Winners And Losers 2010

Most everyone has a winner and loser list, so here is mine. Some choices will surprise you.
Winners of 2010 (and in no particular order)
1. Joe Heck- Beat Tina Titus for Congress by about 3000 votes in a slightly Democratic district.
2. Brian Sandoval: Won the governors race fairly easily.
3. Rory Reid: Lost to Sandoval but showed class while running and in his concession speech.
4. GOP Congressional and local government candidates: Took over the House and narrowed the Senate. In local elections, GOP made significant gains in State, County and local elections.
5. Unemployed people who found jobs in the economy.
6. Conservative media like Fox and conservative talk shows: Talk about their deaths were a bit premature as seen in the 210 elections.
7. The Old Man from Pawn Stars. While his son, grandson and Chumlee went Hollywood, the Old Man was down to earth, went to work and interacted with customers even though some customers were quite rude to him.
8. Wisconsin Badgers Football Team: Short of playing for the national title, playing in the Rose Bowl is a nice consolation.
9. Jim Gibbons. Yes, he may have behaved badly at times, but he kept the State from going completely under. If it weren't for Gibbons, who would have kept the Democrats in check? He has had to undergo through tremendous abuse and cheap shots by the media but for the most part, he stuck to his guns. The State was better off with him than a Democrat in the governor's mansion.
10. Sarah Palin: She got the Tea Party going and several of her candidates she endorsed won elections they had no business winning.
All the Service men and women serving overseas in war zones. Tremendous stress being overseas despite some very poor leadership back home in the White House.
11. Mayor Oscar Goodman: For his work on trying to redevelop the Downtown area. It seems like he is succeeding.
12. Green Bay Packers: One more victory and they are in the playoffs.
13. Brett Favre: Came back for one more year and did ok. He lasted longer than his replacement who lasted 1 game before getting hurt. Have a good retirement.
14. Nevada DMV workers: The last 3 times I went to the DMV in the past 3 months, I got in and out in 20 minutes or less. You just have to know when to go.
15. My family for putting up with me this past year.
16. Fellow bloggers who I have read and in some cases stole some material. Bloggers like Mike, James, Jill, Fred, Owen, Dad29, Owen, Dan, Chris, Charlie, Badger Blogger, Gleaner, Dullard Mush, and Michelle. I enjoyed your reading, agree or disagree.
17. All the people who have visited this blog. I hope you enjoyed your visit.
18. George Bush: As a former president, he has kept his mouth shut about the Obama administration. That shows class.
19: NASCAR: NASCAR put on three great races in Vegas and their Final Lap of the Season was awesome.

Losers of 2010:
1. Harry Reid: While he won his Senate race, he completely disgraced himself by doing slashing and burning campaigning. He completely lost his dignity in the race. He also personally cost Nevadans thousands of jobs this year and in the past. Now, Obama is ripping on him.
2. Dina Titus: The woman who never held a real job in her life was defeated by Joe Heck. After the election, when asked by a reporter about the campaign, she stated she didn't Joe Heck as a person. Really? Then why all the negative campaigning against Heck. Further, some of her commercials were called out by the Las Sun for putting out false advertisements.
3. Las Vegas Sun: Totally lost any sense of honest journalism during the election. Putting out false stories by it's writers and downright cheerleading for the liberals in the State. The writers really need to take a course in journalism ethics.
4. Bill Raggio: Turned Sharron angle and loves taxes. RINO of the Year.
5. Barack Obama: Came to Las Vegas to stump for Harry Reid and Democrats. He closed down tourist operators in the valley 3 times, costing these operators well over a million dollars. And his policies are killing Nevada. He also never stepped foot in inner city areas when visiting. The King is also taking a ton of expensive vacations at taxpayer expense.
6. CCSD: The joke superintendent's selection process was rigged from the beginning. Also, accepting the $58,000,000 in stimulus in the Fall of this year was a joke. It hired more administrators and non-teaching professionals. This will come back and haunt the district when they have to cut hundreds of millions of dollars this next school year.
7. Clark County Fire Department: Apparently, the CCFD union members don't realize the Clark County has a budget deficit. They still want more and more and they really don't that much work, especially when it comes to putting out fires- they just don' that many fire calls.
8. Green Energy companies: So many have blown into town promising jobs and buildings, but in reality they had no intention in moving to a city and they take any tax money they can get. Now Madison WI. is going to be the next gullible city to be on the losing end of the green energy jobs.
9. Bill Raggio: Rino in the Nevada Senate. Endorsed Harry Reid and wants more taxes. Raggio, just leave or become a Democrat.
10. Sharron Angle: She ran the worst possible campaign. Her staff sucked, horrible commercials, bad web site and refused to write back to supporters. She was more interested in raising money and being on the national media. She did not relate to the everyday person in Nevada.
11. Blogger Desert Beacon: Still won't publish comments that he doesn' t agree with . What a pathetic web site and person.
13. Metro Police: While in general, they did ok, but they had several questionable shootings this year and they stopped my car for no reason whatsoever- they just wanted to make sure my car was not stolen.
14. Global Warming Kool Aide Drinkers: Global warming has been thoroughly discredited but Harry Reid and Barrack Obama are true believers but they don't walk the talk. It's do as I see not as I do. Reid travels around with 3 gas guzzling SUVs in his entourage and Obama travels all over the world leaving a huge carbon foot print.
15. LVRJ and Righthaven: These two cretins are suing mostly mom and pop web sites for copy write infringement. The sole purpose is to bring federal lawsuits against people, mostly out of state, for $150,000 and stealing their domain name. Righthaven is n0t hurt because they don't publish anything- they just own the copy write.
16. City Of Henderson: Would it hurt the city to try and time the stop and go lights in he City? And you could not have put in a bathroom at the new Bark Park?
17. Liberal and Conservative Posters On Blogs: Show some civility on blogs, whether it is a blog or a newspaper story. Stop your vicious posts. It makes you look very unintelligent.
18. Brian Greenspun, editor of the Las Vegas Sun: He writes two editorials on civility in politics and then turns around blasts conservative voters as unintelligent. If the Sun Newspaper didn't have help the of the LVRJ in delivering newspapers, it would cease to be a newspaper.
19. Garth Brooks and Steve Wynn: Over doubling the price of a ticket to Garth's show. Apparently, Garth was lying when he said he wanted ticket prices to be reasonable.
20. Thugs in Las Vegas who have killed, robbed, injured and/or were drunk or drugged up when they committed their crime.
21. Rehab:Party At The Hardrock: Not only was the show sexist and blatantly violated labor laws, they had a death from a customer and had problems with sex and drugs. Now, the show has been cancelled.

Well, here's my list. I may add to it after I wake up in the morning.