Zomgee

I’m sure you’ve heard dozens of lists by now, the top ten <fill in the blank> of 2008. That’s all the media does this time of year, and tomorrow if you haven’t heard it already you will find out what to expect for 2009. You’ll be asked to make resolutions that you will break within days of making them and 2009 will in the end be perhaps just as good or dismal as 2008 was. Unfortunately I’m about to give you another list, because I think 2008 may just go down in the history books as quite the year to remember.

2008 was…

1. …the year journalism died.

   I don’t know how many of you remember, but 2008 was an election year and during such times it is generally considered the media’s job to help inform the public about the candidates that we will choose between. In 2008 informing turned to blatant propaganda. Certainly I’ve always felt most people in the media have a bias one way or another, but in 2008 the coverage of the candidates went beyond just bias. The majority of the media had a love affair with Senator Obama, so much so that they failed to ask him a single tough question the entire election cycle and they even felt feelings run up their legs when he spoke.

2. …the year God proved Global Warming false.

   Despite what we’ve been told, it turns out that since 1998 (the hottest year on record, unless you count 1933 which is actually the hottest year on record) the earth has actually been cooling, the polar ice caps have been thickening, and it looks like we’re not in danger of dying in less than a hundred years (at least not from the weather anyway). 2008 was one of the coldest years in recent memory, giving Canada it’s first all-white Christmas since the 70s, and sending snow to China, London, and chilly weather all across the US. October was one of the coldest on record even if one of the nation’s leading scientists claimed it was the warmest ever by using September’s temperatures to prove his point. Long story short God really tipped the weather scale this year and I don’t care if someone says global cooling is proof that the earth is getting warmer, this is the year that the tide has turned on this pathetic issue.

3. …the year the people of the United States ended racial prejudice.

   In an historic election the people of the United States overwhelmingly proved that there is no racial prejudice in this country. After all that’s what the election was about right? The truth was, over 58 million Americans didn’t agree with what Obama stood for, while over 66 million either did agree with him or got duped by his “change” mantra. It turns out the election had nothing to do with race after all even if that’s what certain people wanted us to believe. That being said, there certainly is racial prejudice in this country it just may not be in the same places everyone thinks it is.

4. …the year the United States government rejected the Constitution.

   It all started when they said one company was too big to fail, then several companies were too big to fail, then the financial sector was too big to fail. Before long the car compaines were too big to fail and sooner than later anything and everything will be too big too fail. Not long after that we will have a full socialist state with everything run by Big Brother. George Orwelle got it wrong, it wasn’t 1984 it was 2008. The people stood up and told their government no on several occasions and each time the government of the people, by the people, and for the people turned into the government of the state, by the state and for the state. We may never see our system back the way the founders created it and 2008 will be the year that the ball started rolling. When my children and grandchildren ask me what a democracy was like someday, I’m going to open my history books and point to the picture of George W. Bush and say “that was the man that started us in the wrong direction”…and I’m afraid all I’ll have to do is turn the page to a picture of Barack Obama and say “that was the man that finished the job.”