The Nobel Golf Prize

The Nobel Committee took a turn into a crackhouse when they announced this morning that they were bestowing the coveted Peace Prize on President Obama. For what, you ask? Good question. For "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."

In other words, for not being George W. Bush.

In a spasm of politically correct white guilt, the Nobel Committee did what the International Olympic Committee did not: reward the Bama for being, well, the Bama. I have a newfound respect for the IOC.

This whole thing is absurd, of course, and creepy. They gave him the prize based on "hope," but "hope" is neither a strategy nor an achievement.

His award diminishes the very real, world-changing accomplishments of those who have previously received the award, including Nelson Mandela and Mother Teresa. The Bama isn't even in the same league.

All you have to do is watch last weekend's "Saturday Night Live" to see that even his supporters believe he's done "jack" and "squat."

Apparently the Nobel Committee believes "jack" and "squat" deserve the most prestigious peace prize in the world.

If the Bama had any shred of decency and humility, he would announce that he was not accepting the prize and that it should go to someone more deserving.

Of course, the problem with that is that he actually believes he's deserving.

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[EminemsRevenge]

EAT CROW Crowley...lmfao:)

http://tinyurl.com/ygffha6

Homey is gonna parlay THIS into a whole new world order!

[DJ]

Monica wrote: "His award diminishes the very real,
world-changing accomplishments of those who have previously received the
award, including Nelson Mandela and Mother Teresa..."

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Warrior Princess,

I beg to differ with you about Nelson Mandela. Mandela in fact was one of the most notorious communist terrorists of his time. The Nobel Committee lowered the standards so low so as to award a commie-terrorist the Nobel Peace Prize? PC INSANITY! Now the first DO-NOTHING affirmative action president was awarded one? What a mockery of the once prestigious Prize.

[gringoman]

Barack Obama, first US President to be 'Nobel-ed' since Jimmuh Carter.

Enough said?

Amazing case of Swedish premature ejaculation?

[gringoman]

"Alfred Bernhard Nobel (Stockholm, Sweden, 21 October 1833 – Sanremo, Italy, 10 December 1896) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, armaments manufacturer and the inventor of dynamite."

GRINGOMAN/////Is Obama the first Affirmative Action Nobel Laureate, or Jimmuh Carter?

If the former, we have a truly extraordinary example of the famous WGS (White Guilt Syndrome.) It's dynamite.

[FK]

Avlon: Extremism in danger of acceptance

Story Highlights
Avlon: "I believe sunlight is the best disinfectant" against cultural extremism

Civility dying in part because of a "permanent opposition campaign," says Avlon

Broad factors: Economy, Internet drive uptick of insanity and incivility, says Avlon

Avlon: "Rigged" redistricting reduced competitive congressional districts

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/10/07/avlon.civility/index.html?iref=newssearch

[gringoman]

gringoNOTE////Iran's reaction to any interference with it's nuking up, just as "Peace Homey" Obama gets the (Affirmative Action?) dynamite Nobel prize.....

By ALI AKBAR DAREINI (AP) – 3 hours ago

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran will "blow up the heart of Israel" if the United States or the Jewish state attacked it first, a top official with Iran's most powerful military force — the Revolutionary Guard — warned Friday.

[Dgscol]

Will this economic system return to its former glory?

Not likely. After all, how likely will it be that a country will ship its industry to a country like China, and bleed its national wealth until it is nearly dry? This enormous flux of high profit, will not likely ever happen again in fifty years.

The glut of capital is not being spent well. Instead of wasting this wealth attempting to recreate this former glory, the money should be partly used to shore up the part of the US economy that has flagged, but is needed : a domestic auto capability, and a secured defense system, and energy exploration, and yes, we ought to help the destitute in this wild process.

So rather than cut capital gains taxes, I would rather think we ought to have something akin to a modest windfall capital tax on corporations that have derived these large profits from using foreign labor. This bleeds off excess capital that is just being wasted.

[Ummahgummah]

Barack Obama, first US President to be 'Nobel-ed' since Jimmuh Carter.

Enough said?

Amazing case of Swedish premature ejaculation?

POSTED BY: GRINGOMAN | OCTOBER 09, 2009 AT 10:29 AM

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Norwegian actually, but who's counting? Remember the terrorists Yaser Arafart got one too!

