each month i will choose someone that has done something stupid or silly that deserves a months recognition. below are some i made of the past months.
and for that reason we are declaring Charles Taylor to be the Loser of the month of January.
Romney partly financed his campaign with his own personal fortune, contributing over $35 million of the $90 million raised by his campaign, as of December 31, 2007.
Following the results of the 2008 Super Tuesday primaries, Romney suspended his campaign for the presidential nomination on February 7, 2008.
Not so much does March's award go to a person but a group. this is a good group but has the wrong approaches. reporters are not going to convince governments to boycott an opening ceremony unfortunately. so i award march to Reporters Without Borders.
these guys get this award for April for using the get out of jail free (bankruptcy) card. the reason being is that there was bad bookkeeping. imagine that! Frontier Airlines, you are the loser of the month!
May was a toss up between Microsoft and Yahoo for not coming to a deal when Microsoft proposed to buy Yahoo! oh well not everyone is smart.
the June Winner is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. is a prisoner in U.S. custody for alleged acts of terrorism, includingmass murder of civilians. He was charged on February 11, 2008 with war crimes and murder by a U.S. military commission and faces the death penalty if convicted.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was a member of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda organization, although he lived in Kuwait rather thanAfghanistan, heading al-Qaeda's propaganda operations from sometime around 1999.. He is also thought to have had, or has confessed to, a role in many of the most significant terrorist plots over the last twenty years, including the World Trade Center 1993 bombings, the Operation Bojinka plot, an aborted 2002 attack on Los Angeles' U.S. Bank Tower, the Bali nightclub bombings, the failed bombing of American Airlines Flight 63, the Millennium Plot, and the murder of Daniel Pearl.
Ben Bernanke wins July. this man should win as long as we have an economic crisis. David Leonhardt of The New York Times wrote, on January 30, 2008, that "Dr. Bernanke's forecasts have been too sunny over the last six months. [On] the other hand, his forecast was a lot better than Wall Street's in mid-2006. Back then, he resisted calls for further interest rate increases because he thought the economy might be weakening. He was dead-on right about that — and the situation would be even worse now if he had listened to his critics then."
On March 16, 2008, JPMorgan Chase announced its intention to acquire Wall Street investment bank Bear Stearns Inc. The proposed purchase is controversial due to the unprecedented involvement of Bernanke's Federal Reserve System. JPMorgan Chase agreed to pay $236 million, but shortly after the deal was announced, the Federal Reserve System confirmed that in a complex package of debt securitization agreements, they were underwriting the deal for around $30 billion.
Doping is a sure fire way of getting on this list. so we present the award of August to Antonio Pettigrew. potential Olympic runner from the US. (what a way to show who we reall are.)
Pettigrew is now an assistant coach at the University of North Carolina.
In 2008, prosecution documents related to the trial of coach Trevor Graham listed Pettigrew as one of Graham's athletes to have used performance enhancing drugs. Pettigrew has since admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs and testified against Graham at his trial in May 2008. Although IAAF rules currently do not retrospectively alter results more than eight years after the event, Pettigrew has returned the medals he won in that period. The 2000 Sydney Olympics 4 x 400 metres relay US team was stripped of their medals after Pettigrew admitted that he had used performance-enhancing drugs.
The Palins win September for the attempted cover up of Bristol's 5 month pregnancy. the reason the story broke is because of the fact that she is not married and her mother is pro abstinence. ha ha, nothing says sticking it to the (wo)man like getting pregnant before your married and ruining your mother campaign. woo hoo to liabilities!
wasnt proven that he killed his wife so he was proven that he committed an armed robbery to get some of his stuff back. OJ Simpson wins October over his epitome of pure stupidity.
on September 16, Simpson was arrested for his involvement in the robbery and held without bail. He admitted taking the items, which he said had been stolen from him, but denied breaking into the room. Simpson also denied the allegation that he or the people with him carried weapons. On October 3, 2008, Simpson was found guilty of all twelve charges, exactly 13 years after he was acquitted of the murders of his wife, Nicole, and Ronald Goldman. Sentencing is set for December 5, 2008.
so these are January Through October. November will be posted on December 1st.
