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Well unless you know of a local restaurant, I would kind of have to wouldn't I.Nanohedron wrote:You could even make your own!
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I have a feeling that the Great Nanny State of Minnesota would take a very, very dim view of such a risky delicacy as rakfisk being sold in public dining establishments. No, this is the sort of thing you bootleg and consume with only likeminded sorts that skulk happily in the shady world of the culinary underground circuit, where they eat terrine of larks' tongues, voles in aspic, squid's privates, and that all-too-living maggotty cheese Sardinians love so well.I.D.10-t wrote:Well unless you know of a local restaurant, I would kind of have to wouldn't I.Nanohedron wrote:You could even make your own!
The FDA would probably have a cow.
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10,000,000.00 Swedish Kronas = 1,429,469.91 U.S. Dollars. That's what the winner gets as a monetaryThe Weekenders wrote:But I bet he didn't have the support of George $oro$.jim stone wrote:To put the matter in perspective, here is a candidate for this year's prize who lost.
From Time:
'Compare this to Greg Mortenson, nominated for the prize by some members of Congress, who the bookies gave 20-to-1 odds of winning. Son of a missionary, a former army Medic and mountaineer, he has made it his mission to build schools for girls in places where opium dealers and tribal warlords kill people for trying. His Central Asia Institute has built more than 130 schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan - a mission which has, along the way, inspired millions of people to view the protection and education of girls as a key to peace and prosperity and progress.'
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091009/u ... 9192939500
reward. I've been in Afghanistan and Pakistan, a little money goes a long way there. From what I'm
reading people in Afghanistan earn 10 dollars a week on average. So the money would have
started, what? Maybe a hundred more schools for girls, maybe more. Maybe 100,000 more
girls learning to read, learning geography, learning.... I don't think most of us can
imagine what life is like for women in that part of the world. Or the awful consequences for
society at large, including a desperate fanaticism among men. You cannot treat half the population
like that without everybody being crazy.
You don't necessarily have to kill people to defeat the Taliban.
It's this combination of a creative idea that goes, in a dramatically peaceful way, to the plight of those most oppressed, coupled with real accomplishment at the cost of serious personal risk, that moved
me about the Nobel Peace Prize and, I believe, lent it so much dignity in the world's eyes.
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Hard to imagine lutefisk being subject to anything that could be called "ruin", but, yeah. I think you found it.fearfaoin wrote:There's nothing tofu can't ruin.Nanohedron wrote:You did NOT just go there.
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I personally would have rather seen the award go to Mortensen for those reasons, and for the good the money could do.jim stone wrote:It's this combination of a creative idea that goes, in a dramatically peaceful way, to the plight of those most oppressed, coupled with real accomplishment at the cost of serious personal risk, that moved
me about the Nobel Peace Prize and, I believe, lent it so much dignity in the world's eyes.
What's Obama going to do with the dosh? If he gave it to Mortenson, that would be a most appropriate gesture, worthy.
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LIKE! Oh, wait...this isn't Facebook, is it.....dubhlinn wrote:I was hoping Pete Seeger would win it. He certainly deserves it.
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Every time someone links to that pic, as ID10T did, the Google algorithm decides that it's more important.Whistling Archer wrote: You are right , I guess they think men may be attracted to that sort of pic?? :D
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You don't need to defeat the Taliban, either.jim stone wrote: You don't necessarily have to kill people to defeat the Taliban.
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Jim - you and I might be at different ends of the political spectrum, but you and I are in complete agreement here.jim stone wrote:10,000,000.00 Swedish Kronas = 1,429,469.91 U.S. Dollars. That's what the winner gets as a monetaryThe Weekenders wrote:But I bet he didn't have the support of George $oro$.jim stone wrote:To put the matter in perspective, here is a candidate for this year's prize who lost.
From Time:
'Compare this to Greg Mortenson, nominated for the prize by some members of Congress, who the bookies gave 20-to-1 odds of winning. Son of a missionary, a former army Medic and mountaineer, he has made it his mission to build schools for girls in places where opium dealers and tribal warlords kill people for trying. His Central Asia Institute has built more than 130 schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan - a mission which has, along the way, inspired millions of people to view the protection and education of girls as a key to peace and prosperity and progress.'
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091009/u ... 9192939500
reward. I've been in Afghanistan and Pakistan, a little money goes a long way there. From what I'm
reading people in Afghanistan earn 10 dollars a week on average. So the money would have
started, what? Maybe a hundred more schools for girls, maybe more. Maybe 100,000 more
girls learning to read, learning geography, learning.... I don't think most of us can
imagine what life is like for women in that part of the world. Or the awful consequences for
society at large, including a desperate fanaticism among men. You cannot treat half the population
like that without everybody being crazy.
You don't necessarily have to kill people to defeat the Taliban.
It's this combination of a creative idea that goes, in a dramatically peaceful way, to the plight of those most oppressed, coupled with real accomplishment at the cost of serious personal risk, that moved
me about the Nobel Peace Prize and, I believe, lent it so much dignity in the world's eyes.
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He has already said that he's donating it to charity, or rather, to a number of charities. No doubt one will be something like a wounded veterans assistance organization, and another might well be Mortensen's charity.Nanohedron wrote: What's Obama going to do with the dosh? If he gave it to Mortenson, that would be a most appropriate gesture, worthy.
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Thank the bloody norwegians for that!I.D.10-t wrote:Political BS. I have lost all respect for the Nobel prize. It waits 20-30 years for real ground breaking work, letting history give perspective, but it seems that it is not the wait for politicians.
Not a comment on my approval or disapproval of our current president, just about the prize.
Alfred Nobel made a bad choice in letting the norwegians deal with the peace price. It should have remained with the swedes...
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Mebbe he'll give it to that charity run by Gaddafi's son!s1m0n wrote:He has already said that he's donating it to charity, or rather, to a number of charities. No doubt one will be something like a wounded veterans assistance organization, and another might well be Mortensen's charity.Nanohedron wrote: What's Obama going to do with the dosh? If he gave it to Mortenson, that would be a most appropriate gesture, worthy.
It's been a long day filled with lunacy, no doubt the waning moon's revenge on us for stickin' him in the eye. My final answer: they should have given the prize to Letterman.
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Nobel peace prize, Oscars, Olympics, etc... They don't mean anything any more. It's all just wind and sails.
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Doesn't the fact that they knighted Mick Jagger mean ANYTHING to you?
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