Biggest Winners for 2013

1. President Vladimir Putin and Russia

The champagne corks were popping in the Kremlin after a banner 2013. With Edward Snowden ensconced in Moscow, Putin can celebrate Russia’s biggest embarrassment of the United States since the fall of the Soviet Union. But that’s only the beginning. Russia’s client Assad defied bloodcurdling White House threats of bombing raids and demands that “Assad must go” in Russia’s biggest geopolitical victory over the United States since Brezhnev was in power. As icing on the cake, a desperate, fumbling White House had to accept a Russian proposal to escape from the trap President Obama built for himself. Russian foreign policy makers hadn’t had this much fun since the Bay of Pigs. Finally, to complete the Kremlin’s annus mirabilus, a clueless European Union lost out to Russia in a battle to bring Ukraine into a trade association with the rich western bloc. What makes this string of impressive victories even more impressive is that President Putin is playing with a weak hand. His economy is in trouble, his army is rife with corruption, his population is in decline, and his coutry faces a growing Chinese superpower to the east and a growing threat from terrorists in the south. Underfunded, underequipped, and underrespected, Vladimir Putin danced rings around Barack Obama, John Kerry and Angela Merkel this year. Western stupidity is his chief strategic asset, and in 2013 at least, there was a lot of that going around.

2. Iran ...

Read the rest. Soon, the biggest losers. I expect Barack Hussein Obama to head the list. But he's having a grand time on the taxpayer's dime.

 I nominate the American People as the real biggest losers.

2013 and George W. Bush’s diabolical climate change machine.

As we draw the curtain on 2013 we are grateful for the fact that our particular part of the economy thrived even as record number of American are wore off than ever, losing not just their jobs, depleting their savings, losing their health insurance, their doctors and being threatened with fines unless they pay for worse insurance named after it's creator, ObamaCare.

But wait, there's more:

Looking over another poll from The Christian Science Monitor regarding the ten biggest stories of the year, we find floods in Colorado, tornados in Oklahoma, terrorism in Massachusetts, Edward Snowden’s revelations of widespread snooping on the American public by the National Security Agency, the demise of the Defense of Marriage Act, and the disastrous debut of the billion-dollar Obamacare web site.

In the same article, Bud Norman mentions some positive events:

... the escape of those young women in Ohio who had been held captive in a basement for years by a sex fiend, George Zimmerman’s escape from a politically correct lynch mob, the defeat of gun control legislation in Congress, and the brief partial-shutdown of the United States’ government ... and the year that a Louisiana duck-call entrepreneur got away with expressing unsanctioned opinions regarding sexuality, despite the outrage of all the right people 

And as the year end, we are heartened by the saga of the shipload of Climate Warmers stuck in the Antarctic ice even as most of the MSM tries desperately to hide their objective ... to show that there's no ice at the South Pole because of your SUV. We blame George W. Bush’s diabolical climate change machine.

As we usher out the old year, let us pray that the New Year will be better, that the spectacular failure of ObamaCare will take the rest of the rotten, kleptographic neo-Fascist ideology that is Liberalism with it.  Let us pray.