In what has become a yearly tradition, we are going to pack our wishlist time capsule to be opened in fifty years. We're sure that you will have additional suggestions, but we do feel that locking away these particular items will best convey the year 2011 to next generation and beyond.

For convenience, and because they are a pre-boxed set we include Osama Bin Laden, Muammar Gadaffi, and Kim Jong Il. If we act right now, we can get Kim jong Il in a lovely glass display case. What? Too soon??

A Toilet - to commemorate the second summer of recovery... or the third. I've lost count because nothing has changed, at least for the better.

Solyndra - to commemorate another Obama success story in green energy.

Jeff Immelt - for getting GE through last year without paying taxes. Also for being appointed to the one job that Obama did create this year - Jobs Czar. How proud we all are...

Warren Buffett - another FOO (Friend of Obama) for fighting to raise taxes on the rich, while at the same time fighting for 10 years over about a billion dollars his company owes the IRS. That is multi-tasking.

Jon Corzine - still another FOO, who expected to be running for POTUS in 2016, but will most likely be cooling his heels in jail instead. We understand Buffett not wanting to part with his cash, but how do you just "lose" $1.2 billion? There should have been a hint when as Governor of New Jersey, the state was awash in debt. His defense was to call the current Governor, Chris Christie, fat.

A Piece Of Toast - to symbolize President Obama in his quixotic race for a second term in the White House.

Operation Wall Street - so that they have someplace to occupy safely for the next 50 years.

Charlie Sheen - just because. Send Lindsay Lohan along with him so that he doesn't accidentally sober up.

The also rans for the GOP nomination - though several of them may be useful in a Santorum Administration. Did I just say that out loud?

John Boehner - the conservative movement has no use for him, and he has no use for the conservative movement. It's easier to replace one man than the Constitution of the United States. Send the rest of the RINOs along with him. Oh, that will have to wait for 2012.

An Ounce Of Gold - which will settle in at about $500.00 an ounce once Obama gets booted and the next guy does something constructive. A bubble is a bubble, whether it's in tech, housing or gold.

Print Media - as it battles new media knowing that it has already lost.

Al Gore - and keep him alive, and as well fed as his current waistline testifies to. We want him to emerge from the capsule in 50 years, and see how his climate change predictions worked out. We think he'll be a bit embarrassed. No wait, he's Al Gore. He'll just start jabbering on about how now we have fifty years less to deal with it.

We think that sums up the year fairly well. Feel free to add your suggestions as we move into a New Year that we all hope contains great promise.

A Happy and Prosperous New Year To You All!

RLB