What do you think they will call the first decade of this century?
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December 30th, 2009
In previous centuries there was the gay ‘90’s, the Roaring ‘20’s, ........
With the excesses of the first decade of this century, and the economic disaster it preceded, I am sure it will get labeled in decades to come. Any nominations?
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What do we call 1900 thru 1909?
@willbrawn ; I doubt that, since he didn’t get involved until the end of the decade after the excess had beed revealed as a disaster.
@jaytkay I have always just refered to it as “the turn of the century.” But I don’t think it was as remarkable as the first decade of this century.
I was thinking along the lines as “the age of excess.”
We refer to 1900–1910 as the early part of the 20th, so we’ll most likely keep using that phrase.
@Judi what if he has another term? It could be good or bad. Never know.
Then that would refer to the second decade, not the first.
To expand on @faceman‘s idea:
The Decade of Debt, Debauchery and Delusions of Grandeur.
I don’t know, but I think this time has a lot in common with the gilded age.
The Big Zeroes.
Ground zero, zero WMDs, zero dollars in anyone’s pockets, etc…
The Larcenous Decade
It Takes a Pillage: The Theft of the US Treasury through Illegal Pre-emptive Privatized War and Blind Congressional Compliance with the Federal Reserve.
Thanks Drac.
Definitely the Noughties!
Ooh. I like that. The Naughty Noughties!
It will be the Rham Emanuel decade, (and oh yeah, that other guy, his tool Obama).
@Val123, Could be, but then it may not be the only decade of this century which sees so much terrorism. In fact, I doubt that it is. Decades are usally “named” long after they occurred. Who knows what those in the future may say about ours. Some may even call them “the good old days” as some call previous decades today. Wouldn’t that be horrible thing? That they would see our time as better than theirs?
Maybe it will be the year that Bush gets accused and convicted of murder for starting a war in Iraq based on lies…
See
If it sounds to good to be true it is decade.
Probably @Val123 is onto something. This decade will probably be remembered for 911 and everything related to it.
Well, Kelly, then they would have to try and convict the entire Congress. They were the ones who ultimately said, “Yes, let’s go”. Bush could not have done it without their approval. Do you not know enough about government to realize that? A President cannot do such a thing on his own. And how do you know it was a “lie”? No nukes or possible nuke assemblies were found, but that does not mean there were not plans and intentions by Sadam. And the information that supported it came from British intelligence, primarily…not US. So, if it was “Lie”, then who lied to whom? Certainly no-one believes Sadam Hussein was not capable of anything…..He had used mass murder weapons like poison nerve gas on his own people…and against the Iranians, who are certainly more appreciative of anyone in the area that he is gone, though they will never proffer any thanks to the US or any of the coalition for it, of course, ..hypocritical bastards. They are certainly squirreling their own nuclear weapon development right under everyone’s nose. All the western intelligence services know it. You will never see a UN investigation team in Iran, though. . Anyway, we will never have to deal with it. In any overt threat, the Israelis will blitz their works just as they did Saddam’s in the eighties. They are not obliged to concern themselves with “world opinion”. (lol!) They never did.
They called the 90s the gay 90s? Thank god im a 80s baby.
@Val123 I miss big hair. I always refer to the 80’s as the conservative 80’s.
@Judi another couple of things that stand out for me this first decade of the 21st century is hurricanes and global warming.
@Kelly Obrien. Yes, I did read it. I also was around when the Manson “gang” did their rampage. Bugliosi wrote a lot of impressive rhetoric, but he also missed a lot of very blatant facts. As the time it happened was during the Vietnam fiasco, he could also written a book entitled “The Prosecution of Lyndon Baines Johnson for Murder” and “The Prosecution of JFK for Murder,” as well as “The Prosecution of the U.S. Congress for Complicity in Murder”. Another good book he could have written would be “The Prosecution of the Democrat National Party Bosses in 1968 for High Treason”. But, of course, he did not write those books…being a Democrat flunky all his adult life.
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