As I write this, there’s about 6 hours left in 2007 and the only New Year’s Resolution I’m making at midnight (if I can stay up that late! Hey, I’m getting old, people!) is to stop drinking this:
Yep. I want to give up drinking Diet Pepsi! Woohoo! Of course, my first thought tonight about what alcohol beverage I was going to drink was a Diet Pepsi w/Captain Morgan. LOL I won’t be drinking this tonight. Swear. I’m thinking maybe a nice Bloody Mary, which will be an extension of the drinks I had with my friends yesterday afternoon as we celebrated the New Year a day early. 
I have to say though…
…I’m an addict when it comes to Diet Pepsi. Most years, I want to quit smoking, but as always…I’m not able to. It’s just too freaking hahd, people! So, cutting Diet Pepsi out of my life may be a challenge, but it’s doable. Cranberry juice, V8 juice, and anything but soda will be in my refrigerator from now on. Should I also give up coffee? Are you freaking nuts! No way. That’s my other lifesaver. If I’m successful with quitting D.P. then maybe I’ll try switching to decaf coffee next year? *twitching* Maybe.
Do you have a New Year’s resolution you want to share?
Here are my predictions for 2008:
- The Democratic candidate will be John Edwards and he’ll be marked the “savior” of America if he wins the election, but we will be disappointed with him in 2009.
- The Republican candidate will be either John McCain or Ron Paul. No need to explain the outcome in 2009 with these two, because it will be the same as Edwards: more of the same (actually, all of the repuke candidates will result in more of the same).
- The above two predictions may not come true, because the Democratic candidate will be assassinated by the Bush Regime, who will then instill Martial Law and the election will not happen, and…..
- continued: …US Constitution will be put on hold indefinitely.
- Musharraf will either be assassinated or will go into exile in the dead of night and will be replaced by someone close to the Bush Regime (another Unocal employee like Karzai? Could be) who will take over the country in another military soft-coup. This person will continue to harbor and protect Osama who is either dead or alive (shhhhhh, he’s dead), for the Bush Regime, and this person will help in going after Iran.
- All-out war with Iran will happen or Bush & Cheney will attack this nation and then illegally occupy it as they did Iraq
- Impeachment of Dick Cheney will happen (if the Democrats were smart they would do this during an election year! I know if I was in charge, that’s what I would do, because what better way to rally the nation behind you than this?!?)
- Newt Gingrich will announce he’s joining the race for the presidency and will have Jeb Bush as his VP. This will be THE monkey wrench of the year. Mayhem to follow…
- Major terrorist attack on our nation. Instead of an attack using wmd, it will be our computers that are effected.
What are your predictions for 2008?
Let’s hope none of these come true (including an Edwards win….we’ll see no change with any of the top 3 Democrats as far as I’m concerned and our nation will be worse off with a republican in charge). I fear our country is already lost and there will be no fresh blood in office to steer our nation onto the right path. Sad. I’m going into the New Year feeling lots of remorse and sadness for my country. If a Democrat does win in 2008 and in 2009 does what the American people want them to do, then maybe I’ll feel better, but as of right now, I’m not seeing much hope. We progressives were told a lot of things by the candidates running for office in 2006 and after they were elected, almost all of them were exposed as republican-lite by voting for George Bush & Dick Cheney’s atrocious agenda. Are we being fooled again by the top 3 Democratic candidates? I think we are, but I hope I’m wrong, though. We’ll have to wait and see what happens next year. Dammit.
Have a terrific night tonight! Be safe, please. A song for all of you for the New Year:
By the way, the song is done by Uncle Kracker…and yes…I know it’s a remake. No one can replace the original for crying out loud, people! Lay off me. LOL Kidding…
Happy New Year everyone!
Here’s another great song that I think should be our thoughts for 2008:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=_JeSG4-jg3Q
“If Everyone Cared” by Nickelback
(gawd they’re hot….*salivating*)
Damn, Cheney looks like the evil, powermad, Penguin from the Batman series shaking these duty puppets hands…?! The guy not only needs to be brought to justice, but possibly needs electro-shock therapy too so he can interface with his jailers with some semblance of civility during his “life sentence” in prison…:|
Kay my suggestion is to dump Diet Pepsi and switch to Diet Coke with “Splenda”. It has zero calories, but is much safer since Splenda is simply sugar with the carbs stripped off. We use it to bake and in any recipe that calls for a sweetener. You’ll enjoy it with your Captain Morgan.
