Forget the lotteries or a long shot quadrella. The easiest way to make a million dollars and earn the respect of your peers to boot is to win a Nobel Peace Prize.
The rules are invariably flexible. A winner has to do something ‘good’ within fairly broad confines of what good is but then can do a lot of stuff that is extremely bad. Or you can do many bad things early on and then do a little bit of good and next thing you know you’re standing on the stage at the Stockholm Concert Hall, smiling for the cameras with the presentation cheque in hand.
The 26th President of the United States, Teddy Roosevelt was a Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Before becoming president, the redoubtable Teddy was both Secretary of the Navy and the leader of the Rough Riders, a US volunteer cavalry outfit that saw action in the Cuban theatre of the Spanish-American War of 1898.
Teddy frequently charged ahead of his men and blasted away at anything that moved. He wrote a rather chilling piece of reportage where he spoke of his euphoria after killing his first man at the Battle of San Juan. Even his admirers, of which I am one, would acknowledge Teddy liked war a little bit too much.
Full column here.
Has anyone else noted that the PM’s top Public Servants have received a 12% pay rise while most other Public servants have had a pay freeze since 2013 some have just managed to get a 2% rise. WTF?
It seems some of the regulars here are as out of touch as former PM Credlin and her hand puppet abbott.
Essential has also found the proportion of Coalition voters who want Abbott to resign from parliament has grown from 18% in August last year, to 31% in April this year and then 35% this July.
Essential Poll in June, 57% of Coalition voters preferred more investment in renewables to meet Australia’s future energy needs compared with 26% who preferred more coal-fired electricity.
Other data has shown that around 40% of rooftop solar installations occurred in rural and regional Australia, and that low-income households including older Australians feature heavily as adopters of the technology.
I see Mr Crowe on JTI’s twitter feed. Here is more on his doubled down misinformation articles.
http://reneweconomy.com.au/the-amazingly-positive-renewable-story-the-murdoch-media-wont-write-71224/
Yes yes yes. Brother Love’s Traveling Salvation Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=451H6kaKeSU
Back from Bali, we now must resume our regular life. Alas!
It all begins now, mate. Congrats again.
Thanks!
Back from Bali indeed Dwight, loved your wedding photos. However I still reserve the right to disagree with you 🙂
*laugh* Wouldn’t have it any other way, Penny!
Know the feeling Dwight!
I’m not looking forward to leaving France.
Never made it there while living in Europe, Boa. Regret that now. Besides we Germans only come to France in large, well-armed groups. 🙂
Yep. Poor France got a bit of a hammering – in both wars. But it’s all okay now – they’ll let you in 🙂
Lovely news, Dwight. I wish you both everlasting love and friendship.
Any problems with the cake maker??!!
No cake Milt. Dinner at a German restaurant, which was interesting.
One thing we can be thankful for is that Rudd is not heading the UN at this time.
I doubt young Kim would appreciate being called a r?* f%&#ker.
Oh, but the circus would be so much louder with Kevni as ringmaster.
But man, what a ringmaster for the traveling circus!
Who would guess a writer for the Age would be such a twit: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/blogs/tim-blair/even-crazier-after-all-these-years/news-story/fc6f4c65516c619b53efa1d5a32385ad
And then to be so lacking in self-awareness they wrote about it!
Good to see ex ousted PM Tony Abbott right in there with his support for his leader the hapless Malcolm “Hydro” Turnbull, Mr Insider, not! We read today and I quote: ” Former prime minister Tony Abbott has threatened to cross the floor of Parliament and vote against any move to introduce a clean-energy target, describing as “unconscionable” any move to wind back support for coal in favour of renewables”. Poor Turnbull staring down the abyss of total defeat on all fronts as soon consecutive negative Newspoll No 20 set to rear up and bite him on the derriere. As I have said before Turnbull’s Memoirs will have to contain many pretty pictures as there wont be much to write about!
http://tinyurl.com/y7gs366d
pixies?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gkibxWr0DY
The person who once said that democracy and free speech has to be fought for every generation is proving to be correct with the current one.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-chilling-study-shows-how-hostile-college-students-are-toward-free-speech/2017/09/18/cbb1a234-9ca8-11e7-9083-fbfddf6804c2_story.html?utm_term=.49a10dea3f23&wpisrc=nl_popns&wpmm=1
I saw that and was horrified.