because he didn't kiss the azz of an org that gave vile wretched scumbags like 0bama and arafatRAT their most precious??? his stock just went up
Bob knows they’re full of horse manure but is polite enough not to say so.
because he didn't kiss the azz of an org that gave vile wretched scumbags like 0bama and arafatRAT their most precious??? his stock just went up
A funny Dylan story:
He sometimes invests in real estate. Not to live there, but simply as a form of speculation.
It was well before a concert somewhere, in a pretty black neighborhood on a rainy day.
He was on foot and not dressed fancy, just walking along checking out buildings and houses.
This was a place where it’s unusual to see white pedestrians —they called the cops on him, as it seemed he was casing houses.
Cop was much younger, you’ll agree I think that a Martian’s first guess as to his job would not be “rock star” —he’s pretty ugly.
Cop starts interrogating him, why u here, musician, huh? Where is your gig? He says the name of this ENORMOUS stadium, or something. She comes back, “Oh! So you’re a HUUUUGE star, huh..”
He says, “Well....yeah some people have told me that...”
He doesn’t pull that whole, DO YOU FREAKING KNOW WHO I AM??!?! thing, not at all. He probably relished being taken for a “normal person”, right?
So she cuffs him up, puts him in the squad, yeah arrests him, takes him to the station
THE SHIFT COMMANDER ALMOST HAS A HEART ATTACK..!!
Yeah, that WHOLE time he didn’t cap an attitude AT ALL.
You know with 99% of people I think refusing the award would be an act of arrogance but in his case I think it’s an act of MODESTY.
Dylan has a long history of unusual responses to awards.
http://www.vulture.com/2016/10/bob-dylan-award-history-nobel.html
Good for Dylan. The Nobel society lost all credibility when it gave in to Obama.
No Shi’ite, Norsk!
He’s already got one, you see.....
Although this piece I wrote is specifically about the “Peace” Prize, I think it also is apropos in this case, too.
The Prize’s Price - ©2016 by Trevor Patrick
Someone recently asked
about the Nobel Peace Prize-
that if I ever won it myself,
what such an ‘honour’ would mean to me?
My mind immediately went
to Le Duc Tho,
who, along with Henry Kissinger,
was awarded it in 1973-
Well, history records,
that Tho turned down this so-called ‘peace’ prize,
due to the inconvenient fact
that there was no actual peace!
Maybe even back then,
he was ahead of the curve,
knowing that ‘peace’ is a pretty lie,
that only exists in a fairy-tale world.
Then, the awkward spectacle in 1994:
A carnival sideshow of forked-tongue speech,
and behind their backs,
you could see everyone’s fingers crossed-
the translators stumbling over the recurrent phrase:
‘...that we’ve achieved whatever it is we’ve achieved’
It was agonisingly obvious,
we were watching history’s most cynical photo-op.
Ah, but we weren’t done yet-
disingenuous photo-ops were just the start!
The following years showed,
there was so much further to go in that direction:
Like in 2009,
when, apparently the sole criterion
became the mere expedient
of getting yourself elected!
And all of a sudden,
the last scales fell away,
revealing a popularity contest
with a fancy name-
of which the MILDEST criticism
you can throw against it
is that it’s all so
transparently shallow and myopic...
Never mind the fact,
that it’s now COMPLETELY discredited,
and has become even less meaningful
than ‘team effort’ ribbons
or participation ‘trophies’.
Even worse than this,
‘Peace’ has now become officially Orwellian-
the: ‘Yeah, TOO quiet!’ cliche
warning that the hammer’s about to fall again-
-and the magic moment
when everyone stands around reloading,
or stuffing all the ballot boxes,
while the rubes think they’re actually ‘voting’.
But I WAS asked a fair question:
‘Well, what if YOU won the Peace Nobel?’
After all, the precedent’s now been set:
you can get it for doing nothing at all.
If that really IS an acceptable criterion,
then ABSOLUTELY, I am just as qualified,
yet, stupid schlub that I am,
I know I’d also turn it down.
And I’d do it for the same reason
that was offered in 1973-
all the planet’s little wars slowly joining hands,
is a Hell of a long way from ‘peace’.
Indeed, I honestly believe
there are few humans on this planet,
who actually deserve that prize-
at least in the form that Nobel intended...
So, after I turned it down,
as I think any sane person should,
towards far more deserving winners,
would I then offer my suggestions.
I’d say:
Give it to the new day sunrise:
each one restores your hope,
and dries your tears.
I’d say:
Give it to the beauty of a single minute:
more than a thousand mortals could achieve
in a hundred years.
I’d say:
Give it to the trees that old men plant,
under whose shade they know
they’ll never sit.
I’d say:
Give it to the snowflakes that gently fall
on the day that winter
starts closing in.
I’d say:
Give it to all the animals,
who, for hundreds of generations
have constantly and selflessly enriched our lives,
and I’d say:
In the end,
give it to the passage of years-
because even the mightiest empires
are powerless against time.
Hey Nobel!
You gave a frick’n peace prize to Barack Hussien O, just months into office! You morons see a lot of peace braking out anywhere?
Perhaps Bob is a more discerning individual than your entire committee.
What did they expect him to do?
Burst into tears of faux shock and awe, like a new Miss America?
The pump don’t work cause the vandal took the handle
Bob knows getting the award is just a bunch of hooey.
CS Lewis pointed out that pride is a competitive vice. The surest way to know you are too proud is if you are always resenting others for being proud.
Spring indeed!
God help us.
"Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" - Eric Clapton & Band du Lac
johnny’s in the basement mixing up the medicine
The Nobel Prize Committee for Peace already made itself an historical laughing stock by choosing Yasir Arafat and Barack Obama for “peace” prizes. Bobby, a Jewish boy from The Range, must be smart enough to know these arrogant clowns are trying to put him in with very bad company.
I hope that he never answers them and that doesn’t show up. That would be the most polite thing to do if he doesn’t want to speak truth to them.
If Bobby does speak or write, he should tell it like it is with regard to the absurdity of giving prizes to a mega mass murdering terrorist and a president who did nothing for peace and everything to advance jihadists globally. The Nobel power structure must have known ahead exactly that Jihad lovers and Jihad ancillaries were the ones to boost Obama meteorically from obscurity and installed into the U.S. presidency in support of Yasir Arafat’s degenerate evil. Bobby, don’t take the prize.
LOL! It took a while but I actually developed a taste for much of his music - now I have a modicum of respect.
Nobel academy member calls Bob Dylan’s silence ‘arrogant’