Congrats to Al Gore on the Nobel Peace Prize.  He joins the ranks of other well know Peace Rangers of the World:

  1.  Jimmy Carter…2002 (ignore the Iranian hostage thing)
  2. Kofi Annan…2001 (ignore the UN Oil for Food Program thing)
  3. Yasser Arafat…1994 (ignore the numerous terrorist attacks)
  4. Mikhail Gorbachev…1990 (ignore the communist thing)

One distinction Mr. Gore has over the list above…he also won an Oscar for his movie An Inconvenient Truth.  I think this is a very fitting award.  The Oscar is usually given to individuals for their abilities to act on the silver screen…and this details the depths of Al Gore’s ability to act.  Based on this precedent set by the Nobel committee and the required acting abilities, I would like to be the first to congratulate Keanu Reeves on the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize.

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This entry was posted on Friday, October 12th, 2007 at 10:20 pm.
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    micah here. hate to be a stick in the mud, but some factual errors make this post unreadable. first, you left "the presidential vote of most americans in the 2000 election" off of your list of things al gore has won. second, there are 25 categories of academy award; only 4 of them have anything to do with acting. so, i know it was an attempt at a joke, but it doesn't work. perhaps if you had said something to the effect of "al gore won a best actor oscar for his role in a movie making global climate change an important issue" it would have been funny. finally, i suspect your comment about gorbachev was made in error. while no defender of gorbachev or his nobel prize, the only way to categorize "the communist thing" would be to mention the way both glasnost and perestroika crippled the communist system in the USSR, both politically and economically, and ultimately lead to the dismantling of the USSR and the hamstringing of communism there. gorbachev is reviled among russian communists, since his efforts at embracing westernism ruined the USSR. so, perhaps you think this a bad thing, but I'm not sure what you are getting at with mentioning him. He was hardly as western-radical as Yeltsin, but he was also more concerned with maintaining the union than was Yeltsin. MG was critical of Putin quite a bit (which seems to be the new position of the US these days). Reagan himself awarded MG some special Reagan award after they both had retired, I think.

    Anyway, there are some thoughts. Enjoy the blog!

    mbw
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    Finally, a post that Micah found "Comment" worthy. :)
    Thanks

    And I hate to be a stick in the mud, but a few factual errors in your comment. For a post that is "unreadable" you seemed to have read it thoroughly. "Unreadable"...??? maybe not funny, but I used spell check and it's in English, so I believe it is readable, but maybe not funny.

    And I would say that RR had more to do with the fall of the USSR than MG, but I'm just glad you're reading here...no matter how off you think I am.
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    SVD---:)

    Glad you took my comment with some humor--I meant it that way. You were, as usual, quite funny in both the post and the reply. I meant unreadable in the sense that the Gorbachev stuff didn't make any sense.

    At any rate, some would argue that Pope John Paul II and the Roman Catholic church had as much to do with the break up, well not necessarily the USSR but of the Soviet Bloc. But, that has nothing to do with anything.

    Anyway, keep on blogging and thanks for the reply--long time reader, first time commenter, etc.

    mbw
 

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