When it first was introduced, I wrote Coca Cola a letter telling them that it reminded me of the “green bottle” coke dispensed from the red coke machines of years past! Everyone remembers the snappy, refreshing taste of Coke from the red machine on a hot summer day…no?!
Modern soda pops are sweetened with corn syrup and not sugar. There’s no comparison with the soda pops of old sweetened with real sugar as opposed to modern artifical sweeteners. They’ve evidently achieved so with Splenda as a sweetener in one version of their diet pop line. So give it a try and you’ll enjoy the snappy zing of the zero calorie, Splenda sweetened diet coke with your rum. Remember it’s simply sugar with the carbs stripped off. You won’t be disappointed…I guarantee!
Here’s Wishing you and yours a Happy and Successful New Year 2008…!
Carl Nemo **==
I ain’t givin up nothin! I’m gonna continue to smoke two packs of Camel Lights a day, and drink at least a pot of coffee every day. I’m gonna eat chocolate as much as I want, and if I want to sit in my bathtub smoking, drinking coffee, eatin chocolate, and playing with myself I’ll damn well do it.
I’m old. I can do what I want.
Predictions:
I predict that whomever we end up with as a president in ‘08 will have a quantum cluster fuck to clean up, and he or she will probably spend the first month in office living in a hotel suite while the White House is being fumigated. It won’t hurt to call in an exorcist while they’re at it.
I predict that when George Bush, Sr., Barbara Bush, George W. Bush, Jeb Bush, Neil (Neal) Bush, Dick Cheney, Mary Cheney, Karl Rove, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Bill Kristol, Ari Schwietzer(?), Tony Snow, Donald Rumsfeld, Newt Gingrich, Joe Lieberman, Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Michael Weiner “Savage”, Tom DeLay, Mitch McConnell, Trent Lott, and (you fill in the blanks) die, they will all be met at the door to Hell by Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, and Saddam Hussein who will escort them to Hell’s courtyard for the biggest barbecue Hell ever had…
… in which they will be the main course.
And I predict that, if we end up with a Republican president and Republican dominated Congress ever again in my lifetime that I will either move my family to Ireland, or I will go underground and join a group of militant anarchists, or I will simply hang myself.
Happy New Year, I guess.
I love you Carl because I can have my Diet Coke’s with Splenda Captain Morgans drinks! Woohoo! Thank you. I’ve never tried DCw/Splenda. Will this be going against my New Year’s resolution of no soda, though? Oh gawd. New dilemma as the new year approaches…LOL.
It’s a quiet night here. Love that. Nothing wrong with having some peace in our lives. Gawd knows that there hasn’t been any in the last seven years thanks to the Monsters in the White House!
This morning we woke up to over 8 inches of NEW snow on the ground and I had close to a 2 foot high pile of snow at the beginning of the driveway because of the plow trucks pushing the snow all night long. Well, I was shoveling my car out and had started shoveling the heavy pile of snow when my neighbor on the other side of me (Louise is to the left of me and we’ve met already…I hadn’t met Carl yet) was snow blowing his driveway and he saw me out there and came over to snow blow this pile of snow for me! OMG, was I ever grateful! This afternoon on the way home I picked up a honkin’ huge raspberry Strudel for he and wife as my way of saying ‘thank you’. What a nice couple they are! His wife told me that he has COPD (lung disease) and shouldn’t be snow blowing their driveway let alone the beginning of mine. LOL I said, “Well, we’re supposed to be getting more snow on Tuesday night into Wednesday, can he handle another round?”. LOL She laughed and said her husband has ALWAYS snow blowed the neighbor’s mailboxes out etc. and hasn’t done it for a few years because of his condition. I feel so good that he helped me out! Wow! That was nice of him. Though, now that I know he could collapse from not being able to breathe too well, I really don’t want him to do that again. It was so nice though. Great way to start the New Year.
Carl, have yourself a wonderful evening and I hope next year is good to you. I mean that. You deserve to be recognized as the thoughtful person you are.
“I predict that whomever we end up with as a president in ‘08 will have a quantum cluster fuck to clean up, and he or she will probably spend the first month in office living in a hotel suite while the White House is being fumigated. It won’t hurt to call in an exorcist while they’re at it.
