Stand back, you may get trampled by people rushing out of this year as fast as they can unmindful that the media have been busy preparing platters of new fears for us in 2011. Here. Have some:
- How about $5.00 a gallon gas? We would all buy “green cars” but we’re out of work and the Chinese have stopped letting other countries have the rare earth metals to make the batteries for them. Trapped!
- How about food prices making us all eat less? The Chinese are hungry. They’ve bought farms in Australia and Africa. They won’t share.
- How about more terror attacks on our soil? Al Qaeda in Yemen will be passe. Like branch libraries they will set them up here where they will do the most good. How about al Qaeda in Brooklyn? Not as exotic an assignment for the brotherhood and a lot colder.
As the TV heralds the arrival of the New Year in Europe, there is no sign there of anyone waiting for a ball to drop. People are walking freely in the Kremlin (made beautiful this night by a curtain of snow falling like a scrim in front of the ancient onion domes).
But in New York? No such milling about. Think about it: Children today will be raised seeing Times Square on New Year’s Eve looking like a concentration camp with quadrants of people more or less “penned in.” They will hear all of the extreme preparations Where is the party in all of this? This is not fun. It’s like going to a bull fight and wondering if the bull will gore the toreador this time around.
All of this makes one think twice about using a johnny-on-the-spot in Times Square. Have they been secured? Who would want to meet their “end” in a rigged johnny-on-the-spot? But best not to discuss lest some distressed soul of a murderous bent may be inspired to rig a home toilet and blame it on the terrorists. Yes, when the mother-in-law is blown sky high, there might be shouts of “She got hers in the end, ho, ho, ho.”
Most of this “attitude” comes from one who grew up in a family who hated a New Year’s Eve that focused on paper hats, loud horns and champagne. It was a family time to gather around once more before the end of the holidays and the push into winter. There was good food, perhaps some good friends and definitely a good movie.
Here’s hoping all of my good internet friends are enjoying a free and fine New Year’s Eve and expecting a happy new year. Let’s outsmart the media, shall we? And now for a movie…. Multitasking at New Year’s as at any other time, alas.
arlenearmy
December 31, 2010
& Happy New Years to you SH
Do you have your champagne chilled? I’m going to bake some oatmeal cookies in a few minutes & get the fire place lit.
samhenry
December 31, 2010
Arlene, forget the champagne, I’d give my eye tooth for an oatmeal cookie and a fireplace. I only have the wood stove out in the barn. I do have the doggies and you and Morb stopped by and that warms me. But the sugar free fudge bar I’m eating is NOT a home baked cookie! Thanks for coming and Happier New Year.
The Morb
December 31, 2010
Always here to keep ya warm Sam 🙂 …
A soul such as yours should never feel a chill …
samhenry
January 1, 2011
This is lift off for me. 12:01! See ya tomarrah, dear Morb.
samhenry
December 31, 2010
Thank you dear Morb. That means the world to hear. And the very same to you – you deserve it.
roxannadanna
January 1, 2011
$5/gallon gas? That will mean the end of this Regime! If anything can bring down TheOne, it will be that.
Happy New Year, Sam! Hope it’s a wonderful year for you!
samhenry
January 1, 2011
I just know it will be a better year for us all because we now know the shape and form of what we have to fight and we have each other. Peace.
LisaInTX
January 1, 2011
Happy New Year SH!! 🙂
Wishing many Blessings your way.
samhenry
January 2, 2011
And to you as well, good friend, and to you as well.
DarcsFalcon
January 2, 2011
Yay! Finally, an Internet connection after 2 days of trying to get online, woo! I’m a little woozy from all the excitement. 🙂
No cable here so no media to interfere in our joy. All is well and getting better for us so I am happy.
I hope you had your quiet and comfortable New Year’s, Sam. Wish we could have spent it together, I missed you! *hugs*
(Will try to get to email tomorrow if I’m able to get online. 🙂 )
samhenry
January 2, 2011
I just assumed like a lot of friends with young families that you were overwhelmed over the holidays. I didn’t realize you were held captive to computer problems. That is not allowed at Christmas. Well, at least there are 12 days. Love and hugs right back by special delivery.