Reactions to our video will vary. Innocently ignorant evolutionists will be confused because they won’t get too many of the jokes. Hopefully, it will get them to thinking. Intimidated intellectual evolutionists will be greatly angered by our video because they will get the jokes, and will realize that they expose the absurdity of their claims. But since their belief in evolution is based on fear rather than reason, our video won’t have much affect on them. Creationists will get all the jokes, will laugh, and love the video.
This website ScienceAgainstEvolution is very informative. Perhaps it is the engineer in me that finds it so appealing?
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Kenneth Miller was one of the lead witnesses in Kitzmiller vs. Dover School Board. His take on Intelligent Design is somewhat unique. I will state up from that he does not believe it should be taught as science in school. His presintation is a little over an hour, with about an hour left for q and a.
Former Peace Prize winner Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, congratulated US President Barack Obama upon winning the Nobel Peace Prize, saying Obama has already provided outstanding leadership in the effort to prevent nuclear proliferation.
“In less than a year in office, he has transformed the way we look at ourselves and the world we live in and rekindled hope for a world at peace with itself,” ElBaradei said.
“He has shown an unshakeable commitment to diplomacy, mutual respect and dialogue as the best means of resolving conflicts
Former Peace Prize winner Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, congratulated US President Barack Obama upon winning the Nobel Peace Prize, saying Obama has already provided outstanding leadership in the effort to prevent nuclear proliferation.
Top Ten Candidates Who Almost Won the Nobel Prize
—Ace
10. Dr. Neil Farkas, DDS, Sheboygan, WI, for once thinking about a new type of dental adhesive before forgetting about it
9. Sue Lefkowitz, homemaker, Poughkeepsie, NY, for vowing on New Years Eve to lose her last 20 pregnancy pounds (she gained 6)
8. Alex Rodriguez, Yankees third baseman, NY, NY, for having the intention of one day hitting a home run in October
7. Yasser Arafat — just because
6. Stanley Urquhart, assistant pipefitter, Des Moines, IA, for “seriously considering” legally changing his name to Jake “The Snake” Drake (pure unadulterated awesome!) and joining the Ultimate Fighting League, at least after he finally makes that brown belt that sensei has been holding back from him for a year
5. Charles Johnson, blogger, Santa Monica, CA, for “conspicuous heroism” in defending a little-trafficked website from fascists, neo-nazis, white supremacists, and other Enemies of the Blog
4. Myron Klepnitz, IT supervisor, Brooklyn, NY, for writing a chapter and a half and “copious notes” for his “vampire erotica” novel tentatively titled Suck
3. ACORN
2. Ace of Spades, blogger, whereabouts unknown, for posting by 11:30 am
…and the Number One Candidate who almost won a Nobel Prize…
1. One-tenth of an ounce of that stinky, sweaty, rancid-buttery grey fuzz that collects at the bottom of your belly-button and kind of scratches when you try to fish it out
I put this to the previous thread, but here it is again…
I may be first, but I nominate Obama also for Academy Awards for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Directing, Best Picture and Best Sound Effects. He’s done records with his Nobel Peace Prize, so why not go for more?
“The new missile plan from US President Barack Obama’s administration raises questions and Moscow is waiting for Washington to explain its intentions, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday.
“The statements that are constantly being voiced raise more questions than answers,” Lavrov told reporters during a visit to the Moldovan capital for a summit of ex-Soviet countries.”
To early here! Although I might ask to leave early from work today to get drunk over Obama winning this BS. I swear I’m really starting to think this is Revelations!
U.S. forces have withdrawn from an isolated base in eastern Afghanistan that insurgents attacked last week in one of the deadliest battles of the war for U.S. troops, the NATO-led coalition said Friday.
It’s been said that we were actually winning the war in Vietnam.
Sri Lanka defeated the Tamil rebels.
Give General Chrystal the troops he has requested.
We can win the war, Obama will not let us. That much is becoming clear. But in the meantime, he is going to get alot of good and decent men and women killed and injured. And that I will never forgive him for.
Mahatma Gandhi was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize five times between 1937 and 1948 but never received the prize, being assassinated on 30 January 1948 two days before the closing date for the 1948 Peace Prize nominations. The Norwegian Nobel Committee had very likely planned to give him the Peace Prize in 1948 as they considered a posthumous award, but ultimately decided against it, and instead chose not to award the prize that year.
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Obama is a big steaming piece of narcissistic feces. This award is only going to fuel his hubris and his blind follower will eat this up and make life more miserable for the real americans
Someone speak less than worshippfully of his new god? I can see where he’d have a problem with it. you know, he thinks Creationists are nuts, but he is worshipping a man, most mortal. That can’t lead to anything good…
BARACK OBAMA for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.
2008
The prize goes to:
MARTTI AHTISAARI for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts.
2007
The prize goes to:
INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE (IPCC) and ALBERT ARNOLD ( AL) GORE JR. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.
2006
The prize goes to:
MUHAMMAD YUNUS and GRAMEEN BANK for their efforts to create economic and social development from below.
2005
The prize was awarded jointly to:
INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY and MOHAMED ELBARADEI for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way.
2004
The prize was awarded to:
WANGARI MAATHAI
for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace
2003
The prize was awarded to:
SHIRIN EBADI
for her efforts for democracy and human rights
2002
The prize was awarded to:
JIMMY CARTER JR., former President of the United States of America,
for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development
2001
The prize was awarded to:
UNITED NATIONS, New York, NY, USA
KOFI ANNAN, United Nations Secretary General
2000
The prize was awarded to:
KIM DAE JUNG for his work for democracy and human rights in South Korea and in East Asia in general, and for peace and reconciliation with North Korea in particular.
1999
The prize was awarded to:
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS (MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES), Brussels, Belgium.
1998
The prize was awarded jointly to:
JOHN HUME and DAVID TRIMBLE for their efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland.
1997
The prize was awarded jointly to:
INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN TO BAN LANDMINES (ICBL) and JODY WILLIAMS for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines.
1996
The prize was awarded jointly to:
CARLOS FELIPE XIMENES BELO and JOSE RAMOS-HORTA for their work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor.
1995
The prize was awarded jointly to:
JOSEPH ROTBLAT and to the PUGWASH CONFERENCES ON SCIENCE AND WORLD AFFAIRS for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and in the longer run to eliminate such arms.
1994
The prize was awarded joinly to:
YASSER ARAFAT , Chairman of the Executive Committee of the PLO, President of the Palestinian National Authority.
SHIMON PERES , Foreign Minister of Israel.
YITZHAK RABIN , Prime Minister of Israel.
for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East.
1993
The prize was awarded jointly to:
NELSON MANDELA Leader of the ANC.
FREDRIK WILLEM DE KLERK President of the Republic of South Africa.
1992
RIGOBERTA MENCHU TUM, Guatemala. Campaigner for human rights, especially for indigenous peoples.
1991
AUNG SAN SUU KYI, Burma. Oppositional leader, human rights advocate.
1990
MIKHAIL SERGEYEVICH GORBACHEV , President of the USSR, helped to bring the Cold War to an end.
1989
THE 14TH DALAI LAMA (TENZIN GYATSO) , Tibet. Religious and political leader of the Tibetan people.
1988
THE UNITED NATIONS PEACE-KEEPING FORCES New York, NY, U.S.A.
1987
OSCAR ARIAS SANCHEZ , Costa Rica, President of Costa Rica, initiator of peace negotiations in Central America.
1986
ELIE WIESEL , U.S.A., Chairman of ‘The President’s Commission on the Holocaust’. Author, humanitarian.
1985
INTERNATIONAL PHYSICIANS FOR THE PREVENTION OF NUCLEAR WAR Boston, MA, U.S.A.
1984
DESMOND MPILO TUTU , South Africa, Bishop of Johannesburg, former Secretary General South African Council of Churches (S.A.C.C.). for his work against apartheid.
1983
LECH WALESA , Poland. Founder of Solidarity, campaigner for human rights.
1982
The prize was awarded jointly to:
ALVA MYRDAL , former Cabinet Minister, diplomat, delegate to United Nations General Assembly on Disarmament, writer.
ALFONSO GARCÍA ROBLES , diplomat, delegate to the United Nations General Assembly on Disarmament, former Secretary for Foreign Affairs .
1981
OFFICE OF THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES Geneva, Switzerland.
1980
ADOLFO PEREZ ESQUIVEL , Argentina, architect, sculptor and human rights leader.
1979
MOTHER TERESA , India, Leader of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity.
1978
The prize was divided equally between:
MOHAMED ANWAR AL-SADAT , President of the Arab Republic of Egypt.
MENACHEM BEGIN , Prime Minister of Israel.
for jointly negotiating peace between Egypt and Israel.
1977
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL London, Great Britain. A worldwide organization for the protection of the rights of prisoners of conscience.
1976
BETTY WILLIAMS and MAIREAD CORRIGAN Founders of the Northern Ireland Peace Movement (later renamed Community of Peace People).
1975
ANDREI DMITRIEVICH SAKHAROV , Soviet nuclear physicist. Campaigner for human rights.
1974
The prize was divided equally between:
SEÁN MAC BRIDE , President of the International Peace Bureau, Geneva, and the Commission of Namibia, United Nations, New York.
EISAKU SATO , Prime Minister of Japan.
1973
The prize was awarded jointly to:
HENRY A. KISSINGER , Secretary of State, State Department, Washington.
LE DUC THO , Democratic Republic of Viet Nam. (Declined the prize.)
for jointly negotiating the Vietnam peace accord in 1973.
1972
The prize money for 1972 was allocated to the Main Fund.
1971
WILLY BRANDT , Federal Republic of Germany, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, initiator of West Germany’s Ostpolitik, embodying a new attitude towards Eastern Europe and East Germany.
1970
NORMAN BORLAUG , Led research at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, Mexico City.
1969
INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANIZATION (I.L.O.) Geneva.
1968
RENÉ CASSIN , President of the European Court for Human Rights .
1967-1966
The prize money was allocated to the Main Fund (1/3) and to the Special Fund (2/3) of this prize section.
1965
UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN’S FUND (UNICEF) New York, founded by U.N. in 1946. An international aid organization.
1964
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. , leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, campaigner for civil rights.
1963
The prize was divided equally between
COMITÉ INTERNATIONAL DE LA CROIX-ROUGE (INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE REDCROSS) Geneva, founded 1863.
LIGUE DES SOCIÉTÉS DE LA CROIX-ROUGE (LEAGUE OF RED CROSS SOCIETIES) Geneva.
1962
LINUS CARL PAULING , California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA. Campaigner especially for an end to nuclear weapons tests.
1961
DAG HJALMAR AGNE CARL HAMMARSKJÖLD , Secretary General of the United Nations (awarded the Prize posthumously).
1960
ALBERT JOHN LUTULI , President of the South Africal liberation movement, the African National Congress.
1959
PHILIP J. NOEL-BAKER , Great Britain, Member of Parliament, life long ardent worker for international peace and co-operation .
1958
GEORGES HENRI PIRE , Belgium, Father of the Dominican Order, Leader of the relief organization for refugees, l’Europe du Coeur au Service du Monde.
1957
LESTER BOWLES PEARSON , former Secretary of State for External Affairs of Canada, President 7th Session of the United Nations General Assembly .
1956-1955
The prize money was allocated to the Main Fund (1/3) and to the Special Fund (2/3) of this prize section.
1954
OFFICE OF THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES Geneva, an international relief organization, founded by U.N. in 1951.
