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| Happy New Year |
| 2009-01-01 |
| As we approach the dawn of 2009, I raise a toast (champagne, of course) to the United States of America, for all our faults the greatest country in the world. Every day I'm grateful my ancestors got on those boats. I raise a toast to Iraq, which we welcomed into the league of democracies this year. I raise a toast to the United States Military, the main reason Iraq is now a free country and the reason we are the free-est nation that ever existed. I raise a toast to President Bush, who for all his faults is a decent man who stood his ground when others wanted to abandon Iraq - and America - to terrorists. I raise a toast to Fred, the Mods, and the denizens of Rantburg - the best damn community/family in the world. (It should be - it wraps around the world. :-D) So join me, fellow Rantburgers, in raising a toast of your choice - beer, wine, champagne, martini, margarita, sparkling apple juice, or fizzy water - to the USA, to our friends and allies, to us. Good fortune to our friends, confusion to our enemies. L'Chaim! |
| Posted by:Barbara Skolaut |
| #20 Happy New Year. Thanks to this wonderful Rantburg community, I'm so glad I found you, and to be kept so well informed. I second Thor Thusorong7719 comment. ;) |
| Posted by: Jan 2009-01-01 22:38 |
| #19 cookies are got. getting one. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2009-01-01 21:42 |
| #18 Mine, in cheap box-Chablis... Look, when I am a best-selling author and all the top-rated literary outlets are begging to review my latest book, I'll toast Fred in $20-a-bottle champagne. (Not that Crystal stuff-my daughter drank it once, and couldn't figure out the appeal, unless it was to consumers with way more money than sense.) Ah, krep, the guardians of the literary scene will never fall for that. I do historical novels, about the western frontier, which is something they wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole - box-Chablis it is. To Fred! (huzzah! huzzah! huzzah!) |
| Posted by: Sgt. Mom 2009-01-01 19:56 |
| #17 A Happy New Year to all, thanks to Fred and the mods for keeping the lights on. A Shumba for everyone, Besoeker will know what that is. |
| Posted by: rhodesiafever 2009-01-01 18:40 |
| #16 Very eloquent, and very true, Barbara. I second your words, and the rest here. And may Rantburg in this year of 2009 give rudders to many more like Thor Thusorong7719, conservative or not. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-01-01 18:33 |
| #15 To Popcorn in all it's varieties and greasy goodnees! |
| Posted by: .5MT 2009-01-01 16:00 |
| #14 RJ, It's the perfect toast in our RB world, mocking the Cult of Death. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2009-01-01 14:52 |
| #13 You just set off a memory, Fiddler on the roof, singing Locheim, to life. |
| Posted by: Rednek Jim 2009-01-01 14:02 |
| #12 To life! |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2009-01-01 11:51 |
| #11 Any day you wake up is a good day, Old Spook. ;-p Happy New Year! |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2009-01-01 11:15 |
| #10 Wishing you all a happy and safe New Year, and many more to come! |
| Posted by: KBK 2009-01-01 11:11 |
| #9 The toast I made last night: To Scotland (holding up the Balvenie) and to Ireland (Holding up my favories 16 year Bushmills)! And no, I'm not hungover, I always look like this in the morning (sucks getting old but beats the alternative) /grumble |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2009-01-01 10:30 |
| #8 Ein Prosit, ein Prosit... Prost! |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2009-01-01 10:25 |
| #7 Merry New Year to all RBers! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2009-01-01 09:50 |
| #6 I think that for those of us younger than 70, we will look back on last year and the this one as "The Bad Time". Like the "The Great Depression" was for our parents and grandparents, this will be a time that will leave an impression on us. I think we can all get through this, but I believe that few of us will get through it unscarred. Happy New Years to you and your people. I hope you get through it with minimal damage and maximum joy. |
| Posted by: Formerly Dan 2009-01-01 09:05 |
| #5 Za nastroviya! Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2009-01-01 09:02 |
| #4 A happy, healthy and successful new year to all here at Rantburg! Except maybe the spammers .... LOL |
| Posted by: lotp 2009-01-01 08:36 |
| #3 Chin, chin! RB turned me from a rudderless individual to a righteous conservative. Woke me up. God bless the union, and the Constitution. |
| Posted by: Thor Thusorong7719 2009-01-01 03:26 |
| #2 Thanks for another year of the best information available on the web. Cheers. May we all find peace and prosperity in 2009. God bless you one and all! |
| Posted by: Shalet and Tenille1168 2009-01-01 01:21 |
| #1 Bottoms Up! |
| Posted by: 3dc 2009-01-01 00:08 |