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AL Gore To get the Nobel Peace prize ??????

splat

Nam I am
Seams pretty dumb to me

http://pajamasmedia.com/2007/10/anoint_him.php
( has a poll at the end weather you think he deserves it or not )

By Jules Crittenden

Al Gore at long last stands to be recognized for his great efforts on behalf of humanity. The fiery prophet of warming is favored for the Nobel Peace Prize.

It makes sense. If you read the list of Nobel Peace Prize winners, you’ll see King Canute, king of England, Norway and other parts Nordic, is also on the list. It’s right there, posthumous, 1035 AD. Go ahead, have a look.

Well, I thought I saw it there. Legend has it Canute got one. Not for stopping the tide … Canute was actually trying to point out that was a silly idea, and pointedly failed … but for bringing peace to his realm.

But that was a different, less subtle, more direct era.

In that earlier time, to be recognized for establishing peace, one actually had to establish some. Canute did it mainly through liberal application of the battle ax in addition to judicious yak-yak. Today, a more sophisticated Nobel Prize Committee generally is more interested in empty, fraudulent or hypocritical gestures. Any demonstrable relation to actual peace, unnecessary.

Which makes Gore a perfect candidate on all counts. It is perhaps preferable that he has not contributed to any identifiable peace. That renders the award unassailable, and ensures there will be no aggrieved party to squawk about the terms under which peace was imposed.

The ideal Nobel laureate does not grubby his fingers with actual peacemaking, but is preferred to have simply created the impression, through dramatic gestures, of being keenly interested in peace. One must also represent a philosophy acceptable to the committee. So, for example, the pleasant and adorable commie dictator Mikhail Gorbachev gets one for capitulating in the Cold War, but the jingoistic B-movie actor Ronald Reagan, who some observers suggest may have compelled and coaxed Gorbachev to do so, did not.

It is not necessary to be pure of motive and deed. So, for example, the corrupt terrorist Yasser Arafat gets one, as does former UN Secretary, nepotist and facilitator of corruption Kofi Annan. One may also have set the terms for war through appeasement of bellicose parties, hence the awards for Jimmy Carter and Mohammed el-Baradei. Gore, whose transgressions in the field of global warming would appear to be limited to exaggeration and distortion of evidence, and the maintenance of excessively carbon-burning estates and fleets of vehicles, barely squeaked by under the strictest standards of hypocrisy and uselessness.

As a quasi-religious icon who actually has very little to do with peace, Gore might be seen to have more in common with actual religious icon Mother Teresa. But the Catholic nun, who often spoke admiringly of peace, came dangerously close to ruining her chances by actually dirtying her hands tending to the poor, the sick, the wretched in a slum in Calcutta. Gore is in no such danger.

The Nobel Prize Committee is venturing into bold new territory if it gives the nod to a Gore laureate. Rather than lauding imaginary or failed peaces past and present, it will be recognizing the peace in a conflict that has not occured, may never occur, and crediting an effort that may or may not have anything whatsoever to do with the cause of that hypothetical conflict … an effort couched in terms that even the faithful suggest was a tad overstated.

Anyway, it’s not like it hasn’t gotten warm before. And while the temperature may or may not be edging up, now more or less to the level it was at the time of Jesus, the role of human activity is highly debatable, or should be. In any case, global-warming enthusiasts tell us, at this point it is a matter of damage done: The water level is rising, SUVs or no SUVs. Which would suggest that the hypothetical peace to which Gore is theoretically contributing is actually unattainable.

But Gore’s battle with the forces of nature on behalf of beleaguered humanity, or if you prefer, with the forces of humanity on behalf of beleaguered nature, or with the forces of nature and humanity on behalf of beleaguered nature and humanity —it really doesn’t matter, for in this debate, one simply must state terms in order to make them so—, will stand as a brave contest unparalleled since Canute commanded the waves to halt. We could go back to Moses, who actually parted the sea, at least as convincingly as Gore has contributed to world peace, but that involved the reprehensible oppression of a sovereign pharaoh and interference with his defense forces in execution of national security duties, hence his absence on the Nobel roster. If halting the advance of the tide is an act of peace, then cynics might say the hard-headed Dutch as a practical matter have done more on behalf of the dove and the olive branch. But that’s a petty local engineering project, and Gore is, symbolically, with great fanfare, according to him, saving the entire world.

