SubscribeNomination to the Nobel Peace Prize is by invitation only. The Nobel Committee sends confidential forms to persons who are competent and qualified to nominate. The names of the nominees and other information about the nominations cannot be revealed until 50 years later. [Nobel Prize.org].
the RR will claim responsibility and hold that over the head of the Republican Party for the next 20 years
On hearing the news of Gore's honor 911 wingnuts heads asplode sending vast clouds of hot air and methane into the atmosphere causing polar ice caps to rapidly melt. New York, Hollywood and Stockholm expected to be submerged in the rising tides by nightfall.
Claim: Al Gore claimed that he invented the Internet.Origin and debunking of the claim.
Status: False."
"Actually, the vice president never claimed to have done so -- but he did help the Net along. Some people would rather forget that."
He has given them much more than they've ever gotten in the past.
"When Alfred Nobel established the Peace Prize in his will, he specifically outlined the criteria by which the recipient should be chosen:The prize for peace was to be awarded to the person who 'shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding of peace congresses.'Petraeus is the architect of Bush’s surge, a plan that has increased the number of forces in Iraq."
"I think it’s significant that it’s the Peace Prize. The Vice President and many others have said that climate change is a security issue because it will create millions of environmental refugees and will lead to water scarcity that can cause conflict. Conflicts like those in Darfur have environmental roots and need environmental solutions, along with political and economic solutions.
Gore is trying to prevent a humanitarian crisis; he is trying to prevent regional wars that will be driven by resource scarcity. This isn’t the first time that a major environmental issue has won the peace prize. Winning this Prize proves this isn’t an ordinary environmental issue. It is one of the most important issues of our time. It would be good if this award were part of a trend.
...It’s [also] important that the Nobel committee gave the award to a group of scientists. There have been other scientists, such as Linus Pauling, who received the peace prize, but this is rare. The IPCC has come under much unjustified criticism for supposedly being too political, whereas the rest of us know that they don’t oversell global warming. If anything, they underplay some of the impacts. A lot of IPCC scientists toil away in anonymity and if they say anything, they get attacked. Hopefully this will give them the courage to speak up."
Considering supporting a group like the Competitive Enterprise Institute, which Algore and Newsweek have sought to discredit because CEI fights back with facts.Yah! We gotta do our part!
In fact, here are the five groups you might want to support as a response to Algore's Nobel Prize:
Competitive Enterprise Institute
http://www.cei.org/
Heritage Foundation
http://www.heritage.org/
CATO Institute
http://www.cato.org/
Pacific Research Institute
http://www.pacificresearch.org/
The Reason Foundation
http://www.reason.org/index.shtml
For all this, one doubts that Gore will ever be a candidate again. When the Democrats' front-runners were Clinton and Edwards, the case for a Gore candidacy was more convincing; there was room for one more heavyweight. But Obama seems to have taken up much of the space that Gore could have occupied. When Gore's name is tossed into polls, he still comes out third, usually well behind Clinton and Obama. ...If Gore does decide to jump into the race, here's some campaign advice from tkchrist.
... Democratic voters tell pollsters they're quite satisfied with the current candidates (more so than Republican voters are). And even though Democrats say they admire his recent work on climate change and obviously wish he'd been president for the last seven years, whether he has appeal to independents is an open question. Gore surely knows this, and he undoubtedly has little taste for exposing himself one more time to a national press that so coarsely caricatured him in 2000 and which he has since criticized vigorously, inviting even worse treatment, perhaps, in 2008. Most likely he'll prefer to be seen as a "citizen," which would allow him to be something of a prophet, unconstrained by politics.
Friday, October 12:
• Mocking the Catholic Church: Stunning video of gay men dressed in nun costumes. Why did the archbishop offer these anti-religious radicals communion after they interrupted mass? Bill uncovers the facts...
As ThinkProgress has highlighted, the right wing lost no time in harshly attacking Al Gore for winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Bill Kristol, for example, called the award a “prize given by bloviators to a bloviator for nothing.” The New York Times’s Paul Krugman explains the right’s hatred:The worst thing about Mr. Gore, from the conservative point of view, is that he keeps being right. In 1992, George H. W. Bush mocked him as the “ozone man,” but three years later the scientists who discovered the threat to the ozone layer won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. In 2002 he warned that if we invaded Iraq, “the resulting chaos could easily pose a far greater danger to the United States than we presently face from Saddam.” And so it has proved. […]
Which brings us to the biggest reason the right hates Mr. Gore: in his case the smear campaign has failed. He’s taken everything they could throw at him, and emerged more respected, and more credible, than ever. And it drives them crazy.
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