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G21 WORLD HQ - During the waning hours of 2005, we polled our staff writers and the Mailing List Membership for nominees for our "Bottom Ten" list of individuals for the year. Much like Mr. Blackwell's famed "Worst Dressed" list, ours is a reverse listing; we are choosing the people the world could have done without last year.
What follows is a digest of List Member comments and our own final choices of the dregs of humanity last year.
Having conducted this exercise, off and on, for over a decade now (we discontinued it briefly during at the end of the 1990s and the beginning of this decade), I've been often disappointed but more often bemused by the results.
The near unanimity of the Members of our Mailing List was breathtaking, as you'll see. But there were also a few surprise nominees that we never would have imagined making this List ourselves.
Let the Games begin!
You may read this list in either direction, it does not really matter. Besides that, I am very apathetic and don't really care who's bad or who's good. All a matter of opinion, eh? ;-)
Nonetheless, here 'tis.
10. George Bush, because I am just soooooooo sick of seeing his monkey?face on TV
Here is my list.
Ibrahim Galadima, head of the Nigerian Football Association for failing to ensure Nigeria's qualification for the world cup in 2006.
Cheney oligarchs !=Those fuckers!
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1. Bush
Dishonorable mention: Ballmer, Gates, and Jobs
2) Tom DeLay - It's so sad ... Before DeLay reared his ugly mouth, the Republican Party was known worldwide for its intellectual honesty, lack of corruption, desire to help ordinary people, and general, all-around goodness. DeLay was obviously the bad influence here. Once the Republican Party throws him out of power, Godliness will take over again and Republicans will stop being Dooh Nibor (Robin Hood backwards) and will do what's right, not what lobbyists pay its members to do. At least, that's what
Republicans who are busily denying that they ever played golf with or even knew DeLay want us to believe.
3) Saddam Hussein - The only good thing this man has ever done is furnish meat for South Park satirization. Die, Saddam, die!
4) Abu Musab al-Zarqawi - What is up with this guy? Is Bush paying al-Zarqawi to make himself look good by comparison? Die, Abu, die!
10. Tony Blair (most puzzling example of political savant/idiocy on record)
As you can see I'm fairly single-minded. Arnold made it because of his godawful decision to let Tooky Williams be cold-bloodedly murdered by the state. "Hey, kids, redeem yerselves & we'll still murder you 'cause we hate murderers & love the power of redemption. Got that?"
Scooter's indictment was only the beginning. Let's leave them all in position until their percolating scandals boil over: Abramoff & Scanlon, partners again in flipping; Ralph Reed; Grover Norquist; David Safavian; DeLay; the entire Ohio Republican Party; and who knows, maybe even Rove. And let the consequences of their willful incompetence (Afghanistan, Iraq, FEMA, the EPA, FDA, the UN) play out a little longer.
Now that people are finally beginning to pay attention it's crucial that the architects of the many messes we're in emain standing in the middle of them until 2 things sink into the minds of the U.S. public: (1) that these are (and were) the foreseeable consequences of their morally- and intellectually-bankrupt ideological projects; and (2) that they, the public, have allowed these things to happen, and without their active engagement in civic and political life they'll keep happening.
So let's leave the low in high positions until their mud sticks and won't come off. Otherwise, they'll just blame Clinton for everything -- and they'll get away with it. Again.
If we mean the bad eggs of this world, my list is as below:
1) Osama bin laden/ al queda
Descending is increasing degree of tolerance, i.e. bin Laden is most unacceptable.
Also of note, at least to me, was that some people nominated personal acquaintances and events rather than people. (If this list recognized events, which it does not, Katrina and Rita, two hurricanes, would have made the list.)
There were multiple ties, so this list is not exact in its order of descent. Herewith, in descending order, then is what we have as our G21 Mailing List Member's Bottom Ten List for 2004:
10 - Donald Rumsfeld and Condoleeza Rice (Tie)
COMMENTARY: The votes for G.W. Bush were overwhelming again this year. He far out-polled all other nominees. Surprisingly to me both Condi Rice and Robert Mugabe moved down on the list. Mugabe, in fact, barely made the Membership List's ratings this year -- I suspect that's more because he dropped out of the news-radar, for the most part ...
Finally, I'd like to encourage all of you -- but especially the "Lurkers" who failed to submit nominations for this year's list -- to take part in our last poll of this year (perhaps our last poll EVER) which you'll find below.
POLL QUESTION: What individual do you feel made the world a better place, made a significant contribution to human advancement or left the most indelible mark on the year 2005?
DEADLINE for your nominations is 1 January, 2006.? The results will be published in our first edition of 2006.
Send your nominees for the G21 PERSON OF THE YEAR 2005 to rod@g21.net with the "Subject" line "PERSON OF THE YEAR". Thank you!
The first person to write in with "Bottom Ten" nominees this year was Kim C. of Koh Samui, THAILAND. He wrote: Hi Rod. My personal bottom ten replete with reasoning is below.
09. Soddem Hussein, because he looks really bad with a beard
08. God, because She or He?is just so godless in Her or His attitude
07. Michael Jackson, because it is just getting?boring now, that's all
06. Britney Spears, because I just cannot understand how anybody could possibly find her in the least way talented or attractive
05. Anbody at all who appears on a reality TV show, because reality TV not only sucks, it is morally and ethically dangerous
04. Anbody at all who produces reality TV shows, see above reasoning
03. Robert Mugabe, for having a very unfashionably small moustache
02. Kim Chong Il, because he sang "I'm so lonely" so badly?as a puppet in Team America
01. Khun Phapong Sawattadhya for having the worst selection of stuff at my local shop
Steve Ogah, of Lagos, NIGERIA, sent us this list: Dear Rod,
Christian Chukwu, Coach of the team.
