Consider, the 2007 Nobel Prize Trifecta:
(According to me, anyway)
Peace: The real U.S. president of 2000, Al Gore (with the United Nations).
Literature: Amazing British author Doris Lessing, whose writing changed my life (for the better).
Science/Medicine: University of Utah’s Mario Capecci (shared with Oliver Smithies, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Sir Martin Evans, of Cardiff University in Wales.
I consider it the best list in ages. And I’m still wagering Gore will not run for president. But what do you all think?
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Consider, the 2007 Nobel Prize Trifecta:
(According to me, anyway)
Peace: The real U.S. president of 2000, Al Gore (with the United Nations).
Literature: Amazing British author Doris Lessing, whose writing changed my life (for the better).
Science/Medicine: University of Utah’s Mario Capecci (shared with Oliver Smithies, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Sir Martin Evans, of Cardiff University in Wales.
I consider it the best list in ages. And I’m still wagering Gore will not run for president. But what do you all think?
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October 12th, 2007 at 9:24 am
dude, you forgot the nobel for the guys who figured out how to make the hard drives on our ipods work, and the nobel for the german who figured out sold phase catalysis. these are MAJOR! but i agree, best list in years!!!
i did sign the draft gore web page, but i don’t think he will come up for that fly, no matter how tempting it may look. he got spanked 7 years ago and i can’t see him shifting out of his comfort feeding zone for this election unless something completely crazy happens (like Hillary drops out for whatever reason).
October 12th, 2007 at 12:16 pm
For Al Gore to run for the presidency of this country would be a step down for him in what is important for this planet.
He has a higher calling and that is where he belongs - saving a planet from its human inhabitants.
I signed up on the draft Gore web page also but now that he has received this well earned recognition he should stick with it. There are three or four presidential candidates who can help him in his task.
October 12th, 2007 at 12:39 pm
Al Gore truly is a Renaissance man…I doubt he will run next year. The Democrats can fulfill their death wish with Clinton.
President Rudy Giuliani ? Really is time to think of Canada. Edmonton is a nice place, nasty winters but with global warming they are becoming more mild. In some ways it reminds me of Salt Lake…without the gritty air and religious simpletons.
October 13th, 2007 at 11:12 am
In reading over some of the comments on the NY Times article on Gore, I am amazed how mean spirited, spiteful and just plain stupid some people can be. An American won the Nobel peace prize which should be a thing of pride but instead the members of the flat earth society act as if someone just stuck a stick in their eye. Are people really as absurd as they seem to be at times on the WWW, or are they simply unguarded in their opinions (no one knows who we are, right?) and we are really seeing a glimpse into their souls? Maybe CW should do a study on opinions on the Web: are they real or are they manufactured to create sensations?
October 13th, 2007 at 4:25 pm
Interestingly, I had the same thought as Chardonnay the other day. My grandpa grew up in Medicine Hat, Alberta, which is beautiful in the summer and godawful in the winter. It might be where I choose to move if Mitt Romney wins.
October 14th, 2007 at 10:44 am
This comment is at a tangent to the above;
Seems the USA is trying to increase the paranoia that Bush thrives on..this time to Canada. In total violation of Canada`s privacy laws our Homeland Security wants info on passengers flying from Canada to Mexico,Cuba the Caribbean..the annual winter exodus. The Canadians already have a no fly list (made with the help of TSA) but Chertoff and his minions want more…be able to track Americans who might want to travel to Cuba via Toronto. Endless petty bullshit.
There is a significant minority of Americans who refuse to put up with the TSA nonsense. The estimate is 15-20% that now drive,charter their own plane, or just stay home. That disgraceful episode in Phoenix where a 100/lb woman was throttled by three 250/lb cops says it all.
TSA= “thousands standing around”
October 14th, 2007 at 11:56 am
Certainly agree about TSA being an abuse of power and ineptness. Makes us far less likely to travel by commerical air these days. And if by chance the repubs do win again in 2008, what a miserable continuation of the status quo….. sounds pretty pathetic. I choose to be hopeful, thinking there’s still allot of time left before all this is over.
October 15th, 2007 at 10:35 am
Promises, promises. You say you’ll emigrate, but when push comes to shove, even Alec Baldwin hangs around. Here’s an excerpt from a 2005 article, titled “Fewer Americans immigrating to Canada than expected”
“Although it was originally expected that many Americans would move to Canada after US President George Bush was re-elected, that has not happened.
“Many Americans visited the Canadian government’s immigration website in large numbers immediately after Bush defeated John Kerry in the presidential race. But official figures show the number of Americans actually applying to reside in Canada actually dropped in the six months following the election.
“We’ll take talent from wherever it is resident in the world,” Immigration Minister Joe Volpe told Reuters. “I was absolutely elated to see the number of hits and then my staff said ‘You know what? A hit on the Internet is after all just a hit’. … I guess I’m happy Republicans and Democrats have found a way to live together in peace and in harmony.”
Toby Condliffe, who heads the Canadian chapter of Democrats Abroad, explained the drop this way.
“I can only assume the Americans who checked out the website subsequently checked out our winter temperatures and further took note that the National Hockey League was being locked out and had second thoughts,” he told Reuters. “
October 15th, 2007 at 1:36 pm
Well unless you all decide to jump off the Canada/Al Gore bandwagon and on to Hillary’s you will just increase the chance we get a lousy NY mayor as the next president. Yeah, I know, you’ll vote for Nader as protest: worked damn well doing that in 2000 didn’t it?
December 5th, 2007 at 11:14 am
Its a disgrace to the prize to put Al Gore in the category of Nobel Peace Prize winner. Al Gore is nothing but an anti-capitalist environmental fear exploiter. How did I arrive at this? Gore tweeks his data to support his beliefs. Yes there is more carbon in the atmosphere as a result of the earth warming. the key words are “as a result”. As temperatures rise did you know the oceans emit more CO2 into the atmosphere? The oceans emit far more CO2 into the atmosphere then humans. Methane from animals and insects is more substantial in CO2 emmisions than humans. Gore gets a prize for making humanity feel guilty about driving to work. Why not fight more meaningful causes like ending the incredibly high child mortality rates in Africa. Ending poverty among two-thirds of our world population. Global warming is a global distraction from what is really important in this world.