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2004: Things To Forget

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Arianna Huffington now here is one conservative greek gal who definitely has her head screwed on straight as she lists some things that transpired this year around the world and in Bush's AmeriKKKa. Enjoy:

2004: THINGS TO FORGET

By Arianna Huffington

While so many year-end publications focus on what we should remember about the year now grinding to a close, I'd like to continue this column's contrarian tradition of pointing out the things we'd all be better off never having cross our minds again.

Here then is a list of all the things I'd like to forget, circa 2004:

Bernard Kerik's nanny. Bernard Kerik's Ground Zero love nest. Bernard Kerik.

That the woman who dismissed a presidential briefing entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S." as a "historical" document is going to be our next secretary of state.

That a man who finds the Geneva Conventions "quaint" is going to be our next attorney general.

Janet Jackson's briefly exposed right boob.

That it took 14 months and public protests from the victims' families before the president OK'd the 9/11 Commission, but only two weeks before the first hearings were held on Janet Jackson's boob.

That the media thought "Don't be economic girlie men" was a great line.

Scott Peterson's love of golf. And that his lawyers thought it was a reason he shouldn't be sentenced to death.

Paris Hilton's new perfume. Paris Hilton's new album. Paris Hilton's new book. Paris Hilton.

"Surviving Christmas," "Jersey Girl," J-Lo: Ben Affleck goes 0-for-2004.

Madrid, Spain, March 11, 2004.

Beslan, Russia, Sept. 3, 2004.

That the Federal budget deficit hit $413 billion this year, and two-thirds of it is the result of Bush's tax cuts.

That Dick Cheney is talking about another round of tax cuts.

What Colin Powell did to his credibility. "You break it, you live with it for the rest of your life."

"I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it."

That picture of Lynndie England holding the leash.

The way the administration tried to sweep Abu Ghraib under the rug.

William Hung, recording artist.

Ashlee Simpson, lip synch artist.

Bob Dylan, lingerie salesman.

That George Tenet, who knew that the intel on Iraqi WMD was thinner than Lara Flynn Boyle on Dexatrim, turned into the Dick Vitale of WMD: "It's a slam dunk, baby!"

That George Tenet was subsequently awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor.

That a 10-year-old grilled cheese sandwich allegedly bearing the likeness of the Virgin Mary sold for $28,000 on eBay.

The 10,000 Web remixes incorporating The Dean Scream.

That of the roughly 550 enemy combatants held captive in Guantanamo Bay, only four have been formally charged.

The Pistons/Pacers basketbrawl.

The looks on George and Laura Bush's faces when Dr. Phil asked them about the "epidemic levels of oral sex" in America's middle schools.

That Osama is still on the loose — and releasing tapes.

That the Kyoto Protocol was ratified — and we aren't part of it.

That Ken Lay has still not gone to trial or served a minute in jail.

That 35.9 million Americans live below the poverty line — 12.9 million of them children.

That 42 percent of Americans still think Saddam Hussein was "directly involved in planning, financing or carrying out" the 9/11 attacks.

That, thanks to presidential cutbacks, we actually have fewer police and first responders on the streets today than we had on 9/11.

Star Jones' wedding.

The Movie Multiplex from Hell: "Alexander," "My Baby's Daddy," "Thunderbirds," "Sleepover," "Around the World in 80 Days."

The iPod Party Mix from Hell: Jessica Simpson's "Take My Breath Away," William Hung's "She Bangs," Britney Spears' "Toxic," Britney Spears' "My Prerogative," Britney Spears' "I've Just Begun Having My Fun."

That Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld couldn't find time to personally sign letters of condolence to the families of troops killed in Iraq.

That Deputy Defense Secretary Wolfowitz couldn't remember the number of soldiers who'd lost their lives in Iraq.


Drilling for oil in ANWR (I've been desperately trying to forget this one since 2001, but the White House just won't let me!).

© 2004 ARIANNA HUFFINGTON.
DISTRIBUTED BY TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES, INC.
 

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Hey Woody,

You forgot to add Arianna Huffington to the list.
 

