A Canadian became the first person to receive a Nobel prize posthumously this week. For all you liberals out there that means he was dead.
Immunologist Ralph M. Steinman was awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for his discoveries about the human body's immune system — research that had for years extended the scientist's own life in a battle against an aggressive form of pancreatic cancer. Hours after the Nobel committee's announcement of the prize, however, Steinman's university said that the researcher had succumbed to cancer. He died on Sept. 30 at age 68.
Even though his achievement was worthy of acclaim, he may not have been so proud of the body of tyrants and evil-doers who make up the list of people who have either been nominated or actually received the prize in its various categories had he known about them which most people do not. Let's take a look at few of them.
First a bit of history. The Nobel Peace Prize is a bit of and oxy-moron. Nobel was an inventor who lived in the ninteenth century. His inventions included dynamite and ballistite, both of which were used violently during his lifetime. Ballistite was used in war and the Irish Republican Brotherhood, an Irish nationalist organization, carried out dynamite attacks in the 1880s. Nobel was also instrumental in turning Bofors from an iron and steel company to an armaments company. Nobel died in 1896 and he did not leave an explanation for choosing peace as a prize category.
The joke that is the Nobel Prize continued after he died. When the past nominations were released it was discovered that Adolf Hitler was nominated in 1939 by Erik Brandt, a member of the Swedish parliament. Brandt never intended for this nomination to be seriously considered. Rather, he had submitted it to protest the nomination of Neville Chamberlain for the prize; Brandt retracted the nomination after a few days. Other infamous nominees included Joseph Stalin and Benito Mussolini. These people never actually received a prize but their nomination indicates a lack of serious consideration regarding the prize itself. The list of actual recipients is no less strange.
In 1994 Yasser Arafat received the Nobel Peace Prize because he signed the Oslo Accords (1993) which acknowledged the right of Israel to exist. Yet any positive affirmation toward Israel fell within the limits of Islamic doctrine known as Taqiyya.
Here are some actual quotes from Yasser Arafat which accurately portray his real thoughts toward Israel (brainyquote.com):
"Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations"
"We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem"
"We will not bend or fail until the blood of every last Jew from the youngest child to the oldest elder is spilt to redeem our land!"
And finally -
"Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest"
So this is one of the guys the Nobel Prize committee gave a Peace prize to. I wonder how many suicide belts Arafat was able to manufacture with the million dollar prize. This should make any person wonder about the credibility of the caliber of research going into these awards. And the list seems to keep its bizarre momentum going with the Nobel being given to Jimmy Carter who served as a one-term president and is widely considered, until Obama, to be the worst President in US history.
Let us not forget Al Gore - a man who's science-fiction movie "An Inconvenient Truth" has seen more mocking and ridicule due to its fallacious reasoning than Aristotle on his theory of spontaneous generation.
And how about the most puzzling Nobel laureate of them all - Barack Obama. If anyone should be giving that baby back it's him! He is currently still in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is fighting along side NATO in Libya and there's talk of going into Syria. Obama was given the Nobel for what exactly? He has done exactly nothing to deserve it! There is no peace in the Middle East. Heck there isn't any peace in the US since he took office. No - if the Nobel had any credibility at all before giving Obama the prize they've certainly lost it now.
Immunologist Ralph M. Steinman was awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for his discoveries about the human body's immune system — research that had for years extended the scientist's own life in a battle against an aggressive form of pancreatic cancer. Hours after the Nobel committee's announcement of the prize, however, Steinman's university said that the researcher had succumbed to cancer. He died on Sept. 30 at age 68.
Even though his achievement was worthy of acclaim, he may not have been so proud of the body of tyrants and evil-doers who make up the list of people who have either been nominated or actually received the prize in its various categories had he known about them which most people do not. Let's take a look at few of them.
First a bit of history. The Nobel Peace Prize is a bit of and oxy-moron. Nobel was an inventor who lived in the ninteenth century. His inventions included dynamite and ballistite, both of which were used violently during his lifetime. Ballistite was used in war and the Irish Republican Brotherhood, an Irish nationalist organization, carried out dynamite attacks in the 1880s. Nobel was also instrumental in turning Bofors from an iron and steel company to an armaments company. Nobel died in 1896 and he did not leave an explanation for choosing peace as a prize category.
The joke that is the Nobel Prize continued after he died. When the past nominations were released it was discovered that Adolf Hitler was nominated in 1939 by Erik Brandt, a member of the Swedish parliament. Brandt never intended for this nomination to be seriously considered. Rather, he had submitted it to protest the nomination of Neville Chamberlain for the prize; Brandt retracted the nomination after a few days. Other infamous nominees included Joseph Stalin and Benito Mussolini. These people never actually received a prize but their nomination indicates a lack of serious consideration regarding the prize itself. The list of actual recipients is no less strange.
In 1994 Yasser Arafat received the Nobel Peace Prize because he signed the Oslo Accords (1993) which acknowledged the right of Israel to exist. Yet any positive affirmation toward Israel fell within the limits of Islamic doctrine known as Taqiyya.
Here are some actual quotes from Yasser Arafat which accurately portray his real thoughts toward Israel (brainyquote.com):
"Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations"
"We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem"
"We will not bend or fail until the blood of every last Jew from the youngest child to the oldest elder is spilt to redeem our land!"
And finally -
"Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest"
So this is one of the guys the Nobel Prize committee gave a Peace prize to. I wonder how many suicide belts Arafat was able to manufacture with the million dollar prize. This should make any person wonder about the credibility of the caliber of research going into these awards. And the list seems to keep its bizarre momentum going with the Nobel being given to Jimmy Carter who served as a one-term president and is widely considered, until Obama, to be the worst President in US history.
Let us not forget Al Gore - a man who's science-fiction movie "An Inconvenient Truth" has seen more mocking and ridicule due to its fallacious reasoning than Aristotle on his theory of spontaneous generation.
And how about the most puzzling Nobel laureate of them all - Barack Obama. If anyone should be giving that baby back it's him! He is currently still in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is fighting along side NATO in Libya and there's talk of going into Syria. Obama was given the Nobel for what exactly? He has done exactly nothing to deserve it! There is no peace in the Middle East. Heck there isn't any peace in the US since he took office. No - if the Nobel had any credibility at all before giving Obama the prize they've certainly lost it now.
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