Happy New Year!

Out in Flagstaff, AZ they don't drop a ball, they drop a giant pine cone! And, just to be sure everyone can participate, they drop it at 10PM local time to coincide with the big New York doings and again at midnight for those who can brave the cold.

Here's the earlier drop from last night and some nice fireworks too!



And here's the midnight drop...



So, there you have it... Happy New Year to all!!

Aren't you glad 2008 is over and we're finally moving on to 2009. Man, that was a long old year, eh? So many twists and turns. Not that we're done twisting and turning at all, but at least we have a couple new players in that department. Let's all hope we'll see some changes coming up January 21, 2009.

Discussions around here tend to agree that these next 20 days will be the most dangerous of our lives. Nothing will surprise me. Given the turmoil that's erupted in the last week, I mean NOTHING will surprise me. Will the piss fighting over some words in a book ever end? I've certainly had it with all those involved... HAD IT!

In other news, our bud Jon Swift has gathered quite a collection of bloggers' favorite posts of 2008. Quite an impressive array of must reads! Go visit and give him some love for taking on this daunting task :-)

One of our favorites new blogs last year was The Fighting Liberals. Good stuff there!

I'm kind of taking a break from the news these days ..... until the 21st anyway. Right now I have questions about what in the world is Fitzgerald doing going after Blago. Not so much the why, but the WHY NOW question. Why now? And why hasn't he indicted him yet? And, does he even have enough to indict him? I'm not all on board the "Fitz is on our side" band wagon at all. Time will tell.....

Also, I think all the talk of President Clinton being considered to replace Hillary in the Senate rather validates Tanbark's post below. I mean I always suspected FDL to be in the Hillary pocket but Jane's going after Caroline was just outrageous. And why did she do that? Because fdl is a Hillary blog and that pretty much confirms it. My long suspicions have been confirmed. See photo downstream.... gah.

So Happy New Year mah hunnies!!!! Hope to be posting more this year ;-)