1953
GEORGE CATLETT MARSHALL , General, President American Red Cross, ex-Secretary of State and of Defense, Delegate to the U.N., Originator of the Marshall Plan.
1952
ALBERT SCHWEITZER , Missionary surgeon, Founder Lambaréné Hospital in République du Gabon.
1951
LÉON JOUHAUX , France, President of the trade union C.G.T. Force Ouvrière. President of the International Committee of the European Council, Vice President of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, Vice President of the World Federation of Trade Unions, member of the ILO Council, delegate to the UN.
1950
RALPH BUNCHE , Professor Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Director of the UN Division of Trusteeship, Acting Mediator in Palestine 1948.
1949
LORD JOHN BOYD ORR OF BRECHIN , Physician, Alimentary Politician, prominent organizer and Director General Food and Agricultural Organization, President National Peace Council and World Union of Peace Organizations.
1948
The prize money was allocated to the Main Fund (1/3) and to the Special Fund (2/3) of this prize section.
1947
The prize was awarded jointly to:
THE FRIENDS SERVICE COUNCIL (The Quakers), London. Founded in 1647.
THE AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE (The Quakers), Washington. The society’s first official meeting was held in 1672.
1946
The prize was divided equally between:
EMILY GREENE BALCH, former Professor of History and Sociology, Honorary International President Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.
JOHN RALEIGH MOTT Chairman of the first International Missionary Council, President of the World Alliance of Young Men’s Christian Associations .
1945
CORDELL HULL Former Secretary of State. One of the initiators of the United Nations.
1944
COMITÉ INTERNATIONAL DE LA CROIX-ROUGE (INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS)
1943-1939
The prize money was allocated to the Main Fund (1/3) and to the Special Fund (2/3) of this prize section.
1938
OFFICE INTERNATIONAL NANSEN POUR LES RÉFUGIÉS (NANSEN INTERNATIONAL OFFICE FOR REFUGEES) an international relief organization in Geneva started by Fridtjof Nansen in 1921.
1937
CECIL OF CHELWOOD, VISCOUNT, (LORD EDGAR ALGERNON ROBERT GASCOYNE CECIL) , Writer, Former Lord Privy Seal. Founder and President of the International Peace Campaign.
1936
CARLOS SAAVEDRA LAMAS Foreign Minister. President of the Société des Nations (League of Nations), Meditator in a conflict between Paraguay and Bolivia in 1935.
1935
CARL VON OSSIETZKY Journalist (with Die Weltbühne, among others), pacifist.
1934
ARTHUR HENDERSON Former Foreign Secretary. Chairman of the League of Nations Disarmament Conference 1932-1934.
1933
SIR NORMAN ANGELL (RALPH LANE) Writer. Member of the Commission Exécutive de la Société des Nations (Executive Committee of the League of Nations) and the National Peace Council. Author of the book The Great Illusion, among others.
1932
The prize money for 1932 was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1931
The prize was divided equally between:
JANE ADDAMS Sociologist. International President of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.
NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER President of Columbia University. Promoter of the Briand-Kellogg Pact.
1930
LARS OLOF NATHAN (JONATHAN) SÖDERBLOM Archbishop. Leader of the ecumenical movement.
1929
FRANK BILLINGS KELLOGG Former Secretary of State, Negotiated the Briand-Kellogg Pact.
1928
The prize money for 1928 was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1927
The prize was divided equally between:
FERDINAND BUISSON Former Professor at the Sorbonne University, Paris. Founder and President of the Ligue des Droits de l’Homme (League for Human Rights).
LUDWIG QUIDDE Historian. Professor at Berlin University. Member of Germany’s constituent assembly 1919. Delegate to numerous peace conferences.
1926
The prize was awarded jointly to:
ARISTIDE BRIAND Foreign Minister. Negotiator of the Locarno Treaty and the Briand-Kellogg Pact.
GUSTAV STRESEMANN Former Lord High Chancellor (Reichs-kanzler). Foreign Minister. Negotiator of the Locarno Treaty.
1925
The prize was awarded jointly to:
SIR AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN Foreign Minister. Negotiator of the Locarno Treaty.
CHARLES GATES DAWES Vice-President of the United States of America. Chairman of the Allied Reparation Commission. Originator of the Dawes Plan .
1924-1923
The prize money for 1924-1923 was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1922
FRIDTJOF NANSEN , Norway. Scientist. Explorer. Norwegian Delegate to Société des Nations (League of Nations). Originator of the Nansen passports (for refugees).
1921
The prize was divided equally between:
KARL HJALMAR BRANTING Prime Minister. Swedish Delegate to the Conseil de la Société des Nations (Council of the League of Nations).
CHRISTIAN LOUS LANGE Secretary General of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, Brussels.
1920
LÉON VICTOR AUGUSTE BOURGEOIS, France. Former Secretary of State. President of the Parliament (Sénat). President of the Conseil de la Société des Nations (Council of the League of Nations) .
1919
THOMAS WOODROW WILSON, President of the United States of America. Founder of the Société des Nations (League of Nations)
1918
The prize money for 1918 was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1917
COMITÉ INTERNATIONAL DE LA CROIX ROUGE (INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE REDCROSS) , Geneva.
1916-1914
The prize money for 1916-1914 was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1913
HENRI LA FONTAINE, Belgium. Member of the Belgian Parliament (Sénateur). President of the Permanent International Peace Bureau, Berne.
1912
ELIHU ROOT Former Secretary of State. Initiator of several arbitration agreements.
1911
The prize was divided equally between:
TOBIAS MICHAEL CAREL ASSER, the Netherlands. Cabinet Minister. Member of the Privy Council. Initiator of the International Conferences of Private Law at the Hague.
ALFRED HERMANN FRIED, Austria. Journalist. Founder of the peace journal Die Waffen Nieder (later renamed Die Friedenswarte).
1910
BUREAU INTERNATIONAL PERMANENT DE LA PAIX (PERMANENT INTERNATIONAL PEACE BUREAU) , Bern.
1909
The prize was divided equally between:
AUGUSTE MARIE FRANÇOIS BEERNAERT, Belgium. Former Prime Minister. Member of the Belgian Parliament. Member of the Cour Internationale d’Arbitrage (International Court of Arbitration) at the Hague.
PAUL HENRIBENJAMIN BALLUET D’ESTOURNELLES DE CONSTANT, BARON DE CONSTANT DE REBECQUE, France. Member of the French Parliament (Sénateur). Founder and President of the French parliamentary group for international arbitration (Groupe parlementaire de l’arbitrage international). Founder of the Comité de défense des intérêtsnationaux et de conciliation internationale (Committee for the Defense of National Interests and International Conciliation).
1908
The prize was divided equally between:
KLAS PONTUS ARNOLDSON, Sweden. Writer. Former Member fo the Swedish Parliament. Founder of the Swedish Peace and Arbitration League.
FREDRIK BAJER, Denmark. Member of the Danish Parliament. Honorary President of the Permanent International Peace Bureau, Berne.
1907
The prize was divided equally between:
ERNESTO TEODORO MONETA, Italy. President of the Lombard League of Peace.
LOUIS RENAULT, France. Professor International Law, Sorbonne University, Paris.
1906
THEODORE ROOSEVELT, USA. President of the United States of America. Drew up the 1905 peace treaty between Russia and Japan.
1905
BARONESS BERTHA SOPHIE FELICITA VON SUTTNER née COUNTESS KINSKY von CHINIC und TETTAU, Austria. Writer. Hon. President of the Permanent International Peace Bureau, Berne. Author of Die Waffen Nieder (Lay Down Your Arms).
1904
INSTITUT DE DROIT INTERNATIONAL (INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL LAW) , Gent, Belgium. A scientific society.
1903
SIR WILLIAM RANDAL CREMER, Great Britain. Member of the British Parliament. Secretary of the International Arbitration League .
1902
The prize was divided equally between:
ÉLIE DUCOMMUN, Switzerland. Honorary Secretary of the Permanent International Peace Bureau, Berne.
CHARLES ALBERT GOBAT, Switzerland. Secretary General of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, Berne. Honorary Secretary of the Permanent International Peace Bureau, Berne.
1901
The prize was divided equally between:
JEAN HENRI DUNANT, Switzerland. Founder of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva; Initiator of the Geneva Convention (Convention de Genève).
FRÉDÉRIC PASSY, France. Founder and President of the first French peace society (since 1889 it has been called the Société Francaise pour l’arbitrage entre nations).
re: #52 by Nevergiveup
I can’t understand why we have to make peace with the Taliban? Peace to them means nothing. They will still kill infidels and abuse women and children. I think President Obama should open his US history text book and read about Thomas Jefferson and the War of Tripoli. President Bush did get it right on the WAR.
Well I’m confused as I think is the military. From where I sat, there seemed to be ALOT of mobalizations going on with the anticipation that Afganistan was going to be ratched up. If that is indeed not the case, I can see many of these Mobs. being cancelled.
When you read the list of those who have won the Nobel Peace Prize, and their various accomplishments – one can only gasp at the idiocy of this year’s choice. What happens to the Nobel committee if Obama turns out to be way less than they expected?
This is the ultimate Leftist act. They awarded the prize because they feel like Obama’s feelings are in the right place. It probably helps that he is an anti-Semite. Just like Carter…
As long as he abandons Israel, he will have made all the acomplishments towards peace that the Comittee cares about. Well, and allowing Iran to get nuclear arms helps. Prelude to Holocaust II…
Generally speaking, many fine hospitals and medical research facilities are run by religious organizations that reject evolution. Specifically, the Loma Linda University Medical Center is run by a bunch of young earth creationists (Seventh-day Adventists). If you have a serious disease that requires cutting-edge technology to save your life, Loma Linda should be at (or near) the top of the list of places to go for treatment.
It is often interesting to me when I see the comments on the BBC blog/opinion page – from folks all over the world. Here are the top comments following the Nobel Prize announcement – this is the first page only:
Added: Friday, 9 October, 2009, 09:30 GMT 10:30 UK
Is this a Joke!
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Added: Friday, 9 October, 2009, 09:27 GMT 10:27 UK
To award the Nobel Peace Prize to someone who has acheived nothing other than having talked about solving our problems without any realistic solutions is a complete joke.
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Added: Friday, 9 October, 2009, 09:25 GMT 10:25 UK
What for? For just being elected? Not being George Bush? How?. This is a joke surely. When will the Obama worshiping end? Isn’t his ego big enough as it is!
There are people nominated who have actually suffered horrifically at the hands of their own governments for decades trying bring about real change and peace.
Then again they gave it to Al Gore for global warming propaganda. This sounds like the left propping up another left wing statesmen.
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Added: Friday, 9 October, 2009, 09:28 GMT 10:28 UK
Why on Earth? has he done anything to promote world peace ??? no one had even heard of him two years ago.
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Added: Friday, 9 October, 2009, 09:36 GMT 10:36 UK
What exactly has Obama done of merit to be considered worthy of the prize?
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Added: Friday, 9 October, 2009, 09:29 GMT 10:29 UK
I don’t think the Swedish Academy quite realise what they have done. By awarding the Prize to Obama now, before he has actually done any ‘peacemaking’ at all, it has shown itself to be racist and condescending – and it will galvanise the US right who will, quite justifiably, be incensed by this short-sighted, highly political interfence in US domestic politics.
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It proves the Nobel Peace prize is a farce.
Agree or disagree with his policies, President Obama has not achieved any results to merit it.
