January 1, 2000 - December 31, 2009: Good. Fucking. Riddance.

[denem]

Special Mentions:

December 12, 2000
December 21, 2000
September 11, 2001
October 16, 2002
February 3, 2003
March 20, 2003
November 2, 2004
December 26, 2004
April 20, 2005
August 29, 2005
September 22, 2005
January 31, 2006
December 14, 2009
December 18, 2009
December 25, 2009
Sarah Palin
10 Percent Unemployment

[spanone]

1. the bu$h* years....FUCK THEM

[bdamomma]

19. yes indeed.

they certainly fucked us.

[LearnedHand]

2. Yeah, and I don't feel very good about the upcoming decade either

Especially since the US of A is a wholly owned subsidiary of the corporations.

Edited to say: I'm trying to be hopeful about Obama. He's a wonderful person and a scholar par excellence. I just hope he can extricate himself from the influence of the idiots who drove our country to where it is today.

[cilla4progress]

37. Hear hear!

Started with the F**** election of 2000 ("count every vote..."), ended with me out of work! There were definitely some high points along the way, a great job I had and mourn the loss of; Obama's election; daughter's flowering; but overall, I think the world moved backward - led by Bush.

[Peacetrain]

3. Never been so happy to see a decade in the rear view mirror in my life

[Odin2005]

4. Yep. What a shitty decade.

[ClusterFreak]

5. Well, at least we had...

November 4, 2008
January 20, 2009

Cuz no matter what, it coulda been President John McCain and Vice President (**shudder**) Sarah Palin.:P

[bdamomma]

27. probably the only two highlights of the decade.

[NightWatcher]

6. this decade started as a bummer when y2k didnt plunge us into darkness

I was looking forward to getting some reading and camping done, but NO we had twitter, facebook, the dancing hamster.........

[pipi_k]

7. There have been other decades that sucked as well, from a cultural standpoint, but never

did they coincide with a personally sucky decade.


So that makes it a double header of suckiness from where I stand


good riddance 2000 - 2009

[Jamastiene]

8. K&R

[GoCubsGo]

9. I can't wait until it's over.

I hope 2010 is better, although I have about given up on things improving, at least for me personally.

Actually, Jan. 1-Nov. 3, 2000 was pretty good. I bought my house then. My biggest worry was that my boss would retire before I got my 30 years in. I got 20 in before our plugs were both pulled by the Busheviks. Fucking fuckers.

[phasma ex machina]

10. On 1-2-2000 it felt to me like the nation dodged a terrorist bullet.

[WhiteTara]

11. amen! n/t

[newtothegame]

12. Do we seriously still care about Sarah Palin?

I can't decide who is more obsessed with Sarah Palin, us or Fox News?

[denem]

13. However you slice it, Sarah Palin represented a new low

in the American Body Politic.

[myrna minx]

14. The decade from fucking hell is nearly over - thank gawd. n/t

[tridim]

15. Fuck the 2000's with a big stick.

Honestly I can't think of a single good thing that happened from 1999-2008. There was ZERO good news.

I'm pretty sure that's extremely rare in American history.

[ieoeja]

18. Gay marriage and/or marijuana law reforms in several states. (nt)

[tridim]

26. IMO the best news Re: MMJ happened about 6 months ago..

When Holder announced the feds were going to lay off the legal states.

That decision is THE reason I will be employed soon. My buddy is opening a shop and I'm going to be running the bakery and candy kitchen. I get giddy just thinking about it.

Looking forward to actually enjoying my job for a change. :)

[Hawkeye-X]

44. Damn.

You're lucky. I would like to get a job there too :D

[denem]

16. The Zero decade.

[ieoeja]

17. Goodbye 0s and take my 401(k) with you.

Oh, that's right. You did.


0 = final change in Dow with avg for the decade much lower than it started

Which means this decade even sucked for the corporations whose policies ruled the decade. Heckuva job, Masters!

[derby378]

20. You forgot October 17, 2006

The day when Herr Decider signed the Military Commissions Act into law, legalizing torture and removing habeas corpus protections.

[denem]

22. Yes I did. But to be fair, that was the de jure date, the black prisons and all the rest

got going years earlier.

[Mari333]

21. most horrible decade of my life.

lost my husband and son.
(I still believe in their spirit being with me)

but, I am glad to see it go away.

[derby378]

31. I am so sorry...

:hug:

[cilla4progress]

38. Oh, deep regards and sorrows your way --

I am so sorry for your losses. Safe travels in your life from now on. Blessings.

