I hope Al Gore is hanging his head

Telegraph of London ^ | 5-13-2008 | Daniel Hannan

[Entrepreneur]

I am ashamed to admit that I had never heard of Irena Sendler, whose obituary appeared in this morning’s paper. Hers is an awesomely humbling story, even by the standards of her heroic generation.

A Polish Catholic, she spirited some 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw ghetto, displaying casual and extraordinary courage. She kept a list of the children she had saved, hoping one day to reunite them with their parents – although, in the event, almost all lost their families in Treblinka. In 1943, she was arrested by the Gestapo and tortured. Her legs and feet were broken, but she refused to give up her list. She was sentenced to death, but rescued, whereupon – almost unbelievably – she went back to work.

Here, though, is the sentence that leapt off the page at me: “Last year she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, eventually won by Al Gore.” Al Gore!...

...making a film is not the same thing as donning a yellow star and smuggling babies past enemy soldiers...

..."I continue to have qualms of conscience that I did so little. I could have done more. This regret will follow me to my death.” There is a haunting sincerity to that statement. You can’t imagine Al Gore saying any such thing, can you?

[Entrepreneur]

There have been several posts about Irena Sendler's passing over the past few days on the Free Republic...

Sendler, savior of Warsaw Ghetto children, dies

Woman who saved kids from Holocaust dies (Irena Sendler)

And earlier...

Polish Holocaust heroine in Hollywood movie

Polish righteous gentile nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

Irena Sendler for Nobel Peace Prize - support this candidacy! ("Polish Schindler")

Polish righteous Gentile woman recommended for Nobel Prize

A Nobel Prize for peace - and image

Irena Sendler - candidate for Peace Nobel Prize

I'm not sure any made the connection between Sendler's nomination and Algore's receipt of a joke of a Nobel Peace Prize.

The people who really should hang their heads are those who gave the huckster the sham of a prize.

[purpleraine]

People like Gore never do anything wrong. They just move to the next cause.

[Flavius]

To bad there is server storage.

[Auntie Mame]

Thanks for the background.

Posting this comment from the blog for others to read for background:

Never Heard Of Irena?

Maddie 14 May 2008 02:57

Isn’t it amazing that millions of us ‘ignorant Yanks’ know about this incredible woman and her story, yet a Euro doesn’t.

It started with a history project in a small rural Kansas town where 4 friends signed up for National History Day, a contest in which more than half a million students compete to create the most compelling historical project. They decided to make their project a one act play about the Holocaust. This is a small farming town and there were only 29 kids in their graduating class.

They wanted an actual person to research and came across an article from years earlier titled “The Other Schindlers” which described a half dozen people who had also saved Jews but were never recognized. They chose Irena, but after sifting through books, newspapers, the internet and even going to the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education, could find nothing. Through a Jewish Foundation, they found out Irena was still alive and living in Warsaw.

They sent her a letter and told her about their play. Irena responded, in Polish, and they had to find a translator at the University of Kansas.

“To my dear and beloved girls, very close to my heart,” Irena began, and proceeded to tell them her incredible and harrowing story. She was flattered by their play but insisted she was no hero and did what anyone would have done.

They made it to the National History Day finals but didn’t win, but because of coverage in a local paper, civic organizations were calling and asking them to perform their play “Life in a Jar”. After a performance, a Jewish businessman asked if they would like to go to Warsaw and meet Irena and said he would pay. They went in 2001 and were mobbed by the Polish press because it became news there. They met Irena and they all hugged and cried.

All these years later, this woman became a hero and inspiration to these young girls living in rural Kansas.

I don’t know if this story is what brought Irena the recognition she deserved and a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize, but it’s been published here in several venues and when Gore won, I thought it was a complete injustice.

[newheart]

"I hope Al Gore is hanging his head"

That would, of course, assume that Big Al had received the average human being's ration of humility.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I didn’t think that the Nobel Peace Prize could sink any lower on my admiration and respect scale. It just did. This is a damn shame. I never saw the other posts about Irena Sendler on FR. I’m going to read them now. Irena is far above being just a Nobel Prize winner. She’s a saint. Algore is a two bit pimp.

[Hodar]

You are assuming that Al Gore has the capacity for shame.

You have higher expectations from that man than I.

[Lancey Howard]

Al Gore and his Democrat ilk NEVER feel shame. It’s not possible.
Shamelessness is a vital and necessary part of their makeup.

[Sparky7450]

I join you in your shunning of this huckster.

[svcw]

He would only be able to hang his head in shame if he had a brain, heart or courage - none of which his has.
He is the fake behind the curtain.

[DieHard the Hunter]

> I hope Al Gore is hanging his head

And I hope Al Gore is hanging himself!

It is just as well Irena Sendler was not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize: most of the great unhanged villains of the 20th and 21 Centuries have either been awarded the Peace Prize, or have appeared as Time's Man of the Year, or have been awarded Knighthoods.

Nobody with any sense of self-dignity and self-respect would want to be in their company.

[Amendment10]

Al Gore isn't the first time that the Nobel Country Club has caved in to political correctness.

