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2007-10-12 International-UN-NGOs
Gore Shares Nobel Peace Prize with UN
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Posted by Bobby 2007-10-12 06:40|| || Front Page|| [11139 views ]  Top

#1 The devaluation of the Nobel Peace Prize is complete.
Posted by Mike 2007-10-12 06:44||   2007-10-12 06:44|| Front Page Top

#2 At least the Nobel Prizes in Physics, Chemistry and Economics are still legitimate achievements. The Prize in Literature also tends to be little more than an award for having the same political leanings as the Committee.
Posted by Grumenk Philalzabod0723 2007-10-12 06:53||   2007-10-12 06:53|| Front Page Top

#3 ...So - the last two Americans to win the Nobel Peace Prize have done so solely because of their anti-American and anti-western leanings.

Somewhere, Al Nobel is figuring out where he can stuff some dynamite.

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2007-10-12 07:00||   2007-10-12 07:00|| Front Page Top

#4 Gore2008!


heh heh
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2007-10-12 07:06||   2007-10-12 07:06|| Front Page Top

#5 Run, Al, run!
Posted by Steve 2007-10-12 07:34||   2007-10-12 07:34|| Front Page Top

#6 Okay - a lot of the other stuff I read depresses me, but this just pisses me off.

What the f*ck did these guys do to contribute to global peace?

One issued a ton of paper and the other made issued a scientifically dubious lecture to theaters - starring himself.

No genocides have been stopped. No conflicts have been resolved. No wars have been mediated.

Hell, the marriage counselor down the street does more for the cause of peace than these losers!
Posted by The Doctor 2007-10-12 08:32||   2007-10-12 08:32|| Front Page Top

#7 Well, I suppose they couldn't get away with Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid sharing it so the UN and Al Gore was probably seen as a good compromise.
Careful, Al. Deservedly or not, this opens you and your little theories to a lot of scrutiny. And overexposure is not a good thing...especially where you're concerned.
Posted by tu3031 2007-10-12 08:55||   2007-10-12 08:55|| Front Page Top

#8 Let’s remember the esteemed gentlemen awarded Burmese activist Aung San Suu Kyi one of their illustrious prizes. Today the streets in Burma flow with blood. From their lofty perch, these ‘enlightened’ people of the committee have contributed zero, zilch, nada to basic human rights in all their posturing.. On the other hand, the American service member brought forth upon the Euphrates the ‘purple finger’, a display of the triumph of liberty and freedom. It too costs blood and pain. However the former is an abject failure of the human spirit with style over substance. The latter is a triumph of doing rather than posturing. We know their price. Peace at any price. Even if that price is slavery in any form or name. Soul, sold and paid for, such are the wages of ego. Not one of the members of that community is worth that of one American service member who is willing to pay in blood for the freedom of his fellow man, regardless of color, race, or creed.
Posted by Procopius2k 2007-10-12 09:13||   2007-10-12 09:13|| Front Page Top

#9 No genocides have been stopped. No conflicts have been resolved. No wars have been mediated.

If you think of the "Peace" Prize as the "Transnational Socialist Mutual Admiration Prize", it makes more sense.
Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford  2007-10-12 09:22|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2007-10-12 09:22|| Front Page Top

#10 The Nobel Peace Prize is now actually the Nobel Working for Global Socialism and UN World Government Prize.

Make sense now?
Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader  2007-10-12 09:31||   2007-10-12 09:31|| Front Page Top

#11 "What the f*ck did these guys do to contribute to global peace?"

You have to remember what their definition of peace is - you and I living like peasants while they jet overhead in Gulfstream 5s.
Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek  2007-10-12 09:53||   2007-10-12 09:53|| Front Page Top

#12 Today officially marks the start of our next ice age.

Bundle up!
Posted by danking70 2007-10-12 10:13||   2007-10-12 10:13|| Front Page Top

#13 
Posted by Mizzou Mafia 2007-10-12 10:23||   2007-10-12 10:23|| Front Page Top

#14 If Al Gore were truly committed to stopping global warming, rather than self glorification, he would decline to travel to Oslo in person to accept the award. Instead, he would send a message that he cannot travel so far, because of the excessive CO2 emissions it would require. He would ask that the UN committee do the same.
As Glenn Reynolds says, "I will start acting like global warming is a crisis when the people who tell me it is a crisis start acting like it is a crisis."
Posted by Rambler">Rambler  2007-10-12 10:40||   2007-10-12 10:40|| Front Page Top

#15 Damn! I wanted one of those!
Posted by Bill Clinton 2007-10-12 10:59||   2007-10-12 10:59|| Front Page Top

#16 Everytime I see Al go into his schtick, I think of the guy that sold Springfield the monorail on The Simpsons...
Posted by tu3031 2007-10-12 11:13||   2007-10-12 11:13|| Front Page Top

#17 #11 "What the f*ck did these guys do to contribute to global peace?"

