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50. Barack Obama
Charges: Beyond a few token acts of bipartisan marketing, Barry's major duty in the Senate was to avoid legislating, so he could pretend Washington-outsider status and nullify attacks on his non-existent policy positions. That's the thing about Obama and his candidacy: He was a blank slate, the pinnacle of vapid public relations—onto which the benighted masses may project their sincerest, yet unfounded, hopes in the wake of the worst administration in history. Couldn't disown Rev. Wright, until he suddenly could, and then marred his first moments as president ahead of time by inviting a pastor whose advice to gays is just to refrain from sex for life. Promised not to run for president, then did; vowed to take public election funds, then didn't; backed telecom immunity, then accepted the nomination at the AT&T sponsored convention; expressed displeasure with Clinton's hawkish foreign policy and vote for war in Iraq, then named her as Secretary of State. And despite all that, he's plenty affable. There's nothing more loathsome than a likable politician.
Exhibit A: "Yes we can" is the "Just do it" of politics.
Sentence: Presiding over the decline of an exhausted empire.
49. M. Night Shyamalan
Charges: A font of mediocrity, Shyamalan's success as a screenwriter and director is more confusing than quantum mechanics. He peaked with the overrated, not-at-all-surprising The Sixth Sense and each proceeding film's been worse than the last. This year's The Happening was dumber than an inbred moth. A heavy-handed allegory about humanity's self-destructive environmental impact, starring pseudo-scientific killer plants and Mark Walberg's flared nostrils, it made us want to recreate a scene from the movie and jab ourselves in the neck with a crocheting needle.
Exhibit A: Gave himself the name "Night."
Sentence: Surprise ending to next film: it was actually never made!
48. Barry McCaffrey
Charges: According to Seymour Hersh, the U.S. Army general committed "war crimes" during the Gulf War, ordering his men to murder retreating Iraqi forces after a ceasefire had been declared. More recently, as an NBC military analyst, he was one of the "message force multipliers" at the center of the Pentagon's Iraq war propaganda campaign, uncovered this year by the freedom-hating New York Times. After his 2001 retirement, he started BR McCaffrey Associates, a consulting firm designed to connect Pentagon buyers with military suppliers like Defense Solutions, a company McCaffrey's pitched shamelessly to Generals on Pentagon-sponsored trips to Iraq and Afghanistan, Congress and the American public via his NBC gig—all without disclosing the appalling conflict of interest.
Exhibit A: McCaffrey criticized Rumsfeld's strategy from the start, calling the troop numbers "grossly anemic"—in private, while he assured MSNBC viewers that combat would be over in no more than three weeks.
Sentence: Fragged by Pat Buchanan.
47. Michele Bachmann
Charges: Exemplifies the simmering, all-American fascism lurking behind the forced smiles of uptight church ladies throughout "real America." Echoing Sarah Palin's alarming hints about "helping" the media do its job, Bachmann's casual call for a "penetrating" press investigation into "anti-Americanism" in congress was so fucking dumb it made Chris Matthews seem smart. Once it occurred to the Oral Roberts University graduate that calling for witchhunts against Democrats might be a tad extreme for election season, she decided to just pretend she didn't say it, and then she blamed Chris Matthews. Then she just blamed words. Then she denied it again. Then she won. Way to go, Minnesota's 6th.
Exhibit A: BACHMANN: Actually, that's not what I said at all. COLMES: Well, I'm just — I'm reading your exact quote. BACHMANN: Actually that's not I said. It's an urban legend that was created. That isn't what I said at all. COLMES: We have — it's on tape.
Sentence: Assigned to conduct her own "expose" on anti-American views, in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.
46. Thomas S. Monson
Charges: If Satan were real, and had a severely chapped anus from a fortnight of angry, unlubricated gay sex with an evil moon-dragon, we imagine it'd look a lot like Monson's disturbingly weathered face. As supreme cretin of one of this country's most ridiculous religions (just a nose behind Scientology), the Latter Day Saint did a divine job sanctioning and funding the "Yes on Prop 8" initiative to deny gays the right to be unhappily married. The Mormon faith is based on the existence and translation of magic, golden plates no one has ever seen except the charlatan who claimed they existed, kind of like the evidence that gay weddings threaten "traditional" marriage, which, to Mormons, is defined as between a man and a woman, and a woman, and a woman.
Exhibit A: "Choose your love, Love your choice."
Sentence: Photographed at the Salt Lake City Marriot with an evil moon-dragon named Lance.
45. Nancy Pfotenhauer
Charges: A face so hewn can't be found in American politics outside of the Black Hills—or possibly the Speaker's office. The envy of any giraffe prostitute, her Coulterish neck suggests a correlation between head-shoulder distance and affinity for dissembling fascism. Past crimes include acting as head lobbyist for Koch Industries, which faced 97 indictments and four criminal charges to individuals for dumping benzene, until Koch donated $800,000 to Bush and other Republicans in 2000, and all the charges magically disappeared. As advisor and spokes-liar for the McCain campaign, Nancy touted offshore drilling as the desperate, calculated and completely ineffective solution to America's energy woes. She minimized the environmental impact, claiming "We withstood Hurricanes Rita and Katrina and didn't spill a drop" of oil. There were, in fact, almost 600 spills. Other Pftotenhauer falsifications included pretty much everything else that passed her collagen-bloated lips.
Exhibit A: "But the rest of the state, 'real Virginia,' if you will…" We won't.
Sentence: Projectile vomits crude oil whenever she attempts to speak.
44. Brett Favre
Charges: On the day of March 4th, the perp, a recovering drunk, pill-popper and hick preempted Ohio and Texas primary coverage to announce that his "career is over." Bathed in tears of self-importance, Favre broke the news with the composure one would reserve for describing the next 9/11. We get it: You throw a football. Your now official and permanent retirement, which is permanent and official, is a monumental news event. So, Favre decided to jam some more "vitamins" into his 39 year-old ass and sign on to a middling Jets squad, even though he admitted to leaving the Packers because they had no chance of getting him another ring.
Exhibit A: "I wanted to come across as genuine. I wanted to leave gracefully."
Sentence: Denied Sensodyne, arms and legs bound, encased in ice cream igloo.
43. You
Charges: You think it's your patriotic duty to spend money you don't have on crap you don't need. You think Hillary lost because of sexism, when it's actually because she's just a bad liar. You think Iraq is better off now than before we invaded, and don't understand why they're so ungrateful. You think Tim Russert was a great journalist. You're hopping mad about an auto industry bailout that cost a squirt of piss compared to a Wall Street heist of galactic dimensions, due to a housing crash you somehow have blamed on minorities. It took you six years to figure out what a tool Bush is, but you think Obama will make it all better. You deem it hunky dory that we conduct national policy debates via 8-second clips from "The View." You think God zapped humans into existence a few thousand years ago, although your appendix and wisdom teeth disagree. You like watching vicious assholes insult each other on TV. You support gun rights, because firing one gives you a chubby. You cuddle falsehoods and resent enlightenment. You think the fact that 43% of whites could stomach voting for an incredibly charismatic and eloquent light-skinned black guy who was raised by white people means racism is over. You think progressive taxation is socialism. 1 in 100 of you are in jail, and you think it should be more. You are shallow, inconsiderate, afraid, brand-conscious, sedentary, and totally self-obsessed. You are American.
Exhibit A: You're more upset by Miley Cyrus's glamour shots than the fact that you are a grown adult who is upset about Miley Cyrus.
Sentence: Invaded and occupied by Canada; all military units busy overseas without enough fuel to get back.
42. O.J. Simpson
Charges: Jesus H. Christ, man. You literally get away with murder, to the astonishment of anyone capable of tying their own shoes. Then you write a book, coyly framed as "hypothetical," in which you explain slicing and dicing your ex-wife and some poor shlub by describing her as a pain in the ass. You know the whole country is still gunning for you. And yet, you feel it sensible to try your luck one more time, because some guy in Vegas is selling a football you signed? Sure, O.J.'s sentence was too harsh to believe he wasn't being punished for previous crimes of which he was acquitted, but did anyone think that wasn't going to happen? O.J. could get 33 years for pissing on a tree, and he knew it, so at a minimum the whole "gimme my shit back" caper was unbelievably stupid, the product of a life in which consequences are things that happen to other people. At least now he can get to work on his next book, "If I was an idiot who got himself locked up for life after skating on a double homicide."