Nobel Country Club politically correct awards

[DieHard the Hunter]

> I am ashamed to admit that I had never heard of Irena Sendler, whose obituary appeared in this morning’s paper. Hers is an awesomely humbling story, even by the standards of her heroic generation.

It is amazing how the great ones pass quietly, virtually unnoticed. Kate ter Horst passed along quietly, too: tragic victim of a traffic accident.

Yet there seems to be a certain dignity in that, which is entirely lost when the likes of, say, Paula Yates kicks off.

RIP Ms Sendler. Your reward surely awaits.

[Captain Beyond]

bump

[IncPen]

ping

[philetus]

When I first saw it, I thought it said “hanging by his head” and I agreed.

[Verginius Rufus]

May 23 will be the 100th birthday of an American who won two Nobel Prizes in Physics (both shared), in 1956 and 1972, John Bardeen (died 1991). I think he is the only person who has won the prize twice in the same field.

[Amendment10]

Regarding so-called AGW, I forgot to mention the following.

Given that ocean temperatures are regarded as a major indicator of global warming activity, the slight decrease in ocean temperatures indicated by the Argo System oceanic temperature probes over the past several years emphasizes the politically correct foundation of AGW alarmism.

Argo System ocean temperature probes

[haroldeveryman]

I almost gag every time I hear some news commentator refer to the Peace prize as the “most prestigious of the Nobel Prizes”. Maybe there was a time when it had some positive significance, but in recent decades the “peace Prize” as been a complete farce.

[philetus]

Nobody with any sense of self-dignity and self-respect would want to be in their company. “

Agreed. The kids eant more to her than any “political” award would.

[Enchante]

Albore simply behaved the way political whores behave.

He is contemptible, but the people most to blame in this matter are those on the committee that awarded the prize to him and that IPCC while passing over this astonishing saintly woman.

Obviously the PC blowhards of the Nobel committee cared far more about rewarding sanctimonious political hacks of dubious merit than they did about recognizing Irena Sendler, one of the most wonderful humans ever. Even worse, they had to know she had not too too long to live and that they could always make the award to Gore and the IPCC in any of the upcoming years. Clearly the incredible deeds of Irena Sendler just don’t weigh on the scales of the posturing frauds on the Nobel Peace Prize committee.

[supremedoctrine]

And, in this same “Nobel” connection, it’s hard to believe who has received the Nobel Prize for Literature—like hack Toni Morrison. Thomas Keneally, who wrote Schindler’s List , and a few dozen other great novels of international stature, apparently has become invisible.

[oyez]

Algore’s crap is only leading us to war and famine.

[rottndog]

For one to have a sense of shame, one must first possess a conscience. Gore lacking the latter, can’t possible have the former.

Of course this is a typical trait amongst left wing lunatics like Gore.

[mkjessup]

"I hope Al Gore is hanging his head"

Unlikely, as Professor Gore actually discovered the suboccipital muscles of the neck, therefore providing him with the knowledge needed to keep that area taut and conditioned, thereby avoiding any need to hang his head, nearly filled to overflowing with all of his superior brainpower.

[JoeSixPack1]

Thank you, Very nice info! :-)

[Entrepreneur]

He is contemptible,

A redundant statement if there ever was one.

but the people most to blame in this matter are those on the committee that awarded the prize to him and that IPCC while passing over this astonishing saintly woman.

Agreed

Obviously the PC blowhards of the Nobel committee cared far more about rewarding sanctimonious political hacks of dubious merit than they did about recognizing Irena Sendler, one of the most wonderful humans ever. Even worse, they had to know she had not too too long to live and that they could always make the award to Gore and the IPCC in any of the upcoming years.

How damning when stated this way!

[AndyTheBear]

Here, though, is the sentence that leapt off the page at me: “Last year she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, eventually won by Al Gore.” Al Gore!...

Don't hold your breath waiting for justice from mortals. God, and God alone can and will right the wrongs of this world.

[nyyankeefan]

if al gore had a brain - he would figure a way to hang himself.....that would take a heart ...to rid the world of dross & offal he is....but it also would take courage....of course of which....he has none!!!!

[230FMJ]

The shysters and fools who give out the Nobel prize are not worthy to have washed her feet.

[lionheart 247365]

Al Gore can go to hell and take his Nobel Piece of $h!+ prize with him , Irena on the other hand shall have the wind beneath her wings for eternity as she soars with the angels in a place called heaven .

[Amos the Prophet]

To experience shame one must first be moral.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

[M]ost of the great unhanged villains of the 20th and 21 Centuries have either been awarded the Peace Prize, or have appeared as Time's Man of the Year

They missed Saddam. Maybe he get one posthumously.

[Gumdrop]

The irrationality of giving the Peace Prize to Al Gore over this woman can only be explained with one word - Anti-Semitism. After all, this lady was saving Jewish children. Maybe if they had been Palestinian kids, she would have gotten the prize.

[Da Coyote]

Nobel prizes for anything other than science are junk. Give the committee time, and they’ll figure out a way to bastardize science also. First potential candidate: Nobel prize for physics - global warming “modeling. Of course, should that happen, those physicists that actually got As in their courses will rise up and smite the D recipiant (that’s that one that got into global warming).