[blues90]

43. I didn't know , I am very sorry to hear that

I'll be hear for you. PM me anytime if it helps.

[hfojvt]

23. I don't understand the significance of half of those dates

What happened this last Christmas? And on the 14th and the 18th of this month?

Perhaps we ended on a positive note? 2010-2019 might be the Al Franken decade.

[denem]

25. (2009) 12/18 Copenhagen Non-Accord, 12/25 Underpants Bomber, 12/14 Lieberman kills Medicare Buy-In

[hfojvt]

32. Why should 12-25-2009 be more noteworthy that 4-16-2007?

or probably half a dozen other days in the decade?

[denem]

33. A new wave of fear to end to decade. Huge upgrades needed to close the breach.

As I am flying into the States on the 19th, it's personal.

[AzDar]

24. Oh HELLS yes!

Goodbye... Decade From Hell!:party:

[freddie mertz]

28. Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish! And Happy New Decade!

:toast: :party:

[FarCenter]

29. 2010 - 2019 will be worse

We have another two or three decades of increased competition for resources and rising global tensions and conflict.

Then we will have a couple of decades of global wars.

1618 - 1648 Thirty Years War
1789 - 1815 French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars
1914 - 1949 WW I through the Chinese Revolution

2040 - 2070 Next Global War

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_cycles

[denem]

30. Wave theories are bunk.

The cycle gets redrawn every time the data fails to match the prediction.

For all I know a gamma wave burst will wipe out life on earth in 2012.

[FarCenter]

34. This cycle goes back to the Black Death

The Black Death significantly reduced the European population. It then expanded vigorously until the Wars of the Reformation. There was another expansion leading up to the Thirty Years War, especially as American crops were introduced to European agriculture. The Thirty Years War reduced population in Germany by about one third.

While a gamma ray burst may wipe out life on earth, it is a very low probability event.

Global war using biological weapons is much more likely, and it would easily wipe out a third or more of the global population sometime between 2030 and 2080.

[denem]

36. Death is inevitable. History is not.

Nostradamus gets reinterpreted every decade to predict the next. Sorry. Have to trot off to take a ride in my flying car, and check out the Dubai skyline.

[elocs]

35. I always thought that decades started with "1" like 2001 and ended in a zero, like 2010.

Did I miss the memo? :shrug: Did the MSM change this when I wasn't looking? Did the first century actually start with year "0"?

[Uncle Joe]

39. The Supreme Court overrode that form of counting on 12/12/00 while stating

it couldn't be used as precedent, that was in fact the beginning of the "Selected Decade."

[denem]

42. It's a long standing dispute. 2000 was not the end if the millennium but

its roman date is MM. 1BC, 1AD, there was no year zero.

[Harry Monroe]

45. No you are actually right

The 21st century actually started on January 1, 2001. This date also actually started this decade. In reality, we've still got a year left on this decade; it will not end until December 31, 2010. There was no year zero, so the first decade of the Christian era started with the year 1 and ended with the year 10. But to point out such facts to people is futile when they are attuned to seeing the the change from "99" to "00" or "09" to "10" akin to an odometer on a car. So just relax and go with the fallacy!! You won't change people's minds anyway!!

[denem]

48. The resolution is 1 BC, 0BC, 1 AD

But there was no 0BC

That's the year that's missing.

The year 2000 was MM

That's good enough for me.

[roguevalley]

40. July 23, 2006 when my Father died, May 28, 2007 when my Mother

died, July 23, 2009 when my dog Andrew died. Those are just a few of the highlights. That doesn't count my brothers losing their jobs and the who arctic beginning to melt.

[denem]

41. ...

[blues90]

46. I'm not very opimistic about the date rolling over as

Did our lousy cheap , whore, riddled, payed off , lairs in the stinking government did at our expense. Let them climb down in the hole they forced many of us and let them live in FEMA trailers for min wage or no job at all with no healthcare , let them tell us how we should like it. Let the capital building and white house go to the people as housing and toss these criminals the hell out with their lies and position and on top of the table wealth. Their damn fancy offices and everything most can't even imagine let alone being in office for decades and have done NOTHING ! Fucking freaks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When are we going to wake up to the fact that not one of them cares and the few who do have no power?

I don't get how anyone can say they love a rep or president when they really don't know them at all , that is insane, they are an illusion , a person made into some god when they are NOT.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

47. This entire decade can suck my dick.

I started to write down all my loss of the last ten years...personal and professional, financial and spiritual, physical and emotional...but I can't bear to see it summed up.

If there is a hell, this decade was it.