Congratulation, President Obama!!!

[Colpy]

Ronald Reagan: A Nuclear Abolitionist

And he was denied sharing the Peace Prize with Gorbachev......he did MUCH more to eliminate weapons than Obama has.....yet.

And, BTW, I would appreciate it if someone NOT ignored by SJP would send him the link.........I keep trying to educate the dumbass, but he has his fingers in his ears and is singing at the top of his voice.....

 

[SirJosephPorter]

Hey Cliffy, I hope sometime you can show us some of your work.

Sure, why not post some of it in the forum here, Cliffy? Something that has already been published and that you have already been paid for.

 

[Kreskin]

Here's one. I haven't scanned some of the older stuff.
View attachment 1161

Good job, looks great.

 

[Walter]

And, BTW, I would appreciate it if someone NOT ignored by SJP would send him the link.........I keep trying to educate the dumbass, but he has his fingers in his ears and is singing at the top of his voice.....

You're wrong there; it makes a better sound barrier and besides, he needs his fingers to type his posts.

 

[Kreskin]

Ronald Reagan, oh come on.

 

[SirJosephPorter]

Good job, looks great.

Quite right, Kreskin, I posted my message without reading the thread to the end.

 

[gopher]

''some Republicans are showing some common sense, some common decency.'


Some. But patriotic Yanks should all be rejoicing that an American won. The fact that so many are angry and resent his success shows what small minds they have.

 

[Stretch]

The not so Nobel Prize.

Tags: CURRENT EVENTS
The Nobel Prize was always the crème de la crème of awards and I hung on to that for awhile, along with the Academy Award for best song but… those have tailed away into insignificance as well now. When they gave the Nobel Prize to Kissinger, Begin and Eli the plagiarizing Weasel, the bloom went off the rose as the wart grew on the nose. If I remember correctly, Lil’ Georgie Bush and Debonair Tony Blair were nominees/ sorry for the interruption, I had to go outside and throw up into a potted plant. I feel better now.
Reflections in a Petri Dish


It used to stand for something.....but now....its a FARCE!!!!!


After Nobel nod, Obama convenes war council

Tags: AFGHANISTAN
Hours after being named a Nobel peace laureate, US President Barack Obama shouldered his duties as commander in chief and convened a war council for crucial talks on Afghan strategy.

Webmaster's Commentary:
"We will create a desolation, and we will call it peace! I think that is original with me. Can we copyright that?" -- Official White Horse Souse
After Nobel nod, Obama convenes war council - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

 

[Stretch]

That Nobel screams:

Tags: POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION
This award never went to two of the most critical peacemakers of the 20th Century: Mahatma Gandhi, who pioneered the successful use of mass non-violence; and Eleanor Roosevelt, feminist godmother of the New Deal's social programs and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
It has not gone to Cesar Chavez, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Thich Nhat Hanh, Paul XIII and so many more.
But yes it did to Barack Obama. Why?

Webmaster's Commentary:
Even Pete Seeger deserved that prize more than Obama!

The Free Press -- Independent News Media - Harvey Wasserman

 

[Stretch]

Obama and the Nobel Prize: When War Becomes Peace, When the Lie Becomes the Truth

'We are the crossroads of the most serious crisis in modern history. The US in partnership with NATO and Israel has launched a global military adventure which, in a very real sense, threatens the future of humanity.
At this critical juncture in our history, the Norwegian Nobel Committee's decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to President and Commander in Chief Barack Obama constitutes an unmitigated tool of propaganda and distortion, which unreservedly supports the Pentagon's "Long War": "A War without Borders" in the true sense of the word, characterised by the Worlwide deployment of US military might.'
Obama and the Nobel Prize: When War becomes Peace, When the Lie becomes the Truth​

 

[Kakato]

it was all a conspiracy,bush arranged for Obama to get the prize.

Factoid-Adolf Hitler, was nominated once in 1939 by E.G.C. Brandt, member of the Swedish parliament. Brandt changed his mind, however, and the nomination was withdrawn in a letter dated 1 February 1939.

 

[SirJosephPorter]

http://zippittydodah.blogspot.com/





"We will create a desolation, and we will call it peace! I think that is original with me. Can we copyright that?" -- Official White Horse Souse
After Nobel nod, Obama convenes war council - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

No, that is not original with him, Stretch; George Orwell said it much earlier and much more succinctly.

“War is peace.” George Orwell in 1984.

 

[SirJosephPorter]

This award never went to two of the most critical peacemakers of the 20th Century: Mahatma Gandhi, who pioneered the successful use of mass non-violence; and Eleanor Roosevelt, feminist godmother of the New Deal's social programs and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Many columnists have commented on the fact that Mahatma Gandhi did not get the Nobel Prize. I don’t want to take anything away from Mahatma Gandhi of course; his achievements did merit the Nobel Prize.

