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Yoko Ono awards Lady Gaga peace prize in Iceland
Yahoo ^ | 10-10-2012 | Omar Valdimarsson

Posted on 10/10/2012 12:06:56 PM PDT by Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage

REYKJAVIK (Reuters) - Pop star Lady Gaga was awarded a peace prize by Yoko Ono in a ceremony in Iceland on Tuesday.

Peace activist Ono said the LennonOno Grant for Peace, established in the name of her late husband, former Beatle John Lennon, rewarded Lady Gaga for combining stardom with activism and changing "the mental map" of the world.

"Lady Gaga is in a position of number one as a singer songwriter," Ono told Reuters Television. "And when you are number one you don't want to risk yourself. And she did."

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1 posted on 10/10/2012 12:07:01 PM PDT by Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage
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Piece of what?


2 posted on 10/10/2012 12:08:08 PM PDT by Gaffer
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I see they have the spelling wrong. It was suppose to read, “Piece Prize”.


3 posted on 10/10/2012 12:08:54 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier who has survived 24 months of Combat deployment.)
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The only thing to make this a full hat-trick of fail is if Bjork sings a tribute song in her honor.


4 posted on 10/10/2012 12:10:21 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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5 posted on 10/10/2012 12:11:35 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: VanDeKoik
The only thing to make this a full hat-trick of fail is if Bjork sings a tribute song in her honor.

Would it be wrong to pray for a city killing meteor?

6 posted on 10/10/2012 12:11:48 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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Why not? This prize has as much credibility as the one 0bama, al Gore, Jimmuh Cartuh and Yasser Arafat got.


7 posted on 10/10/2012 12:12:28 PM PDT by Hunton Peck ("Blasphemy" is to Islam as "swiftboating" is to Democrats: The speaking of truth to liars.)
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To: VanDeKoik

I am sooooo sick of the freak show in the entertainment world that I need constant Maalox.


8 posted on 10/10/2012 12:12:49 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage

Headline: YOKO Gives GAga PP in Iceland.
Obama edged out underneath.


9 posted on 10/10/2012 12:13:00 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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Justin Bieber guest-starred and they all joined hands and vomited onstage.


10 posted on 10/10/2012 12:14:36 PM PDT by Wordkraft (Remember who the Collaborators are.)
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Who is Lady Caca?


11 posted on 10/10/2012 12:15:23 PM PDT by GatĂșn(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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Lady Gaga for combining stardom with activism and changing “the mental map” of the world.

Yeah, the world is a lot stupider thanks to her presence and work.


12 posted on 10/10/2012 12:15:57 PM PDT by all the best (`~!)
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Yoko Gaga Band...


13 posted on 10/10/2012 12:16:25 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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To: ridesthemiles
I am sooooo sick of the freak show in the entertainment world that I need constant Maalox.

You've got Maalox? Can you get more?

14 posted on 10/10/2012 12:17:02 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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Ono wouldn’t even be a footnote in music history had she not married John Lennon. It is fitting that a nobody gave a prize to a nothing.


15 posted on 10/10/2012 12:17:45 PM PDT by Dr. Thorne (Democrats - The Treasonous Pervert Party)
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If someone were to challenge me to invent a more irrelevant, brainless and pointless headline than the one leading this story, I would be hard pressed to improve on the current one.


16 posted on 10/10/2012 12:18:28 PM PDT by Cincinatus (Omnia relinquit servare Rempublicam)
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I think this is the one reason why they were created. ;)


17 posted on 10/10/2012 12:21:18 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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” Ono wouldn’t even be a footnote in music history had she not married John Lennon.”

Yoko Ono minus Lennon = Local Yokel


18 posted on 10/10/2012 12:24:09 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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Sadly, the GaGa Peace Proze holds more weight that the Nobel Prize Obama got....


19 posted on 10/10/2012 12:25:14 PM PDT by GraceG
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Who knew Yoko was still alive?


20 posted on 10/10/2012 12:27:43 PM PDT by bgill
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