Exhibit A: "I'm O.J. Simpson. How am I going to think that I'm going to rob somebody and get away with it? Besides, I thought what happens in Las Vegas stays in Las Vegas."
Sentence: Ghost of Howard Cosell narrates the remainder of OJ's life: "This man, once a man of greatness, now a man fallen, disgraced, disgusting, reduced to defecating in an unenclosed, seatless toilet, in close proximity to other convicted felons, the indignity apparent on his sad, rapidly aging face. What an incredibly pitiful story is his."
41. Mark Penn
Charges: The most overpriced gravedigger in the world. As Clinton's Chief Strategist, this too-creepy-for-TV pollster steered what was initially considered a cinch presidential campaign with all the talent of Joseph Hazelwood at the helm of the Exxon Valdez. His laziness was explained by his strategy: Inevitability. Penn's cheap, backfiring smears of Obama as a coke-snorting Islamic radical teenager, coupled with pathetic whining about the mean old press, gave Clinton's campaign an odor as repugnant as his own playground-flasher looks. Like most reptiles, Penn was slow to adjust to environmental changes, racking up millions in direct mail fees while Obama plundered the internet, which Penn predicted wouldn't have any impact in 2008. His very employment signaled a total abdication on the corruption/lobbying issue. But it gets worse: Mark Penn didn't understand basic electoral arithmetic, announcing to colleagues that Hillary would win easily by gaining California's 370 delegates, assuming, wrongly, a winner-take all vote tally. Despite the revelation of his woeful lack of elementary knowledge, Penn did not adjust his big-state strategy, ignoring the caucus states that Obama rode to victory, and to the end, seemed utterly baffled that a candidate could win without "any of the significant states."
Exhibit A: After burning through $200 million before Super Tuesday, Penn now blames Clinton's loss on inadequate funds.
Sentence: Surgically attached to Harold Ickes.
40. Free Credit Report.com guy
Charges: OK, he's actually French-Canadian, but he invades America's headspace every day. It's bad enough that we have to see this albino smurf lip-sync some ad man's grating jingles of financial woe fifty times a day. It's bad enough that these ditties, as calculatedly infectious as bio-weapons, bounce around our skulls like a .22 caliber bullet. But the kicker is that this culture parasite and his "band" are hawking a scam. That's right; freecreditreport.com isn't free—in fact, it's 15 bucks a month after the week-long "trial period."
Exhibit A: There is a website where you can get a free credit report: It's called annualcreditreport.com, and it was created in compliance with an act of Congress by the three big credit reporting agencies, Equifax, Experian and TransUnion. Then Experian set up freecreditreport.com, and their suicide-encouraging commercials, to cultivate and benefit from public confusion.
Sentence: Powering Ween's tour bus with a stationary bicycle.
39. Caroline Kennedy
Charges: A limp, lifeless, murmuring slouch whose dearth of vivacity makes John Kerry look like Richard Simmons, Kennedy has the apparent focus and charm of a shock therapy victim on Haldol. If the Kennedy name (and fundraising pull) can carry this passive princess into the Senate, it could get a bottle of fish sauce elected. At least fish sauce doesn't say "y'know" every three seconds.
Exhibit A: "I've spent a lifetime growing up around public policy issues." Her dad died when she was 5.
Sentence: Badly injured in a car crash, Kennedy is rushed to the hospital, where she is attended to by a guy whose dad was an excellent doctor.
38. John Updike
Charges: Being foolishly wrong about absolutely everything for about a thousand years and counting. Getting rich applying faux gilt, and guilt, to the dull, pointless, overstuffed lives of New Yorker readers. Systematically tackles the big issues, and is subsequently dragged by them right into the end zone like Bo Jackson dragged Brian Bosworth. Latest attempt to capture the zeitgeist, The Terrorist, resulted in unintentionally comic transposition of Congregationalist soap opera to the Semtex demographic. Won't learn, won't quit. Like the Energizer bunny, only dumber.
Exhibit A: Apparently immortal, always a mark of evil.
Sentence: Eternity working for minimum wage in a university photocopy shop.
37. Keith Olbermann
Charges: The crazy man's Howard Beale, Olbermann is an infuriating conundrum—a person who adopts mostly correct positions for mostly erroneous reasons. Olbermann has an uncanny ability to find the obtusest angle on any issue, delivering glancing blows to wide open targets. Perhaps this is why Olbermann only argues with various cameras, reserving interviews for Newsweek sycophants whose main role on "Countdown" is to listen to a series of uncomfortably leading yes or no questions and reply to each, "that's right, Keith." He's been wearing out the impact of his "special comments" like a cheap sex doll for the ratings, rapidly diminishing their credibility by applying the same outraged, spluttering, accusatory tone to his uniquely unbearable all-caps missives, whether directed at White House war criminals or Clinton campaign PR hacks. Largely false accusations of anti-Hillary bias in the media found their mark with Keith, who wildly overreacted to relatively minor Clinton slights, while engaging in freakish logical contortions to justify Obama's apparent deficiencies, despite sad pretenses to objectivity. Somehow, manages to seem dykier than Rachael Maddow.
Exhibit A: "I don't vote…it's the only thing I can do that suggests even that I don't have a horse in the race."
Sentence: Obama loses in 2012 by one vote.
36. Ron Fournier
Charges: Since taking the reigns as AP Washington bureau chief in 2006, Fournier's steered the notorious just-the-facts wire service toward an opinionated brand of reporting he's dubbed "accountability journalism." It sounds good, but when the country's most widely syndicated news outlet pawns its right-leaning opinions off as hard news, everybody gets a little more stupider. Fournier's "Obama walks arrogance line" article from March was the genesis of one such dumbed-down national conversation.
Exhibit A: Told Karl Rove to "Keep up the fight" in a recently revealed e-mail.
Sentence: Falling out with Rove, "accidental" plane crash.
35. Dina Lohan
Charges: Fame isn't the only thing that screws up child stars; it starts with self-obsessed, psychopathic parents living out their failed ambitions through their hapless offspring (Dina has been telling false stories of her days as a Rockette and Broadway actress for years). Her college-aged daughter may be a rehab veteran and serial drunk driver, but that's no reason for mom not to televise the warping of daughter number two, a pre-rhinoplasty 14-year-old with no discernible talent or personality who calls the absent Lindsay her "role model," and an 11-year-old boy whose future mugshot will no doubt become iconic. You may think your parents sucked, but at least they didn't do it on TV.
Exhibit A: Rarely has a person's life been so succinctly synopsized by real events as when Lohan's house caught fire with her minor children alone inside while she was busy accepting—no shit—a "Mother of the Year" award.
Sentence: Age, ugliness, poverty, obscurity.
34. Joe Scarborough
Charges: An incredulous, squinting brat, who's turned "Morning Joe" into the "My Super Sweet Sixteen" of cable news, Scarborough has a decent shot at being named the world's largest toddler by Guinness. He treats his MSNBC coworkers with less professional courtesy than the dead intern found in his congressional office ("Mika, don't make me backhand you").Between tantrums, Scarborough provided a litany of partisan misinformation and deliberate misquotations this year, claiming that Obama was the most liberal member of the Senate and would raise taxes on everyone, that McCain called for Rumsfeld's resignation, never changed his immigration policies and had no association with hatemongers on the religious right. Joe's immaturity is also apparent in his cartoonishly simplistic take on the American electorate, whom he purports to know intimately, ostensibly by way of his own bigotry.
Exhibit A: "I remember during the Valerie Plame episode. Remember, Bob Novak told us from the beginning, "This wasn't an ideologue that gave me the name. This wasn't Karl – this wasn't a Bush operation." And liberals, 'Oh, he's lying, da da da da da.' And then remember earlier this year, Bob Novak — and, of course, Novak was right."
Sentence: Mandatory stint in Rageaholics Anonymous, nuts shaved live on "Morning Joe" by Pat Buchanan, pubes glued to face with a mixture of pulverized Cheetos and Jamie Foser's stool.
