January, by Laura Taylor Mark
10. That the government didn’t just buy all the failing banks with the TARP money.
9. Having an inexperienced flim-flam master as Commander in Chief.
8. Suicide rates skyrocketing during the Great Recession.
7. Iran going postal.
6. The Puma PAC Woman Lynching Forum. Of course, we sweep out these outrages of 2009 only to make room for a thousand or more dead American women and children in 2010.
5. David Letterman, Kanye West, Barack Obama, and David Letterman (again!)
4. Actually the entire mainstream media can take a long walk off a short 2009 pier. Remember Mad Bitch Beer? This fabulous parody almost made the Post’s jackasses worth it. Almost.
3. Calling Islam a religion that has done a lot of good for the United States, and that women have the RIGHT to be shrouded in burkas by their killer maniac husbands and fathers.
2. The Corporate States of America
1. And last, but not least, obama’s response to the Plane Terrorist attack. Don’t forget the Vapidity and Hypocrisy, aka Hope and Change!
What stories were the worst for you this year? What are you sweeping out today?
(Hat tips to Sistermoon, Boston Boomer, and several FB and Twitter friends and sources.)
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theamericanway 12.31.09 at 11:16 am
Great idea, Murphy, but there are so many possibilities that I’m going to have to give it serious thought.
Not troubling though, is sending PUMAPAC a donation. On the way next time I venture out in the car.
Happy New Year to all!
murphy 12.31.09 at 11:22 am
hiya americanway!
have a cupcake:
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll
BigGator5 12.31.09 at 12:02 pm
I think your number three item should have been number one. The burka is the evilist thing left in this world.
Susie1945 12.31.09 at 12:20 pm
Mornin’ PUMAs -
Speaking of cupcakes – got an email this morning from 1-800-flowers – subject of email was a birthday gift for me (it’s next week – Jan 5) and guess what – it’s a cupcake!!!!
I might just have to order it for myself – vase is shaped like a cupcake paper liner even
I like the list – also, saw on news last nite – Hillary Clinton most admired woman – 16%; Sarah Palin – 15% – Oprah Winfrey (ugh) – 8% & mememechelle – 7% – first time that a FLOTUS is not #1 on the list – Hillary should be POTUS or Sarah –
Happy New Year PUMAS – wishing the best for all of us in 2010 – trying to be optimistic here & it’s tough…………
Delle 12.31.09 at 12:20 pm
The worst story for me happened on January 20th, when the fraud was sworn in as president.
It’s gone downhill from there.
Happy New Year Everyone
Susie1945 12.31.09 at 12:24 pm
Sorry: here is website:
http://ww12.1800flowers.com/product.do?baseCode=17731&channel=1000&cm_cid=c1000f0
isn’t it cute???
sistermoon3 12.31.09 at 1:01 pm
well, murphy thanks for the hat tip, you pretty much got all the
main “things to sweep out” or as the white house does, just sweeps it under the rug.
10. the shabby gift giving of the Obamas
9. all that bowing, please
8. the pawing of the queen
7 the beer summit, the only time obama didnt have to wait 3 days to respond
6. the letting the 3 panthers off for blocking voting poll
(thanks dumbass holder)
5. acorn gettin busted then hiring their own lawyer to say nothing wrong was done (when are we gonna stop this crap)
4. Nancy Pelosi and Janet Napilotono (sp) suggesting americans
were possible terrorist and instigators of hate crimes
3. Barak’s weakass response to Iranian people
2. Bribery (which i think is unconstitutional and grounds for impeachment) to get healthcare bill passed.
1. Barak Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize (joke of the century)
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im doing a sistermoon show today at 130 pm so you can tune in listen to hopefully some fine music and surf the net Happy New Year to all Pumas, every last one of you deserve a medal for staying focused and strong.
sistermoon3 12.31.09 at 1:03 pm
ooops
if there could be 11
the military neglecting to heed the signs of the Fort Hood shooter:(
sistermoon3 12.31.09 at 1:03 pm
http://www.cygnusradio.com
sorry forgot the link just in case
sistermoon3 12.31.09 at 1:19 pm
LOLOLOLOL pretty damned cool i think, Fox news a stories the lamestream media missed, or they should have said totally ignored period. Cuz it would hurt their precisous
http://www.foxnews.com/slideshow/politics/2009/12/31/big-stories-mainstream-media-missed
prplvette85 12.31.09 at 1:35 pm
Murphy thanks for the list! The thing is, there is so much we could add to the list it is never ending, and will be until we vote all the bums out!
