- WELL, WELL: Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize! For nuclear things! Anyway this is better than at least 3/5 of the summer Olympic events. [New York Times]
- The moon, well, most of it, managed to prolong its existence overnight despite NASA’s best efforts. [New York Times]
- 160-ish people were killed in mudslides in the Philippines. The last time things were this flood-y there was 40 years ago. [AP]
- A car bomb in Pakistan killed 42 people and injured 60 more. No one officially took credit but people are generally thinking “Taliban.” [Times Online]
- Olympia Snowe arguably still matters. This seems tenuous! Anyway, the LA Times has interviewed every known resident of Maine to prove it. [LA Times]
- Gen. McChrystal and the military people would like 40,000 troops sent to Afghanistan. [WSJ]
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I thought he won because he blew up the moon and ended the wicked tides that plague the planet, but I notice this morning the moon is still there, so one more massive failure.
Obama recognized by Nobel? Dyn-o–mite!
Obama wins the Nobel? Now I HAVE to tune in to Limbaugh today.
he saved the moon!
I imagine that your average reactionary crazyblogger’s rejoinder to this Nobel development is like my reaction to the Oscars: “I don’t even care about this meaningless awards ceremony, it’s been a complete joke year after year… and… OH MY GOD THEY DID IT AGAIN FUCK ME.”
MazelTov America! Now please stop bombing us.
Thnx,
Rest of the World
The teabaggers are already whining about it. [re=430412]Zadig[/re]: Me too! He is going to be dismissive and/or ripshit!
Also: Operation MOONHATE ONE is a success!
Now Barry and Al Gore have something in common.
P.S. It ain’t Obama’s war (in that 90% of it was conducted/botched before he took office), but if he dumps another couple hundred billion dollars and thousands of lives (tens of thousands including civilians) into that suckhole, it will be. Never listen to a guy who was essential in covering up Pat Tillman’s death and who looks like Niedermeyer’s grandpa.
Today will be the most gloriously beautiful day in the history of the wingnutosphere.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA….sorry, that is just so fucking funny. The wing nuts collective heads are going to explode this morning. Guess the world didn’t reject Barry after all, right Rush?
Oh wait, it wasn’t the Peace Prize – it actually was for the moon bombing – he won the “Nobel Prize for the Most Creative Use of Dynamite by a Country or Kingdom”
Don’t forget – this prize is shared by ALL Americans, so look forward to your check for .46 of a cent in the mail next month.
You gotta feel sorry for NASA though, they would have won the morning but for those blasted Nobels.
Shit, even the Noble Prize Committee hates W. This is the first ever Nobel “Fuck you, asshole!” Prize.
[re=430414]norbizness[/re]: I actually called my dad to tell him. “Bad news, dad…” and he said something about it cheapening the whole process.
And honestly, this might be a little early. I’m a Barryfag and all, Nobel committee, but Christ, did you just pass him a note saying “Mr. Obama, do you like us? [ ]Y [ ]N [ ]Maybe”
This award mostly serves to emphasize what a dickwad his predecessor was; I mean, they’re giving it to him just for doing his job, right?
Oh please , link back to the runner up for the Peace Prize – that delightful gentleman in the 7 minute vid demanding Barry’s “inpeachment”.
Let’s hope his reaction is posted forthwith…
‘gonna make them red sates blue”,,,,
Cmmon you know you going to sing it all day
Hah! Now Amnesty International has to stop bitching about those extraordinary renditions!
Nobel Committee = Master Trolls
There will be a lot of posts in Comic Sans today bemoaning Barry’s win. I just know it.
How could they overlook Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann?
Found it :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCvkatCGNFY
Now watch again and replace his slurred phrasing of “flavoured dips” with ” The distinguished jury of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize”
I honestly thought My Wonkette was being sarcastic about Obama winning the Nobel; I didn’t imagine it was real. I has a happy. What I can’t figure out is how the fucktards are going to spin it to be a bad thing; but then again, I’m not evil, or insane. Should be an interesting day.
Actually, I think the big loser today is Hillary. Turns out the Nobel committee is just as sexist as Democratic Primary voters.
Which rightie will be the first to bemoan the fact that W never won, even after he made good on his vow to “rid the world of evil?”
[re=430438]rachelv[/re]: How, by leaving office after his term was up?
Scarbourgh was typically gracious; “What’s he done other than read a speech off a teleprompter”? Look for the entire douchosphere to be uglier, (funnier?) than normal.
