Huffington: 2005 - Things I Want to Forget

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2005: Things I Want To Forget

by Arianna Huffington

The older I get, the more I'm convinced that the key to happiness is
starting every day, if you can, with a clean slate. But it should
certainly be done before the start of every new year. This task is
particularly easy for me this year since forgetfulness seems to come
along with the Bora Bora breeze here.

So here is my list of things from 2005 that I'd love to forget --
that, indeed, we'd all be better off never having cross our minds
again:

Bill Frist, video diagnostician. Bill Frist, stock market genius.
Bill Frist.

That drivers will soon have to take out a second mortgage before
filling up at the gas pump.

Bill O'Reilly's enemies list. That HuffPo wasn't on it (we'll try
harder next year).

That the president thought Harriet Miers was the most qualified
candidate for the Supreme Court

That Harriet Miers thought George Bush was the most brilliant man
she ever met.

The passage of the morally bankrupt bankruptcy bill.

That The New York Times held off running the NSA spying story for
over a year.

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[waiting for hope]

1. This one still gets me...

The missing $9 billion the U.S.-led occupation government in Iraq can't account for.

Why hasn't there been more of an uproar over this? Oh yeah....

That voters could have gone to the polls in 2004 knowing that Bush was spying on Americans, that a key White House aide was charged with felonies, and that the initial reasons for invading Iraq were bogus -- but didn't, thanks to the timidity of the mainstream media.

What was I thinking? :sarcasm:

[madeline_con]

2. I would use another word besides "timidity" to describe the..

actios of the MSM in this case. :blush: