Adolph Hitler was a man who could lead men, lead them right to their deaths. He used his powerful oration to spew hateful rhetoric and create war.

Born in 1889, Adolph Hitler was born into a middle-class family and was spoiled enough to pass up the opportunity the follow in his father’s footsteps and become a customs official. Instead he felt like painting. He performed very poorly in school and he was so miserable at painting that he was rejected from two different art institutes. The man was arrested and convicted of High Treason, and while in prison engendering his bigotry and racism, he felt so sorry for himself that he wrote a book that’s translated title is “My Struggle.” Since taking lives in the first World War was obviously not enough, Hitler almost single-handedly began World War II, which caused the deaths of millions. Even the loss of innocent life was not enough to bend the hateful will of this man.

Hitler was a man who stood up for what he believed in. He even served time in prison because he tried to bring about change in the weak leadership of the country he loved so much, Germany. He had aspirations to make the world a better place by populating it with people that he felt were the smartest, strongest, and most capable of accomplishing this. He brought a country and its people from a point of depression, both emotionally and economically, to a point where national pride was everywhere and their country was one of the most powerful militarily and economically in the world.

Hitler was arrogant enough to believe that his people were the best, and thus should be the only people to live on the earth. This led to hundreds of thousands of innocent people being executed in the most inhumane ways imaginable. This arrogance served to bring his country together for a moment, but completely tear it apart after losing World War II.

Much like Charles Manson, Hitler took the brutality he experienced as a child to unleash even greater violence on others. Both men had very loyal followers due to their great ability to persuade and manipulate others, and both men lead these devotees to their demise, but not before brutally taking many innocent lives.

Although he claimed to love his country and its people, Hitler really just destroyed both of them. He manipulated men with his words to carry-out acts of hate and pure evil. He was such a coward that instead of dying with these loyal men he manipulated into fighting this war, he committed suicide in his war bunker with his female lover.

JAM

1. While many believe that Mother Teresa's work with the poor, sick and starving should be considered virtuous and good, a woman who works under the guise of a saint for the purpose of expanding her religion does not deserve praise. She especially deserves blame for the poor care she inflicted on those she claimed to be saving.

2. Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in 1910 in what is now the Republic of Macedonia. Her father passed away when she was very young, leaving her mother to care for herself and her children. Instead of remaining at home to help her mother and siblings, Teresa left home at age 18 in order to pursue her own selfish desires. She never bothered to contact her family again.

After her father's death, Teresa was raised as a strict Roman Catholic. From the age of 12, she studied the lives of saints and missionaries, and when she left home, she was educated by members of a Catholic missionary. Her sole source of education was always from the Roman Catholic church and its supporters.

While many may claim that the life and work of Mother Teresa is virtuous, her devotion to her church often outweighed her commitment to those she helped. Although her work helped some in poverty and ill-health, her overall approach never addressed the problem of poverty as a whole, but instead seemed to focus on keeping those in suffering alive. According to Teresa's beliefs, suffering brings us closer to Jesus, so she kept those in need alive so that they could continue to suffer, and in turn, bring more souls to Christ.

Although Teresa gained many earthly achievements, such as the Nobel Peace Prize, she has not received the highest achievement available in her church: canonization and sainthood. While the Vatican beatified Teresa in 2003, witnesses and supporters for her cause failed to provide enough evidence that she had performed miracles to allow her canonization.

3. Even though Teresa helped a great number of people through the many organizations and buildings she founded and built, her reasons behind these deeds cannot be concretely determined. She is recorded as saying that she is not a social worker and that she doesn't do her work for social reasons, but instead does it for Jesus Christ and the Church. This clearly reveals that her intentions are not to help her fellow man, but to expand the Catholic church and win more followers for Christ. In addition, Teresa's firm stance that suffering brings us closer to Christ proves that she merely kept people alive for the sake of Catholicism and not for the person's well being. This is evident in the care and operation of the hospitals she opened, many of which were found to be kept in horrible condition, reusing hypodermic needles and providing substandard care for patients.

4. Teresa is just one of many members of the Catholic church who hold the survival of the church in higher regard than the wellbeing of humankind. Today, the church's strict guidelines against condoms and other forms of birth control have resulted in uncontrollable outbreaks of HIV and AIDS in many countries all over the world. Instead of recognizing that some contraceptives can prevent people from contracting life threatening diseases, the church still puts all emphasis on God's will and refuses to budge on the issue of birth control methods.

5. Many people continue to praise Mother Teresa for what they believe are humanitarian endeavors. But really, her virtues were a disguise for her true intentions: the desire to win more members for the Catholic church. Her failure to alleviate the actual problem of global poverty and the improper care found in her various facilities prove that helping the needy and promoting the wellbeing of humans were not her true motives.

1. Tim Duncan, a player who has enjoyed mild success with the Spurs, deserves great blame for the Spurs shortcomings in recent years.
2. Tim Duncan attended Wake Forest where he figourously trained and competed for the school’s swim team. Basketball was only a secondary interst of Duncan’s and his play suffered because of it. He only became competative in the middle of his senior year. Many feel that Duncan’s secret desire to return to swimming is what’s to blame for his inconsistent play for the Spurs. Duncan’s patented move, often called the “Duncan look,” involves him disputing a fowl by flailing his arms in a swim-like motion. Duncan has helpped the Spurs reach the playoffs but, not surprisingly, the Spurs always seem to drop out early during Olympic years. It is speculated that Duncan intentionally drops his stats so that he can have ample time to cheer on his favorite swimmers.
3. Duncan’s lack of effort has demoted him to a second-class superstar. Whereas when the game is on the line most teams go to their best player, the Spurs keep the ball out of Duncan’s hands. A 7-footer ought to be able to post-up an inferior defender and throw it down for 2 or at least get fouled in the process. Duncan’s timid presence in the paint has caused the Spurs, the city of San Antonio, and Spurs fans around the world great grief and despair.
4. Duncan can be grouped with the other great inconsistent players in the league: Tracy McGrady and Karl Malone, like Duncan, are all players that have historically chocked in the playoffs.
5. Tim Duncan is a player that has only luckily fallen backwards into a team that continues to play well despite his lackluster effort. When the Spurs win Duncan is praised and when they lose the rest of the team or the coaches are blamed. Duncan either needs to play more consistently or he needs to take the brunt of the blame when the Spurs have a mediocre season.

