Oct
12
Al Gore Wins The Nobel Peace Prize
ByWow. Well deserved, President Gore, and kudos to the Nobel committee for keeping climate change front and center on the world stage.
Here’s a link to an article about it.
Nobel Winner Gore, Scrutiny Hooligans salute you!
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October 12th, 2007 at 1:14 pm
Trivia question for the day:
Yesterday, Al Gore became only the second person ever to win an Academy Award and a Nobel Prize. Who was the first?
(If you’ve heard this tidbit on the news today, or you just went to Google or Wikipedia after seeing the question, maybe you could hold off answering until some others have tried.)
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October 12th, 2007 at 4:08 pm
the backlash from the far rightwing freepers will be fun to watch.
heads are exploding as i type this…
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October 12th, 2007 at 5:17 pm
Me heart Al Gore!!!!
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October 12th, 2007 at 8:29 pm
Any day now, any day now, I shall be released …
Al Gore will yield to popular demand and declare his candidacy before Nov. 2.
As president he will suffer from the Bush madness in Iraq and begin to shift the U.S to the energy path he has advocated since the 80s.
Rock on.
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October 12th, 2007 at 8:38 pm
Okay, as if anyone cared: it was George Bernard Shaw, who won the 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature and the 1938 “Best Adapted Screenplay” award for “Pygmalion.”
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October 12th, 2007 at 9:13 pm
I cared, Doug.
Frankly, I’m surprised that Gordon and Uptown Ruler didn’t chime in with the answer first! (I had to look it up, so I stayed out of it.)
I noticed that most of the punditry I’ve seen this morning and this evening were all wondering aloud the same thing – will Al Gore run for President? The prospect of this is really making some people go apey, and I’ll confess to keeping my fingers crossed while abandoning all hope and preparing to hold my nose while casting my vote for someone I don’t like and who I feel is completely unqualified to babysit my fucking cat let alone run a country… but I don’t think that 2008 is good for him.
If even a fraction of what Gore predicted would happen by 2010 during An Inconvenient Truth actually does come to fruition, he’d be in a great position to come forward and say “Okay, I told you this would happen; now let’s fix this.”
2012. Mark my words.
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October 13th, 2007 at 12:37 pm
Thanks Arratik. That makes it all worthwhile.
And I’m pretty sure Mike Gravel is qualified to babysit your cat. Joe Biden I’m not so sure about.
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