33. Jeremiah Wright
Charges: It's said that in politics, a gaffe is when someone tells the truth, like connecting 9/11 to blowback from America's long history of Middle East meddling. But then again, sometimes they just say something incredibly fucking stupid, like that AIDS was created by the U.S. government to kill black people. Seriously, you don't think the U.S. government could do a better job than AIDS? AIDS takes years to kill, spreads relatively slowly, and kills white people all the time. A CIA super-virus that can't beat Magic Johnson? Unlikely. But beyond past statements of viral delusion, Wright's weird-ass grandstanding at the height of the sound bite frenzy seemed to indicate he really didn't give a shit whether Obama was elected president, and might even be jealous.
Exhibit A: "And I stand before you… with the hope that this most recent attack on the black church is not an attack on Jeremiah Wright; it is an attack on the black church."
Sentence: Sickle cell anemia.
32. Ben Stein
Charges: Daddy got him a job as a lawyer and speechwriter for Nixon; since then his ethics have slid. Whether misrepresenting Democratic policies on Fox News or dry-humping free market mythology in The American Spectator, Stein's brand of conservatism is as credible as a memoir on Oprah's reading list. Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, his 2008 anti-science propaganda film, would have made Leni Riefenstahl blush. He intentionally misquoted Darwin to link the theory of evolution to the Holocaust, earning the diehard Zionist a firm rebuke from the Anti-Defamation League, to which he replied, "It's none of their fucking business." In his cinematic quest to paint a handful of fact-deficient creationist teachers as the oppressed soldiers of free speech, Stein willfully misrepresented himself to interview subjects, butchered their words with creative editing and infringed on a multitude of copyrights.
Exhibit A: Used portions of John Lennon's "Imagine" in his movie without permission or irony.
Sentence: ClearEyes replaced with a virulent strain of antibiotic-resistant staph.
31. Stephenie Meyer
Charges: She's the unforgivably perky Mormon mom who wrote the Twilight Series of books, currently draining IQ points from Western Civilization. This silly wank-off vampire fantasy for teenage girls has been embraced by legions of sad, middle-aged women who fight for access to their daughters' sticky copies of the books. It's an embarrassing spectacle for all Americans who aren't actively participating in it. Meyer admits she can't handle the better class of vampires and has never watched a whole vampire movie, even the more anemic kind: "I've seen little pieces of Interview with a Vampire when it was on TV, but I kind of always go YUCK! I don't watch R-rated movies, so that really cuts down on a lot of the horror. And I think I've seen a couple of pieces of The Lost Boys, which my husband liked, and he wanted me to watch it once, but I was like, 'It's creepy!'"
Exhibit A: The hit movie version of Twilight, featuring Meyer's dreary characters, a tiresome teenage girl and the pathetic "vegetarian" vampire who loves her, mooning around on first base for two hours and giving vampires everywhere a bad name.
Sentence: Meyer encounters a non-vegetarian vampire, who kills her immediately and gruesomely in front of an appreciative audience of horror film fans.
30. Antonin Scalia
Charges: The bullet-shaped conservative justice should have stuck to his old policy of not allowing anyone to record him, because the more we see of him, the worse he seems. Scalia drew back the curtain on his legendary mind last April on "60 Minutes," revealing the legal acumen of a gibbon with a Magic 8-ball. Asked about the legal atrocity of Bush v. Gore, Nino bravely replied, "Gee, I really don't want to get into, I mean this is—get over it, it's so old by now." This about a 2000 decision, perhaps the least legally defensible in recent history, which has had and will continue to have an incalculable impact on this country and the world. Scalia has sebaceous cysts older than Bush v. Gore. But it was Scalia's asinine, compartmentalized semantic parsing on torture that we hoped would give pause to his lionizers. Arguing that torture isn't "cruel and unusual punishment" because the subject hasn't been convicted of a crime, so he can't be "punished," the so-called Constitutional Originalist puts the framers in the awkward position of saying that it's wrong to beat up a convicted criminal, but it's just dandy to kick the shit out of him before he is even charged.
Exhibit A: "Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached."
Sentence: Broken on the wheel by James Madison.
29. Mary Matalin
Charges: Surgically mortified face creates the impression of a barely passable "earthling" mask worn by an insectoid alien, a possibility credited by her gradually digesting husband and her consistent locus at the Republican Party's shifting center of evil. From Chief of Staff for original Mayberry Machiavelli Lee Atwater to Adviser to George W. Bush, Counselor to Dick Cheney and member of the best sales team in history, the White House Iraq Group, Matalin has served in more unholy positions than Jenna Jameson. To this day, Matalin simply denies the well-documented story of Atwater's deathbed repentance, which is not surprising considering her main skill is obscuring reality. Matalin's main contribution to undermining the truth and bolstering closet racism this year was publishing World Net Daily plagiarizing lunatic Jerome Corsi's Obama Nation, a collection of blatant falsehoods that didn't come close to meriting its non-fiction categorization, in her role as "Editor" of Threshold Books, a conservative imprint that inestimably diminishes Simon and Schuster's prestige by its simple existence. Matalin called the book, riddled with easily debunked lies, "a piece of scholarship," claiming it "does not set out to be a political book," while Corsi himself said "the goal is to defeat Obama."
Exhibit A: "This is a crime and — and he did not commit a crime. He had a mis-remembrance of when it was that he heard about it, but clearly he's not one of the guys that revealed it in the first place, which the revelation of such was not a crime."
Sentence: Sex with James Carville.
28. Frank Caliendo
Charges: The retarded man's Rich Little, Caliendo has been irritating Americans for nearly a decade, gaining recognition as the implausibly fat impressionist on the lethally unfunny "MADtv". Nicholson, De Niro, Shatner, Seinfeld…. no impression is too hackneyed for Caliendo, who mimics them all with the skill you'd expect from the hypertensive "funny guy" at the office. The only thing that could have made "Fox NFL Sunday" any worse was two John Maddens. Mission Accomplished, dickbag.
Exhibit A: His TBS vehicle, "Frank TV," is the least amusing thing to appear on television since the morning of September 11, 2001.
Sentence: New impersonation: The rotting corpse of Marcel Marceau.
27. Peggy Noonan
Charges: A Catholic hysteric who should be submitting poems about her kitty cats to online poetry-contest scams, Noonan's call for "Patriotic Grace," which is nothing more than a call for liberals to stop picking on Republicans for being wrong all the time, comes a little late, after actively helping the most despicable, character assassination-driven campaigns of her lifetime. Like her fellow elite conservative columnist David Brooks, Noonan feigned admiration for Sarah Palin until she got caught expressing her true opinion during an MSNBC commercial break, saying "it's over," and that McCain opted for "political bullshit about narratives." Horrified at having her actual thoughts revealed and not the "graceful" bullshit she feeds her readers, Noonan scrambled to spin the extemporization, but eventually admitted Palin's selection represented a "vulgarization" of politics, as if that was something new. She loved Bush when America did, and hated him when America did, and pretended she'd felt that way all along. An opinion columnist is supposed to express her opinion, not ours. Noonan is still writing speeches, but her vanity is her only client.
Exhibit A: "Intellectuals start all the trouble in the world."
Sentence: Chained like Prometheus to a rock, to undergo a cycle of pregnancies and abortions for eternity.
26. Tila Tequila
Charges: A silicon "bisexual" whose purported attraction to women has led to her rise as reality show oxygen thief, self-proclaimed "Queen of Myspace" and horrible "musician." Her songs make "Hamster on a Piano" sound like the final movement to Schubert's Unfinished Symphony. Helping America convert its girls into self-debasing sluts with twisted values, calling themselves "strong women" all the while.
Exhibit A: "I'm shooting a commercial for safe sex. How ironic. Because I don't have that."
Sentence: AIDS.
25. Eliot Spitzer
Charges: A moralistic legal crusader who spent more on poon in an hour than the average American spends on food in a year, Spitzer would be somewhat less loathsome had he not gone after prostitution as a prosecutor. Like every paragon of public ethics, he was in private a mere pervert. That he might have been a decent governor for a state that badly needed one is just one more reason to hate him.
Exhibit A: "Governor Spitzer did not remove his mid-calf length black socks during the sex act."
Sentence: Rest of life spent as hack columnist for Slate.com.
24. Plaxico Burress
Charges: This Giant prima donna kicked off 2008 by skipping minicamp, watching training camp from the sidelines, whining about his $3.25 million yearly salary and milking a phantom ankle injury. The receiver's laziness and ego resulted in a predictably lackluster year, which ended abruptly at a New York City nightclub, as he overestimated the tensile strength of his sweatpants holster.