This is similar to awards for such falures as Kofi Annan, Mohammad el Baredi and Jimmy Carter.
If you take an anti Bush or do an apology tour that is what these judges look to.
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I’m surprised that this should happen so soon. None of his initiatives have come to fruition yet, have they?
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Added: Friday, 9 October, 2009, 09:35 GMT 10:35 UK
I am gobsmacked….
Really, Why? What has he actually done yet?
If you can win a Nobel Peace Prize for a few months in office, a lot of rhetoric and little or no action then is says a lot for the value of the prize…
But I guess if you can give it to Al Gore for a floored, non-science based ‘environmental film’ then why not.
The Prize is now a meaningless politicized tool and I shall no longer hold its recipients in high esteem.
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For what?? Helping out his buddies at ACORN?
The Nobel has become a Joke a great big Joke.
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Added: Friday, 9 October, 2009, 09:26 GMT 10:26 UK
Containing as it does a list of “distinguished” political recipients such as Yasser Arrafat, Al Gore and others, the Peace Prize merely serves to devalue the “true” Nobel Prizes.
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Added: Friday, 9 October, 2009, 09:27 GMT 10:27 UK
stinks of corruption
what has Obama done???
total political farce
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Added: Friday, 9 October, 2009, 09:31 GMT 10:31 UK
I think that this is a bit premature. I would prefer to see some results before the awarding of prizes.
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Added: Friday, 9 October, 2009, 09:36 GMT 10:36 UK
Alfred Nobel would be turning in his grave at this insult. Ok they hand these out to almost anyone these days, but dont you actually have to have done something first? Apart from the largest deficit in history and alienating Americas allies around the world, what has this ‘man’ actually done?
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I’m sorry but surely its a bit early to be giving him something like that when all I can see he’s done is gone round to various countries and told them to play nice before leaving again. Compared to someone like the Zimbabwe Prime Minister who has been fighting against Mugabe’s rule to try and save his people, its a little pathetic. If Obama had continued to do it for his 1st term, I’d say possibly give him one.
I can’t understand why we have to make peace with the Taliban? Peace to them means nothing. They will still kill infidels and abuse women and children.
That’s not quite true. To them, “peace” means the world is dominated by Islam.
Killing infidels and abusing women and children is a means to that end.
Yasser Arafat was directly responsible for the murders of U.S. Ambassadors George Curtis Moore and Cleo A. Noel Jr. and received the Nobel Peace Prize. What does that tell us?
It’s as meaningless as the United Nations.
Mrs. Seema Samar : An Afghan human rights activist and sitting president of Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC)
This woman was the first Afghan that had been nominated for the prize. This woman has done significant REAL WORK on behalf of the oppressed in Afghanistan. She didn’t have a chance up against THE ONE!
“The Republican Party has thrown in its lot with the terrorists – the Taliban and Hamas this morning – in criticizing the President for receiving the Nobel Peace prize,” DNC communications director Brad Woodhouse told POLITICO.
Obama was actually pretty graceful in his speech, and sounded surprised that he had won. He clearly knows just like everyone else that it’s a political decision.
Then why didn’t he do the right thing, and turn it down?
They used to say all of biology rests upon the theory of evolution, and then they backed off.
Biology is the study of life and carries on whether the theory exists or not.
What great discoveries have been made because of the theory of evolution?
The Muslims cannot win. This is why The “Disengagement” failed. To give them Gaza is a direct affront to G-d – and thus bound to fail. G-d does not reward sin, and violation of Torah. Notice how Jewish Gaza flourished (literally) but once the Jews (not by sake of being Jews, but by sake of G-d, and his commandment for Jews to settle the land) left it reverted to nothing. (just as it was for 2,000 years.)
This is just one reason why all these secular, anti-G-d methods to “peace” will and have failed. The Muslims cannot accept peace because they are specifically designed to reject, and be an affront to G-d. A scorpion is a scorpion – by design!
One doesn’t have to be religious to see it, but you have to have your eyes open. No land of Israel was ever taken from the Jews (recently) All gains by the Arabs have been a result of Jewish handouts. It was never taken – it was always given away. When the Jews fought for it, they won miraculous battles, and kept it for as long as they wanted to. (as is in the path of G-d).
Since we are on the topic, let’s take a good look at the “evil” religious Jews that the liberal West, seculars, and Islamists wish to destroy.
well, they claimed there was no god and that man is an insignificant ant in the grand scheme of the universe.
To the atheists who love to push the idea that anything religious is a knuckle-dragger myth, that was a good accomplishment.
Now, as to ACTUAL accomplishments….. well, they’ve reordered the classification charts. When I took a science class, I didn’t have to memorize the classic classification chart, but the new one, based on ‘evolutionary heritage’
I am sure that President Barack Handout Obama is going to take the prize money and hand it over 100% to the U.S. Government, or use it to create private health care services for the “underprivileged” (whatever that means “under-privileged”
spencers a great bloke, buy he is very afraid of being seen as something he is not.
hence the reason he sat on the fence for so long and only came off it when johnson bit his leg.
he should have sided with the baron and pamela when it started.
the illustrious charles johnson my arse.
My daughter is learning about Islam in school. I told her there are ONLY three things you need to know about Islam (when they take over a country) :
1. You must convert to Islam.
2. If you keep your religion, you become a second class citizen and pay taxes.
3. Or they Kill you!
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So Obama gets the prize for wanting to get peace.
I suggest our LudvigVanQuixote get the Physics prize for whatever he has proposed to do as the highlight of his career.
nope. I remember a big stink that only ever got half-raised when a school had the students dressing up in ‘muslim clothing’ and even reciting ‘muslim prayers’
Now, keep in mind, public schools generally can’t allow youth preachers into schools after a student dies, because of the ’separation of Church and State” … . but they can dress muslim and pray muslim prayers?
French-Colombian activist and ex-hostage Ingrid Betancourt
(Betancourt would have been a great choice – also the Colombian President who participated in freeing her from the Colombian FARC)
Jordanian interfaith dialogue advocate Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad
French president Nicolas Sarkozy
Last year, Finn Martti Ahtisaari won for three decades of work to resolve numerous international conflicts. The prize was seen as a well-earned lifetime achievement award.
I’m pretty sure it falls under the same rules as official gifts, which means, yes, he would have to turn it over to the Treasury.
Other types of tangible gifts that have any significant value have to be turned over to the National Archives. If a President wants to keep them upon leaving office, he has to pay the government the fair market value.
That is what i thought and since he did “win” it as President, I do believe that rule applies. maybe Charlie Rangle can pass a special bill to let him keep it?
Hope AND Change. Bush was bashed and supported at 1.0 why should Obama receive the kid gloves treatment? oh the lefties can’t take it.
Who in their right mind would give Obama a Pulitzer at this early stage in his career? He gets it for destroying the American economy?
GWB deserves it more for his work in Africa.
Israel deserves it for not leveling Gaza to the ground.
Michael Yon is a much better choice or Michael Totten.
ONLY three things you need to know about Islam (when they take over a country) :
1. You must convert to Islam.
2. If you keep your religion, you become a second class citizen and pay taxes.
3. Or they Kill you!
Contrary to popular belief, you actually have options 1 and 2 reversed.
When Muslims conquer an area, they traditionally do not encourage mass conversions to Islam. They prefer to keep the subject population in a state of dhimmitude, which results in significant financial benefit to the Islamic masters.
Over time, the majority of the population (or its descendants) will eventually convert, due to a desire to stop paying the onerous jizya.
Damnit, man, I was going to say that! He reads themn off of what is scrawled on the inside of his forehead. You can never tell what the Great Magic Marker will write there.
I agree he should have turned it down and said he hasn’t done enough yet to get the Pulitzer. If he knew what he was about that is what he would have done.
I wish I could come up with a site called “Stupid Evolutionist Quotes”. Once they had a lung fish on tv wiggling around on land and the commentator said “It’s on it’s way to becoming a land animal.”
So, flying fish are turning into flying reptiles, otters are turning into seals, and seals and hippos are turning into whales. Since dinosaurs turned into birds, I guess the hippo has to turn into a seal first.
They found a bat fossil 52 million years old.
It looked like a bat, not a mouse with deformed forelimbs.
semi-rant over/
“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any (Christian), not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.”
St.Thomas Aquinas
I think the way evolution is debated by too many us in the US is a fine example of what the Saint was talking about.
I think Churches always need to grow and make a discernment about dogma that is close to the instructions in the Bible and dogma that more so reflects the literacy level of a past generation of civilization.
I used to take Lawhawk fairly seriously and liked his writings. But after the recent purge of the C2 folks and his staying on there at LGF I can’t assign any real credibility to what he writes. He will reflect the bias that Charles displays. Not something I want to base any part of my life on. Or be educated by.
That was before the Peacekeepers were totally corrupted. I will speak up for those from the past, they did do some good work. As well they were put in harms way to work for peace.
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Just spoke to a friend on the phone that brought up another angle. Who has been been more active on the world stage this year in talking about peace ? Obama has been trying to address the middle east, trying to talk to Iran and Korea. Talking may not work, but he has been putting a lot of effort into it compared to many others. Sure, maybe the award was based more on hope of success than actual success, and maybe they just want to support that hope.
This from a guy who did not know that Jordan and Israel has signed a peace treaty?
He should get an honorary PHD from Harvard for his beer session.
He should get a gold medal at the Olympics by attendance
He should get an emmy for saying something nice about a play.
He should get a Cannes film festival award for drinking French wine.
And we have lousy behavior by politicians on both sides of the aisle, as Michael Steele misses an opportunity to be gracious, and a DNC official responds by saying the GOP is siding with terrorists.
Charles exemplifies lousy behavior and has no graciousness. no different then the stuff he is complaining about.
It’s amazing to me that they are citing as their reasons for awarding the prize to this empty suit things he supposedly accomplished post nomination.
Oh wait. He’s only TALKED about them.
In that case, I’d like to bring to the Nobel Committee’s attention the current experiments being conducted in my kitchen sink that I hope will one day lead to a vaccine that will eradicate cancer.
I’ll take my prize for Medicine in small bills, please.
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re: #628 Sharmuta
I’m very much a reader of A Conflict of Visions and I recommend it to everyone.
I used to like Sowell as a rational conservative and he’s written some very good things. But lately he’s gone just as crazy as almost every other right wing pundit.
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Thomas Sowell hasn’t changed, Chuck. You have.
Which only proves the point that Rush made years ago – Liberals have NO sense of humor. They don’t have room for it in their emotional well, since it’s customarily filled to the brim with righteous indignation.
There are lists that compare accomplishments between izlam and other cultures.
For example, arabs have 30 times the population of Greece and the Greeks translate 5 times the number of books.
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re: #628 Sharmuta
I’m very much a reader of A Conflict of Visions and I recommend it to everyone.
I used to like Sowell as a rational conservative and he’s written some very good things. But lately he’s gone just as crazy as almost every other right wing pundit.
I’m noticing the whackiness increasing as the morning wears on. The patients over there are in disarray. They don’t know what to say to get their ding fix, because their leader is all over the map this morning.
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I used to like Sowell as a rational conservative and he’s written some very good things. But lately he’s gone just as crazy as almost every other right wing pundit.
I agree.[Ed note: Surprise!!!] It’s sad, but he’s in league with The Hoover Institute (they’re getting their funding from the usual suspects) so it’s not surprising. I still recommend that book, however.
The post/thread AOS did the other night about TIME mag giving BO an A- so far,was hilarious .I lol’d at least 30 times.I think its still on the front page.