A lot of great guitar players blasted out of the British Invasion scene. Each one of them brought a unique style and made a permanent impact on Rock and Roll. George Harrison was renowned for his grooves, Townsend for his volume, and Hendrix for his virtuosity.Some might try to place Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones in their league, but to do so would be to lower the standard of greatness that those other guitarist set. Richards is best known for writing the riffs for songs like "Paint It Black," "Sympathy for The Devil," and the overplayed and over-covered "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction." While other guitarists have strived toward writing more than just catchy hits, Richards not only lacked such ambition, he has inspired an entire industry of gimmick-based pop, evidenced by the Britney Spears cover of the aforementioned "classic." For this alone he should be dragged through the streets by wild horses.

Richards was born in the Greater London borough of Dartford, Kent. At an early age, his grandfather, a small time jazz musician who only toured the UK, exposed Richards to his limited taste in music and was his first guitar teacher. His mother, an avid fan of jazz-pop stars such as Billie Holiday, bought Richards his first guitar, which he would play loudly all night, much to his father's chagrin. While he attended art school he started playing blues guitar, helping to further romantize and exploit African-American musicians. It was at this point that he picked up his drug habit. One morning in 1961 he shared a train car with another student, whom Richards noticed because of the collection of rare Blues records under his arm. The student, Mick Jagger, recognized Richards from grade school and they began trying to impress each other with who was the bigger blues snob. Soon after they started the band that would become the most wealthy and unoriginal bands in Rock history.

Keith Richards stole his style from the founders of electric guitar playing: Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Jimmy Reed, and Muddy Waters. While his contemporaries were listening to a wider variety of music, including the newer sounds of Buddy Holly and Elvis Presley, Richards kept things simple. His keen ear for the early electric Blues style as well as the R&B styles of artists like Berry helped Richards develop a derivative style that was both catchy and easy. Over the 40 years that the Stones have been active, he has kept his ear out for new sounds and for the older sounds, always looking for chances to co-opt someone else's innovation. In the late '70s he was humiliated by Chuck Berry, when he showed Richards the right way to play "Roberta," a song that Richards had been playing wrong for almost 20 years. In addition to his work with The Rolling Stones, he also has made unremembered attempts as producer and solo artist.

There are many guitarists in the same status of prestige as Richards. George Harrison holds the renown for playing guitar for The Beatles; Pete Townsend's style is praised as being the most "rock 'n' roll" of all time; Clapton is often credited as simply just "the best" referring to his ability to play anything. But while they earned their acclaim for talent and hard work, he simply wrote the riffs that were easy to hum along to. He will be remembered as being the most recognizable guitarist, at best.

Keith Richards has lived his entire life doing drugs and stealing music. His rap sheet includes new artists and those that came before him. He and his band had the luck of being at the right place during the most watershed moment in Rock music history. His guitar riffs were catchy enough to break through the clatter of the real talent during British Invasion scene and this unfortunately brought The Rolling Stones to the center stage for the entire decade and beyond, which they repayed by always being stoned in public. While some guitar enthusiasts may dismiss his style as simple and easy, it is shameless theft that truly makes him notorious.

Impossible Vituperation of David Robinson

1. David Robinson despite what many might think indeed deserves blame. Someone who brings such torture to one city must be criticized for all he has done.

2. David Robinson attended school and excelled in academics, but never brought his skills to the basketball court until college. His selfish personality forced many of his classmates to undoubtedly struggle through games while Robinson sat at home studying. Robinson came from a military family and became a military man. This would seem to be a commendable achievement unless its virtue were selfishly flaunted at all times. Because Robinson attended the Naval Academy he was given the nickname of the Admiral. The problem is that Robinson never was an Admiral. Admiral is a title given after many dedicated years of service. Robinson would have done well to find another nickname, but he refused.

At the Naval Academy Robinson excelled both on and off the court, but his achievements are not what they seem. When he was drafted by the Spurs, Robinson chose to wait two years in order to honor his commitment. What you are not told is that Robinson traveled around for two years on easy assignments while the team that drafted him floundered and faced the end of its franchise.

When Robinson finally showed up in San Antonio, he was as clean as a sailor. Everyone forgets about the wild David Robinson that invaded the city and could not be looked up to as a role model. It was only later that he became a Christian. The damage had been done.

As far as his accomplishments, Robinson never won for San Antonio until Tim Duncan arrived. For 10 years before Duncan, the city of San Antonio had to suffer through embarrassment and postseason disappointment with the Admiral at the helm. Duncan brought the championships, not Robinson.

3. Robinson is the reason so many people in San Antonio stopped liking the Spurs. He couldn’t win. People were tired of being heartbroken by the unreliable center. Did Robinson apologize? NO! He just kept getting paid. Multiple times the Spurs were to number one seed going into the playoffs under Robinson, and every time, the Spurs lost. Robinson never even made the Finals until Duncan showed up.

4. Robinson should be put on the same level as all those athletes that seek individual fame instead of team accomplishments. MVP trophies are nice for your own collection, but they don’t bring hope to the people around you.

