At the Rainbow's End: nobel peace prize

Friday, October 9, 2009

http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20091009/EU.Nobel.Peace/

Since when did the requirement of visiting countries to 'promote' peace for about 7-8 months earn you the Nobel Peace Prize....popularity contest perhaps...

I thought one actually had to work for this...do something substantial like say:

-MARTTI AHTISAARI for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts.
-DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS (MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES), Brussels, Belgium
-INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN TO BAN LANDMINES (ICBL) and JODY WILLIAMS for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines
-DESMOND MPILO TUTU , South Africa, Bishop of Johannesburg, former Secretary General South African Council of Churches (S.A.C.C.). for his work against apartheid
-MOTHER TERESA , India, Leader of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity

Favorite Quotes

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education. - Sir Walter Scott
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. ~Benjamin Franklin
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. ~William Butler Yeats
God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try. ~Mother Teresa
Great spirits have always been violently oppressed by mediocre minds. ~Albert Einstein
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. ~Thoreau
It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry. ~Einstien
Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you. ~H. Brown
Never suppress a generous thought. ~Camilla Kimball

At the Rainbow's End