[Dean's World] Scott Kirwin: Is This the Best We've Got?

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Posted by Scott Kirwin:
Is This the Best We've Got?
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1192225675.shtml


   I don't like Al Gore. I didn't like him when I voted for him in 2000,
   and I didn't like him when he was #2 to Clinton - who I liked and
   voted for twice.

   I also don't buy the Anthropogenic Global Warming faith that he leads.

   But for a moment, I'm trying to set these biases aside - no easy task,
   but I'm trying.

   And I kept help but ask the Nobel committee... Is this the best you've
   got?

   When you consider all the people and organizations in the world who
   "have done the most or the best work for fraternity between the
   nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the
   holding and promotion of peace congresses" - does Al Gore really top
   the list?

   Doesn't Aung San Suu Kyi deserve it again considering what she - and
   her nation - has endured? How about one of the hundreds, thousands,
   millions who are working to make this world a better place yet aren't
   as high profile or lesser known? $1.5 million dollars would have made
   quite a gift to a small charity fighting female circumcision in
   Africa, or tending the sick in Sierra Leone or Darfur. It also would
   have had a greater impact today with those suffering.

   Really, biases aside. Is this the best you've got?

   Or is it yet another political act by an organization that relishes
   attention?