Casino67 Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 Hey, it could be worse: Guardian person of the year: Voters choose Bradley Manning Voters choose the US whistleblower on trial for leaking state secrets as the Guardian person of the year 2012 Forget the Olympics, mummy porn, particle physics, elections galore and the bravery of a young Pakistani girl. The Guardian's 2012 person of the year vote has concluded and the winner, after some rather fishy voting patterns that belied earlier reader comments on the poll, is Bradley Manning, the US whistleblower on trial for leaking state secrets. It was very much a game of two halves. The overwhelming majority of early votes in the three-day poll went to Malala Yousafzai, the 14-year-old Pakistani girl shot by the Taliban for defending girls' right to education. Malala, who is still recovering from injuries sustained in October, had 70 percent of votes at the halfway stage with many readers predicting a foregone conclusion. "What that kid did really focussed the world on the evil that these men can do - and what evil all people can do when they feel inclined. But it also showed the courage to pull through and the will of others to not succumb to evil," wrote jamieTWC1. But in the latter stages, following a series of tweets from the @Wikileakstwitter handle telling followers to vote Manning, thousands of voters flocked to his cause. Manning secured 70 percent of the vote, the vast majority of them coming after a series of @Wikileaks tweets. Project editor Mark Rice-Oxley said: "It was an interesting exercise that told us a lot about our readers, our heroes and the reasons that people vote." http://www.guardian....012?INTCMP=SRCH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casino67 Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 White House says U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice has removed her name from consideration for Secretary of State after Republicans raised concerns over her initial statements on the Libya terror attack (Fox News) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rheo Posted December 13, 2012 Author Share Posted December 13, 2012 White House says U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice has removed her name from consideration for Secretary of State after Republicans raised concerns over her initial statements on the Libya terror attack (Fox News) Ha. Should have known you would beat me to it. I just posted a thread, but should have looked here first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 Finally: Someone Calls Out Mainstream Media For Being Too Darned Even-Handed Toward Republicans Well It Is About Time!!! Tingles Tells It Like It Is! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickydog Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 White House says U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice has removed her name from consideration for Secretary of State after Republicans raised concerns over her initial statements on the Libya terror attack (Fox News) Ha. Should have known you would beat me to it. I just posted a thread, but should have looked here first. Any tiny little piece of good news is worthy of two posts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 White House says U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice has removed her name from consideration for Secretary of State after Republicans raised concerns over her initial statements on the Libya terror attack (Fox News) Ha. Should have known you would beat me to it. I just posted a thread, but should have looked here first. I feel so bad. I'm going too be morning all day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 Times Man Of the Year And yes your head should be hurting....real bad. He hasn't been announced as man of the year yet. The editors make the final decision. But the whole thing is as meaningful as the Nobel Peace Prize. Just the idea that he is being considered, is very very disturbing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SrWoodchuck Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 Times Man Of the Year And yes your head should be hurting....real bad. Picked by 5.6 million readers of TIME Ragazine? Let's see........population of North Korea is 24,589,122......and according to the comments, an attempt to skew the vote was made on 4chan [don't know what that is].....so Lil' Un, had all the starving NK peasants at state computer terminals.....for 16 straight days......and they went for the buffet meal offered after voting [17 different types of grasses & lichen.] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 @SrWoodchuck Come on, would the leader of the worst nation on this planet do something like that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casino67 Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 @SrWoodchuck Come on, would the leader of the worst nation on this planet do something like that? @SrWoodchuck Come on, would the leader of the worst nation on this planet do something like that? If he thought they did a good job he would throw in tree bark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickydog Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 Yup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 @SrWoodchuck Come on, would the leader of the worst nation on this planet do something like that? @SrWoodchuck Come on, would the leader of the worst nation on this planet do something like that? If he thought they did a good job he would throw in tree bark. Well that would cut into the food supply. Not that Un cares. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geee Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 3,000 US troops secretly return to Iraq via Kuwait http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/12/09/277127/3000-us-troops-secretly-return-to-iraq/ _______________________ I took this link from Drudge. I have never heard of PressTV, but many of the comments are from other countries. Yikes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geee Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 Ah - this makes the comments a little more understandable: Wiki: Press TV is state-funded[11] and is a division of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB). The annual budget of Press TV is 250 billion rials (more than 25 million US$).[12] Press TV broadcasts news reports and analyses which are close to the official position of the Iranian government, and its programmes are monitored and regulated by the Islamic Republic.[13][14] Although there have been attempts to establish private, independent media outlets in Iran, notably by former Iranian Presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi, the 1979 Constitution of the Islamic Republic mandates that "all broadcasting must exclusively be government-operated."[15] Why Drudge would link this as a news source???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhC3sViw2xs I'm sorry...This just doesn't work for me.Actually I lied....I'm not sorry...In Fact I Am Very Very Happy It Doesn't Work For Me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 The TSA In Action! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pollyannaish Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 Aaaaack! Me neither at @Valin. Where are the grown ups? I'm going to scrub my mind with a little Bing and Frank. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted December 15, 2012 Share Posted December 15, 2012 Aaaaack! Me neither at @Valin. Where are the grown ups? I'm going to scrub my mind with a little Bing and Frank. Yesterday was Franks Birthday. December 12, 1915 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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