Comments on: Top News stories of the Decade http://potpolitics.com/2009/12/23/top-news-stories-of-the-decade/ Just another WordPress site Wed, 23 May 2012 18:47:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Matt@Sacramento Weddings http://potpolitics.com/2009/12/23/top-news-stories-of-the-decade/#comment-8939 Matt@Sacramento Weddings Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:28:00 +0000 http://potpolitics.com/?p=3879#comment-8939 Very good year-end wrapup column, summed up the decade quite nicely. I'd say that Barack Obama was the story of the decade. I can hear all the KKK & other bigots all exclaiming: "We must be dead, because we all said it would be a cold day in hell before a [insert racial slur] is elected President of the USA" Very good year-end wrapup column, summed up the decade quite nicely.

I’d say that Barack Obama was the story of the decade.

I can hear all the KKK & other bigots all exclaiming: “We must be dead, because we all said it would be a cold day in hell before a [insert racial slur] is elected President of the USA”

]]> By: Top News Stories http://potpolitics.com/2009/12/23/top-news-stories-of-the-decade/#comment-8912 Top News Stories Sun, 27 Dec 2009 16:20:07 +0000 http://potpolitics.com/?p=3879#comment-8912 My girlfriend still occasionally gives me grief about preparing for the possibility of disaster (y2k). I just tell that I did not spend nearly as much as Citicorp did (200 to 300 million were the estimates). When we were listening to the invasion of Afghanistan on the radio, however, my son (13 at the time) remarked that he was glad that we have food storage. I was somewhat relieved that y2k did not materialize as was feared. It was a very eventful decade, though, as you point out. Here's hoping the next decade will be more free and less tyrannical than the last. There is always hope, no? Even unfounded hope. Real change is always possible, even with the "change" president completely dedicated to maintaining the status quo or tipping it further toward corporatism. Keep up the good work, John. My girlfriend still occasionally gives me grief about preparing for the possibility of disaster (y2k). I just tell that I did not spend nearly as much as Citicorp did (200 to 300 million were the estimates). When we were listening to the invasion of Afghanistan on the radio, however, my son (13 at the time) remarked that he was glad that we have food storage. I was somewhat relieved that y2k did not materialize as was feared.

It was a very eventful decade, though, as you point out. Here’s hoping the next decade will be more free and less tyrannical than the last. There is always hope, no? Even unfounded hope. Real change is always possible, even with the “change” president completely dedicated to maintaining the status quo or tipping it further toward corporatism.

Keep up the good work, John.

]]> By: Mathdelane @Software Critics http://potpolitics.com/2009/12/23/top-news-stories-of-the-decade/#comment-8819 Mathdelane @Software Critics Thu, 24 Dec 2009 10:34:23 +0000 http://potpolitics.com/?p=3879#comment-8819 People come and go. True friends stay forever. What matters are the lessons life give us after all these years and being thankful for every new day it brings. People come and go. True friends stay forever. What matters are the lessons life give us after all these years and being thankful for every new day it brings.

]]> By: Don Power - Newbie Blogger http://potpolitics.com/2009/12/23/top-news-stories-of-the-decade/#comment-8793 Don Power - Newbie Blogger Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:58:26 +0000 http://potpolitics.com/?p=3879#comment-8793 Hey John! I worked as an IT contractor in the financial services sector in Toronto (Canada's version of New York) during the lead up to Y2K. I saw so many financial institutions, banks and even the Toronto Stock Exchange going frantic trying to get their systems Y2K compliant in time for midnight +1s January 1, 2000 - I was CONVINCED they weren't going to make it. And yes, I did have a Y2K bunker... I was never so glad to be wrong about something in all my life - before or since. In fact, I just finshed off the last of the Y2K water yesterday... Aw, good times... Cheers! Hey John!

I worked as an IT contractor in the financial services sector in Toronto (Canada’s version of New York) during the lead up to Y2K.

I saw so many financial institutions, banks and even the Toronto Stock Exchange going frantic trying to get their systems Y2K compliant in time for midnight +1s January 1, 2000 – I was CONVINCED they weren’t going to make it.

And yes, I did have a Y2K bunker…

I was never so glad to be wrong about something in all my life – before or since. In fact, I just finshed off the last of the Y2K water yesterday…

Aw, good times…

Cheers!

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