Susie,
Happy early birthday, yours is the same as my youngest grand daughther! Mine is on the 14th. I will have to check out the cupcake flowers lol.
I am cleaning out the closets and getting rid of all the clothes that I will never fit into again, (most of the items in there), donating to Salvation Army today. Trying to get rid of everything I don’t need or use. I figure that way, it the moment arrives I can get out of here, I will be ready! I have the tv turned off, I don’t need to go down memory lane of 2009, I somehow doubt any of us will soon forget this year or last. I will just use it to try to make a difference next year.
Happy New Year everyone!
simofish 12.31.09 at 1:42 pm
Reading the comments I have to agree with all the stories. Best thing I could have done Jan 20th was to be on holiday and miss the whole fraud of Barry and party.
I am sweeping out a bad work year. I am smudging my office, my body tonight. Bringing in the new powerful white light from the universe to help me on a loving, positive work journey in 2010. My angels are helping me.
sistermoon3 12.31.09 at 1:45 pm
http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/archives/6511
another kinda great summary of the year but he names Sarah Palin Man of Year, maybe it should just be citizen of the year
but hell, you gotta have some big kahoonas to pull it all off dont you think, i mean go on Oprah (what a great move) then on to Barbara Walters (lololol kinda like hmmm well, you know those two know about ratings huh?
RememberNovember 12.31.09 at 2:00 pm
Happy New Year (((Pumas)))H – I know for many, apart from all the things Murphy mentioned above, It was a really rough year personally – so here’s hoping for a better 2010. (((HPBoston)))
OT but don’t want you to miss these two items:
1. Be careful anyone nearing retirement – those who choose to stay with employment based health care plans rather than sign up for Medicare face potential lapses in coverage when they do sign up for Medicare (must do within 8 months of retiring) AND 10% penalty fees on premiums for every 12 months they delay. This is outrageous.
Retirees Snared by Medicare
As People Work Longer, They Risk Penalties for Missing Deadlines
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703344704574610570928560200.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_sections_personalfinance
2. This should be good news but one wonders why BO called for this when the system worked so well for him in 2008
Democratic Panel Wants Superdelegates Stripped of ‘Super’ Powers
Looking to avoid a repeat of the prolonged and bitter 2008 primary battle, a Democratic Party panel has recommended that the first-in-the-nation contests be pushed back in the calendar and that so-called “superdelegates” be stripped of their “super” powers.
The DNC Democratic Change Commission rolled out its recommendations Wednesday, marking the first step toward reforming the primary process — something President Obama called for last year.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/12/31/democratic-panel-wants-superdelegates-stripped-super-powers/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%253A+foxnews%252Fpolitics+%2528Text+-+Politics%2529
sistermoon3 12.31.09 at 2:11 pm
Part 1
An article from American Thinker by Geoffrey P. Hunt
Barack Obama is on track to have the most spectacularly failed presidency since Woodrow Wilson. In the modern era, we’ve seen several failed presidencies–led by Jimmy Carter and LBJ. Failed presidents have one strong common trait– they are repudiated, in the vernacular, spat out.
Of course, LBJ wisely took the exit ramp early, avoiding a shove into oncoming traffic by his own party. Richard Nixon indeed resigned in disgrace, yet his reputation as a statesman has been partially restored by his triumphant overture to China
But, Barack Obama is failing. Failing big. Failing fast. And failing everywhere: foreign policy, domestic initiatives, and most importantly, in forging connections with the American people. The incomparable Dorothy Rabinowitz in the Wall Street Journal put her finger on it: He is failing because he has no understanding of the American people, and may indeed loathe them. Fred Barnes of the Weekly Standard says he is failing because he has lost control of his message, and is overexposed. Clarice Feldman of American Thinker produced a dispositive commentary showing that Obama is failing because fundamentally he is neither smart nor articulate; his intellectual dishonesty is conspicuous by its audacity and lack of shame.
He has a personality that is more Muslim than American.
sistermoon3 12.31.09 at 2:16 pm
American Thinker part 2
But, there is something more seriously wrong: How could a new president riding in on a wave of precedented promise and goodwill have forfeited his tenure and become a lame duck in six months? His poll ratings are in free fall. In generic balloting, the Republicans have now seized a five point advantage. This truly is unbelievable. What’s going on?
