Gore, Gorbachev, Arafat
What do Al Gore, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Yasser Arafat now all have in common?
They've all won the Nobel Peace Prize, of course!
Congratulations, Norway, on totally committing to being retarded. Thank you for equating the religion of environmentalism with the civil rights breakthroughs of Martin Luther King, Jr., Mother Teresa, and Nelson Mandela. Or maybe that's the point: with the energy generated from their grave spinning action (Mandela isn't dead yet, I want to make that perfectly clear in case you don't understand metaphors), we can power the entire world without fossil fuel!
And to think that I use your browser! Enjoy your lutefisk, you viking tools.
Comments
Jonny - 10-12-07 9:42 am
He's giving half of his $1.5 million prize to charity, the other half he's using to pay this winter's gas bill. Zing!
dreadhead - 10-12-07 10:48 am
For some reason this article does make me want to buy an Imperial International Cincinnati Reds Neon Clock!
David - 10-12-07 1:43 pm
He deserves some credit for being a lightning rod. But it's clear that this is a jab at Bush as well, and it's impossible to say what would have happened if Gore had been declared president. Anyway, peace is politics.
Sithlet - 10-12-07 2:26 pm
I'm sad you mentioned Opera at the end, because that removes my witty and original comment. Also, please add some more random and redundant comments with callback links. Thanks.
mgroves - 10-13-07 4:00 pm
Here's a brief list of who was snubbed for a peace prize:
Morgan Tsvangirai, Arthur Mutambara
Father Nguyen Van Ly
Wajeha al-Huwaider and Fawzia al-Uyyouni
Álvaro Uribe
Garry Kasparov
The people of Iraq
Viktor Yushchenko and Mikheil Saakashvili
Tony Blair, Bertie Ahern and the voters of Northern Ireland
Chinese bloggers
Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Ayman Nour
Lebanese citizens who've been assassinated since 2005 (Walid Eido, Pierre Gemayel, etc)
Reverend Phillip Buck, Pastor Chun Ki Won
I hereby award each of them a Groves Peace Prize, for their efforts in fighting against *actual* threats to freedom, life, and civil rights.
mgroves - 10-13-07 4:02 pm
(I pulled those all from a WSJ article, by the way):
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119223307015357948.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Jonny - 10-14-07 1:05 pm
It's a subjective award, Matt. And people who believe in unsubstantiated facts (i.e. God) should not throw stones at global warming alarmists.
mgroves - 10-14-07 9:21 pm
I'm just picturing some of the people listed above, dirty, beaten, battered, traumatized, bloody, and tired, with this committee just walking right past them and handing an award (with badly needed prize money and publicity that can do some real good in their hands) to a guy sitting in his air conditioned mansion eating Kashi and watching CurrentTV.
It's a ridiculous (some would say 'infuriating') picture, so please forgive my deluded God-believing self from throwing a pebble.
Sithlet - 10-15-07 12:47 pm
Also, mgroves was passed over for the award. But that's understandable seeing all the hate in this thread.
mgroves - 10-15-07 12:51 pm
mgroves the website as a whole you mean. MGroves the person (myself) was offered the award for my efforts in boycotting Comedy Central's bowing to fascist jihadism, but I graciously turned it down because Heroes was on that night.
mgroves - 5-12-08 11:08 am
Update: http://www.therazor.org/?p=1110
Jonny - 5-12-08 4:53 pm
You are putting a lot of clout on this prize even though it's surely the Golden Globe of the intellectual community.
mgroves - 5-12-08 9:25 pm
I will stop railing about it when it becomes the Kids' Choice Awards of the intellectual community.