[Rhodes22-list] Supreme Court Gives Gore’s Nobel to Bush (Political humor)

[Robert Skinner]

Al, I kind of like Rummy's commentary.  Others value it too.
You have personal options, such as filters and delete key.
Perhaps self-help is called for.  Have another beer, amigo.

/Robert
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Alan Robertson wrote:
> 
> It's this kind of non-sailing crap that turns some of us off to the Rhodes 22 mailing list. Get a soap box Rummy and use it some other place.
> BigAL
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>   Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Supreme Court Gives Gore’s Nobel to Bush (Political humor)
> 
>   Stunning Reversal for Former Veep
> 
>   Just days after former Vice  President Al Gore received the Nobel Peace Prize
>   for his efforts on global  warming, the United States Supreme Court handed
>   Mr. Gore a stunning reversal,  stripping him of his Nobel and awarding it to
>   President George W. Bush instead.
> 
>   For Mr. Gore, who basked in the adulation of the Nobel committee and the
>   world, the high court’s decision to give his prize to President Bush was a cruel
>   twist of fate, to say the least.
> 
>   But in a 5-4 decision, the justices  made it clear that they had taken the
>   unprecedented step of stripping Mr. Gore  of his Nobel because President Bush
>   deserved it more.
> 
>   “It is true that  Al Gore has done a lot of talking about global warming,”
>   wrote Justice Antonin  Scalia, writing for the majority. “But President Bush
>   has actually helped create  global warming.”
> 
>   Even as Mr. Gore was being stripped of his Nobel, he  received strong words
>   of support from Democratic presidential candidate Hillary  Clinton, who said
>   that the former vice president’s Nobel win “shows that he is  devoting his life
>   to the right thing and should definitely stay the course.”
> 
>   In an interview with reporters in Iowa, Sen. Clinton said that “Al Gore
>   should remain dedicated to the cause of global climate change, at least through
>   November of 2008.”
> 
>   Sen. Clinton suggested that Mr. Gore could further  research the source of
>   global warming by immediately boarding a rocket ship to  the sun.
> 
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