Stand Up Notes from Flyover Country: My Nobel Prize, Please!
by Jeffrey JenaI am one conservative who is happy the President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. First, the 1.4 million will help level our negative trade deficit with Scandinavia. All those Saabs and Volvos add up. Secondly, it shows what a joke the Nobel Peace Prize has become just in case you weren’t convinced when the greatest con man in recent history, Al “Carbon” Gore won.
Three times this century the Peace Prize has been given to someone for the simple reason they are not George W. Bush. Perhaps they should rename the Noble Peace Prize the “At Least He’s Not George W. Bush Prize.” Maybe the “Liberal Socialist of the Year Prize,” might be better.
Let’s look at some recent winners and see how they have brought peace to the planet. Al Gore (2007) and Wangari Maathai (2004) both scored the “peace” prize for environmental work. I won’t get into the science behind so-called “global warming,” (AKA: “climate change,” and here in the Midwest “the weather”). Nice and very touchy-feely, but exactly how does that help bring world peace?
Perhaps the biggest joke of all was the awarding of the 2001 prize to the U.N. and Kofi “The Embezzler” Annan. This was followed by the 2005 award to the IAEA and Mohamed ElBaradei for stopping the spread of nuclear weapons.
The most important reason I am happy that Mr. Obama won the Nobel is that it shows I am not out of the running for next year’s Nobel Prize in Physics. I would like to send the following announcement to the Nobel Committee: In the next four years I intend to write a unified field theory, explain the nature of all sub-atomic particles and produce endless free energy from cold fusion.
The fact that I have said I intend to do these things makes me as qualified to win the Physics prize as Obama was to win the Peace Prize. In fact, time may show that I am more qualified to win my prize because in the next three years and one half years I will do nothing to set the world of physics back. Can President Obama make the same claim in relation to world peace?
Here’s the problem with good intentions: they don’t accomplish anything. This has been, thus far, the legacy of the Obama Administration. Last week he stood before the folks gathered in Washington D.C. for the gay rights rally and pledged to end “Don’t ask don’t tell.” The only thing is you can’t ask him when he will do this because he can’t tell you!
The President said he would do many things and has done very little except to continue the irrational policy of George W. — that if you spend enough money people will like you. History has shown us that if you throw money at people the only thing they will do is want it to continue.
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I am not a doctor but I play one on television and I just thought of a cure for fallen arches, insufferable egomania and the heartache of Obamaitis……guess the Nobel Medicine prize is winging its way to me as we speak.
So far Obama has done nothing. Come to think of it so has Al Gore.
So if you do nothing, you to may win a Nobel Prize!
So far Obama has done nothing. Come to think of it, Al Gore has not done anything either.
So if you do nothing, you to may win a Nobel Prize! Sweat!
If anyone deserved the Nobel prize over the last decade it is President George W. Bush.
If anyone deserved the Nobel peace prize over the last decade it is President George W. Bush.
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I think the Nobel Committee is trying to manipulate the President by awarding him this prize. Which should be quite insulting to anyone who is not a total narcissistic egomaniac. I think the committee was smart enough to know they could influence Obama's behavior and therefore his policies by bestowing him with this honor, knowing his ego and eagerness to please would take over and cause him to further seek to appease the global community. It is a rather brilliant ploy to get want you want without actually having to ask for it. Unfortunately, by this time next year I'm sure the Nobel committee will be as disappointed in him and his progress as are most of those who originally supported for him.
I think the Nobel Committee is trying to manipulate the President by awarding him this prize. Which should be quite insulting to anyone who is not a total narcissistic egomaniac. I think the committee was smart enough to know they could influence Obama's behavior and therefore his policies by bestowing him with this honor, knowing his ego and eagerness to please would take over and cause him to further seek to appease the global community. It is a rather brilliant ploy to get want you want without actually having to ask for it. Unfortunately, by this time next year I'm sure the Nobel committee will be as disappointed in him and his progress as are most of those who originally supported him.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. When you rob Peter to pay Paul, you can always count on the support of Paul
while true, since he apparently has great influence on the selection committee he would therefore be ineligible.
"Sweat?" Shouldn't that be "sweet?" Using a synonym for perspiration as an exclamation just seems weird.
((I hope you know I'm just teasing. My husband likes to make this particular mistake and I love to give him a hard time about it.))
