First he won the majority of votes for president,
and then an Oscar,
and an Emmy,
for his Good Works
Today it was announced that Al Gore was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize,
which is well deserved
Congratulations Mr Gore!
You certainly are the Great American Example,
and Every Parents' Dream
MSNBC: Al Gore, U.N. panel, win Nobel Peace Prize
and then an Oscar,
and an Emmy,
for his Good Works
Today it was announced that Al Gore was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize,
which is well deserved
Congratulations Mr Gore!
You certainly are the Great American Example,
and Every Parents' Dream
MSNBC: Al Gore, U.N. panel, win Nobel Peace Prize
5 comments:
Al Gore Does Not Deserve The Nobel Peace Prize - And Response
posted October 10, 2007
The Tennessee Center for Policy Research is calling on the Nobel Committee to not give Al Gore the Nobel Peace Prize this week. The prestigious award should go to someone who has championed world peace – not a hypocritical climate change alarmist.
The Nobel Prize announcement is scheduled for Oct. 12 in Oslo, Norway. Gore has been nominated for his work on global warming, and speculation is rampant that he will win.
Handing a Nobel Prize to Al Gore, a proven hypocrite on the issue of climate change, would be an injustice to the many people bravely fighting for peace and freedom throughout the world. We discovered that while Gore told us to curtail our energy use, he guzzled more electricity at his posh Nashville mansion in a month than the average American family used in a year.
The average household in America consumes 10,656 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per year, according to the Department of Energy. In 2006 Gore devoured nearly 221,000 kWh – more than 20 times the national average, according to the Nashville Electric Service. The Tennessee Center for Policy Research uncovered this fact through a public records search in the wake of Gore’s Oscar-winning movie, An Inconvenient Truth. Gore paid nearly $30,000 in combined electricity and natural gas bills for his Nashville estate in 2006.
The Tennessee Center for Policy Research hopes the Nobel Peace Prize goes to a deserving candidate, such as Lida Yusupova, who has devoted her life to human rights, even as she faces death threats. Her work in Chechnya has shed light on human rights abuses committed by both Russian armed forces and Chechen rebels.
Another deserving candidate is Buddhist monk Thich Quang Do, who has spent a lifetime fighting for peace and freedom in Vietnam. He is currently under house arrest for decrying human rights abuses and has been jailed previously for helping his country’s poor.
If the Nobel Committee wants to award an individual working on the issue of climate change, it can select Canadian Inuit activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier, who – unlike Al Gore – practices what she preaches. Watt-Cloutier has dedicated herself to working with the indigenous peoples of the Arctic regions, speaking out against polluters and sounding the alarm about climate change.
We hope the Nobel Peace Prize goes to someone who truly deserves it. Making Al Gore a Nobel Laureate would forever tarnish the Nobel Prize.
Drew Johnson
The Tennessee Center for Policy Research
If Al can receive the Prize for his views on global warming, then the Prize no longer has any meaning.
PTM
That is a sad statement Paul. But I still have hope.
Your Friend,
Rob
Al Gore Doesn't Deserve The Nobel Prize
Well, Al Gore has won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. And I have to say that I don't think he deserves it. When his accomplishments are stacked up next to those of some recent winners, he just doesn't make the cut.
In 2005, the International Atomic Energy Agency and Mohamed ElBaradei won it for their tireless efforts against nuclear proliferation. It was under their watch that India, Pakistan, and North Korea all tested bombs, Iran raced towards it own bomb, and Libya revealed that it had had a nuclear weapons program for years.
In 2002, Jimmy Carter won it for his repeated attacks on Israel, sanctifying "elections" of various dictators and other thugs, and other examples of being a worthless twit. Carter was the most ineffectual and worthless president in recent history, and built on that legacy to become the worst ex-president in history.
In 2001, Kofi Annan and the United Nations won the award for... well, I'm sure they did something decent. I just can't find it.
The 1994 Award was shared by Shimon Perez, Yitzhak Rabin, and Yassir Arafat. Arafat's was more of a "lifetime achievement" award for decades of terrorism, and he promptly used the opportunity to turn his life around. He was reborn as a thieving head of a pseudo-state and unleashed a wave of terrorism that he could plausibly distance himself from, while enriching himself to the tune of an estimated couple of billion dollars before he finally died of AIDS in Paris.
In 1990, Mikhail Gorbachev won the award for surrendering and admitting defeat for the Soviet Union. The notion of honoring the man who made that defeat not only possible, but inevitable is too much like honesty, I guess.
And in 1988, the United Nations Peacekeepers added the Nobel Peace Prize to their collection of honors -- alongside the Gold Jockstrap for Rape Of Refugees, the Bronze Toilet Seat for Sitting On Their Asses And Doing Nothing, the Silver Fig Leaf for Covering For Terrorists and Dictators, among other honors.
That's just the last 20 years. I didn't even get to go back far enough to list Henry Kissinger (1973). Compared to those worthies, what's Al Gore done? He made a crappy movie.
Next year, I hope that the Nobel Committee returns to their prior standards. I would like to nominate the government of Burma, Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, and Muqtada Al-Sadr for consideration.
And, if it's not too late, let's toss in Che Guevara into the mix.
Let me add my congratulations to Al Gore. He is, indeed, most deserving. I am grateful for his work in revealing the facts on global warming and climate change.
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