5. For all of the pain that Robinson brought to so many people throughout the 1990s, he should be blamed. People had the right to expect more of Robinson, and he failed to deliver. The city of San Antonio can never forgive such malicious acts.

Philip Kerr

*The Fictional Vituperation of Jerry Rice

1. Although he has many well-known qualities as a football-superstar, it is necessary to blame Jerry Rice as a self-centered player who only focus on his success and not the success of the San Francisco Forty-Niner football team. He became cocky and chauvinistic. Once he became famous, he became inconsiderate of the thoughts and feelings of his fellow teammates. Therefore it is in this vituperation Rice must be held accountable for his actions.

2. Jerry Rice was born on October 13, 1962 in Starkville, Mississippi. In his sophomore year of high school Jerry began to take a wrong direction in life as he began missing classes and avoiding school work. He would often leave school early i.e. play hooky. Almost always he would never get caught until one day he was spotted by the principal. However, the principal could not catch up with Jerry because he ran so swiftly. Recognizing his speed, the principal waited the next day and called Jerry to his office. Without hesitation his principal at B.L. Moor High School disciplined Jerry by lashing him five or six times with according to an online site called ricecollector80 dot com, a “thick strap (belt)”.

3.After being disciplined, the principal told the B.L. Moor High school head foot ball coach, Charles Davis about how fast Jerry could run. Once Davis met with Jerry he informed him about the football team. Jerry went against his mother’s wishes and continued to play football. She did not want him playing because he was so skinny and could easily get injured. But he ignored his mother’s order and continued to play football. When he first began practice, he hated the game. According to an online site called ricecollector80dot com, he said “‘to hell with this and began a staggered walk to the locker room,’” but eventually, he returned back to the training session and continued to practice. Once he found stardom and fame, Jerry’s focus transition from the success of the team to focusing on how to be number one.

4. He use to be considerate. Once his confidence boosted and his self-esteem, Jerry became uncontrollable and unstoppable. He was becoming egotistical. But as he progressed; he became a success and was the key to many wins held by the San Francisco Forty-Niner’s that eventually led to a one-man team and ignoring the feelings of his teammates.
Because of his self centeredness when he first came to the NFL, Rice would be comparable to Kobe Bryant when he first came to the NBA. He thought he was wiser than his teammates, but Jerry was worse that. He thought he was better than the whole national football league.

5. Most of his life, Jerry lived a fast past lifestyle. He never stopped to ask anyone how they felt about anything. No one mattered in Jerry’s world except Jerry and this is why he must be blamed for this horrible deed.

*Jerry Rice is a Good Guy and almost all of this information being used in this vituperation is false. If you would like to know more about the real Jerry Rice, you can visit the local libraries or check out official cites such as http://geocities.com/ricecollector80/index., www.nfl.com , or if it is owned by Jerry Rice a website entitled www.jerryricefootball.com to read his biography.

The late Edward Said, a renowned yet controversial scholar, was a professor at Columbia University. A despicable individual, it remains unexplainable how he was able to make it as professor, to such an accomplished, academic institution. In his most popular works, Said not only entirely construed history, but made exhaustively, general statements which were by and large misleading.

Edward Said was a disgusting individual who, to make his opinions seem more valid and plausible, conveniently lied about his schooling and background. Claiming that he was a Palestinian refugee and that he attended school in Jerusalem, Said used these points to push his agenda on the Palestine-Israel conflict. It has been noted that he was never actually a refugee and might not have truly attended school in Jerusalem at all as he so claims. His elitist education taught him to overlook completely obvious fallacies in the arguments which he presented in some of his most famous theories on orientalism. Furthermore, he claimed as achievements such terrible acts as having proactively supported the anti-zionist movement.

More detestable than all that Said represented or advocated, was the complete hypocrisy he embedded himself in by being in actuality exactly the sort of figure which he scorned in his writings. His arguments that Western scholars are too distant from, and ignorant towards the issues of the Orient and the subaltern to present accurate representations of them, undoubtedly disenfranchise Said himself from writing about the Orient. Though Said claims to be a "Subaltern," his upper class education and the idea that he sits commenting on imperialism and the woes of the subaltern from his seat at an Ivy League University is the ultimate form and manner of hypocrisy.

Said is like many of his fellow academics in their aristocratic manners and thinking. Propagating such ideas as socialism and activism, they are rarely doing enough to benefit these causes. Caught up in there high society and thus, in truth, completely distant from the oppressed themselves they at the end of the day are all just talk. Said one ups all these others with his astoundingly obvious level of pretense and dishonesty.

Edward Said was a powerful scholar who in his position at one of the foremost educational institutions in the world had the opportunity to positively alter the lives and minds of many. Unfortunately, his getting caught up in the elitist society of which he was a part, and his blindness towards this led to his ridiculously weak and flawed efforts on studying the East. His distance from the subjects he approached had him grossly overlook numerous details, and thus in the end basically do a greater injustice to the colonized countries and people than that which they had already underwent. **

** I do not necessarily take stock in any of the above-made statements.

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Between 1933 and 1945, Adolf Hitler, the Austrian-born leader of Germany singlehandedly manipulated an already devastated Germany into allowing him totalitarian rule over itself, whereupon he transformed into his own personal mechanism for invasion and genocide.

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Starting from a young age, Hitler had little to no success at nearly everything he attempted, causing him to spend a good number of his formative years on his own and poor, making a meager living selling mediocre artwork to tourists, while somehow never developing any sense of personal humility.

Having failed at the normal forms of education, Hitler was largely self taught in the worst sense, and even considered himself to be a high artist, creating monstrosities in such mediums as painting and architecture. Even once he started his political career, he considered himself an artist, believing himself to be the ultimate architect of a perfect society. However, his experience was hardly limited to the arts. When the first World War occurred, he found himself on the front lines, getting so severely injured that the resultant frustration produced one of the most dangerous dictators the world has ever seen.

