So, sure, I think we all realize that President Obama hasn't really done much for peace since his inauguration. The US is still in Iraq and Afghanistan, North Korea and Iran are still pushing forward on nuclear programs, and he hasn't really negotiated any major ceasefires. But the weird thing is that he was nominated for the prize way back in February when he hadn't even had the chance to do anything! Basically, the award is for making speeches about how important talking to other countries is.
So, who is the possessed Mad-Eye Moody who's setting President Obama up by nominating him for the prize and most likely rigging the voting? My guess is it's Fidel. Fidel's been oddly supportive of Obama since he became president and supported him winning the Peace Prize. Which means that there's a 60/40 chance that the Prize is actually a portkey which will suck President Obama to a lonely graveyard in Hampstead in north London, where he will witness Kim-Jong Il cut off his hand to reanimate Karl Marx. Don't take the prize, Mr. President. Just take the cash.
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Ummm, it was the Swedes, not the Norwegians....
Nope. The Peace Prize is decided by Norwegians and given out in Oslo. The other prizes are given out in Sweden.
You've forced me to read more about the Nobel prizes than I ever wanted to know, frankly. It does appear that the provisions of Nobel's will, though he was simultaneously a Swede and the inventor of dynamite, allowed the Norwegian Parliament to decide the peace prize while the more competent Swedes decided all the tough calls, a feeble gesture no doubt to foster better Swedo-Norske relations in 1896. So indeed we must blame the Norwegian politicos, as you rightly claimed, for this latest act of outrageous wishful thinking. The news undoubtedly caused Uncle Mike to say things that would make a maiden blush...
or, more likely, a sailor.
EGADS! This is what happens when I can't post for awhile, and when dad is very VERY lonely. All I can say about that post is
BRILLIANT. Ah, Doug. Is there anything you can't do?
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