The No-B*lls Prize

[Fred Douglass]

Boyoboy, my admiration for the Nobel Peath Prize Kommitee has just redoubled. They've given His Fraudulency, Al "The Big Bore" Gore(d) the Prize. This, even after a gang o' scientists at MIT pointed out, with reams of data, that Globaloney Warming was 99% Natural, due to Sun-to-Earth orbit, etc. One of the bits of data they pointed out was evidence of milder temperatures in northern latitudes, including farms, formerly under the ice in Greenland.

All goes to show you that we humans couldn't get more stupid or gullible unless we speciated! Wait'll we get Billary as Chief Exec! Maybe Alec Baldwin will move back to the US! (What? He never left?) Kroikeys!

Ar-ar-ar-ar-oooooooooooooogle....

PS---Jathink they'll draft Big Al now? Now THAT'd be cool!

[Ron61]

Freddie,

I just watched him on a news interview and he really had a hard time trying to come across as humble. Must be great. First he invented the Internet and now he has notified the world of global warming.

Ron

[wtm442]

Just watching FoxNews and they listed eleven major errors in his movie, An Inconclusive Lie, or A Concurrent Truth or whatever crap he slapped together.

Maybe he should partner up with that other fat POS movie maker.

[Roscoe]

But it's for the CHILDREN!

[427 S/O]

Exactly Warren...If Bonds record has an *, then Al's prize should have a disclaimer...

[Art Burtt]

Invent the internet,win the presidency,(but don't serve),win a Gnobel Peese Prize, what's next? His acension to saint hood?? Give me a break,this guy is a waste of skin!

[Wes Tausend]

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What we need is a "War Prize".

Not that people will forget this era.

Anybody catch the latest Ken Burns series, "The War", on PBS? I thought it was pretty good... sobering... but good. Ken Burns does nice work.


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[trularin]

So, who would get the WAR prise???

As if we didn't know.

[will butterwort]

that global warming is only occurring up here---antarctica is growing south of here, new zealand and australia have had the coldest winter in 30 years.No confidence in nobel stuff whatsoever---wouldn,t be surprised to see them award uncle Joe or adolf something or other as peacemakers. Will-alabama

[Don]

Needs to be confirmed, but mentioned on a local talk radio show. Al Gore's donation of his share of the prize money goes to the non-profit organization lead by his son, correct or ?

[VRM]

Al Gore is a politician and, like almost all politicians, uses lies, misdirection, and selective facts to further his agenda. Bush (both of them), Clinton (both of them) do exactly the same thing.

I'ts almost like those statements that Gore claimed that he invented the internet.
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp

Steve

[Ron61]

Will,

At one time Hitler, Stalin, and even Saddam was considered for the Nobel Prise. They had a show about that on TV last night.

Ron

[xracerbob]

I wish he would just go away. Unfortunately, this will keep him in our faces for many months to come...

[uncltodd]

I seem to remember from my history studies, something about "Dynamit Nobel."

What was that he invented, again???

[bomelia]

That's Alfred's special recipe!!

Seems after all the death and mayhem caused by his "invention" in WWI, he began to have regrets. In fact, someone accidently published his obit a wee bit prematurely, and he found out he was being remembered only as the creator of dynomite, and the subsequent loss of life due to it. So he had a change of heart...created the peace prize and endowed it with the profits of his invention. Thats right boys and girls, everytime someone gets blown up with some dynomite, a little "license" money gets added to the Peace foundation. Cool, huh? If Bush were not busy killing terrorists, Gore might not have won much. OK, thats a tad bit of an exageration. In fact, if Gore/Clinton had done their job whilst in office, Bush might not have had to kill so many bad guys. Ok, hyperbole again.

Mike

[cobra de capell]

Originally Posted by Fred Douglass

Ar-ar-ar-ar-oooooooooooooogle....

PS---Jathink they'll draft Big Al now? Now THAT'd be cool!