Exhibit A: Name sounds like a rheumatoid arthritis medication.
Sentence: Traded to Detroit Lions.
23. John Fund
Charges: Membership on the Wall Street Journal's editorial board requires that one be a cynical sophist, but the dog-faced Fund actually appears to be in love with lying. Fund has devoted himself lately to muddying up the election fraud issue by selectively promoting mostly spurious tales of ground-level Democratic voter fraud in an effort to obscure more credible stories about the GOP's top-down machinations. Fund's book, Stealing Elections, is replete with phony numbers and discredited stories—he even sources a well-refuted tale to a WSJ editorial he probably wrote. Fund delivers his lies with a sneering smugness that would merit facial pummeling even if he were truthful, but whipping conservatives into a creative frenzy of demonic fabrication against ACORN, creating the lamest conspiracy theory of the year (which even McCain hyperbolized absurdly) based on false registrations that ACORN themselves flagged a suspicious, and none of which could conceivably have led to actual voter fraud, reveals Fund to be against not fraud, but the simple act of registering voters. The endgame here is to pass Voter ID laws that will prevent 20 million legal voters in this country who don't have the required ID from voting.
Exhibit A: "Republicans focus more on the rule of law."
Sentence: Malfunctioning Diebold central tabulator flips public referendum on whether Fund should be fed to sharks.
22. PUMAs
Charges: Redefining feminism as "supporting Hillary Clinton, whether she wants you to or not," and "defending" that feminism by embodying negative stereotypes of women as irrational and scornful, there was no demographic more painfully dumb than aggrieved Hillary backers plotting to defeat Obama. Drunk on a dream of vengeance for their queen, this strange minority picked up every despicable, paranoid, racist talking point they could from the worst of the right wing, even complimenting Sean Hannity on his "fair and balanced" coverage of Obama. Desperately twisting words in a sad attempt to tar Obama as a sexist and willing to subject themselves and their country to a probable assault on reproductive rights in the name of spite, the PUMAs comported themselves with all the dignity and sense of a false rape accusation.
Exhibit A: It's hard to choose, but nothing was more ridiculous this year than hearing an obscenely rich Hillary fundraiser named "Lady de Rothschild" describe Obama as "an elitist."
Sentence: President Palin appoints Mullah Omar to Supreme Court.
21. Michelle Malkin
Charges: It's a remarkable achievement in unconscious projection that the author of a book called Unhinged could lose her fucking marbles over a patterned scarf in a donut ad, but that's what Michelle Malkin did when she sounded the nutbar clarion call and sicced her half-cocked league of masturbators on Rachel Ray and Dunkin Donuts for the flatly absurd notion that they were sending a message of solidarity with Palestinians. Right, Michelle—you just can't sell donuts without joining the intifada these days. What did the nauseously spunky Ray do to incur the wrath of the Malkinoids? She wore a black and white scarf. A paisley scarf. A scarf that was clearly not a kaffiyeh, which, by the way, is just a hat that Arabs wear, not some universal symbol of jihad. In terms of completely false outrage, the only thing that rivaled this travesty of reason this year was the "lipstick on a pig" metaphor panic. But what puts this embarrassing sham over the top is that Dunkin Donuts actually apologized and pulled the ad, rather than try to explain to the fact-phobic horde that they were just blind, raging idiots with the collective brain-power of a lobotomized howler monkey.
Exhibit A: "If your neighbor's got an "Obama '08″ bumper sticker or lawn sign, you might want to double-check your door locks at night."
Sentence: Deported to China for wearing red T-shirt.
20. Joe the Plumber
Charges: The Che Guevara of bald, pissed off white men. In a lot of ways, Samuel Wurzelbacher really does represent the average American—basing economic opinions on unrealistic expectations of personal future success, blaming his failure to meet those expectations on minorities and old people, complaining about deadbeats getting his taxes when he isn't actually paying his taxes, and advertising his own rudimentary historical and mathematical ignorance by warning of creeping socialism in a country whose highest income tax rate has dropped by half in thirty years. "Joe" indeed symbolizes the true American dream—to become undeservedly rich and famous through a dizzyingly improbable stroke of luck. As American folk heroes go, Wurzelbacher ranks somewhere between Hulk Hogan and Bernie Goetz.
Exhibit A: "Social Security is a joke…social security I've never believed in, don't like it. I hate that it's forced on me."
Sentence: After blowing his fifteen minutes and all his money on coke and Thai hookers, an infirm, elderly Joe finds that social security actually is a joke, and is finally forced to snake toilets for a living.
19. Ted Stevens
Charges: It's amazing, really, what can take a 40-year senator down. You can take money for legislative favors, but whatever you do, don't let your lobbyist friends give you a gaudy statue. Alaska owes its very statehood to Stevens' willingness to break the law—he was illegally lobbying congress to pass the bill from within the Eisenhower administration in 1954. "We were violating the law," he happily admitted years later. Stevens has gotten rich off his lack of integrity, and the friends it has brought him. And what friends they are, paying for a house-sized extension on his house, offering him land deals that multiply his money tenfold in six years, and all he had to do is funnel hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to them, bringing home between 500 and a thousand dollars per Alaskan annually. Finally busted after a lifetime of graft, charged and convicted on seven felonies, Stevens still very nearly won reelection. And people talk about Chicago.
Exhibit A: Four days after being convicted, Stevens told a debate audience "I have not been convicted."
Sentence: Pushed through a series of tubes—each one narrower than the last.
18 The Clintons
Charges: Still around. Still married. Still rich. Still acclaimed. Still influential. Still sought. Still sanctimonious. Still aggrieved. Still phony. Still compromised. Still petulant. Still striving. Still self-pitying. Still self-important. Still important.
Exhibit A: Madame Secretary.
Sentence: Sniper fire.
17. Rod Blagojevich
Charges: Some things are worse than being bald—Blagojevic should have given that senate seat to John Edwards's barber. A sad truth about Blago is that he's not really in trouble for corruption, abuse of power or favor-trading, all of which are routines practices in just about every elected official's office across the nation; he's in trouble for being so damn rude about it, and for not being smart enough to realize what "appreciation" means to more careful favor-traders.
Exhibit A: "Our recommendation is fire all those fucking people, get 'em the fuck out of there and get us some editorial support."
Sentence: Flesh removed a pound at a time and used as topping on deep dish pizza, which he is force-fed while his wife spews obscenities at him and Eugene Robinson writes scathing editorials about it.
16. Rick Warren
Charges: Dubbed "America's Pastor" by The Nation, he's duped people from both sides of the political spectrum into thinking he's the kinder, fatter version of James Dobson. Though he is fatter, how could anyone think a man who—professionally—quotes a book written by a make-believe space-giant, instructing the murder of homosexuals, could be anything other than a delusional bigot? Still riding the undeserved wave of fame onset by a meth-head kidnap victim's ownership of his pop-psych hybrid of churchy prudishness and self-help pabulum The Purpose Driven Life, Warren had a big year hosting a presidential forum at his gay-sounding Saddleback Church, helping to pass Prop 8 and being tapped to invoke said make-believe space-giant at Obama's inauguration. Plus, his neatly trimmed goatee is the queerest thing we've ever seen.
Exhibit A: "God tells us that he created all the land animals on the sixth day of creation, the same day that he created mankind. Man and dinosaurs lived at the same time." Can you feel the wisdom?
Sentence: He shalt giveth The Lord a blumpkin and eatheth of the pie until he bursts.
15. Kwame Kilpatrick
Charges: Had a stripper party at the mayor's mansion, at which his gate-crashing wife assaulted the entertainment. The stripper was later gunned down in an obvious hit, the second attempt on her life. The guns and bullets were Detroit Police standard issue. The cop investigating the incident alleged sabotage by two subsequent police chiefs and other officials, finding files deleted and reports missing. He was transferred. Nothing happened. Then Kwame was accused of having an affair with his Chief of Staff, which they both denied, perjuring themselves, until steamy text messages were released—the only part of this story that made national news, naturally. Other texts showed preferential treatment for friends in business contracts, but that's just not very sexy. Oh yeah, he also assaulted a cop. Finally, "justice" caught up with the mayor—and gave him 120 days in jail. Even Kwame had to laugh, calling the sentence a "joke."
Exhibit A: "I want to tell you, Detroit, that you done set me up for a comeback."
