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That's about as much sense the Nobel "Peace" Prize makes
Helmet tip to Deb over at Debra's Random Thoughts

To further illustrate what a joke the Nobel Prize has become (other than the posting below), take a gander at the following;

From The Independent (Great Britain), here are a few of the front runners in this years selection;

Al Gore
Since losing the presidential election to George Bush in 2000, Al Gore has become an ardent climate change campaigner. An Inconvenient Truth, his rebuke to climate-change deniers, has earned him a Peace Prize nomination, thanks to Norwegian politicians Boerge Brende and Heidi Soerensen. (A political has-been whose only real claim to fame is the inconvenient truth that his movie is a fraud.... and that he's the darling of gullible Scandinavian socialists everywhere.)

Oprah Winfrey
The US chat show host's fans have been petitioning to have her nominated for her philanthropic work. She is believed to be among the Nobel nominees, having opened the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy in South Africa for bright girls who are from underprivileged backgrounds. (What "philanthropic work" that's befitting a Nobel Peace Prize? A microscopic portion of her unbelievably vast fortune spent on a single school a few thousand miles away from girls that fall into the same category... and right in Oprah's own backyard. But hey, it's her money. She can spend it any way she wants. But like I said... a Nobel Peace Prize?)

Irena Sendler
Now 96, the Polish Catholic smuggled 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw ghetto between 1942 and 1943 and set up adoptions by Polish families. She buried lists of the children's names so they could be reunited. Badly beaten by the Gestapo, she escaped and survived the war in hiding. (Someone who actually DID SOMETHING!!?? And a CATHOLIC to boot!!?? Not a chance in hell.)

Evo Morales
A nomination that will no doubt raise eyebrows in the White House is that of the anti-US Bolivian leader. Bolivia's first indigenous head of state since the Spanish conquest, his promises of a better deal for ordinary Bolivians and his willingness to confront the US has won him admirers. (An anti-American. That in itself gives him an additional 10 bonus points. I'm still trying to figure out what he did to promote world peace... other than blaming America for everything.)

Martti Ahtisaari
The former Finnish prime minister has been regularly nominated for the peace prize. His work in Namibia, the former Yugoslavia, Northern Ireland and most recently in Indonesia has made him one of the world's most successful peace negotiators. He was one of the favourites to win in 2005. (Other than the fame that comes from being a citizen of a country where people get their names by throwing Scrabble pieces against the wall, here's another individual that actually did something. And as we can all tell now, the pre-selection hype was just that... hype. Gore had it from the git-go.)

By the way, did Gore travel to Stockholm by dog-sled to get his check? Oops... silly me. He has a private jet. So much for all breast thumping and hand wringing over global warming, huh?