No narrative. Obama doesn’t have a narrative. No, not a narrative about himself. He has a self-narrative, much of it fabricated, cleverly disguised or written by someone else. But this self-narrative is isolated and doesn’t connect with us. He doesn’t have an American narrative that draws upon the rest of us. All successful presidents have a narrative about the American character that intersects with their own where they display a command of history and reveal an authenticity at the core of their personality that resonates in a positive endearing way with the majority of Americans. We admire those presidents whose narratives not only touch our own, but who seem stronger, wiser, and smarter than we are. Presidents we admire are aspirational peers, even those whose politics don’t align exactly with our own: Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, Harry Truman, Ike, and Reagan.
But not this president. It’s not so much that he’s a phony, knows nothing about economics, and is historically illiterate and woefully small minded for the size of the task–all contributory of course. It’s that he’s not one of us. And whatever he is, his profile is fuzzy and devoid of content, like a cardboard cutout made from delaminated corrugated paper.
Moreover, he doesn’t command our respect and is unable to appeal to our own common sense. His notions of right and wrong are repugnant and how things work just don’t add up. They are not existential. His descriptions of the world we live in don’t make sense and don’t correspond with our experience.
In the meantime, while we’ve been struggling to take a measurement of this man, he’s dissed just about every one of us–financiers, energy producers, banks, insurance executives, police officers, doctors, nurses, hospital administrators, post office workers, and anybody else who has a non-green job. Expect Obama to lament at his last press conference in 2012:
“For those of you I offended, I apologize. For those of you who were not offended, you just didn’t give me enough time; if only I’d had a second term, I could have offended you too.”
Mercifully, the Founders at the Constitutional Convention in 1787 devised a useful remedy for such a desperate state–staggered terms for both houses of the legislature and the executive. An equally abominable Congress can get voted out next year. With a new Congress, there’s always hope of legislative gridlock until we vote for president again two short years after that.
Yes, small presidents do fail, Barack Obama among them. The coyotes howl but the wagon train keeps rolling along.
Margaret Thatcher: “The trouble with Socialism is, sooner or later you run out of other people’s money.”
sistermoon3 12.31.09 at 2:34 pm
by the way, does anyone here have blackeyed peas on new year’s day or is that just an old southern custom:)
CJK 12.31.09 at 2:36 pm
MAY 2010 BE HAPPY, HEALTHY AND PROSPEROUS. I PRAY FOR BLESSINGS FOR ALL PUMAS, ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO DO EXTRAORDINARY THINGS.
sistermoon3 12.31.09 at 1:45 pm
Thanks for that link, sistermoon3.
“2009 was an extraordinary year in which ordinary people did extraordinary things not because they were the easy things to do, but because they were the right thing to do.”
IMO, far too many Americans have forgotten about doing the right thing , but thankfully not the courageous folks noted in the Surber article. I pray for more such ‘ordinary people’ doing ‘extraordinary things’ in 2010. Our country’s survival depends on it.
Also, I think Katalusis has an excellent post up, quoting a Thomas Merton poem, especially this “…rather than constantly formulating statements in this age which is smothered in language,
in meaningless and inconclusive debate
in which,
in the last analysis,
nobody listens to anything
except
what agrees with his [her] own prejudices.”
This, I fear, may be our undoing: Refusing to hear anything that doesn’t agree with our preconceived notions. http://katalusis.blogspot.com/
Here are my 10 bad things of 2009 to sweep out (how I wish I could!):
1. Worldwide escalation of violence against girls and women to epidemic proportions, coinciding with worldwide escalation of sexism/misogyny to epidemic proportions, coinciding with election of sexist/misogynistic leaders, especially in the U.S.
2. The burka, period.
3. Decision to bring self-admitted 9/11 co-conspirators to NYC and ground zero for civilian trial. Tied with decision to hold the self-admitted, would-be ‘underwear bomber’ in civilian jail, continue to allude to him as a ‘suspect’ (despite the fact that he was dragged out of an airplane with his crotch on fire and found with explosives sewn into his undies!) and provide him with an attorney at U.S. taxpayer expense. Tied with allowing the Ft. Hood shooter to serve in the U.S. military to begin with.
4. The Obamacrat Congressional majority, period.
5. Fannie and Freddie corruption abetted by BO, Emanuel, various Obamacrats.
6. Wall St. corruption and incompetence abetted by BO, Geithner, various Obamacrats.
7. Every so-called czar appointed by BO.
8. The irreparable debasement of the Nobel Peace Prize by its ridiculous award to BO.
9. BO and MO flagrantly squandering hard-earned funds of everyday taxpaying Americans as though the U.S. treasury is their personal piggy bank.
10. BO, Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod, Gibbs, and most of the BO administration, period.
CJK 12.31.09 at 2:40 pm
sistermoon3 12.31.09 at 2:34 pm
I do!
prplvette85 12.31.09 at 2:55 pm
(((Simo)))
Thanks for reminding me! I need to smudge this house. Send some of those angles my way will you? The work front looks pretty bleak here. I can use all the help I can get!
prplvette85 12.31.09 at 2:58 pm
^angels
I am dyslexic today lol
sistermoon3 12.31.09 at 2:58 pm
just wondering, thanks cjk, bought mine yesterday gonna let em soak overnight here’s my recipe
begin cooking the beans of course LOLOLOLOL
salt and pepper according to taste
saute pound of lean burger meat and medium onion
1 large can of diced tomatoes
tabasco sauce to your taste and
a sprinkle of A 1 sauce
i let it cook as long as want but, anyways, i take the large spoon when the peas are done and mash some up against the side of the pot to give it a gravier texture just letting you in an old seargent major’s recipe he taught me many moons ago. His were always better than mine, but i keep trying:)
sistermoon3 12.31.09 at 2:58 pm
just wondering, thanks cjk, bought mine yesterday gonna let em soak overnight here’s my recipe
begin cooking the beans of course LOLOLOLOL
salt and pepper according to taste
saute pound of lean burger meat and medium onion
1 large can of diced tomatoes
tabasco sauce to your taste and
a sprinkle of A 1 sauce
i let it cook as long as want but, anyways, i take the large spoon when the peas are done and mash some up against the side of the pot to give it a gravier texture just letting you in an old seargent major’s recipe he taught me many moons ago. His were always better than mine, but i keep trying:)
Dragonfly 12.31.09 at 3:08 pm
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/tiger-needs-face-makeover-after-wifes-golf-shot/107966-19.html
Let’s add Tiger Woods to Number 5. Did you know that Elin took a 9 iron to his face???
I didn’t. Supposedly his face needs to be rebuilt.
sistermoon3 12.31.09 at 3:14 pm
heck, he might sue her for assault, who knows?
CJK 12.31.09 at 3:14 pm
sistermoon3 12.31.09 at 2:58 pm
Great recipe, sistermoon! I don’t have my recipe with me at the moment, but yours sounds so good I’ll try it. Thank you for sharing it!
Best of luck on the job front to all. I know how you feel! (((((simo))))) (((((prple))))) and (((((unemployed/underemployed PUMAS)))))
HP Boston 12.31.09 at 3:16 pm
Whoo whooo Elin!
HP Boston 12.31.09 at 3:27 pm
CJK 12.31.09 at 3:14 pm
Yup the lamo press reports small number of claims for unemployment.
Jeezus people have fallen off your freaking radar! There are no jobs…people are still unemployed.
#1 on my list the worst is no jobs.
O’Bumblast has us so squeezed and desperate any crap job is taken. Low pay, no benifits, no upward mobility.
Looks like with no jobs, no revenues things quickly will deteriorate.
Dragonfly 12.31.09 at 3:55 pm
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/a/umar_farouk_abdulmutallab/index.html?inline=nyt-per
Apologies if this was posted on another day, but regarding the flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, more information about how the system failed.
Embassy officials, after giving this guy a multi-entry, multi-year visa, put this guy in the list of people to check when they reapply instead of on the check now list. His dad is a prominent Nigerian banker. Thank goodness no one was hurt seriously, but why didn’t we listen?
Also, how in the world did the guy get through security with the chemicals sewn into his clothes? Scans don’t pick up liquids in containers anymore?
theamericanway 12.31.09 at 3:58 pm
My darkest moments in 2009 revolved around the inauguration of the potus. The leadup to it, and days after. So hard to avoid.
RemNov #14
Yes, no more SuperDelegate voting power. Locking the barn after the horse runs away. Two years late and (how many?) trillions of dollars short.
The Dem leaders certainly do not understand their base/former base. And while I despised the Republicans before I despised the Democrats, I am of the opinion that Republican leaders have an accurate feeling for what their base will tolerate in the way of indescretions, slights to their constituents.
CJK 12.31.09 at 3:59 pm
Dragonfly 12.31.09 at 3:08 pm
Erin would’ve put that 9 iron to better use on ‘El D(r)ick’s’ crotch than on his face, me thinks.