I predict that when George Bush, Sr., Barbara Bush, George W. Bush, Jeb Bush, Neil (Neal) Bush, Dick Cheney, Mary Cheney, Karl Rove, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Bill Kristol, Ari Schwietzer(?), Tony Snow, Donald Rumsfeld, Newt Gingrich, Joe Lieberman, Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Michael Weiner “Savageâ€, Tom DeLay, Mitch McConnell, Trent Lott, and (you fill in the blanks) die, they will all be met at the door to Hell by Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, and Saddam Hussein who will escort them to Hell’s courtyard for the biggest barbecue Hell ever had…
… in which they will be the main course.
And I predict that, if we end up with a Republican president and Republican dominated Congress ever again in my lifetime that I will either move my family to Ireland, or I will go underground and join a group of militant anarchists, or I will simply hang myself.” ~ Gage
I am laughing my ass off right now, Gage! Love your predictions. I hope to be able to witness Hell’s Biggest Barbaque of All Time. Gawd how I want to be able to see that!
I hope you have a wonderful New Year, Gage, and I hope you get laid again! LOL Just like Xmas morning.
Hey, at your age, those days are few and far between. That’s some wife you got there! LOLOLOLOL
Well, if the New Year turns out the way I think it’s going to, we’ll all be arming ourselves just to buy bread downtown if you know what I mean.
By the way, BillJPA (OM) sends this into the back of the WNI limo tonight:
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/004951.php
It’s the big list of republican scandals for 2007. Clif, if you’re around, please bookmark it for your records!
Okay, I’m going to bed. Just when I thought my son and I were going to have a winter without a head cold, well, my son woke up this morning hacking, coughing, and blowing his nose non-stop. We’re going to bed early and will not be staying up. Enjoy your evening! Happy New Year!
Austin Bay, Texas rightist columnist, predicts an Al Qaeda offensive in 2008 similar to the Tet Offensive in the election year of 1968 which helped to polarize Americans against the Vietnam War and begin to clamor to pull out our troops.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/5411653.html
Kay, dahling, I have a voracious appetite for sex and a wife who is nearly young enough to be my daughter. (I think she thought I was rich.)
You and your boy have a wonderful New Year, and let’s keep our fingers crossed.
All of that carbonic acid in soft drinks isn’t good for one’s body anyway, Kay. I mostly drink iced tea sans sweetener and need a couple of squeezes of lemon or lime. I never liked sweet drinks of any kind, always preferred a dry wine or beer over cocktails. I have always taken my coffee black without sweetener.
I don’t do New Year’s Resolutions, gave them up a long time ago along with drinking and smoking! Not going anywhere but stay at home and watch Anderson Cooper bring in the new year. We had 74 degrees here today but a cold front tonight is to drop temperatures by 20 degrees, making our local TV weatherman bring out the “Severe Weather” warnings (that’s the truth! They call temps in the 40’s “bone-chilling cold”). We may have our first freeze of this winter on Wednesday morning so I need to get out my old bed sheets and cover up my many tropical plants tomorrow night. When we approach freezing temperatures, the weathermen rant about the 4 “P’s”….Protect Plants, Pets, and Pipes!
screw the predicts- I am always wrong!
Just rest up- the shit hits the fan starting on the morrow!
peace
Happy New Year
The best in 2008 to everyone. It has to be better than 2007 but haven’t we been saying that since 2001?
Damn you gage!
Happy New Year to all!
Bottoms up.
Live (sorta)…from The Belly Up Tavern, CA (Dave Alvin and the Guilty Men).
Cheers~
HOPPY NEW YEAR!!!
Kay, thought I would show a couple of comments from the queen of the blogosphere, now what is wrong with these two comments, I mean does this woman ever tell the truth?
Nighters, all. Early flight
An American Karol | Homepage | 12.31.07 – 12:29 am | #
jenn, I just got off the road. I flew home at about four this afternoon from DC trip with my daughter and grandson. When I got home I wanted to see my granddaughter and drove to my other daughter’s house and held Juliann for a few hours while she cooed and smiled at me.
Now, wine in hand and ready to greet the New Year with my friends.
An American Karol | Homepage | 01.01.08 – 1:47 am | #
So I’m wondering…is 4:00 pm considered an early flight? Or is this woman just full of it?
