Anyone want to play along? Nominations can be local or famous. Please include a short explanation of what they did that warrants their inclusion in the list. Submit just one name or enter an entire top 10 list. I don't see us actually narrowing things down to a final top 10 given how crowded the field is and how many deserving recipients there must be.

I believe Andy had someone in mind to get the ball rolling...

George W Bush : Not so much evil, as unforgiveably stupid.

Is it customery to have a Tom_O_Bedlam comment between EVERY SINGLE POST now?

why wasn't I notified?

Yeah, I nominated Shaun Woodward, but I was being a little frivolous. He's not so much evil as unbelievably cynical and contemptuous, I guess. He's a millionaire who used to be a Conservative MP, until just before the last election he crossed the floor to Labour, because of the latter's dominance of Parliament. Wanted to be on the winning side, basically. Labour chose a safe, deprived constituency (which he'd never deigned to visit beforehand) and, in a very democratic move, kicked out any long-serving candidates who may have defeated him. He was predictably returned with a clear majority by the constituency's electorate. Hence the (not very funny) joke:

How do you get an ex-Tory with a butler elected to parliament for working class St Helens?
Stand for New Labour!

But I'm sure I can do a lot better than that. George W doesn't deserve it either. I don't think he's evil, but he's being manipulated by people who might be so-described. I'll put my thinking cap on.

Hit morons.org. Lotsa fodder there.

And personally, I'd hafta say that wossname US Secretary of Defense (I THINK it's him...) is being a major tight-ass, even at the possible expense of those neat things we Americans have that we call civil liberties. Next thing I know, I'll be bum-raped by Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell, the both of them wearing John 3:16 cockrings and humming "Nearer, My God, To Thee".

Sorry, just had to rant.

-DH1

How about...

George W. Bush for shooting the Kyoto envirnmental treaty in the head?

Or maybe...

George W. Bush, for initiating a "war" on a third-world country, supposedly to catch one man, despite admitting many times that bin Laden was never a bombing target?

Or maybe...

George W. Bush, for hiding like a rabbit when he should have been visibly leading his nation during a terrifying time?

I could go on.

John Presscott hit someone, so I guess that counts.

But the person he punched was a Welsh farmer with a mullet. Which should make ol' 'Two Jabs' Prescott a hero, in my opinion.

I REALLY want to name all the republicans, but to be fair I'll say Senator Tom Daschle for exempting a mining company in his state from laws regarding the poison the pumped into their workers and environment.

This is one of those topics i gotta close my eyes and ignore...

Bitching about politicians is fun. They're all scum, anyway.

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But the person he punched was a Welsh farmer with a mullet. Which should make ol' 'Two Jabs' Prescott a hero, in my opinion.

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How about...

George W. Bush for shooting the Kyoto envirnmental treaty in the head?

Or maybe...

George W. Bush, for initiating a "war" on a third-world country, supposedly to catch one man, despite admitting many times that bin Laden was never a bombing target?

Or maybe...

George W. Bush, for hiding like a rabbit when he should have been visibly leading his nation during a terrifying time?

I could go on.

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But the person he punched was a Welsh farmer with a mullet. Which should make ol' 'Two Jabs' Prescott a hero, in my opinion.

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Yeah. The guy he punched deserved it. Two Jags is still a fat waste of space, though.

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How 'bout Canadian politicians? About a month ago Albertas premiere ralph klein got drunk and told a bunch of homeless guys to get a job. We can't even understand our prime minister, who says things like "Elth Plan" (health plan) and "Avv"(have), and I forget who it was, but some Canadian politic guy pretty much flipped western canada "the bird", and last, Stockwell Day had the tax dollars pey for his $80,000 Court Case. Sheesh.

Did you see Dubya suing for peace between the "Indians and Pakis"? Most amusing.

In no particular order,

John Ashcroft
Strom Thurmond
Willian Rehnquist
Jesse Helms
Katherine Harris
Trent Lott
Orrin Hatch
Jeb Bush
GW Bush
Ralph Nader

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In no particular order,

John Ashcroft
Strom Thurmond
Willian Rehnquist
Jesse Helms
Katherine Harris
Trent Lott
Orrin Hatch
Jeb Bush
GW Bush
Ralph Nader

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Explanations should go with these....

John Ashcroft--for ridding the American justice system of obsolete chestnuts such as due process and the Bill of Rights, in the name of "protecting" us.

