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Happy New Year

By Jeralyn, Section Blog Related
Posted on Sat Dec 31, 2005 at 02:03:46 PM EST
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Happy New Year to all, from Jeralyn, TChris and Last Night in Little Rock. We hope it rings in justice and peace.

For those of you who will be online, this is an open thread.

Update: Here's a live streaming thread of the gathering in Times Square, including music, courtesy of Crooks and Liars.

Here's a smattering of what I've found interesting today:

Make a resolution that really matters! Get involved in the coming elections.

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    Happy New Year | 21 comments (21 topical)
    Re: Happy New Year (none / 0) (#1)
    by soccerdad on Sat Dec 31, 2005 at 05:06:05 PM EST
    I would like to wish everyone here a happy and fulfilling New Years. Special good wishes to of course TL and also Tampa Student, DA, Che, Edger, Dadler, Theologicus (sp?). I know I'm missing someone, damn.

    Re: Happy New Year (none / 0) (#2)
    by Johnny on Sat Dec 31, 2005 at 06:01:40 PM EST
    Back at ya soc... To everyone, all differences aside, raise a drink, celebrate the life...

    Re: Happy New Year (none / 0) (#3)
    by Linkmeister on Sat Dec 31, 2005 at 06:25:17 PM EST
    Hauoli Makahiki Hou to Jeralyn, TChris, Last Night, and all the commenters.

    Re: Happy New Year (none / 0) (#5)
    by Patrick on Sat Dec 31, 2005 at 08:30:04 PM EST
    Happy New Year from No. Cal, where the sun was shining part of the day. Tomorrow, well, that's another story. Wish I could stay, but someone's gotta work this evening. It's usually a pretty busy evening for us "neo-nazi" cops and all. Must be nice to celebrate new years at 9pm on the east coast. Out here we gotta wait til midnight dontcha know.

    Re: Happy New Year (none / 0) (#6)
    by ras on Sat Dec 31, 2005 at 08:36:53 PM EST
    And a genuinely HAPPY NEW YEAR! to one and all.

    Re: Happy New Year (none / 0) (#7)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 31, 2005 at 08:38:06 PM EST
    A long time reader, I'm finally set up to post. Had to wish everyone a happy new year, but more than that I want wish *everyone* a just new year. (On a lighter note, killer graphic poppin' the cork on '06! Yeah, baby!)

    Re: Happy New Year (none / 0) (#8)
    by Dadler on Sat Dec 31, 2005 at 09:37:39 PM EST
    From another thread, but pertinent here, as I wait for wifey: May Drew Brees' separated shoulder heal fully by next NFL season. And may Phillip Rivers bring us more than an overpaid backup. I can't believe my Bolts didn't make the post-season!!! Happy New Year, much love, peace all around, to all those who blog honestly here. Even if I think you're a loon, or you think the same of me. Peace, Y'all. This is my wedding anniversary, too. Gotta go help wifey dry off after her long hot bath. Ow-chicka-ow-ow. That's bad seventies porn music, btw. Mazel!!

    Re: Happy New Year (none / 0) (#9)
    by desertswine on Sat Dec 31, 2005 at 10:03:54 PM EST
    Happy New Year to all!! Peace.

    Re: Happy New Year (none / 0) (#10)
    by Che's Lounge on Sun Jan 01, 2006 at 12:18:29 AM EST
    Hopefully I just smoked my last cigarette. Thanks Soccerdad. Keep on posting. Love your stuff. Dadler, Injured our starting QB in a meaningless game in the rain. I had a bad feeling about it all week. But does Marty listen to me? Nooooooo. And Feliz Ano Nuevo to all who comment here, and of course our tireless host(s). Changed my life you have. Empowered me you have, yes.

    Re: Happy New Year (none / 0) (#11)
    by Che's Lounge on Sun Jan 01, 2006 at 12:35:17 AM EST
    Soc, May I add Sailor, John Mann, Desertswine, Scar, Susan Hollis, Andreas. Gems all. And yes, from me, Happy New year to our counterparts Jim, Ras, Patrick, LWW, Tex and Sarc. May 2006 be a year of enlightenment for all. "I don't want to bring a sour note, Remember this before you go. We can all sink or we can float, Cause we're all in the same big boat. One world is enough, for all of us." The Police Ghost in the Machine

    Re: Happy New Year (none / 0) (#12)
    by soccerdad on Sun Jan 01, 2006 at 04:39:42 AM EST
    Che, yes they are

    Re: Happy New Year (none / 0) (#13)
    by Che's Lounge on Sun Jan 01, 2006 at 09:41:59 AM EST
    AND KDOG!