I just spilled half a glass of Cabernet on white carpet. Damn. I hope the Oxi Clean works. I think I will have to reapply it tomorrow when the light is better.
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I know I’m picking on her BUT, does the woman live in a cave? Does she not have electricity in her home? How much light does one need to clean a stain on a WHITE carpet?
It’s funny I was lurking over at a certain blog yesterday and noticed how people stayed on politics WHY? Because Queen Karol and her followers weren’t around to ruin the thread with sweet nothings, recipes and cyber cookies. John had a thread about Obama, that he is too nice and seems to overly conscerned with being liked….does this sound like someone we know over at a certain other blog?
Grant, 2008 is going to be a whirlwind year for sure. I think any prediction we make is going to be close.
Thanks for the link of repuke scandals, Bill/OM! Clif is going to be thrilled. LOL
Gage, you got yourself a young sex maniac wife who thinks you have money? Wow! You done good, my friend.
Mainefem, love the music! Thanks so much.
Hoppy New Year to you too, Smoke!
Good morning Uncle Fester! Sorry, your comments were in the spam-catcher. *bashing the spam catcher with a tire iron*
Oh yes, did I ever tell you that Karol copies everything I say and do? Like for instance, I’ve always said “spit”, well, she says, “laugh”. I drink Diet Pepsi and she too is also “addicted” to it. Just the other night I described my nightly attire as flannel pajamas, a big bulky bathrobe, along with wool socks (wasn’t a real description by the way) because it’s so cold (and then I said it was sexy man…sexy!), well, now she says from time to time that she’s so cold that she wears her flannels and her wool socks as she blogs. I’m serious! She reminds me of my Aunt Gail who was always buying clothes for my cousin Tammy that others were wearing so Tammy wouldn’t feel left out. It’s a sickness I tell ya to be that way!
A big ole fraud, she is.
She uses Oxyclean on her carpets? What? She doesn’t have a personal carpet cleaner to come to her every beckon call (some of my house cleaning customers do who are loaded with money)? Wow! Shocker. *rolling eyes*
I crack up reading how she dotes on her grandkids. I bet she doesn’t and is full of shit. I bet that family is completely dysfunctional for crying out loud!
I haven’t been over to Ablog…not even to lurk. Why? Because my headache is now gone! Why ruin a good thing? Karol is all about money, status, and control of every minute detail of her life so as to give the impression that she is a perfect, so it’s not surprising John thinks she’s the bomb! LOLOLOLOL Let them be.
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU, UNCLE!
Yeah Kay she does paint herself as something of an extraordinary, super human, woman, mother, grandmother. My God she held her poor granddaughter in her arms for three straight hours…while little Julieann cooed and smiled. My first thought on that was that little Julieann’s smile was a nervous smile and the cooeing could be translated in baby talk as “Damn, put me down bitch I want to sleep”
Uncle, for a woman who says she has a scorpion and a caged squirrel as pets, she doesn’t strike me as a compassionate one! LOL I bet the baby screamed in her arms until the mother came to rescue this poor child from those cold arms.
Okay, I admit it. This morning I went over to Ablog to see what was going on and saw that Weird Glasses Guy is getting his ass kicked! Bah hahahahahahahahaha! Love it. Guess what? Still no headache! Knowing that Ablog’s Insane Blogger Who Blogs From His Bed At The Local Insane Asylum is being exposed as the wacko he truly is, well, that just starts the New Year off for me!
Happy New Year! Agree with your prediction about Edwards Kay. He is way smarter than he seems. When he was running for senator in N.C. -his opponent Lauch Faircloth was beating him by a mile- ’till a video of Lauch(jessee helms good buddy) was taped and shown for the folks – Lauch was saying if you show something on TV, the people in N.C. will believe you.Implying that they were gullible and dumb. Thats’ how Edwards beat him. My lawyer at the time said Edwards was generous kind and didn’t stand a chance to win. Told him I thought he would and would be president one day. Can’t vote for him because of his Iraq vote- think he would be better than the other top contenders because he has had to struggle.
Kay I posted the entire list from TPM at lydia’s blog.
i love sprite zero and coke zero and diet pepsi.. im on a diet so im tryin to drink more water, but for soda, thats what i like.