Will Gore Fall Prey to the 'Nobel Curse'?

[Ronin]

Eric Weiner
October 12, 2007

Now that he has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, Al Gore joins an elite club, one that includes presidents, activists and holy men. It is also a club that is, by some accounts, cursed. Past winners have fallen into ill repute, been assassinated — and simply faded from public view. :evilgrin:

The Nobel Peace Prize was named after a man who made his fortune by inventing dynamite — one of the many contradictions of a prize, arguably the world's most coveted, that was first awarded in 1901.

Mikhail Gorbachev won the prize in 1990, just before the collapse of the country that he was trying to reform. Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan got the prize in 2001. Shortly afterward, the Iraq "oil-for-food" scandal erupted and Annan's reputation was tarnished, some say irrevocably. Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi was the laureate in 1991, and has barely been out of house arrest since.

NPR (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15232409)

[Ronin]

We can only hope and pray.:punish:

[Seabee]

Well there is nothing noble about the Nobel peace prize these days, look at a list of some of the laureates:

Amnesty International (http://almaz.com/nobel/peace/peace/1977a.html), Annan, Kofi (http://almaz.com/nobel/peace/peace/2001b.html), Arafat, Yasser (http://almaz.com/nobel/peace/peace/1994a.html), Carter, Jimmy Jr. , Gore, Albert Arnold (Al) Jr. (http://almaz.com/nobel/peace/peace/2007b.html), Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (http://almaz.com/nobel/peace/peace/2007a.html), The United Nations Peace-keeping Forces (http://almaz.com/nobel/peace/peace/1988a.html) < This one is for their extensive assistance in educating local African populations about the dangers of pedophiles by demonstrating on the children of the area. I am sure if you investigate other laureates you will be left holding your head in your hand thinking how stupid can these people really be.
So, one can only hope that Gore gets the old Nobel curse thrown on his arse.

[Ronin]

Well there is nothing noble about the Nobel peace prize these days, look at a list of some of the laureates:

Amnesty International (http://almaz.com/nobel/peace/peace/1977a.html), Annan, Kofi (http://almaz.com/nobel/peace/peace/2001b.html), Arafat, Yasser (http://almaz.com/nobel/peace/peace/1994a.html), Carter, Jimmy Jr. , Gore, Albert Arnold (Al) Jr. (http://almaz.com/nobel/peace/peace/2007b.html), Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (http://almaz.com/nobel/peace/peace/2007a.html), The United Nations Peace-keeping Forces (http://almaz.com/nobel/peace/peace/1988a.html) < This one is for their extensive assistance in educating local African populations about the dangers of pedophiles by demonstrating on the children of the area. I am sure if you investigate other laureates you will be left holding your head in your hand thinking how stupid can these people really be.
So, one can only hope that Gore gets the old Nobel curse thrown on his arse.

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Sadly, they are mostly communists.

[mateusrosé]

If you haven't read "The Pope, the President, and the Prime Minister," you should. Every so often, contemporaries come together to effect monumental changes in the world, and that's what happened with these three. And that's also what's been ignored by the mass media and our kids' teachers.

Notwithstanding the doofuses that have received the prize in the past, the fact that none of the above three (especially John Paul II) received it, simply further negates its value in my eyes.

[Naturalized-Texan]

If you haven't read "The Pope, the President, and the Prime Minister," you should. Every so often, contemporaries come together to effect monumental changes in the world, and that's what happened with these three. And that's also what's been ignored by the mass media and our kids' teachers.

Notwithstanding the doofuses that have received the prize in the past, the fact that none of the above three (especially John Paul II) received it, simply further negates its value in my eyes.
That was an excellent book. John O'Sullivan is one of my favorite writers.

[Maggie_T]

Will Gore Fall Prey to the 'Nobel Curse'?


Doubt it. As High Prirest, Gore is very popular with the Global Warming cult followers. Lefties have a way of circling the wagons around those they love. And they love Gore.