Sentence: Stomped to death with eight inch clear heels.
14. Ashley Todd
Charges: As attention-getting devices go, trying to start a race war is a tad disproportionate. It's a good thing this batty bitch was completely hopeless as a fraudster, or her 11th hour "big black Barack backer battered burgled and branded Barbie" ruse could have done a lot worse than throw Pennsylvania to McCain. It's not surprising that log cabin bottom feeder Matt Drudge slapped the headline "Shock: McCain volunteer 'attacked and mutilated' in Pittsburgh" on his bafflingly popular website in big red letters, as he's got about a 40% accuracy rating on the stories he "breaks." We've tried feeling sorry for Todd, but the fact that she scratched the "B" backwards, because she was looking in the mirror, is just too damned funny.
Exhibit A: "Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her cloths [sic] off, but its better if you do."
Sentence: The reverse "B" never heals.
13. Joe Lieberman
Charges: A fickle, flabbery fiend reviled by both parties, Lieberman somehow finds himself more powerful than ever, failing forward by virtue of the Democrats' unfalteringly chumpish lack of discipline. After promising that he was "not going to go to…the Republican convention, and spend my time attacking Barack Obama," Lieberman went to the Republican convention and attacked Barack Obama. But that was just the beginning of his descent into a self-dug hole of betrayal that should have proved inescapable. Lieberman thought it was "a good question" to ask if Obama was a Marxist. He campaigned not just with McCain, but with Palin and down-ticket Republicans, another thing he said he wouldn't do. But the most loathsome trait Lieberman exhibits is that most loathsome of all: Smearing dissent as treasonous. The kind of suppressive asshole who would accuse you of helping terrorists by beating him at checkers should not be Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, and is not someone worth rewarding for his own dissent.
Exhibit A: "In matters of war, we undermine presidential credibility at our nation's peril." "Sen. Obama doesn't come to this debate with a lot of credibility."
Sentence: Lieberman awakes to find himself in the body of an impoverished Iraqi living in a small apartment with 12 family members and no electricity. Shocked by this inexplicable turn of events, he stumbles outside and cries to God, looking up just in time for the white phosphorous to hit him in the face.
12. John Edwards
Charges: For all his rhetoric about income disparity and his millworker dad, it was impossible to ignore Edwards's raging vanity and not-so-slick southern-fried hucksterism. Even a smart phony would know that a $400 haircut and dolphin-smooth skin just isn't the right look for a food bank photo op. And anybody knows that no nominee's secret affair could survive the scrutiny of general election season—no Democratic nominee's, anyway—so Edwards was knowingly jeopardizing the future of the world on the off chance the Enquirer reporter following him around, who already knew about the affair, wouldn't find anything concrete. But hey, it's not so bad, because, as Edwards stressed, his wife's cancer was in remission when he began the affair. Classy guy.
Exhibit A: "I don't know if that picture is me. It could well be. It looks like me. I don't know who that baby is. I have no idea what that picture is."
Sentence: His prospects dashed and his fortune lost in collapsed hedge funds, Edwards toils the rest of his days as a millworker and Supercuts customer. Rielle Hunter dumps him for Dennis Kucinich's wife, and every few days Ralph Nader stops by his studio apartment to piss on his futon and laugh.
11. Rush Limbaugh
Charges: The father of modern stupidity, Limbaugh spins reflexively, never struggling with issues, because he knows his conclusion must favor Republicans, and his only task is finding a way to get there. In other words, he may or may not actually believe what he's saying, but it's beside the point. His job is not to say what he thinks, but to instruct his listeners on what they should think. If the facts don't agree, he can always change them, as his "ditto heads" are already armed against the contrary evidence with the all-purpose "liberal bias" attack. "Rush is right," as the slogan goes, and all those nerdy reporters in the "drive by media" are lying, because they secretly love terrorists. It's this creepily worshipful, breathtakingly infantile abdication of intellect to a blatantly dishonest hypocrite that makes Limbaugh's audience so goddamn sad. These pathetic, insecure, failures of men look to Rush as the champion of their impotent rage, helping them to externalize responsibility for their own deficiencies, pinning the blame on those darn liberals and their racial and gender equality.
Exhibit A: You have to marvel at the sheer ignominy of someone who coins the term "Obama recession" two days after the election.
Sentence: Tiny speaker implanted in his inner ear which blares Randi Rhodes 24-7.
10. Bernard Madoff
Charges: Normally, the idea of a bunch of billionaires getting robbed blind for believing in a free lunch would amuse the hell out of us, but Bernie Madoff stole a lot of money from charity endowments, and is responsible for two suicides so far. Here's a tip, Bernie: If you're running the biggest scam since the Catholic church, handling billions of dollars, and all it takes to get busted is that some of your marks ask for their money back, you really should take some of that money and set up an escape plan. Still, he gets some credit for making Mort Zuckerman look like a jackass. The real villains here are Christopher Cox and the SEC, who investigated Madoff eight times, the last time specifically on suspicion of running a Ponzi scheme, each time "finding" no wrongdoing, which begs the all-too-familiar question of the last eight years: Satanically corrupt or grossly incompetent? Either way, Madoff was finally brought to justice… by his kids.
Exhibit A: "In today's regulatory environment, it's virtually impossible to violate rules … but it's impossible for a violation to go undetected, certainly not for a considerable period of time."
Sentence: Sold into slavery.
9. Phil Gramm
Charges: Gramm's blood-boiling "nation of whiners" comment was a pinnacle of class condescension in a year teeming with "let them eat cake" moments, but it was by no means an isolated incident. In fact, the ruinous state of our economy can be seen as the culmination of his career, one he spent derailing the economy in an effort to implement his anarchist regulatory philosophy, earning him the title "the most effective proponent of deregulation in a generation" from the New York Times. Gramm's deregulatory death blows to fiscal sanity were brutal and several, including the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (which repealed the post-depression Glass Steagall Act, designed to control speculation) and the Commodity Futures Modernization Act (which made it illegal to regulate credit default swaps), each of which enabled the Wall Street massacre in their own special ways. Forever pushing to incur public risk for private profit, Gramm was well-rewarded during his congressional career, and his plum position destroying the once-respected Swiss bank UBS's portfolio for the past few years was only part of the payoff.
Exhibit A: "Most people don't have the luxury of living to be 80 years old, so it's hard for me to feel sorry for them."
Sentence: Mental depression with a golden anvil.
8. David Addington
Charges: In a nation fat with lawyers, it takes something special to be the worst of them all. If a White House legal argument is evil, unconstitutional and makes no actual sense, it's a safe bet Grand Moff Addington is behind it. An expert in spook law since his early-'80s stint as counselor to the CIA, Addington first hooked up with Cheney during the Iran-Contra hearings, even then pushing the "Unitary Executive" theory of unfettered presidential power and attempting to shoehorn dictatorship into the constitution. Addington thinks the president is above the law in times of war, which is awful convenient if you declare an endless war on a global battlefield. It's this flimsy pretext on which the White House has evaded accountability for torture, domestic spying, and secret detention, proving that the best legal tools in DC are a straight face and a huge pair of balls.
Exhibit A: "I frankly don't know what you mean by the Unitary Theory of Government."
Sentence: Declared an enemy combatant for farting in oval office; waterboarded with a fire hose by John Yoo.
7. Dick Cheney
Charges: Still alive. The amount of medical resources devoted to keeping this black hole of decency operational could have cured cancer by now, but if they had, Cheney would make sure to keep it a secret. Since Watergate, Cheney's been fighting to rehab Nixon's image, and he has succeeded in a way, by showing us all just how much worse a presidency can be.
Exhibit A: "It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you."
Sentence: Eaten alive by baboons.
6. Hank Paulson
Charges: The latest practitioner of the real Bush Doctrine, which is indistinguishable from Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine. This time, it was Paulson, not Powell, holding up a vial of toxic mortgage backed securities, but the similarly election-panicked congressional reaction's been the same—a panicked passage of whatever crazy late-term legislation the White House wants, namely Paulson's 3-page "Gimme the money and go away" bill, plus $150 billion in anonymous pork, in one last massive federal theft on the way out the White House door, costing more than the entire U.S. space program for its 50 years of existence, even in inflation-adjusted dollars. Paulson's initial spending plan was the financial equivalent of blowing into a broken balloon, and his typically Bushian demands for unfettered power seemed appropriate for a guy who looks and sounds like the ghost-melted Nazis from Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Exhibit A: "It's a safe banking system, a sound banking system. Our regulators are on top of it. This is a very manageable situation."