So, the two groups speaking out against Obama’s Nobel are the Taliban and the right wing. Interesting and telling. Also too.
You’re wondering how the fucktards will spin this? Global Governance/New World Order, European (soft) socialism/secularism, “Nobel committee lost relevance when they selected Al Gore in 2005″, etc., etc., etc. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
It’s like the dead-ball era for peace, hopey squeaks out .300 and wins the Nobel batting title.
[re=430412]Zadig[/re]:
OMG, pop the popcorn, it’s going to be great fun listening to the conservatives today.
Boy, though, after winning the Nobel Peace Prize in his first year in office, what will Obama have to do to top that? Actually, I’d setting for getting the heck out of Iraq and Afghanistan, pulling out of the recession/depression, and having good health care for all Americans. Just a short little list. Oh, and big progress on environmental problems. Shouldn’t take but a few days, I recon.
Well, we all know the Swedes are a bunch of socialists.
You must admit this new Nobel category of “Not Being George W Bush” is pretty much a doddle.
Wingnuttia is burning tonight.
[re=430424]ManchuCandidate[/re]:
That is EXACTLY what this is.
Strangely, I’m ok with that.
War is Peace!
This year’s Nobel Peace Prize subtitle: Jesus Effin Christ, That Last Guy Was An Asshole!
[re=430438]rachelv[/re]: There’s a link here to a story from last April that some asshole in Norway nominated W for the Nobel Peace Prize for “fighting terrorism and promoting world peace.” Srsly. The funny part is Ken’s tags:
Also, expect the wingnuts to bring W’s nomination up, as proof that the Nobel committee is socialist, or Marxist, or bribable, or European, something.
Alfred Nobel is in the tank. This is good news for John McCain.
[re=430412]Zadig[/re]: Put a shield between you and the tee vee if you watch Faux News today–they have the new spitter cam, for the foamers.
and the award “for not starting a war with a country Billy Kristol and Paul Wolfowitz picked more or less at random” goes to…
[re=430444]Terry[/re]:
Peace and plenty with a Nobel prize-winning darkie in the White House? A Wingnut’s worst fuckin’ nightmare. The cherry on top would be a lesbian Pope.
Can anyone wait for the cons to start slamming the Nobel Committee.
Please let the conservative bitterness flow!!!
It’s like candy.
The fucktards have to give in for a while and pray he can’t live up to the majestic prestige across the world…
Sorry to say my respected Stateside Wonkettes but this means you got to share Barry’s love around just a little bit more..
Australia for the 51st state ! here we come !
[re=430445]Anita Cocktail[/re]: That’s Failed socialist system.
I wonder how they will work Ayers into it.
[re=430451]Katydid[/re]: Corrections: The funny part are Ken’s tags. Is Ken’s tags? Christ, I can’t decide. Haven’t had my morning crack yet.
Also, expect the wingnuts to bring W’s failure to win as proof that the Nobel committee is socialist, or Marxist, or bribable, or European, or something.
[re=430444]Terry[/re]:
Oops! I forgot to add the Muslin thingy.
The first and the last…
Obama wins noble for piece…
Mcwhatshisname wants to bomb Afghanistan more…
Talk about the sarcasm of life…
[re=430412]Zadig[/re]:
Feel the burn Rush.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=20901
I expect the wingnut meta-take on this to be that the Nobel prizes are pointless socialist crap no matter who they awarded to.
Consider the evidence:
Prizes in science awarded to eggheads whose theories are worthlessly esoteric, rarely resulting in more efficient devices for killing people. The Committee never recognizes creation science so like do they even know what science is?
Literature prizes awarded to “writers” whose “work” is hard to read. How is difficult literature prize worthy? Or better yet, why would I read anything that some liberal would consider literature? Damn right Stephen King don’t write literature…he writes good ol’ books.
And the Peace prize? What does that tell you that they give away a prize for peace? “Oh look at me, I’m Osama bin Peaceful and I’m more peaceful than you, whitey.” You can keep that one.
I call affirmative action on that nobel prize thing. (jewish) Henry Kissinger had to totally bomb all of Cambodia repeatedly to get half of one, what did Obama do, blow up a couple of shacks in Waziristan. Back in the day you had to earn your nobel prize, MFs.
I have an idea for NASA, Battle Bots on the moon. Nuf said.