Perhaps there were no other candidates, but on the other hand - according to the OpinionJournal:

Not Nobel Winners
Some nominees for next year.

Sunday, October 14, 2007 12:01 a.m. EDT

In Olso Friday, the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize was not awarded to the Burmese monks whose defiance against, and brutalization at the hands of, the country's military junta in recent weeks captured the attention of the Free World.

The prize was also not awarded to Morgan Tsvangirai, Arthur Mutambara and other Zimbabwe opposition leaders who were arrested and in some cases beaten by police earlier this year while protesting peacefully against dictator Robert Mugabe.

Or to Father Nguyen Van Ly, a Catholic priest in Vietnam arrested this year and sentenced to eight years in prison for helping the pro-democracy group Block 8406.

Or to Wajeha al-Huwaider and Fawzia al-Uyyouni, co-founders of the League of Demanders of Women's Right to Drive Cars in Saudi Arabia, who are waging a modest struggle with grand ambitions to secure basic rights for women in that Muslim country.

Or to Colombian President Àlvaro Uribe, who has fought tirelessly to end the violence wrought by left-wing terrorists and drug lords in his country.

Or to Garry Kasparov and the several hundred Russians who were arrested in April, and are continually harassed, for resisting President Vladimir Putin's slide toward authoritarian rule.

Or to the people of Iraq, who bravely work to rebuild and reunite their country amid constant threats to themselves and their families from terrorists who deliberately target civilians.

Or to Presidents Viktor Yushchenko and Mikheil Saakashvili who, despite the efforts of the Kremlin to undermine their young states, stayed true to the spirit of the peaceful "color" revolutions they led in Ukraine and Georgia and showed that democracy can put down deep roots in Russia's backyard.

Or to Britain's Tony Blair, Ireland's Bertie Ahern and the voters of Northern Ireland, who in March were able to set aside decades of hatred to establish joint Catholic-Protestant rule in Northern Ireland.

Or to thousands of Chinese bloggers who run the risk of arrest by trying to bring uncensored information to their countrymen.

Or to scholar and activist Saad Eddin Ibrahim, jailed presidential candidate Ayman Nour and other democracy campaigners in Egypt.

Or, posthumously, to lawmakers Walid Eido, Pierre Gemayel, Antoine Ghanem, Rafik Hariri, George Hawi and Gibran Tueni; journalist Samir Kassir; and other Lebanese citizens who've been assassinated since 2005 for their efforts to free their country from Syrian control.

Or to the Reverend Phillip Buck; Pastor Chun Ki Won and his organization, Durihana; Tim Peters and his Helping Hands Korea; and Liberty in North Korea, who help North Korean refugees escape to safety in free nations.

These men and women put their own lives and livelihoods at risk by working to rid the world of violence and oppression. Let us hope they survive the coming year so that the Nobel Prize Committee might consider them for the 2008 award.
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Since they've gon from peace to political - will the Hilderbeast to next?

[bomelia]

Good article, but I thought the Nobel could be awarded posthumously?

Mike

[Wes Tausend]

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I suppose this is just one more of those embarassing things that Americans will have to get over.

Considering that G.W. is one of the ... umm... "least loved ever" American leaders as seen by the majority of the world, it's a bit embarassing that We, The People, could have elected a Nobel Prize winner and didn't have the foresight to do it. But it's not our fault.

We, The People, didn't elect him. The Supreme Court did.


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[bomelia]

You have GOT to be kidding me. Where is the puking smilie when I need it?

[cobra de capell]

Originally Posted by Wes Tausend

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I suppose this is just one more of those embarassing things that Americans will have to get over.

Considering that G.W. is one of the ... umm... "least loved ever" American leaders as seen by the majority of the world, it's a bit embarassing that We, The People, could have elected a Nobel Prize winner and didn't have the foresight to do it. But it's not our fault.

We, The People, didn't elect him. The Supreme Court did.


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After reading your thoughts, I'm reminded of the quote "Never wrestle with a pig in the mud, you just get dirty and the pig enjoys it."