CJK 12.31.09 at 4:10 pm
HP Boston 12.31.09 at 3:27 pm
Yup, HP, I’d also add the LSM to the list of bad things of 2009 to sweep out. To watch their ridiculous pretzel-like contortions of events in a futile attempt to make BO look good, or to make BO look not so bad would have been hilarious were it not so tragic. A number of them (Chris Matthews, Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann, et al) should be laughed out of tv so-called ‘journalism’ permanently for their ridiculous allegiance to the Fraud. Add to the list the pathetic lecherous has-been so-called comedians of late-night tv such as Letterman.
scarlet 12.31.09 at 4:21 pm
Updated December 30, 2009
Tracking Your Taxes: Defense Bill Pays for Prostate Screenings, Sprinkler System
President Obama pledged in August to cut all pork barrel projects from defense spending, threatening to veto any swollen bills that came across his desk — a pledge shattered by nearly 2,000 pet projects that have made their way into the defense budget.
“If a project doesn’t support our troops, we will not fund it,” he said to a meeting of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Phoenix. “If a system doesn’t perform, we will terminate it. And if Congress sends me a defense bill loaded with that kind of pork, I will veto it. ”
Just last week, Obama broke his promise as he signed into law the 2010 Defense Appropriations Bill — a $636 billion behemoth loaded with $4.2 billion of pork.
In all, Congress added in 1,720 pet projects, including:
∙$5 million for a visitors center in San Francisco
∙$23 million for indigent health care in Hawaii
∙$18 million for the Edward Kennedy Policy Institute in Massachusetts
∙$1.6 million to computerize hospital records in Oakland
∙$47 million for anti-drug training centers around the country
∙$20 million for the World War II Museum in Louisiana
∙$3.9 million grant to develop an energy-efficient solar film for buildings
∙$800,000 for minority prostate cancer research
∙$3.6 million for marijuana eradication in Kentucky
∙$2.4 million for handicap access and a sprinkler system at a community club in New York
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/12/30/tracking-taxes-defense-bill/21/
HP Boston 12.31.09 at 4:22 pm
CJK 12.31.09 at 4:10 pm
The list is long, so very, very long…no broom long enough, wide enough,strong enough to sweep all the swill away, too many pigs so much swill!
freddiebrown 12.31.09 at 4:27 pm
I’m kissing off the old year with a bad case of chiggers. Don’t know where I got them but it’s been a week. I’m the only one with it. It is so itchy and icky, I could scream.
2009 has not been a good year because the wrong person got into the white house.Everything is spiralling down hill and everything bad that happens is inevitably blamed on Bush by this administration. Can it get any more lame than
this?
theamericanway 12.31.09 at 4:30 pm
Found this in a comment at hillaryis44. Revelations in the second paragraph remind me of Headclunker’s analyses and that’s why I had to steal part of the comment.
techpresident.com/blog-entry/the-obama-disconnect
The Obama Disconnect: What Happens when Myth Meets Reality
…snip…
After all, the image of Barack Obama as the candidate of “change”, community organizer, and “hope-monger” (his word), was sold intensively during the campaign. Even after the fact, we were told that his victory represented the empowerment of a bottom-up movement, powered by millions of small donors, grassroots volunteers, local field organizers and the internet. A few examples…bla, bla, bla
…snip…
The truth is that Obama was never nearly as free of dependence on big money donors as the reporting suggested, nor was his movement as bottom-up or people-centric as his marketing implied. And this is the big story of 2009, if you ask me, the meta-story of what did, and didn’t happen, in the first year of Obama’s administration. The people who voted for him weren’t organized in any kind of new or powerful way, and the special interests–banks, energy companies, health interests, car-makers, the military-industrial complex–sat first at the table and wrote the menu. Myth met reality, and came up wanting….
…snip…
HP Boston 12.31.09 at 4:41 pm
theamericanway 12.31.09 at 4:30 pm
The reality is WE are still here…we will never kowtow to the Dems mythman.
A strong push back has been ever expanding and we will never STFU! Never!
Dragonfly 12.31.09 at 4:46 pm
happy new year, freddiebrown. don’t get to chat much, but wanted you to know . . .
(((freddiebrown)))
2010 is going to be a great year, as HP Boston says, we are not going to STFU!
FLBarbara 12.31.09 at 4:46 pm
HPBoston
Sending prayers of health and healing your way.
