Barack Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize

Bluescat,I agree that Obama clearly did not deserve nomination much less awardel of the Peace Prize. Even though I voted for the guy (and I am an Independent) to me this probably did more harm than good for the Democrats. If the Democrats are even saying that Obama didn't deserve the Nobel Peace Prize I would love to be a fly on the wall when the Republican caucus berates the poor guy.To funny for words.

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"You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe." - Carl Sagan"It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

So is Obama, Nicholae Carpathia?

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"You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe." - Carl Sagan"It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

I think some ultra-religious nuts are in earnest trying to create from scratch an anti-christ themselves. It is the height of hypocricay and self-righteous stupidity. How someone can lie and fabricate a birth certificate to show that Obama was born in Kenya (or Italy) and try to pass it off as authentic while at the same saying that his birth certificate from Hawaii is a forgery (along with an announcement of his birth in the newspaper and several eyewitnesses to his birth besides his family) and then call himself a Christian and pious is beyond me.

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One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It is simply too painful to acknowledge -- even to ourselves -- that we've been so credulous. - Carl Sagan, The Fine Art of Baloney Detection"It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Actually that is only partially true. The Nobel Peace Prize committee cannot release the names for 50 years but the various entities that provided nominations are not barred from stating who they submitted for nomination for the Peace Prize.

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One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It is simply too painful to acknowledge -- even to ourselves -- that we've been so credulous. - Carl Sagan, The Fine Art of Baloney Detection"You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe." - Carl Sagan"It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Welcome back Buzz. Good to see you again. I am not as active as I used to be because of my workload. However, I enjoyed some of our previous prophetical discussions. Maybe we can back into them again.

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One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It is simply too painful to acknowledge -- even to ourselves -- that we've been so credulous. - Carl Sagan, The Fine Art of Baloney Detection"You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe." - Carl Sagan"It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World