Strom Thurmond--for not dying, and for having a 29-year-old son at age 98.

Willian Rehnquist--for forgetting that states' rights was a pet cause of the right, when he realized that holding to that cause might mean a Democrat in the White House.

Katherine Harris--for being a shrewish harpy and a shameless cheerleader for the right wing (because that's really all that conservative women know how to do, besides cook and make babies); the fact that she was a cog in W's election machine is gravy.

Jesse Helms, Trent Lott, Orrin Hatch--perennially evil. Though Helms did perhaps the only thing that might merit exclusion from this list by announcing his retirement.

Jeb Bush--W's brother and governor of Florida. W won Florida. Coincidence?
GW Bush--if you gotta ask, you're dumber than he is.

Ralph Nader--for fucking up the election just because he could, and because I thought it would be funny to list a knee-jerk lefty among all these conservatives.

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You forgot VP puppet-master and cyborg Cheney. Oh... ran out of space? Well, he's got his hand so far up GW's ass you could count them as one.

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Oh, forgot about Australia's darling Prime Minister, little Johnny Howard. The main thing he did to piss me off this year was getting re-elected. I hate that! Otherwise...

- He used the WTC attacks for his own political advantage, travelling over to the US to climb up GWB's arse (obviously Dick Cheney had to shift his arm to accommodate him) and posing for photo after photo after photo. You Americans might not know who he is, but you would have seen him - for a couple of weeks after the attacks he was the short, balding guy with big eyebrows, following GWB around like a stray dog. Before the US had announced any retaliatory action, little Johnny had said that he would support any and all actions the US decided to take. When that action inevitably turned out to be immoral and in violation of God knows how many treaties, he stuck with it.

- For a change, the right thing and what he did happened to coincide, and he would not let us forget it. Australia has a big problem with illegal immigrants from the Middle East, travelling to Indonesia, tossing all their ID, and hopping a rickety boat to Australia. Their missing ID makes it very hard to prove that they are wealthy Iranians and Pakistanis looking to jump the legal immigration queue by posing as genuinely asylum-needy Afghans. Anyway, little Johnny put his foot down and told them to piss off, as you no doubt heard. What you didn't hear about was the political mileage he got out of it - his whole re-election campaign was centred around how he could be trusted to make hard decisions when necessary. The slogan should have been, "Look! I can do the right thing occasionally!"

This is the same guy who introduced a GST (sales tax) even though he almost lost an election over the issue. After the election, in which 51% of the voting population voted for the other guy, but due to the arrangement of electorates his party managed to keep a majority of seats, he announced that the Australian people had given him a mandate to introduce the GST.

Hand the dumb fuck a dictionary, please.

Adding to the Canadian politicians list, I think Liberal MP Tom Wappel deserves a mention. Denying an 81-year-old blind veteran financial aid is evil, but writing him a sarcasm-filled letter that said he was doing so because the veteran didn't vote for him in the last election (ignoring the fact that it was a secret ballot and he shouldn't have had those records at all) is the kind of pull-your-heart-out-and-run-it-over-with-a-truck evil that most politicians can only aspire to.

And let us not forget Ronald Reagan. In 2001 just the thought of him kept so many of our elected officials such as Georgia's Bob Barr furiously masturbating, not only did they fail to get anything constructive done, their poor little peepees all got chafy and red.

Yeah, Congress was going to take away Metro's funding if we didn't stick Reagan's name on all our Metro signs. That made a shitload of sense.

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What about Jo Moore and her suggestion that September 11th was "a very good day" to release any bad news the government wanted "buried".

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What about Jo Moore and her suggestion that September 11th was "a very good day" to release any bad news the government wanted "buried".

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mo molem, or howeva you spell it, cuase her fucking face, is a crime against humanity, civil rights, human rights and decency, id rather where a scrotum face mask than her face, i want someone to cum on it and then parade her through public....

Faithless

I bet you're ten times as ugly.

ermm your momma

Saudi Arabia sets aside $50M for 'martyrs'

http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=09042002-050314-4015r

With friends like that...

Hmmmm... Saudi Arabia gives money to Palestinian survivors, a small number of whom are next of kin to suicide bombers. Some western nations (who shall remain nameless) are still selling weapons to the invading nation who caused the conflict in the first place.

Politicians have fucked up priorities...