And to all PUMAs as well.
I found it interesting that on the Rasmussen poll more people will be praying than drinking,
I will be doing both.
Happy New Year
HP Boston 12.31.09 at 4:50 pm
I doubt they will bring any back!! Not even for the 2010 election cycle!! Another hit for the few employed workers for O’Bumblast and company.
—————–
Congress lets 50 tax breaks expire at end of ’09
Many likely to be revived sometime in 2010 — but it’s a pain for taxpayers
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34588239/ns/business-forbescom
Middle age female 12.31.09 at 4:51 pm
Hmmmmm.
Rush is in the hospital in Hawaii.
Oblama and Pelosi are in Hawaii. Wonder if they will visit him or send flowers?
CJK 12.31.09 at 4:55 pm
freddiebrown 12.31.09 at 4:27 pm
(((((freddiebrown))))) An old remedy for chiggers is to dab clear fingernail polish on the bites (as yukky as this sounds, I hear it’s because the little creeps stay inside the bites and the only way to stop them from biting you, which is what causes the horrific itching, is to smother them!)
FLBarbara 12.31.09 at 4:46 pm
(((((FLBarbara))))) Praying and drinking for New Year’s 2009/2010 — Absolutely appropriate. I’m doing likewise!
Dragonfly 12.31.09 at 4:56 pm
FL Barbara
you always make me smile. Yes, I too will be drinking and praying. Whoo hoo!
Looks like you’re having a health issue, HP. Hope you feel better soon and that you enjoyed your grandson the other day.
Happy New Year PUMAs! We’re still here!
By the way, made a New Year’s donation to help keep the lights on. Thank you, Murphy and Dances, for all you do.
stoney42 12.31.09 at 4:59 pm
Ten Bad Things
One thing that got my goat was having to see BO on tv night and day. Also, seeing him on every magazine cover and on the front pages of newspapers.
FLBarbara 12.31.09 at 5:08 pm
Ohhhhh yes I will be drinking absolute vodka and holy water
freddiebrown 12.31.09 at 5:10 pm
Stoney 42… and Michele Obama’s bare arms all over my fashion magazine. I gag – everytime I see her. She does not deserve to be First Lady and no matter what
stylist and make overs she got, her face belies who she really is – shallow and self centered like her husband. Oops, Dances will scold me for talking bad about Mrs. Obama…sorry Dances – I don’t have facts to back it up but my gag reflexes are to blame.
{{Dragonfly}}} {{{CJK}}} {{{everyone here}}}
HP Boston 12.31.09 at 5:10 pm
Dragonfly 12.31.09 at 4:56 pm
Thank you for your good wishes, it is my husband with the ill health. We wil know more on Monday..last 2 days have been spent on tests. I have been reading while waiting, makes the time pass quickly.
I had a wonderful time at the movies…AVATAR was great!
Happy New Year to you Dragonfly.
FLBarbara 12.31.09 at 5:18 pm
Just heard that Obama will review airline security procedures.
Just as soon as the movie Avatar is over.
He reminds me on the emperor Nero who played the fiddle while Rome burned.
Wondering when he’ll get angry at those “isolated individuals” who are the ones responsible.
It took Obama an hour to respond to the nutty professor and robo cop but 3 days to respond to a terrorist attack.
At this point I would welcome “they acted stupidly”
Maybe he will have a beer summit?
HP Boston 12.31.09 at 5:21 pm
Dear good hearted FlBarbara, I have had hot coffee with Bailey’s this afternoon. Maybe no diner served to the most appreciative husband for all I do for him, he feels yucky so no going out. Soup and grilled cheese will have to do….I will have Baily’s on the rocks!
“Ohhhhh yes I will be drinking absolute vodka and holy water”
Casper Cat 12.31.09 at 5:46 pm
Wishing all of you wonderful Pumas a very special Happy New Year!! May the very best of health, happiness and love be with all of YOU!!!!!!!! ‘Happy New Year’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKdngIhCMZE&feature=fvw
sheila7 12.31.09 at 5:50 pm
Wishing all PUMAS a very Happy New Year! I hope all the unemployed find work and I hope everyone and their loved ones have improvement in their health.
We’ve made it this far, only 3 more years to go with Oblahblah.
(((PUMAS)))
FLBarbara 12.31.09 at 5:51 pm
HPBoston
Soup and grill cheese is a great comfort food.
Enjoy the Baileys, that is what my dad toasts with.
