Huh, I forgot about that one. Only two of my picks might qualify (Dalila and Ayman Abd El Aziz Nour). Dr. Dalila is considered a “prisoner of conscience” by Amnesty International and Ayman Abd El Aziz Nour’s charges are forging documents, so can we get a ruling on that? The other two are under charges for money laundering and war crimes respectively, so I don’t think they qualify.
Going by Wikipedia’s definition and examples, any jailed terrorist (such as Omar Abdel-Rahman aka the Blind Sheik) would most likely be considered a political prisoner as well.
Haha, I know he isn’t that old, but I remember him having darker hair what seems like only one or two years ago. Maybe he drank from the wrong grail and is aging super-quickly… Oh screw it.
I’d like to thank Augusto Pinochet for departing just in time, I’d also like to thank Ariel Sharon and Fidel Castro for hanging in there (just one more day!).
Mahathir Mohamed (former Malaysian Prime Minister), July 10, 1925
Fidel Castro, August 13, 1926
Ariel Sharon, February 27, 1928
Regis Philbin, August 25, 1931
Jim Bunning, October 23, 1931
Louis Farrakhan, May 11, 1933
Silvio Berlusconi, September 29, 1936
Benny Parsons, July 12, 1941
Farrah Fawcett, February 2, 1947
Mikhail Khororkovsky (wealthy jailed Russian), June 26, 1963
Mikheil Saakashvili (President of Georgia), December 21, 1967
Michael Schumacher (yes, I know he’s retired), January 3, 1969
Zara Phillips (equestrienne/minor royal), May 15, 1981
alternates:
Suharto (former Indonesian President), June 8, 1921
Billy Crystal, March 14, 1947
1.Osama bin Laden ( 1957) Just as Bush’s reign on Terror wanes to a new low, OBL will be successfully bombed and identified.
2.Stephen Hawkins ( 1942) The Man Who Wouldn’t Die.
3.JD Salinger ( 1919) Catcher in a Rye. Recluse and Obscure. Good Combo.
4.Harper Lee ( 1926) To Kill a Mockingbird.
Fish in a Barrel:
5.Ariel Sharon ( cause everyone is doing it)
6.Abdeloziz Bouteflicka: (1932) Algerian President, has cancer.
7.Kelly Jo Dowd (1967?) ( Mom of Dakoda Dowd, youngest player in LPGA)
8.Chayito Valdez (1945) Mexican Folk singer. Obscure and PVS.
Nutjob’s that are So Gay:
9. **Fred Phelps. ** run over by Vets on choppers. Random Terrorists:
I had quite lost track of the reason that Baker seemed such an authority on everybody’s choices, figuring that he was creating his Excel monster for the sake of taking over a35362’s duties, and I missed the post explaining that our macabre MC was changing.
So I went back and found Baker’s first post, on the second page:
So it’s Thirteenth Hour, time to pony up, Baker (with or without Phelps).
Huh, no, I haven’t kept track of* everything*. Just how many selections different celebs got. Not who picked whom!
I wouldn’t take a35362’s duties. S/he is welcome to them, and will do a much better job than I ever could! I think we should all give our OP a great big round of applause for taking on the task!
YAY!!! a35362
And as for my ponying up, it’s not midnight yet! I may post at 10:16 PM, as today is my birthday, and that’s my official time of birth!
And by the way, Only Mostly Dead, I’m female, and I definitely didn’t promise I was going to do the top 13. Couldn’t anyway, as it stands there are several ties, so I’d have to do some culling anyway.
I see a lot of people got burned by celebrities dying over the holiday season. So I waited until the last minute:
Mohammed Ali
Art Buchwald
Fidel Castro
Kirk Douglas
Roger Ebert
Betty Ford
Alexander Haig
Don Ho
Henry Kissinger
Stan Lee
Ariel Sharon
Margaret Thatcher
Robert Anton Wilson
Assuming any of these people decide to die in the final hours of 2006, replace them with:
