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Jan. 3, 2010 So we managed to make it yet through another year. To be more precise, another decade! And I can’t help but wonder how did we do it? With all the severe problems the human race face now and in the future. The last ten years have proven to be one big trial and error process. Some things seemed to have worked, while others simply fell by the waist side. From start to finish, it proved to be one hell of a ride to say the least. At the beginning nobody knew if we were going to survive the Y2K meltdown. According to the doomsday experts, all the computers in the world were supposed to shut down causing the entire planet to go into total mass hysteria. I was just hoping for all my bad credit to be wiped out! But I don’t want to jump ahead of myself. How could I leave out George W. Bush being elected President in 2000? America’s beloved ring leader really set it all off didn’t he? People were so disgruntled about his shady election that it somehow ended up in court. The September 11, 2001 attacks on America really took the wind out of our sails. Nobody had any concrete truthful answers to how and why this historic tragic event could’ve taken place. It seemed even if you didn’t have any close ties to where these phenomenons took place, your heart still got broken. I still don’t believe we are or ever will be the same again as a nation. Things continued to get worse here at home during the early part of the decade. In 2002 United Airlines filed for bankruptcy. I don’t know what you all thought about that, but I saw it as a sign of other big companies about to take the same plunge. Now airline companies are so ignorant, they figured one way to stay up in the blue skies was to charge customers for baggage. I mean really people, where does the stupidity end? Another event that stood out, was the disintegration of the space shuttle Columbia on February 1, 2003. I’ve questioned our technology long before that. It wasn’t the first time something like it had happened. And I’m afraid it probably won’t be the last either. I have never worked for NASA and it is too late now. But let’s concentrate more on the planet than things in outer space. Let me see, what happened in 2004? Oh yes George W. Bush got reelected President. That’s it, I have nothing else to say about that year because I fell into a deep coma after he got reelected. In 2005 the Southeastern states got introduced to one of the worse hurricanes that ever hit land by the name of Katrina. The aftermath was of catastrophic images and episodes. Again the U.S. was at a total stand still. And the world seem to be waiting for us to come through with an answer. But we didn’t have one, not even for our own. It was so tragic that other countries began to lend the mighty United States of America a helping hand. Around the world others were suffering in their own backyards as well. February 17, 2006 a giant mud slide massacred 1126 people in the Southern Leyte, Philippines. It took months to recover the remains of the dead. Families were dismantled and the sight of small children crying for their missing parents is still branded in my memory. Gas prices shot through the roof in 2007. Oh boy, I was at a local gas station and witnessed a guy about to attack a woman for cutting in front of him at the gas pump. Fortunately for her a police officer was near by and came to her aid before the situation got totally out of control. It’s a shame what some people will risk for something so petty! It wasn’t a life or death circumstance. Well 2008 had hope and promise not just for America, but the world. Barack Obama was elected the 44th President. His inspirational speeches captured the nation. For one moment in time I could have sworn we all were one. But I soon came back to reality. I think some thought he was going to fix everything over night by himself. Surprise! As 2009 limped its way to the finish line, we saw health and the economy threatened like no other time before. The World Health Organization expressed major concerns about the spread of influenza from Mexico to the United States and other countries. By the middle of the year we all lost a legend and an icon who brought the world together with his music. Micheal Jackson died at the age of 50. Do you remember where you were when the news pierced through your ears? It was simply unreal and unexpected. And after all was said and done in 2009, it was sealed with a recession that’s still plaguing us.
A movie came out a couple months ago called 2012. I saw it because
I was curious to see how the world was going to end. I sure hope we
don’t go out like that folks. Hell I just discovered Useless Knowledge
this year!
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