No, Seriously, Obama Got the Nobel Peace Prize
This is soooo awkward. This is like when someone gives you a $400 vacuum cleaner that you can't return. Actually? Worse. This is a horrible, misguided, not-bright idea by THOSE MEDDLING SWEDES that has just entirely disrupted our political conversations and plans for most of the next month.
B-b-but he wants to BLOW UP THE MOON!
Yah, and if that goes well, he may decide to blow up Iran, then they are going to blow-up Israel, and so on….
I can hear my brother in-law now, "It's just one more link in the Socialist's plan to take over the world."
Either Laurence O'Donnell or Savannah Guthrie [MSNBC] made a similar point early this morning. Paraphrasing the follow-up: "But these people probably weren't much for the president in the first place though, so who cares?"
I like the theory of the award as Europe's attempt to avoid military engagement with Iran. "Here, ur so peacefull, we lurves u!!1!! NO MORE WARS tho, k thx!"
This is like being on a second date, and right after you've ordered but before the food and the wine arrives, the person you're with looks you straight in the eye and says, "I love you" . . .
SERIOUSLY. this is like a "single ladies bring up child-rearing techniques on blind dates" level of awkward.
So I shouldn't be doing that, Choire? SERVICEY.
And the dinner is lutefisk.
Uff da! :)
or like when your whole family is really mad at you about something — but your favorite aunt keeps on lavishing love on you–and you know you deserve to be all mad at n'shit–but your aunt keeps on with the overthetop love fest–you cant look any one in the eye and your keep on trying to tell your aunt yer not as great as she keeps telling everyone you are..and your older bitter sister is drilling holes in your head with her hateful eyes. sort of like that.
Greetings from Afghanistan, Land of Peace!
yikes, CRINGE!
It is a little exciting to watch the wingnuts' heads blow apart like watermelons, though.
More than a little.
Guys, HELLO, Swedes do not give the Nobel Peace Prize.
Swedes are not involved here.
Look it up.
Actually, a combination: "With the exception of the Nobel Peace Prize, the Nobel Prizes and the Prize in Economics are presented in Stockholm, Sweden, at the annual Prize Award Ceremony on the 10th of December, the anniversary of Nobel's death. The recipients' lectures are presented in the days prior to the award ceremony.[2] The Nobel Peace Prize and its recipients' lectures are presented at the annual Prize Award Ceremony in Oslo, Norway, also on the 10th of December. The reason why Norway distributes a part of the prize is that at the time of Alfred Nobel's death, Norway and Sweden were joined together in a personal union known as the Swedish-Norwegian Union.[3][4] The award ceremonies and the associated banquets are nowadays major international events.[2]"
No, sorry, it's not a combination. The Norwegian Nobel Committee chooses the Peace Prize laureate all by its little self.
DO NOT GET TECHNICAL ON ME. It's like Africa over there, all one big country.
http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/letters-to-the-editor-oslo-has-a-strange-happysad
As with Africa, we are often blind to the inter-tribal conflicts that drive the actions of the Scandinavians. This is actually a Norwegian rebuke to the Danes for selecting Rio over Chicago.
I'm going to go tell my boss and watch him have an aneurysm.
Previous winners: Henry Kissinger!
Yasser Arafat
That sonofabitch Jimmy Carter
But Kissinger still lives.
Correction: Kissinger still "lives."
God this is going to give my father-in-law and aneurysm, he already thinks Obama is the Anti-Christ (seriously, he used to think the head of NATO was too) this is going to convince him it's all some End Times plot by the godless Europeans with their black helicopters and national health care.
Oh, nobody told you…
Peace.
And Obama gets 10 million krona. Which is almost $1.5 million.
God, this has been a good year for him.
Plus he can send that shit to Cash4Gold and make even more.
You are the wind beneath my wings.
The medal will keep Bo in dog food for awhile:
176.00 Grams – 113.18 Dwts – 5.659 Troy Ozs
Alloy Gold of 0.750 Purity
Weight of Metal 4.244 Troy Oz of Pure Gold
Price Used 1,047.59 USD / Troy Oz
Value of Metal 4,446 USD
That's supposed to be two separate links:
Prize.
Currency conversion.
This is like going on Wheel of Fortune and landing on the NEW CAR spin and being all "but, like, I don't drive and stuff."
Hey, at least he's keeping out of the hands of Ahmedinejad.
At least for a year…
But seriously, the Awl: Fix your tag, even if Twitter cannot.
See that would make sense if the image showed up. But truly, it's "Nobel."
If they wanted Obama to visit Olso they should've just asked him.
All this talk of "he's trying so hard!" and "he's got some great ideas!" sounds like the the Nobel prize is a gold medal in the fucking special olympics.
Boy, the internet is going to be fun today.
Dyn-O-MITE!
Do you think BHO feels like Crash must have felt when it won Best Picture? "Really? You sure you don't want to give this thing to Brokeback Mountain?"
More like Marisa Tomei.
They should have just renamed it the "We Really Fuckin' Hated George Bush" prize and be done with it.