If Canute, petty medieval peacemaker, entered the annals of legend simply by trying to show his sycophantic courtiers he was only human, Gore has set himself a far more ambitious task. To demonstrate to all that he is legendary, and can command nature, perhaps as such even qualified to a position of actual leadership over humans. A Nobel will ennoble this noble quest.
 

X3pilot

Texans fan - LOL
Aug 13, 2007
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Why is it the nobel "prize" Isn't a prize something you win randomly almost? i.e. the "prize" in the bottom of the crackerjack box. Wouldn't this thing have some credit if it were the Nobel Award?? Just askin'
 

firemandivi

They drank my Tooters
Sep 7, 2006
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a state called denial
"A zebra does not change its spots." - Al Gore, attacking President George Bush in 1992.

"Speaking from my own religious tradition in this Christmas season, 2,000 years ago a homeless woman gave birth to a homeless child in a manger because the inn was full."
Hello! Mary and Joseph were not homeless!

In the spring 1998 - Gore called The Washington Post's executive editor to tip him off on an ''error'' in the paper. ''I decided I just had to call because you've printed a picture of the Earth upside down on the front page of the paper,'' Gore said.
 

Silver

find me a tampon
Jul 20, 2002
10,840
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Orange County, CA
By Jules Crittenden
Ah yes. All I had to do was read the name and know that he was going to mention that Yasser Arafat won. Which does indeed make a Nobel Peace Prize a dubious honor, at best. However, to not make the same point about Henry Kissinger means that the author is a totally partisan asshat. Which is about what I expected.

And then he mentions nepotism like it's a bad thing. Of course, he is a cousin to the girl who married this genius:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Frum
 

N8 v2.0

Not the sharpest tool in the shed
Oct 18, 2002
11,003
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The Cleft of Venus
A Tale of Two Houses

House #1:
A 20 room mansion ( not including 8 bathrooms ) heated by natural gas. Add on a pool ( and a pool house) and a separate guest house, all heated by gas. In one month this residence consumes more energy than the average American household does in a year. The average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2400. In natural gas alone, this property consumes more than 20 times the national average for an American home. This house is not situated in a Northern or Midwestern "snow belt" area. It's in the South.




House #2:
Designed by an architecture professor at a leading national university. This house incorporates every "green" feature current home construction can provide. The house is 4,000 square feet ( 4 bedrooms ) and is nestled on a high prairie in the American southwest. A central closet in the house holds geothermal heat-pumps drawing ground water through pipes sunk 300 feet into the ground.

The water (usually 67 degrees F. ) heats the house in the winter and cools it in the summer. The system uses no fossil fuels such as oil or natural gas and it consumes one-quarter electricity required for a conventional heating/cooling system. Rainwater from the roof is collected and funneled into a 25,000 gallon underground cistern. Wastewater from showers, sinks and toilets goes into underground purifying tanks and then into the cistern. The collected water then irrigates the land surrounding the house. Surrounding flowers and shrubs native to the area enable the property to blend into the surrounding rural landscape.



~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

HOUSE #1 is outside of Nashville, Tennessee; it is the abode of the "environmentalist" Al Gore.

HOUSE #2 is on a ranch near Crawford, Texas; it is the residence the of the President of the United States, George W. Bush.

Bull sh!t you say?
http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/house.asp
 

ire

Turbo Monkey
Aug 6, 2007
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^^^ I read an interview and he is in the process of upgrading the house. It's the original house his parents owned...ya know...before green was in
 

N8 v2.0

Not the sharpest tool in the shed
Oct 18, 2002
11,003
149
The Cleft of Venus
heehee... sydandnanci gave red rep for posting algore's house.

Mmm... i needs to find me a a good iPod thread for some payback!

:monkeydance:
 

SPINTECK

Turbo Monkey
Oct 16, 2005
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abc
A Tale of Two Houses

House #1:
A 20 room mansion ( not including 8 bathrooms ) heated by natural gas. Add on a pool ( and a pool house) and a separate guest house, all heated by gas. In one month this residence consumes more energy than the average American household does in a year. The average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2400. In natural gas alone, this property consumes more than 20 times the national average for an American home. This house is not situated in a Northern or Midwestern "snow belt" area. It's in the South.






