Dr. Wangari Maathai, a "Kenyan environmentalist-turned-politician" who won this year's nobel peace prize has said...

http://www.economist.com/opinion/dis...ory_id=3286572

and...

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_...55E401,00.html

Words designed to promote peace among the races, no doubt...

Is the Nobel Committee really so busy, that it doesn't have time to screen its nominees?

I saw an interview with her and she essentially said it was the US or allies. These "evil scientists" were from the west (or so she says). I'm sure the socialist Nobel Council picked her by design.

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All you need to know about the energy crisis:
ANWR Exploration Republicans: 91% Supported. Democrats: 86% Opposed.
Coal-to-liquid R's: 90% YES. D's: 78% NO.
Oil Shale Exploration R's: 90% YES. D's: 86% NO.
Outer Continental Shelf Exploration R's: 81% YES. D's: 83% NO.
Increased Refinery Capacity R's: 97% YES. D's: 96% NO

SUMMARY: 91% of House Republicans have historically voted to increase the production of America’s own oil and gas. 86% of House Democrats have historically voted against.

This is an attempt to discredit the letter signed by over 40 Nobel Prize winners, expressing concern over President Bush's "manipulation of american science." Before you call them european socialist pincoe commie liberals, I might want to remind you that more than half of them were american.

Personally, I'm much more likely to trust the word of dozens of the smartest people from the U.S. of A. than I am to trust yours. But that's just me.

Hey, I think you're right. The Nobel Committee must be part of this "vast liberal conspiracy" everybody keeps talking about. After all, they gave the Peace Prize to a Irani lawyer who hates the administration, and Jimmy Carter, a liberal democrat. Oh it makes perfect sense now!

Possibly the reason why it's democrats who get Nobel Prizes and not Republicans isn't because the committee is biased. Maybe, it's because the Republicans don't have a clue what real science is, and therefore they concoct conspiracy theories to cover up their obvious boneheadedness.

you pretty much got the hang of it...a bunch of socialists giving prizes to other socialists.

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All you need to know about the energy crisis:
ANWR Exploration Republicans: 91% Supported. Democrats: 86% Opposed.
Coal-to-liquid R's: 90% YES. D's: 78% NO.
Oil Shale Exploration R's: 90% YES. D's: 86% NO.
Outer Continental Shelf Exploration R's: 81% YES. D's: 83% NO.
Increased Refinery Capacity R's: 97% YES. D's: 96% NO

SUMMARY: 91% of House Republicans have historically voted to increase the production of America’s own oil and gas. 86% of House Democrats have historically voted against.

...but then, she's not a scientist. People who are brilliant or effective in one area can be pretty ignorant and stupid in others.

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Man up.

among Africans. Like other posters have said, her expertise is not in this field. I don't listen to Teresa Heinz for health advice, Bill O'Reilly on how to be humble, Barbara Streisand on political advice or Michael Jackson on how to raise kids.

This just sounds like ugly rantings of conservatives that can't stand the fact that first Jimmy Carter won the Noble Peace Prize and then an environmentalist, knowing full well that the next time a Republican might have a mosquito's eye-blink of a chance of winning will be sometime in the NEXT millinium.

Actually I have no problem with Jimmy Carter winning a Nobel Peace Prize, or an environmentalist for that matter (though I must admit, I'm not clever enough to see how planting trees directly affects world peace).

No, I simply think that the person they award a Nobel Peace Prize to should at least sound like a Nobel Prize winner - instead of 2nd Runner-up at the Ms. Tin Foil Hat Conspiracy Theory Pageant.