More on Gore and the Nobel faux pas...

I'm not the only one it thinks it in bad taste that the Nobel committee gave a Peace Prize to Al Gore while overlooking some people who were actually worthy of the prestigious award. My buddy Peter points this out:

This year, though, the committee outdid itself. Here's who it ignored in favor of Gore:

Irena Sendler, born in 1910, was raised by her Catholic parents to respect and love people regardless of their ethnicity or social status. Her father, a physician, died from typhus that he contracted during an epidemic in 1917. He was the only doctor in his town near Warsaw who would treat the poor, mostly Jewish victims of this tragic disease. As he was dying, he told 7-year-old Irena, "If you see someone drowning you must try to rescue them, even if you cannot swim." In 1939 the Nazis swept through Poland and imprisoned the Jews in ghettos where they were first starved to death and then systematically murdered in killing camps. Irena, by than a social worker in Warsaw, saw the Jewish people drowning and resolved to do what she could to rescue as many as possible, especially the children. Working with a network of other social workers and brave Poles, mostly women, she smuggled 2,500 children out of the Warsaw ghetto and hid them safely until the end of the war.

Sendler was tortured and nearly killed for her principles.

Peter also links to a post about how old Al Gore doesn't even live according to his own proclamations. Gore's "Carbon Footprint" is BIG!