"Sweat?" Shouldn't that be "sweet?" Using a synonym for perspiration as an exclamation just seems weird. Of course, Al Gore might appreciate that exclamation– being that he's trying to sell global warming and all (I know, bad joke.)
((I hope you know I'm just teasing. My husband likes to make this particular mistake and I love to give him a hard time about it.))
Will our President follow the Constitution?
Article 1, Section 9, Paragraph 8 of the United States Constitution prohibits President Obama from accepting any "present, emolument, office, or title of any kind, whatever, from any king, prince or foreign state. The purpose of this restriction is to insure that the actions of anyone who holds office, more importantly the President, are not influenced or controlled by foreign governments. That section of our Constitution had previously elevated the decisions made by the President beyond foreign influences
It does not matter if President Obama intends to donate the prize money to charity, his acceptance of that prize is his acceptance of a bribe from a foreign government or governments whose motives are clear and whose motives President Obama has equally accepted.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/10/the_n...
The Nobel Peace Prize became a joke years ago. It was given to a communist dictator, Mikhail Gorbechev, and a terrorist, Yassir Arafat.
Sweet, You can't say Al Gore has done nothing. He has made over $100,000,000 pushing this ponzi scheme on the world. Not bad for 9 years of BS.
typing quickly with a Rimm
Since one of the requirements for winning a Nobel is that you aren't George W. Bush, George W. Bush would obviously be disqualified.
He also isn't a socialist douchebag, which would put him out of the running even if his name was Scooby Doo.
Trouble is, the Nobel Prize committee isn't a "king, prince, or foreign state". The award is from a private organization. Granted, it's an organization of pointy-headed Norwegians, but since it's not the Norwegian government Obama can legally accept his goofy Cracker Jack prize.
You better get started on that unified theory paper, I started mine last night in the bath tub while playing with my rubber ducky.
I just received part of my Nobel Prize, came in the mail today. All I had to do is put twenty-five thousand dollars in an account supplied, my medal came today and I’m waiting for my 1.4 million to be wired. What a deal!
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As long as Paul keeps getting Peter's money.
Secondly, it shows what a joke the Nobel Peace Prize has become just in case you weren’t convinced when the greatest con man in recent history, Al “Carbon” Gore won.
My sentiments exactly. I didn't get the shock and indignation so many were showing. Please, this made the most sense! It's a pointless award, has been for many, many years (assuming it ever wasn't, which is probably a stretch). I was glad for the now walking example of the total irrelevance of the Nobel.
The wife just called, in addition to milk and eggs, I'm to pick up a few Nobel Peace Prizes. She said they would look just wonderful hanging up on our bathroom wall.
You are not correct on this issue, look into THEODORE ROOSEVELT and the issues he had even after leaving office and what Congress said. Also you may want to understand who the presenters is of Nobel Peace Prize are:
The Nobel Laureates take center stage in Stockholm on 10 December when they receive the Nobel Prize Medal, Nobel Prize Diploma and document confirming the Nobel Prize amount from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden. In Oslo, the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates receive their Nobel Peace Prize from the Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee in the presence of King Harald V of Norway. An important part is the presentation of the Nobel Lectures by the Nobel Laureates. In Stockholm, the lectures are presented days before the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony. In Oslo, the Nobel Laureates deliver their lectures during the Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony.
http://nobelprize.org/award_ceremonies/
What you can't share the prize?
You are not correct on this issue, look into THEODORE ROOSEVELT and the issues he had even after leaving office and what Congress said. Also you may want to understand who the presenters of Nobel Peace Prize are:
The Nobel Laureates take center stage in Stockholm on 10 December when they receive the Nobel Prize Medal, Nobel Prize Diploma and document confirming the Nobel Prize amount from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden. In Oslo, the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates receive their Nobel Peace Prize from the Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee in the presence of King Harald V of Norway. An important part is the presentation of the Nobel Lectures by the Nobel Laureates. In Stockholm, the lectures are presented days before the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony. In Oslo, the Nobel Laureates deliver their lectures during the Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony.
http://nobelprize.org/award_ceremonies/
Again, am I the only one who thinks it laughable that an award in foreign relations (which essentially the Peace Prize is) is bestowed by representatives of the country which produced Vidkun Quisling?
Hey, I already promised the duck half.
