The Biggest News Stories of 2008

The 10 Biggest Stories of 2008:

1. Barack Obama elected President of the United States of America
2. 1.2 million Americans lost their job in 2008
3. Gas goes up to $4.10+ and down to $1.50+ with no real change in supply or demand.
4. The Wall Street Bailout. Investment Banks get $700,000,000,000.00 with bushco. responsible for oversight. (Half is gone, but noone knows to where.) Lehman Brothers allowed to go bankrupt by treasury secretary and former Goldman Sachs CEO henry paulson. Insurance company AIG gets about $100 billion.
5. Dow Jones drops 36.2% ($7.3 trillion) on the year.
6. The US auto industry receives sneers then $13.4 billion dollar in loans to stay out of bankruptcy.
7. Riots. (In the "third world" over food, in Greece over the shooting of a teen by the POlice, in tibet, in thailand)
8. More than 100 ships attacked by pirates
9. A reporter from an Iraqi owned paper threw two shoes at president george bush on his last surprise visit to Iraq (the crown jewel of his presidency).
10. The Beijing Olympics opening ceremony. (You might not think it was such a big story, but all I could think was Scary foreshadowing)

Honorable mention: The QEII (the big English cruise ship) is sold to Dubai, UAE. Fidel Castro resigns. Eliot Spitzer gets a Jersey Shore prostitute (all Federal charges have been dropped).

By FAR my favorite "viral" video of the year:
bill o'Leilly in "Fuck it! We'll do it live" the dance mix

Biggest news story to start off 2009:
the 43rd president of the United States steps down!/The 44th President of the United States takes office!

Remembering those that died in 2008:
George Carlin
Paul Newman
Isaac Hayes
Richard Wright
Jimmy Carl Black
Mitch Mitchell
Studs Terkel
Sidney Pollack
Bo Diddley
Bettie Page
Arthur C. Clarke
Sir Edmund Hillary
Heath Ledger
Tim Russert
Eartha Kitt
Bernie Mack
Bobby Fisher
Roy Sheider

I'm not that upset but...
William F Buckley
Jess Helms
died too.

Happy New Year Everybody!