Funny New Year Quotes

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New Years quotes are a fun and easy way to liven up any New Year’s Eve party! There are plenty of New Year greetings that are inspirational and heartwarming, but there are plenty of New Year’s quotes that are funny too.

We’ve compiled this list of New Year’s quotes and New Year wishes that are funny to help you ring in 2011 and send a Happy New Year message!

“Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.” – Bill Vaughn

“New Year’s is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.” – Mark Twain

“A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one Year and out the other.” - Anonymous

“Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average… which means, you have met your New Year’s resolution.” – Jay Leno

“The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year’s Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you’re married to.” – P.J. O’Rourke

“Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.” – Eric Zorn

“New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.” – Charles Lamb

“New Year’s Day… now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.” – Mark Twain

“Many people look forward to the New Year for a new start on old habits.” – Anonymous

“Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.” – Oscar Wilde

Reference:
[1]http://blogs.babble.com/famecrawler/2010/12/30/new-years-quotes-funny-new-year-wishes/

Amare Stoudemire

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Amare Stoudemire and Derrick Rose deserve your MVP consideration as they have been carving up the competition recently and have risen to the top of our NBA MVP rankings for week seven. Dirk Nowitzki has the Mavericks operating in high gear and Deron Williams continues to enhance his MVP credentials with each passing game. Also, as Pau Gasol has fallen off a bit Kobe Bryant makes his way on my list for the first time this year as he has played superbly during Gasol’s struggles and Kevin Garnett re-enters the race behind his spectacular defensive play.

No LeBron James this week, folks. Dwyane Wade has been carrying the Heat equally during their scintillating nine-game run so James is on the outside looking in.

Reference:
[1]http://thesportsjury.com/20101215724/nba/nba-mvp-race-amare-stoudemire-is-dominating

Maysoon Zayid

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Maysoon Zayid is a woman professional comedian who was born in New Jersey in 1976. Maysoon Zayid is also the first American comedian who comes from Muslim women. Se was the first who ever did standup in Palestine and Jordan. In an interview with the BBC Maysoon Zayid calls itself “the Palestinian Muslim virgin with cerebral palsy”.

Maysoon Zayid is a graduate of Arizona State University with a BFA degre. Zayid started her career in the entertainment world by appearing on popular soap opera called “As the World Turns”. She plays at the opera for 2 years.

In building her career Maysoon Zayid several times encountered resistance, especially because she is a Muslim. Zayid later switched to a stand-up. Then she appeared in several top club in New York such as Caroline, Gotham, and Stand Up NY. Here she put up a job with the theme of terrorism and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Now, she is a co-founder and executive producer of the New York Arab American Comedy Festival and can be seen on Comedy Central’s Watch List, PBS’s America at the Crossroads: Stand Up Comic Muslim, and Adam Sandler You Do not Mess With the Zohan.

Now Maysoon Zayid has achieved results of her hard work.

Article Source:
http://surroundedme.com/maysoon-zayid

Bama Belles premieres

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Bama Belles premieres tonight on TLC.  The new reality series follows a group of Alabama women as they juggle their careers, home lives and relationships with one another.  The series looks like Real Housewives with a down home spin.

Bama Belles follows the five women in Dothan, Alabama, as they deal with everything from packed work schedules, to packing a lunch. They get down and dirty in the south hunting, fishing, four wheeling and tailgating at stock car races.  The Bama Belles include:

Amie Pollard – a 39 year old mother, radio personality and real estate developer who is brash and unapologetic. She is everyone’s best friend, that is, until you cross her. She and her family are completely self made.

Melissa McLaney – a 35 year old mother, ex beauty queen and business owner who is always striving to be perfect. She gave up her well paid job to set up a family business with her husband, which they are now struggling to keep afloat.

Jana Roberts – a 28 year old preacher’s daughter and beautician. She and her husband, a former Met’s pitcher, are on an emotional rollercoaster as they go through IVF.

Val Tignini – a 26 year old internet entrepreneur who is a fish out of water in the deep south. After visiting her friend Amie while on a media tour for her website, she decides to move from New York to Dothan.

Dakota Redding - a 24 year old physical therapist and member of the army reserve. She is a tobacco chewing cowgirl who is about to enlist full time in the military.

Since the Real Housewives of New Jersey is one of my fave shows ever, I’m going to check out Bama Belles, how about you?  You can read more about the new series on the TLC website.

Article Source:
[1]http://blogs.babble.com/famecrawler/2010/12/05/bama-belles-tlc-real-housewives-country/

Do you Remember: Rosa Parks ?

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Two weeks ago today I was in Montgomery, Alabama. Montgomery is called the Capital City of the American South, home to the short-lived Confederate presidency of Jefferson Davis to birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement. Its motto: Change happens here.

The sky was a typical Alabama bright blue, the weather sunny and crisp for a late November day. I drove downtown and there it was. A small commemorative sign dedicated to mark the spot where Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the city bus. This was not far from the Montgomery Biscuits Class AA affiliate of the Tampa Bay Rays and the Renaissance Montgomery Hotel and Spa at the Convention Center. Change happens here.

Fifty-five years ago today, Mrs. Parks, the secretary of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, seared her legacy. She was not the first to refuse to take the designated "coloreds only" seat in the back. Many others had done so by December 1, 1955. Maybe it was her quiet resolve or the police mug shot of the middle-aged seamstress that led to a 381-day Montgomery bus boycott and a civil rights movement that found its spark.

Parks boarded a bus being driven by James Fred Blake. She had a long history with Blake. In 1943, he had ordered her off his bus for taking her seat from the front. Blacks were supposed to pay the driver from the front but then step out and board the bus from the back. That night Rosa Parks walked home in the rain after Blake drove off. Parks later said that she generally avoided Blake whenever she could. But on that December night in 1955, Parks had refused to move from the middle section of the bus and Blake called the police for her arrest. Blake explained: "I wasn't trying to do anything to that Parks woman except do my job. She was in violation of the city codes, so what was I supposed to do? That damn bus was full and she wouldn't move back. I had my orders." Blake remained a driver for the Montgomery city bus lines until 1974.

The Montgomery of today is a virtual shrine to her memory. There is Rosa L. Parks Avenue and Rosa Parks Place, a Rosa Parks branch of the Montgomery Library, the Rosa L. Parks city park, the Rosa Parks Quick Stop convenience store, Rosa Parks Place apartments and the Rosa L. Parks Avenue Church of God. Troy University sponsors the Rosa Parks Library and Museum. Ironically, Rosa Parks the person left Montgomery, Alabama for Detroit, Michigan just two years after her history-making turn in that city bus. Her celebrity had led to threats. But the Rosa Parks legacy of conscientious objection continues.

Rosa Parks died in 2005 at the age of 92. She outlived Martin Luther King, Jr. by thirty-seven years. King was a 26-year-old minister at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery when the 42-year-old seamstress holding a bag of groceries refused to give up her seat to a white male passenger on the Cleveland Avenue bus line. Dr. King would become the spokesperson for the Bus Boycott and educate the people in the methods of nonviolent civil disobedience.

This "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement" was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, forty miles east of Montgomery, in a family whose heritage was African-American, Cherokee-Creek, and Scots-Irish. Her American Indian heritage is the same as the Snow family, though I haven't quite traced all the documented details.

Many will celebrate the memory of Rosa Parks today. I think Google got it right with the image of children pouring out of a bus fifty-five years after Rosa Parks refused to move. It is idealistic, of course, but inspiring. The Civil Rights Movement continues to remind us of what one individual can do to create change. It happens here.

Reference:
[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nancy-snow/remembering-rosa-parks_b_790605.html