Very well put. Look, whether or not you agree with Charles’s recent about face, you have to be a fool to share his take on it. Which is more logical, that Charles is the same as ever but [i]every single person[/i] he used to agree with has changed OR they’re all the same and only [i]Charles[/i] has changed?
It takes a special brand of narcisissm and/or paranoia to believe it was the former.
I totally agree with you – I believe that the key word here is
NARCISSISM
Here is the Mayo Clinic’s list of symptoms – check out how many apply:
Narcissistic personality disorder symptoms may include:
Believing that you’re better than others
Fantasizing about power, success and attractiveness
Exaggerating your achievements or talents
Expecting constant praise and admiration
Believing that you’re special
Failing to recognize other people’s emotions and feelings
Expecting others to go along with your ideas and plans
Taking advantage of others
Expressing disdain for those you feel are inferior
Being jealous of others
Believing that others are jealous of you
Trouble keeping healthy relationships
Setting unrealistic goals
Being easily hurt and rejected
Having a fragile self-esteem
Appearing as tough-minded or unemotional
Although some features of narcissistic personality disorder may seem like having confidence or strong self-esteem, it’s not the same. Narcissistic personality disorder crosses the border of healthy confidence and self-esteem into thinking so highly of yourself that you put yourself on a pedestal. In contrast, people who have healthy confidence and self-esteem don’t value themselves more than they value others.
When you have narcissistic personality disorder, you may come across as conceited, boastful or pretentious. You often monopolize conversations. You may belittle or look down on people you perceive as inferior. You may have a sense of entitlement. And when you don’t receive the special treatment to which you feel entitled, you may become very impatient or angry. You may also seek out others you think have the same special talents, power and qualities — people you see as equals. You may insist on having “the best” of everything — the best car, athletic club, medical care or social circles, for instance.
But underneath all this grandiosity often lies a very fragile self-esteem. You have trouble handling anything that may be perceived as criticism. You may have a sense of secret shame and humiliation. And in order to make yourself feel better, you may react with rage or contempt and efforts to belittle the other person to make yourself appear better.
Primordial Boobzilla
Evolved Boobzilla
First?
Kenneth Miller was one of the lead witnesses in Kitzmiller vs. Dover School Board. His take on Intelligent Design is somewhat unique. I will state up from that he does not believe it should be taught as science in school. His presintation is a little over an hour, with about an hour left for q and a.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVRsWAjvQSg
Just poop
Scarlett Johansson Boobzilla
Hey I registered karridine for the blogmocracy. I shot him an email, expect to see him soon.
OK How do you shut off the damned video. Everytime I reload its starts playing all over again.
Breakfast Boobzilla
great song from my youth…….
do you like boobs alot…do you wear your jock alot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd0WOD9yw0E
good clean fun
re: #9 by BuddyG
HUMMM BACON>>>>>>
Fast Boobzilla
re: #6 by BuddyG
Are doing that to be mean. Certain Netizen’s have their partners visiting their mothers.
re: #8 by SciFiGuy
hit the stop button on the player.
re: #12 by BuddyG
Need a NSFW warning on that one. Thanks.
re: #7 by Rodan
great keith is one of my favorite actors
re: #14 by justin case
WHAT STOP BUTTON! Nothing shows but the video, no controls what-so-ever.
re: #13 by African Moondog
Mean? No!
re: #15 by Rightside
Sorry ’bout that, this/a> is the image I should have posted.
omg. that was hilarious! as if we needed any additional hilarity after the won won yet another prize for doing nothing.
I think the founder of the website was an enhineer. The evolutionists who write to that website never have any compelling arguments.
re: #17 by SciFiGuy
What browser are you using?
Former Peace Prize winner Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, congratulated US President Barack Obama upon winning the Nobel Peace Prize, saying Obama has already provided outstanding leadership in the effort to prevent nuclear proliferation.
“In less than a year in office, he has transformed the way we look at ourselves and the world we live in and rekindled hope for a world at peace with itself,” ElBaradei said.
“He has shown an unshakeable commitment to diplomacy, mutual respect and dialogue as the best means of resolving conflicts
excuse me while i puke
I fixed the video so it will not play automatically.
re: #16 by justin case
No the LGF poster Karridine. He lives in Thailand and is a great commentator.
re: #23 by Nevergiveup
Gag.
OT: from Ace and kinda funny
Top Ten Candidates Who Almost Won the Nobel Prize
—Ace
10. Dr. Neil Farkas, DDS, Sheboygan, WI, for once thinking about a new type of dental adhesive before forgetting about it
9. Sue Lefkowitz, homemaker, Poughkeepsie, NY, for vowing on New Years Eve to lose her last 20 pregnancy pounds (she gained 6)
8. Alex Rodriguez, Yankees third baseman, NY, NY, for having the intention of one day hitting a home run in October
7. Yasser Arafat — just because
6. Stanley Urquhart, assistant pipefitter, Des Moines, IA, for “seriously considering” legally changing his name to Jake “The Snake” Drake (pure unadulterated awesome!) and joining the Ultimate Fighting League, at least after he finally makes that brown belt that sensei has been holding back from him for a year
5. Charles Johnson, blogger, Santa Monica, CA, for “conspicuous heroism” in defending a little-trafficked website from fascists, neo-nazis, white supremacists, and other Enemies of the Blog
4. Myron Klepnitz, IT supervisor, Brooklyn, NY, for writing a chapter and a half and “copious notes” for his “vampire erotica” novel tentatively titled Suck
3. ACORN
2. Ace of Spades, blogger, whereabouts unknown, for posting by 11:30 am
…and the Number One Candidate who almost won a Nobel Prize…
1. One-tenth of an ounce of that stinky, sweaty, rancid-buttery grey fuzz that collects at the bottom of your belly-button and kind of scratches when you try to fish it out
re: #23 by Nevergiveup
Meanwhile, in a not-so-secret Iranian uranium enrichment facility…
Unclench that fist.
I put this to the previous thread, but here it is again…
I may be first, but I nominate Obama also for Academy Awards for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Directing, Best Picture and Best Sound Effects. He’s done records with his Nobel Peace Prize, so why not go for more?
/’cause it would make just as much sense.
This link is better. Be sure to check out “what’s new this month”.
re: #28 by Rightside
Don’t know if you saw this:
“The new missile plan from US President Barack Obama’s administration raises questions and Moscow is waiting for Washington to explain its intentions, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday.
“The statements that are constantly being voiced raise more questions than answers,” Lavrov told reporters during a visit to the Moldovan capital for a summit of ex-Soviet countries.”
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.b7e17999d24b623dab177751add0db63.441&show_article=1
Well you got something for nothing why not up the ante? Way to go Nobel Peace Prize winner?
DNC official: GOP siding with terrorists
re: #31 by Nevergiveup
I didn’t, but thanks. Doesn’t surprise me. This idiot is a pushover.
re: #25 by Rodan
lol i know mate, get yourself a beer.
re: #26 by Russia on ice
Obama has already provided outstanding leadership in the effort to prevent nuclear proliferation.
He bombed Iran?
re: #34 by justin case
To early here! Although I might ask to leave early from work today to get drunk over Obama winning this BS. I swear I’m really starting to think this is Revelations!
U.S. forces have withdrawn from an isolated base in eastern Afghanistan that insurgents attacked last week in one of the deadliest battles of the war for U.S. troops, the NATO-led coalition said Friday.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20091009/D9B7HP4G0.html
Can you say VietNam?
re: #24 by bar
Thanks
re: #37 by Nevergiveup
Odds you’ll ever hear the drive-bys use the word quagmire, when speaking about afghanistan?
And the word of the day is Pareidolia.
It’s getting profound over there:
re: #39 by Rightside
All those vallient efforts down the poop shoot because this SOB who’s mommie was a commie is in the White house.
One more spanking…
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By the way, I’m not going to let this thread turn into an Obama-bashing session.
Oh yeah G-D forbid, they might kick you out looney left
re: #39 by Rightside
I’ve been waiting for the dramatic close-up of Obama’s concerned face on the cover of TIME with the words: Afghanistan: Obama’s Vietnam?.
re: #44 by Nevergiveup
wow.
Nevermind he is ruining the country, don’t criticize his hero.
Winners on Nobel Peace Pize:
President Barack Obama has won the 2009 Peace Prize. In doing so he’s joined an elite club. See who else has won the Nobel Peace Prize.
— 2009: U.S. President Barack Obama
— 2008: Martti Ahtisaari
— 2007: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Al Gore
— 2006: Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank
— 2005: International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei
— 2004: Wangari Maathai
— 2003: Shirin Ebadi
— 2002: Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter
— 2001: United Nations, Kofi Annan
— 2000: Kim Dae-jung
— 1999: Medecins Sans Frontieres
— 1998: John Hume, David Trimble
— 1997: International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Jody Williams
— 1996: Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, Jose Ramos-Horta
— 1995: Joseph Rotblat, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
— 1994: Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin
— 1993: Nelson Mandela, F.W. de Klerk
— 1992: Rigoberta Menchu Tum
— 1991: Aung San Suu Kyi
— 1990: Mikhail Gorbachev
— 1989: The 14th Dalai Lama
— 1988: U.N. Peacekeeping Forces
— 1987: Oscar Arias Sanchez
— 1986: Elie Wiesel
— 1985: International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
— 1984: Desmond Tutu
— 1983: Lech Walesa
— 1982: Alva Myrdal, Alfonso Garcia Robles
— 1981: Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees
— 1980: Adolfo Perez Esquivel
re: #45 by mjazz
don’t hold your breath.
re: #37 by Nevergiveup
It’s been said that we were actually winning the war in Vietnam.
Sri Lanka defeated the Tamil rebels.
Give General Chrystal the troops he has requested.
Bush liberated 50 Million, Reagan liberated millions in Europe from Communism. (no awards) But BHO gets Nobel for BIG EGO!
re: #44 by Nevergiveup
OK, so instead of an 0bama-bashing session Kilgore Trout can turn it into a bishop-bashing session.
/His favorite pastime anyhow
re: #49 by mjazz
We can win the war, Obama will not let us. That much is becoming clear. But in the meantime, he is going to get alot of good and decent men and women killed and injured. And that I will never forgive him for.
Mahatma Gandhi was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize five times between 1937 and 1948 but never received the prize, being assassinated on 30 January 1948 two days before the closing date for the 1948 Peace Prize nominations. The Norwegian Nobel Committee had very likely planned to give him the Peace Prize in 1948 as they considered a posthumous award, but ultimately decided against it, and instead chose not to award the prize that year.
re: #52 by Nevergiveup
While Obama dithers, Americans die.
Either yank them out or commit additional forces.
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Obama is a big steaming piece of narcissistic feces. This award is only going to fuel his hubris and his blind follower will eat this up and make life more miserable for the real americans
guess what happen to this post
re: #44 by Nevergiveup
Someone speak less than worshippfully of his new god? I can see where he’d have a problem with it. you know, he thinks Creationists are nuts, but he is worshipping a man, most mortal. That can’t lead to anything good…
A more comprehensive list:
2009
The prize goes to:
BARACK OBAMA for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.
2008
The prize goes to:
MARTTI AHTISAARI for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts.
2007
The prize goes to:
INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE (IPCC) and ALBERT ARNOLD ( AL) GORE JR. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.
2006
The prize goes to:
MUHAMMAD YUNUS and GRAMEEN BANK for their efforts to create economic and social development from below.
