can being famous for camping get you a Nobel Prize?

You're not wanted in your own backyard?

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She's a loon. Nobody who is even remotely in touch with reality pays any attention to her. I'm sure she'll win the Nobel Prize...in her mind.

I'll join you dharmagrl. I'll bring the marshmallows, we can make a home movie and win Oscars too!
(She really needs to get help)

That's pretty crazy. It'd really devalue the prize for Cindy Sheehan to be put on the same level as real heroes of peace like Bishops Tutu and Belo, Jose Ramos Horta and all the rest.

Considering that honor has gone to Jimmy Carter (whose greatest accomplishments towards "peace" failed before the ink was dry on the bogus "agreement" and getting 52 people a 333 day, all expenses paid, cruise in Iran)... Kofi Annan (whose reaction to being told about rapes commited by UN workers was basically, "well, nothing I can do about it") and one of the most murderous terrorists of the 20th Century, Yassir Arafat; I'd say that all you have to do to "earn" the nobel prize is to either be, or encourage, terrorists.  SOunds like CIndy Whatsername fits just fine.  I hope she gets it!

Finalist is kind of a misnomer.  As everyone nominated is a finalist.  And it is relatively easy to be nominated.  Jimmy Carter could have nominated her.

However, you did skip over one of her qualifications.  You have to camp out AND stalk some one.  I dont think you would qualify on the latter part.  And like Parated said, if Jimmy Carter could get it, I guess a stalker could as well.

Jimmy Carter wasn't so bad. As a president he was a failure, but as the head of the Carter Center he's done a lot of good work for peace and democracy. Kofi Annan did a lot for advocacy of African war crimes and generally was a strong voice for international cooperation and peace-keeping. He may not have deserved a Nobel prize, but he wasn't as unworthy as Arafat or Sheehan.

I honestly think it's time the Nobel process was rethought if the obnoxious or the merely famous are considered suitable.

Giving the prize to Sheehan isn't going to make the Nobel prize a more reputable institution, even if it would be sad and kind of ironic.

Yasser Arafat won the prize, so it holds absolutely no credibility. Amazing that someone who has openly claimed they would kill Bush, stand next to a dictator and talk about their country, would be nominated.

But that's the "world" that the left loves so much.

Giving the prize to Sheehan isn't going to make the Nobel prize a more reputable institution, even if it would be sad and kind of ironic.

I agree. But remember a nomination is not a Prize. Tookie Williams was nominated, and he was an avowed racist and murderer. ANYONE can be nominated, but the nomination of an individual should not detract from the institution itself. The awarding of the Prize to clowns and buffoons is what invalidates it.

You're not wanted in your own backyard?

Sometimes it feels that way, yes....

She's a loon. Nobody who is even remotely in touch with reality pays any attention to her

She's stuck, Mason.  She's grieving, and she hasn't managed to work her way through the grief process; instead she's got stuck and isn't making any progress.  Of course, there are people who aren't exactly helping her grieve - as long as she's stuck, she's their puppet, their mouthpiece.  It's not advantageous to them to have her mentally and emotionally whole again, so they manipulate her and keep her exactly where they want her.

 

I'll join you dharmagrl. I'll bring the marshmallows, we can make a home movie and win Oscars too! (She really needs to get help)

Kewl!  It's not snowing here (yet) so it'll be fun!

Yes, she does need to get help.  As I said before, though, it's not in the best interests of the people around her for her to get counselling and help.  So, they'll make sure she stays exactly where she's at for as long as it's advantageous to them.  It's sick, really.  Pseudo-slavery.

It'd really devalue the prize for Cindy Sheehan to be put on the same level as real heroes of peace like Bishops Tutu and Belo, Jose Ramos Horta and all the rest

I agree.

I'd say that all you have to do to "earn" the nobel prize is to either be, or encourage, terrorists. SOunds like CIndy Whatsername fits just fine

Yep.  She's just a puppet, anyway.  A muppet, more like.

However, you did skip over one of her qualifications. You have to camp out AND stalk some one. I dont think you would qualify on the latter part.

Yeah, stalking and obsessive behaviour aren't really my cup of tea.  Unless it's about knitting and yarn, that is.  I've been known to stalk some very nice cashmerino yarn and I really do obsess about knitting sometimes.

 

I honestly think it's time the Nobel process was rethought if the obnoxious or the merely famous are considered suitable.

Me too.  It doesn't mean anything when people are being nominated on the grounds of a couple of publicity stunts, you know?

Amazing that someone who has openly claimed they would kill Bush, stand next to a dictator and talk about their country, would be nominated.

Yeah, that's not exactly peaceful talk, is it?

 

ANYONE can be nominated, but the nomination of an individual should not detract from the institution itself. The awarding of the Prize to clowns and buffoons is what invalidates it.

I think that the nomination of people who have terrorist ties taints it slightly too.

They may do it. The Carter prize was just a political jab. They've reduced it to a 'statement' machine, so f*ck them, frankly. They can ram their peace so long as peace is being the lapdog of evil people. Giving a damn will just validate them.

They've destroyed the value of their prize just like the value of "international support" was destroyed by the uncovering of the greed and pandering to terror that we discovered motivated "peaceful" nations opposing the war in Iraq. They can hand their prize to Charles Manson for all I care. At least he admits he has a god complex.

Pseudo-slavery.

HEY!

Oh, wait. You weren't talking about me.

Never mind.

She's stuck, Mason.  She's grieving, and she hasn't managed to work her way through the grief process; instead she's got stuck and isn't making any progress.

She's not grieving anymore Karen.... the minute she started calling her son's killers "freedom fighters", she quit mourning her son and considered him a criminal.  Her admitted allegiances are with the bacteria in Iraq.  That is why I call her "Cindy Whatsername"... I refuse to put a hero like SPC Casey Sheehan in company with a vile media whore who cheers on those who killed him.