Well, they stopped the genocide in Darfur, didn't they ?
Well, they investigated the oil for food scandle and forced the guilty to make payments to iraq, didn't they ?
Well, they must have done something....
(/snrk)
Posted by wxjames 2007-10-12 11:17||   2007-10-12 11:17|| Front Page Top

#18 So is his oil company carbon neutral?
How?
Posted by 3dc 2007-10-12 11:52||   2007-10-12 11:52|| Front Page Top

#19 This says much more about the Peace Prize than Al Gore.
Posted by Iblis">Iblis  2007-10-12 12:03||   2007-10-12 12:03|| Front Page Top

#20 Wikipedia says that Nobel gave no reason for including a peace prize. IIRC, there was a Baroness Somebody, the governess who married the heir to the title (to the shock and dismay of his family), who later became a prime mover in the Pacifist Movement in Europe; and she supposeldy influenced Nobel.

See Wikipedia for a discussion of the criticisms of the political nature of some of the choices.

The "Peace at Any Price" heirs of the Baroness, surprisingly, include Teddy Roosevelt. TR got the peace prize for his mediation of the Russo-Japanese War, in which he helped ensure Japanese occupation and brutality in Korea for half a century. It was after Teddy's noble efforts that the Japanese locked Christian worshippers in their churches on Sunday mornings and set the churches on fire.
Posted by mom">mom  2007-10-12 13:38|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com]">[http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com]  2007-10-12 13:38|| Front Page Top

#21 TR's intervention also saved the Japanese from the same sort of eventual destruction the US served up some 40 years later. The Russians had way more assets, but it was all at the other end of the country. Japan settled before the russians could clean their clock.

We did get the cherry trees around the Tidal Basin in DC for his efforts, however. They are lovely in the spring.
Posted by Bobby 2007-10-12 14:32||   2007-10-12 14:32|| Front Page Top

#22 Check this link: the Producers of the fictional film that gave Al-baby his bling have been asked to return their Oscars:http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2007/10/11/seriously-inconvenient-truth-producers-gore-s-film-asked-return-oscar
Posted by USN, Ret. 2007-10-12 15:37||   2007-10-12 15:37|| Front Page Top

#23 This says much more about the Peace Prize than Al Gore.

Mebbe so but am I the only one who sees Gore being paired with the UN as supremely fitting? One ethical bankrupt wedded to another. It doesn't get much better! Eff knows that Gore will view this as lifetime moral bona fides but anyone with a particle of sense will know that he might as well have shared this peace prize with Yasser Arafat.
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2007-10-12 15:38||   2007-10-12 15:38|| Front Page Top

#24 Go Al Go! (GAG)

Posted by TomAnon 2007-10-12 15:53||   2007-10-12 15:53|| Front Page Top

#25 Nobel Peace Prize winners:

Mahatma Gandhi ? No.
Al Gore ? Yes.

The only people who can be credited with actually stopping a genocide in the past few decades are Paul Kagame of Rwanda and Indira Gandhi of India, both of whom used force.
Posted by john frum 2007-10-12 16:22||   2007-10-12 16:22|| Front Page Top

#26 have been asked to return their Oscars

Will happen the day after Michael Moore returns his.
Posted by ed 2007-10-12 17:42||   2007-10-12 17:42|| Front Page Top

#27 Gore gets $1.5 million that goes along with the prize. I can't connect the lines between doing something for world peace and this bogus global warming scam that has been foisted upon the world. Moreover, Gore got an Oscar for his "An Inconvenient Truth" film. The Oscars have never been particularly meaningful. The Nobel Peace Prize has also become more and more meaningless.
Posted by JohnQC 2007-10-12 18:04||   2007-10-12 18:04|| Front Page Top

#28 Mother Theresa got the prize for easing the plight of the poorest of the poor in Calcutta.

Al "Al" Gore wins by urging the world to deny the poorest of the poor in Calcutta the kind of comforts the rest of the world already has.

Nice job, guys. Good pick.
Posted by eLarson 2007-10-12 18:14|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com]  2007-10-12 18:14|| Front Page Top

#29 Au contraire, mon frere.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-10-12 18:16||   2007-10-12 18:16|| Front Page Top

#30 My previous comment was in response to the assertion that

The Nobel Peace Prize has also become more and more meaningless.

which I failed to include in the comment. I even previewed. Alzheimers. Sorry.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-10-12 18:19||   2007-10-12 18:19|| Front Page Top

#31 I'm figurin' Kim Jong-il is a shoe-in for next year. His carbon footprint is exemplary: in North Korea, the lights go out when the sun goes down, AND he travels by train, not jet. He's clearly superior to Gore.

Posted by Darrell 2007-10-12 20:59||   2007-10-12 20:59|| Front Page Top

#32 Well, he has spoken out so bravely against President Bush and the Iraq war, risking his very life to do so.

And the UN? Umm....didn't they make Angelina Jolie a goodwill ambassador, or something? Yeah, that's it! That's what they did for world peace!

Now it's all so freakin' clear!
Posted by Swamp Blondie 2007-10-12 23:28||   2007-10-12 23:28|| Front Page Top

#33 I thought he would've gotten it for inventing the internet.......
Posted by Broadhead6 2007-10-12 23:31||   2007-10-12 23:31|| Front Page Top

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