[PaulRevere]

Maybe he'll team up with Jimmy Carter in a club of bitter America-blaming has-been Democrat apologists for corruption, failing Socialism and for doom and gloom defeatism.

[Beowulf]

Will Gore Fall Prey to the 'Nobel Curse'?
If only we were so lucky. I think God keeps him around to keep Maggie T going!!

[Maggie_T]

Yes, I always wondered about The Gentleman's sense of humor. :brow:

[Venus de Smilo]

I don't care what he falls prey to, as long as it's something, or at least enough to get his face and voice off my TV screen.

[Maggie_T]

:yeahthat:

[RayChuang]

However, last year's winner (Grameen Bank) was truly a worthy winner, because that organization encouraged something that we all want: self-sufficiency. How it got past the normally-Left nominators is just beyond me. :question:

[DoctorDoom]

Maybe no leftist loons were nominated last year.

I think I'll submit myself to be on the nominating committee. I can think of enough liberalosers to keep them busy for decades.

[Wyatt_Junker]

I wonder how many Nobel winners carry the shiny chotchke around with them. I bet a lot. I bet Jimmuh carried his around. I bet Arafat put his between his legs when he slept at night. And Hitler used his as a pillow.

I bet the Goron uses his as a highchair in his Volvo. Then carries it into restaurants to get good seating, 'Do you know who I am!' Then he flashes the Nobel like a cop flashing his badge. 'Now, I want some Manhatten chowder and a plate of churros sumbeotch or else I'll melt the world! MOVE! MOVE! MOVE!'

[Naturalized-Texan]

DR. GRAY SLAMS GORE WARMING WARNINGS: 'WE'LL LOOK BACK AND REALIZE HOW FOOLISH IT WAS' (http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/gore-gets-a-cold-shoulder/2007/10/13/1191696238792.html)

ONE of the world's foremost meteorologists has called the theory that helped Al Gore share the Nobel Peace Prize "ridiculous" and the product of "people who don't understand how the atmosphere works".

Dr William Gray, a pioneer in the science of seasonal hurricane forecasts, told a packed lecture hall at the University of North Carolina that humans were not responsible for the warming of the earth.

His comments came on the same day that the Nobel committee honoured Mr Gore for his work in support of the link between humans and global warming.

"We're brainwashing our children," said Dr Gray, 78, a long-time professor at Colorado State University. "They're going to the Gore movie [An Inconvenient Truth] and being fed all this. It's ridiculous."

[DoctorDoom]

From N-T's article:

(Gray) said his beliefs had made him an outsider in popular science.Actually, they make him a heretic in Saint AlBore's Church of Gorebull Warming.

The very concept of "popular science" is appalling. Since when is what is scientific determined by how popular it is with the uninformed masses?

[Beowulf]

So when Al Bore's theories are proven false as per Dr. Gray, does that mean that Gore would have to give back the award much like Marion Jones did for being a cheater?

[DeclinetoState]

However, last year's winner (Grameen Bank) was truly a worthy winner, because that organization encouraged something that we all want: self-sufficiency. How it got past the normally-Left nominators is just beyond me. :question:
I don't think it should have gotten the Peace Prize, because, as worthy as the effort is, I don't think it really has anything to do with peace. I would have applauded rewarding the effort with the Economics Prize, however, since the bank (and its founder) showed how capitalism could be used to help the poorest of the poor.

That said, the logic behind Gore's receiving of the prize seems like a stretch.

[Lubbock]

Will Gore Fall Prey to the 'Nobel Curse'?

Oh, I do hope so.

I've been praying for years that he would fall prey to something.

Something fatal.

[Maggie_T]

However, last year's winner (Grameen Bank) was truly a worthy winner, because that organization encouraged something that we all want: self-sufficiency. How it got past the normally-Left nominators is just beyond me. :question:



It's all in the con work. Just like the ACLU, which now and then defends Christians just so that liberals can say "You see? The ACLU is NOT against Christians!" the NPP now and then gives the prize to a truly worthy person (Mother Theresa, just to name one), so that the usual gullible ones will believe that it is, in fact, an award to "peace."