Imagine your life for a minute. Add all the success you’ve ever dreamed of. People admire you like you’ve always thought you deserved. Throw in money – money beyond your wildest imagining. Every material possession you could keep in the place where you live, and money to build more houses just to store it all. Cars, houses, and people on the street corner with binoculars trying to get a glimpse of you.

A beautiful spouse, and if things aren’t working out quite the way you like, take on a mistress or two.

Tell you what, make it a baker’s dozen.

And guess what…
You’re not happy.

Barack Obama and His Medals

Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize today. He was selected over Sima Samir, Afghan women’s rights activist, and both Hu Jia and Wei Jingsheng, who have served time in prison for criticizing communism in China. While the others were nominated for accomplishments in the real actual world, the Nobel Committee took note of Mr. Obama’s speeches, handshakes, bowing skills, Hopeychangeyness, ability to convice a crowd they could lower sea levels, and not being George W. Bush.

We have taken the liberty of projecting Mr. Obama’s second and third Nobel Prizes, as demonstrated in the following headlines from the future:

2013: Barack H. Obama Awarded Second Nobel Peace Prize. Cited were his accomplishments in installing Taliban government in Afghanistan. Sima Samir, who could not be identified in sea of burquas, was unable to comment.

2019: Barack H. Obama Awarded Third Nobel Peace Prize, for being a former U.S. President not named George W. Bush. This comes on the heels of the 10th annual U.S. celebration of Chinese Communism ascendancy, which began in his watch. Also notable is the 30th anniversary of the Tianenmen Square massacre. Hu Jia, still in prison for criticizing the Chinese government, was unable to comment. Also unable to comment was Joe “The Plumber” Wurzelbacher, who is currently in prison for crimes of criticizing income redistribution and failure to enroll in a healthcare plan, both of which became crimes in Mr. Obama’s Presidency.

Ed Driscoll: Woody Allen Was Wrong – Showing up is 100% of Success

Hugh Hewitt: Congratulations, Mr. President, but…

Jonah Goldberg: Hilarious and Sad

Mark Steyn: Nobel Peace Bribe

Roundup from Glenn Reynolds – InstaPundit

Times Online: absurd decision on Obama makes a mockery of the Nobel peace prize

John Podhoretz: Barack Obama is the Michael Moore of Oslo

Full Flap from NY Post

UPDATE: Capitalist Coffee is in the running for $33.18 in endowments from Iowahawk!

See Entry #11.

Update: Robert Sloan, former president of Baylor University: Does Michael Moore greedily demand exclusive intellectual property rights?

1. There is no nation in which the ‘chasm’ is narrower, that has a higher standard of living among the poor. This is true because there simply is no other nation that has a higher standard of living among those we call poor. In no other country is obesity a major problem among the poor (and filmmakers).
Charity is important to help the truly poor, but it is not charitable to undermine the economic freedom that gives us enough wealth to be charitable with.

2. The chasm between rich and poor in America is due to a great deal of people making use of the phenomenal opportunities presented by capitalism (grossly obese filmmakers included). The poor are not becoming poorer. The true blight on the poor in this country has been the welfare state, which has converted millions of the working poor into dependent wards of the state.

3. What wages and healthcare plans do the lowliest members of Michael’s film crew make, in relation to Michael?

4. There is no other nation with enough excess wealth to make entertainers fabulously wealthy (grossly obese filmmakers included)

5. Michael Moore – fantastically wealthy, grossly obese. The socialist propagandists of old could hardly have come up with a better cartoon of the excesses of capitalism.

ACORN sues hidden-camera filmmakers – Breitbart