[Ditto]

Irena is far above being just a Nobel Prize winner.

Considering the kind of thugs and leftist hustlers that have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to in recent decades, I'd say the Nobel committee is not worthy of Irena.

They have turned the award into a joke.

[Northern Yankee]

I'm with you mate!

How in the world can anyone, with any ounce of conscience, feel good about that award when the person really deserving of it is shunned?!

The whole damned thing is a sham.

God Bless this woman and the beautiful work she has done.

She's the real heroine of this whole thing.

[texas booster]

Wow - talk about humbling. From this link:

http://www.kshs.org/teachers/historyday/uniontown.htm

“Holocaust and Life in a Jar”

Five young women—Gabrielle Bradbury, Elizabeth Cambers, Sabrina Coons, Megan Stewart, and Janice Underwood of Uniontown High School, Uniontown, Kansas, made an incredible discovery in their History Day class during the 2000-2001 year. This discovery would change their lives and that of a very special woman.

They discovered a magazine clipping with the headline, “Irena Sendler saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942-43.” Their teacher, Milken educator Norman Conard, wondered if there was some mistake. He was unfamiliar with this woman's story. Conard, whose classroom motto is “he who changes one person, changes the world entire,” encouraged the girls to pursue the topic searching for primary and secondary sources.

The students learned that Irena Sendler had been a non-Jewish social worker and was head of the children's section in the Polish underground movement known as Zegot during World War II. As a social worker, Sendler had access to the Warsaw Ghetto. Sendler risked her life to save the lives of thousands of Jewish children by coaxing Jewish parents and grandparents to relinquish their children to her. She knew that the Jewish children would, most likely, die in the Ghetto or in the death camps. She established a plan to smuggle the children past Nazi guards by putting them in body bags, saying they were dead or had typhus. Once outside the Ghetto, she found Polish families to adopt them.

Between 1942 and 1943, Sendler was able to rescue 2,500 children. She saved a list of the children's real names, stored them in jars for safe keeping, and buried the jars in her garden. She knew one day she would be able to dig up the jars and identify the children.

On October 20, 1943, Sendler was captured by the Nazi's and beaten severely. The Polish underground eventually was able to bribe a guard for her release, and she went into hiding.

The Uniontown students searched for the final resting place of Irena and discovered she was still alive at the age of 91 and living in poverty in Warsaw, Poland. They began to collect money for Irena calling their collection jar, “Life in a Jar.” They contacted some of the people Irena had saved.

For their History Day project, the students wrote a performance in which they portrayed the life of Irena Sendler. “Holocaust and Life in a Jar” received first place in the Senior Group Performance at the 2000 Kansas History Day competition in May 2000 and earned them a trip that June to National History Day near Washington, D.C. The students also performed the drama for numerous clubs and civic groups in the community. People were so inspired by the project that they sponsored an “Irena Sendler Day.”

The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous in New York City offered assistance in sending the money the students had raised to a Polish bank in Warsaw for Irena. The students corresponded with Irena enlisted the help of a Polish student, who was attending a local college, to translate for them. “Your performance and work is continuing the effort I started over fifty years ago, you are my dearly beloved girls,” wrote Irena. The students shared the letters with universities, historical societies, and the Chicago and New York Jewish Foundations.

C-SPAN, National Public Radio, and CBS, became interested in the story. Conard was contacted for the book and film rights to their story. The students were invited to perform in Washington, D.C. and before a Jewish foundation in New York City. They have become knowledgeable on subjects such as the Holocaust, World War II, and the Polish underground.

In January 2001, they met John Shuchart, a Jewish educator and businessman, who told the girls he would raise the money and send them to Warsaw. He raised the money within 24 hours. The group traveled to Poland in May 2001 for an emotional meeting with the 91-year-old woman and heroine to the students. Sendler told the students she was just an ordinary person, not a hero. “I want the Jewish community to know that there was resistance and a spirit among the Jews in the Ghetto.”

The students continue their performances and research and correspond with Sendler and those she rescued. They have established an e-mail address isendler@hotmail.com. Three other students have joined the group to provide assistance.

“The story of Irena Sendler had a profound effect not only on those who have heard the story, but on the storytellers as well,” said Conard. “The girls regularly write on their homework papers notes such as, ‘I'm changing the world’ and ‘Irena's story must be told.’ I've traveled with the girls to numerous performances and watched the great emotion that pours out of the audience during their presentation. They have literally taken our class motto and brought it to life.”

[texas booster]

[Auntie Mame]

Professor Gore actually discovered the suboccipital muscles of the neck, therefore providing him with the knowledge needed to keep that area taut and conditioned, thereby avoiding any need to hang his head, nearly filled to overflowing with all of his superior brainpower.

LOL. So true.

[Auntie Mame]

That was great. Truly an amazing and inspiring story, not only about Irena, but the students, the businessman who raised the money to send them to Poland, well, all involved. Simply wonderful.

[texas booster]

At www.irenasandler.com they have a few pictures of the children she saved, all grown up and full of life.

I guess that she pretty much signifies agape love.