Even as he rose to power, Hitler always placed his own ideological views ahead of the well-being of anything else, even his countrymen, staying up into the early hours in order to plan and strive to make his country into what he thought it should be. Even from before his rise to political power he had determined that his role in life was to reconstruct an impure and tainted Germany, and to return it to its rightful place as the ultimate ruling class of the rest of the world.

Throughout his time as the leader of Germany, not only did he succeed in shaping the public discourse of the country so that they followed his orders blindly, even when the results were catastrophic, he also repaired the country’s devastated military in order to use it in an attempt to reclaim those areas that he felt were rightfully his; those being any areas he saw fit to take.

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Hitler quickly identified, once he came to power, many of the potential threats to his rule, and, more importantly, figured out which banner of hate he would use to unite his people under his leadership. After all, it takes an enormous threat to make such a disparate and downtrodden people to follow someone such as him completely without question. These hostile forces posed no real threat to the people of Germany, but thanks to popular stereotype, he was able to infuse in the masses the sense that their previous failures were due to specific treacherous minorities among them. This shows that, not only did he have no respect for human dignity or life, he had no real respect for honesty, honor, or fairness, either. Even at the end of his reign of terror, he killed himself, rather than suffer the undignified experience of being captured.

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Hitler’s political and administrative success is so heinous that it almost directly parallels that of George Walker Bush, in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001. Like Bush, he used ultimately harmful conflicts to make it seem as though the economy was safe, he took power away from the democratic government in order to give it to himself and his proxies, he helped create a frenzy of nationalism at the expense of any real political pluralism that may have existed, and he even used Bush’s strategy of sending his own people into other countries to die at his behest, not for any constructive reason other than to satisfy his own sense of entitlement.

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All in all, Hitler’s selfish nature and complete lack of compassion, as well as his amazing ability to pit the majority of a nation against an imaginary enemy in order to control it, economically, politically, and mentally, building it into whole new nation altogether. It could even be said to be self evident that, if Hitler had been placed in the same position as George Walker Bush on September 11th, 2001, the United States would have felt very nearly the exact same level of devastation and failure of leadership as it has had in the subsequent years.

Ric Flair is a pompous ego-maniacal man. He is a part of a profession founded on fake athleticism and steroids, which glorifies violence. Flair has made a career of womanizing innocent women and using underhanded tactics to win his matches. He is a man who could never be seen as a role model, and should be disgusted to look at himself in the mirror. He cheats at his sport, seduces young women, and enjoys every minute of it without a bit of remorse.

Flair is a typical loser. He dropped out of high school and college as an adolescent and bounced around bars during his twenties. He took jobs where he could use his violent temper and unleash it on good upstanding Samaritans. From an early age he showed a violent streak that made him dangerous to normal people. Instead of staying in school and trying to get an education he chose the darker path of bar fights and wrestling. He frequently attended underground wrestling matches to hone his craft and openly searched for fights with random people on the streets to strengthen his tenacity.

Flair never missed an opportunity to exploit innocent people either. During the time between dropping out of college and scoring a wrestling deal he frequently gained peoples trust and accepted free lodging and food without giving any payment in return. In one instance he even skipped town on a home after draining the family of most of their resources.

Once established as a professional wrestler, the nature boy exploited the less talented and crippled the younger talent with his menacing figure four leg lock. He was a man concerned only with furthering his own career and couldn’t have cared less about anyone around him. He epitomized the self absorbed pre-Madonna in the sport and what was worse, he embraced it whole heartedly. His get to the top by any means necessary attitude may have served to gain him 16 world titles, but it was at the cost of stripping him of every humanistic quality he ever thought of having.

Ric Flair is a wrestler who put his own personal agenda above all other people and the companies in which he was a part of. When one wrestling organization dried up, he would take his persona elsewhere and suck that respective company of its resources before repeating the cycle. The man was more of a virus who latched onto an organization and sucked it dry before leaving it floundering while he reaped the rewards. This was one of Flair’s greatest personal achievements and he gloated often about his ability to break renowned organizations. His attitude is atrocious.

Ric Flair is not unlike many shallow individuals in professional athletics. Marion Jones lied and cheated her way to the top with steroids in the Olympics to win 5 gold medals before being caught and forced to relinquish her rewards. Likewise, Mike Tyson is also an individual who exemplifies the traits of Ric Flairs get to the top by any means necessary attitude. He bit people, threaten to kill their children, and viciously beat the people less talented than him on his way to the top of the boxing sport just as Flair did on his way to the top of professional wrestling. Similarly, Flair has broken people legs, and frequently used brass knuckles and low blows on his way to the top. His tactics were crude and deplorable, just as Flair’s were throughout his career.

Ric Flair is a very decorated wrestler, but the way he got where he is, is less than appropriate. He used under-handed tactics to sneak his way to the top, then cheated and employed ruthless tactics to stay there. He sauntered through his career proud like a peacock all the while sniping his competition like a rattler. Pretentious, callous, and ultra-violent he is a man who should truly be condemned for his path in life.

Brett Favre is despicable, selfish, and greedy on and off of the football field. He did not consider the success of his teammates or the success of his squad; he only focused on obtaining records and building personal fame. Favre deserves to be blamed for his shortcomings as a leader and his selfish motives.

Brett Favre comes from a despicable family that breeds greedy selfish and semi talented athletes. They lived in the backwaters of Mississippi so that Brett Favre could be a star in not one, but two different sports – baseball and football. His father and coach is an especially terrible person for making his son play 7 or 8 different positions on the football team instead of focusing on the talents of others and allowing his son and others to become better at the respected positions. Favre may have endured some hardships throughout his life, but instead of spending time with his grieving family – and be a good father, husband and family member – he selfishly decided to play football. “It was for the good of the team” he will tell you. But really it was a deceptive ploy to gain media attention, fame, and another chance to run from the problems and responsibilities of real life.

