http://www.irenasendler.org/

It’s worth a look.

Agreed.

I don’t see why Al Gore should hang his head, he didn’t choose to award himself the prize, nor did he choose to be nominated. A different title and message would do this story and this woman more justice. She deserves to be recognized for what she did, not what she did not receive and she certainly doesn’t need to be compared to Al Gore in such a way that gives this fantastic story such a negative spin.

In that sense, it is not his “fault” (unless, perhaps, it can be shown he “campaigned” for it).

And I quite freely admit an aversion to Gore. To the NP judges, as well. (I consider myself to be a liberal, but I consider those guys to be quite unliberal, even anti-liberal.)

Yet if there are two equal candidates for a beneficence one may judge the wisdom of which gets it.

It’s bad enough if it’s a “cold fusion” prize for mistaken science. That would be a mere mistake.

But a peace prize for an extreme sanctimony that has been quite destructive in terms of human life and wellbeing (and threatens more damage) is beyond the pale.

Sort of like the prodigal son inheriting all the swag while his infinitely more deserving sister is cut out of the will.

Besides, this isn’t about the money, it’s about the credit.

Listen to yourselves people you’ve allowed yourselves to twist any story to fit your “verbal” fatwah against Gore. He may be wrong, the amazing lady is truly amazing, but why should her magnificence be used as a stick to hit someone with by people with an axe to grind?
Here’s another one for you: “the sky is blue, Gore is fat”
Impeccable argumentation.

It would be shameful to insult such a fine and brave woman.

Appalling.

WWII, especially the European Theater, is probably my main area of expertise. The threat to, well, everything, was colossal. Unimaginable.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,356556,00.html

The prize comes in many different categories. The peace prize is not about scientific advancement in any way.

And it IS phony science. I have yet to see even one piece of observational (sorry not computer models), real world evidence that CO2 warms the earth.

If I were in Al’s shoes at the time, I doubt that I could even consider keeping the prize from a deserving hero such as Irena Sendler.

The children were taken and given, under false names, to other families. As a third of the population of Poland was murdered (half of them non-Jewish) during the war, it is probable that not all of them survived in any event.

She wrote down the names (the famous bottles-buried-in-the -garden story). She did this at deadly risk of discovery. They were recovered after the war. That is fairly good documentation for the numbers, considering the circumstances of the war.

Perhaps hard proofs backing the reality of this Sendler tale are lacking,and it is thinkable that some members of the Noble Peace Prize committee had their doubts. Of course, they should have had their doubts on Al Gore’s story, too.