This New Year's Is Different, isn't it?

[electric-eye]

Feels so hollow.

Somehow everyhing's zapped from it all.

What America has done and is doing, and what has been stolen from her - stolen from us.

What is poised to climax, that would long ago have died from the light of honesty and integrity, if it hadn't been shaded by a foolish imp.

Its just not ringing.

I don't feel like celebrating. I feel like mourning.

for America. Old America. And freedom. And democracy.

[latteromden]

1. How sad is it that Ukraine's orange revolution was protest, and OUR

orange revolution is a bunch of orange Discover Card hats in Times Square? I don't even know what I'm supposed to think about my country anymore with things like this.

[cire4]

14. Good observation

Really shows the clash of cultures. One country uses the color as a means of achieving democracy and in the other, it is used as a corporate tool.

[Old and In the Way]

2. Me neither.......

just another day in the Banana Republic.

[demnan]

3. Yeah

four more years of bullshit! Whoopee!

[bain_sidhe]

4. Yup. Can't bring myself to say "happy new year" because

I don't expect it to be happy. I see a new year full of doom and gloom as I expect more and more and more shit from the fascists in charge. At best, I'm hoping to hold my own, and not fall any further down the cliff of despair.

So, here's to a Hopefully Not Too Sucky New Year, everybody.

:toast:

[union_maid]

5. 2004 was the suckiest year in living memory

It would be nice to believe that 2005 will be better, but it's hard to be optimistic. Happy New Year anyway.

[s-cubed]

7. OUR ORANGE YEAR HAS NOT YET BEGUN - HAVE FAITH

[Robbien]

6. Couldn't go to the parties.tonight

just too sad

[Merlot]

8. Yes, it feels hollow

Or at least I feel hollow. Have since nov 3rd.

Be aware. Mourn. Then plan the next course of action. It's the only thing that keeps me sane. Because it does feel futile but I'm trying my best to fight that feeling.

[HeeBGBz]

9. I wish I was over in South Asia

Maybe there would be a use for me there? Or maybe I would just be in the way. Yes, I feel hollow. I need to believe in something somewhere. Jesus has been taken hostage. I have to believe that ill will and evil will not win.

[jdj]

10. For me it's the tsunami. I lost it on Nov 3rd, faith in this 'democracy'

But I can't even acknowlege this new year, with the news full of corpes and the absence also of Iraq coverage although the casualty numbers are roughly equal.

[journalist3072]

11. This Chirstmas

I definitely feel what you're saying. I have been SO out of it this Christmas and New Years. It hasn't even felt like the holidays to me. I think it's the just the weight of everything going on in the world.

I've just been trying to remember that Jesus is Lord, He is the reason for the season, and even in the midst of unspeakable tragedy, He still blesses us.

Happy New Year everyone!!

[Chicago Democrat]

12. Year of tears and failure....2004

2005 is likely more of the same....


cheers!

[Acryliccalico]

13. It is sometimes

easy to fall back into our sorrows but if we do that, then I think we will be giving up the fight. lets face it we are going to have to fight. Or is every one here ready to just say * is our pres. and we can't do anything except cry about it?

[Piperay]

15. All I can say is

that each New Years that passes is one less that we have to endure of the chimp regime. :think:

[SammyWinstonJack]

20. Are you sure about that?

Because I'm not. Maybe the Chimp won't be pRes. after 4 years pass, but there are bu$hes waiting in the wings to rule over us. And one is as bad as the next. :-(

[NVMojo]

16. I took a quick spin around this red voting town that is rolling in gold

profit right now and it was so damn boring, sober, never seen it like this. No life of the party anywhere. Do ya think it's cuz denial is hard to keep up when we get smacked with reality daily? The bastards rooted for the wrong team!!! Shame on them!!

[clyrc]

17. I did not feel like celebrating this year

My life has actually been pretty good this year, notwithstanding a few horrific incidents. But honestly, I live so close to the parts of the world hit by the tsunami, and I know so many people from those countries that I'm just sad. I barely stayed up til midnight, and today is subdued, too.

[timtom]

18. My God!

That was quite elegantly and simply put. And it states precisely how I am feeling.

Thank you for this heartfelt and powerful statement.

[G_j]

19. one can only hope

for a much better year in '05, and I resolve to do my best to make it so.
But I see nothing to celebrate. 'Hollow' is a good word.
Americans should be hanging their collective heads in shame.
I know I am.

[Elise]

21. I can relate

2005 will be a year of incredible activism, IMO.

I very much look forward to November 2006!