It was...it's amazing that Obama could turn all of them into disasters of monumental proportions, and set the stage for such disasters in his time machine without anyone noticing.

Truly, history's greatest monster.

/figure, get it out of the way early.

My niece/goddaughter sent me email that she never wanted to speak to me again.
My mother passed away from pancreatic cancer. (YAY, she had time to say goodbye and plan her funeral IN DETAIL!!)
My health club of 15 years closed and I had to join the expensive one.
I fought non-stop for a year with doctors over proper dosing of my hypothyroidism.
My terminally ill, multiple-rape victim, homeless, family-less, jobless, insurance-less, hope-less friend-roommate moved out. (It was too hard to get street pain-killers in Illinois, so she moved to OR where they were cheap on the street)
My sleep was destroyed because of fluctuating thyroid levels. shudder
My job stress went to new levels.
My shrink of the last 12 months has been the best thing that has even happened to me. (taking everything one day at a time.)

This has been the worst and best year of my life.
And I would not have had it any other way.

Plan for tomorrow, live for today and have no regrets about yesterday.

/So many people who have no idea how lucky they are, complaining about the most mundane things.

namatad: My niece/goddaughter sent me email that she never wanted to speak to me again.

It sucked.

hubiestubert: It was...it's amazing that Obama could turn all of them into disasters of monumental proportions, and set the stage for such disasters in his time machine without anyone noticing.

Truly, history's greatest monster.

/figure, get it out of the way early.

I am pretty certain he is responsible for the 9/11/2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, too.

/Nice video. Wonder what 2012 will be like?

We didn't start the fire...

namatad: My terminally ill, multiple-rape victim, homeless, family-less, jobless, insurance-less, hope-less friend-roommate moved out. (It was too hard to get street pain-killers in Illinois, so she moved to OR where they were cheap on the street)

So you're saying she's an easy date?

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio

Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

Rosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, "The King and I", and "The Catcher in the Rye"

Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye

CHORUS
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it


Josef Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc

Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron
Dien Bien Phu Falls, Rock Around the Clock

Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland

Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Zhou Enlai, Bridge On The River Kwai

Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California Baseball,
Starkweather homicide, Children of Thalidomide

Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia
Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go

U2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Hemingway, Eichmann, Stranger in a Strange Land,
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion

Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson

Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician sex
J.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock

Begin, Reagan, Palestine, Terror on the airline
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan

Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy metal suicide
Foreign debts, homeless Vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz

Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
Rock and Roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning since the world's been turning.
We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone
It will still burn on, and on, and on, and on...

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire...

davidphogan: shpritz: Interesting times. And not necessarily in the good way.

Every time period has been interesting. It just blows me away that pretty much anywhere I am I can find the answer to just about anything through my telephone, without even dialing a number.

If I want to see the original video by Billy Joel for We Didn't Start The Fire because I saw it on a Fark thread, I can do that.

That's really kind of amazing.

This. The Cold War is over, almost all of man's creative work is available at my fingertips, and I can expect flying cars in my lifetime*. I/we have it good.

/*Maybe.

Yeah I had a year... That much closer to finishing my courses, but money's getting crunched though.. my fault, being a little bit of an instant gratification person and making some mistakes.... I checked the scale at my parents' place today and it was 300.0 lbs (on the dot). Fattest I've ever been. I'm in a job where once again I'm not getting what I was promised.

2012 will be another intereresting year. I plan to lose half this weight, and get my credit under control, and find a job where I don't get lied to constantly about my job's role (my boss basically refused to write up a job description). Of course I need to lose the weight to get the new job - my weight hinders my interviews because a fat person is perceived as lazy. I do not take offense at this prejudicial attitude. I just need to 'play the game', as I'm applying for a professional position.

Completed the "training" portion of my program at work and am officially a full employee. Started making friends in Anchorage and getting out and doing things. Moved out of my crap apartment. Bought a condo. Started a pinball collection. Went to my sister's wedding.

Pretty darn good year.

tl;dr

JonnyG: It was a year of lies and deception.

Arab Spring - Planned and triggered by elite
nuclear disaster in Japan - Intentional
the euro zone crisis - Planned and triggered by elite
Osama bin Laden's death - Osama died years ago
Gadhafi's death - Planned by elite to trigger chaos
OWS - Planned and triggered by elite

2012 will be much worse. It's the West's turn this year.


/*hiccup*

And 9/11 was inside job?

/Brb, black helicopters.

BronyMedic Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland

Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez

The first fifteen years of my life, I thought that last bit was "trouble in the sewers". I always pictured the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fighting the fire.

video man: davidphogan: shpritz: Interesting times. And not necessarily in the good way.

Every time period has been interesting. It just blows me away that pretty much anywhere I am I can find the answer to just about anything through my telephone, without even dialing a number.

If I want to see the original video by Billy Joel for We Didn't Start The Fire because I saw it on a Fark thread, I can do that.

That's really kind of amazing.

This. The Cold War is over, almost all of man's creative work is available at my fingertips, and I can expect flying cars in my lifetime*. I/we have it good.

/*Maybe.

We have flying cars now. (new window)

We do not, however, have a populace that can pass a pilot's exam in great numbers when they can't even find a turn signal lever in the 2D vehicles they have now.

Duke Nukem Forever came out

bikerbob59: 2011 can suck donkey dick for all I care.

It's going to get worse. Just wait until the debt whiplash really hits and we get hyper inflation and or all societal safety nets collapse leading to revolt.

ALl those elderly GOP voters are going to be pissed when their socialist SS checks and Medicare reimbursements stop.

Yummy, yummy dog food.