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This one is hard, cause it actually requires people to think...
Let me give it a shot...I figure if it's not at the top of my memory, if I have to look it up, than it must not have been that important...so here it goes, not in any particular order...
1. Lybias fall, the death of Kadafi...
2. Tim Tebows 6 game winning streak...
3. Japan Earthquake...
4. The fact that Newts campaign came back from the dead...
Ok, I'm struggling here...only trying to go by memory...shows I don't stress over things to much...
5. Space shuttles being retired, until new fleet is built...
6. The morgage crisis...the amount of people who had homes foreclosed on...
7. All the up risings in the middle east...
8. The whole occupy wall street movement...
9. The Senater getting assaulted with a weapon in NM...
10. Hank Williams Jr getting his 'Are ya ready for some football' song yanked from Monday night...
I'm sure there's a lot more important ones, but just did that off the top of my memory...
What I think were the top ten most influential events of 2011
1. Japanese Earthquake
2. Arab Spring
3. European Debt Crisis
4. Space Program Ends
5. US Credit Downgrade
6. Failing US Economy
7. Passage of the 2012 Defense Spending Act (sanctioning marshal law in the US and allowing indefinite detention of US citizens)
8. Tornadoes in the South
9. Death of Steve Jobs
10. OWS
Politically speaking
1. Bin laden taken out
2. DADT repealed
3. OWS
4. Iraq war ended
5. Tea party causes nation's credit to be downgraded
6. Largest recall effort in US history in Wisconsin
7. Cain scandals/GOP presidential circus
8. Lowest approved congress in US history
9. Kim jong il
10. Libya
1) Killing of Osama Bin Laden.
2) Japan earthquake and after
3) Greece Meltdown
4) Crazy midget dictator in NK assumes room temperature.
5) Goodbye Khadaffy / Gadhafi / Ghadaffi / whatthe****ever
6) Increasing hyperpartisan-ization coming from both parties core supporters.
7) Norway Terrorist
8) Tornado Spring
9) Giffords takes a bullet from a nutjob.
10) Prince William marries (nonvirgin) girl hes been banging for a decade now and the English dont freak out about it. She appears to be his mental equal both in IQ and determination. Perhaps there is hope for the UK monarchy.
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