2005
The prize was awarded jointly to:
INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY and MOHAMED ELBARADEI for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way.
2004
The prize was awarded to:
WANGARI MAATHAI
for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace
2003
The prize was awarded to:
SHIRIN EBADI
for her efforts for democracy and human rights
2002
The prize was awarded to:
JIMMY CARTER JR., former President of the United States of America,
for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development
2001
The prize was awarded to:
UNITED NATIONS, New York, NY, USA
KOFI ANNAN, United Nations Secretary General
2000
The prize was awarded to:
KIM DAE JUNG for his work for democracy and human rights in South Korea and in East Asia in general, and for peace and reconciliation with North Korea in particular.
1999
The prize was awarded to:
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS (MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES), Brussels, Belgium.
1998
The prize was awarded jointly to:
JOHN HUME and DAVID TRIMBLE for their efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland.
1997
The prize was awarded jointly to:
INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN TO BAN LANDMINES (ICBL) and JODY WILLIAMS for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines.
1996
The prize was awarded jointly to:
CARLOS FELIPE XIMENES BELO and JOSE RAMOS-HORTA for their work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor.
1995
The prize was awarded jointly to:
JOSEPH ROTBLAT and to the PUGWASH CONFERENCES ON SCIENCE AND WORLD AFFAIRS for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and in the longer run to eliminate such arms.
1994
The prize was awarded joinly to:
YASSER ARAFAT , Chairman of the Executive Committee of the PLO, President of the Palestinian National Authority.
SHIMON PERES , Foreign Minister of Israel.
YITZHAK RABIN , Prime Minister of Israel.
for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East.
1993
The prize was awarded jointly to:
NELSON MANDELA Leader of the ANC.
FREDRIK WILLEM DE KLERK President of the Republic of South Africa.
1992
RIGOBERTA MENCHU TUM, Guatemala. Campaigner for human rights, especially for indigenous peoples.
1991
AUNG SAN SUU KYI, Burma. Oppositional leader, human rights advocate.
1990
MIKHAIL SERGEYEVICH GORBACHEV , President of the USSR, helped to bring the Cold War to an end.
1989
THE 14TH DALAI LAMA (TENZIN GYATSO) , Tibet. Religious and political leader of the Tibetan people.
1988
THE UNITED NATIONS PEACE-KEEPING FORCES New York, NY, U.S.A.
1987
OSCAR ARIAS SANCHEZ , Costa Rica, President of Costa Rica, initiator of peace negotiations in Central America.
1986
ELIE WIESEL , U.S.A., Chairman of ‘The President’s Commission on the Holocaust’. Author, humanitarian.
1985
INTERNATIONAL PHYSICIANS FOR THE PREVENTION OF NUCLEAR WAR Boston, MA, U.S.A.
1984
DESMOND MPILO TUTU , South Africa, Bishop of Johannesburg, former Secretary General South African Council of Churches (S.A.C.C.). for his work against apartheid.
1983
LECH WALESA , Poland. Founder of Solidarity, campaigner for human rights.
1982
The prize was awarded jointly to:
ALVA MYRDAL , former Cabinet Minister, diplomat, delegate to United Nations General Assembly on Disarmament, writer.
ALFONSO GARCÍA ROBLES , diplomat, delegate to the United Nations General Assembly on Disarmament, former Secretary for Foreign Affairs .
1981
OFFICE OF THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES Geneva, Switzerland.
1980
ADOLFO PEREZ ESQUIVEL , Argentina, architect, sculptor and human rights leader.
1979
MOTHER TERESA , India, Leader of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity.
1978
The prize was divided equally between:
MOHAMED ANWAR AL-SADAT , President of the Arab Republic of Egypt.
MENACHEM BEGIN , Prime Minister of Israel.
for jointly negotiating peace between Egypt and Israel.
1977
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL London, Great Britain. A worldwide organization for the protection of the rights of prisoners of conscience.
1976
BETTY WILLIAMS and MAIREAD CORRIGAN Founders of the Northern Ireland Peace Movement (later renamed Community of Peace People).
1975
ANDREI DMITRIEVICH SAKHAROV , Soviet nuclear physicist. Campaigner for human rights.
1974
The prize was divided equally between:
SEÁN MAC BRIDE , President of the International Peace Bureau, Geneva, and the Commission of Namibia, United Nations, New York.
EISAKU SATO , Prime Minister of Japan.
1973
The prize was awarded jointly to:
HENRY A. KISSINGER , Secretary of State, State Department, Washington.
LE DUC THO , Democratic Republic of Viet Nam. (Declined the prize.)
for jointly negotiating the Vietnam peace accord in 1973.
1972
The prize money for 1972 was allocated to the Main Fund.
1971
WILLY BRANDT , Federal Republic of Germany, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, initiator of West Germany’s Ostpolitik, embodying a new attitude towards Eastern Europe and East Germany.
1970
NORMAN BORLAUG , Led research at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, Mexico City.
1969
INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANIZATION (I.L.O.) Geneva.
1968
RENÉ CASSIN , President of the European Court for Human Rights .
1967-1966
The prize money was allocated to the Main Fund (1/3) and to the Special Fund (2/3) of this prize section.
1965
UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN’S FUND (UNICEF) New York, founded by U.N. in 1946. An international aid organization.
1964
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. , leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, campaigner for civil rights.
1963
The prize was divided equally between
COMITÉ INTERNATIONAL DE LA CROIX-ROUGE (INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE REDCROSS) Geneva, founded 1863.
LIGUE DES SOCIÉTÉS DE LA CROIX-ROUGE (LEAGUE OF RED CROSS SOCIETIES) Geneva.
1962
LINUS CARL PAULING , California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA. Campaigner especially for an end to nuclear weapons tests.
1961
DAG HJALMAR AGNE CARL HAMMARSKJÖLD , Secretary General of the United Nations (awarded the Prize posthumously).
1960
ALBERT JOHN LUTULI , President of the South Africal liberation movement, the African National Congress.
1959
PHILIP J. NOEL-BAKER , Great Britain, Member of Parliament, life long ardent worker for international peace and co-operation .
1958
GEORGES HENRI PIRE , Belgium, Father of the Dominican Order, Leader of the relief organization for refugees, l’Europe du Coeur au Service du Monde.
1957
LESTER BOWLES PEARSON , former Secretary of State for External Affairs of Canada, President 7th Session of the United Nations General Assembly .
1956-1955
The prize money was allocated to the Main Fund (1/3) and to the Special Fund (2/3) of this prize section.
1954
OFFICE OF THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES Geneva, an international relief organization, founded by U.N. in 1951.
1953
GEORGE CATLETT MARSHALL , General, President American Red Cross, ex-Secretary of State and of Defense, Delegate to the U.N., Originator of the Marshall Plan.
1952
ALBERT SCHWEITZER , Missionary surgeon, Founder Lambaréné Hospital in République du Gabon.
1951
LÉON JOUHAUX , France, President of the trade union C.G.T. Force Ouvrière. President of the International Committee of the European Council, Vice President of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, Vice President of the World Federation of Trade Unions, member of the ILO Council, delegate to the UN.
1950
RALPH BUNCHE , Professor Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Director of the UN Division of Trusteeship, Acting Mediator in Palestine 1948.
1949
LORD JOHN BOYD ORR OF BRECHIN , Physician, Alimentary Politician, prominent organizer and Director General Food and Agricultural Organization, President National Peace Council and World Union of Peace Organizations.
1948
The prize money was allocated to the Main Fund (1/3) and to the Special Fund (2/3) of this prize section.
1947
The prize was awarded jointly to:
THE FRIENDS SERVICE COUNCIL (The Quakers), London. Founded in 1647.
THE AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE (The Quakers), Washington. The society’s first official meeting was held in 1672.
1946
The prize was divided equally between:
EMILY GREENE BALCH, former Professor of History and Sociology, Honorary International President Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.
JOHN RALEIGH MOTT Chairman of the first International Missionary Council, President of the World Alliance of Young Men’s Christian Associations .
1945
CORDELL HULL Former Secretary of State. One of the initiators of the United Nations.
1944
COMITÉ INTERNATIONAL DE LA CROIX-ROUGE (INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS)
1943-1939
The prize money was allocated to the Main Fund (1/3) and to the Special Fund (2/3) of this prize section.
1938
OFFICE INTERNATIONAL NANSEN POUR LES RÉFUGIÉS (NANSEN INTERNATIONAL OFFICE FOR REFUGEES) an international relief organization in Geneva started by Fridtjof Nansen in 1921.
1937
CECIL OF CHELWOOD, VISCOUNT, (LORD EDGAR ALGERNON ROBERT GASCOYNE CECIL) , Writer, Former Lord Privy Seal. Founder and President of the International Peace Campaign.
1936
CARLOS SAAVEDRA LAMAS Foreign Minister. President of the Société des Nations (League of Nations), Meditator in a conflict between Paraguay and Bolivia in 1935.
1935
CARL VON OSSIETZKY Journalist (with Die Weltbühne, among others), pacifist.
1934
ARTHUR HENDERSON Former Foreign Secretary. Chairman of the League of Nations Disarmament Conference 1932-1934.
1933
SIR NORMAN ANGELL (RALPH LANE) Writer. Member of the Commission Exécutive de la Société des Nations (Executive Committee of the League of Nations) and the National Peace Council. Author of the book The Great Illusion, among others.
1932
The prize money for 1932 was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1931
The prize was divided equally between:
JANE ADDAMS Sociologist. International President of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.
NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER President of Columbia University. Promoter of the Briand-Kellogg Pact.
1930
LARS OLOF NATHAN (JONATHAN) SÖDERBLOM Archbishop. Leader of the ecumenical movement.
1929
FRANK BILLINGS KELLOGG Former Secretary of State, Negotiated the Briand-Kellogg Pact.
1928
The prize money for 1928 was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1927
The prize was divided equally between:
FERDINAND BUISSON Former Professor at the Sorbonne University, Paris. Founder and President of the Ligue des Droits de l’Homme (League for Human Rights).
LUDWIG QUIDDE Historian. Professor at Berlin University. Member of Germany’s constituent assembly 1919. Delegate to numerous peace conferences.
1926
The prize was awarded jointly to:
ARISTIDE BRIAND Foreign Minister. Negotiator of the Locarno Treaty and the Briand-Kellogg Pact.
GUSTAV STRESEMANN Former Lord High Chancellor (Reichs-kanzler). Foreign Minister. Negotiator of the Locarno Treaty.
1925
The prize was awarded jointly to:
SIR AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN Foreign Minister. Negotiator of the Locarno Treaty.
CHARLES GATES DAWES Vice-President of the United States of America. Chairman of the Allied Reparation Commission. Originator of the Dawes Plan .
1924-1923
The prize money for 1924-1923 was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1922
FRIDTJOF NANSEN , Norway. Scientist. Explorer. Norwegian Delegate to Société des Nations (League of Nations). Originator of the Nansen passports (for refugees).
1921
The prize was divided equally between:
KARL HJALMAR BRANTING Prime Minister. Swedish Delegate to the Conseil de la Société des Nations (Council of the League of Nations).
CHRISTIAN LOUS LANGE Secretary General of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, Brussels.
1920
LÉON VICTOR AUGUSTE BOURGEOIS, France. Former Secretary of State. President of the Parliament (Sénat). President of the Conseil de la Société des Nations (Council of the League of Nations) .
