Nobel Peace Prize set for Oct 12th announcement.

[saltpoint]

As Friday news dumps go, this one might be worth tuning in to hear.

[Kutjara]

1. Please please please please...

...don't give it to a warmonger this time. Please.

[JI7]

2. hoping for Gore to win this one

[sinkingfeeling]

12. Why would Al Gore win the Nobel Peace Prize? I know he's been nominated, but I just

can't make the connection between is work on global warming and peace.

[saltpoint]

13. Let me try this one. It may not satisfy you, but it will be a sincere effort.

Gore's work regarding global warming particularly is an emphasis on the urgent need for swift and meanginful reform in the environment generally.

The dispute -- the "war" -- is between abstract combatants: human activity versus the earth's natural state, with the former laying seige to the other's long-held fortress.

Gore asks that the assault end and a cooperative negotiation between resource-holder and resource-needer occur. He seeks a treaty, a truce, a "peace."

Thus the nomination.

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. Oh goody!

Maybe they'll give it to me.

[saltpoint]

4. They might.

They might not.

[The_Casual_Observer]

7. Fair Enough!

I'll be waiting for the call none the less.

[saltpoint]

8. LOL!

[rpannier]

5. Outstanding...I nominated myself again this year

I couldn't help it....I need a million dollars.

[saltpoint]

6. You could then make a huge donation to Mike Gravel's campaign...

[rpannier]

9. Why not

We both have the exact same chances of winning.
But...if I got the Nobel Peace Prize, why would it be unreasonable to assume he'd get elected President?

[orleans]

10. it's not unreasonable to assume that. n/t

[saltpoint]

11. It may not be unreasonable at all. The field is a happy, twisted,

kaleidoscopic fun house right now.

Gravel looks down but I reserve judgment on how far he gets. Vilsack was smart to get out when he did, but Gravel has some gravitas.