[re=430458]ozbob[/re]:
No way! You folks lost a Prime Minister. Lost! As in never seen again.
Already on Fox News, they’re demanding he give it back after his completely unprovoked attack on the moon.
[re=430425]Zadig[/re]:
Called my folks, both senior citizens and old union hall style democrats. Dad thought I was kidding him, then said about what I feel. Well, that’s a surprise, but good for Obama. Also enjoyed the idea that Rush’s blood pressure may spike today. Mom was thrilled but really hopes the Secret Service does a good job taking care of such a nice young man who is trying to do good things.
Come to think of it, I hope that, too.
That’s the gold, silver, and bronze of peacing, aka the 100 meter Not-George-W-Bush.
[re=430455]Servo[/re]:
Well, an African Pope could be a reality next go-round. There are a couple of Cardinals from that continent lobbying hard, evidently.
[re=430421]Texan Bulldoggette[/re]: Well, I’m a big fan, but … this seems extreme. Still, it *will* cause Righty meltdown, and that’s always way too much fun.
I’ve been reading them off and on lately. They go on at great length about Obama’s “I Hate America Tour” … and many take pains to point out that “America is now a laughingstalk (sic) of the world.”
Free Republic highlights thus far:
“All the Noble “Peace Prize” does now is reward sniveling weasels who make grandiose speeches disparaging America in foreign lands. Consider the past recipients. They ought to just drop the pretense and rename it the “Nobel Enemy of America Prize”.”
(I especially like the scare quotes around “Peace Prize”).
“Affirmative Action really works.”
“It’s a blatantly transparent move to keep any military action from being taken on Iran”
“The Kenyan next should receive an Oscar for ACTING like a Natural-born Citizen”
“What will they say when Obama’s weakness brings about a nuclear armed Iran and nuclear war? We shouldn’t expect the pedophiles who hand out this prize to understand the concept of achieving peace through strength.”
[re=430475]Hello Sunshine[/re]:
Heh.
Wow ! I thought War Criminals needn’t apply ? Now every time he bombs the shit out of some poor village he will be like “Me ? Cmon, I have a Peace Nobel for chrissake !”
Yeah, great, Nobel Peace Prize….when’s he going to win a Grammy?
Well, well, well. Here ya go. First comment I came upon on the WaPo, does Obama deserve the prize column:
Props for combining lots of disparate fucktard theories in one. Well done. I especially like, “comparable to Nevile[sic] Chamberlain having received it (which he didn’t)…”
[re=430475]Hello Sunshine[/re]: Thanks, I couldn’t bring myself to go. The hate is strong with them Obiwan.
Here’s hoping that Hopey wears his Gangsta neckwear for the acceptance speech. Nobel laureates do give speeches, yes? While wearing laurels.
[re=430475]Hello Sunshine[/re]: Their anguish nourishes me.
[re=430479]V572625694[/re]: He already has two: 2005 and 2007 for Best Spoken Word.
Now if the Pope would declare him a Saint, life would be perfect.
Crap! I totally missed Obama in the swimsuit competition!
Bet you think the fucktards slime Obama’s Nobel with NAMBLA, but you’d be wrong. Apologies in advance for the long post, but this is unbelievable. It mentions Wonkette, so I thought it would be of interest. From the WaPo column on Does Obama deserve the Nobel Prize:
“Posted by Erick Erickson (Profile)
Thursday, October 8th at 10:26PM EDT
When I was a teenager, my friends and I joked about NAMBLA, the North American Man/Boy Love Association.
Until I was in my twenties, I thought my friends had just made it up. Surely there was no such organization that campaigned to allow open sexual relations between boys and men — a concept that did not just involve statutory rape, but offended the profound decency of a moral public.
Sadly, NAMBLA is very real and today steps right out of the darkest pits of immoral human behavior and straight into the White House. Sean Hannity has been all over this story and we are just now coming to terms with how sick and demented the thinkings and associations of White House Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings are.
To be sure, the left wing Media Matters, which is run by former conservative turned homosexual activist and left-wing icon David Brock, is screaming from the rooftops that Sean Hannity is lying.
Hannity is not lying. Kevin Jennings is a profoundly sick and immoral human being — a proponent of statutory rape, an opponent of the Boy Scouts of America, and a zealous advocate of NAMBLA.
He is Barack Obama’s Safe Schools Czar. He is a supporter of men who openly and vocally support pedophilia.