I am suppose to go to a party but we had snow and its like sleet now and very cold. So I am not sure if I want to go out.
Like many I am glad this year is over and I have faith the new will bring a renewal of spirit for all of us.
CJK 12.31.09 at 6:08 pm
Just for the record and in the interest of factual accuracy, I want to clear up a matter from last night’s thread. This is my last comment on the matter. MA State Senator Scott Brown is not ‘homophobic,’ so far as I can tell from my research. (Also, really, why would the guys at hillbuzz even consider supporting him to the extent of phone banking for him if Brown were ‘homophobic’?) http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/11/republican_scott_brown_seeking.html
An excerpt from that Nov. 30 article:
“He said he believes marriage should be between a man and a woman. He also said the issue is settled in this state and he respects the decision to allow gay marriages.”
Here’a link to an article analyzing Brown’s prospects in the U.S. Senate race. http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MjRlOTgyY2NiYzgwOWU5NDg1MWIzNGM3MDUzZTFmOWM=
Here’s why I care. Strategically, I agree that Brown likely represents the best chance to stop ‘deathcare’ in its tracks this month by destroying the filibuster-proof Obamacrat majority in the Senate — because the MA special election to fill Kennedy’s seat occurs Jan. 19. The rest of the Congressional mid-term elections occur in Nov. — too late to make a difference on the hc vote. The question is not why Brown opposes ‘deathcare’ (which is so obviously bad for every American, particularly women and seniors, that the overwhelming majority of Americans oppose it) but rather why Coakley — who’s being supported by BO and the Obamacrats — supports ‘deathcare.’ Perhaps she needs to be asked that question by those who live in MA. Thanks. Sending a double donation to PUMA PAC in gratitude for graciously allowing me to clear this up.
CJK 12.31.09 at 6:16 pm
sheila7 12.31.09 at 5:50 pm
Thanks sheila7! May your New Year be truly wonderful and rewarding!
HP, sending good vibes/prayers to you and Mr. HP! The grilled cheese, soup and Bailey’s sound yummy!
FLBarbara, yup, ‘renewal of spirit’ is definitely what’s needed by everyone. Thanks to you and all lovely, wonderful PUMAS everywhere, perhaps that can happen. For myself, no matter how ‘life intervenes,’ I guess I’ll quote HRC and say, I will just do my best to ’soldier on.’ Happy New Year to all!
prplvette85 12.31.09 at 6:56 pm
(((Puma’s))) Wishing you all a healthy, prosperous, peaceful New Year.
I am going to
quit smoking,
quit cussing,
eat healthy,
not stress,
lose weight
not call obama any bad names…..
who the fuck wrote that? some alien took over my keyboard
I am going to do the best I can, it will last for a day or two lol!
All I know is I sure am glad to have all of you in my life. We will get through all of this, and we will not STFU!
FLBarbara 12.31.09 at 7:01 pm
CJK
And what an incredibly beautiful soldier you are
Happy New Year
FLBarbara 12.31.09 at 7:06 pm
Prplvette
LMAO
I am going to smoke more, cuss more and call Obama more names so that I may be stress free.
I am lighting a cigarette now…Inhale and thinking Obama is a shitty president and an asshole who doesn’t know WTF he is doing.
There I feel better already…Exhale.
prplvette85 12.31.09 at 7:13 pm
(((FLB)))
ROFL, I am exercising with you 1. inhale, 2 think, 3, exhale… I am adding a step, 4 take a drink… yep I feel better too!
HP Boston 12.31.09 at 7:14 pm
CJK 12.31.09 at 6:08 pm
Just to be clear as I said there is no way in Hell Brown will get elected, no way. He is a freaking republican in a Blue state running for ole buggeroffkennedy seat, never going to take the seat.
The hillbuzz boys can filibuster a century or two won’t help.
I just want Brown to get a healthy size of the vote to show the Dems they are cooked, stick a fork in em. It was a good deal when Kerry got a jolt on his last election….he lost ground. Someone finally ran against him and made a dent in the armor.
HP Boston 12.31.09 at 7:31 pm
FLBarbara 12.31.09 at 7:06 pm
Prplvette
ROFLMAO……you guys just stop it rightnow…no smoking talk. Our Murphy is able to cuss and drink…better habits!
Islam sucks!
Dragonfly 12.31.09 at 7:35 pm
HP Boston,
I saw AVATAR last night and loved it! Hope you get good news or a good plan to deal with other news on Monday.