Brett Favre admitted to an addiction with pain killers amongst his days of playing through injuries. This proves that when he was in pain or injured, instead of sitting out a game and letting the healthy talented quarterback play, he selfishly took addictive pain medications so that he could play through the pain embraced by his aging body. He should have retired much earlier than his 17th season from the NFL. Until last year he had played 3 consecutive terrible seasons – making headlines and filling media blogs as washed up. Favre is also the king of interceptions wearing the crown for most interceptions in a career. This record only says one thing: Favre was a greedy decision maker. He constantly tried to make himself look good by landing the big play instead of thinking about the short gains that could add up to a team victory. He thought only about looking good on the top ten highlight reel but instead wound up looking old and “washed up.”

Terrell Owens has plagued many a team with his negative and demoralizing attitude. His ego is more than often overbearing and annoying to teammates. He was driven away from the eagles because of discrepancies with their quarterback and when traded to the cowboys refused to cooperate with head coach Bill Parcells creating distraction and chaos within the locker room and on the field. Brett Favre, the selfish gloat, was worse than T.O. He was a much more destructive influence to his team because he was supposed to be the chief, the leader that his mates could look to in peril; instead he demoralized his team’s efforts – interception after interception.

Throughout his entire life Favre has been a greedy and selfish athlete and person. He could never organize his priorities in favor of his team, instead glamor and media attention were at the top of his list. Indeed it is fitting that he be blamed so other football players, young and old, do not make the same mistakes that the selfish media monger Brett Favre has.

1. In this current time of political unrest, Hillary Clinton is a stunning example of why the political situation in the United States is as dire as it is. The campaign she has commanded has been deceitful and slanderous, and has done little to uphold the ideals she so proudly spouts during stump speeches and debates. Her expansive resume does nothing but prove that she will do whatever it takes to get ahead in the world. Clinton does not possess any of the qualities necessary to be President of the United States.

2. Hillary Clinton grew up in a small suburb of Park Ridge, Illinois. Even from an early age, she set her sights on doing exactly what she believed would put her in a position to advance her own personal interests. She volunteered in her community, honing her resume building skills, and eventually set her sights on politics.

Clinton excelled academically at Wellesley College, then moved on to her law degree at Yale. She represented abused children and families while still in school, attempting to build an image as a compassionate, caring politician who indeed cares more about the lives of children than making any sort of profit off of politics. She exploited her years as the first lady of Arkansas by immersing herself in the political scene and never missing a photo op with children.

As a leader, Clinton lacks the ability to unify those working around her. She has demonstrated throughout the past year that she is more interested in cultivating her image than she is in the running of her campaign. While claiming to run a campaign that is above moral reproach, she consistently manipulates the truth to her own advantage. She has even stooped to leaking photos of Senator Obama in native Kenyan dress (which looks conveniently Arabic). She will not stop to consider the havoc she has wreaked on her own party by pitting her camp so firmly against Senator Obama’s because she is willing to gain an edge at any cost.

Clinton’s hollow achievements are far too numerous to be adequately described in a brief period of time. For example, she has touted her trips to China and North Ireland as foreign policy triumphs she was thoroughly involved in instead of the picture snapping, briefly congratulatory ventures they were. She has shamelessly thrown herself into the public spotlight and will stop at nothing to ensure she remains there.

3. Hillary Clinton has become an incredibly divisive figure who puts her own desires before the desires of anyone else. She has demonstrated time and time again that she is willing to slander opponents in order to gain an advantage. She has misrepresented Obama’s opinions regarding health care in a recent mailing, and repeatedly implied that his supporters are delusional. She has run her campaign with the same kind of negative tone, malicious intent, and crude backstabbing that has become the demise of politics.

4. Hillary Clinton is similar to other major politicians who have taken to espousing ethical principles in the media to gain favor with voters while violating the same principles in practice. A recent example is the former governor of New York, Eliot Spitzer, who was known for exposing ethical violations in the corporate and political worlds before he was discovered as the client of an elite prostitution ring. While Clinton has claimed her campaign practices are above reproach, she has resorted to ethically questionable practices in her quest for the White House.

5. Hillary Clinton has become a force in American politics because she is willing to manipulate the political system that she has spent years learning. She has lied to the American public like a wolf in sheep’s clothing. She deserves condemnation for her shameless abandonment of political morals and virtues, and for the way she has misrepresented her actions and intentions to the American people.

Lance Armstrong, who set the record for 7 consecutive wins, at the Tour de France cycling race is a person who does not deserve praise because he is selfish and only is concern with becoming famous and rich. Armstrong is an athlete who deserves blame because he came back from an advanced case of testicular cancer that had spread to other parts of his body when he should have stayed at home as a retired cyclist and allowed others to gain those wins.

Born September 18, 1971, in Plano, Texas he was raised in an unfit family environment because he grew up with his a single mother named Linda and no father figure to aspire too. Instead of growing up like a normal kid Armstrong began running and swimming at age 10 and took up competitive cycling and triathlons at 13. Armstrong became a professional triathlete and because of this he did not make a good choice to finish high school, he placed sports first instead of education showing a bad example to other aspiring athletes. For example, during his senior year in high school, the U.S. Olympic development team invited him to train with them in Colorado Springs, Colorado and he did but with the sacrifice of schooling. His major achievement was the seven consecutive wins at the Tour de France but he does not deserve praise for this because he had just got out from treatment for cancer and could still have had the effects of the drugs with which he was treated with. Those drugs could have enhanced his performance without others noticing.

