And the Nobel goes to...

[hoglahoo]

This is a great story that a smurf showed me.

There recently was a death of a 98 year old lady named Irena.
During WWII, Iliana, got permission to work in the Warsaw Ghetto, as a Plumbing/Sewer specialist.
She had an ulterior motive...
She KNEW what the Nazi's plans were for the Jews, (being German).
Iliana smuggled infants out in the bottom of her tool box she carried, and she carried in the back of her truck a Burlap sack, (for larger kids).
She also had a dog in the back, that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in, and out of the ghetto.
The soldiers of course wanted nothing to do with the dog, and the barking covered the kids/infants noises.
During her time and course of doing this, she managed to smuggle out and save 2500 kids/infants.
She was caught, and the Nazi's broke both her legs, and arms, and beat her severely.

Iliana kept a record of the names of all the kids she smuggled out, and kept them in a glass jar, buried under a tree in her back yard.
After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived it, and reunited the family.
Most of course had been gassed.
Those kids she helped got placed into foster family homes, or adopted.
Last year Iliana was up for the Nobel Peace Prize....
She LOST.
Al Gore won, for a slide show on Global Warming.
Check it out: Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project

From Snopes.com snopes.com: Irena Sendler

I will say though I'm glad the Nobel committee has a sense of humor, it's just sad that they forgot to award the prize to any true winners

[Wildtim]

I think I'm going to puke.


Mention of Al Gore often does that to me, yet now I think I have special cause.




A little luck and we would have been spared, Al you came sooo close! to actually doing a service for your country.

[Milton Man]

Well, Snopes does mention that is impossible to categorically say that she was a nominee since Nobel Prize nominations are sealed for 50 years, so this really is just all speculation...that said, if she was nominated, it should have gone to her and not Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Just call me skeptical, I guess.

Mark

[hoglahoo]

Well, Snopes does mention that is impossible to categorically say that she was a nominee since Nobel Prize nominations are sealed for 50 years, so this really is just all speculation...that said, if she was nominated, it should have gone to her and not Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Just call me skeptical, I guess.

Mark

The article goes on to mention

IFSW is deeply saddened that the life work of Nobel nominee Irena Sendler, social worker, did not receive formal recognition', said David N. Jones, IFSW President.

[Quick Orange]

He invented the internet and clued us in on global warming- he's as deserving as a humanitarian hero of course!

[nun2sharp]

Having been light infantry, this is my favorite picture of Al Gore, why couldnt he have caught/pulled the trigger and saved us all. This is the guy who wanted to tell us about gun safety. And then Good honest and heroic people are booted to the side so Al the golden child can have a few more moments in the sun.

[iron maiden]

Al Gore...............uuugghhh.

This guy just makes me want to vomit.

[Quick Orange]

Having been light infantry, this is my favorite picture of Al Gore, why couldnt he have caught/pulled the trigger and saved us all. This is the guy who wanted to tell us about gun safety. And then Good honest and heroic people are booted to the side so Al the golden child can have a few more moments in the sun.

No mag, so even if c0cked there wouldn't be much coming out at him. Damn! Better luck next time I suppose