@Missy — I agree, Palmeiro earned respect from a lot of us…winning three Golden Gloves in a row…but the 3rd one was somewhat controversial to die hard baseball fans the final year while playing all but 28 of his games…oh well, Go Cubbies…Maybe next year!

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@American Voter:

Awww, Palmero was one of my favorite Cubbies way back then.

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“…At least At least they haven’t (yet) renamed the prize after him..”

An acquaintance just sent me this light-hearted observation from Baseball Crank Blog

http://baseballcrank.com/

“Could you possibly come up with a storyline that more perfectly captures the whole idea of
Obama – all talk and promises and of course self-congratulation, and nothing to show for it?
At least they haven’t (yet) renamed the prize after him, but I assume that future winners will
be given a framed commemorative picture on black velvet of a shirtless Obama astride a
unicorn. This is the most self-evidently ridiculous award since Rafael Palmeiro winning Gold
Glove for season when he played only 28 games in the field. The ESPYs are now a more
prestigious award than the Nobel Peace Prize.”

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Neda Soltan

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Victor Davis Hanson has another outstanding column today, just want to share:

http://pajamasmedia.com/victordavishanson/nobelitics/

Oh, and Occidental College is contemplating a way to honor this new Nobel lauriate because he attended but did not graduate from Occidental. One comment in the article lept out, seems to be a libby land theme:

“Occidental was a starting point for him as an intellectual,” he says. “Sometimes, the beginning matters more than the end.”

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125504077432074491.html?mod=WSJ_hps_InDepthCarousel

I guess had Dr. Sima Samar had just talked of and not acted on her over 20 years worth of heroic achievements, she may have had a better chance of being honored. Think of what she could have done with what is it, $1.4 million? to help finance her highly admirable, difficult and life threatening work.

But, she’s still there to risking her life to save others, her influence is felt only in Afghanistan and she is not someone that is able to alter the course of wars or be manipulated to do the bidding of the Norwegians on a world stage level, which is what Obama took the bag of prizes for.

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This will be yet another great example of Obama’s empty rhetoric not matching his actions. In fairness to Obama, I doubt he had much control with being the “winner.” That said, if he really DOES believe his own rhetoric (which of course he doesn’t), he has a golden opportunity to either REFUSE the award or donate the money (1.4 million), to a worthy cause in America of which both sides would agree was “noble.” After all, he TOLD us he isn’t excepting for ‘himself’, so why should he keep the money?

I, for one, would actually be impressed if he did such a thing. If only he had just one advisor who could help him understand that what he ‘won’ far bigger than the NPP is the opportunity to show America that he actually IS made of the right stuff as in “This is a test.”

Oh well, at least he didn’t win the Pulitzer for his best seller ‘Dreams’ that he didn’t write. I never believed that he wrote that book, but now the evidence is too much to ignore, except of course, for the MSM.

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Re: #5 Wordsmith

Sure has that appearance doesn’t it?

Re: #6 Wisdom

Yer too late for one of ‘em anyway.

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If they gave the award to the Afghan woman who risks her life daily to improve the human rights of the Afghan people it would have been a backdoor acknowlegement that BUSH WAS RIGHT in freeing the people of Afghanistan. That can never be allowed. Good socialists like the Norweigans who sit on the Nobel Committee don’t give a hoot about oppressed peoples. They only care about the imposition of socialism which actually oppresses people.

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Me, Me, Me
For a Harvard Grad, he has the greatest grammar-suitable for the Mebama language.

Me and women who have inspired me and inspired the entire world through their courageous pursuit of peace.”
-President Obama, from his gracious (yes it was) Nobel Peace Prize

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