he has my support and prayers Allan On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 10:34 PM, gruff <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded annually "to the person who shall > have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, > for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding > and promotion of peace congresses." > > I have to ask, Mr. Johnson, why do you only highlight what are even > questionable undeserving recipients? Why do you point up only the > negative? Is it your purpose to defeat anything good? At times your > writing sounds like it? > > But that's all right. I'll counterbalance. > > Among the more notable winners in the 114 years history of the Nobel > prize are the following: > > Theodore Roosevelt > Louis Renault > Woodrow Wilson > Frank B. Kellogg > Jane Addams > (Not so ironically, the committee awarded no peace prize in 1939, > 1940, 1941, 1942 and 1943. The award in 1944 was given to the > International Red Cross.) > Cordell Hull > Albert Schweitzer > Dag Hammarskjöld > Linus Carl Pauling > Martin Luther King, Jr. > Henry A. Kissinger > Lê Ðuc Tho (refused award) > Mohamed Anwar Al-Sadat > Menachem Begin > Mother Teresa > Lech Wałęsa > Desmond Mpilo Tutu > The 14th Dalai Lama > Desmond Mpilo Tutu > Nelson Mandela > Frederik Willem de Klerk > Yitzhak Rabin > Shimon Peres > Jody Williams > Kofi Annan > Shirin Ebadi > Mohamed ElBaradei > Al Gore > > According to the Nobel committee Barack Obama Was awarded the Peace > prize "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international > diplomacy and cooperation between peoples." No one can deny his > efforts and he may win it again for his future successes in this > goal. > > It is my hope and belief that he will achieve these goals. > > On Oct 9, 5:27 am, Don Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Picked with a two week resume, he joins the Nobel club with such > > luminaries as Jimmy Carter and Yassir Arafat. How fitting. Dividends > > from the World Apology Tour '09. > > > > Time to expand on that Ignobel list Archy. > > > > dj > > > > -- ( ) I_D Allan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
