Gore cancels fundraiser with Barbara Boxer to travel abroad tomorrow.

[dave29]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=14&entry_id=21062

Carla Marinucci: UPDATE - Gore cancels appearance at Boxer fundraiser
Sen. Barbara Boxer's office just contacted us to say former Vice President Al Gore has been called "overseas" for a trip related to his work on global warming and has canceled his scheduled appearance Thursday in San Francisco at a fundraiser for Boxer's re-election effort. So the Boxer fundraiser -- which was to include Bonnie Raitt and Jackson Browne -- is off until Nov. 9.

Here's a note Boxer sent supporters about the change:

I just got a call from Vice President Al Gore. He told me that he needs to travel abroad tomorrow for an exciting and urgent mission that could result in a major breakthrough in the fight against global warming.

[David Dunham]

1. After he returns, how about a US press conference to say he's running for 2008?

[Atman]

2. Didn't someone just post that he just cancelled the trip abroad?

Hmm. Gotta check into this.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=2021295&mesg_id=2021295

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[dave29]

4. I believe he cancelled another trip to Asia that was supposed to take place.

I think he may have won the nobel, and has been informed.

I hope.

[berni_mccoy]

3. "Overseas" for a trip related to his work... NOBEL PEACE PRIZE ACCEPTANCE!

And once he accepts, he will announce his presidency, which will be the major breakthrough in the fight against global warming because you'll actually have a candidate who gives a damn!!!

[MADem]

5. No. They don't GIVE OUT the prizes until December. And they never deviate from that month. NT

[Bumblebee]

7. C'mon. They don't accept it the same day it's announced! This is silly.

[DefenseLawyer]

6. I'm not sure

but I think they just announce the winner tomorrow and there is a formal ceremony where all the awards are presented like a month from now, so even if he wins (which I think he will), I don't think he would be going to Sweden tomorrow. But I could be wrong.

[MADem]

10. The awards are always given out in December. On "Nobel Day" to be precise.

http://hem.passagen.se/farila/nobelday.htm

This sure sounds like a translation:

On the Nobel Day the Nobel Prizes are delivered to the Prize Winners of the year. The prizes are for a Scientific Exploration of great value for mankind in the areas of Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature, Economics and Peace.

Maybe the donor Alfred Nobel was forced by a bad conscience?
He had found out how to make Dynamite and got his wealth from that investigation. An investigation which made it possible to make bombs.

When Alfred Nobel died in 1896 he had made a will in which he bequeathed his money to a Prize which was promoting development of Peace and the progress of the living conditions of mankind. He directed that the Scientific prizes was to be delivered in Stockholm and the Prize of Peace in Oslo, the capital of Norway. Norway and Sweden were united at that time.

The delivering of the prizes in the Concert Hall of Stockholm is followed by a grand feast in the Town Hall, and nowadays all people can follow this by television. The climax of that dinner is when an amount of serving persons is coming downstairs in a procession, carrying big plates with enourmous very elegant Ice Cream Desserts. The room is dark and there is fire-spitting torches in the Dessert. An elegant finish of a grand feast - even to us who just follow the festivities by the direct television display

[FightingIrish]

8. Does the laureate normally travel to Oslo for the announcement?

The actual award ceremony is not until December 10. This could be something else entirely.

[Az]

9. This is not about the Nobel prize

There is no travel involved in this stage of the award. The winner is informed by phone call initially and then the press release announces it to the world.

[DS1]

11. They're going to park him in front of an off-shore wind farm and he's

going to give 4 speeches in a row, supplying enough wind power to cut fossil fuel energy production by 90%






















*flees*
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[MiniMe]

12. I think the trip has been cancelled.

I saw that on another post, so the hearing will go on as scheduled.

[Atman]

13. Read post #2

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