1919
THOMAS WOODROW WILSON, President of the United States of America. Founder of the Société des Nations (League of Nations)
1918
The prize money for 1918 was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1917
COMITÉ INTERNATIONAL DE LA CROIX ROUGE (INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE REDCROSS) , Geneva.
1916-1914
The prize money for 1916-1914 was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1913
HENRI LA FONTAINE, Belgium. Member of the Belgian Parliament (Sénateur). President of the Permanent International Peace Bureau, Berne.
1912
ELIHU ROOT Former Secretary of State. Initiator of several arbitration agreements.
1911
The prize was divided equally between:
TOBIAS MICHAEL CAREL ASSER, the Netherlands. Cabinet Minister. Member of the Privy Council. Initiator of the International Conferences of Private Law at the Hague.
ALFRED HERMANN FRIED, Austria. Journalist. Founder of the peace journal Die Waffen Nieder (later renamed Die Friedenswarte).
1910
BUREAU INTERNATIONAL PERMANENT DE LA PAIX (PERMANENT INTERNATIONAL PEACE BUREAU) , Bern.
1909
The prize was divided equally between:
AUGUSTE MARIE FRANÇOIS BEERNAERT, Belgium. Former Prime Minister. Member of the Belgian Parliament. Member of the Cour Internationale d’Arbitrage (International Court of Arbitration) at the Hague.
PAUL HENRIBENJAMIN BALLUET D’ESTOURNELLES DE CONSTANT, BARON DE CONSTANT DE REBECQUE, France. Member of the French Parliament (Sénateur). Founder and President of the French parliamentary group for international arbitration (Groupe parlementaire de l’arbitrage international). Founder of the Comité de défense des intérêtsnationaux et de conciliation internationale (Committee for the Defense of National Interests and International Conciliation).
1908
The prize was divided equally between:
KLAS PONTUS ARNOLDSON, Sweden. Writer. Former Member fo the Swedish Parliament. Founder of the Swedish Peace and Arbitration League.
FREDRIK BAJER, Denmark. Member of the Danish Parliament. Honorary President of the Permanent International Peace Bureau, Berne.
1907
The prize was divided equally between:
ERNESTO TEODORO MONETA, Italy. President of the Lombard League of Peace.
LOUIS RENAULT, France. Professor International Law, Sorbonne University, Paris.
1906
THEODORE ROOSEVELT, USA. President of the United States of America. Drew up the 1905 peace treaty between Russia and Japan.
1905
BARONESS BERTHA SOPHIE FELICITA VON SUTTNER née COUNTESS KINSKY von CHINIC und TETTAU, Austria. Writer. Hon. President of the Permanent International Peace Bureau, Berne. Author of Die Waffen Nieder (Lay Down Your Arms).
1904
INSTITUT DE DROIT INTERNATIONAL (INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL LAW) , Gent, Belgium. A scientific society.
1903
SIR WILLIAM RANDAL CREMER, Great Britain. Member of the British Parliament. Secretary of the International Arbitration League .
1902
The prize was divided equally between:
ÉLIE DUCOMMUN, Switzerland. Honorary Secretary of the Permanent International Peace Bureau, Berne.
CHARLES ALBERT GOBAT, Switzerland. Secretary General of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, Berne. Honorary Secretary of the Permanent International Peace Bureau, Berne.
1901
The prize was divided equally between:
JEAN HENRI DUNANT, Switzerland. Founder of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva; Initiator of the Geneva Convention (Convention de Genève).
FRÉDÉRIC PASSY, France. Founder and President of the first French peace society (since 1889 it has been called the Société Francaise pour l’arbitrage entre nations).
there goes elmerf9000, never heard of em
re: #52 by Nevergiveup
I can’t understand why we have to make peace with the Taliban? Peace to them means nothing. They will still kill infidels and abuse women and children. I think President Obama should open his US history text book and read about Thomas Jefferson and the War of Tripoli. President Bush did get it right on the WAR.
They awarded him the prize to assuage his hurt feelings over the Olympics loss.
re: #54 by mjazz
Well I’m confused as I think is the military. From where I sat, there seemed to be ALOT of mobalizations going on with the anticipation that Afganistan was going to be ratched up. If that is indeed not the case, I can see many of these Mobs. being cancelled.
When you read the list of those who have won the Nobel Peace Prize, and their various accomplishments – one can only gasp at the idiocy of this year’s choice. What happens to the Nobel committee if Obama turns out to be way less than they expected?
This is a very REAL possibility.
re: #59 by Marge45b
well it might be the first history book he ever opened except for the one Lenin wrote
This is the ultimate Leftist act. They awarded the prize because they feel like Obama’s feelings are in the right place. It probably helps that he is an anti-Semite. Just like Carter…
re: #59 by Marge45b
That would work out as well as the peace with the paleostonians did.
re: #50 by Marge45b
Reagan got snubbed, and he was the pivotal figure for ending communism in the USSR……
…. and Gorbachev won.
re: #55 by Nevergiveup
nominated for a nobel peace prize?
re: #62 by kiwiviv
As long as he abandons Israel, he will have made all the acomplishments towards peace that the Comittee cares about. Well, and allowing Iran to get nuclear arms helps. Prelude to Holocaust II…
From the website linked in the article.
That should make some heads implode.
Young earth creationist doing far greater things then evolutionists like Dick Dawkins.
http://www.scienceagainstevolution.org/v13i11f.htm
It is often interesting to me when I see the comments on the BBC blog/opinion page – from folks all over the world. Here are the top comments following the Nobel Prize announcement – this is the first page only:
Added: Friday, 9 October, 2009, 09:30 GMT 10:30 UK
Is this a Joke!
Paul Day, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
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Added: Friday, 9 October, 2009, 09:27 GMT 10:27 UK
To award the Nobel Peace Prize to someone who has acheived nothing other than having talked about solving our problems without any realistic solutions is a complete joke.
[lordpommer], Jerusalem, Israel
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Added: Friday, 9 October, 2009, 09:25 GMT 10:25 UK
What for? For just being elected? Not being George Bush? How?. This is a joke surely. When will the Obama worshiping end? Isn’t his ego big enough as it is!
There are people nominated who have actually suffered horrifically at the hands of their own governments for decades trying bring about real change and peace.
Then again they gave it to Al Gore for global warming propaganda. This sounds like the left propping up another left wing statesmen.
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Added: Friday, 9 October, 2009, 09:28 GMT 10:28 UK
Why on Earth? has he done anything to promote world peace ??? no one had even heard of him two years ago.
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Added: Friday, 9 October, 2009, 09:36 GMT 10:36 UK
What exactly has Obama done of merit to be considered worthy of the prize?
vx, Glasgow
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Added: Friday, 9 October, 2009, 09:29 GMT 10:29 UK
I don’t think the Swedish Academy quite realise what they have done. By awarding the Prize to Obama now, before he has actually done any ‘peacemaking’ at all, it has shown itself to be racist and condescending – and it will galvanise the US right who will, quite justifiably, be incensed by this short-sighted, highly political interfence in US domestic politics.
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Added: Friday, 9 October, 2009, 09:28 GMT 10:28 UK
It proves the Nobel Peace prize is a farce.
Agree or disagree with his policies, President Obama has not achieved any results to merit it.
This is similar to awards for such falures as Kofi Annan, Mohammad el Baredi and Jimmy Carter.
If you take an anti Bush or do an apology tour that is what these judges look to.
Richard Leeds, United States
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I’m surprised that this should happen so soon. None of his initiatives have come to fruition yet, have they?
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Added: Friday, 9 October, 2009, 09:35 GMT 10:35 UK
I am gobsmacked….
Really, Why? What has he actually done yet?
If you can win a Nobel Peace Prize for a few months in office, a lot of rhetoric and little or no action then is says a lot for the value of the prize…
But I guess if you can give it to Al Gore for a floored, non-science based ‘environmental film’ then why not.
The Prize is now a meaningless politicized tool and I shall no longer hold its recipients in high esteem.
[Robinovich], London, United Kingdom
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For what?? Helping out his buddies at ACORN?
The Nobel has become a Joke a great big Joke.
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Added: Friday, 9 October, 2009, 09:26 GMT 10:26 UK
Containing as it does a list of “distinguished” political recipients such as Yasser Arrafat, Al Gore and others, the Peace Prize merely serves to devalue the “true” Nobel Prizes.
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Added: Friday, 9 October, 2009, 09:27 GMT 10:27 UK
stinks of corruption
what has Obama done???
total political farce
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Added: Friday, 9 October, 2009, 09:31 GMT 10:31 UK
I think that this is a bit premature. I would prefer to see some results before the awarding of prizes.
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Added: Friday, 9 October, 2009, 09:36 GMT 10:36 UK
Alfred Nobel would be turning in his grave at this insult. Ok they hand these out to almost anyone these days, but dont you actually have to have done something first? Apart from the largest deficit in history and alienating Americas allies around the world, what has this ‘man’ actually done?
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I’m sorry but surely its a bit early to be giving him something like that when all I can see he’s done is gone round to various countries and told them to play nice before leaving again. Compared to someone like the Zimbabwe Prime Minister who has been fighting against Mugabe’s rule to try and save his people, its a little pathetic. If Obama had continued to do it for his 1st term, I’d say possibly give him one.
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re: #63 by Nevergiveup
Yeah, the history book he read says the US has 57 states!
OT:
Robert Spencer Takes It To Germany
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/133764
re: #59 by Marge45b
That’s not quite true. To them, “peace” means the world is dominated by Islam.
Killing infidels and abusing women and children is a means to that end.
Did Queeg find him meds? This isn’t going as planned.
‘Peace be upon HIM’, Rush
re: #65 by mjazz
Gaza had potential but they destroyed what was left by the Israel. They have no intentions on being a productive people.
re: #62 by kiwiviv
Yasser Arafat was directly responsible for the murders of U.S. Ambassadors George Curtis Moore and Cleo A. Noel Jr. and received the Nobel Peace Prize. What does that tell us?
It’s as meaningless as the United Nations.
re: #75 by newsjunkie_ky
Piss on him.
re: #58 by apachegunner
elmerf9000, I never knew ye…
re: #76 by Marge45b
That’s why they want the world enslaved to them.
SOMEONE has to do the work….
Guess who Obama beat out for the big prize today:
Mrs. Seema Samar : An Afghan human rights activist and sitting president of Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC)
This woman was the first Afghan that had been nominated for the prize. This woman has done significant REAL WORK on behalf of the oppressed in Afghanistan. She didn’t have a chance up against THE ONE!
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re: #391 Coracle
I’ve never bought this. I understand disagreeing with is policies, but this “great apologizer” crap is just that – crap.
I agree. It’s a right wing talking point, and it has very little relationship to reality.
Hum, then I guess you all have not been listening? Or your now on the lonney left. Or both.
By the way, according to the DNC, we’re throwing in with terrorists because we’re questioning Obama’s receiving this award.
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re: #20 victor_yugo
That’s your last comment at LGF.
who was that?
Rush:
Obama was the post-racial president, now he’s the post-accomplishment president too
Then why didn’t he do the right thing, and turn it down?
re: #69 by bar
They used to say all of biology rests upon the theory of evolution, and then they backed off.
Biology is the study of life and carries on whether the theory exists or not.
What great discoveries have been made because of the theory of evolution?
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re: #406 Ben Hur
You don’t think he’s “apologizes” for the last 8 years?