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[DJ]

"Alfred Bernhard Nobel (Stockholm, Sweden, 21 October 1833 – Sanremo, Italy, 10 December 1896) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, armaments manufacturer and the inventor of dynamite."

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Then why not Jimmie JJ Walker aka "Kid Dyn-o-mite"? Sound crazy? Well, given the bizarre criteria the Nobel Committee currently uses, he would have been a more appropriate recipient than many of its most recent.

[xbjllb]

Next year's winner... why, our very own UMMAH GUMMAH!!!

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Her acceptance speech:

"OF COURSE we had to wipe Islam off the face of the earth to save it, Foreign Scum!"

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"Nobel Golf Prize".... roflmao. Here's another

Nobel Piss Prize

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And in gratitude, after nuking Iran, Obama nuked Norway and sent the IOC flowers.

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"TEHRAN, Iran — Iran will "blow up the heart of Israel" if the United States or the Zionist state attacked it first" - Gringo

Couldn't happen to a more deserving country - God

[Ummahgummah]

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The XKREMENT is mocking g-d and yet it has the chutzpah to presume to tell others whom g-d will punish.. to assume one is g-d would seem to be a pretty big offense but then I don't presume to know..

You are definitely a POS, Xkrem. I don't need to be g-d to know that. LOL

That said: NUKE IRAN NOW!

..and the Evil black stone where they worship Ba'al..

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[FK]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/10/07/avlon.civility/index.html

Extremism in danger of acceptance

By John Avlon
Special to CNN

Editor's note: John Avlon is the author of "Independent Nation: How Centrists Can Change American Politics" and the upcoming "Attack of the Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America." Avlon writes a weekly column for The Daily Beast. Previously, he was chief speechwriter for New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and was a columnist and associate editor for The New York Sun.

Politics is an ideological bloodsport between not just right and left, but good and evil, says John Avlon.

NEW YORK (CNN) -- We are witnessing a wingnut war break out in American politics, organized on the Internet and fought out in airwaves and in town halls, wingnuts firing their shots from the outer reaches and strafing the common sense center.

Look beyond the sober skeptics and the principled opposition to President Obama, and you'll find an ugly fringe festival cultivating the wounds left by the 2008 campaign and pouring gasoline on the embers of the culture wars.

As the two parties become more ideologically polarized, the fringe is now blurring with the base while the moderate majority feels increasingly politically homeless.

A culture of extremism is in danger of gaining acceptance.

We've become almost used to the escalating tone -- comparisons of the president to Adolf Hitler now seem unremarkable, part of the contemporary political scenery.

In a CNN.com profile of the Tea Party Express, lead speaker Deborah Johns is quoted as saying, "The men and women in our military didn't fight and die for this country for a communist in the White House!" while the Louisville, Kentucky, crowd chants "U-S-A, U-S-A!" This ugly scene was unremarked on -- hopefully because the insanity spoke for itself.

Since I started the "Wingnut of the Week" segment on CNN's "American Morning," each week has given us multiple contenders for the ring of dishonor from the far right and far left. But lately, it has gotten improbably worse.

In the last week, Arizona Rep. Trent Franks called President Obama "an enemy of humanity" in his speech at the "How to Take Back America Conference" (where one workshop was called "How to Recognize Living under Nazis & Communists").

That's not all: A former White House speechwriter posted a call on the conservative Web site Newsmax for the president to be deposed in a military coup. It was quickly taken down, but the damage was done.

The civility is dying in part because the permanent campaign pursued by incumbent presidents to sell the American people on their agenda is being met with a new innovation: the permanent opposition campaign.

There is no presidential honeymoon and no national unity in this new view.

There is no assumption of goodwill or responsible governance from the president of a different party.

Opposition is now "resistance" and politics is an ideological blood sport between not just right and left, but good and evil. And so any president with an opposing view is an enemy -- and the ugliness emerges.

President Bush was subjected to many of these same attacks from the far left -- "Bush = Hitler" signs and being called a domestic terrorist. But there is a more widespread fury and fervor being directed at Obama in far less time.

There is a recipe that keeps being repeated -- a wingnut claim is posted on a fringe Web site and gets passed around. It gets reiterated on talk radio, and then talk radio comments bubble up to the grassroots with signs at protests echoing the claims.

Eventually some far-right or far-left elected official repeats, playing to the base while venting their spleen. It makes news not only because of the statements' outrageousness, but because it crystallizes the crazy that is going on in our politics.

