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Al Gore = Peace Prize? What did he do?
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Making a movie wins it for you? What a joke. Maybe I can win a Peace Prize for posting random pictures.
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Don't be so bitter, just because Al's movie beat out your wedding night home video for an Oscar
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Sad thing is that it dumb's down the Nobel Peace prize. Now that its proven that absolutely anyone can get it, what is it worth?
Just saw that in the UK Als movie can be shown to school kids but only if there is a presenter showing the other side of the various points. They have found so many errors and such unproven bias in the movie that this is the only way its allowed to be shown.
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Are you saying the Nobel Peace Prize is a farce? Can't be. Yasser Arafat won it, too.
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Who actually wrote the movie? Who did the research?
It's really a left wing Man of the Year award.
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Give Al a break...he did invent the Internet ya know
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^ beat me to it
Actually he never claimed to invent it rather "I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
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Invented, initiative, who cares?
As long as Al gets the credit.. |
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Someone should call the European Board of Fecal Standards!
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Didn't Kofi Annan win it too? No credibility whatsoever in that prize. It means nothing anymore. Who wants to place bets on Kim Jong-Il or Robert Mugabe getting it in the near future?
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Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Ang Sang Suu Kii, Mother Theresa and Al Gore? Hmmmmmmm.
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Clearly another slap at W. Like Carter's "Peace Prize". WGAS about a bunch of freaking Norwegians' political opinions? Seriously.
This year's Nobel Prize is for Alarmism, Hyperbole and Hypocrisy. From Power Line: When did the Nobel Peace Prize go off the tracks? Today's award to Al Gore and the IPCC "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change" fits in with a subset of cosmopolitan frauds, fakers, murderers, thieves, and no-accounts going back about twenty years: 2005 MOHAMED ELBARADEI (joint winner). He's done such a nice job with Iran. (but he did lie and meddle with a United States Presidential election... working against W, so he had to get something out of it). 2004 WANGARI MAATHAI. The Kenyan ecologist peacefully teaches that the AIDS virus is a biological agent deliberately created by the Man. 2002 JIMMY CARTER JR., former President of the United States of America. A true cosmopolitan, he has undermined the foreign policy of his own country and vouched for the bona fides of tyrants and murderers all over the world. 2001 UNITED NATIONS, New York, NY, USA. KOFI ANNAN, United Nations Secretary General. Among other things, they have respectively served as the vehicle for, and presided over, one of the biggest scams in history. (and let's not forget unaddressed rape (see below), indifference to genocide and dictator-enabling) 1994 YASSER ARAFAT (joint winner), Chairman of the Executive Committee of the PLO, President of the Palestinian National Authority for his efforts to create peace in the Middle East. He was a a cold-blooded murderer both before and after receiving the award. 1992 RIGOBERTA MENCHU TUM, Guatemala. She is the notorious Guatmalan faker and author, sort of, of I, Rigoberta Menchu. 1988 THE UNITED NATIONS PEACE-KEEPING FORCES New York, NY, U.S.A. Notwithstanding rapes and sex abuse committed by the team in Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea and the Congo, still doing fine work all over the world. UPDATE: Reader Michale Slade thinks we need to extend the list a bit further back in time to include Betty Williams ’76, whom he deems "deserving of a place for her remarks about killing President Bush." Jeff Jacoby writes to add: In all seriousness, it is worth nothing an important difference between the peace prize and the other Nobel prizes. The Swedish scholars and scientists who make up the committees that award the science, literature, and economics prizes routinely choose honorees whose greatest work was done years, even decades, earlier. For instance, Max Planck's revolutionary paper on quantum theory was published in 1900; he received the Nobel Prize for it in 1918. Albert Einstein's discovery of the photoelectric effect -- a 1905 achivement -- earned him the Nobel Prize in physics in 1921. James Watson and Francis Crick figured out the structure of DNA in 1953; they didn't receive the Nobel Prize in medicine (with Maurice Williams) until 1962. The 1924 Nobel in medicine went to Willem Einthoven for discovering the mechanism of the electrocardiogram. He had done the work between 1895 and 1905. This is why recipients of the Swedish Nobels are so often very old. Doris Lessing, this year's literature laureate, is 88.Two years ago, Thomas Schelling -- then 84 -- was a co-recipient of the economics prize for work he had done in 1960. As a rule, a scientist, author, or economist receives a Nobel Prize only after his work has been sifted and weighed and put to the test of time. Its importance has been established, often through years of peer review. As a result, the science, literature, and economics Nobels rarely end up looking foolish or naive. By contrast, the Norwegian committee entrusted with awarding the peace prize comprises politicians, not scholars. Like politicians everywhere, the peace prize committee tends to be more interested in what the headlines will say today than in what historians will believe 20 -- or 100 -- years from now. And unlike their Swedish counterparts, the Norwegians often intend their choice to have a political impact. When they gave the prize to Jimmy Carter in 2002, the committee chairman emphasized that it was intended to be "a kick in the leg" of the Bush administration. This year's prize to Al Gore speaks for itself. In short, the five Swedish Nobels are almost always rewards for true achievement. The one Norwegian Nobel too often smacks of an agenda. Maybe the peace laureates would be less risible if they were chosen in Stockholm too.
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Well I hate to be the spare prick at the wedding, but I think this was well deserved.
Gore and the IPCC have brought the subject of climate change to the very front of the agenda. And rightly so. Climate change is probably the single most important issue that we face on this planet. Just getting the debate at the forefront of everyones agenda - is sufficient to justify the prize in my view. Yeah, yeah - so now the dinasours will start mumbling about 'bad science' etc. That's like fiddling while Rome burns.
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Can I ask a simple question: Does "climate change" have anything to do with "peace"? I just don't get it...
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Gore did bring attention to global warming, an "event" that would have most likely occurred anyways, as it has for millions of years, with or without man.
Bravo.  Best, Kurt edit: After reading Dottore's post below, I will give Gore more credit. Despite global warming occurring with or without man, it is a "good thing" to shift our energy needs to renewable and cleaner sources. This shift would have happened anyway, IMO, driven by economic forces, but the shift has been accelerated by the sensationalism of the "movie". Last edited by kstar; 10-12-2007 at 08:18 AM.. |
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Here's a good article about how global warming has become the new liberal religion. Necessary after the "neocons" have hijacked their traditional goals.
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