Ig Nobels

[rich]

I of course hope and pray you're right, Otto

don't get me started on the republicans and conservative/religious
right--a more foul and vile group one would be hard pressed to find

rich

On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 1:14 AM, Otto <ottosell at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> He is willing to talk to the Muslim world. Give him eight years and
> things in the Middle East will get better. Threre will be other
> Israeli governments who want peace and not only the status quo.
>
> It is absolutely un-patriotic of those evangelical Republicans to make
> such a fuss about Obama's health care plans. Having just burned
> Billions for the neocolonial Iraq-war (based upon a bunch of outright
> lies) they really should be silent.
>
> It is still "a time of unrestrained corporate greed, false
> religiosity, moronic fecklessness, and evil intent in high places."
>
> Otto
>
> "What I lack in al-titude (...) I make up for in at-titude."
>
> 2009/10/11 Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net>:
>>  A reality check up? What university do you teach at? What is your real
>> name? Perhaps you had not noticed that the  USA is utterly bankrupt and that
>> the planet is in serious trouble  calling for something perhaps just a bit
>> more more real than telling kids to work hard and go to college. Perhaps you
>> would like to share about the wonderful results  the Nobel committee
>> achieved from rewarding Henry Kissinger's stirring efforts for peace.
>> The problem is not that O. is trying and failing. The problem  is he is
>> preemptively failing so he won't have to stand up to those who are
>> strangling democracy, he is backing down without a fight. The political
>> realism you seem to extol is really just a lack of courage.  All those noble
>> looks and  the  King like rhetoric have, when the rubber met the road,
>> revealed in stunning and elaborate detail a man without the courage even  to
>> stand up to a fascist boor like Glenn Beck. This is a  person who cannot
>> consistently show courage in a single area.
>>
>> The only thing  I can sincerely credit Obama with is  a commanding speaking
>> style.  As a political leader who could make a difference in a critical time
>> he is failing on all fronts.
>>
>> On Oct 10, 2009, at 4:55 PM, alice wellintown wrote:
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>>>The Nobel
>>> folks are lot smarter than the P-List gives them credit for. They've
>>> done something clever here.
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