Hopefully Happy New Year

It is very ice cold and windy in the midwest on the first day of 2008. Last week on Christmas day it was a day of icy snow all over the center of the US. This is winter and next month the groundhog will come out and then spring will be in the near offing. The sooner the better. The worst thing about the winter so far has been the expensive power outages around the heartland, and the number of people killed in car wrecks on icy roads.
This may a lengthy blog entry if I can stay with a rehash of the major events of 07 I would like to write. So, far 3,900 US troops have been killed in Iraq. La Bhutto was murdered in Pakistan last week. Right now there is tribal violence in Kenya, and an American diplomat was killed by someone in Khartoum. American Intelligence concluded that Iran stopped work on nuke weapons in '03, which led to lots of yelling that Bush Had Lied about the dangers from Iran. A little over a year ago in Iraq Saddam met his noose, which was barely mentioned by the News Media last week. In the spring a crazy Korean student at Virginia Tech killed 30+ students in a classroom massacre, and a crazy kid killed 8 people in a shopping mall in Omaha. (And a guy shot several people last summer at a mall in Kansas City.) And fires in LA destroyed hoards of very expensive houses in the Malibu area around Halloween. And great numbers of people was killed by the periodic typhoons that hit Bangladesh. This upcoming January 20 will mark the last year of W's presidency. And 13 people were killed in a bridge collapse in Minneapolis. Hugo Chavez called an election in Venezuela to give him unlimited power, but lost the referendum, but as of now is still president. Tony Blair turned his PMship over to Gordon Brown and last week became a Catholic. Next year in Feb we all have to go to HD TV. Seems like a secret plot to get everyone in the US to go onto cable, but it is supposed to be good for us.
I may have more stuff to blog about on politics after the caucuses Thurdsday night. I wish the candidates would all leave the state and not come back. I realize that one candidate I loath will get elected Prez in November and we will have to live with whoever he or She is, because that is how our system operates, but I do not care for any of them, but every four years I say that.
MSN listed 169 famous people who died in 07. I will have more to write about this next time when I reread the list, but only the WSJ the other day mentioned that one of the three surviving gentlemen who served in the AEF in WWI died a week or so ago.
This year is going the be the 40th anniversary of everything that happened in 1968--a year that had absolutely nothing good happen in it. From the Tet Offensive to Harper Valley PTA being a huge music hit. I wish the media would rehash 68 on a daily or weekly basis, so everyone could be reminded of all that happened that year, for historical reference.
I hope 08 is a lowkey year--it probably will not be, but it would be nice if it were. 07 was an ugly year, but my Mama is still in good health, and my family is getting along as well as can be hoped. The next 2 years are going to be eventful, because my place of work is going to be shutting down by the middle of 10. Either find another job or prepare for retirement. I need to get my life and my finances in order, because I have let my life get somewhat disorganized in the last few years after the diabetes attack. Be a man and act like one through the upcoming events in employment. I have closed the door on some consuming grudges that I have been holding about some stuff that happened in the late 1960s. Enough of that. This is going to be all for right now. I hope I have more to write about in my upcoming blog entries. Time for bed and back to work early in the morning. Take care, dear fans. Di di mau.