Armstrong should have used his cancer as an excuse to not go back to cycling but he didn’t. He wanted to be greedy and show others that even though he was basically at the end of his life he could still steal away the fame and money from others who may be needed it more. His sponsors didn’t even believe in him and cancelled his contract and $600,000 annual salary. Nobody believed him and nobody backed him up at the end of his fight against cancer.

Kevin Everett from the Bills NFL football team is an example Armstrong should do. Everett as a football player probably wanted fame fortune and recognition as many other athletes do. But for Everett it ended worse. He had a spinal injury that could leave him paralyzed for the rest of his life. Everett’s search for fame and fortune ended before he could have become a huge impact in the media. As for Armstrong, after his medical setback, he still came out and took over cycling and with it the Tour de France titles and money. There is no stopping Armstrong power and impact on cancer and cycling. He should not be praised for taking over and taking the light of fame from others.

Lance Armstrong deserves blame because he is selfish and only concerned with becoming famous and rich. He did not allow other cyclist during his seven year win in the Tour de France to take some credit in the rigorous race. He is only worried about how he looks to the public and if he is getting enough money to live lavishly.

Anadeli De Jesus

1. There are few persons more repugnant and worthy of blame than a hypocrite. A hypocrite is especially loathsome because he compounds his original shortcomings with the additional vices of dishonesty and self-righteousness. Warren Buffett, the man who has adopted the shtick of the “humble billionaire” and who has criticized corporate greed and social inequality while amassing a $62 billion fortune, is such a hypocrite, and for that, he deserves to be reviled and denounced.

2. Warren Buffett, born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1930, gave signs of emerging greediness early in his life. When he was only 13, he filed his first tax return, claiming his bicycle as a work-related deduction. In high school, Buffett and a friend bought a pinball machine, an investment that quickly expanded to three pinball machines in separate locations throughout the city. His worship of Mammon continued as he went on to obtain a bachelors degree from the University of Nebraska and a Master’s degree in economics at Columbia University in 1951, a degree particularly suited for someone obsessed with acquiring wealth. With a single-minded focus on getting rich, Buffett gradually started to build his fortune. In 1979, Buffett reached a net worth of $620 million, and by 2008 Buffett’s net worth climbed to $62 billion, making him the richest man alive.

While piling up this mountain of wealth, Buffett has worn the hypocritical mask of the humble billionaire. It is often written that he still lives in the modest house he purchased in 1957 for $31,500 (rarely is it mentioned that this “modest” house is now worth over $700,000). In 2006, perhaps fearing for the fate of his soul in a rapidly approaching afterlife, Buffett announced that he would be giving much of his fortune away to charity, a move that left many people scratching their heads when they learned the recipient of this philanthropy was none other than the mega-billionaire Bill Gates.

3. Warren Buffett is well known for his criticism of corporate excess and executive perks. However, Buffett cemented his hypocrite status when he went out and purchased the ultimate perk, his own corporate jet. By naming his jet “The Indefensible,” Buffett essentially admitted that the purchase was an act of hypocrisy and that his criticism of executive perks was little more than a joke. Buffett’s self-righteous baloney can be seen in many other examples, such as when he publicly supported the idea of an inheritance tax. He claimed his support came from a desire to have a more equal economic playing field for all, but Buffett, this man whose entire life has been single-mindedly dedicated to making money, conveniently neglected to mention that many of his companies would profit heavily from the imposition of an inheritance tax. Furthermore, the supposedly great philanthropic gesture of giving his fortune away to charity was little more than another example of Buffett thumbing his nose at the masses. To whom did Buffett choose to give his money? To the poor? To the underpaid employees of the companies that made him rich? To the government that Buffett himself admits has been under taxing him for years? No! He gave his fortune to the second wealthiest man in the United States--Bill Gates!

4. Warren Buffett is comparable to the robber barons of yesteryear. Like Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Vanderbilt, Buffett accrued an undeserved enormous fortune off the backs of his hardworking employees. However, Buffett is even worse than those robber barons, for while they at least tried to do some good with their fortunes, Buffett simply gave his treasure away to another fellow robber baron. It’s as if Dale Carnegie announced he was going to perform a great philanthropic gesture by giving all of his money to Cornelius Vanderbilt.

5. The fact that Buffett has the gall to portray himself as being humble and concerned for economic equality, while behaving in a manner completely opposite, is what makes him such a brazen hypocrite. It is for this disgusting and shameless hypocrisy that Warren Buffett deserves blame.

On September 11, 2001, the United States experienced the most detrimental and deadly terrorist attacks it has ever seen. Thousands died, the country was panicked, and its people needed guidance. President George W. Bush, knowing the country wanted justice, used this opportunity to start a war and become a terrorist himself. Bush began the war with a clear target and purpose, but quickly evolved it into something out of the American people’s control. He consistently changed the war’s targets, skewed its purpose, and has continued it long after it lost the public’s support. It is now the year 2008 and the war still has no clear aim or purpose. The people want their soldiers to come home, but George W. Bush will not stop. He is a tyrant and should be blamed as a destroyer of Democracy and the American spirit.
George W. Bush was born to a wealthy family on July 6, 1946 in New Haven, Connecticut. He grew up in Midland and Houston, TX, and never had to work for anything he received. His father, George H. W. Bush, was a politician before him and had many connections. Of Course, George W. Bush used these to get into some of the nations best schools. He received his bachelor’s degree from Yale University and his Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School. However, he fueled his desire for violence as a fighter pilot for the US National Guard. Eventually, George W. Bush road his father’s coattails into politics and was elected Governor of Texas in 1994 and the United States President in 2000.

