The Year 2009

2009

What a year, as the pictures above witness, only a few of the big news stories that touched all of our lives this year.

Iran will redefine itself in the next few years. It will, in my opinion, be the US' biggest concern over the next decade. The people there want freedom, want the right to express themselves and many are making huge sacrifices to get to that end. I fully support their effort and believe that this could have world consequences

Pirating still continues into the 21st century, that is amazing to me. These criminals from Somalia can take over vessels 100 times the size of the little skiffs they are zooming around in and how they can hold countries hostage is epic. And countries/ companies are paying it, encouraging and ensuring that as long as it is profitable for these guys, who obviously have nothing else going on that this activity will continue.

Vladamir Putin taking a horseback ride in the country.

Swine flu panicking the world in huge numbers. There haven't been very many pandemics in our lifetime and this one has already killed thousands of people.

Obama making US history. A great orator, but can he really solve all the things he is looking to tackle. I didn't vote for him, but more power to him, I hope he gets it done.

The death tolls from a war it's difficult to know if we can win. This week, 5 young Muslim AMERICANS were arrested for planning jihad. These were college students very close to graduating into professional careers and somehow, they ended up believing the kooks and signing up. That should scare us all. This group has only one ambition and that is to destroy us and our way of life and I hope and support that we will crush them and help them along with their false, unbelievable beliefs of martyrdom.

The landing on the Hudson kept us all amazed for a few days.

The Dali Lama helping out at a food line in San Francisco

Saturn pictures taken from the cassini orbiter. Wasn't it no more than 6 generations ago for all of us that horseback was the best we could do ? Goes to show, we are just a spec in time on our turn on this big blue marble.

and then there is Michael. Rest in peace, thanks for the music

POKER

Let's face it, I grind out a corporate job for 10 -12 hours a day and get my poker on for a couple hours in the evening and on my days off. I would like it to be the other way around, but obligations and poor life decisions
forbid that at this time. Having said that, and after a 4 month cooler in past quarter, it was overall a pretty successful year.

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