FL Barbara, you are cracking me up. I would START smoking, but my blood pressure is already pretty bad.
Everyone, STAY SAFE out there tonight. I am finally finished with the Project from Hell and leaving work! But, I have a fun place to go (our weather down here is rainy, but it hasn’t snowed here for many years).
(((((PUMAS)))))
HP Boston 12.31.09 at 7:41 pm
Dragonfly 12.31.09 at 7:35 pm
Have a great night Dragonfly, Happy New Year.
FLBarbara 12.31.09 at 7:49 pm
I am hool hooping with a drink in one hand and a cigerette in the other
Very good excercise maybe I will have fab arms like MO
Dragonfly
Cursing brings down your blood presure!!
Right HP?
HP Boston 12.31.09 at 7:52 pm
Cursing brings down your blood presure!!
Right HP?
Damn right!
Sunshinelvr 12.31.09 at 7:55 pm
I continue to read and smile and agree with you all. I feel honored to have known you all (as internet friends!)and soooo glad that you have all been a part of my life.
Reading this blog and seeing the opinions of everyone so freely expressed gives me hope for a better tomorrow. May the next year bring us more joy, peace, prosperity and a helluva of a lot Less of “oimsopretty!”
Happy New Year!!! all Pumas everywhere!!!
Sunshinelvr 12.31.09 at 7:56 pm
ps…donation sent!
FLBarbara 12.31.09 at 8:00 pm
(((Sunshinelvr)))
Good to see you
Happy New Year
Going out twist my arm got to get dressed.
Happy New Year to all PUMAs
Xoxoxox 2010
Sunshinelvr 12.31.09 at 8:07 pm
thanks FlBarbara..back atcha! be safe tonight.
prplvette85 12.31.09 at 8:39 pm
FLBarbara 12.31.09 at 7:49 pm
I am hool hooping with a drink in one hand and a cigerette in the other
Very good excercise maybe I will have fab arms like MO
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is it an Arugula Mojito?
stoney42 12.31.09 at 8:46 pm
Happy New Year Pumas!
I am ready to continue our fight for the ERA and Women. I will fight against the evil of Islam and the fraud obama.
Ronan 12.31.09 at 9:01 pm
God it is soooo wonderful to see everyone’s posts!!!! I am in utter heaven! Ty, everyone for your tireless research and sharing, but more importantly, your heart (courage). Murphy, as usual your essays are breathtakingly well written and speak my heart. Ty. 6 more weeks of grad school and I am a free bird…well maybe. Looking into schools in Boston….Anyone have any suggestions?My sis keeps wishing I would move to where ‘my people’ actually live…LOL…I know there are many more here from cross the nation…and to everyone your posts give me hope. tg for everyone.
goofsmom 12.31.09 at 9:09 pm
Wishing all Pumas a wonderful and prosperous New Year.
Wishing for better health for those who need it.
Wishing for financial stability for all.
Wishing all of you will have more peace of mind.
We have a brand new year to kick BO and admin’s butt in, and it’s an election year so Let’s Vote all the bums out. That alone will make it a better year for all!
BillieJo 12.31.09 at 9:16 pm
Wishing all of my PUMA family a healthy, and much better year than this one that the Fraud has ruined for America.
We will keep on keeping on until we have sent him packing back to Chicago.
Rock on PUMAs!!!!
murphy 12.31.09 at 9:18 pm
In with the new posted,
take it upstairs!
RememberNovember 12.31.09 at 9:26 pm
Pumas with parents and grandparents – PUMA SENIORS – IT HAS BEGUN ALREADY
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Mayo Clinic in Arizona to Stop Treating Some Medicare Patients
Dec. 31 (Bloomberg) — The Mayo Clinic, praised by President Barack Obama as a national model for efficient health care, will stop accepting Medicare patients as of tomorrow at one of its primary-care clinics in Arizona, saying the U.S. government pays too little.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aHoYSI84VdL0
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And the healthcare Bill proposes to cut Medicare by half a trillion? I’ll repost this again when everyone is in the mood to do something about this. Until then – Happy New Year again – may 2010 be better for everyone (((((PUMAS)))))
twandx 01.01.10 at 9:22 am
Sweep out the whole word and DE-meaning limits of the word feminist. Women are people, not “ists” and as such are not all frilly feminin or vampidly ignorant. They are intelligent, brave and strong awa many other things.
What ALL women are NOT are barbie dolls.
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