Just remember, if you're not with us you are against us!

umm, unless you have oil.

or have military bases that we can use.

or you have lots of oil.

or instead of suicide bombs, you kill civilians with tanks.

or you have shitloads of oil.

you get the idea.

65851

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/04/10/eveningnews/main505845.shtml

Does anyone actually think this was a suicide?

Sounds like a long chain of fuckups, really...

I doubt anyone will ever know for sure, except perhaps the muderer, if there is one.

Sob. He'll be missed.

But bodies in cars in the middle of nowhere seem to be a pretty popular way of disguising assassination as suicide. A militant Scottish Nationalist died in similar circumstances a few years ago, and despite the fact that no gun was found near the car, it was ruled a suicide. Presumably, after shooting himself in the face, he buried the gun somewhere and then returned to his car to die.

Well, if you consider that most of his brain was scattered about the car, he probably wasn't thinking straight.

A couple of months ago, some neighbours of mine were found dead, a husband and wife who were known to have been having marriage difficulties. Both had their own businesses, and both had lost a lot of money in the past few years.

The police ruled the deaths a double murder, in that, they killed each other. The wife was found with her windpipe crushed and had suffocated to death, the husband, had a huge samurai sword stabbed right through his chest so far that it stuck out his back.

I can't seem to be able to work out who killed who first.

Is it possible that the wife had been strangled, and then, before passing out managed to get the sword down from above the fireplace and stab her husband?

Or, had she stabbed her husband, and then, as he bled to death, he grabbed her and broke her windpipe?

The latter sounds far more likely. I can far more readily imagine a stabbed person strangling someone else before dying than a strangled person stabbing someone else... Actually, another possibility is that they happened almost simultaneously. Perhaps his hands were around her throat, and the shock of being stabbed made his muscles constrict, and he strangled her almost automatically...

Just ideas - I'm no forensic scientist. :)

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Ah, Scots...

Where do all these Glaswegians get samurai swords, anyway? There seem to be a lot of murders involving them (remember that case a while ago about that guy who was beheaded and disembowled by a friend over a monetary dispute?). Are they stolen from museums or something? Can you buy them easily on the street?

If it truly was a double murder and not a murder-suicide, I would bet she stabbed him first. Asphyxia has a much more rapid effect on the body than bleeding. Once your body begins to be deprived of oxygen, your muscles will no longer function well, so she wouldn't have had the strength to stick a sword through the guy. With severe bleeding, on the other hand, you could keep going for a few minutes before your muscles become deprived of oxygen.

Some fun happy-time links for you all...

http://rense.com/general24/jeninslaughterhouse.htm

http://www.guerrillanews.com/media/doc385.html

Cruelty verging on attempted genocide, gagging the media, invading another nation's lands... Is it just me, or are the Israelis turning into the very people who tried to wipe them out half a century ago?

very good point Dexx. Both sides over there are quite fucked up. Of course, our "wonderful" president decided when he was "elected" to basically ignore the region and hope it would go away. Alot of good that did, reversing nearly 8 years of diplomacy and progress.

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Some fun happy-time links for you all...

http://rense.com/general24/jeninslaughterhouse.htm

http://www.guerrillanews.com/media/doc385.html

Cruelty verging on attempted genocide, gagging the media, invading another nation's lands... Is it just me, or are the Israelis turning into the very people who tried to wipe them out half a century ago?

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http://www.barrycrimmins.com/quips#4-14-02

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (Reuters) - Two Japanese tourists, eager to visit Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, were so engrossed in their guide book, they did not notice they had wandered into a war zone.

It was only when news photographers in flak jackets and helmets spotted the oblivious couple on Wednesday and pointed out the bullet-pocked buildings and military hardware around them that they decided to call off their trip to the Christian shrine.

"We have been on the road for the last six months and we did not watch television or read the newspapers," a bemused Yuji Makano told one photographer, who told him the church was the centre of an Israeli siege of
Palestinian gunmen.

Makano said he and his girlfriend, Mina Takahashi, had been dropped off by a taxi at a checkpoint near Bethlehem and had made their way along streets torn up by armoured vehicles.

In the past, tourists have flocked to the church, which Christians believe is sited on the spot where Jesus was born.

Apart from souvenir vendors, Palestinians normally pay little attention to the visitors, but on Wednesday, local women and children simply gazed at the two in stark disbelief.

Click on this link for the full story and the picture:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/020417/80/cwz84.html

http://www.courier-journal.com/cjextra/editorials/020416-1.html