Thursday, January 27, 2005

Top ten lists

Acidman has a couple of post up on the top ten people who either improved this country or fucked this country up in his lifetime.

Now, I respectfully submit that I have less lifetime to work with than that ancient geezer august gentleman, but I can probably find a few people that are a bit different. I can't say that it was easy to pick either list.

My top ten people who fucked this country up in my lifetime-

#1 - Jimmy Carter - most of the Middle East issues that we are now dealing with started under his Administration. It was his weak leadership that allowed a lot of crap to get out of control. The people who followed his leadership on this issue are too many to be counted individually.

#2 - Al Sharpton - Jesse Jackson might be the Race-baiting poverty pimp who was MLK's associate, but it was Al Sharpton in my eyes who made being a poverty hustler into an established profession.

#3 - Bill Clinton - Let's see, allowing Osama bin Laden to slip through his fingers not once but TWICE is more than enough to put him on this list, but his incompitant handling of this country, his butchering of the military, allowing the Army to be his little social experiment, not responding to the terrorist attacks against this country overseas, and forcing little girls and boys to learn just what a blow-job is before their parents really wanted them to know are all just a small part of how this man fucked up my country. I debated putting him up at #1, but I figured that 'ol Jimmah started the spineless Democrat revolution that we see the fruit of today.

#4 - George Bush Sr. - I hate to add him to this list, but he was the first president to start making cuts in the military that Reagan had built. He was also the first to start raising taxes, and his kowtowing to the "international community" left Saddam in power after we had the perfect opportunity to take him out. Too many fuck-ups, most of which we are now dealing withthe results of. On the list he goes.

#5 - Aaron Spelling - TV just wouldn't be the same without him. Which makes it a shame that we're not without him.

#6 - Al Gore - One word - Florida. If it hadn't been for Gore trying to steal the election with mandated "recounts" in hand selected countied with highly Democratic populations and carefully "supervised" vote picking, this country wouldn't be in the electoral mess that we're in. Although it was probably a matter of time before the Donks tried the same hijinks, it was Gore who made robbing elections a public part of the Democrat's election strategy.

#7 - Sarah Brady - There are a lot of different groups out there trying to take the 2nd Amendment and wipe their ass with it, but only one group has an actual name attached to it. Brady made gun grabbing a household part of politics.

#8 - Janet Reno - Waco. Ruby Ridge. Elian Gonzales. While the Left howls about John Ashcroft and his policies, it was Reno who pretty much shat on the Constitution with the full blessing of Bill Clinton's administration.

#9 - Jesse Jackson - Al Sharpton might be higher on the list, but Jesse Jackson has done more to hurt racial relations in this country than almost anybody else. You can lump people like Julian Bond and Kwese Mfume with Jackson if you like.

#10 - This is a toss-up between the founder of DU and the people who frequent it. I can't figure out what's worse, a group of anti-American assholes who have nothing better to do than come up with conspieracy theories and badmouth the very country that makes their freedom possible, or the person responsible for giving that group a place to hang out.

Now then, for the top ten people who improved this country.

#1 - Ronald Reagan - Won the Cold War. Period. Like A-Man, I can remember having to do "desk drills" in case of a nuclear attack. I remember how I felt when the Berlin Wall came down, and when the USSR fell apart. It call comes down to the actions of one man - Reagan. On the flip side, this is also why so many liberals hate him. Let's not forget that it was his tax cuts that put this country on more than a decade of economic growth.

#2 - Acidman has Jonah Salk as his #2, but as it has to be people in my lifetime, I'll go with his #3, Bill Gates, and for the same reasons. I remember programing in BASIC back before DOS had been invented, and I'm sure that many of my readers are nodding their heads going "Yep". Gates made is possible for anyone to get a computer and get online. Even people like myself who download Mozilla's Firefox browser are still running Windows in order to do it.

#3 - Newt Gingrich - Led the Republican Revolution back in 1992-1996, and had the good sense to resign rather than drag the Republicans through a process that would have given the Donks a perfect chance to lie, slander, attack, and destroy what they had accomplished. Welfare reform is one example of what he pushed through congress.

#4 - Colin Powell - I don't think he was all that great as SecState, but he was the first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs that wasn't white, and by all accounts was a hell of a soldier. He made his rank and his life through hard work and superior effort, in an age where he could have coasted and taken what the establishment would give him. When the race baiters and poverty pimps tried to recruit him as their spokesman, he politely told them to go to hell.

#5 - Thomas Sowell - Never has one man with so great an intellect been so slandered and maligned by the Left for of all things... his color. Sowell was probably the first real columnist I started reading when he wrote for Forbes Magazine. The man is a flat out genius, and has probably done more to advance clear thinking and honest debate in this country than anyone else who ever picked up a pen. If you want to learn how to argue and debate, learn Sowell's layout and tactics.

#6 - Rush Limbaugh - I'm sure that a lot of you are now going "Oh, bullshit!" but it was Rush who brought about the conservative talk radio movement. Until he came on the air and started saying the very things that everybody else wanted to say, conservatives didn't have jack shit for a voice in the national media. Even Seattle has two conservative radio stations now, but it was Rush Limbaugh who broke the wall first. I can take him or leave him at this point, but he made conservative radio possible. And it wasn't until I lived in Seattle that I finally realized that he wasn't exaggerating when he described liberals and their politics.

#7 - Rupert Merdoch. In the same vein as Rush, it was Merdoch who gave conservatives a place to get information that wasn't so biased that the news ticker was even tilted to the left. Now that CNN and MSNBC are losing viewers to Fox News, the rest of the media establishment is maybe kinda sorta starting to wake up, although CBS is proof to the contrary.

#8 - Jim Henson - The Muppets. The Dark Crystal. 'Nuff said. I can remember the one and only episode of the Muppets where Gonzo actually got to finish the trumpet fanfair at the end. My dad remembers watching Howdie Doodie when he was a kid. My generation remembers The Muppet Show.

#9 - George W. Bush - "But I can hear you! And the people who did this are gonna hear from ALL of us real soon!" A few months later, the Taliban was wetting their turbans, and the phrase "Bush Doctrine" was known nationwide. Much of what he's done in office can be debated, but making it clear to terrorists and the nations who support them that the USA will no longer tolerate their presence was the first time in over two decades that the USA had done anything about terrorism in general.

#10 - I'm gonna toss this one out as a debatable entry - John F. Kerry. For thirty years, this country had been silent about Viet Nam and the people who fought there. It wasn't until John F. Kerry pushed his way to the Democratic forefront that the veterans who had suffered through his slander, and the slander of all the Left, managed to find their voice and speak out. There were a lot of issues cleared up for some people, and the Viet Nam war is no longer some taboo topic, not to be touched for fear of re-awakening some long buried pain. The Viet Nam vets made it known that the Left had lied about them for thirty years, and they weren't going to take it anymore. Kerry is a disgusting, opportunistic worm, but his actions brought about the open discussion of Viet Nam, which was overdue and much needed.

OK, there's my lists. Feel free to flame away.

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