Two broad factors are driving this uptick of insanity and incivility, beyond Obama himself and whatever policies he proposes: the economy and the Internet.

History shows that demagogues rise when the economy turns south.

They specialize in blaming others for the troubles with wild accusations. It's a time-honored formulation, a powerful narcotic for the nervous and dispossessed, with violent side effects.

During the Great Depression, populist anger was directed at big business.

When conservative populism reared its head in the late 1960s, anger shifted toward big government.

But now we've got both -- anger at big business and big government. It's a perfect political storm, primed for a return to pitchfork politics.

The Internet has made it easier for wingnuts to congregate across state lines, to form an army from the fringes.

This has increased their influence and amplified their voice, making them, in effect, the loudest lobbying block.

No longer are they just cranks to be tolerated -- the fringe is blurring with the base, creating leverage on the party leadership.

Finally, there is an additional factor that has enabled this explosion of hyper-partisanship -- the rigged system of redistricting that has reduced the number of competitive congressional districts around the country.

This has encouraged play-to-the-base politics and discouraged the virtues of moderation and constructive compromise.

Amid the declining civility, some people are asking if the middle ground is gone for good. It's not -- it's just under attack. Although wingnuts attract a lot of media coverage, polls show that most Americans don't share their extreme views.

The wingnuts are still the fringe and we have seen their kind before.

We've seen them in the Know-Nothing Party of the 1850s, which was anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic while waving the American flag, ultimately dubbing itself "the American Party."

Teddy Roosevelt coined the term 'lunatic fringe' to describe the anarchist wingnuts of his day.

The wingnuts surfaced in the paranoid anti-communism of the John Birch Society and when far-left liberals and union leaders got all misty-eyed talking about "Uncle Joe" Stalin.

In the '60s, there were White Citizens Councils in the South and violence from far-left radical groups like the Black Panthers.

All these were influential in their time and capable of intimidation. Each time, we beat them by standing up and calling out their paranoia, hate and political excess.

They shrunk back into the shadows when confronted by the common sense and common decency of the moderate majority of the American people.

There are those who believe that highlighting wingnuts only gives them more power, because they thrive on the oxygen of attention.

But I believe sunlight is the best disinfectant. Wingnuts' influence on hyper-partisan politics proliferates in the dark.

That's when politicians can play to their fears, seek their support, and benefit from the paranoia they create, while maintaining plausible deniability. By naming the problem and calling them out, we can hold them accountable and help define the terms of the debate.

The wingnuts' increasing influence in our politics should be a wake-up call.

It is a challenge to the idea that what unites us is greater than what divides us as Americans.

We need to keep an eye on their efforts, remembering something President Eisenhower said a half-century ago: "The middle of the road is all the usable surface. The extremes of left and right are in the gutters."

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of John P. Avlon.

[david]

I didnt know affirmited action points were added outside the U S

[FK]

Affirmited? Is that what you think it's called?

[Phil Wedeen]

If you cross the US border illegally,
you get a driver’s license, a social security card, welfare, food stamps and free health care.

Posted by: gringoman | October 08, 2009 at 09:08 PM

I've forwarded your post to the Royal Canadian Mounties. What makes you think you can crash our gates for a bag of goodies? Gringoman is thinking like an economic opportunist...lives in #13 and wants a piece of #4.

[Phil Wedeen]

The Nobel Committee took a turn into a crackhouse when they announced this morning that they were bestowing the coveted Peace Prize on President Obama. For what, you ask? Good question. For "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."
In other words, for not being George W. Bush--MONICAMEMO

But of course!!

The world expresses a collective sigh.

[Phil Wedeen]

GRINGOMAN/////Is Obama the first Affirmative Action Nobel Laureate, or Jimmuh Carter?

If the former, we have a truly extraordinary example of the famous WGS (White Guilt Syndrome.) It's dynamite.

Posted by: gringoman | October 09, 2009 at 10:36 AM

Gringoman is jealous...

I'll send in your name to the Nobel committee for your "hard hitting work" at the Saigon Post and for your Vietnam play covering the pathos of an empire in decline.
The Nobel Prize for Literature should go to you.

Next time you are in front of the mirror, which I am sure will be soon, help your cause by not dissing the committee and the prize. Look your spin queen wrote that President Obama got the prize because he isn't George Bush and because he plays golf,so you Gringoman, might get the Nobel prize for nothing.

So if I am asked I will say that you deserve it.

