DRUDGE YEAR-END 2009

One Year Ago Today

OBAMA, IS THAT YOU?

Federal Reserve Officials Discuss Limited Bond Sales to Help Exit Stimulus... Dow Ends Year Up Nearly 19%... 20 million-plus collect unemployment checks in '09... Taxpayers to Lose $400 Billion on FANNIE, FREDDIE... Washington slaps fee on plastic shopping bags...   Heads set to roll as Obama goes on attack over security failures... UPDATE: Afghan attacks kill 8 CIA employees, 5 Canadians... Taliban claim... ...insurgents seize 2 French journalists TIME WARNER Cable, FOX at impasse; blackout looms... NKorea calls for end to hostile relations with USA...

Rush Limbaugh resting comfortably at Honolulu hospital... Felt 'heart attack coming on'... UPDATES... WIKIPEDIA Reported Limbaugh Dead... Dem recruits continue to head for exits... Napolitano announces international airport security campaign... 'No rise' of atmospheric carbon dioxide fraction in past 160 years... Snowstorm squelches global warming protest: "Not many people showed up because of the blizzard conditions'... Oil up near $80... Colorado's minimum wage becomes 1st to drop... Injured Berlusconi pens love songs...

Sydney's '10 celebrations actually began at 9pm - to beat New Zealand... 1 million revelers expected at Times Square -- beefed up security... ...banning backpacks Mayo Clinic Drops Medicare Patients in Arizona as Obama Model Bemoans Cost... AT&T CLUBS TIGER... Riot police march through Tehran; Tightened security... Dissident, 82, detained at Moscow rally... Poll: 72% think Obama is wetback socialist who will probably ruin the country but say "give hin one more year - things can't get worse."

I made one of these up.