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Same Old Swedish Song and Dance

Posted by Stephen Green · 12 October 2007

I woke up this morning to news that Al Gore had won the Nobel Peace Prize. Immediately I knew what Jack Woltz felt when he found Khartoum's bloody severed head at his side. Not shock, exactly -- because when you're dealing with the Corleones, you have to know they're capable of most anything. And, surely, the same goes for people who awarded a prize for peace to Jimmy Carter and Yasser Arafat.

But it's different thinking that they're capable of it, from them actually going and doing it.

Czech President Vaclav Klaus said, "The relationship between his activities and world peace is unclear and indistinct." Which is being polite, at best. "WTF?" is the shorter and more appropriate response. Of course, your next response is, "Oh, yeah -- this is the Nobel we're talking about. So, OK."

But Klaus is right: Gore hasn't done a darn thing to bring peace anywhere. So why is Gore getting a million-plus bucks and a "#1 Peace Dude" coffee mug?

The answer is simple. Gore hasn't brought us peace, but he's sure waging a fine war against capitalism. And if there's one thing a bunch of herring-stuffed Nordic socialists love, it's anybody who makes millions by attacking free markets.

The Left's inconvenient truth is, government controls, and lots of them, are the secret to solving... everything.

Government-created deflationary Great Depression? Bring on more government. Government created inflationary recession? Bring on government wage and price controls. Some people have too much money? Tax them to death. The weather is changing? Bring on global-growth rationing, starting with that capitalist hyperpower, the United States.

It doesn't matter what the problem is, the solution is always the same: Government, government, government, and finally, more government. Gore is just the latest example of a trend going back more than a century. So it's no surprise he's being honored for it.

But whatever you do, don't go back to sleep. Gore could carry his new prize all the way to the White House.

CORRECTION: I'm told by my sources that the Nobel Prize for Peace does not include a coffee mug. Instead, there is a great big shiny belt.

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I am reminded of Homer Simpson's famous line about a similar intoxicant. "Alcohol, the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems."

Posted by: drakon at October 12, 2007 12:16 PM

I'm just waiting for the day that Canada and Russia realize that Global Warming could be the best thing that ever happened to them.

Actually, I wouldn't put it past Putin to have already realized it.

Posted by: Eric J at October 12, 2007 12:49 PM

"I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize."
- George Bernard Shaw

Posted by: wheels at October 12, 2007 01:48 PM

TO: Stephen Green, et al.
RE: Just....

....another nail in the proverbial coffin.

I'm wondering how many more like Al Gore, Jimmy Carter, Yassar Arafat, etc., etc., etc., it will take before we finally decide it's time to bury this box; with all its corruption?

Regards,

Chuck(le)
[What me worry? -- Alfred]

P.S. He's DEAD, Jim! He doesn't need to worry about anything...anymore.

It's the jerks managing his 'estate' that should worry....

Posted by: Chuck Pelto at October 12, 2007 02:37 PM

George Miller was robbed. His environmental masterpiece "Happy Feet" was bigger and touched far more people, grossing somewhere between $350 and $400 million to date, appx 10x as much as Gore's Inconvenient Truth, while sticking far closer to reality.

Shouldn't the Peace Prize go to someone who actually brought Peace? Surely Gore's environmental impact would trump the winner of the Science category this year. The environment is surely more important that the Ipod. Why don't they just get it over with and create a category for environment? Maybe because Gore would still lose to someone who actually has gone out and actually helped reduce pollution by taking concrete steps rather than being a talking head cheerleader.

Posted by: Mike at October 12, 2007 04:34 PM

At times like this, I am not as happy to be of Norwegian descent.

But then I remember. The smart ones all moved to the US.

(Yes, Nobel was a Swede. He gave the prize to the Norwegians as a sign of being good neighbors.)

Posted by: M. Thompson at October 12, 2007 05:08 PM

The Nobel Peace Prize has officially become just like a Che t-shirt: if you have one, there's something wrong with you.

Posted by: McGehee at October 12, 2007 09:25 PM

Couldn't agree more with Stephen Green. Here in Italy we have government everywhere as the only way (they think) that problems can be solved is with MORE government presence everywhere and in everything, (public and non) and so more government more heavy taxes to pay these guys. Of-course it should have been of no surprise to me with comunists heading our government, but that is why I am packing up to immigrate (again, this time not to return) to a more anglo-saxon world.
Amen

Posted by: Anna Rimondi at October 13, 2007 07:38 AM

The Pentagon started planning on war based on global warming a decade ago (that we know of).
But what do they know about war?
They think torture is bad.

Posted by: Janus Daniels at October 13, 2007 05:59 PM