However, if he got the Nobel Peace Prize, it would have to be awarded jointly with the British. British deserve to share the peace prize with him for the civilized way they treated him.

Gandhi would never have succeeded against Hitler. Hitler would have had him shot at the first sign that he was getting popular support from Indians.

All the British did was to put him in prison. He was treated well in prison, he was permitted visitors, he pretty much continued his campaign from his prison cell (and if one is to believe the movie ‘Gandhi’, it wasn’t much of a prison cell anyway, he was allowed considerable amount of freedom).

So Gandhi succeeded partly because of the civilized attitude of the British, the British would have to share the Nobel Prize with him.

 

[Kreskin]

He should get another if he blows up Iran's nuke factory.

 

[Colpy]

Many columnists have commented on the fact that Mahatma Gandhi did not get the Nobel Prize. I don’t want to take anything away from Mahatma Gandhi of course; his achievements did merit the Nobel Prize.

However, if he got the Nobel Peace Prize, it would have to be awarded jointly with the British. British deserve to share the peace prize with him for the civilized way they treated him.

Gandhi would never have succeeded against Hitler. Hitler would have had him shot at the first sign that he was getting popular support from Indians.

All the British did was to put him in prison. He was treated well in prison, he was permitted visitors, he pretty much continued his campaign from his prison cell (and if one is to believe the movie ‘Gandhi’, it wasn’t much of a prison cell anyway, he was allowed considerable amount of freedom).

So Gandhi succeeded partly because of the civilized attitude of the British, the British would have to share the Nobel Prize with him.

I think this is the very first post SJP has ever made that showed any insight.

He is completely correct......

 

[Colpy]

He should get another if he blows up Iran's nuke factory.

And here I thought you were a shark, ....they don't usually live under bridges.... lol

 

[L Gilbert]

We quite apparently have discovered the Republicans’ Obama Derangement Syndrome.

YouTube - Rachel Maddow: The Nobel Prize & Obama Derangement Syndrome

That's cute. Campaign speeches about promises and whatnot were his DEEDS before becoming prez.
Convincing one's own people to abolish nuclear weapons is not convincing the world to abolish them. It's a promise.
Closing Guantanamo is a promise to his own people, Americans.
Talking, making speeches, convincing his own people isn't much of an effort to do something for WORLD peace.
If he can convince his generals, admirals, the generals and admirals of other countries to strive for peace, fine. But, campaign speeches aren't terribly convincing to me.
Anyone can stand on a soap box and say to people that support him/her, that they will strive for peace. Flying across the puddle to meet Shi'ite and Sunni leaders in Iraq to convince THEM to strive for peace takes effort. Convincing China (not Americans) to realize that humans have rights would require effort.

So the Nobel prize committee gave him the prize for promises he made to Americans. Fascinating.

Since the committee derailed Nobel's legacy, they've managed to award some pretty unpeaceable people with the peace prize. I'm not saying Obama isn't peaceable, I am saying the committee's credibility is suspect.

Having said that, though, I wish the dood well and hope he actually pulls off what he promised Americans he would strive for. But then, I hope sometimes we can vote for people that can do stuff for Canada, too.

 

[lone wolf]

Consider this a Greenie, Les....

 

[Dexter Sinister]

I vote with whoever it was who said, "I plan to write some really great novels pretty soon, so I'll take my Nobel Prize for Literature now, thanks."

Think of some of the others who've won the Peace Prize: Henry Kissinger and Yassir Arafat, a couple of the nastiest men of the 20th century; Mother Teresa, a pious fraud who believed in the redemptive value of suffering and let people die under her care rather than give them the medical attention that could have saved them...

The Peace Prize has been cheapened into irrelevance.

 

[Walter]

By MarketWatch
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- In a decision as shocking as Friday's surprise peace prize win, President Obama failed to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences Monday.
While few observers think Obama has done anything for world peace in the nearly nine months he's been in office, the same clearly can't be said for economics.
The president has worked tirelessly since even before his inauguration to wrest control of the U.S. economy from failed free markets, and the evil CEOs who profit from them, and to turn it over to wise, fair and benevolent bureaucrats.
From his $787 billion stimulus package, to the cap and tax bill, to the seizures of General Motors and Chrysler, to the un-dead healthcare "reform" act, Obama has dominated the U.S., and therefore the global, economy as few figures have in recent years.
Yet the Nobel panel chose instead to award the prize to two obscure academics, -- Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson -- one noted for her work on managing collective resources, and the other for his work on transaction costs. See full story.
Other surprise losers include celebrity non-economist filmmaker Michael Moore, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, and Larry Summers, head of the U.S. national economic council.
It is unclear whether the president will now refuse his peace prize in protest against the obvious slight to his real achievements this year.