House #2:
Designed by an architecture professor at a leading national university. This house incorporates every "green" feature current home construction can provide. The house is 4,000 square feet ( 4 bedrooms ) and is nestled on a high prairie in the American southwest. A central closet in the house holds geothermal heat-pumps drawing ground water through pipes sunk 300 feet into the ground.

The water (usually 67 degrees F. ) heats the house in the winter and cools it in the summer. The system uses no fossil fuels such as oil or natural gas and it consumes one-quarter electricity required for a conventional heating/cooling system. Rainwater from the roof is collected and funneled into a 25,000 gallon underground cistern. Wastewater from showers, sinks and toilets goes into underground purifying tanks and then into the cistern. The collected water then irrigates the land surrounding the house. Surrounding flowers and shrubs native to the area enable the property to blend into the surrounding rural landscape.



~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

HOUSE #1 is outside of Nashville, Tennessee; it is the abode of the "environmentalist" Al Gore.

HOUSE #2 is on a ranch near Crawford, Texas; it is the residence the of the President of the United States, George W. Bush.

Bull sh!t you say?
http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/house.asp
great post. how did you find out this info?? I've never heard it before. wonder if george ever mountain biked around that house.
 

valve bouncer

Master Dildoist
Feb 11, 2002
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Japan
I've read about Dubya's house before. Credit where credit is due, it's good that he's done that. I hope he extends tax credits so mere mortals can afford to do it as well.
 

splat

Nam I am
A Tale of Two Houses

House #1:
A 20 room mansion ( not including 8 bathrooms ) heated by natural gas. Add on a pool ( and a pool house) and a separate guest house, all heated by gas. In one month this residence consumes more energy than the average American household does in a year. The average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2400. In natural gas alone, this property consumes more than 20 times the national average for an American home. This house is not situated in a Northern or Midwestern "snow belt" area. It's in the South.



You would think he would at least pave the drive way.
 

Tmeyer

Monkey
Mar 26, 2005
585
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Good for W!!! But remind me how much jet fuel he consumes traveling to and from this house in order to take the most vacation time by any president.....Gotta clear that brush though.... One thing he's good at..
 

Spero

ass rainbow
Jul 12, 2005
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I figure that, by removing whore babies from the streets and using them as kindling to heat his home in the winter, he's doing a great service to the environment as well as promoting peace.
 

stevew

resident influencer
Sep 21, 2001
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A Tale of Two Houses

House #1:
A 20 room mansion ( not including 8 bathrooms ) heated by natural gas. Add on a pool ( and a pool house) and a separate guest house, all heated by gas. In one month this residence consumes more energy than the average American household does in a year. The average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2400. In natural gas alone, this property consumes more than 20 times the national average for an American home. This house is not situated in a Northern or Midwestern "snow belt" area. It's in the South.

n8, unless that is his house in Belle Meade, he doesn't live there anymore.

And I don't think gravel driveways are allowed in Belle Meade.
 

BurlyShirley

Rex Grossman Will Rise Again
Jul 4, 2002
19,180
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TN
n8, unless that is his house in Belle Meade, he doesn't live there anymore.

And I don't think gravel driveways are allowed in Belle Meade.
I was thinking the same thing. I lived about 2 miles from Belle Meade blvd. before I moved....there's no way that house is down there.
 

BurlyShirley

Rex Grossman Will Rise Again
Jul 4, 2002
19,180
17
TN
That place actually looks like something down in Franklin or Lieper's Fork area. Stilly richy rich, but no Belle Meade.
 

Transcend

My Nuts Are Flat
Apr 18, 2002
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Towing the party line.
They only give these things out once a year and they couldn't find somebody better than Gore to give it to?

I haven't seen anyone link to this yet.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2007/10/14/famed-hurricane-forecaster-says-al-gore-brainwashing-our-children

No reason to run out and start burning up as much fossil fuel as possible, but a little perspective on the issue can be nice.
Oh c'mon, a news busters article? Even their tag line shows how biased they are.

Caveat: I am not saying Al should have won the friggin' Nobel peace prize, what the hell?