The Peace Prize
October 7, 2005 5:24 PM   Subscribe

Mohamed ElBaradei and the International Atomic Energy Agency have won this year's Nobel Peace Prize. (previous)
posted by Silune (29 comments total)
 
Well, post-Arafat, the Prize is a disgusting joke. As is this year's "winner."
posted by ParisParamus at 5:53 PM on October 7, 2005


Well, post-Arafat, the Prize is a disgusting joke.

I believe you misspelled "Henry Kissinger".
posted by mhum at 6:00 PM on October 7, 2005


Fuck, it's been a disgusting joke since Kissinger.
posted by mr_roboto at 6:01 PM on October 7, 2005


Post {insert icon of whichever political ideology you vehemently disagree with} the Prize is a disgusting joke.
posted by Thorzdad at 6:06 PM on October 7, 2005


Well, post-Arafat, the Prize is a disgusting joke.

Fuck, it's been a disgusting joke since Kissinger.


What say we call it a wash and start over? Eh?
posted by Silune at 6:07 PM on October 7, 2005


Off-topic, but just as inconsequential, but who do you guys think is gonna snag TIME's Man of the Year?

I've got my money on The Evacuees.
posted by Mach3avelli at 6:39 PM on October 7, 2005


Paris we need you around to liven things up sometimes.

P. S. I dont agree with him but hey let him speak
posted by wheelieman at 6:55 PM on October 7, 2005


what's grosser than a pile of dead babies?
...
a pile of dead babies with one live one at the bottom trying to chew his way out.
that's a disgusting joke.
posted by Edible Energy at 6:56 PM on October 7, 2005


So Paris, do you share the Iranian Mullahs' distaste for Shirin Ebadi?
posted by homunculus at 7:01 PM on October 7, 2005


Take that Georgie! 37% approval rating and your opponents are winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
posted by VulcanMike at 7:04 PM on October 7, 2005


Better than a Bloggie.
posted by TwelveTwo at 7:04 PM on October 7, 2005


I'm glad he won the award. This will stick in the eye of Cheney's Administration.
posted by alteredcarbon at 7:07 PM on October 7, 2005


Kissinger won the peice prize? Wtf. Mr. Dynamite would be so dissapointed!
posted by delmoi at 7:19 PM on October 7, 2005


Thinking that Alfred Nobel amassed an immense fortune by improving gunpowder, inventing dynamite, and exploiting oil fields, and that the idea of a "peace prize" was a result of an erroneous publication of a premature obituary, I'd always assumed the whole thing was a joke.
posted by hypersloth at 8:01 PM on October 7, 2005


summed up: post-Nobel, the Prize is a disgusting joke.
posted by hypersloth at 8:03 PM on October 7, 2005


Well, its not a complete joke yet ... GWB hasn't won it.
posted by R. Mutt at 8:05 PM on October 7, 2005


Let's give the Nobel prize in medicine to those Christian parents that forbade their (now dead?) son to undergo cancer treatment.
posted by Krrrlson at 8:40 PM on October 7, 2005


Does a chemist ever get ALL the money?
posted by longsleeves at 9:18 PM on October 7, 2005


George Bush is just watching all this and grinning, because he knows he's a shoo-in for the Nobel War Prize.
posted by soyjoy at 9:45 PM on October 7, 2005


Off-topic, but just as inconsequential, but who do you guys think is gonna snag TIME's Man of the Year?

I've got my money on The Evacuees.


well, they already gave it to Stalin and Hitler got it twice, so I figure that [this post has been censored by the Society for the Prevention of Godwin Awards.] is about due for one.

but other than that, yeah i think you're right.
posted by shmegegge at 10:16 PM on October 7, 2005


Like, any quantum of "peace" can be attributed to the UN--that's what makes this as absurd as it is.

Not chance the Committee could just decide, in a given year. "Hey, no award this year; no one really deserves it"?
posted by ParisParamus at 10:25 PM on October 7, 2005


UNICEF and UNHCR have been recipients of the peace prize in the past. No quanta for them? I hope that's a joke, Paris.

And why skip a year - with so many warmongers around in the world, why shouldn't people who work for peace get their prize? I sound naiive and overly optimistic perhaps, but isn't optimism and hope what this prize is all about?
posted by kahboom at 10:46 PM on October 7, 2005


Not chance the Committee could just decide, in a given year. "Hey, no award this year; no one really deserves it"?

In fact they have done that several times, notably during the two world wars, and most recently in 1972.
posted by Silune at 11:19 PM on October 7, 2005


kahboom, do not engage the troll. There's no chance in hell that PeePee would actually give debatable reasoning regarding his position that nobody, and in particular Dr. El Baradei, is not deserving of the award.

Note that of course they have refrained from giving out awards -- during both World Wars, for instance, when it would truly have been a contradiction.

And PeePee is also misinformed about the IAEA. It's affiliated with the UN, but it's a separate treaty organization run by its member states -- including the US.
posted by dhartung at 11:21 PM on October 7, 2005


Like, any quantum of "peace" can be attributed to the UN

no, the birth of the State of Israel can be attributed to the UN, PeePee. I'm surprised you're against that, too.

and anyway I realize you must be still sore for the Carter win -- that was a pretty big slap in the face for all the "kill the Iraqians" people
posted by matteo at 2:57 AM on October 8, 2005


Matteo, UN circa 1947, is not the UN circa 2000. Substance; not form.
posted by ParisParamus at 2:44 PM on October 8, 2005


The UN is a joke because the simple existence of a political nation, without reference to its form of government, is meaningless.

Prediction: within the next decade, the US defunds the UN; the UN moves to France, or some other amoral venue, and a new organization is created. Sorry, but the US needs to give DESPOT DEPOT the boot!
posted by ParisParamus at 2:55 PM on October 8, 2005


The War Prize. Fuck you, Nobel Committee.
posted by ParisParamus at 5:32 AM on October 10, 2005


Does a chemist ever get ALL the money?

Are you asking if the Nobel Prize in Chemistry is ever awarded to a single person, rather than two or three together? Sure, most recently in 1999.
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 1:07 PM on October 10, 2005


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