Media Matters threw out a few talking points to defend Van Jones. But Media Matters is giving a full throated, aggressive defense of Kevin Jennings. Why? Well, to paraphrase Wonkette, gay is the new black.
Van Jones was just a black guy. With a black President, resources did not need to be brought to bear to defend him. Kevin Jennings, however, is not just a gay man, but a man who believes in the full gay rights agenda, where men and boys can have sexual relationships
free of prudish moral people frowning. Jennings has championed NAMBLA’s causes and lauded a pedophilia advocate.
He even wrote the forward to a book called “Queering Elementary Education.” That’s right, Jennings wrote the forward to a book that, in its own description advocates the aggressive homosexual agenda among elementary school students. From the book: “queering education happens when we look at schooling upside down and view childhood from the inside out.” No irony is intended apparently in that description. Americans of moral decency should be stunned to know the President of the United States would put in charge of “safe schools,” a man who encourages predatory relationships between young boys and grown men.
Barack Obama has done exactly that. Has he no shame.”
[re=430486]Prommie[/re]: He needs 3 bona fide miracles, though one of them can be causing the heads of the devil’s spawn to explode, and that’s likely to happen today.
I might get angry or something while reading the Freepers and shiz but can you assign some intern to put together a Children’s Collection of Conservative Responses to Obama’s Nobel Prize?
Please and thank you!
IT’S ALREADY HAPPENING!!
http://tinyurl.com/yhmg4vl
Obama Nobel Prize A Disaster, “No Upside,” “The Damage Is Done” Says Morning Joe Crew (VIDEO)
My hero’s….also
-SP
[re=430486]Prommie[/re]: Too bad the Nobel Committee was deciding where the damn Olympics went.
[re=430470]Terry[/re]: Aren’t your folks worried Barry will take away their Medicare? Why weren’t they screaming & pointing their canes & walkers at the town halls like the rest of their cohorts?
I’d like to personally thank the Nobel Peace Prize committee on behalf of me. When I was a kid I enjoyed stirring up ant beds & tossing grasshoppers in them. Today the impotent right wing is the ant bed & the peace prize is the grasshopper, sort of. I’m barely awake & unsure what planet I’m on. The Nobel people aren’t helping!
[re=430460]Katydid[/re]:
the correct wording is:
TAGS = FUNNY
and they = indeed!
[re=430479]V572625694[/re]: He has like three of those already.
What an astounding decision! What a dark horse! A black stallion, you might say.
Iran says that they are not displeased that Obama won; Iran for mothertrucking sake. Well it is nice to know that the Bar is set so low for American presidents to receive this honor: Promise not to blow up the world or start any unethical/immoral wars and you get the nobel peace prize. How does that saying goes? MMmmph I’m lovin’ it.
Man, those Nobel Prize people are going to be really embarrassed when they find out that Barry doesn’t have an American birth certificate.
First good news since…well. His Hopemeisterlaureate-ness should put up “Medicare for all” bill immediately.
As an early Christmas gift, I would like Fauznews reaction interviews with: Darth, Pooblossom, Rummy, Dub, Pailen, Roosh, Loofaboy, & last but always least Dame Noonie.
[re=430473]Terry[/re]: the African cardinals will make Rat Zinger look like Francis of Assisi.
[re=430470]Terry[/re]: Your folks sound adorable. Please hug them for me.
[re=430442]surfacenoise76[/re]: 2007
[re=430445]Anita Cocktail[/re]: Norwegians pick Peace. Swedes do everything else.
[re=430475]Hello Sunshine[/re]: As soon as Barry bombs Iran, the wingnuts will accuse him of being soft on N. Korea, then Libya, then Russia, then France, then Great Britain, then Little Britain, then Pottsylvania, and so on and so forth. Is there a country out there that they DON’T want us to bomb?
(answer: Saudi Arabia)
You’ve got to hand it to the Taliban. For snark. The Denby Prize goes to Taliban spokesman
Zabihullah Mujahid, who told Reuters, “from an undisclosed location”:
“The Nobel prize for peace? Obama should have won the ‘Nobel Prize for escalating violence and killing civilians.’”
[re=430489]Katydid[/re]: Reading that redstate drivel makes me want to fly to Nobel Peace Prize-land and fellate every committee member. This is going to be the best day ever. As rush always says (because he totally isn’t obsessed with homosexuality): grab your ankles, boys. This is like every wingtard in the country getting raped on their first day in prison.