On the days following the September 11th attacks, George W. Bush assured the public that war was the best solution. He called it a war on terrorism, with its target Osama Bin Laden of the Al Qaeda regime. In the months following, George W. Bush made several speculations about Bin Laden’s whereabouts to the United States public. When the war started, these speculations became less and less frequent, until finally, they ceased and George W. Bush introduced a new target, and then another, and then another. What began as George W. Bush’s War on Terror, has become George W. Bush’s tyrannical raid . He has lied to the American public and is threatening the lives of our soldiers with no aim or purpose. He has no regard for his people and is an immoral and terrible leader.

Hitler did something similar to the German people. He took advantage at them while the country was suffering, and manufactured a scapegoat: the Jews. Much like how Bush vilified Muslims and waged war on their homeland, Hitler blamed his country’s problems on the jews and called for their mass extermination. Hitler eventually began to take over Europe with the hopes of conquering the world. Fortunately, the United States intervened, but now we are in the midst of our own Hitler. George W. Bush is slowly conquering the Middle East, and bringing “order” to their countries. When will it stop? Will someone have to intervene with George W. Bush’s domination efforts before they come to an end?

George W. Bush has no sympathy for his people. He took advantage of them in their darkest hour and has become a tyrant with no goals for his country. He has ruined the economy, forced many into a battle that they do not support, and ruined the country’s reputation. The United States will forever be stained by this horrendous leader, like many tyrants have done to their countries. Hopefully, with the new election coming up in the fall, the United States can stop this war and redeem itself from this mess.

Introduction: Just as it is proper to honor the virtuous, so too is it fitting to levy disgrace upon the blameworthy. And as the heavens rightly praise each pristine soul granted entrance, so too does hell contemptuously welcome those who chose to degrade their immortal gift. In this way, it is only fitting that Joe Nixon be rebuked and punished for his unjust deeds, because social revilement and eternal torment befits those who enrich themselves by bartering away the rights of their fellow citizens.

Narrative: Joe Nixon’s background is unknown. Perhaps he was cloned in the some insurance company lab, the abhorrent end product of research funded by unpaid claims. Perhaps the slipshod homebuilder, Bob Perry, had him hastily assembled from a mishmash of substandard building materials. More likely, however, he was simply the offspring of two well-meaning parents – good and decent people forced to spend too large a portion of their lives wondering where they went wrong. Although he obtained an undergraduate degree from Texas A&M, his legal promise was so negligible that he attended St. Mary’s, a decidedly third-tier law school. Such an inauspicious beginning does not necessarily consign one to being utterly virtueless and, in fact, Joe Nixon achieved this miserable quality on his own. Founding a career on the pedestrian practice of defending insureds, he slowly rose from this legal hackery to become both the poster child of legislative quid pro quo and a legendary hypocrite.

Amplification: Joe Nixon’s decision to champion tort reform as a paid lackey of the insurance, medical and business lobbies amounted to little more than selling out the public for thirty pieces of silver. At the very time he was decrying the average $4,000 -$22,000 homeowner mold claim as “frivolous,” he was in the midst of receiving $300,000 to remediate mold from, and make improvements to, his own home. He felt no need to disclose this obvious conflict when introducing bills designed for the benefit of insurance companies. Nor did he feel the need to disclose that he received $13,000 for invalid claims against his policy, money paid by his carrier on the eve of the legislative session to cement his relationship as a “friend” of the industry. In fact, a review of his career illustrates that most of the legislation he sponsored was ultimately beneficial to his major campaign contributors. Such lickspittlery for personal gain is shameful; that he personally profited by limiting the rights of citizens in similar circumstances is disgraceful.

Comparison: Some would argue that Joe Nixon’s transgressions were no worse than those of another politician, Tom Delay. However, whereas Tom Delay has long taken pride in his vile tactics and reprehensible misdeeds, Joe Nixon dishonestly maintains that the legislation he succeeded in passing benefits the public at large.

Conclusion: While there is nothing inherently wrong with determining to live one’s life as a craven bootlick and corporate toady, a line is crossed when such servile behavior contravenes the common good. Consequently, the oceans themselves are not deep enough to hold the virulent scorn and derision which should be heaped upon Joe Nixon; indeed, his richly deserved contempt would quickly fill them, then overflow their banks.

1) It is not correct to praise or honor the culprit that brainwashes and imposes selfish ideals onto millions of viewers, readers, consumers and philanthropists. It is not fitting to follow the guidance or endorsements that Oprah Winfrey shares with her worldwide audience through her daily talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, and her media empire which includes: O, The Oprah Magazine (with her image on every cover), The Oprah Book Club the self-help online workbooks and Oxygen, the women's cable network she co-founded. Oprah Winfrey has single handedly brainwashed American society by creating a cult of followers who praise her thoughts, opinions, preferences, and life style decisions. Because Winfrey endorses presidential candidates like Barack Obama, influences consumers through her list of “Oprah’s 100 favorite things”, and sways readers of which books to read through her book club, she prohibits her audience from developing their own sense of personal identity. Anything that gets people to read and take part in promoting her philanthropies is a good thing; it would just be nice if she also got her audience to think for themselves.

2) Oprah Winfrey was destined to have her voice heard starting at an early age. In 1971, during high school, Winfrey’s voice was first heard over the WVOL radio station in Nashville, Tennessee. Winfrey left her blue collar roots and attended Tennessee State University on a full scholarship. At age nineteen, Winfrey’s radio career lead her to the position of the youngest news anchor as well as the first black woman to anchor the news at Nashville’s WTVF-TV. In 1976, Winfrey, relocated to Baltimore and became a local talk show host for People Are Talking. In 1984, Winfrey received a job in Chicago to host WLS-TV’s morning talk show, AM Chicago, which became the number one local talk show. The show was extended to a one hour time slot and then was renamed The Oprah Winfrey Show. By 1986, Winfrey’s show not only became nationally syndicated but also became the highest-rated talk show in television history. Winfrey continued on to establish a production facility in Chicago called Harpo Studios. She is only one of three women in history including Mary Pickford and Lucille Ball, to own their own production studios. In 1998, Harpo Studio developed Oxygen Media, a 24-hour cable television network for women and has also produced many television movies. After twenty-two seasons, The Oprah Winfrey Show has remained the number one talk show in the world due to her estimated 49 million viewers each week from the United States and 134 other countries.