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Originally posted by Necromancer Hey Woody, You forgot to add Arianna Huffington to the list.
LOL, and Farenhype 9/11, Robert Redford threatning to move (and DQ for that matter) and that notorous bbk prediction "Kerry by 10". No, wait I want to remember that prediction.

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I wonder how many really moved.
I have heard on the CBC about one confirmed case on the west coast, where a family of four has moved from Seattle to Vancouver.
I have offered DQ to stay at my house, until he gets settled in....still waiting.
 

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Dan Rather put a fork in him.

Bruce Springsteen a career on the downhill slide...still moving.

The movie "supersize me" . I don't get the point of this movie. Is it anti McDonalds? or is it about a stupid guy that eats fast food every day, and wonders why he gets fat?

John F. Kerry cool intials don't make a president.

Barbara Streisand a diva that refuses to get old.

NHL..please no more soap operas... a bunch of rich kids fighting over money.

NHL fans in 2005...who are stupid enough to come back after being screwed.

Gay marriage in the news.......................can we please move on to more important things??
 

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Originally posted by DonQuixote Well now. Making OTBs black list could actually be a compliment. Kinda like being on Nixon's black list. Thanks, OTB. :rolleyes: Your constant adversary. Don
You're equating me with Nixon? I'm a better public speaker and never cover up! Geez

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Just a reminder for those who think it is still 1968 in about 48 hours it will be 2005, come on up 37 years and join the world.
 

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DQ,

We got clobbered by Southern Ohio stabdards (18" of really wet stuff), being from Minnesota I thought it was a flury ;-). Did spend 5 hours shoveling (damn farm driveway is at least 10k sqft) and my mother had to take a CAB from CLE when they cancelled her flight.

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Oh! I want to forget that POTUS election and my 10% prediction
If we could just all forget you.
 

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Necromancer said:
Hey Woody,

You forgot to add Arianna Huffington to the list.
Funny you should think that way Necro, for that is the way I used to feel about Arianna back before she saw the light and truly became a 'compassionate conservative.' Always thought the term 'compassionate conservative' was an oxymoron based on the Bush/Cheney/DeLay/Ashcroft/Limbaugh et al., history and record to date. Arianna, along with even Pat Buchanan to a lesser extent are genuinely concerned and worried about the direction Bush/Cheney are taking the USA, as Bush/Cheney basically sell themselves off as corporate whores doing the bidding of the business elite of the USA who had them installed for that purpose in the first place. Arianna is just pointing out this fact that in Bush's AmeriKKKa the Corporations come first. The people get whatever trickles down as the American Dream is slowly turned to a myth by corporate greed. Arianna is just concerned that present policies catering to corporate greed that Bush/Cheney along with their well paid corporate lapdogs and bootlickers favor, will erode USA standards of living further, increase job loss, poverty, harm educational opportunities, the enviornment, swell the US prison populations even more, as the general population suffers while his business elite flourishes.
 

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Are we talking about the same Arianna Huffington who just fell short of stating that a dollar given in purchasing oil is giving money directly to the terrorists? So Woody, are you condoning the summary declaration that all oil producing nations are terrorists or worse, all muslims are terrorists?
 

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Necromancer said:
Are we talking about the same Arianna Huffington who just fell short of stating that a dollar given in purchasing oil is giving money directly to the terrorists? So Woody, are you condoning the summary declaration that all oil producing nations are terrorists or worse, all muslims are terrorists?
Necro,
Reread my post. Haven't got a clue how you came to the above conclusions, the demonizing Muslims and equating all Oil States and Muslims as terrorists.....that's a bit of a stretch, but it is a tactic the OxyContin King & Guru Rush Limbaugh is quite good at in his daily radio rants as his moves from one hate campaign to the next. So I don't have a clue where you got those ideas on Arianna Huffington.

Arianna Huffington is a nationally syndicated columnist and author of ten books. Originally from Greece, she moved to England when she was sixteen and graduated from Cambridge University with an M.A. in Economics. At twenty-one she became President of the famed debating society, the Cambridge Union.

Her New York Times bestseller, "Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption are Undermining America", was published in 2003. Her latest book, "Fanatics and Fools: The Game Plan for Winning Back America" (April 2004), offers both a scathing portrait of our contemporary political landscape and a bold, inspiring, yet practical approach to restoring America to the promise envisioned by our greatest leaders.

