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Showing posts with label Nobel Prize. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nobel Prize. Show all posts
Friday, October 9, 2009
The Newest Nobel Peace Prize Winner
Monday, October 13, 2008
Paul Krugman Wins Nobel Prize for Economics
Paul Krugman wins the Nobel Prize for Economics.
It is a well deserved honor, the $1.4 million award will buy him three or four tanks of gas, maybe heat his home this winter. . . There's more...
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Montana High School Cancels Nobel Laureate Talk
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Republican Town Refuses Global Warming
Lecture for High Schoolers
There is a reason there were dark ages.
Some people are proud of being stupid.
Some people refuse to learn.
Always, some people line up with pitchforks and lighted torches to burn intelligence to the ground.
The Enlightenment was a long, hard time coming. And in places such as Choteau, Montana, complaints from conservatives were enough to get the superintendent to cancel a lecture to 130 high school students from Professor Steven W. Running, Nobel Laureate.
The New York TimesThe Republicans legacy leaves our children further and further behind every first world country... in science, math, technology, preparing for an uncertain future.
Dr. Running was a lead author of a global warming report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the 400-member United Nations body that shared last year’s Nobel Peace Prize with former Vice President Al Gore. But when some residents complained that his presentation here would be one-sided because no opposing view would be offered, the superintendent of Choteau School District No. 1, Kevin St. John, canceled it.
Dr. Running was surprised.
“Disbelief was the primary reaction,” he said in a telephone interview. “I’ve never been canceled before. But it was almost comical. I had a pretty candid discussion with the superintendent and the school board, and they said there were some conservative citizens who didn’t want me to speak.”
Mr. St. John said that numerous residents had complained to school board members and that they in turn had suggested that the program be called off.
People on Main Street here were divided over the cancellation. Melody Martinsen, the editor of The Choteau Acantha, a local weekly, said that while she rarely received letters to the editor, “this week I have nine and seven are on the subject, and they are all chastising the school board.”
Kirk Moore, the owner of a farm and ranch store, is a school board member who favored canceling the talk. But he declined to say why. “No comment,” Mr. Moore said. “Go talk to the superintendent.”
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We sent men to the moon on man-made fire. Now children in Montana are taught to be afraid of the lightening.
Bushism and Republicanism has failed our nation, has failed our children, has failed our planet, has just plain failed. Anyone with the sense of a dog avoiding a skunk knows what's been happening the last seven years is just plain wrong.
Telling children they can't hear a Nobel Prize winner is wrong. It's against everything this country stands for.
Shame on that superintendent and that school board, and shame on Choteau, Montana for being so out of touch with basic American values.
It's just plain wrong. There's more...
Sunday, October 14, 2007
WORLD PREMIERE—Popcorn Time! Say Hello To Another New Group News Blog Video Production!
Shhhhh! Turn your TV volume down! And your iTunes. Hey, kids! Keep it down in there! I said, Shhhhhhhhh!
Listen.
Can you hear it? Off in the distance?
“Pop!” “Ker-ploomp!” “Blammm-O!” “Boom!-Boom!-Boom!-Boom!-Boom!-BOOOOOOM!
No...it's not a fireworks display...or the local bomb squad's live-round training day. That sound...is one thousand conserva-bots' heads exploding over the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to one Albert Arnold Gore Jr., Earth-2's 43rd President of The United States, and this Earth's loved-by-forward-thinkers, and hated by dinosaur-riding wingers leading proponent of saving the planet from its destructive self.
Down the line—from the unmedicated rage-a-holic Malkin, to the pissy and unctuous Reynolds, Gun-nut B-levelers, and everyone on the NRO “Ship of Fools”—various keyboards, monitors and 99¢ bags of Cheetos were splattered with bits of skull and bloody dura when the news hit about Gore's nabbing the prize. The most ammonia-pissy of the lot—the “Thunder Twins” (“Whining powers—activate!”) Limbaugh and his mono-browed pal Kathryn Jean Lopez both floated out a pink, cottony-candy fantasy where General David Petraeus should have been awarded the Nobel—for all he's done for “peace”. Oh yeah, and they feel Bush deserves part of the award, too. At which point, magical blue faeiries and sparkle-horned unicorns came down from the clouds, dispensing candy, Oxycontin, books of Sonic coupons and nubile, young Latinas all in a row.
“Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! BOOM!”
Lot of hateration and holleration up in this here dance-a-ree.
And it's so very, very enjoyable watching them just lose their minds all over the walls and linoleum-ed basement floors over Gore's accolade. So enjoyable in fact, that I figured we might as well see the action, as well as read their bloody-fingered ranting about it.
Thus, The Group News Blog proudlly presents—with no commercial interruption...
“Boom! The Gore Effect”
“Whooooo-wheeeee! They blowed up good.
REAL GOOD!”
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