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Should Al Gore be stripped of Nobel Prize? Trump & Inhofe

Feb 25, 2010 1:18AM PST

I think so. Maybe then they could give posthumously to the woman who helped save all those children from the Nazis, the one who should have received it at the time. Hey, maybe Al Gore could end up with some jail time for fraud? Subversive activities? Nah, that would be too perfect, LOL.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,587353,00.html
SEN. JAMES INHOFE R-OKLA.: Well, we have not heard anything from Al Gore, Neil. And I don?t anticipate that we will, but we would like to have him come, hold a hearing in Environment and Public Works.
Every assertion that he made in his science fiction movie has now been disproven, sea level rising, Himalayas melting and all this stuff. The significant thing right now, though, is the hearing that we had this morning, because we have the minority report that we put together which shows that climate-gate, fixing the science, cooking the science, actually took place.
We have it all documented. And people are being investigated right now. The inspector general for the EPA, for NASA, for NOAA, for all these different groups to do their own investigation. Then we send that to the Justice Department. That?s happening, by the way, in the U.K... found that violations... is a criminal offense. Unfortunately, in Great Britain, the statute of limitations has already run. Well, that could be the case here, in which case it would be a criminal violation.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/15/donald-trump-points-to-sn_n_462834.html
Donald Trump wants the Nobel Committee to strip former Vice President Al Gore of his Nobel Peace Prize.

The New York Post reports that the billionaire told a country club crowd of 500,:
"With the coldest winter ever recorded, with snow setting record levels up and down the coast, the Nobel committee should take the Nobel Prize back from Al Gore."..."Gore wants us to clean up our factories... when China and other countries couldn't care less... China, Japan and India are laughing at America's stupidity."

http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/global_cooling_7njz5ZtpFblMuF5Vf7LJmN
Donald Trump is not a big believer in global warming. "With the coldest winter ever recorded, with snow setting record levels up and down the coast, the Nobel committee should take the Nobel Prize back from Al Gore," the tycoon told members of his Trump National Golf Club in Westchester in a recent speech. "Gore wants us to clean up our factories and plants in order to protect us from global warming, when China and other countries couldn't care less. It would make us totally noncompetitive in the manufacturing world, and China, Japan and India are laughing at America's stupidity." The crowd of 500 stood up and cheered.

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That's a mind meme that's easily disproved.
Mar 19, 2010 1:47PM PDT

Okay, disprove it.

I have to say I find your post difficult to follow, Seems a bit like incoherent rambling.

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Well...
Mar 19, 2010 2:49PM PDT

Ronny doubled the debt and so did W. Isn't it about time to admit that the Starve-The-Beasters are out to bankrupt this country? Is that so easy to miss? Kill SS and Medicare by bankruptcy? That much at least must be clear. That, can not be in dispute by now. And I'm not totally averse to the idea that people without pressure on them, likely won't work as hard as otherwise. And SOMEBODY has to clean the toilets. FAST AND EFFICENTLY! And then again, some sit by the pool, sipping margaritas, waiting on the dividends check. That's the way it is. It's just a matter of degree and sustainability. Conservatism, you might say. Don't you agree?

I know, it's a train wreak. Game of chicken. I wonder though if y'all realize how many of us leftists are all for drastically cutting spending? Just name it! If it's not producing a positive output for the country... then we, you and me, are not against cutting it! Right? See what I mean?

Heck, Obama himself tried to pass a commission to figure out just this stuff, and it was stomped on by the Reps. At some dang point it has to come cleat that we can not keep paying interest to the very self same people who didn't pay enough in taxes in the first dang place and caused this abomination of a debt in the first place.

You think I love and forgive the Dems? I don't.

If you're going to do the "I don't understand" thing now... Well I just can't help you. I think it's a disingenuous tactic.

Anyway, I'm more than sated here and don't need any more. (As Yogi Berra might have said.)

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As far as agreement
Mar 19, 2010 3:20PM PDT

Let's just take Matthew Lesko's book, start on page one, and knock down everything that doesn't show a return. Take each and every item and see.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2M7LihKK3cg&feature=related

The way I look at it, if you're not with me on this you are a Starve The Beaster. When did it become the patriotic thing, to want the government to fail?

Did you notice that this is the anniversary of W's Shock N' Awe? Do you need another link to Baghdad year zero: ?
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2004/09/0080197

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Iraq was possibly the most disarmed country in the history
Mar 19, 2010 3:59PM PDT

of the whole wide wide world. Yet we were told that our soldiers, staging in Kuwait, were going to gassed by unmanned crop-dusters with anthrax and mustard gas. Proud? At least it wasn't for oil. Much.

