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G21 WORLD HQ - During the waning hours of 2006, 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 during the 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.

Based on this year's results, I suspect I'll discontinue again.

Let the Games begin!

The first person to write in with "Bottom Ten" nominees this year was Ric W. of Austin, TX, USA. He wrote:

least egregious but still egregious to most definitely totally egregious

10. Mel Gibson/The Israeli Government (Olmert)
9. The Supreme Court (Scalia)
8. Muslim extremists (Muqtada al-Sadr)
7. Christian extremists (Pat Robertson)
6. The Democratic party (Kerry)
5. Corporate America (those faceless Ivy League bankers)
4. The Republican controlled legislature (Dennis Hastert)
3. The main stream media (Murdoch)
2. The Bush Administration (Cheney)
1. George Bush

Cheryl N. of West Fairlee, VT. USA, sent us this list:

Hi Rod

Not sure if you meant for one to be worst or ten to be worst. In my list one is worst.

1. George W. Bush
2. Karl Rove
3. Donald Rumsfeld
4. 99% of Bush Cronies
5. Kim Jong Il
6. Ehud Olmert
7. ...mile Lahoud
8. Omar al-Bashir
9. Richard Grasso
10. Anna Nicole Smith

Definition: Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. - the Devil's Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce (1881 -1906)

brain exercise

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Marcia H. of San Diego, CA, USA said:

Dear Rod,

I nominate the Right Wing Echo Chamber consisting of the entire bloviating bunch of 'em = Bill-O, Rush, Michael Savage, Ann Poltergeist, Michelle Malkin (shudder), Glenn Beck... you know, the whole?Faux News mob. Oh, don't forget Tony Snow in that crowd. All of Dirty Dick's and?Emperor Numbnut's?mouthpieces. They don't qualify as a single human being, these are more like hive creatures. They visit the befouled batcave of bullshit on a regular basis, then crawl/creep/ooze/flit back?to their microphones to belch forth the latest batch of obfuscations and turds of wisdom from He Who Must Be Obeyed (Karl Rove).

A pox on them all!

Oh, I forgot to give a reason for my nomination: ?I consider the Faux News stooges & their minions?deserving of the Bottom Ten distinction because they are working tirelessly to?render the Constitution null & void. Our nation's enemies must have autographed photos of them all in their headquarters.

The current regime in power in our fair land is furiously at work dismantling the guaranteed rights & freedoms created by the wisdom of our Founding Fathers. This has been made possible by their?partners in the media, diligently stirring up fear?of further domestic?attacks?in their every broadcast.?Well... if "they hate us for our freedom," as King George likes to say,?they are probably feeling pretty good about us right now, eh?

Thanks for everything you do & I'll look forward to seeing the final list. I'm sure it'll be fabulous.

Take care,
Marcia

Ngozi Razak-Soyebi of Jos, NIGERIA gave us the following:

So sorry, Rod.? I have only three nominations this year and they are as follows:

1.? Governor Joshua Dariye of Plateau State, Nigeria, for shamlessly looting the state treasury like the common thief that he is and bringing the state to a standstill until he was forced out of office last month.

2.? Our own President Olusegun Obasanjo for thinking that the country is his personal "toy" and trying to change the constitution to accomodate a third term in office.

3.? The person or persons or government behind the fatal poisoning of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko.? Let's hope they never have to confront their own death!

I absolutely refuse to nominate George Bush this year for the US troops continued stay in Iraq.? He's held the No.?1 position for too long, I think we should give him a break and let him continue doing what he does best, which is being an all-round ***hole!

Have a great holiday, Rod.

Best wishes,
Ngozi.?

MPHUTHUMIN NTABENI had the following nominations:

Worst

1. The filibuster Bush II for fucking everything he could.
2. Madonna for using poor African children as a publicity stunt.
3. South African Government for loosing the battle against crime.
4. My fiancé for dumping me after all these years.
5. Generator 21 for making us count the scores.

EDITOR'S COMMENT: And there you have it. ALL of our nominees this year. I find this distressing, of course. From these lists, I'd be hard pressed to compile a credible list of who our readers consider the real Bottom 10.

That said, I suppose the only thing to do is give you my own list for 2006 (in reverse order):

1. Ann Coulter - This skeletal right-wing harridan is a disgrace to the profession of journalism. Her insults to the 9/11 widows who disagree with her fanatical positions was justification for having her tarred-and-feathered. I'm all for that.
2. Former Congressman Mark Foley. I don't think I have to explain much on this one. The poster child for hypocrisy. Thank all of the gods he helped bring the Republican Party down.
3. Former Speaker of the House of Representatives (well-almost) Dennis Hastert. You knew, you ass!
4. National Newspapers - especially and most dishonorably the Los Angeles Times - for the bloodletting of journalists that took place this year in the interests of corporate profits over bringing the news to the American people. That Dean Baquet, the nation's highest ranking Black journalist should be driven out says a lot about your commitment to diversity in the newsroom, you idiots!
5. Kim Jong Il. Get a life, you twit!
6. Dick Cheney. I like a tasty beverage from time to time, too, dimwit, but I don't shoot my friends and I don't propagate mass murder and crimes against humanity.
7. Kofi Annan. Yeah, I know a lot of people are going lionize you on your way out. But let's face it, Bosnia, Kosovo, Rwanda, Darfur and Baghdad all happened on your watch, pal. Need I say more?
8. Ehud Olmert. So you had to match Sharon's massacres in Lebanon and worsen the policy of effective apartheid for the Palestineans? There's a place in Hell for you.
9. Philipé Calderon. You taking lessons from George W. Bush? Everybody knows you didn't win that election. What you're doing to Oaxaca reserves you the place beside Olmert in the afterlife.
10. (I know I'm going to get a lot of flak for this one. I'm ready.) The American Electorate. You put Bush back in; you haven't stopped the massacres in Iraq or Afghastan or Darfur; you continue to profligately consume the resources of the entire world and shape your identities around consumerism and single-selfishness while claiming to be the NUMBER ONE people on Earth. Are yo u fooling anyone except yourselves? You've got the compassion of a demon.

The G21 READERSHIP POLL

With year's end, we continue our annual tradition of seeking your nominations for the G21 PERSON OF THE YEAR.

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 2006?

DEADLINE for your nominations is 1 January, 2007.? The results will be published in our first edition of 2007.

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!

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