When you rob Peter to pay Paul that makes Peter sore and it is hard to do business with a sore Peter.
I got mine for free for opening up a new business account at a local bank. It's now prominently displayed on my desk as a paper weight.
I got mine free for opening up a new business account at a local bank. It's now prominently displayed on my desk as a paper weight.
They also make good fishing weights.
I heard it wasn't your rubber ducky that you were playing with…
But he invented the internet!!!
That quacked me up.
Has that damn duck been blogging about me again!
Let's see how much he likes floating in an unflushed toilet for a couple hours!
Excellent Point Thinker!
Gee, and I thought all those "You may have already won" notices came from Publishers Clearinghouse. Didn't realize the Nobel Committee sent them out too.
considering the resale value of Saabs and Volvos…
$1.4 million could basically buy 14,000 of them and you could either A) return to sender, B) make planters out of them(very nice) or C) clunker 'em out, where of course they will end up not in the boneyard but south of the border like the rest of them went.
Maybe the return to sender option, eh?
Homer Simpson could put one next to his Grammy…
You know, I don't like acknowledging it, because I can't stand Gore, and he does over blow his own horn about it, but Gore did actually play a significant part in the internet.
The internet was conceived by the military as a solution to a known risk. In the 1950's the military relied on only several large computers around the nation at labs and universities. They were easy targets, and if a single site went down, all that data was gone for ever. So the idea was to spread around the information, and make it easy to move from site to site. So DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration) came up with rudimentary networking.
What Gore did do was help write and pass legislation to move the internet from DARPA to ARPA, it's civilian sister program. Once it got out of the hands of military and into the hands of users, and eventually it evolved into what we have today.
To be fair, he is doing most of the work. Right now he's on my other computer crunching numbers through this really cool computer model he wrote using Java.
And, by the way, when I use that computer, you would not believe what's in the google cache.
That is one twisted duck.
I also heared that the new McDonalds monopoly game has them as oen of their available instant prizes.
the new "cement" shoes.
I didn't ask. I don't want to know.
Off topic………
The stock market looks pretty good today. Is obama out of the country?
He got it in his box of donuts.
Next time they give it out, I nominate someone who is braindead in a some hospital on a ventilater. Give it to some 2 year old mongoloid. Give it to terry schaivo. Dig someone up and put in on their corpse. What an utterly useless award.
Hubby has actually typed "sweat" instead of "sweet" in an email he sent to me. Sent me into a fit of giggles.
in much the same way that beer salesmen invented sex. he may have had a hand in greasing the skids, but it was gonna happen anyway…
and the road to Oslo, too, apparently…
were you able to write that whole 'Obama following the Constitution' thing with a straight face? i mean, why would he start now?
Leftist Socialist Liberalism ….. the Religion of Peace. (cough & gag)
Leftist Socialist Liberalism ….. the Religion of Peace and Freedom. (cough & gag)
no, but his teleprompter is in the shop…
Good one about the beer salesman. I don't know the exact specifics, but the military does not have a great reputation for sharing their toys.
I agree, if it weren't Gore, some one else may have stepped up and done the same, how ever, who knows when that might have happened.
I have very little good to say about modern liberals in general and modern liberal politicians in particular. But when one deserves props, they deserve props.
I refuse to lower myself to their standards and deny those who oppose them any credit for anything. For example, how long before Obama's fans start crediting him with winning Iraq? My guess another 6 months or so.
from the ever dependable wikipedia:
In contemporary usage, "Quisling" is synonymous with "traitor", and particularly applied to politicians who appear to favour the interests of other nations or cultures over their own. In American English, the term is less well known than the equivalent phrase "Benedict Arnold".
although "Barack Obama" is gaining in popularity…
I admit that I can't really get my undies in a twist over this. If I had the slightest respect for the Nobel Prize, I might, but I started to feel it was stupid around the time I graduated from high school, and I lost the last small bit of respect I had in 2002. Hey, Obama is a better winner than Arafat: Obama simply hasn't contributed anything to world peace, Arafat was actively working against it.
I also don't think this will force Obama to do anything he wouldn't have done anyway. If anything, it will help him a bit. Clinton did all kinds of stupid stuff in his last year in office trying to campaign for the Prize. Obama already has his, so he won't have to do anything to please them, since the Prize can never be taken back. Obama can bomb Iran, order the execution of all illegal immigrants, nuke Moldova just for the hell of it, then stick out his tongue and say, "Niener, niener," to the Norwegians, and there isn't anything they can do about it.