Happy anniversary. (you takers. you non workers.)

I'm sick now.

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Iraq was possibly the most disarmed country in the history
Mar 19, 2010 11:02PM PDT
of the whole wide wide world. Hahahaha. Yeah, sure.

Enough, okay?
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How many of us leftists are all for drastically cutting...
Mar 19, 2010 11:05PM PDT
spending? I don't know. Two or three? None?


If you're going to do the "I don't understand" thing now... Well I just can't help you. I think it's a disingenuous tactic.
Sorry, I don't speak gibberish. It's not a "tactic."

Bye bye.
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Feed The Beast?
Mar 19, 2010 11:40PM PDT

Is that preferable? How much? More and more? If you give your teen in college a credit or debit card with a limit on it, are you to blame if they hit the limit sooner than they should have and then expect yet more funds to be deposited to support their excess? Of course not. The solution? Add nothing to the credit limit or debit account till the next period you were intending to. Yes, it means your child may end up eating spaghetti, or Ramen noodles instead of pizza every night for awhile. How else is he to learn how to budget properly? You might object to "Starve the Beast" but it's preferable, with a better chance of eventual success than "Feed the Beast".

As for "reality based communities" which oppose unilateral policies, maybe it's time they took a reality based view at Obama's unilateral approach to policy.

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Hey, James!
Mar 20, 2010 10:42AM PDT

Maybe if I drop the politics I can keep some of the skin on my ankles around here.

It was on your advice that I never installed a toilet paper roller in the bathroom. Happy I'm still using the orbital fold. See? I take a good idea where I can get it. Thanks, bud. Last I remember you had that terrible oozing sunburn on your leg that you got on the boat. I bet you've still got scars. Take care.

OK. Now you can let the dog back out.

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LOL on the TP
Mar 20, 2010 7:57PM PDT
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A lot of us...
Feb 26, 2010 8:00AM PST

A lot of us here have read Science Fiction. I've been watching this thread. I'd bet you read Make Room! Make Room" (Solyent Green).

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Hi ya Jay!
Feb 26, 2010 8:21AM PST

Long time! I remember YOU'RE a reader. Have you read any of the berserker stuff? SABERHAGEN? Or Olaf Stapledon? Highly recommended. Happy Probably online for free if you knew where to look.

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I find this debate a bit ironic
Feb 26, 2010 4:33AM PST

Many foes of Al Gore are the same people who express the sentiment that they really don't care about the opinions of non-us citizens of the world. Yet this debate is about whether these foreign folks, who think enough of Al Gore to give him a prestigious (but non-american) honor, should somehow be shamed by US opinion into taking their award back.

Well, if y'all don't care what these foreigners think, then why should you be so concerned about their opinion when it comes to handing out awards?

I know... let's get some conservative legislator to submit a resolution that says Al Gore's Peace Prize doesn't count ! Yup, that will show him !

Sheesh.

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It's all about being discredited....
Feb 26, 2010 5:05AM PST

...when you've committed or been engaged in perpetrating a fraud, even if you were the patsy or bagman which might apply in Al Gore's case. The second consideration however is if Al Gore fell for the scam, perhaps we dodged a bullet 9-10 years ago when he failed to become President. Gullibility does not suit the Presidency.

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Has he been found guilty of fraud?
Feb 26, 2010 5:43AM PST

If so, I agree, hang him!

Mark

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Wow...
Feb 26, 2010 5:40AM PST

we've gone through the Looking Glass again!

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Actually I don't give a crap if they take his award back.
Feb 26, 2010 5:44AM PST

it has been shown to be worthless several times. At this pint it's a joke.

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(NT) You're so vain I guess you thought my post was about you^_^
Feb 26, 2010 11:39PM PST
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Uhhh..... no
Feb 27, 2010 12:41AM PST

wrong again!

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Whether he deserves an award or not, I don't see what
Feb 26, 2010 6:16AM PST

his GW initiative has to do with peace. I thought that was meant more for stopping or preventing some kind of conflict...unless it's seen as an opportunity for bringing the world together for a common cause with peace being a possible unintended benefit. Perhaps the category that better fits would be one of speculative scientific achievement?

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I think it was neant as a slap against Bush...
Feb 26, 2010 6:26AM PST

just as the Obama award was.

