Gore wins Nobel Peace Prize »
Posted By Aidenag 1 year, 8 months ago in News- Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to spread awareness of man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures needed to counteract it.
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deathray1 year, 8 months ago
Congratulations, Mr. Gore!
Helping bring awareness about global climate change, and a call to action on dealing with it, is noble work.
Now we are going to have to contend with increased carbon emissions from the screams of blind, inchoate hatred of the "Right" in this country, who would rather see Rush Limbaugh get the Nobel Peace Prize for no good reason.
Watch it happen, right here...
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Aidenag1 year, 8 months ago
It's going to happen all over the net. People will be denouncing the Nobel Prize, making 'Goracle" Jokes, and god knows what else for weeks if not months. Anything to distract from the reality of the situation and how much good the man has done.
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Teagen1 year, 8 months ago
You're worried about the carbon from Rush and company? How about all of the fuel used in Gore's plane. He rarely fly commercial, it's an older G5. Adds tons of carbon to the air. He claimes to buy credits but that's one of the Gore companies.
As to Rush or any one, the price was originally award to those truly deserving. Niether he nor Gore are in the company of Albert Schweitzer, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Mother Teresa, and Aung San Suu Kyi. They are great examples of people who worked their whole lives serving humanity. Widely discussed criticism of the peace-prize are the notable omissions, namely the failure to award individuals with widely recognized contributions to peace. The list includes Mahatma Gandhi, Pope John XXIII, Pope John Paul II, Steve Biko, Raphael Lemkin, Herbert Hoover, Ceasar Chavez, Jose Figueres Ferrer and Oscar Romero. But then again, they are not from the liberals so they wouldn't be considered.
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libsRfunny1 year, 8 months ago
"Helping bring awareness about global climate change, and a call to action on dealing with it, is noble work."
A call to action when it does not affect him. He led the delegation that refused to sign the Kyoto Treaty and burns more carbon in a day at his residence than most villages.
Thing is, when his posturing proves false, will they strip him of it 50 years from now? I hope so.
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tanglang1 year, 8 months ago
Jovial, All he has to do is murder a family in cold blood and then write childrens books from death row to get nominated. Sorry, he also has to start the most notorious street gang the country has ever seen, then murder the family and so on.
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blinkers1 year, 8 months ago
Good choice. Al Gore's global warming awareness-raising activities constitute a noble pursuit, quite logical he should be awarded a share in the Nobel Peace prize. Again, good choice, I say.
(This is not to overlook the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which also shared the award).
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tanglang1 year, 8 months ago
Honestly, they are not as mad about him getting the award as they are about the fact that he pollutes more than 4 times the amount the average American does.
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peterzeb1 year, 8 months ago
a well earned nobel, I hope that he continues his work educating the world about global warming. The science is so overwhelming that only fools dispute the evidence of man made warming.
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Dobes_Rule1 year, 8 months ago
Speaking of dysentery....you seem to be spewing it quite "liberally" this fine morning - feeling rather cranky are we? Name-calling to boot...."Retard", "Punk"...sheesh....I think it's time for your Lithium dude. Chill - 'k?
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DeadXXXManXXXTalkin1 year, 8 months ago
wow! never saw someone react so vigorously and negatively to an involuntary act whose purpose is to stimulate blood flow to sluggish grey matter.
I expect at least some profanity and attacks of my lineage and mental capacity for my own reply, or I will feel jilted and neglected :-(
I need to 'get my fair share,,,,of abuuuse' as Mick would say
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blinkers1 year, 8 months ago
Ha! Very evidently, you have no idea what socialism is, no idea at all.
(I'll not bother to write any more, since by now you'll have moved on to newer threads).
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djn3nunez31 year, 8 months ago
--ignorance and blind devotion walking hand in hand...
Yes it does. Tell us how it feels.
As we can see Bushbots hate Jimmy Carter too. But he fired the Cowboy and his followers at the CIA. The entire crisis in Iran was formented as revenge for the 600 or was it 800 that were fired along cowboy George in the real October suprise.
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Teagen1 year, 8 months ago
I'm not sure where the carter rant came from but we don't hate Jimmy. We hate his actions and the way he ran things. As president his policies were bad. After his loss, he's done a great deal of damage by undermining Reagan, Bush 41, Clinton and now Bush 43. He's gone around supporting the very people he shouldn't and attacking those he should.
On the CIA, that's 30 years ago. The damage has been repaired. He did a huge slash and burn, he hated any agencies like that. Then when the CIA couldn't find the hostages in Tehran, he paid that price, he lost to Reagan.
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djn3nunez31 year, 8 months ago
Yeah they're a bunch of swell guys. You wouldn't think they would be selling the Iranians weapons and spare parts a few years later for a Lebanon hostage swap either would ya? Or how about allowing all that cocaine to be imported and sold on the streets of the US to fund their illegal activities in Central America? Naw, they'd never do that.
Frankly I don't care if you think about taking me seriously.
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hyperbola1 year, 8 months ago
>>17 million freed from tyranny and oppression in Iraq95% want them out SOON.
Six Iraqi groups team up to drive Americans out
Six Iraqi insurgent groups have joined forces to form a "political council" and "liberate" Iraq from US occupation, Al-Jazeera television said on Thursday...
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition...
It seems that as the utter stupidity and lies of the zioncon war in Iraq become ever more clear, your foaming at the mouth gets ever more desperate.
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wtagg1 year, 8 months ago
"17 million freed from tyranny and oppression in Iraq, nope not good enough!"
And they have thanked us to the tune of tens of thousands of causulties.
What evidence can you provide that all 17,000,000 wanted to be freed?