Do not be depressed. If the Nobel prize passes you by, there is also an olympic medal for sport. That leap off the Brooklyn Bridge certainly qualifies you.
Better if you caught it all on film, but not necessary. It's already a sporting legend!

Congrats to all in the USA for having the honor that the world bestows on you!

[Ummahgummah]

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Monicamemo!!! PLEASE.. TAKE THE NUTBAGS OFF THE SITE!!!! Why allow these asshats to spew their Obamaganda here??!

BAN them from this site please..

They have plenty of outlets where their comments are wanted.. but NOT here!

.

[Phil Wedeen]

Amazing case of Swedish premature ejaculation?

Posted by: gringoman | October 09, 2009 at 10:29 AM

Gringoman has a singular uncanny knack for getting things wrong. Add this "amazing case" to his catalog ignorant ejaculations.

The Nobel Peace Prize is wholly a Norweigian affair. Unlike the Nobel Prize for Literature, Medicene, or Economics which are given in Stockholm, Sweden, the Nobel Peace Prize is decided by the Norwegian Nobel Committee which consists of five members elected by the Norwegian Storting (the Norwegian parliament). The prize ceremony is in Oslo, not Stockholm.

Gringoman and the Swedes can come all night over "I Am Curious Yellow" and won't make a meatball's worth of difference.

Maybe next time he'll get it right... like polka in a Polish bar outside of Habana with a communist girl named Yvonne who once starred in Carmina Burana on TV back when Ike was the president.

[Phil Wedeen]

Monicamemo!!! PLEASE.. TAKE THE NUTBAGS OFF THE SITE!!!! Why allow these asshats to spew their Obamaganda here??!

BAN them from this site please..

They have plenty of outlets where their comments are wanted.. but NOT here!

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Posted by: Ummah Gummah | October 09, 2009 at 05:15

Easy buckeroo. Just tune out and, poof, you are gone.

Speaking of nutbags, UG, Harry & David are looking for you. Hey, take your fruity friend too, the holiday is upon us!

[gringoman]

Do not be depressed. If the Nobel prize passes you by, there is also an olympic medal for sport. That leap off the Brooklyn Bridge certainly qualifies you.
Better if you caught it all on film, but not necessary. It's already a sporting legend!

Congrats to all in the USA for having the honor that the world bestows on you!

Posted by: Phil Wedeen | October 09, 2009 at 04:59 PM

Ordinarily one wouldn't expect an Alinskybot who bicycles for Dicktator Fidel to get simple matters straight, like the fact that a Vietnam hand who shared Esquire's Dubious Achievement Award of 1977 with Sylvester Stallone did not--repeat--not leap from the Brooklyn Bridge.

But if this is an example of the LE DEVOIR reader (organ for Montreal "advanced thinkers"), theoretically not an educated cretin?

And these francophoneys dare to mock red-blooded Americans?

[DJ]

>>"Monicamemo!!! PLEASE.. TAKE THE NUTBAGS OFF THE SITE!!!!"

Ummah,

I've just discoverd an X-man/PeeWee singing duet.

PeeWee is the bald guy.

Rare footage:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lJTGDwASmQ&feature=PlayList&p=380089289111277C&index=5

[gringoman]

The wingnuts' increasing influence in our politics should be a wake-up call.

It is a challenge to the idea that what unites us is greater than what divides us as Americans.

We need to keep an eye on their efforts, remembering something President Eisenhower said a half-century ago: "The middle of the road is all the usable surface. The extremes of left and right are in the gutters."

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of John P. Avlon.

Posted by: FredK2929 | October 09, 2009 at 02:20 PM

The SNL wingnuts just mocked Obama, his hyspocrisy, his lack of accomplishment (except in running down Free
Enterprise) his double talk etc.

What were they thinking?

Correction: Why were they thinking?

[gringoman]

>>"Monicamemo!!! PLEASE.. TAKE THE NUTBAGS OFF THE SITE!!!!"

Ummah,

I've just discoverd an X-man/PeeWee singing duet.

PeeWee is the bald guy.

Rare footage:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lJTGDwASmQ&feature=PlayList&p=380089289111277C&index=5

Posted by: DJ | October 09, 2009 at 07:03 PM

Ummah,

That video might give X n' Pee-Wee ideas. Like, why are such "intelligent" creatures wasting their time here? PeeWee can show X around Canada, where despite enormous natural resources they still steal and rip off US patent medicines. The X Troll threatens to emigrate up there. Then they could fly down Havana way to their Dicktator El Maximo. Why don't they get on with it? Right now X lacks PeeWee. They could book adjoining seats and be rid of us.