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Did they give an explanation?
Feb 26, 2010 6:38AM PST

I don't recall. If so, then maybe their reasoning is there. I can't see giving an award and not saying why.

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Al Gore, IPCC, 2007 Nobel Peace Prize
Feb 27, 2010 12:01AM PST

Here's the whole public speech about why Al Gore and IPCC were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. IPCC is the 10 person group set up by the UN which fuels the Global Warming fervor, even using false data to accomplish it's goal. Basically they need to "prove" climate change to justify their continued existence. Based on climate change the Global Warmers want "carbon tax" and probably benefit a great degree from it. Likely a backdoor for the UN to pass taxes on various parts of the world, of course those considered the biggest polluters, which would be the developed countries.


http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2007/press.html

The Nobel Peace Prize for 2007

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the 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.

Indications of changes in the earth's future climate must be treated with the utmost seriousness, and with the precautionary principle uppermost in our minds. Extensive climate changes may alter and threaten the living conditions of much of mankind. They may induce large-scale migration and lead to greater competition for the earth's resources. Such changes will place particularly heavy burdens on the world's most vulnerable countries. There may be increased danger of violent conflicts and wars, within and between states.

Through the scientific reports it has issued over the past two decades, the IPCC has created an ever-broader informed consensus about the connection between human activities and global warming. Thousands of scientists and officials from over one hundred countries have collaborated to achieve greater certainty as to the scale of the warming. Whereas in the 1980s global warming seemed to be merely an interesting hypothesis, the 1990s produced firmer evidence in its support. In the last few years, the connections have become even clearer and the consequences still more apparent.

Al Gore has for a long time been one of the world's leading environmentalist politicians. He became aware at an early stage of the climatic challenges the world is facing. His strong commitment, reflected in political activity, lectures, films and books, has strengthened the struggle against climate change. He is probably the single individual who has done most to create greater worldwide understanding of the measures that need to be adopted.

By awarding the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 to the IPCC and Al Gore, the Norwegian Nobel Committee is seeking to contribute to a sharper focus on the processes and decisions that appear to be necessary to protect the world?s future climate, and thereby to reduce the threat to the security of mankind. Action is necessary now, before climate change moves beyond man?s control.

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Re: IPCC
Feb 26, 2010 9:20PM PST
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LOL on the appointees
Feb 26, 2010 10:52PM PST

We know THAT won't happen.

However there is still strong concern about all this. From that article and what the head of IPCC said, it seems the game is still on, the bias is still held, and a new path to save the global warmers is to be initiated.

In a letter to IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri, Miliband says: "Mistakes such as the IPCC statements on Himalayan glaciers are inevitably damaging. This is a matter of concern because the reliability and good name of the IPCC is vital to ensuring all countries recognise the dangers of climate change."

Miliband said the IPCC needed to thoroughly review its procedures and the way it responded to media criticism. It should also find a way to correct errors and to minimise future problems, particularly with reports drawn from grey literature.

"Clearly this is only the outline of a strategy," the letter says. "There is a great deal of work to do in turning it into a detailed plan for change. The British government is happy to assist you in that process."


They've screwed so royally on this the entire IPCC should be disbanded by the UN. Of course I'd love to see the UN disbanded too, but that's another topic, maybe.

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IPCC headed up by 10 people.
Feb 26, 2010 11:48PM PST

I found 8 of them as heads of 3 working groups. Missing two.

Ottmar Edenhofer, Youba Sokona and Ramon Pichs. Patrick Matschoss

Dr. Chris Field of the United States and Dr. Vicente Barros of Argentina.

Dr. Thomas Stocker of Switzerland and Dr. Dahe Qin of China


http://www.ipcc-wg2.gov/
http://www.ipcc-wg1.unibe.ch/
http://www.ipcc-wg3.de/organization-and-tsu/the-ipcc-working-group-iii
http://www.ipcc-wg3.de/organization-and-tsu/organization-and-tsu-1
http://www.pik-potsdam.de/members/edenh
http://ipcc-wg2.gov/organization/

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I found the other two
Feb 27, 2010 12:34AM PST
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Re: IPCC
Mar 20, 2010 10:52PM PDT
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To: JP Bill re. Good one....video clip very interesting
Apr 3, 2010 6:20AM PDT

"depth"??? OK. ??? Good software, CNET. not

I just prefer my reality straight up. I don't need forgiving.
How much crap is too much crap? I'm sick to death of these people. We can't do better? I don't think so. Maybe THEY can't. Lies lies lies and lies. Good luck with that.

"... we will surely hang seperatly."