Sentence: Crushed by falling brokers.
5. Alan Greenspan
Charges: The mortgage meltdown may seem complicated, but it started simple, with Al Greenspan pegging the Fed fund rate at 1%. This made Treasury Bonds a fairly lame investment, and led to investors looking for other seemingly safe securities to buy, which led to a flourishing demand for mortgage-backed securities, which led to banks increasingly lowering their standards for mortgage applications, eventually giving liar loans away to anyone willing to take them, which used to be called usury. This led to a decline in the real value of these MBA securities due to high probabilities of foreclosure, but somehow they were still AAA-rated by credit agencies displaying either hopeless incompetence or criminal collusion. Even a monkey wouldn't need a slide rule to see what would come next. But Alan Greenspan, super-genius guru of the glorious realm of the self-regulating free market, is totally flummoxed. Refusing to accept any blame for years as the housing bubble, long-predicted by out-of-favor economic realists, bloated and burst, only recently has Greenspan accepted even marginal responsibility, admitting only that he was "partially" wrong, professing a state of "shocked disbelief" that lenders couldn't regulate themselves, and thinking to himself, "This isn't how it worked in Atlas Shrugged!"
Exhibit A: "Parasites who persistently avoid either purpose or reason perish as they should."
Sentence: Recurring role as a senile great uncle on new C-grade sitcom "Krugman's Krew."
4. George W. Bush
Charges: It's hard—believe us, we know—to keep coming up with new things to say about this brutally stupid narcissist, who may have ruined this country irrevocably and certainly has ruined a couple of others, mugging amiably all the way. If anything good comes from Bush's reign of error, let it be the death of the notion that vitally important, life or death decisions that affect the entire world should be made with one's "gut." We used to think that incompetence was just a good cover story for this administration, an excuse that masked their deliberate criminality, but it turns out that Bush and his inner circle are both treasonous, corrupt warmongers and inept fools. One good thing about him, though, is that he has no real interest in politics, and probably won't give a flying shoe what happens to the world when his term is up. As he once put it, ""History, we don't know. We'll all be dead." Here's to George W. Bush being history.
Exhibit A: "Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter."
Sentence: Detained in formaldehyde-laced FEMA trailer without charges or counsel, sodomized by Lynndie England, declared guilty by military tribunal, set adrift naked on a small ice floe in the Arctic.
3. Sean Hannity
Charges: This relentlessly repugnant McCarthyite tool really outdid himself this year, in an all-out quest to otherize Obama in any way he could. This paranoid pustule is able to find a liberal conspiracy lurking behind any mundane occurrence, even attributing Obama's selection as Time's Person of the Year, an event as predictable as sunrise, to a pay-to-play scheme. Hopelessly outmatched shill Alan Colmes is finally leaving his role as Hannity's doormat; he will not be replaced.
Exhibit A: "I never questioned anyone's patriotism."
Sentence: Wrongfully convicted of murdering Vince Foster, based on evidence falsified by Jerome Corsi.
2. John McCain
Charges: McCain vowed to run a clean, respectful campaign, and then accused Obama of pushing sex ed for kindergartners, calling Palin a pig, hanging with terrorists, being a welfare-loving Marxist, being an arugula-loving elitist and pretty much everything but conspiring with the Borg—but he didn't really mean it, and he didn't use Reverend Wright, so we're all supposed to think he's swell. McCain lied so blatantly and constantly that even cable news bootlicks were compelled to fact-check him, to which he and his surrogates responded by insisting on the same lies. When pressed on the Nixonian onslaught of falsehood, McCain whined that he wouldn't have had to be such a mendacious prick if Obama had only refrained from raising so much more money than him. McCain pretended to give a shit about America, and then he picked a vapid ambition-hound to succeed him. His response to the economic crisis might as well have been to punch himself in the face. In every way he could this year, McCain burned up all the credibility he had stored up from decades of shameless worship by the press, utilizing every tactic he ever decried, exuding a heady aroma of bullshit and Alzheimer's, and displaying an unrequited obsession with Joe the Plumber, and he still wound up a failed Faust even the Devil didn't want.
Exhibit A: "In the 21st century nations don't invade other nations."
Sentence: Every time anybody says the word "surge," McCain is shot in the leg.
1. Sarah Palin
Charges: If you want to know why the rest of the world is scared of Americans, consider the fact that after two terms of disastrous rule by a small-minded ignoramus, 46% of us apparently thought the problem was that he wasn't quite stupid enough. Palin's unending emissions of baffling, evasive incoherence should have disqualified her for any position that involved a desk, let alone placing her one erratic heartbeat from the presidency. The press strained mightily to feign respect for her, praising a debate performance that involved no debate, calling her a "great speaker" when her only speech was primarily a litany of insults to city-dwellers, echoing bogus sexism charges when a male Palin would have been boiled alive for the Couric interview alone, and lionizing her as she used her baby as a Pro-life stage prop before crowds who cooed when they should have been hurling polonium-tipped javelins. In the end, Palin had the beneficial effect of splitting her party between her admirers and people who can read.
Exhibit A: Waving her embryo-loving credentials, in the form of her Down syndrome baby, at "But ultimately what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the healthcare reform that is needed to help shore up our economy."
Sentence: Hand-to-hand combat with Vladimir Putin and a pack of wolves.
Written by Allan Uthman & Ian Murphy
with contributions from John Dolan, Eileen Jones, Alexander Zaitchik, & IOZ.
Illustrations by Ian Murphy.


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Analysis of the Prioritised Problems
From the prioritisation of the identified problems and issues in the district, it has been realised that, 17 of the issues have very strong relationship with the Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy II and can affect the development of the district positively if they are
These issues are :
Inadequate credit facilities and inputs
Low Extension Officer-Farmer ratio.
Poor Farmland management
Lack of irrigation facilities
Poor road network
High cost of investment in the mining sector
Low income levels
Lack of layouts for most of the settlements
High illiteracy rate among women
Absence of a district Hospital
Inadequate trained teachers
Poor Conditions of some of the existing schools
Inadequate Offices for some of the Decentralised Departments
Inadequate police personnel in the district
Ineffective monitoring of the revenue collectors.
Inability to maintain the staff of the Area Councils
Low level of sensitization on the need to pay taxes.
The above 17 issues are identified to be the most pressing issues which must be handled to put the district on the path of development since each of them scored as high as the maximum 9 points when considered on the bases of their multiplier effect, widespread effect and linkage effects.
The second most pressing issues which need to be handled by the Assembly include the following:
1. Inadequate Educational infrastructure for pre-schools.
2. Lack of modern facilities for the district Magistrate Court
3. Low representation of women in the Local Governance.
These three issues surfaced as the second most important issues to be resolved to ensure the development of the district since each of them scored a total of 8 out of a maximum of 9 points in terms of their multiplier effect; Widespread effect and Linkage effect.
The third prioritised issue to be considered in terms of its multiplier, widespread and Linkage effects is the lack of land banks for development since it scored a total of 7 points out of a maximum of 9 points.
Three issues came up as the fourth prioritised issues to be addressed in the district since each of them scored a total of 5 points out of the maximum of 9, in terms of their multiplier, widespread and linkage effects in the district.
These issues include:
1. Lack of interest in the development of tourists attraction sites.
2. Lack of vehicle for the District Health Directorate
3. Lack of offices for the Members of Parliament (M.P) in the district.
Another three issues came up as the fifth prioritised issues in the district to be addressed. This is because each of these issues scored 4 points out of the total of 9 points when they were considered in terms of their multiplier, wide-spread and linkage effects in the district.
These issues include :
1. Lack of modern Technology in Livestock production.
2. High cost of waste management.
3. Inadequate Furniture in the classrooms.
The last two issues were considered as the sixth prioritised issues to be addressed. This is because each of these issues scored a total of 3 points out of a maximum of 9 points scored based on their multiplier, widespread and Linkage effects.
These issues include :
Disappearance of most of the historical features at the tourists attraction sites.
Lack of interest of parents to educate their disabled children.