Would you find it acceptable for another country to attack us because of the way we treat native-americans, hispanics, homosexuals, etc.....?
It will be interesting to see what the current president does in his post political life.
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tanglang1 year, 8 months ago
hispanics?
Why would any other nation be upset at the fact that our leaders have allowed 20 million illegal hispanics to stay here tax free and bankrupt our social services? Hell, even if we deported their criminal asses tomorrow, or were telling them they had 48 hours before we will kill them, they are still here illegally and nobody could be upset at our actions. If the illegals are upset it would only be at themselves. It would be like tookie williams (who was nominated for a peace prize after murdering an family and starting the crips street gang) being mad that he was arrested for murder. They are guilty of a crime, who cares about their feelings?
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mesodude1 year, 8 months ago
"17 million freed from tyranny and oppression in Iraq, nope not good enough!"
LOL...You can't possibly be serious. Chimpstock has created a humanitarian crisis of epic proportion and brought untold misery to both the people of Iraq and those in surrounding countries. How many Iraqis have we "freed" of their lives? Neoclowns aren't monitoring THAT body count, are they? How many babies has your "pro-life" chimperor Bush SLAUGHTERED there? Any idea? How many millions of Iraqis have we turned into refugees? And why aren't the same neoclowns who know that the pro-business lobby-beholden GOP wants to give "amnesty" to migrant workers equally curious when it comes to the GOP's motives vis a vis global warming?
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DeadXXXManXXXTalkin1 year, 8 months ago
'' 17 million freed from tyranny and oppression in Iraq, nope not good enough!''
Its more like 22 million if I remember correctly, and was closer to 23 million pre-invasion.
It kinda cracks me up if you are obliquely suggesting a Nobel Peace Prize in association with the death or displacement of hundreds of thousands of people.
But then I've always had a slightly sick sense of humor
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Starman19761 year, 8 months ago
"Renaldus Magnus freed the 20 million people F.D.R. allowed to be enslaved by the Stallinists yet he was'nt even considered for the 'piece' prize. 20 million freed is apparently not compatible with the liberal ideal of peace."
How do you know that he wasn't even considered for the prize? Have you been present during the Nobel Peace Prize Committee's discussions?
"17 million freed from tyranny and oppression in Iraq, nope not good enough!"
When? I still see plenty of tyranny and oppression committed on the Iraqi people still today. They've just replaced dictatorship and torture with terrorism and torture.
"in fact the nobel committe thought sadam was better left in power."
Where do you get this assumption from? Can you provide a source to it? An official statement of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee?
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Commodore11 year, 8 months ago
Well congratulations Al! This is the first time I've even an ounce of respect for him. He wouldn't have been my first choice though.
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dBergeron1 year, 8 months ago
Like anyone is surprised that this knucklehead won! This is the equivalent of crowning Bill Clinton the King of Harlem. It doesn't mean much. Al Gore is a Nobel Prize winning moron.
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mesodude1 year, 8 months ago
"Like anyone is surprised that this knucklehead won! This is the equivalent of crowning Bill Clinton the King of Harlem. It doesn't mean much."
You wingnuts can't go five freaking minutes without fantasizing about Bill Clinton's penis, can you? Are you black or poor? Have you ever been to Harlem (or NYC, for that matter)? If not, then you could not POSSIBLY know what Bill Clinton represents to the people who live in Harlem. You DON'T KNOW. You obviously know nothing about Bill Clinton other than what some moronic neoclown shout radio "personality" tells you to think.
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Teagen1 year, 8 months ago
Before you attack Logan, look into the last 20 years nobel winners. There has been a rather steady swing making this more about politics than actions. Arafat is a great example, he killed women and children in terrorist acts and proudly admitted that. That in itself should remove him, other than he was mainly killing Jews. Another trait of new liberals, they don't like Israel.
Jimmy Carter likes to think he talks peace but he almost always supports the murdering dictators. Castro, Chavez, Kim and so on.
Gore produced a money making movie. That's it. He flies around in the G5 making speaches, for cash. Tell me again, why we should care about the prize anymore?
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mesodude1 year, 8 months ago
"How exactly has the Inconvenient Truth or any of Gore's "donkey crap" promoted peace?"
He can travel throughout the international community without being chaperoned by an entire military brigade and he's given the world something to coalesce around which doesn't involve invading other countries. Can you say the same about our current vice President?
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mesodude1 year, 8 months ago
Wow. The thread is about a man winning the Nobel Peace Prize for promoting the study of global warming's impact on our planet and we've got right wing pinheads like sniper91 sitting around in their parents' basements getting moist because some black kid in a backwards Red State hole is going to jail. Feel better now, sniper91?
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HannibalBarca1 year, 8 months ago
Wow. The thread is about a man winning the Nobel Peace Prize for promoting the study of global warming's impact on our planet
With this train of thought I should have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry because I drink beer.
The Nobel Prize Committee believes that by addressing global warming you are promoting world peace.
I don't, to me they are two different subjects
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Cityslicker1 year, 8 months ago
Well the Global Warming train is pulling out of the station now , picking up steam , just as I predicted a couple of days ago .
Tell me when this so called theroy is found to be a load of crap , do they take back the award ?
Don't rub your hands together , might add to the Global Warming condition !
Wonder if Al raised his price on Carbon Credits now he has the Peace Prize award ?
Waste fuel , own a big house , no worry , just buy Gore Carbon Credits and you have saved the Earth .
Gore Carbon Credits the way to save the world and still keep doing as you were with no regrets , see your local Al Gore Carbon Credit Agent/Dealer for purchase .
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