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01-21-2010, 05:54 PM
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A Brief Decade Ago...
Not political, imo and simply a good sampling of how it was, 10 years ago, with snippets from around the world. GL,mD Food for thought... Posted By Annie Lowrey  Tuesday, December 29, 2009 - 5:35 PM On this day in 1999... Lou Dobbs was a respected, middle-of-the-road journalist. The prospect of achieving Middle East peace seemed imminent. Beltway pundits believed Al Gore and George W. Bush were centrists who would govern similarly. You could meet your loved ones at their arrival gate. There were more than 2 million Christians living in Iraq. Osama bin Laden was living with his family in a compound in Kandahar. China's GDP was $1.4 trillion, half of Germany's. Israel still had troops in Lebanon. Nobody had ever heard of Somali pirates. Something called Inktomi was the world's largest search engine. Everybody was clamoring for the new file-sharing program Napster. We worried Y2K would bring the global banking infrastructure to its knees. Illinois State Senator Barack Obama campaigned for a spot in the House of Representatives. First Lady Hillary Clinton campaigned for a spot in the Senate. Wasilla, Alaska, Mayor Sarah Palin considered running for state-wide office. India had fewer than a billion citizens. Strongman Slobodan Milosevic still ruled in Yugoslavia. The human genome had not yet been mapped. The Concorde flew between Paris and New York. Alan Greenspan was widely heralded as the world's greatest financial thinker. Boris Yeltsin was preparing to step down and make way for the young pragmatist Vladimir Putin. The Dow Jones closed at 11,484. (Today, it's at 10,545.) The United States had a record federal budget surplus. Food for thought... | FP Passport
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01-21-2010, 06:44 PM
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Ha.....10 years ago I had more money
in my retirement fund. Today I'm fortunate to have a retirement fund.........Hmmmmm
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01-21-2010, 07:38 PM
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History is interesting.
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01-21-2010, 07:39 PM
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Its is depressing the world and the country was in a better place.
It seems like Osama bin Laden and his friends has caused a fair bit of the trouble, I guess they are happy.
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crappy reality 
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