Comments on: It’s a Great Day for Noblesse Oblige. And Another Reason To Bash Al Gore

By: krit

krit — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 05:05:23 +0000

DLS- Where was the precedent for SCOTUS taking authority away from the state court? Sounds like activist judges to me. BTW, the 5-4 decision broke down along partisan lines, with the usual suspects voting for Bush.

By: Jim Satterfield

Jim Satterfield — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 00:33:39 +0000

If I thought that DLS knew one thing about the science or was willing to learn anything about it from anyone other than those who work for self-interested corporations and those who agree with them his opinion might count on the subject of global warming. But he doesn’t and he isn’t so it doesn’t.

By: DLS

DLS — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 22:05:40 +0000

I thought he was cheated out of the recount by a politicized Supreme Court.

No, but he was almost given what he wanted by the Florida court, which many saw as politicized.

By: krit

krit — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 21:45:12 +0000

DLS- I thought Gore deserved the presidency back in 2000, which is why I voted for him. I thought he was cheated out of the recount by a politicized Supreme Court.

Winning the Nobel Prize DOES elevate him in my eyes, because unlike you, I think it means a lot, but I would vote for him tomorrow if he were exactly who he was in 2000. The seven years of division and failed policies under W, have only validated that decision for me. Gore was right about the environment, the future of the internet and the war. I would vote for him because he’s a smart man who makes decisions based on facts and reason- and not on his faith and gut.

He wasn’t a good campaigner-because he was always more of a policy wonk. So, I doubt he’ll run- even if the Dems try to draft him.

By: DLS

DLS — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 20:14:21 +0000

In fact, the prize has been tainted for many years. But for those who don’t want to reason, it may not be worth trying to press the issue. Just don’t be so foolish as to believe that this prize in any way makes Gore more deserving of the US Presidency.

By: krit

krit — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 20:02:54 +0000

Doma- you know perfectly well Democrats, especially international figures like Al Gore, are really the “phony” Americans- the ones with a Marxist agenda. And no prize once its been won by one of them is worth a slug of warm spit!

By: domajot

domajot — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 19:57:58 +0000

Shaun.
Yours is the last word on the subject in my book

By: Shaun Mullen

Shaun Mullen — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 19:43:40 +0000

DLS:

You and Michelle Malkin have been appointed to co-chair a committee to exhume the body of that liberal-leftie Mother Teresa so that her Nobel Peace Prize medal can we wrested from her cold fingers and returned to Sweden for future use by a more worthy recipient. Please let us know how it goes.

By: DLS

DLS — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 19:43:21 +0000

Why is global warming a political phenomena instead of a scientific one?

The objectives and motives as well as the arguments have been political far more than they have been scientific.

By: DLS

DLS — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 19:42:21 +0000

In the US, when an American wins a prize, some find that an apt occasion to display rancour and sour grapes.

Talk about anti-Americanism!

You would be dishonest if you were to do that.

By: domajot

domajot — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 19:13:57 +0000

It’s amaxing!

An American won a prize.

In some countries, the whole nation celebrates when a sports team or an individual athlete wins a prize.

In the US, when an American wins a prize, some find that an apt occasion to display rancour and sour grapes.

Talk about anti-Americanism!
It’s evident right here,

By: krit

krit — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:49:07 +0000

DLS-Why is global warming a political phenomena instead of a scientific one? It is seen here that way in this country because of global warming deniers and the suppression by the Bush administration of government scientists’ opinions who agreed with worldwide consensus. Alternate research bought and paid for by the oil companies purposely created doubt which fed the deniers- who were suspicious that the whole thing was some kind of liberal conspiracy. Sounds like you fit in that category.

By: DLS

DLS — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:35:53 +0000

Is Gore planning to address the UN General Assembly next? *snicker*

By: DLS

DLS — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:35:01 +0000

Any time the prize is awarded for political purposes rather than to reward the achievement of peace, it is a joke.

By: krit

krit — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:27:02 +0000

DLS- Any year a Gore or a Carter wins, the prize is a joke right?

By: DLS

DLS — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:03:43 +0000

The Nobel Peace Prize is a joke this year.

By: Shaun Mullen

Shaun Mullen — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:55:03 +0000

(Sound of Rush Limbaugh pounding on my door.)

By: domajot

domajot — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:28:06 +0000

Shaun-

Congratulations on the WaPo mention.

Attention can be a dangerous thing on the blogosphere, Watch your back as you take your bows.:)

By: Shaun Mullen

Shaun Mullen — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:08:21 +0000

krit:

Thank you.

By: krit

krit — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:48:33 +0000

BTW, Shaun – major congrats for getting mentioned (and TMV of course!) by EJ Dionne in WaPo for your blog entry about Graeme Frost.

An excerpt:
‘Shaun Mullen, who blogs at The Moderate Voice- yes there are moderate blogs-is right to generalize when he says that the targeting of the Frost family reveals “the vicious underbelly of the blogosphere”.’

Woooohoooo!