Here's a link:
http://www.ariannaonline.com
 

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Thought this was a funny, and yes political, end of year article:

My 2004
The year that was.
Jonah Goldberg

I suppose I could stand above it all and proclaim with the voice of God and the eye of History (or the other way around, if you prefer) my absolute, ontologically certain, 100 percent definitive list of the most important stories of 2004. But that's impossible to know. The present changes the past. New events have a way of changing the relevance of old events. For example, after September 11 the Bolshevik Revolution — once the most important event of the 20th century — now seems quaint, while the rise of the House of Saud seems suddenly central to the world we live in.
Similarly, this year's launch of the first privately owned space capsule — though it met with little fanfare — may prove to have been an epoch-shattering adventure in space travel, bringing "Star Trek" nerds that much closer to their dream of bedding really hot green women (or men — let's not be judgmental).

So instead, I'm going to stick closer to home and highlight my favorite stories of the year. That means no prison-abuse scandals, no tsunamis, or friendly fire incidents. Nor does my list include the far, far, far more trivial calamities like the cancellation of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer spin-off Angel or the news that Bernie Kerik's confirmation battle for Department of Homeland Security chief was cancelled before we could find out he knows where Jimmy Hoffa's body is buried.

The past year was not kind to the Mainstream Media, nor to the liberals who want to fight the right by creating their own "alternative" media. In 2003 Air America started to much fanfare as the answer to Rush Limbaugh but spent much the year explaining that it could in fact afford to pay Al Franken.

The New York Times continued to slip ever deeper into self-parody. For the umpteenth time it expressed shock that crime drops as prisoners go to jail with the nearly perennial headline: "Despite Drop in Crime, an Increase in Inmates." It leapt to the aid of John Kerry by running the missing ammo story in the last week of the presidential campaign, only to provide context for the allegation after Kerry squeezed all the political advantage he could out of the talking point (which turned out to be not much).

And, of course, there was the headline "New York City Evacuated For Nuclear Bomb Scare; Thousands of Gay Marriages Postponed." Oh wait, that's an item from my 2005 predictions column.

The best media story of 2004, of course, was what has become known as "Memogate," in which Dan Rather insisted that patently forged memos were not forged, that his source was impeccable, and that, should it turn out otherwise, he would love to be the one who broke that story. He also says that he would love to be the one to break the story that bears use the woods as a bathroom.

Rather has always denied that media bias is a serious issue. Which makes it even more fun to point out his interesting perspective on news events. On March 31, for example, when a Fallujah mob killed and mutilated four Americans, the CBS anchor told viewers: "What drives American civilians to risk death in Iraq? In this economy it may be, for some, the only job they can find." So watching Dan dismantle himself like an android ordered to put himself back in the box was simply too delicious for words.

In the area of comeuppance, who could not relish the revelation from the Senate Intelligence Committee investigation that Joe "Which is My Camera?" Wilson had lied when he said that his wife — CIA agent Valerie Plame — had nothing to do with him being sent to Niger to investigate White House claims. It turns out that the Kerry surrogate was merely mugging for cameras and hustling for the man he hoped would be his boss.

Even more enjoyable was the story of Sandy Berger "inadvertently" stuffing classified documents in his pants and shoes. With the help of Lanny Davis, Sandy Burglar managed to bury the story, and it may in fact be it was all an honest mistake. But the best defense of the former national-security adviser came from his old boss, Bill Clinton, who said "People who don't know him might find it hard to believe. But ... all of us who've been in his office have always found him buried beneath papers." Translation: Sloppiness with classified documents was just the way Clinton's NSA handled things.

There were other good times of course. Howard Dean's head exploded like one of those guys in Scanners when it became clear that the much-vaunted Deaniacs couldn't deliver. The Laci Peterson trial ended and ended well. The election ended well, and on election night. Democracy erupted in Afghanistan and Ukraine. The economy rebounded.

But the best story of 2004 was the most underreported. In the spring of 2004, Lucy Tighe Goldberg called her father Daddy for the first time.

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