It has two that can the president of the EU council and the EU commission

The worse is no one does anything about it.

Catalonia is going the nazi route a bit more each day.

Probably the greatest joke since Obama got the price.

Why do you think so?

From this comment (scroll down under the story):

And from this comment:

Why do I think it is a joke?
Listen to Nigel Farage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfvK2...layer_embedded

Why do I think Obama got the peace price was a sad joke?
He had done 0 for peace as president as he had been president for just a few days.

Nigel Farage? you listen to that shallow douchebag?

Obama didn't managed to do what he promised, but that's US politics.

Pretty sad seeing the land that conceived democracy fall victim to mob violence and anarchists.

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Considering what its member states have been getting up to, it's a joke. Besides the fact, member states not going to war with each other is not no reason to award it the Nobel Peace Prize. Might as well award it to the United States for the same thing.
He can still make good point. Simply ignoring everything someone says because of the speaker is a very bad idea.
That's irrelevant. He was awarded it before he did anything of note. It was completely and utterly politics that got him awarded it, and the entire world knows that it wasn't remotely earned.

The United States weren't in the middle of two consecutive world wars.

Oh sure if you wanna forget about the US-imposed Monarchy, the military dictatorship that followed after and the current regime that prefers austerity to dignity, I guess it's pretty sad.

Also Obama getting the noble peace prize is comparable to Reagan being called a peaceful president.

In that both of them side with very dangerous, massacre-loving, dictatorship frenzied allies that eventually betray them in the end for a variety of reasons.

Ain't it just liek Nicaragua?

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The Nobel Peace Prize is so frequently a joke, even early on. Teddy Roosevelt (hero of the Spanish-American War and Mr. Big Stick Policy) won it for helping negotiate an end to the Russo-Japanese War, which probably was on its way toward ending anyway. :rolleyes:

Peace is like the Liberal Arts category. So often it feels like they want to just give somebody a Nobel Prize, but that person didn't really do anything important, so they say it's for "peace". That's my theory for why Al Gore's environmental schtick got him a peace prize, instead of something having to do with actual science.

Other times, maybe they just need something to fill up the peace prize slot. European Union? Sure! Next year, let's give it to the United Nations.

EDIT: Whoops, it looks like they already did that in 1965. And a few other times. :embarrassed:

You know what? Good news is good. Good for you, Botswana.

Agreed, I would abolish the nobel peace prize, because there is hardly a scientific way to quantify peace, and sadly at certain points in time it is a sad fact that nothing noteworthy was done to propagate peace.

Obama's nobel prize still stands as the pinnacle of absurdity in this regard.

No, that would be Arafat's.

Look, at least he did something. Him and other like him can at least say they brought peace, even if they brought war in the first place.

Obama on the other hand didn't do anything by the time he got his Nobel prize, I would go as far as to say that considering the terrible moral fiber of 99,9% of all politicians that I, a regular well intention slob who does the best he can, or most of us on this forum are worthier recipients to this prize then Obama ever was.

Nah, I think the biggest absurdity was Al Gore's Peace Prize, which he won for his "efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change".

Because otherwise, there probably would've been a huge war or something.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...rize_laureates

Would your Peace Prize acceptance speech include your ideas on how to eliminate the disease of homosexuality?

Nope, there are far greater, and more pressing, problems plaguing humanity.

Any real treatment is decades in the future anyway, another great thing about that distant future is that you will be dead and the earth won't have to bear your assholery anymore.

You're the one who called an entire subsection of people a "disease", not me.

If I were to say, for example, that I think all serbs are backwards troglodytes who are a blemish on the human gene pool and we should "cure" the world of them, then I'd be an asshole.

Wait, homosexuality is a "problem" now?