Every nobel Peace prize winner must feel like throwing their award in the bin now as it means absolutely NOTHING anymore. I hope whoever is offered one in the future has the moral background to DENY it in a blink of an eye.

As for the reporter and the foster-parent? What a great story? It just goes to show how ‘low’ society is sinking that someone automatically assumes the ‘worst’ of someone else. But it’s happening all the time and in ‘my opinion’ it’s contrived by the media itself to feed the insatiable greed of the morally inept who are the easiest to convince about anything (Advertisers dream maybe??)

Thanks for sharing this post Paul, it’s a wake-up-call we all need.

Pete.

What we have to realize about this Nobel Peace Prize, which was awarded for President Obama’s “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples” – is that this is an international panel. Sure, they may have been voting mostly with a sense of utter relief that the United States had seen the end of the Bush era. If you watched the joyous celebrations throughout the entire world after Obama’s election it may have occurred to you that the rest of the world actually WANTS to like us – and that anti-Americanism has been rampant for the past 8 years.

Obama has inherited one hell of a mess. The previous administration sold the US down the river and, while I am not in approval of everything Obama has done, I’m certainly willing to buck up and give him a chance.

Well said Tony Williams. I’ve often wondered where we might be as a nation if some of our most remarkable “orators” – John F. Kennedy & Robert F. Kennedy – hadn’t been assassinated.

If only O and his henchman would move to Cuba , Russia or Mexico. The movie the “39 Steps” comes to mind!

America loves its football; professional, college, highschool, etc. Its a game where a man like me would get chewed up and spit out,,, if I were on the field then I would probably be taken off on a stretcher, maybe dead. And Im a fairly fit man,,,, just in no way competitive to a college or pro team.

and just for the record, Im not a football fan – so this point goes out to people that are F-ball fans.

America pays very good money to watch football players beat the life out of each other each week. Football is a microcosm of war,,,,, Americans love their innocent war between our cities. And it just cost us some money, whether it be stadium seats or paid TV,,, or the very many endorsements that the Athlete gets paid by.

admit it America,,, we pay our athletes to train and to play until it hurts,,,, costing them injuries and years off of their lives.

yet when an ignorant star Athlete does relatively the same thing to a bunch of dogs – then he is the villian.
* fyi,,,, Im a dog owner,,,, got just 1 GermanShepherd now (he’s 12, a healthy 12),,,, used to have 2,,, I’d like to have a whole bunch of them – so Im no dog hater.

Im just making the point that the society which Judges Michael Vick is the society that asks Michael Vick to inflict pain on other people. Maybe the athlete doesnt die right away,,, maybe they just live with horrible arthritis for years, then die.

I’ll also add that we ask our government to shoot wolves from the helicopters. Maybe the bullet kills the wolf, maybe it just limps off with a bullet in its body & dies later.

as far as the Vick reality show is concerned, Reality TV is a waste of Oxygen. Its symptomatic of a country that needs something important to concentrate on. Its symptomatic of a country that wants somebody else to be exciting because we, as individuals nolonger have the guts to be creative and functional on our own,,,,, “Please let their be something on TV that will make my life better!!!!”

the Peace Prize has a long history of politics where its inferred no politics are involved. Obama can now say he’s as good as a lot of unmentionable people.

Thanks for sharing great private integrity of the foster family in the midwest. Thanks also for calling out the grotesque lack of integrity in Vick, Obama and the mainstream media.

As long as we can call out the presence and absence of integrity, we can think for and safeguard ourselves.

With media programming drumming ‘tolerance’ into our heads for 50 years now, many people simply do not possess much discernment anymore. They think and do as they are told and don’t want to be confused with the facts.

The reality show and the pees prize are just the latest programming in that regard. Those of you who have not drunk the Kool-Aid know what I’m talking about.

Cherish and protect your kids, your dogs and your rights.

You’re right about Vick.

You’re wrong about Obama.

Dead wrong.

Your general rant is on target, but what you’re missing is the fact that even though Obama doesn’t deserve a NPP, and he said so himself, he’s serving as inspiration to many and that’s the point.

Yes, many, many others are doing very good deeds, which any Eagle Scout including you would find admirable and yes, they do deserve recognition.

What you’re missing is the fact that Obama will influence many more people than all those do-gooders will help, put together.

I’m surprised you are missing this very obvious – and important – fact.

To put Vick and Obama in the same category of “disgusting” is just plain wrong.

You’re welcome for being set straight on this.

Yes, things have gone way off the rails, but only your Vick example exemplifies this fact.

Very well spoken and I certainly wish more people felt the way you do.