No, I don’t.
gee someone is in deniel
Don’t you have laundry to do, or blogs to troll, or people to lecture, or something important like that?
re: #76 by Marge45b
The Muslims cannot win. This is why The “Disengagement” failed. To give them Gaza is a direct affront to G-d – and thus bound to fail. G-d does not reward sin, and violation of Torah. Notice how Jewish Gaza flourished (literally) but once the Jews (not by sake of being Jews, but by sake of G-d, and his commandment for Jews to settle the land) left it reverted to nothing. (just as it was for 2,000 years.)
This is just one reason why all these secular, anti-G-d methods to “peace” will and have failed. The Muslims cannot accept peace because they are specifically designed to reject, and be an affront to G-d. A scorpion is a scorpion – by design!
One doesn’t have to be religious to see it, but you have to have your eyes open. No land of Israel was ever taken from the Jews (recently) All gains by the Arabs have been a result of Jewish handouts. It was never taken – it was always given away. When the Jews fought for it, they won miraculous battles, and kept it for as long as they wanted to. (as is in the path of G-d).
Since we are on the topic, let’s take a good look at the “evil” religious Jews that the liberal West, seculars, and Islamists wish to destroy.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/133774
re: #87 by mjazz
Dingo!
/Oops, now I got the ding thing…
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re: #413 Charles
No, I don’t.
I find that hard to believe.
I think that’s the gist of his foreign policy.
I think we should make room for one more?
re: #87 by mjazz
well, they claimed there was no god and that man is an insignificant ant in the grand scheme of the universe.
To the atheists who love to push the idea that anything religious is a knuckle-dragger myth, that was a good accomplishment.
Now, as to ACTUAL accomplishments….. well, they’ve reordered the classification charts. When I took a science class, I didn’t have to memorize the classic classification chart, but the new one, based on ‘evolutionary heritage’
re: #84 by Nevergiveup
victor yugo had been around for a long time.
re: #86 by snork
I am sure that President Barack Handout Obama is going to take the prize money and hand it over 100% to the U.S. Government, or use it to create private health care services for the “underprivileged” (whatever that means “under-privileged”
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re: #84 by Nevergiveup
did you catch victor_yugo’s post that got him booted?
re: #72 by WrathofG-d
spencers a great bloke, buy he is very afraid of being seen as something he is not.
hence the reason he sat on the fence for so long and only came off it when johnson bit his leg.
he should have sided with the baron and pamela when it started.
the illustrious charles johnson my arse.
re: #94 by snork
I recognized the name but can’t really place his/her opinions? I wonder what he said
re: #76 by Marge45b
Voting in Hamas was like bringing a few cockroaches into your house to eat some scraps on a plate.
re: #80 by LanceKates
My daughter is learning about Islam in school. I told her there are ONLY three things you need to know about Islam (when they take over a country) :
1. You must convert to Islam.
2. If you keep your religion, you become a second class citizen and pay taxes.
3. Or they Kill you!
I don’t think they teach that in class.
re: #95 by WrathofG-d
Isn’t he suppose to hand it over to the US Treasury by law?
TFK, get this:
ROFL…ROFL…ROFL…ROFL…ROFL…ROFL…ROFL…
re: #96 by spidly
no–just that is was #20
re: #98 by Nevergiveup
There you have it.
re: #82 by Nevergiveup
When your nose is that brown all the time I guess you get used to the smell.
re: #100 by Marge45b
nope. I remember a big stink that only ever got half-raised when a school had the students dressing up in ‘muslim clothing’ and even reciting ‘muslim prayers’
Now, keep in mind, public schools generally can’t allow youth preachers into schools after a student dies, because of the ’separation of Church and State” … . but they can dress muslim and pray muslim prayers?
re: #92 by Nevergiveup
Oooooh! Contradicting the Official Line! He’s a Denier, that is for sure…
re: #104 by Cupcake
I might not have said that but what’s so wrong with that?
Who else did Obama beat out for the big prize?:
Colombian peace broker Piedad Cordoba
Afghan rights activist Sima Samar
Zimbabwe’s Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai.
French-Colombian activist and ex-hostage Ingrid Betancourt
(Betancourt would have been a great choice – also the Colombian President who participated in freeing her from the Colombian FARC)
Jordanian interfaith dialogue advocate Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad
French president Nicolas Sarkozy
Last year, Finn Martti Ahtisaari won for three decades of work to resolve numerous international conflicts. The prize was seen as a well-earned lifetime achievement award.
re: #101 by Nevergiveup
I’m pretty sure it falls under the same rules as official gifts, which means, yes, he would have to turn it over to the Treasury.
Other types of tangible gifts that have any significant value have to be turned over to the National Archives. If a President wants to keep them upon leaving office, he has to pay the government the fair market value.
re: #84 by Nevergiveup
I remember the name.
Hi victor- stop on down!
re: #98 by Nevergiveup
Gone in the disappeared hole now…
Rush says 0 owes him the prize, since he spent the first 11 days talking about Rush and how he wanted the country to fail…LOL
re: #93 by LanceKates
You are being willfully disingenuous, cause we all know that “evolution” doesn’t address origins!
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re: #104 by Cupcake
I would have banned victor yugo too. He should have said Mengele not Manson.
re: #110 by lobo91
Rush said that Obama needs that money for his ’stash’ for the folks in detroit.
re: #110 by lobo91
That is what i thought and since he did “win” it as President, I do believe that rule applies. maybe Charlie Rangle can pass a special bill to let him keep it?
re: #89 by snork
who wrote “Hose”- you?
re: #104 by Cupcake
That’s Dr. Charles Manson to you!
OMG, Kosh is really asking for it this morning:
re: #118 by mjazz
[wink]
re: #114 by bar
heh. I’ve had that said to me before.
The immediate follow up is “Where did the original goo come from?”
I get answers ranging from the big bang to aliens seeding our planet.
re: #108 by Nevergiveup
It comes across as crass, IMO, and I would assume CJ was waiting for any reason to can Victor.
Happened to a lot of peeps that way.
Unbelievable.
re: #123 by Cupcake
sometimes it is pent up and just comes out at the stupidity and outright lies by Charles.
re: #123 by Cupcake
Was Victor to the right? I assume so.
he should really post a list of beliefs you have to agree to before posting there….
re: #92 by Nevergiveup
Ben Hur- that sounds familiar too.
Come on down man!
Iron Fist
*snortle*
re: #98 by Nevergiveup
Whatever he said, it must have been a real hum-downdinger. 15 downdings.
re: #120 by snork
thought the old hose pipe was having a nervous breakdown.
the old hag soon sprang back to life.
re: #44 by Nevergiveup
Hope AND Change. Bush was bashed and supported at 1.0 why should Obama receive the kid gloves treatment? oh the lefties can’t take it.
Who in their right mind would give Obama a Pulitzer at this early stage in his career? He gets it for destroying the American economy?
GWB deserves it more for his work in Africa.
Israel deserves it for not leveling Gaza to the ground.
Michael Yon is a much better choice or Michael Totten.
re: #126 by phoenixgirl
But they keep changing?
Re: Creation, I personally really enjoyed this (http://www.godofwondersvideo.org/chapters.htm)
… I skipped the end part though…
re: #100 by Marge45b
Contrary to popular belief, you actually have options 1 and 2 reversed.
When Muslims conquer an area, they traditionally do not encourage mass conversions to Islam. They prefer to keep the subject population in a state of dhimmitude, which results in significant financial benefit to the Islamic masters.
Over time, the majority of the population (or its descendants) will eventually convert, due to a desire to stop paying the onerous jizya.
re: #132 by Nevergiveup
Damnit, man, I was going to say that! He reads themn off of what is scrawled on the inside of his forehead. You can never tell what the Great Magic Marker will write there.
re: #130 by justin case
There’s impotent stuff to be done…
re: #100 by Marge45b
Disaster planning groups always fail to mention that disaster supplies should include a gun and ammo.
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re: #511 ohpleaseno
I’m interested in seeing the final destination of the prize money.
It will be interesting. Whatever it is, it will surely be a source of wingnut outrage.
None of the num nuts seem to get it that he probably has to by law hand the money over to the Treasury?
They might as well make the Pulitzer an award given at a concession booth at a carnival.
Throw the ball, hit the pin, win a Pulitzer for your girlfriend.
Obama delayer meeting his Afghan generals today. but he has time to shoot hoops and go on failed Olympics tours.
re: #133 by WrathofG-d
thanks for that link wrath, its great.
in my favorits now for my gran kids to watch.
re: #86 by snork
I agree he should have turned it down and said he hasn’t done enough yet to get the Pulitzer. If he knew what he was about that is what he would have done.
re: #83 by LanceKates
wow. they have a very bad case of projection. it’s not Republicans that want to include the Taliban in the govt of Afghanistan
Oh-oh. Throbbing art. Chuckles missed the boat on this one:
http://snappedshot.com/turbo/588-Fraudulent-Art-in-the-White-House.html
re: #140 by orangecrush
Priorities, man. You have to have priorities…
re: #93 by LanceKates
I wish I could come up with a site called “Stupid Evolutionist Quotes”. Once they had a lung fish on tv wiggling around on land and the commentator said “It’s on it’s way to becoming a land animal.”
So, flying fish are turning into flying reptiles, otters are turning into seals, and seals and hippos are turning into whales. Since dinosaurs turned into birds, I guess the hippo has to turn into a seal first.
They found a bat fossil 52 million years old.
It looked like a bat, not a mouse with deformed forelimbs.
semi-rant over/
re: #23 by Nevergiveup
Oh, is THAT the new phrase for “throwing our allies under the bus?”
re: #141 by justin case
my pleasure. I have attempted to find an embeddable one on the net but have had no luck. I would like to make a thread about it…
“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any (Christian), not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.”
St.Thomas Aquinas
I think the way evolution is debated by too many us in the US is a fine example of what the Saint was talking about.
Mark
re: #57 by kiwiviv
Lol how did this group ever get a prize for raping civilians?
1988
THE UNITED NATIONS PEACE-KEEPING FORCES New York, NY, U.S.A.
This Pulitzer committee looks as corrupt and useless as the IOC committee.
re: #142 by orangecrush
I think you’ve confused the Nobel Peace Prize with the Pullitzer Prize, which is given for journalism.
Given the number of Pullitzers that have been awarded for stories that later proved to be fake, I can understand the confusion.
I might have gotten this from the website featured here:
Frog + Kiss = Prince = Fairy Tale
Frog + Billions of Years = Prince = Science
Soon only lawhawk will be the only conservative left after The Great Terror.
More “hate mail”:
Like, grow some skin, lizard. Aren’t you ’tiles supposed to be covered in some sort of horny coating, or something?
re: #134 by lobo91
Thanks.
re: #149 by Rule303
I think Churches always need to grow and make a discernment about dogma that is close to the instructions in the Bible and dogma that more so reflects the literacy level of a past generation of civilization.
re: #122 by LanceKates
And its ironic that the evolutionary chart you had to study didn’t start in the middle. It started at the beginning.
But I understand evolutionists having to divorce themselves from origins, cause evolution is dead upon arrival.
re: #152 by mjazz
More like
Prince + political fad = Science
Oh, shit. It all makes sense now. He thinks he’s Prince Charles.
Obama’s Other Recent Victories
http://ace.mu.nu/
Funny pictures–worth the look
re: #153 by Speranza
Lawhawk I am looking at as a person who drank kool aid. his belief system has been corrupted some at LGF.
I’m surprised there are still any regular posters left there to ban. One would think it is all socks and lefties now.
re: #100 by Marge45b
If they were teaching Christianity the ACLU would be over there like white on rice. Seperation of Church and State!
Will they teach about Aisha?
