Happy New Years

I hope you all have a wonderful New Year's Eve/Day!

I'll be heading out with my posse tonight, dinner, drinks, dancing...designated drivers, and sleep-over at my house aftewards.

Them tomorrow, bloody marys, mimosas, and breakfast.

Should be in great shape to start back to work on Friday!

Quotes from the "great minds" that run our country..

Quotes from our "leaders" in the months leading up to our financial crisis....

"The problems in the subprime market seems likely to be contained."— Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve chairman, March 28, 2007

"The fundamentals of our economy are strong."— Sen. John McCain, former Republican presidential candidate, Sept. 15, 2008

"We don't see any pressure on our liquidity, let alone a liquidity crisis."Alan Schwartz, former CEO of Bear Stearns, March 12, 2008.

"We have more capital than we need, so we can say to the market that we don't need more injections. We can confirm that we have tackled the problem."— John Thain, former CEO, Merrill Lynch, March 16, 2008

"I don't think the government ought to be involved in bailing out companies."— President George W. Bush, July 15, 2008

Obama-ojvich

Obama quickly came out, after the arrest of Blogo in Illinois, and said no one from his team had spoken to Blogo, or spoken to Atty Fitzpatrick.

Then he said, he couldn't comment, because the USAO was asking him not to.

Now his own teams report comes out, and shows that in fact YES, his people did have contact with the Illinois Gov, and YES, his people were in contact with the investigators.

So is he a LIAR or an IDIOT......time will tell.

It's beginning to feel alot like Christmas....

I don't really get into the holiday season until it is drawing very close, but one of the events that kind of signals the season for me is the Gonzales' Christmas party, and this year was no exception. We had a blast...again....until well after 3am. I would say the dance hall was the best part, except that this year Dirty Santa was particularly fun. Our friend Sam was playing for the first time, and drew #2....poor kid had no idea what she was in for....she picked a gift, had it stolen, picked another, had it stolen, pic...well you get the idea....(4) gifts, and she ended up with a cork-screw set...not to worry, Pam stole pack the shot luge game, so we'll have that at the pool this year. I made off with a nice bottle of wine, Danny got the leg lamp from "A Christmas Story, which is perfect, and I can't remember what Deana ended up with.

The next holiday event for us is the TSO concert, then I will really be in a Christmas mood.

I've attached some Pics....

Kelly and Kenny our hosts (and Kenny's wine is the one I ended up with)
Sam's 1st Present.....gone (it's ok, Pam took it later)

Sam's 2nd present....gone

Sam's 4th present...and she got to keep it! We don't have a pic of #3

Rick taking one of Sam's stolen gifts back, only to have it taken

Deana Picking

Danny.....not really sure what this was all about.

Danny, Sam, Steve, Deana

Sam and Deana plotting

Deana and Danny

Rick and Kelly

Pam, Mike, Deana, Sam

Just a quick case of Deja Vu

"I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinski" ~Bill Clinton, right before being impeached for lying to congress

"No one from our organization has been in contact with the Illinois Govenor about the open Senate seat" ~Barak Obama, right before it was revieled that his Chief of Staff spoke with the Gov on at least (6) occasions.

And so it begins.....

Another semester gone....

Well another semester has ended, and after getting serious at the end of the semester, I pulled an 87 for the course, or a B+....however, since college doesn't do "B+"...I got a B.

What irks me is that I only missed an "A" by 2.5 pts....and when you consider my instructor was late 5 out of 13 weeks posting assignments, and I was the ONLY student that turned in my term paper (which I got a 100 on) on time, you would think they guy could round up, and give me an "A"......but nope, "that's not how he works".....well turn about is fair play, I just received my class survey where I get to grade him on his handling of the on-line course.....now I just have to decide how badly I want to burn this bridge, since he is the head of the Criminal Justice department at the Senatobia campus, and I just might end up taking another course from him.....

How do all you libs feel now?

Despite all the promises he made to you....

- Gates is still the Sec of Def
- Jim Jones is now the Nat'l Security Advisor
- Obama now says he'll remove "combat" troops from Iraq....that's only about 50k troops, there wont be any full withdrawl

You ALL GOT TOOK!!!!!!!!!

Hope you're happy