Issa Hayatou, CAF president for presiding over CAF's questionable awards.
Omar El-Bashir of Sudan for failing to find an end to? the Darfur crisis.
Ahmed Yerima, Governor of Zamfara State for decapitating?the arm of citizen?Zangedi.
Dr. Silas of the National Broadcasting commission for shutting down AIT channels.
Charles Taylor for deciding to hide in Nigeria after?his reign in Liberia.
Namse for not coming to my big smallroom bash to eat the best-worst food.
Dennis the Menace for not calling me on my Big day on time.
MDOC for not?writing a new rap on?my birthday.
Mpuhuthumi Ntabeni, of East London, SOUTH AFRICA, said:On my list of people we could have done without this year is as follows:
Jacob 'Open Fly' Zuma !=The deputy president of SA who was fired for corruption allegations, and has recently been charged for rape.
United Nations !=Useless ineffective waste of taxpayer's money.
Bush II !=The rait caught in the car's headlights.
Robert Mugabe !=You senile fuck.
Islamo-Fascists !=Johnny Foreigners who were raised on a diet of falafels and hatred for the West who claim to be anti-war activists, resistance fighters, shock troops for a new 'anti-imperialist ideology, or Western-born Muslims so aggrieved by what is being done to their brothers and sisters in Iraq and Palestine that they feel compelled to strike against the imperialist beast.
Mwai Kibaki !=The Kenyan president whose brought to much confusion to Kenyan politics by sacking the whole Cabinet and replacing it with his sycophants.
Unnecessary deaths from poverty and curable diseases because people cannot afford the medicine when humongous amounts of money are wasted on useless wars.
Re-emergence of nationalistic politics and fascist tendencies in Europe.
As always, the ever becoming blatant MM (Mouthpiece Media) media bias.
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DC S., of Largo, FL, USA, sent us this list: Just the usual suspects
2. Cheney
3. Rice
4. Rummy
5. Libby
6. Rove
7. Brown
plus
8. Rita
9. Katrina
10. Wilma
Robin Miller, Bradenton, FL, USA, took the Short List option: 1) Vladimir Putin - You know how your kid (or any other bad kid) is okay at heart but fell in with a bad crowd that led him astray? George W. Bush has told the world how much he likes and respects Putin. I think Bush is trying to emulate him, so we should blame Putin for most of Bush's evil behavior. I'm sure Bush, being a Good Christian, would be kind to poor people if it weren't for Putin's evil, Communist influence.
Ric W. Austin, TX, USA had this say: My mud-sucking bottom 10
9. Condi Rice (studied at the padded knees of Clarence Thomas)
8. Donald Rumsfeld (if we could shovel more shit down your throat we would)
7. Bill O'Reilly (would suck the devil's cock if he thought it would up his ratings)
6. Arnold Schwarzenegger (snake charmer)
5. Dennis Hastert (brown shirt sergeant)
4. Bill Frist (why doctors ought to be socialized)
3. Tom Delay (represents the would-be slave holding contingent of Congress)
2. Dick Cheney (planted by the Nazis as a deep sleeper)
1. George Bush/Karl Rove (most egregious self-loathing frat whores in American history)
Robert P., of Montclair, NJ, USA told us: In recent years my lists have been liberally populated (so to sorta speak) with Bush administration sleazeballs and other assorted rightwingers in positions of power or influence. During the past year, however, I don't think we could've done without them. It's not that they didn't continue to be the lowest of the low, and surely every short-term measure of happiness or well-being -- global and local -- would've been higher had they ceased all bodily functioning a year ago. But now we need them to hang around a little bit longer, because they're just on the verge of being held accountable for their various felonies, misdemeanors, criminal negligence, and sins of omission and commission.
Cheryl N., of Vermont, USA sent us this list: 1. George W. Bush
2. Karl Rove
3. Dick Cheney and the rest of the crony crooks (making this list WAY more than 10, say 10s of 10s, 100s of 10s or ?)
4. Kim Jong-il
5. Hosni Mubarak
6. Osama Bin Laden
7. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
8. Rush Limbaugh
9. Paris Hilton
10.Michael Jackson
Clarius Ugwuoha of Port Harcourt, NIGERIA, sent us this: Dear Rod,
2) Saddam Hussein
3) Augusto Pinochet
4) Katrina
5) Wilma & Rita
6)Tsunami
7) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ( Iranian President)
8)Robert Mugabe ( Zimbabwean President)
9)Yoweri Museveni ( Ugandan President)
10) George W. Bush
EDITOR'S COMMENT: You will likely note, as I have, that this has not been our year for polls. (I actually cancelled two earlier this year.) For the first time in our history, we have more responses from our writers and contributors than from members of our Mailing List to the Bottom Ten poll, normally our most successful. I find this distressing, of course; I've even given thought to discontinuing the polls here altogether. Maybe, after all these years, they've run their course. Or may 2005 was the kind of year where people were too distracted by all that was going on in our world ...
9 - Kim Jong-Il
8 - Robert Mugabe
7 - Osama Bin Ladin
6 - Michael Jackson
5 - Tom DeLay
4 - Saddam Hussein
3 - Karl Rove
2 - Dick Cheney
1 - George W. Bush
Last year, we had a separate "official" list from that in the poll results. That list was based on my own considerations of your nominations and its separateness from other considerations I thought should be brought to bear. This year, considering that there were so few nominations in the main list, I decided to simply act as the tie-breaker.
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