2005 Weasel Awards
Dilbert creator Scott Adams currently is taking votes in the fourth annual Weasel Poll. It appears from the results of past polls that most Dilbert readers are rather left-leaning, so I really gotta throw in my 2 cents worth in a probably vain effort to balance the scales.
Here's who got my votes in each category:
Weasliest Organization: The ACLU. Will whiningly protect all the poor, downtrodden child molesters, but God help you if you display a cross in public.
Weasliest Country: It was a toss-up between France and North Korea, but I finally went with North Korea. France is too pathetic to really rate, whereas nuke-hound Kim Jong Il is actually kinda scary.
Weasliest Company: New York Times. Leftist hype-machine thinly masquerading as a news organization.
Weasliest Profession: Again, a toss-up, between politicians or oil company executives, but I decided to go with the execs. Politicians are all such weasels it felt like throwing my vote away for something so obvious. Price-gouging oil company execs should rot in jail.
Weasliest Individual: Cindy Sheehan. This woman is so morally repugnant for pimping her son's death to any camera that will give her airtime. Even her own family can't stand to be around her.
Weasliest Behavior: Gas price gouging. I don't care how much they pay for it in Europe - oil companies are reporting record profits and we're paying through the nose. That's odious.
Now, go vote.
I thought what Cindy Sheehan did was pretty ballsy...
Posted by: ebeth | Thursday, October 27, 2005 at 05:58 AM
I voted. :)
Posted by: Nan | Thursday, October 27, 2005 at 09:14 AM
But you know what? If someone is discriminated against because of his or her belief in God (say, for being fired from a job because he or she won't work on Sundays), the ACLU is who stands up for you.
Posted by: Carla | Saturday, October 29, 2005 at 09:44 AM
Maybe. The ACLU carefully chooses which cases it will take and in many cases it's completely hypocritical.
It may defend a street preacher in Las Vegas and then it turns around and opposes the Minutemen protests at the border.
What is indisputable, though, is that it endorses child pornography and defends such organizations as NAMBLA.
If it comes down to working on Sunday or being defended by the same group that defends NAMBLA, I guess I'll be going to church on Wednesday nights instead.
Posted by: Amy | Sunday, October 30, 2005 at 08:09 PM
And that's fine. I just thought I'd speak up. I realize you're conservative, and to quote Seinfeld "Not that there's anything wrong with that." And I am more liberal minded. There are things that the ACLU does that I don't agree with, but the truth is it's America, and if stuff like this can't happen, I think we'd be in a lot of trouble.
Incidentally, I found your blog through the Carolina Bloggers ring, and, conservative stuff aside ;-) , I do enjoy your blog. I'm assuming your from upstate SC (with the 1300AM radio link in your side bar). I am as well, so I just thought it'd be cool to support other upstate bloggers! :-)
Posted by: Carla | Monday, October 31, 2005 at 07:12 AM
Thanks Carla!
I am in the upstate of SC, yup. I'll check out your blog today, because it's definitely cool to support upstate bloggers. :)
Thanks for posting - and I usually don't talk about politics much on my blog - just occasionally when I get fired up about something.
Mostly it's about my (mis)adventures in motherhood.
Posted by: Amy | Monday, October 31, 2005 at 08:42 AM