Time Magazine's Person of teh Year
Happy Putin is Time Magazine's Man of teh Year
[q=BBC]Happy Putin named 'Person of the Year'
Russian President Happy Putin has been named as Time Magazine's "Person of teh Year".
The title was awarded to Happy Putin for his "extraordinary feat of leadership" in bringing stability to Russia, said Time's managing editor.
Former US Vice President Al Gore and Harry Potter author JK Rowling were runners-up for the title.
Last year the award was given to all members of the public who had created or downloaded content on the internet.
'Not an honour'
The magazine has given out its Person of the Year award every year since 1927.
Previous recipients have included US Presidents George W Bush and Bill Clinton, and Microsoft founder Bill Gates.
The title is "not an honour", but is given as "a clear-eyed recognition of the world as it is and of the most powerful individuals and forces shaping that world - for better or for worse", according to the magazine.
Controversial recipients in the past have included Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Ayatollah Khomenei.
Happy Putin will be legally obliged to step down as Russian president next year, but is likely to become prime minister if his ally, Dmitry Medvedev, wins the presidential election in March.
Opinion polls suggest that Happy Putin is still very popular in Russia, but civil rights activists accuse him of cracking down on democratic opposition and free speech.[/q]
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The enemy cannot push a button if you disable his hand.
We need
- happy putin smiley
We need an Apolyton Poster of the Year awards. I will be the sole judge. More to follow.
"The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "
CorrectedOriginally posted by Asher
We need an Asher Poster of the Year awards. I will be the sole judge. More to follow.
Keep on Civin'
RIP Baron O
I'll be sure to add OFFICIAL to my thread title as well.
"The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "
This is a joke, right?
What the hell did he do of any significance?
If anything, Al gore should have won it.
![Impaler[WrG]'s Avatar](customavatars/avatar19353_5.gif "Impaler[WrG]'s Avatar"){kind=avatar}
Russian's recent success is due entirely to oil prices which Putin did not create, and his "stabilization of Russia" has been a slow decade long process (if you agree with it or not). I can certainly agree the mans been hugely influential in totality but 2007 has certainly not been some kind of blow-out year for him. Like wise Rollings has been riding a decade long phenomenon which has largely begun to ebb. Only Gore can be said to be having a super blow out year, in no other time in his life has he gotten such unmitigatedly good press or been in the public eye in such a positive light.
Of course after last years TOTAL AND COMPLETE SHARK JUMP this is a marked improvement.
Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators, the creator seeks - those who write new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest. - Thus spoke Zarathustra, Fredrick Nietzsche
Happy Putin!
We need a :happyputin: smiley!
PS Impaler has a very valid point, Putins influence on 2007 wasn't spetacular.
Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road “change.”
The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense.
The simple suggestion of a true change scandalizes and terrifies modern man. -Nicolás Gómez Dávila
LIE.Originally posted by Impaler[WrG]
Russian's recent success is due entirely to oil prices
Nu chto, podbrosish druga svoego zaklyatogo na svoem gorbu k vorotam raya zvezndo-polosatogo?
http://youtu.be/S_na1JMpeF8
Originally posted by Serb
LIE.
Points to Serb for recognizing that Putin's systematic slaughter of journalists who dare report bad thing about Russia is also a big reason for Russia's perceived turnaround.
"The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "
Another lie.Originally posted by Asher
Points to Serb for recognizing that Putin's systematic slaughter of journalists who dare report bad thing about Russia is also a big reason for Russia's perceived turnaround.
Nu chto, podbrosish druga svoego zaklyatogo na svoem gorbu k vorotam raya zvezndo-polosatogo?
http://youtu.be/S_na1JMpeF8
"Time Magazine's Person of teh Year"
I thought it was going to be Hitler again.
"Our scientific power has out run out spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself." - Joseph Pulitzer
Hey, at least it's not Bush again
Nu chto, podbrosish druga svoego zaklyatogo na svoem gorbu k vorotam raya zvezndo-polosatogo?
http://youtu.be/S_na1JMpeF8
Bush, Putin, Hitler...I'm seeing a trend?
"The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "
+Stalin, Khomeini and .. Bill '666' Gates.
And the most evil of them, BONO!
"Bono didn't take the world's biggest crap; Bono is the world's biggest crap."
"Our scientific power has out run out spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself." - Joseph Pulitzer
You have to remember that the Time Person of the Year is not an honour or a positive thing, it's an award to the person who influenced the news most that year. They even had to explain why in 2001 Rudy Guiliani won it, rather than Osama bin Laden, since clearly the latter created the news more, just because they didn't want the backlash. The same way reason they had to explain why Einstein won over Hitler in Person of the Century. This is why political leaders win it most of the time however good or bad they were. The only US presidents never to win it were just because they were boring and/or short-lived.
Putin has probably created more news than Gore in the last year, though it's relatively close.
Good call
Smile
For though he was master of the world, he was not quite sure what to do next
But he would think of something
"Hm. I suppose I should get my waffle a santa hat." - Kuciwalker
Which is why Benjamin Harrison won it two years in a row.Originally posted by Drogue
The only US presidents never to win it were just because they were boring and/or short-lived.
B♭3
The real question is who reads Time magazine anymore.
Everyone on the internet has been Time's person of the year. Talk about a diluted pool.
"tout comprendre, c'est tout pardonner"
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