Subject Identified Issues to POCC Analysis
The team further subjected these identified key development problems to the POCC analysis. By POCC we mean potentials, opportunities, constraints and challenges. By potential we mean resources that are within the district that can be tapped to solve the issues identified. Opportunities refer to resources that are outside the district that can be accessed to address the problem while constraints are impediments that can hamper our efforts in solving the problem. By challenges we as the district embarks upon the process or improving upon its lot is bound to encounter certain inhibiting factors or situation that will have to contend with. This analysis is very important for proper planning and implementation.
Below is the analysis in a tabular form.
Private Sector Competitiveness
1. Inadequate to credit facilities and inputs.
2. Lack of modern technology in livestock production.
3. Low extension officer – farmer ratio.
4. High level of soil depletion.
5. Lack of irrigation facilities.
6. Inadequate access to farmlands.
7. Poor road network.
8. Lack of fund for development of tourist attraction sites.
9. Disappearance of historic features.
10. High cost of investment in the mining sector (capital intensive)
Human Resources Development
Low income level
Difficulty in payment of counterpart fund (water and sanitation).
High cost associated with refuse evaluation.
Inadequate cesspool emptier
Lack of layout for most of the settlement.
Poor educational campaign on land development and development of settlements.
Lack of land bank for development.
Low level of education among persons with disability.
Lack of location skills.
Lack of creational facilities for children.
High school drop out rates.
Lack of employable skills for women/high illiteracy rate among women
Lack of vehicle for district health directorate.
Inadequate data for health sector
Key Development Problems (Education)
Inadequate educational infrastructure – almost all the pre-schools are temporary housed.
Inadequate trained teachers.
Poor condition of some existing mud school buildings.
Inadequate residential accommodation for teachers.
Inadequate sponsorship package for UTTDBE students.
Lack of J.S.S workshops.
Inadequate furniture.
Lack of library at circuit centre.
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Lack of offices for the MPS
Inadequate office Accommodation for some of the decentralised departments.
Lack of modern facilities for the district magistrate court.
Inadequate police personnel for the district.
Low representative of women at the local government.
Inadequate data or ratable items in the district. (Ineffective Revenue Collection machinery of the D/A)
Inability to maintain the staff of Area Council.
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Guante has proven himself a master of words in multiple spheres. In his music, the Minneapolis rapper is informed by pursuits as an essayist, a teacher, a political activist, and a two-time National Poetry Slam champion. So when he talks about his rhymes as activist poetry, hear him out.
"It's not about saying something simple in the most complicated way," he explains. "It's about saying something complex in a really straightforward, down-to-earth way, and I think that's what the album succeeds at."
Guante, a.k.a. Kyle Myhre, is referring to his brand-new You Better Weaponize. Within, the rapper's naked lyricism of spoken-word poetry adds stark power even to bluntly stated positions, but his abilities on the mic twist the songs away from proselytizing. His powerful voice can grandly emphasize a phrase or add slickness to an understated flow, but the lyrical call to arms always takes center stage.
"If you're gonna write something outside of yourself, political or commenting on the world in some type of way, you have to connect it to something that's inside yourself," says Guante of his approach to writing. "The songs on this album work, because they're still connected to either a story or a very specific image or something very honest and internal."
"What you say is more important than how you say it," he remarks on opener "To Young Leaders." "What you do is more important than what you say, and what you build is more important than what you do."
Since he emerged in the Twin Cities a half-decade ago, Guante has built an artistic empire of forward-thinking ideals. Assertions on gender issues, institutional racism, class warfare, identity politics, and homophobia, among other progressive causes, show up in his work paired with the haunting stomp of Big Cats! bangers as the backdrop. The new album is another solid addition to an already stellar year for Big Cats! — his instrumental For My Mother could be his best work to date — but the major strength of the beats here is that they put the lyrics on display.
"I feel like I have more freedom stylistically working with [Guante] than I would most other people," says producer Big Cats!, who also helmed production duties for the whole of the duo's 2010 debut, An Unwelcome Guest. "Because of [his] background in poetry and rap, it allows me to do a wide variety of stuff production-wise. There's straight-up rap songs with heavy drums, and there's stuff where it's mostly acoustic instruments and no drums. It was fun being able to work that around a fairly specific narrative."
Personal is political here, and some of the strongest moments on the record are ones where the listener recognizes how these realms intertwine. "Other" talks of being mixed in a society that doesn't respect dual identity, and verses from See More Perspective and Audio Perm's Chantz Erolin (as well as a luscious hook from Chastity Brown) flesh out the idea by bringing together additional personal stories. Other like-minded guests include Kristoff Krane, Toki Wright, and Crescent Moon. Perhaps the best track on the record, "The Invisible Backpacker of Privilege," finds Guante, Chantz, and TruthBeTold of the Tribe and Big Cats! breaking down white privilege in hip hop and at large, giving discussions they've had among themselves a platform.
"I want to challenge the audience as much as possible, while they can still nod their head to it," says Guante. "[TruthBeTold]'s might be my favorite verse on the album."
The album's ending includes "A Pragmatist's Guide to Revolution," which joins the ideas weaving through You Better Weaponize into a mission statement. "This movement doesn't need perfect/It just needs us to start working," he raps, highlighting that real-world change can come from anyone willing to put in effort.
"Activism isn't magic. You see a problem, you get together with other people, and you think of a plan. Do something about it," says Guante of the larger theme behind his work. "That something doesn't have to be super in-depth or difficult. You don't have to throw your life away. You can have your job and still do something positive in your community." This is not a record to play in the background and pat yourself on the back. This is catalyst music.
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While Pope Benedict XVI's resignation was a surprise to Catholics the world over, it is not without historical precedent. Pope Saint Celestine V, an Italian monk in the 13th century, was the first pope to resign the office. Celestine V was a hermit who modeled his life on John the Baptist and was a spiritual director to many. After the death of Pope Nicholas IV, over two years passed with the conclave unable to agree on a choice for his successor. Celestine agreed to become pope after he was chosen, but served only five months before resigning. This raised the question of whether a pope could resign according to canon law (the laws of the Church), and the question was eventually settled. Of this matter, Pope Boniface VIII later wrote:
Whereas some curious persons, arguing on things of no great expediency, and rashly seeking, against the teaching of the Apostle, to know more than it is meet to know, have seemed, with little forethought, to raise an anxious doubt, whether the Roman Pontiff, especially when he recognizes himself incapable of ruling the Universal Church and of bearing the burden of the Supreme Pontificate, can validly renounce the papacy, and its burden and honour: Pope Celestine V, Our predecessor, whilst still presiding over the government of the aforesaid Church, wishing to cut off all the matter for hesitation on the subject, having deliberated with his brethren, the Cardinals of the Roman Church, of whom We were one, with the concordant counsel and assent of Us and of them all, by Apostolic authority established and decreed, that the Roman Pontiff may freely resign.


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Alexander Tabarrok, Research Director at the Independent Institute, speaks with Lyanne Melendez of KGO-TV on city gun buy-back programs.
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Alexander Tabarrok, Research Director at the Independent Institute, speaks with John Stossel of Fox Business Networks Stossel on bounty hunting and defending the indefensible.
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With the recent school massacre in Littleton, Colorado; the shootings of Jewish children in Los Angeles; and rampant drive-by shootings and other atrocities, what can and should be done to protect the innocent against violence in American society? Can government protect the citizenry against gun-related violence? What is the record of individual self-defense against violence in Britain and the U.S.? In this very timely Independent Policy Forum, acclaimed historian Joyce Lee Malcolm and civil rights attorney Don Kates will examine gun laws, violence, and rights.
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An art history professor with a taste for fine clothes and naive but curvy Scandinavian blondes, James Quatar might be just another pretentious, over-sensitive twit with tenure. Except he's a killer. His calling card, Photoshopped erotic drawings of his victims, has finally been spotted. Now, as Davenport and company close in, Quatar attempts to clean up. And the body count rises...
Sandford paints great characters, then weaves a heck of a story around them.
good read. Sandford never lets you down.
I enjoyed this mystery/thriller featuring Lucas Davenport. One of my favorite scenes was when Davenport meets the computer genius Kidd for the first time. I look forward to reading the next book in the series, Mortal Prey.
Terrific cop drama.
