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Me#1You#10 Site Admin
Joined: 06 May 2004 Posts: 6503
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Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 3:55 pm Post subject: "Persons of the Year"? |
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About the only consolation I can find in this abject elevation of feel-good leftism is the indigestion that must be occuring over the canonization of the Microsoft monster himself. (emphasis mine)
Quote: | The Good Samaritans
For being shrewd about doing good, for rewiring politics and re-engineering justice, for making mercy smarter and hope strategic and then daring the rest of us to follow, Bill and Melinda Gates and Bono are TIME's Persons of the Year.
By NANCY GIBBS
Posted Sunday, Dec. 18, 2005
These are not the people you expect to come to the rescue.
Rock stars are designed to be shiny, shallow creatures, furloughed from reality for all time. Billionaires are even more removed, nestled atop fantastic wealth where they never again have to place their own calls or defrost dinner or fly commercial. So Bono spends several thousand dollars at a restaurant for a nice Pinot Noir, and Bill Gates, the great predator of the Internet age, has a trampoline room in his $100 million house. It makes you think that if these guys can decide to make it...
Time - cont'd |
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AMOS Senior Chief Petty Officer
Joined: 30 Jul 2004 Posts: 558 Location: IOWA
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Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 4:06 pm Post subject: Joke |
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What a joke. What's all this whoop-de-do crap about Bono? What about Tookie? |
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Me#1You#10 Site Admin
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Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 4:13 pm Post subject: |
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In the rarefied, guilt-laden atmosphere of an elitist Time editorial boardroom, homage to the wealth re-distributors is a sure bet. |
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GM Strong Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy
Joined: 18 Sep 2004 Posts: 1579 Location: Penna
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Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 4:44 pm Post subject: |
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The list of people who mattered will make you ill.
Included are Momma Moonbat, McCain for the Al Queda Bill of Rights and Harry Reid for nuking SocSec Reform and Geena Davis - for what???
It's a magazine for Moonbats. _________________ 8th Army Korea 68-69 |
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LewWaters Admin
Joined: 18 May 2004 Posts: 4042 Location: Washington State
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Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 5:02 pm Post subject: |
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Time can't understand why I canceled my subscription
To me, a good choice would have been Iraqis sporting purple fingers |
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SBD Admiral
Joined: 19 Aug 2004 Posts: 1022
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Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 5:40 pm Post subject: |
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If Time really wanted to pick the most famous men of the year, it should have been the US Soldier for their fight against terrorism and bulding a Democracy in the Middle East.
BTW,
The picture looks as if, just before the picture was taken, Bono tried to grab Melinda's A** or something. So she went to hide behind the globe and Bill liked it!!
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GM Strong Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy
Joined: 18 Sep 2004 Posts: 1579 Location: Penna
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Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 6:33 pm Post subject: |
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.. and that globe is showing Africa, the world's basket case and center for despots and thugs. A serious move to relieve the poverty would be to counteract the corruption, thievery and brutality of the governments, not throw money at them. Those people need a whole lot more than rich liberal folks giving alms to feel better. Dictatorial gangsters like Mugabe do not make things better for their people. _________________ 8th Army Korea 68-69 |
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blue9t3 Admiral
Joined: 23 Aug 2004 Posts: 1246 Location: oregon
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Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 3:22 am Post subject: |
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You guys are brutal! Maybe It should go to the new iraq police/army. Play it up big-time after al-jazeera becomes a glass lined swimming pool? _________________ MOPAR-BUYER |
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Doll Commander
Joined: 04 Jul 2005 Posts: 339 Location: The Beltway
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Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 5:15 am Post subject: |
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Pathetic! My mother does all kinds of cheritable works. SHE should of been nominated!
Just another left sickening "spin". _________________
The HILL Chronicles
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"Wednesday Hero - Google It!" |
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GenrXr Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy
Joined: 05 Aug 2004 Posts: 1720 Location: Houston
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Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 5:33 am Post subject: |
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Me#1You#10 wrote: | In the rarefied, guilt-laden atmosphere of an elitist Time editorial boardroom, homage to the wealth re-distributors is a sure bet. |
The irony to me is Carnegie had guilt shortly before his death and his contributions were more of a personal redemption then anything else, yet we have a story calling gates a philantrhopic predator.
Gates is giving his money at a very young age and his rise to great riches was IBM, DEC and Apple's decision the future was hardware and not software. I have never thought of a rabbit feasting upon a healthy lion as a predator.
The true beauty of Microsoft is that the rabbit ate the lion.
I am very unhappy with the OS, yet it HAS improved everyones life beyond our imagination.
For those people who at one time kept a paper ledger, I am sure there is consensus.
As for who should of been the people of the year?
The coalition soldiers who made possible Iraq's Democracy!
Duh! _________________ "An activist is the person who cleans up the water, not the one claiming its dirty."
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to stand by and do nothing." Edmund Burke (1729-1797), Founder of Conservative Philosophy |
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wwIIvetsdaughter Captain
Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Posts: 513 Location: McAllen, Texas
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Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2005 2:20 am Post subject: |
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I read my Time magazine less and less. Over the past few years, I have noted it's bias and am letting my subscription expire, one I've had continously for 30 years. Any suggestions on a good newsmagazine to replace it? What about the National Standard? |
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I B Squidly Vice Admiral
Joined: 26 Aug 2004 Posts: 879 Location: Cactus Patch
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Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2005 10:09 am Post subject: |
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WWIIvetsDaughter,
A caution about those old Times. They're not absorbent and don't work well in the small room. I cancelled Newsweek 30 years ago and can't recommend a replacement. Here on this site you should realize dead trees should've been left to grow.
Every deadtree, old media you can remember the name of is here on the web. Some want subsriptions but anything worthwhile (and not archived) appears somewhere free.
Local admin does an excellant job linking items of interest. After Drudge this is my daily must read. Townhall, Frontpage, Freepers and on and on reflect my interest. You'l have yours and they're only a keystroke away. _________________ "KILL ALL THE LAWYERS!"
-Wlm Shakespeare
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AMOS Senior Chief Petty Officer
Joined: 30 Jul 2004 Posts: 558 Location: IOWA
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Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2005 3:49 pm Post subject: The American Enterprise magazine |
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I canceled Time mag. subscription yesterday, 12/23 and tried to cancel Newsweek, too, but they were closed for the weekend! What service! Where am I?
I'm going to stick with Sports Illustrated and Reader's Digest so I don't get pissed off so much.
How about The American Enterprise magazine? |
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GM Strong Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy
Joined: 18 Sep 2004 Posts: 1579 Location: Penna
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Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2005 4:01 pm Post subject: |
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The two best for the VRWC readers are National Review and The American Spectator. _________________ 8th Army Korea 68-69 |
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USAFE5 PO2
Joined: 23 Aug 2004 Posts: 362 Location: Reno Nevada
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Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2005 4:46 pm Post subject: |
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I read the only important things on the last page of the "living" section in my local paper - the colored page on sundays _________________ "The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I’m here to help." Ronald Reagan |
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