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NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
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15 Oct 2009 Thu 10:33 pm |
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...okay, what did Obama do to deserve this price?
He reduced high tensions that were felt worldwide. After Bush was kicked out of office, the current administration in the U.S. has opened talks again with a lot of nations that they didn´t talk to before. Talking is always a first step to peace. Yes, there are still troops active world-wide, but it´s totally not logical to expect somebody to retreat all troops in one day. This is not possible, and not constructive. Second, the whole laser high tech satelite anti-rocket shield isn´t an issue anymore, since Obama is president. Third, he has inspired a lot of people that you can fight the odds, and you can get what you want if you go for it, struggle for it.
He didn´t get the price for nothing. You can disagree with the reasons, but you cannot say that the committee just liked the sound of the name Obama and give the price for that reason.
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16 Oct 2009 Fri 06:52 pm |
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That Obama hardly had time to deserve a peace prize in the Office is correct, but not the main concern. The main concern is that Nobel Prize, as a Western institution, may be a total farce.
So, what else may be rotten in the Western Kingdom?
Perhaps dear Alpha, you should say, Was is NOT rotten  in the Western Kingdom (of which there is not King?)
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24 Oct 2009 Sat 05:13 pm |
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John was in the fertilized egg business. He had several hundred young layers (hens), called ´pullets,´ and ten roosters to fertilize the eggs.
He kept records, and any rooster not performing went into the soup pot and was replaced.
This took a lot of time, so he bought some tiny bells and attached them to his roosters.
Each bell had a different tone, so he could tell from a distance, which rooster was performing.
Now, he could sit on the porch and fill out an efficiency report by just listening to the bells.
John´s favorite rooster, old Butch, was a very fine specimen, but this morning he noticed old Butch´s bell hadn´t rung at all!
When he went to investigate, he saw the other roosters were busy chasing pullets, bells-a-ringing, but the pullets, hearing the roosters coming, could run for cover.
To John´s amazement, old Butch had his bell in his beak, so it couldn´t ring. He´d sneak up on a pullet, do his job and walk on to the next one.
John was so proud of old Butch, he entered him in the Renfrew County Fair and he became an overnight sensation among the judges.
The result was the judges not only awarded old Butch the No Bell Piece Prize but they also awarded him the Pulletsurprise as well.
Clearly old Butch was a politician in the making.
Who else but a politician could figure out how to win two of the most highly coveted awards on our planet by being the best at sneaking up on the populace and screwing them when they weren´t paying attention.
Watch prize winners carefully, the bells are not always audible.
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