3) As one of the most visible African American figures, Winfrey has negatively impacted the entire world through her egotistical messages, teachings and her philanthropic work. The “I hate Oprah Club” grew significantly after her show with James Frey, the author of “A Million Little Pieces.” With Winfrey’s endorsement, “A million Little Pieces” shot to the top of best-seller lists and also remained at the top of the New York Times best seller list for 44 weeks selling more than 4.5 million copies. However, when Winfrey brought Frey on her show, questions arouse about the truthfulness of his story, which was an account of his years of alcohol and drug abuse and his time in recovery. She lost some of her most loyal followers by publicly scolding him when it became evident that much of the memoir was fiction.
Even though Winfrey is praised for her awe inspiring philanthropic efforts such as “Oprah’s Angel network” and “The Oprah Winfrey Scholars Program” she did not provide the adequate security to protect the 15 girls that were raped at Winfrey's $40 million Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa. If Winfrey plans on focusing her philanthropic contribution for promoting and providing a better education for underprivileged children; she should take the time to ensure that they will be safe and not sexually molested.

4) Who will compare to Oprah Winfrey, the woman who imposes selfish ideals on her audience? Every episode of the Oprah Winfrey Show theoretically offers advice for personal revolution, praises deeds, endorses luxury goods, encourages spiritual learning, and promotes Winfrey supported entertainment and books; however, all of this so called “advice” is vapid celebrity chitchat and gossip. Both Jerry Springer and Oprah Winfrey center their shows on gossips and scandals. Springer’s program centers on fist fights and topics ranging from: incestuous relations, cheating romantic partners to criminal violence. Similarly, the Oprah Winfrey Show promotes gossip through the portion of her show called “Remembering Your Spirit” which includes testimonials from both celebrities and everyday people. While the topics on Springer’s show are slightly more violent, both Winfrey and Springer are presenting unnecessary hearsay to their audiences. The only difference in the two shows is that Winfrey’s guests jump on the chairs, like Tom Cruise did in his now-infamous interview and Jerry Springer’s guests throw the chairs.

5) Through the power of today’s media, Oprah Winfrey has lived a life as a manipulator. According to a loyal viewer, Kevvy Schlaucher, Oprah Winfrey has become “the human embodiment of Wal-Mart.” Winfrey has created an empire that has taken advantage of her followers from developing their own thoughts, preferences and opinions.

1. Aldous Huxley was irresponsible and wayward, an advocate of dangerous drugs, and worse, a disseminator of dangerous ideas. He deserves blame for his undermining of the state and of authority in general, his advocacy of anti-establishment philosophical ideas, and his irresponsible lifestyle.

2. Aldous Huxley was born into privilege in Surrey in 1894. He was descended from Thomas Huxley, the famous naturalist, and had a couple of novelists in his family as well, which is probably where he got the notion that he, too, could be a great writer. He studied botany in his earlier years and should have stuck with it, considering how much he loved mind-altering substances. The world might have been spared his contemptible "canon." Huxley taught for a brief period to pay his father, to whom he was in deep debt. His teaching style was almost universally abhorred by his students, who found him insufferable despite his way with words. Huxley moved to Los Angeles later in life. He applied for, but failed to acquire US citizenship, because he was too much of a peacenik hippie to fight for his country. He spent his days idling and writing such "works" as "Brave New World," an anti-state tract that showed more interest on Huxley's part in dissent-mongering than in crafting a decent novel, and "The Doors of Perception," a pro-LSD/mescaline tract that inspired countless wannabe gurus to abuse those dangerous hallucinogens in the turbulent '60s. His "Perennial Phliosophy" was basically a rip-off of fuzzy-headed Eastern mysticism and serves as a nice companion for the rest of his drug-touting, anti-state drivel.

3. Huxley tried to make it in Hollywood as a screenwriter, but failed miserably, being as ever more interested in his silly philosophical notions than in producing works that, well, worked. His novels, which suffered from similar issues, introduced dangerous and unproductive strains of thought into the minds of impressionable American youth. This unpatriotic drug-nut paved the way for such destructive souls as Timothy Leary and Ken Kesey, both of whom followed the trail he "blazed" to the land of ill-repute. His essays encouraged millions of naive teenagers to "experiment" with dangerous drugs; we might blame him for the deaths of thousands of impressionable children. "Brave New World" depicted an unrealistic fruitopia fraught with rampant drug use, probably Huxley's twisted dream.

4. Huxley, as I mentioned before, belongs in the dubious company of such "luminaries" as Tim Leary and Ken Kesey. Tim Leary traveled throughout the US, encouraging millions of people to take LSD, claiming it would save their souls. Ken Kesey likewise traveled with gangsters in promotion of a similar drug-soaked vision. Huxley was more stationary than these two, perhaps, but all the more dangerous for it.

5. Aldous Huxley should have stuck with botany. Instead, by writing such anti-establishment tracts as "Brave New World" and such fuzzy-headed, drug-informed mysticism as "The Doors of Perception" and "The Perennial Philosophy," Huxley inflicted untold damage on the minds of youth in America and abroad. His writing was subpar throughout his career, as he was clearly a deranged essayist who sought to spread his absurd ideas by any means possible. Whenever some idiot "drops acid" to "expand" their so-called "minds," they do so in dubious tribute to the dangerous and contemptible Aldous Huxley.

Ajai Raj