    Re: Happy New Year (none / 0) (#14)
    by soccerdad on Sun Jan 01, 2006 at 09:49:25 AM EST
    and Squeaky and Conscious Angel

    Re: Happy New Year (none / 0) (#15)
    by Edger on Sun Jan 01, 2006 at 10:37:25 AM EST
    Soccerdad: I know I'm missing someone, damn. You sure did, Soc. YOURSELF! Have a happy and free New Year...everyone!

    Re: Happy New Year (none / 0) (#16)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sun Jan 01, 2006 at 03:25:53 PM EST
    Imagine all the people living life in peace.
    Yoko Ono Lennon New York City [Full-page paid advertisement, published in The New York Times, Sunday, 1 January 2006, sec. 4, The Week in Review: page 6 (Early Edition).] Happy New Year to one and all at TalkLeft! Imagine.

    Re: Happy New Year (none / 0) (#17)
    by Edger on Sun Jan 01, 2006 at 04:25:11 PM EST
    As Americans increasingly lose patience with the U.S. involvement in Iraq, tolerance also is wearing thin in Florida for domestic security policies that some say inhibit international trade, tourism and global exchange among students, researchers and business leaders. ...changes in immigration and national security policies since Sept. 11, 2001, have put a chilling effect on business development, tourism and even foreign student enrollment in Florida. "Once a magnet for foreign direct investment, the United States now ranks among the three most difficult locations in the world to conduct business requiring staff relocation, ranking only behind China and Japan in this race to the bottom," The list of federal acts causing these problems are the U.S.A. Patriot Act, Maritime Transportation Act, Bioterrorism Act, Aviation and Transportation Security Act, Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act. Miami Herald, January 01/06


    Re: Happy New Year (none / 0) (#18)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sun Jan 01, 2006 at 04:42:13 PM EST
    Edger--interesting; thanks for posting that. Very coincidentally, I just came back from attending the annual convention of the Modern Language Association (27-30 Dec. 2005), in Washington, DC, where playwright, novelist, fiction writer and human rights activist, who now is also an endowed professor at Duke University, Ariel Dorfman gave a presentation in a forum on "the role of the intellectual in the 21st century," in which he described an "experience" coming into the United States from Latin America via Miami, wherein two "Homeland Security guards" had (as it were) "confiscated" his academic MLA paper, and he had to "wing" it in the form that he did. It was a brilliant "invention" that most people in the audience believed had actually happened, though it was a fiction. Knowing his work and his background (his parents emigrated for political reasons from the United States to Chile and, after 9/11 (1973) in Chile, back to the United States, I had thought it probably was a fiction, but I really was also not entirely sure. He told me afterward that over "37" people had asked him whether it had indeed happened. The possibility that it had happened as he said was plausible in many audience members' imagininations. So, imagine. And imagine again. The presentation will eventually be published along with the other more "academic papers" in an annual MLA publication called PROFESSION.

    Re: Happy New Year (none / 0) (#19)
    by Edger on Sun Jan 01, 2006 at 04:53:56 PM EST
    Cool, Susan! It seems that more than just traditional left wingers are starting to question the whole WOT, things like the Patriot Act, and how ridiculously far the Homeland Security thing has gone. When the business community starts feeling it on the balance sheet like they are in Miami, I think we're on the road, though it may be a slow road, to some realistic thinking. Imagine...

    Re: Happy New Year (none / 0) (#20)
    by Edger on Sun Jan 01, 2006 at 04:55:45 PM EST
    Wow. I just realized that I said more than I thought I said above. Imagine, indeed!

    Re: Happy New Year (none / 0) (#21)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sun Jan 01, 2006 at 05:22:44 PM EST
    Here is the link for Profession. I expect that Dorfman's and the others' presentations will be published in next December's volume, in 2006 (possibly mailed to members and otherwise available in libraries and by special order in 2007). If (as Homeland Security alerts lead as to fear we might not be) we're all still around then. Imagine.

    Re: Happy New Year (none / 0) (#22)
    by Edger on Sun Jan 01, 2006 at 05:31:48 PM EST
    --:test

    Happy New Year | 21 comments (21 topical)