***Time Names Its Persons of the Year---The Gates, Bono***

[WritingIsMyReligion]

Maybe you all have seen this already, but....

From CNN:

Time names Bono, Bill and Melinda Gates Persons of Year

(CNN) -- The good deeds of an activist rock legend and one of the world's richest men and his wife carried the day in 2005, as Time magazine on Sunday named U2 frontman Bono and philanthropic couple Bill and Melinda Gates as its "Persons of the Year."

{snip}

The magazine said that while sudden disasters grab the headlines, other tragedies unfold daily.

"And who is proving most effective in figuring out how to eradicate those calamities? In different ways, it is Bill and Melinda Gates, co-founders of the world's wealthiest charitable foundation, and Bono, the Irish rocker who has made debt reduction sexy," Time's managing editor Jim Kelly writes.

Rest of article here at:

www.cnn.com/2005/US/12/18/time.poy/index.html

I'm just happy as hell it isn't *.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

1. GD moving fast....

Shameless self-kick.

:kick:

[tridim]

2. Darth Vader? They're talking about Cheney right?

"Time's list of "People Who Mattered" in 2005 ran the gamut from President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney to a fictional villain, a spy and the leader of the Roman Catholic Church. (Photo essay)

Along with Darth Vader, CIA agent Valerie Plame and Pope Benedict XVI, Time tapped:"

[WritingIsMyReligion]

4. Pfft yeah, I just saw that.

:D :D

[WritingIsMyReligion]

3. Plus they add the "People Who Mattered" later....

"Along with Darth Vader, CIA agent Valerie Plame and Pope Benedict XVI, Time tapped:


Plame's husband, former diplomat Joseph Wilson

Texas Rep. and former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay

Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Apple computer chief Steve Jobs

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin

U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald

British Prime Minister Tony Blair

Google's Larry Page and Sergey Brin

Chief Justice John Roberts

Peace activist Cindy Sheehan

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice

"Commander in Chief" star Geena Davis

Sen. John McCain, an Arizona Republican.

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada

Rapper Kanye West

Teen golfer Michelle Wie, who turned pro in '05."

[indie_voter]

5. I was hoping for Fitzgerald. Maybe next year. n/t

[WritingIsMyReligion]

7. Yeah, after the KKKabal has had its ass kicked....

:D

[Warren Stupidity]

6. Bono and the Gates are suckups

Yes they do good but they suck up to The Cabal. I'm sure they have their reasons - perhaps it is the expedient thing to do, but it is sickening and it most likely is prolonging the inevitable downfall, and that is unforgivable.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

8. Sickening, yes. Unforgivable?

That I have to think on. Certainly they could do with less pandering...

[Warren Stupidity]

9. They perpetuate the myth that The Cabal

is a legitimate authority, that it isn't in fact The Cabal - the rulers of a rogue super power hell bent on world domination, but rather the elected leaders of a responsible industrial democracy who act responsibly with other such nations in the international community. In doing so they join my list of those who must be held accountible for their actions after the fall.

[Deja Q]

10. The guy who ditched the dollar and then mocked its future?

I didn't know unpatriotic scum were contenders for that prestigious award...

Thanks, Time.

[agingdem]

11. Should have been...

Hurricane Katrina.