How ’bout deleting that video that restarts everytime we refresh?
Oop. Just told the admin how to run their blog. Quick, somebody tell me to go piss up a rope.
re: #158 by snork
Charles thinks he’s Prince? But Prince had, you know, a successful musical carreer…
re: #153 by Speranza
I used to take Lawhawk fairly seriously and liked his writings. But after the recent purge of the C2 folks and his staying on there at LGF I can’t assign any real credibility to what he writes. He will reflect the bias that Charles displays. Not something I want to base any part of my life on. Or be educated by.
re: #102 by snork
Getting testy over there, I see.
One day I’d like to see a thread of post after post of resignations, or flouncies.
re: #150 by orangecrush
That was before the Peacekeepers were totally corrupted. I will speak up for those from the past, they did do some good work. As well they were put in harms way to work for peace.
/former peacekeeper
re: #163 by Iron Fist
There was a Prince in the TV series LEXX also. Evil ruler of the planet fire trying to destroy the planet water. If I remember that correctly.
Good series til the writers got all coked up and went off the rails.
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Just spoke to a friend on the phone that brought up another angle. Who has been been more active on the world stage this year in talking about peace ? Obama has been trying to address the middle east, trying to talk to Iran and Korea. Talking may not work, but he has been putting a lot of effort into it compared to many others. Sure, maybe the award was based more on hope of success than actual success, and maybe they just want to support that hope.
This from a guy who did not know that Jordan and Israel has signed a peace treaty?
re: #166 by Knightwatch
I believe you. There are always good people everywhere.
259 Charles
Fri, Oct 9, 2009 9:24:47am replyquote 8downupreport
By the way, I’m not going to let this thread turn into an Obama-bashing session.
Yeah that’s right – when there is Glenn Beck to bash. Stalinist control freak!
re: #168 by Nevergiveup
I’ve always assumed that Avanti is actually Robert Gibbs.
One of Bush’s errors was not to get behind John Bolton.
re: #171 by lobo91
good one
re: #133 by WrathofG-d
ooooh, that’s awesome!
re: #162 by Bunk X
I thought I fixed it so it doesn’t auto start?
Avanti is probably lonely there now with no one to work against. It’s a no growth situation for him with no one to challenge him.
re: #176 by orangecrush
He is almost the resident conservative at this point
Damn I did it again. Pelase delete my commment 173. I did not realize I copied the entire thread.
re: #134 by lobo91
Dhimmitude is probably preferable to the overlords because they get to rape or otherwise acquire whatever female kaffir they want.
re: #29 by Purre
Good theme.
He should get an honorary PHD from Harvard for his beer session.
He should get a gold medal at the Olympics by attendance
He should get an emmy for saying something nice about a play.
He should get a Cannes film festival award for drinking French wine.
re: #66 by LanceKates
Why would they give it to someone who ended Communism…Gorby won it because he tried to preserve it as long as possible.
re: #178 by Speranza
Copy Monster Award.
OMG! I am so humbled. I just found out that I won the Nobel Prize in Literature for the novel I’m thinking about writing.
And it is my dog’s birthday.
re: #147 by Carolina Girl
That one gets the lol-up-ding!
Laugher from 1.0 random Charles thoughts.
Charles exemplifies lousy behavior and has no graciousness. no different then the stuff he is complaining about.
re: #183 by newsjunkie_ky
Hi there! Been a while!
re: #183 by orangecrush
This is the second time it happened to me. I twon’t happen again I promise. I left a message to delete it.
CHAZ was saying he did not want the thread to turn into an Obama bashing thread.
re: #186 by tfc3rid
Yes it has. Did you get the boot or did you, like I, just leave the lunacy?
Maybe he could use the cash for these guys instead of “stimulus” money
OBAMA MONEY
OBAMA MONEY
Random 1.0 Pulitzer thread. Well I agree with this updinged comment.
And in other news I think Wrenchwench has gone metric. Sad to see.
Heh.
http://althouse.blogspot.com/2009/10/riddle-why-didnt-barack-obama-win-nobel.html
Answer: He wrote 2 books.
But Althouse is one of those right-wing nuts. Not allowed to go there, nosiree, Rickey.
re: #188 by newsjunkie_ky
Left… Simply emailed C and said thanks but no thanks.
re: #149 by Rule303
Best to ignore science when it interfere’s with one’s religious dogma.
re: #184 by mjazz
It’s amazing to me that they are citing as their reasons for awarding the prize to this empty suit things he supposedly accomplished post nomination.
Oh wait. He’s only TALKED about them.
In that case, I’d like to bring to the Nobel Committee’s attention the current experiments being conducted in my kitchen sink that I hope will one day lead to a vaccine that will eradicate cancer.
I’ll take my prize for Medicine in small bills, please.
re: #175 by bar
Autoplay regenerated. It’s an evolutional survival technique.
I was thinking about winning the Javelin throw event at the Olympics. I’m waiting for my Gold Medal.
Rush is now going to call the swine flu the rosey o’donnell flu.
re: #167 by orangecrush
There is cocaine in the entertainment industry?/
I also took an aspirin this AM and would like my Noble prize please.
re: #197 by newsjunkie_ky
What a right-wing insaneoid hater… Extremist!!! Extremist!!
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re: #198 by mjazz
I think we need to make an ‘entertainer’ exception to all drug laws. /s
I flubbed that one, didn’t I?
Why didn’t Obama get the Nobel Prize for literature?
re: #192 by tfc3rid
Good for you. Glad to see you here.
re: #179 by mjazz
That’s definitely part of the equation, but the main reason is the amount of revenue the jizya generates.
How else are Islamic societies supposed to finance themselves, after all? It’s not like Muslims are paticularly productive people, for the most part.
Has there ever been a more humorless blog as 1.0?
re: #185 by orangecrush
He did seem to find some of his meds this morning. Either that, or can’t find the pipe.
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re: #628 Sharmuta
I’m very much a reader of A Conflict of Visions and I recommend it to everyone.
I used to like Sowell as a rational conservative and he’s written some very good things. But lately he’s gone just as crazy as almost every other right wing pundit.
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Thomas Sowell hasn’t changed, Chuck. You have.
re: #205 by Pablo Honey
Which only proves the point that Rush made years ago – Liberals have NO sense of humor. They don’t have room for it in their emotional well, since it’s customarily filled to the brim with righteous indignation.
Cue Billy Joel’s “Angry Young Man”
re: #205 by Pablo Honey
Yes it used to make me laugh quite a bit, now mostly a type of repulsion. The jokesters left.
re: #168 by Nevergiveup
F’n OMG ponies. How do these people put their underwear on by themselves? F’n read it again:
WTF???
re: #207 by Bunk X
There in a nutshell is the weakness of Charles. Why his science is bad.
He doesn’t understand his place in the universe when velocity is occurring. He thinks the road is moving and not himself.
re: #205 by Pablo Honey
no they need some of the posters from aos to gee them up. that blog is the tops for wit.
read any steven segal thread and you will die laughing.
I admit the photoshop of St. pancake he did was funny.
Marge Simpson to be on Playboy cover.
http://www.foxnews.com/slideshow/entertainment/2009/10/09/marge-simpson-cover-playboy?test=faces
re: #204 by lobo91
There are lists that compare accomplishments between izlam and other cultures.
For example, arabs have 30 times the population of Greece and the Greeks translate 5 times the number of books.
Shiite. “Voodoo may not work, but my doctor has been putting a lot of effort into it compared to many others.”
And this is the sciency blog.
re: #175 by bar
it has not started automatically on my computer since the first time you noted that you fixed it. so, no problem here.
re: #207 by Bunk X
I guess to Charles, Thomas Sowell is now a White Supremacist. Like all the other white supremacists on the right.
I’m still a proponant of the meth theory of WTF is wrong with Charles.
re: #208 by Carolina Girl
Liberals are robots just like the Borg. Only the Borg are nicer.
re: #211 by orangecrush
It’s kind of like the guy who brags “I never forget a face.”
But how would he know?
re: #218 by Iron Fist
I don’t wanna say much on this but it’s so funny how it’s everyone else’s fault… Everyone else has gone off the reservation…
Sad.
IOW, he criticized Teh Won.
re: #218 by Iron Fist
I’m noticing the whackiness increasing as the morning wears on. The patients over there are in disarray. They don’t know what to say to get their ding fix, because their leader is all over the map this morning.
They’re jonesing for the **precious** ding.
It’s a conspiracy:
The Freemasons must be paying Sowell.
re: #223 by snork
Chuck is the Pied Pooper.
Hmm, I wonder who is gonna win TIME’s Man of the Year award?
I won it a couple years ago, btw.
hey, the parking lot is full!
# 210 snork
The Unicorn Theory of diplomacy, now with extra Skittles.
re: #224 by snork
Sharmutta cribbed her fave word “constrain” from Sowell.lol,pathetic.
re: #212 by justin case
The post/thread AOS did the other night about TIME mag giving BO an A- so far,was hilarious .I lol’d at least 30 times.I think its still on the front page.
re: #211 by orangecrush
Very well put. Look, whether or not you agree with Charles’s recent about face, you have to be a fool to share his take on it. Which is more logical, that Charles is the same as ever but [i]every single person[/i] he used to agree with has changed OR they’re all the same and only [i]Charles[/i] has changed?
It takes a special brand of narcisissm and/or paranoia to believe it was the former.
re: #231 by KGB
Something he has in common with a certain recent Nobel Prize Winner.
re: #231 by KGB
I totally agree with you – I believe that the key word here is
NARCISSISM
Here is the Mayo Clinic’s list of symptoms – check out how many apply:
Narcissistic personality disorder symptoms may include:
Believing that you’re better than others
Fantasizing about power, success and attractiveness
Exaggerating your achievements or talents
Expecting constant praise and admiration
Believing that you’re special
Failing to recognize other people’s emotions and feelings
Expecting others to go along with your ideas and plans
Taking advantage of others
Expressing disdain for those you feel are inferior
Being jealous of others
Believing that others are jealous of you
Trouble keeping healthy relationships
Setting unrealistic goals
Being easily hurt and rejected
Having a fragile self-esteem
Appearing as tough-minded or unemotional
Although some features of narcissistic personality disorder may seem like having confidence or strong self-esteem, it’s not the same. Narcissistic personality disorder crosses the border of healthy confidence and self-esteem into thinking so highly of yourself that you put yourself on a pedestal. In contrast, people who have healthy confidence and self-esteem don’t value themselves more than they value others.
When you have narcissistic personality disorder, you may come across as conceited, boastful or pretentious. You often monopolize conversations. You may belittle or look down on people you perceive as inferior. You may have a sense of entitlement. And when you don’t receive the special treatment to which you feel entitled, you may become very impatient or angry. You may also seek out others you think have the same special talents, power and qualities — people you see as equals. You may insist on having “the best” of everything — the best car, athletic club, medical care or social circles, for instance.
But underneath all this grandiosity often lies a very fragile self-esteem. You have trouble handling anything that may be perceived as criticism. You may have a sense of secret shame and humiliation. And in order to make yourself feel better, you may react with rage or contempt and efforts to belittle the other person to make yourself appear better.
Sorry – the above list is for those who actually have the disorder…not simple narcissists, but still, check out the list and tell me what you think.
re: #231 by KGB
Who did Queeg blame for everything?
re: #235 by snork
The mess boys?
re: #224 by snork
Maybe he can ban himself for racism now?
/sarc
re: #191 by snork
And she actually voted for Chairman Zero.