Posted on 10/13/2012 9:39:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It's been a boon-doggle since the beginning, but it's foundation money, and my taxes aren't supporting it, so let them pour water into acid. It's a teachable moment.
/johnny
Not so much. However bad things are now with the EU, the organizations which preceeded it deserve a lot of credit for keeping Europe halfway civilized in the years after WWII. I certainly would have given them the awared 40 or 50 years ago if it had been mine to give. As prize winners go, this year's isn't awful (as some have been down through the years). A bit comical, certainly, given all their recent problems, but not a disaster or a disgrace.
My favorite Nobel Peace Prize “winners” to laugh at are Obama, algore, Carter, and Arafat. There are many others that bring guffaws out of me, especially after researching exactly what they did, and how “effective” they were. For many their claim to fame is solely how much they advanced Communism.
There is another broad group to laugh at: those with “good intentions” ... like those who were involved in formulating the “Locarno Treaty” (England promised to protect France from German invasion, and Germany signed on to that) and the Kellogg-Briand Treaty (signatory states promised not to use war to resolve “disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them”.) LOL ... those really worked out. Also the many prizes given to the League of Nations organizers ... really great organization.
They had a good run in the (early) ‘60s, but somewhere around 1990, when Gorbachev was given the “prize” and Reagan was shunned, it became a true joke, and I stopped having any respect for their opinion of what was “peaceful” activity and effectiveness.
They sure have been tickling my funny bone in recent years.
When they gave an unknown, Obama, The Peace Prize for doing nothing, I realized then that it was worth nothing, absolutely nothing.
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