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| Person of the Year 2011; Time Megazine | |
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| Axtremus | Dec 14 2011, 09:16 AM Post #1 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Time megazine's Person of the Year for 2011 is ... "The Protestor." Source: http://www.time.com/time/person-of-the-year/2011/ I think it's a great choice, considering the "Arab Spring" and its ramifications. |
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| jon-nyc | Dec 14 2011, 09:19 AM Post #2 |
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Cheers
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I thought it a weak attempt to include everyone. It should have been Mohomad Bouazizi. Or Seal Team 6. |
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| Axtremus | Dec 14 2011, 09:26 AM Post #3 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Seal Team 6 (and all those who enabled them to do what they did) did the Unites States great service, but for impact on the trajectory of world history, "Arab Spring" still takes the cake. |
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| jon-nyc | Dec 14 2011, 09:28 AM Post #4 |
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Cheers
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Hence my first choice. Trying to inclde the Occupy Sesame Street crowd and the Teabaggers was pathetic. I understand they have to sell magazines, and Bouazizi wouldn't do that in the US. So they could at least have chosen Seal Team 6, that would have sold magazines. Oh - and Bin Laden dramatically |
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| Axtremus | Dec 14 2011, 09:31 AM Post #5 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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That I agree. |
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| Axtremus | Dec 14 2011, 09:32 AM Post #6 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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But Time didn't have the balls to name him Person of the Year then. |
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| George K | Dec 14 2011, 09:48 AM Post #7 |
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Finally
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Being "Man of the Year" is not always a good thing: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,760539,00.html |
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| Axtremus | Dec 14 2011, 09:51 AM Post #8 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Exactly. Time had the balls to name Hitler "Man of the Year" then, but appear castrated when it's Bin Laden's turn. |
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| The 89th Key | Dec 14 2011, 10:39 AM Post #9 |
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I think it's a good pick, although I disagree with Time's habit of choosing a group of people (or a website, like YouTube) for their "person". |
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| Lucky Lurker | Dec 14 2011, 01:18 PM Post #10 |
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Junior Carp
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If you protest the choice, aren't you adding yourself to the group: "Man of the Year". |
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Sock puppet permit rejected. Still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest. | |
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| The 89th Key | Dec 14 2011, 01:28 PM Post #11 |
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| Copper | Dec 14 2011, 02:08 PM Post #12 |
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Shortstop
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It's getting to be like those Who's Who books that make all their money selling the books to the people in the books. |
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