2009-10-09, 22:36 | Link #4261 |
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Yes, and i think he would probably do better declining the award at this stage then accepting it.
it is nice little trophy over the fire place but if he mess up on any of his wars/healthcare/nuclear disarmerment, well just say i can already hear SNL jokes.
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2009-10-09, 23:32 | Link #4263 | |
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Even if not, there were 200+ nominees, but the committee couldn't find someone else who actually did something? Ex-president Jimmy Carter was awarded the 2002 Peace Prize for his decades of work in promoting democracy, human rights and economic development, and the current president Barack Obama was awarded this year's for... making promises - and starting work on some - but not yet finishing those commitments? Would this mean that if, say, the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, puts out a press release that he's now promoting peace in the Middle East, he becomes the top contender for next year's Peace Prize? Wasn't there already a skit about Barack Obama being a "done nothing" president so far? I wonder what this Saturday's main skit will be then.
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2009-10-10, 02:38 | Link #4264 |
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This nobel peace prize award was already devalued after 1994. Then came along 2001, 2002, 2005, 2007..2009...well you get the picture.
I still think the UNHRC is more of a joke. And on the bright side, at least Obama wasn't begging for this tripe award from some Norweigan hacks like he was for Richard Daley and his Chicago cronies to the con-men at the IOC. |
2009-10-10, 06:40 | Link #4266 | |||
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Japan, China, S. Korea vow to achieve early resumption of 6-way talks
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In other words, like Senator John McCain had said.. Having won the Nobel Peace Prize generally means that Barack Obama now must work extra hard to not disgrace the name of the Nobel Peace Prize as that it is an extremely rare artifact that only 3 American presidents had won so far in the hundreds of years of American history. More over, Obama is the first black American president to have won it. Thus, Obama now has no choice but to work toward those goals that is worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize whether he likes it or not.. If Obama chooses to reject the Nobel Peace Prize, bad things are bound to happen as that his approval rate will drop drastically and the world will have little hope when Obama speaks as that the guy feels that he is unworthy of the Nobel Peace Prize and will not be putting in effort to live up to such a name. Pitiful.. Barack Obama will definitely have a difficult 4 years starting now as a Nobel Peace Prize winner! Last edited by Shadow Kira01; 2009-10-10 at 13:28. |
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2009-10-10, 16:43 | Link #4267 | |
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man this game is as realistic as it gets!
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2009-10-10, 19:20 | Link #4268 | |
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2009-10-10, 22:23 | Link #4269 |
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^It's a classic game of people control. Make them paranoid, make them their own gaolers. Give them a little taste of power and authority and they're your loyal little dogs. The Qin mastered it, oh, more than two millenia ago.
And yes, you generally find such practices being encouraged by governments of a totalitarian bent. What do the Brits over there like to say? Lol, Labour? |
2009-10-10, 22:25 | Link #4270 | |
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Even the best technology today is not very good at things like pattern recognition once the "thing" being checked is too far away from the set norm, and if you allow the checking rules to be too wide, then you get a lot of false alerts. Whoever came up with this idea is smart. Using people's natural tendency to want to know what their neighbors are up to (i.e., pry and spy) in order to help in identifying crimes in progress or about to start. Not to mention making them feel good that they are contributing to society, which to be totally honest, they actually are.
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2009-10-10, 22:50 | Link #4272 | |
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If this grows, though, how bad will people's actual work productivity drop? For many types of jobs, you can't exactly snoop and work at the same time...
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2009-10-11, 09:12 | Link #4275 | |
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Okada meets Karzai on surprise visit to Kabul
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... Shocked. Someone at the insurance company following a strict by-the-book definition again like that Wells Fargo bank branch rep who demanded a finger print ID from a customer without hands recently? Whatever happened to "kindness", "a caring attitude" and "considering a case on its own merits"? (Rhetorical question...)
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2009-10-12, 13:35 | Link #4279 |
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U.S. can't trace foreign visitors on expired visas
Accused Dallas bomb plotter puts focus on lack of ‘exit system’ for tourists http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/us...20visas&st=cse |
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