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Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0425182878, Mass Market Paperback)When a spring thaw disinters the body of a young woman who's been missing for over a year, Minneapolis detective Lucas Davenport doesn't have much to go on except the victim's rumored connection with an unnamed man, who may be an artist and also, perhaps, a priest. But then the deserted property where her body was discovered turns out to be a killing field full of other young blondes last seen in the company of a man with a nasty habit of superimposing their faces on pornographic drawings. Davenport begins to close in on a serial killer whose perverted hobby provides the clues Davenport needs to stop him in his bloody tracks. James Qatar isn't a priest, and he's not really an artist, but he's definitely a monster, one who's met his match in Davenport.
Davenport is a smart, thoughtful cop whose girlfriend is pressuring him to make a commitment to parenthood and whose boss is about to lose her job in a political turnover. While the search for the killer is handled in author John Sandford's usual, crisp, procedural style, it almost seems to be a pretext for exploring the evolution of Davenport's relationship with Dr. Weather Karkinnen. This 12th adventure in the author's popular Prey series will undoubtedly rocket to the top of the bestseller list, though it's not a standout. The novel displays the solid craftsmanship and narrative drive Sandford's known for, but his hero seems a little dispirited and out of sorts. Perhaps fatherhood will give Davenport a new lease on life. In the meantime, check out Sandford's backlist featuring his other hero, Kidd (The Fool's Run, The Empress File, The Devil's Code), who has a nice little walk-on here in which he begins a romance with Davenport's partner Marcy Sherrill. --Jane Adams
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In a live chat, Prudie advises a 29-year-old man doubting his decision to go back and finish college.
Emily Yoffe, aka Dear Prudence, is on Washingtonpost.com weekly to chat live with readers. An edited transcript of the chat is below. (Sign up here to get Dear Prudence delivered to your inbox each week. Read Prudie's Slate columns here. Send questions to Prudence at firstname.lastname@example.com.)
Q. Back to School: I was immature in my early 20s and never finished college. I left with a lot of debt and only about 55 credits. For the last few years (I'm now 29), I've been working and making anywhere from $10–12 an hour. My wife graduated nursing school and got her dream job and is making more than double what I was. So looking at our finances we decided that if we made it on half of her salary for the last few years then we could make it on her salary now and I quit my job and got set up to go back to school. I start in January and if I hunker down and go all year I can graduate with my bachelor's in mathematics in December 2016. I keep thinking that I made the wrong decision in going back to school at age 29 and should have just stayed in a dead end job. I'm being stupid, right? My wife supports me but I still can't get it out of my head.
A: If you don't do this, in 10 years you'll be 39, and unless you see a path upward in your career absent a college degree, you will regret you never buckled down and got your diploma. You are a late-bloomer and you will find college has plenty of people like you who are going back to make the investment in themselves. A mathematics degree should open a lot of doors. So while you're paying tuition, make sure you're taking advantage of all the programs on campus for people like you. There may be counseling for older, returning students. And as soon as classes start, go over to the career counseling office and make friends there. It's perfectly understandable you're daunted and intimidated by the task ahead of you. But you should be excited and proud, too, that with the support of your wife you're making good decisions that will make the future better for both of you.
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Q. Bigoted Father-in-Law: I am very lucky to be married to a kind and loving man, but his father is a problem. Ever since we met, his father has made jokes that really aren't appropriate. Joking about how my mother-in-law's shoulder bruise was because he hit her, suggesting my father was cheap because he is Jewish, belittling my husband's career (at which he is excellent), etc. At a disastrous Thanksgiving last year during which he made a Polish joke in front of a Polish friend and made fun of another friend's wife's unusual name, we decided we just can't take him to any more parties or introduce him to our friends or co-workers. For the sake of my husband, I always tried to be polite and accept apologies when they were (rarely) offered. However, now we have a baby, and the comments have turned on her. My father-in-law now says things like how she's not that cute and would be cuter if she had blond hair. This is his only grandchild, and my mother-in-law is a kind and loving person who adores the baby to no end. My baby can't understand these comments now, but she will someday, and I just can't stand the thought of her being treated by her grandfather the way he has treated me. What do I do? There is a family reunion next summer.
A: Your father-in-law is the jokester jerk who sees life as a Comedy Central roast, the only problem being he does the insults but leaves out the humor. I understand that you want to keep this dad under wraps as regards your friends, but since he and your mother-in-law are a pair, the rest of you need to practice the deadpan reaction and quick escape to refresh your drink. It's unlikely you will reform this guy. I'm not defending his cracks, which have an ugly edge, but he's also not the kind of raging abuser for whom severing relations is the best solution. If you see him as the pathetic throwback he is (Jewish jokes, Polish joke, wife-beating jokes!) that will reduce his power to sting. As for your child, next year she is only going to be a toddler and will be too young to understand your father-in-law's "humor." At a family reunion there will be so much tumult and activity it's hard to imagine anything grandpa does will really register. But now is the time for your husband to tell your father that his grandchild is off limits for his jokes—poking fun at how his granddaughter looks isn't funny and if it doesn't stop you will have to reduce his ability to see her. As your daughter gets older, you can explain to her that some adults say stupid things, and, unfortunately, grandpa thinks saying mean things is funny. All of you have told him you don't like it, but sometimes he still does it. You can tell her if he says something mean to her she's free to say, "Grandpa, that wasn't funny." Dealing with difficult relatives can actually provide useful life lessons.
Q. Premature Infant: My daughter was born at 26 weeks gestation earlier this year: She weighed 1 pound and 12 ounces at birth. She spent 73 days in the NICU, but I'm thrilled to say she's home and doing very well now. Because she seems so healthy, it's hard to explain to friends and family that she's immunodeficient (she missed a critical three months of maternal antibodies!) with lungs that are still not up to term-baby strength. Everyone wants to hold her and love on her (and I want them to!) but cold and flu season is dangerous for her. What would just be a cold in a regular infant could land us back in the hospital, which is a thought I just cannot bear. How do I tell these well-meaning people, who did so much for us while she was in the hospital, that it's hands-off until she is stronger and better able to handle their germs? I could skip the gatherings all-together, which some micro-preemie moms do, but we love seeing everyone—just at a healthy distance.
A: What good news about your daughter, and what understandable restrictions you have just laid out. You will not be hurting anyone's feelings by simply explaining to them what you've written here. That is, that your daughter is still fragile and exposure to germs has to be limited. If you have gotten in the habit of informing people of your daughter's progress on Facebook, put up a post saying you look forward to seeing people this holiday season, but you want to let everyone know that your baby's immune system is not yet up to speed and you have to keep her away from germs for a while longer. Anyone who loves this child—anyone with a shred of decency—would not want to be the person who unwittingly passed along some potentially devastating bug. Don't worry about sounding defensive or hostile; it's hard to imagine who won't be understanding about this medical necessity.
Q. Re: Bigoted in-laws: Your answer to LW is completely wrong, IMO. My father is just like the letter writer's FIL, and to this day he thinks people are "too sensitive" when people call him out on his "humor." It doesn't matter the tone he uses, it still hurts. LW's priorities are to her child first, in-laws second. People like FIL don't see consequences in blank stares or "that wasn't funny." They DO see consequences when they see they've been cut off. Trust me, when I started telling my dad that I wasn't going to listen to his crap and followed through by hanging up the phone or simply not wanting to be around him anymore, the "jokes" practically stopped. FIL and my dad are bullies, they only understand when people stand up for themselves. LW needs to teach her daughter about boundaries NOW, because FIL is only going to get worse.


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Headphones maker Shure has unveiled two new additions to its SRH range.
The new SRH550DJ and SRH940 models where revealed at the NAMM show in Anaheim, California.
Available from spring this year, Shure says that both new headphones feature superior sound and comfort, with outstanding build quality.
The SRH550DJs are designed for both DJ and personal listening use and feature full range frequency response, 50mm dynamic drivers and an adjustable, collapsible headband that swivels 90 degrees.
Meanwhile, the SRH940 headphones are designed for use in the studio and mixing, featuring highly accurate frequency response for tight bass and smooth, high end extension with minimal distortion.
"The Shure headphone line extends from the company's heritage and performance in the microphone and earphone market, enabling studio engineers, home recordists, performers, DJs, and audio enthusiasts to benefit from the professional quality sound that Shure is known for," said Matt Engstrom, category director for monitoring products at Shure.
It follows the recent announcement by Sennheiser that it is to release a new set of travel headphones, called the CXC 700s.


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