 70 files and picking 20 words from each is a lot of work
when you think about it, and itÂ’s probably easier just to write a damn
column fresh. It might even make sense.

And the fact is you can sum up last year in two words: 2007 sucked.

So letÂ’s talk about 2008 instead.

In article nlpi061.nbdc.sbc.com>, BloodiHands@marines.net says...

Yeah, let's let FOX News decide what's best for us. ...

Ron Paul takes on FOX News
Even though he is polling higher than some of the invited Republican
candidates and broke the record for one-day fundraising two weeks ago, FOX
News continues to marginalize Texas Republican Ron Paul and has not invited
him to participate in an upcoming Republican debate on FOX News Sunday,
right before the New Hampshire primary. Paul and his campaign are
understandably furious and accuses the supposed news channel of trying to
suppress his message.

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I Just Canceled My Subscription to the New York Times
I have subscribed to home delivery of the Sunday New York Times for ten
years. As a matter of fact, I renewed my yearly subscription just the other
day.

Ah, the Times. I sat through Judith Miller's lies. I worried about freedom
of the press and freedom of speech but I gave the Times a second chance when
it bowed to the Bush administration and withheld information that might
"threaten our national security." I bit my lip when it condescended to the
Bushies and rewrote subtitles

In Pictures: Bill Maher's Dickheads Of The Year
Michael Vick

Stop saying what he did is a cultural thing, just one of those things black
folks are known for, like jazz. He's not one of the Scottsboro boys, he
electrocuted dogs.

Erik Prince

We used to have rent-a-cops. Now we have rent-a-soldiers. As CEO of
Blackwater, the most notorious private-security contractor in Iraq, Prince
has his own navy, air force and spy agency. This guy is building nothing
short of a parallel national-security apparatus. Not that there's anything
wrong with that, but he's a super-Christy Jesus freak who looks on the
Crusades the way rednecks pine for the Confederacy.

Bob Murray

[zeppnote: This is the bottom five of the 50 listed. I urge everyone
to click on the link and visit the page itself, because the
illustrations are a good match for the text. This is at least the
sixth year they've done a "50 most loathsome" list, and it just keeps
getting better.]

http://www.buffalobeast.com/122/50mostloathsome2007PF.html

The BEAST: America's Best Fiend
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http://buffalobeast.com

The BEAST 50 Most Loathsome People in America, 2007

50. Nicole Richie

Charges: Not a brick house. Not mighty mighty. Vastly easier than
Sunday morning. Her criminal exploits, attended by hollow contritions,
do inestimable harm to drug legalization efforts; while inexplicably
adding nothing to the forced-sterilization debate. Quite possibly a
reason the terrorists hate us.

Exhibit A: "I've just gone through so much in my life that pulling my
top up just doesn't seem like that big a deal."

2007: Democrats in control, but thwarted
By LAURIE KELLMAN, Associated Press Writer Sun Dec 30, 8:16 AM ET

WASHINGTON - It's a painful irony for Democrats: In the space of a
year, the Iraq war that was the source of party's resurgence in
Congress became the measure of its impotence.

By the end of the 2007, a Congress controlled by Democrats for the
first time since 1994 had an approval rating of only 25 percent, down
from 40 percent last spring. Then the debate over the war split the
party and cast shadows over other issues, spawning a series of
legislative failures and losing confrontations with President Bush.

What to do about Iraq has turned into a dissing match so far-reaching
and nasty that Congress's accomplishments are seen, even by some who
run it, through the lens of their failure to override Bush and start
bringing the troops home.

"There is no question that the war in Iraq has eclipsed much of what
we have done," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters. "If you
asked me in a phone call, as ardent a Democrat as I am, I would
disapprove of Congress as well."

Yup.......For all their Yap-Flapping, the Democrats have FAILED
MIZERABLY in 2007..........2008 looms and the Pathetic Democrats have
NOTHING MORE to look forward to.........The Democrat Party is TORN
APART by the Campaigns of The Former First Bitch and Milquetoast Osama
Obama........President Bush will be Kicking Their Mizerable Asses the
WHOLE YEAR........The Economy is BOOMING ALONG and Iraq is WINDING
DOWN........America is FAT & HAPPY and the Leftist Pukes are TOTALLY
MIZERABLE.........GAWD!!........I LOVE
IT!!........Heehee.........Ain't It GRAND?...........