Here is a video of 2008 year in review with some quotes and pictures and music from Bob Dylan. I hope you like it. This year 2008 has been a year to remember (like all…). The year when world crisis, the year when first black Usa president, the year when Michael Phelps get eight goldens, the year when Spain won Soccer European Cup, the year when Sarah Palin became a world celebrity, the year when Jenny Rivera was stolen “the tape video”….
I wish you like this compilation of photos and video remembering year 2008 that I found. Happy New Year 2009!

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Pakistani activists shout anti-US slogans as they burn a US flag during a protest in Lahore.

There’s no war going on between the U.S. and Pakistan yet, but recent exchanges involving American and Pakistani forces along the Pakistan-Afghanistan frontier are sounding like a sputtering fuse that’s growing ever shorter. The latest series of "pops" occurred Thursday, when Pakistani forces fired on a pair of U.S. OH-58 scout helicopters buzzing along the border, and U.S. and Pakistani ground troops then exchanged fire. Pakistani officials insisted the choppers had crossed into their airspace, but U.S. officials said the incident occurred more than a mile inside Afghanistan — and the mountainous region is so poorly mapped that both sides likely believe what they are saying. No one was injured.

 

In New York, Pakistan’s new president, Asif Ali Zardari, said his country’s forces had fired only warning flares at the choppers. "Sometimes the border is so mixed that they don’t realize they have crossed the border," he told reporters before a session with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

Source: www.time.com

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The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste (CCAGW) today blasted House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey (D-Wisconsin) for presiding over a dysfunctional, chaotic federal budget circus. In a flurry of activity yesterday, Chairman Obey forced Congress to vote on a stop-gap continuing resolution worth $1 trillion in spending with less than 24 hours to review its contents. The rush was aimed at getting lawmakers out of Washington, D.C. as quickly as possible to campaign before the November election and to short-circuit any in-depth scrutiny of the billions of dollars in wasteful spending. The bill came to the House floor under a closed rule, which prohibited amendments and passed 370 to 58.
"Chairman Obey’s actions, and the actions of the entire Democratic leadership team in the House represent a stunning abdication of fiscal responsibility," said CCAGW President Tom Schatz. "A significant number of lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are allowing themselves to be steamrolled and, once again, demonstrating blatant hostility to the rights of taxpayers to know how their money is being spent. The deadline for approving appropriations bills is the same each year, September 30, and if the Democrats had done their job over the past nine months, this legislation could have been deliberately considered, reviewed, and publicized. Democrats took over Congress promising greater transparency; this is completely contrary to that claim."

Source: ratevin.blogspot.com

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Sept. 8 (Bloomberg) — United Airlines parent UAL Corp. said it didn’t file for bankruptcy, after a 2002 Chicago Tribune news report on the carrier’s filing was mistakenly republished on a newspaper Web site.

The shares fell as much as 76 percent before trading was halted for about 90 minutes, then recovered most of the decline. UAL trades between 10:55 a.m. and 11:08 a.m. New York time won’t be canceled, the Nasdaq Stock Market said on its Web site.

The 6-year-old news report was posted online by the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and was picked up by Income Securities Advisors Inc., said Richard Lehmann, president of the Miami Lakes, Florida-based research firm. Income Securities Advisors distributed the report on the Bloomberg terminal before retracting it and issuing a correction.

Bloomberg News also ran a headline citing the Tribune story after the Income Securities Advisors report.

“United has demanded a retraction from the Sun-Sentinel and is launching an investigation,” the Chicago-based carrier said in a statement. UAL filed for bankruptcy on Dec. 9, 2002, and left court supervision on Feb. 1, 2006. United is the world’s second-biggest airline by passenger traffic.

Source: www.bloomberg.com

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