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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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To: Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage
Yoko Ono.

Ya gotta love she's famous for nothing more than bangin' John Lennon..

21 posted on 10/10/2012 12:36:27 PM PDT by Fedupwithit ("Live Free or Die: Death is not the worst of evils" - Gen. John Stark)
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To: Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage

Irrelevant people, you don’t care about... congratuating one another on their equivalent worthlessness!


22 posted on 10/10/2012 12:41:17 PM PDT by SMARTY ("The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. "Henri Frederic Amiel)
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To: Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage

She and Obama are equally deserving......


23 posted on 10/10/2012 12:42:51 PM PDT by G Larry (Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
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To: G Larry

Why? Did she give Yoko a “piece”? ;^)


24 posted on 10/10/2012 12:55:44 PM PDT by Tuanedge (Warriors victorious in a hundred battles, flee when a tiger enters their tent.)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Yoko Ono minus Lennon = Local Yokel

Lennon minus Yoko Ono=Another 40 years of Beatles records.


25 posted on 10/10/2012 12:59:34 PM PDT by yawningotter
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To: yawningotter

Quite possible.


26 posted on 10/10/2012 1:04:48 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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To: Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage
And between the two of them there's not a microgram of talent to be found.
27 posted on 10/10/2012 1:15:47 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Ambassador Stevens Is Dead And The Chevy Volt Is Alive)
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To: Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage

At least they didn’t give the prize to Big Moo.


28 posted on 10/10/2012 1:39:45 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Obamaspeak: An army of pompous phrases marching across the landscape in search of an idea.)
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To: Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage

Who is this Lady Ma Ca Ca?


29 posted on 10/10/2012 1:42:54 PM PDT by McBuff
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