Contributed by Mark Sorensen,
There recently was a death of a 98 year-old lady named Irena. During WWII, Irena, got permission to work in the Warsaw Ghetto, as a Plumbing/Sewer specialist. She had an 'ulterior motive' ... She KNEW what the Nazi's plans were for the Jews, (being German.) Irena smuggled infants out in the bottom of the tool box she carried and she carried in the back of her truck a burlap sack, (for larger kids..) She also had a dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto. The soldiers of course wanted nothing to do with the dog and the barking covered the kids/infants noises..
During her time of doing this, she managed to smuggle out and save 2500 kids/infants. She was caught, and the Nazi's broke both her legs, arms and beat her severely. Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she smuggled out and kept them in a glass jar, buried under a tree in her back yard. After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived it and reunited the family. Most had been gassed. Those kids she helped got placed into foster family homes or adopted.
Last year Irena was up for the Nobel Peace Prize ..... She was not selected.
Al Gore won, for a slide show on Global Warming.
October 11: General Interest
2002 : Jimmy Carter wins Nobel Prize
NOTE: On this day in 2002, former President Jimmy Carter wins the Nobel Peace Prize "for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development."
Here's an example of how one person, working in her immediate surroundings as a rugged individual, can make a big difference. It is a much more effective way to address problems than is the top down bureaucratic model that progressives prefer.
Imagine the millions of hours and dollars progressives have spent in the last 50 to 60 years on activism...pushing a political agenda. Now imagine what they might have accomplished for real people had they spent that money and time working as creatively and effectively as Irena in their own communities. It boggles the mind.
I wasn't going to bother ... but you don't get the Nobel Peace Prize for individual acts of heroism ... you get it for turning the tide ... globally. For all the specious denegration of late night comics, this my Prezzy is doing.
"For all the specious denegration of late night comics, this my Prezzy is doing."
Horse hockey. He has the lefties of the world in a twirl but that's about it.