Just a catch up. Mr.Albom is a writer for The Detroit Free Press. His article was in my Sunday paper this last week. He was being critical of Obama's Nobel and i felt i needed to sound off.
This is my email to him.
Mr.Albom,
For the very first time in months i was personally pleasantly surprised to read your article about
Mr.Obama's Nobel Peace Prize mockery.
Before February, i donated money to The Paralyzed Veterans of America (which i do monthly and have been doing for years)
I found a needy family who have 3 children, no money, no heat, no food (one of their rooms has a dirt floor) and gave them a Christmas to be proud of, and helped keep them sustained this past Winter. All in the middle of losing my own job.
I spent the last year sending boxes of good to my friends in Iraq. I also have sent boxes to the Adopt a Soldier fund and others like it.
Ive never passed by a Salvation Army Collection Bucket and not put something in, never..
I do all this with a chronic form of Scoliosis, I have IBS, the beginning stages of Rheumatoid Arthritis and a Bladder Disease that typically leaves me unable to get off the sofa from the pain. I'm 27 years old and the single Mother of an 8 year old boy. My ex-husband abused us and i left with my son when he was just a year old, i carry the physical scars on me still.
My Mother has had a bad back since she was injured on the job over ten years ago. She sometimes gets hit so badly with pain that she is bed ridden for a week+. I take care of her too.
We are proud Christians, all we can do is pray.
I recently was forced to resign from my beloved job due to discrimination. I was the Director of Security at a large company, i loved my job, they loved me..
My health care bills are $30,000+. I no longer keep track of them, it only made me depressed.
I am not on welfare, i never will be. I refuse to be and it's not going to happen. I ask nothing from the state or the Government. Not like they would help if i did.
So, my question is, Where's my f***ing Nobel Peace Prize?
Where is my recognition for being a good human being? For helping others even though i can't even help myself sometimes!?
Mr. Albom, how about you give out Prizes for all of us "less than" citizens? I'm sorry i didn't do that much for anyone this past year (note the sarcasm), i see that our "heroic" commander HAD to have done SOMETHING to get his...... ?????
He must have done more than me. ????
He got voted in to office, that was ALL!
I got voted to be the first person in my family to have a nervous breakdown. Prize please?
My son says that i deserve a prize for being the most beautiful mom ever. I can't say i agree with him, but that's all the prize i need. Him looking at me in the morning and hugging me, telling me how amazing i am.
DAMN i'm lucky. God has blessed me, not with health, but with many other things. I want no prize really, i just want people to know that there are so many others out there that deserve recognition for what they do.
I know people with far more obstacles in their way than myself. I can't imagine how hard their lives must be. I encourage you to ask for their stories.
God Bless you for saying what we are all thinking.
Could you please have the Gov. ship mine overnight? I'd like to show it off at my upcoming Halloween Party.
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CHARLIgurl1
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Oct 12 @ 4:47PM
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Cant give you any prizes...
But I can give you a  and say Good blog!
Youre a very special lady and I'm proud to call you friend.
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RightWingRepublican
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Oct 12 @ 4:52PM
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Love you too Char.
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bluewind37
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Oct 12 @ 5:01PM
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I would say you already have a prize, one that is much better than the Nobel Peace Prize.....the love and admiration of you son. Nothing can ever out shine that. 
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RightWingRepublican
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Oct 12 @ 5:13PM
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 Thanks Blue.
Yeah i certainly have that. He's amazing, smart, has been a kind and well behaved kid since the day he was born. I'm one lucky woman.
I figured if anytime was a good one to use some of my story, that was it.
There are people in the world who deserve a prize for humanity. The things i do are TINY compared to some people. I know people who've been to Darfur and Ethiopia and have helped thousands of people. They have gone with no fear for their own well being.... I wish i had that strength.
I hope more people send in their stories to the Free Press. I know they are out there, they deserve recognition.
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teddybearr48
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Oct 12 @ 5:15PM
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You are too overly quailifed for the Peace Prize.
But I am sure you deserve an award...
so here ya go...
I too was amazed at the Noble Peace award...I always thought that it required some great accomplishment or even a lifetime of accomplishment like one of the sicientific awards...but aparently the Peace prize is different.
Obama was awared, "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples".
I think that translates to, 'much more talk and no more action'. LOL
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cbond35
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Oct 12 @ 5:24PM
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I sent my fellow servicemen and women serving overseas, cases of Handi-wipes and some cigars.
Why?
Cuz they asked me to..............
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gunn12fan
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Oct 12 @ 5:44PM
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Ok? why don't you run for some sort of office and give them some of your mind ok.. 
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RightWingRepublican
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Oct 12 @ 5:58PM
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I sent my fellow servicemen and women serving overseas, cases of Handi-wipes and some cigars.
Ok? why don't you run for some sort of office and give them some of your mind ok I have considered it.
I'm the Mayor of Crazy Town, does that count? 
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gunn12fan
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Oct 12 @ 6:00PM
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Not really.
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RightWingRepublican
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Oct 12 @ 6:03PM
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I'd be great in office.
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gunn12fan
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Oct 12 @ 6:05PM
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I can only imagine you would be
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Always_Striving
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Oct 12 @ 7:52PM
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Charity never faileth. You should be rewarded for your former good deeds.
Let's hope that Obama's pending health care reform plan will help ease the burden of your expenses.
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PeacefulGuy
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Oct 12 @ 9:25PM
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RWR to get your Nobel Peace Prize you'll need to start reading others peoples words over a teleprompter... Then you might have a good chance of getting one..Also I think they want you to lie alot.. 
