During the last 10 years we haven't been pampered by the Fate, to say the least. The political Reality kept exceeding the worst nightmarish expectations. I am not going to list all the calamities which forced us to rethink ourselves. Let me throw just a few:
George W took the Oval Office.
The Markets proved that the Gravity is an undeniable force - much stronger than artificially blown Internet Stock Bubble.
911.
Afghanistan War started.
Another proof for the proverb: 'if you want to hit the dog, you will find the stick..." - even if you can't find the WMDs. And the Iraq War (second) started.
More than 4000 of our troops killed - and for what?.
More than a million of Iraqis perished.
Sub-Prime mortgages.
Someone has to pay for the War expenditures - welcome to the Worst (yet) Recession of Our Lives.
A sudden breath of the fresh air (although not too long lasting euphoria) - Obama elected the President of the USA (definitely the most Positive Fact of the Decade)
'Birthers'
Tea Party, and 'I am no witch' promise...
Sara Palin (yes - a calamity).
Democrats lost the Majority in the Congress - the elections which only proofed that 'deeply frustrated people' lose the perspective view on politics. In such an emotional stage the differences between 'a friend and a foe' are completely blurred.
Tax compromise.
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Of course there were a few bright moments in this past decade. It's almost ironic that some of them we may associate with the 'Lame Duck Session' of the US Congress,
like 'Repeal of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy'.
Coincidentally the last decade was also the period when I tried to run a new, established in 1999 business (after quitting a full time job at Sotheby's). Perfect timing.
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I wanted to start this blog right after the Presidential Inauguration in 2008 - on a positive note. I procrastinated to the moment when I couldn't calmly take it anymore. So, the blog is officially started. Not on such a positive note, but with the HOPE for the improvement of our economical and political situation in the new Decade which has just started. The blog started also with the HOPE for improving of our American perception in the World. Putting aside any extreme Anti-Americanism in the Middle East, or Far East - we are not any more the most 'welcome' nation in the World. Hopefully we can change it. Let's try.
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