(Note: I don't think he will do any of that, just that the Nobel Prize won't buy the "world" anything from Obama they wouldn't have had anyway.)
The Nobel is like the Pulitzer – a prize hijacked by the left for leftists. The prizes are meaningless – the only people who care about it is the lib mainstream media. No one else regards these as anything worth mentioning. Since change in the sense of changing the leftist media is impossible, what needs to happen is that hijacked institutions need to be REPLACED. Let Fox, which shows how we needed an Australian to realize that media geared toward conservatives sells, replce the traditional three networks. Let the Wall Street Journal replace the NY Times as the papaer of record, or maybe the Drudge Report should be the one replacing it. Let talk radio branch out and replace lin commentary shows – that's a hint guys and gals you need a TV presence – humans are visual creatures! Let's make up our own prizes, for real accomplishments in journalism and yes, even peace. The only way to take back the country is by replacing the leftist pro-Democrat media – and by the way conservatives, you have to do more than blog! Where were you on 9/12/09?
I got mine in a box of Wheaties.
Two sitting Presidents have already accepted this award, Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. Obama would make the third. There was much discussion when Teddy accepted the award due to the Constitutional issues raised.
Is that damn duck helping you behind my back?!!?!!?!!
This happens every time I let him back out on the internet.
Oh never mind all that! What was it you were saying about…undies?
Seriously, there's a pretty good article over on reason.com about the Committee's possible motivations for the award – they mainly have to do with making the Chairman and/or Norway seem relevant in today's world. That's a tall order, ain't it? Don't think it's working very well so far.
I thought he returned that one to Apu for a $1 deposit…
You should be thankful he has done nothing as of yet…there is still hope that this country can survive this manchurian candidate and socialist fraud. Criticizing him for this is just plain stupid. You need to be thanking those Americans who have resisted his agenda and have exposed the real agenda behind his rhetoric. BTW, demnhater has hit the nail on the head…we must take back the cultural institutions (media, schools, university, hollywood) and stop the left from not only controlling the message but framing the premises and the debate.
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President Bush did more for peace and humanity than Algore, Obama, ElBaradei and Annan could dream of—liberating millions of people from oppression, lifting the livelihoods and living standards of people in Iraq and Afghanistan. President Bush’s legacy, which has real substance, will carry on for decades; while Obama’s “hope and change” will be a fading memory, just another trendy fad, just another campaign gimmick, an empty vessel that the masses will abandon as easily as the Pet Rock, their Macerana singles, and the South Beach Diet.
As the years drag on and the “coolness” of “hope and change” are added to the vernacular equivalent as Bart Simpson’s “don’t have a cow man” Obama will have lost his only selling point and he will be sent out to graze as a Former President with Carter.
I'm sorry that cannot compete with my "Time Hole Theory". You know the place that missing keys, glasses and socks vanish into. These are usually quite small but occasionally they open up and larger obects can fall into them as well. Federal Grant Application in the works.
This is not true Teddy Roosevelt was nominated for the prize in 1906 he accepted the Prize in 1910 after he left office. The prize money was held in trust by the Supreme Court till 1917. Those are facts.
Obama was awarded the Prize for what he will do, not for what he has done (Per the Nobel committee). If this is not a clear sign of trying to influence a sitting President I do not know what is.
The Peace Prize for 1919, reserved in that year, was awarded in 1920 to Woodrow Wilson in recognition of his Fourteen Points peace program and his work in achieving inclusion of the Covenant of the League of Nations in the 1919 Treaty of Versailles. Since President Wilson was not present at the award ceremony on December 10, 1920, Albert G. Schmedeman, United States minister in Oslo, accepted the prize in his behalf. Mr. Schmedeman's speech1, which included the reading of a message from President Wilson
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureate...
Looks like the road to hell was the only shovel-ready project he could find
HMM HMM HM
George Bush has a kick me sign on him
He should not have hugged a socialist
dont ya hate when they drop into the bowl and splash milk all over?
He used that dollar to buy more donuts.
Al gore actually has done something better for the planet, Obama may not deserve the award but dont smash on algore"s award.
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