No?

Wouldn't that suit just about everyone?

[M/M]

Maybe Obama will win a Cy Young award and an Oscar too.

[SteveOk]

When I first heard that Obama "won" the Nobel Peace Prize I really wasn't surprised. If you look at some of the losers that have won the award recently such as Jimmy Carter and Al Gore, it's not surprising that Obama would be next in line for this "award". It's a joke, about like Time Magazine Person of the Year.

The award is a fraud. It's like that letter you get from Publisher's Clearinghouse that says you won millions when in fact you didn't win anything. The Nobel "Prize" is the same thing. I'd personally rather get a Nigerian letter that says I won millions, it's worth the same thing.

[M/M]

The Clintons must be really p***ed. (Obama, Jimmy Carter and Al Gore).

[gringoman]

If you cross the US border illegally,
you get a driver’s license, a social security card, welfare, food stamps and free health care.

Posted by: gringoman | October 08, 2009 at 09:08 PM

I've forwarded your post to the Royal Canadian Mounties. What makes you think you can crash our gates for a bag of goodies? Gringoman is thinking like an economic opportunist...lives in #13 and wants a piece of #4.

Posted by: Phil Wedeen | October 09, 2009 at 04:36 PM

How did Canada ever get to this place,
With such a kinked-up example of the human race?
Is this one really from the Province of Kookistan,
Ex-communicated from some God-forsaken clan,
Or is this something worse, something from their 5-Year Plan:
A model of their new horrifying, Molson-buying, logic-frying Socialist Man?

GRINGOBRO The Cracker Rapper

"Children, be careful."

[EminemsRevenge]

i THINK i recently read a book called "Nixon in Winter," and THAT BOOK taught me DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE--and it made me realise what a GREAT president Nixon WAS--even though unlike my compeers i never thought he sucked to the max!

Straight up---i've always thought Obama was a housenigger---but HE is NOW in the unenviable position of CORRECTING almost 30 years of Reaganism...and IN YOUR FACE mofos...THAT is some change i can believe in

[xbjllb]

"You are definitely a POS, Xkrem. I don't need to be g-d to know that. LOL" - Ummah

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Everyone's FIRST hint as to who's on a first-name basis with GOD and which of us is going to heaven or hell should be that I'M NOT afraid to spell His NAME.

You're like the demons who were forced to bow to Christ... even THEY knew who the Boss of THEIR Boss was.

[xbjllb]

"The Clintons must be really p***ed."

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On the contrary, they're laughing their rears off as this has given the anti-Obama left a new focus at the absolute absurdity of the warmonger being given the prize. Rallying the antiwar movement like nothing since Bush. The furor is on BOTH sides, for completely opposite reasons, and it's growing.

[xbjllb]

It seems that this entire ludicrous Nobel Peace Prize fracas will end up being positive in the long run.

It seems to have completely split away the foaming-at-the-mouth masturbatory Obama worshippers (what I like to call the OJ and MJ fanclub fringe) from the rest of the realists on the left, in the Democratic Party, and the independents and GOP who thought he was the real deal, but NOW fully realize that so far he HAS been nothing but the "empty suit" that Hillary supporters had him pegged for From Day One.

No less a lefist like FIDEL CASTRO has weighed in with "hey wait a minute, he ain't done nuthin' right YET" and ascribing Obama's prize as won "because he wasn't George Bush." Remember you read that opinion here FIRST folks in the first hour after the news hit the wires. So far it's been repeated from everyone including Warrior Princess to CBS NEWS and probably far more places I just haven't gotten around to reading or seeing or hearing.

Now ANYTIME when Bill O'Reilly and Fidel Castro AGREE on ANYTHING, I think we can say that Obama may have finally actually earned his Peace Prize by achieving the pyrrhic victory of George Bush: uniting ALL but his rabid braindead foaming-at-the-mouth fan club against him.

And in record time too.

Who knew? The new "uniter-not-a-divider" is even worse than his predecessor?

Uh, WE knew.

[M/M]

Bill O'Reilly didn't agree with Castro; O'Reilly thinks it is good that Obama was awarded the peace prize.
http://billoreilly.com/show?action=viewTVShow&showID=2446#1