"Happy New Year"

Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. ~Benjamin Franklin


I hope that everyone have a happy New Year.
This year I hope to provide an exciting commentary on the issues of the day.

I also will try to post more, and to add more stuff to the blog.

Here are some little known facts that will happen in 2006

1)November 7 - US Mid-term Election which includes:
all 435 seats of the US House of Representatives (outlook)

33 of the 100 seats in the US Senate (outlook)

Gubernatorial elections in 36 of the 50 states (outlook)

Many other state-wide offices in those states such as attorneys general and state auditors


2)It has been designated "The year of the dog in Chinese Astrology".

3)January 25 - Palestinians vote in the Parliamentary Elections.

4)April 2 Former Connecticut governor John Rowland is scheduled to be released from the federal prison in Loretto, Pennsylvania.

5)July 2 - Presidential election of Mexico.

6)White House proposed Plebiscite to decide whether Puerto Rico will mantain its territorial status or change to another status (to be decided then in other referendum)

7)Manuel Noriega becomes eligible for parole.