Just kidding, however, we will know in just a few days if he is the winner!
Just kidding, however, we will know in just a few days if he is the winner!
What are the odds from the UK bookies?
I think Rush has an outside shot.
Tedjo wrote:
What are the odds from the UK bookies?
He's the favourite with 13/8, in 2nd Sri Ravi Shankar 3/1
How sad, Mother Theresa worked in the slums of Calcutta for decades and received the Noble Peace Prize. Al Gore has a self promoting movie made about himself and financed by his hedge fund company Generation Investment Management. Now he gets the nod as a likely Nobel Prize winner ...
... where are we going and why are we in this handbasket?
I'm not sure when I started losing respect for the awards but if Gore gets it it's just one more nail in the coffin.
I thought they were for people promoting peace.
The Nobel is for those who need the most attention. Cindy Sheehan is the runner up.
Article on Slate.com (yes, I know, liberal this and that blah blah blah) yesterday about the prize. They're pulling for the Burmese Monks. It would be an interesting and justifiable selection.
Also on Slate a few weeks ago - a discussion on America's place in the world and how Europe stands up to the US through the Nobel selections (they pick Europeans or whoever over Americans). That could, too, play a part in who wins.
Does anyone know why there is no (not the peace prize) Nobel Prize for Mathematics? =)
As Jimmy Buffett stated best, "Math Sucks"
For mathematicians, the fields medal is awarded
Alfred Nobel probably thought that mathematicians were useless eggheads - he was a practical man & such...
Actually, the rumor was that Mrs. Nobel was a dirty little ho who was having an affair with a mathematician - no Nobel Prize in mathematics.
And a physicist is not a useless egghead?
If Gore gets it the Nobel committee will have shown themselves to be a farce just like the UN.
The Burmese Monks could get it but the leader of the opposition who has been under house arrest forever (can't remember her name) has already gotten it so they've kind of already covered that issue in the past, though the monks may deserve it...
If I could throw in a candidate just from the top of my head maybe I would suggest the Lebanese parliament (the anti-Syria faction), who have refused to give up even though they are continuously being assassainated by Syria. The Nobel committee should humiliate Syria for this.
nrjnkefsdklmn wrote:
If Gore gets it the Nobel committee will have shown themselves to be a farce just like the UN.
The Burmese Monks could get it but the leader of the opposition who has been under house arrest forever (can't remember her name) has already gotten it so they've kind of already covered that issue in the past, though the monks may deserve it...
Aung San Suu Kyi. And she already won the Nobel Peace Prize, in 1991.
Why didn't Mister Rogers ever win this? He was very peaceful.
What has AlGore done to deserve the Peace Prize?
Wait, the committee once gave this to that legendary man of peace: Yassar Arafat.
Al Gore is a 5:2 favorite to win the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, while President George Bush is the definitive long shot at 100:1.
The right-wing radio host Rush Limbaugh and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair also come in at 100:1 at BetUS.com, where anyone can place a bet on just about anything.
The pop star Bono is holding his own at 25:1 as of press time. Oprah Winfrey is a more distant 50:1. Martti Ahtisaari, past president of Finland, is among the favorites at 5:1.
Gore is likely favored by the public because of his controversial climate-change film, "An Inconvenient Truth."
luv2run wrote:
What has AlGore done to deserve the Peace Prize?
Wait, the committee once gave this to that legendary man of peace: Yassar Arafat.
The more appropriate analogue, then, would be George W. Bush.
Does anybody care ? They gave the Nobel Peace war criminals Shimon Perez and Yitzahk Rabin. The Nobel Peace Prize is a farce.
someone needs to explain to me how this guy contributes to PEACE. What the hell? He's an idiot with a strong opinion. He invented the internet and he lied out the teeth in teh 2000 campaign, then becomes cool among the Upper West Side literary set? So that contributes to world peace?
What?
Rush for Nobel 2008!