But you know what RWR.. You already received an award...It's called Motherhood.. That's the greatest gift of them all....
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RightWingRepublican
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Oct 12 @ 9:34PM
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Let's hope that Obama's pending health care reform plan will help ease the burden of your expenses. It won't. and it's not a burden for the most part.
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legacy1
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Oct 13 @ 9:40AM
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I must admit that deserves a kudo...Take care RWR!
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mojorisin
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Oct 13 @ 2:44PM
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PeacefulGuy
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Oct 13 @ 5:33PM
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RWR I'm nominating you for Matchdoctor "Woman of the Year'' award.. 
I like your style my friend.. 
The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity,
as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame,
The mind has a thousand eyes and the heart but one,
"Ultimately, the bond of companionship, whether in marriage or friendship,
is conversation."
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Tunes4u
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Oct 13 @ 6:08PM
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Well...this was a great post no doubt. A couragous woman...and a loving son....beautiful. Really!
And the points you make concerning our fear less and less leader are right on.
That is why I am hesitating to tell you the latest news...fresh off the wire moments ago.
Obama has won the Heisman Trophy as well......
Apparently he watched a complete quarter of a college football game over the weekend.
I am sorry to bring this to your attention just now, but thought it best to get it over with quickly.
Hopefully, it may inspire another blog from you? We should be so lucky!
~*~
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observed50
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Oct 13 @ 6:21PM
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Let me offer a suggestion...
The gift of our lives is short, often not too sweet, and filled with struggles of all kinds.
Sometimes, we're lucky and are woven in networks to hold us up in times of struggle. Sometimes we're lucky and born into position and prestige that makes the road easy to begin with...yet it doesn't deter life's tragedies...it simply slows down the maybe mediates their pain. It sounds as if you've had your share of pain, and continue to do so. I hope you're able to find relief for some of that pain.
And I'm especially sorry to hear of the abuse of your ex. I know too many women who bear the scars of men who said they loved them.
Yet, the extension of your life as gifting and blessings into the lives of people in need that you have listed above is a gifting that has no measure...and at the same time, is inappropriate to be used as measure. If we 'give to get'...if we give to find attention and draw focus onto ourselves, we sully the gifting with our pride and our exploitation of others whom we exploit to say...'look at me. I am somebody.'
Your story is its own monument. It is its own parade. It was a wonderful gift to your world until you made it a burden to your community..."Where is my recognition for being a good human being? Where is MY f***ing Nobel Peace Prize?"
My sense is you do what you do because it is who you are at center, at core. The gift of your life, and its core of being concerned and connected to the world, benefits by keeping the core of your concern away from the draw or drive of anger and associated debris, especially the debris of ideology. Your gifting isn't made better or more by using it in sarcastic or self-righteous anger...it's diminished. "But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret." Matthew...
If you don't give because its the right thing to do for you...then don't give. But if you give because it is the right thing...and that is what I sense of you...then give and let the fullness of that giving be found in its motion, in its act...not in its comparison with others for whom you fail to understand their recognition or reward. IF we all waited to give because we were going to get...the world would be an even more barren place of people waiting to know first...'is now is the time I will be recognized.'
Don't let your giving be a burden for which you seek others acknowledgment, or a burden that leads you to believe you are worthy of something others are not. It is easy to comprehend why people think the Nobel committee screwed up. Be confounded. But keep your giving secret so that it remains about the needy recipients...and not about you.
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RightWingRepublican
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Oct 14 @ 6:43PM
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I understand that the idea of pointing out the mockery made by the Nobel Peace nutters has upset a few people, i get that. A Nobel Peace Prize is now nothing more than nothing since anyone obviously can obtain one for doing nothing.
It's not "about me". Had i written something that was pertaining to someone else, it wouldn't have had the effect that my own events have.
I never looked for any recognition for any deeds done.
I simply wanted to show people that a man who has done nothing, absolutely nothing, was handed an award for nothing. And that there are millions of others who have done more (one of them would be me)
Your story is its own monument. It is its own parade. It was a wonderful gift to your world until you made it a burden to your community..."Where is my recognition for being a good human being? Where is MY f***ing Nobel Peace Prize?" Sorry, did i have to write "Note the sarcasm" so you could get it? Everyone else got it.
And does everything have to be interpreted into an argument?
Mr.Negativity.
Moving on.
I hope that maybe some of the things ive done will make others follow suit.
Maybe get out from behind a computer, get off your ass and ACTUALLY do something? I see so much "peace and love everyone" shit flying around here all the time. How about using that tenacity for something good?
I think people need to be angry and direct it where it needs to go. Anger can be a good thing, it keeps you fighting for what's right and wrong.
Though, i'm not certain that 54 million of us Americans know what's right and wrong.
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PeacefulGuy
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Oct 22 @ 5:06PM
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RWR you tell them girl..
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BUSTED616
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Oct 22 @ 7:51PM
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I simply wanted to show people that a man who has done nothing, absolutely nothing, was handed an award for nothing.
And you have spent your entire life with Obama, at his side, through his every waking moment to know that he has done "nothing" thoughout his entire life, right?
Obviously it's a rhetorical question and doesn't need an answer.
keep your giving secret so that it remains about the needy recipients...and not about you. Exxactly. Great post Observed, even though you did get chided for it.
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RightWingRepublican
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Oct 22 @ 8:06PM
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Exxactly. Great post Observed, even though you did get chided for it Great minds think alike, fools never differ. 
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RightWingRepublican
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Oct 22 @ 8:08PM
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Another shit starter in the mix.
You can tell so much by other stuff someone has said. 
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