[re=430492]thatonegirlsays[/re]: yeah I never do that shit willngly…something about my sobriety.
And let’s be honest, it’s the Nobel prize for world peace, right? Not moon peace?
And as a preemptive strike, fuck you Billy Kristol!
[re=430485]Cy_Guy[/re]: All right then, how about an Oscar?
Well Paul Krugman won last year. There was that great video footage of him walking on the arm or some blonde goddess princess or other with this a combination of the deer in the headlights look and a shit-eating grin. I am sure that Barry will look much more decorous on the arm of his princess!
[re=430495]Texan Bulldoggette[/re]:
Because my parents are well informed and intelligent.
[re=430516]donner_froh[/re]:
Agreed. They do tend to like that old style Catholicism that went out in, oh say, the Middle Ages.
Does anyone else find it telling that the Taliban and the teabaggers are the only ones bitching about Obama’s prize?
[re=430540]glamourdammerung[/re]:
Brothers from a different religion, really.
[re=430493]Sarah Palin (vp@whitehouse.gov)[/re]:
Last week:
Losing an international honor is a huge disaster for Obama!
This week:
Winning an international honor is a huge disaster for Obama!
[re=430523]Looy[/re]: “Nobel Prize for escalating violence and killing civilians”
I think they hand that one out in November.
Sorry, but the Taliban spokesman doesn’t get to whine about escalating violence and civilian casualties.
Important rhetorical weapon for people that will have to speak to crazies today, because they will bring up the whole “he hasn’t done a lot yet” thing: it’s important to remember that the Nobel Peace Prize is less of a “lifetime achievement”-y thing and more of an award that says “You rock, guy. Keep it up. Everybody, see this guy? Try to act more like this, and probably eat less Cheetos or something.”
[re=430489]Katydid[/re]: Gay is the new black? I thought it was black is the new gay. It’s just so hard to keep up.
When they discover glacial water on the moon, they can then sell us bottled “Moon Water” . . . . I can’t wait!
Europe hates Bush with a white-hot passion. This award for President Obama and the one for Al Gore are the refined European versions of giving him the finger.
[re=430626]Min[/re]: Dear Europeans: Please continue fingering Bush. Thanx.
just now heard the peaceful news. these tears are gonna short out my keyboard.
So it is finally official, the Nobel Peace Prize has become the Nobel What Politically Correct Norwegians Like At The Moment Prize. Well, at least now everyone knows. An alarming number of people seemed to take it seriously when Al Gore and his UN buddies received it.
We still have nice fjords/mountains/milk chocolate, though. And some of us know more subtle ways of expressing happiness with something than giving it the Nobel Peace Prize.
[re=430676]BiancaBlack[/re]: I think the Scandies were saying in their delightfully direct and understated way ‘peace trumps trolls.’
[re=430446]Monsieur Grumpe[/re], [re=430471]Come here a minute[/re]: I’m not GW Bush either. Can I haz NPP?
[re=430445]Anita Cocktail[/re]: But the Peace Prize is awarded by the Norwegians, elected by the entire Norwegian parliment.
I bet Lula would trade his winning bid for that lousy sports festival for Obama’s prize.
Does this mean we won’t be bombing Norway this year?
To be fair, a whole lot of people have got the Nobel Peace Prize in the past for trying to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (fail) and/or bombing the shit out of various countries. That Barry has done nothing beyond a pretty speech or two to deserve it is actually a heck of a step up.
[re=430676]BiancaBlack[/re]: It’s more the “Damn, we are SOOOOO very happy that you guys managed to avoid electing a brain-damaged warmonger for president this time, Prize”
[re=430464]Paterlanger[/re]: “Egghead”, “hard to read”, ROFL.
This is a parody, right?
Right?
Bomb Norway!
“this is better than at least 3/5 of the summer Olympic events”
Is this a Black People joke?
[re=430692]DoctorCulturae[/re]:
The point, I guess is that it might not be fair to use the Nobel Peace Prize to say just that, given what it was supposed to be according to Nobel’s will.
Although I guess this means our government has finally realized that (except when we serve as an example in Michael Moore movies) the only time people notice Norway at all is when the NPP is handed out, which should inspire some humility and lessen the “man, we’re just so darn great, aren’t we” factor.
I don’t care that he won.
But I do care he that he got $1.4 million benjis out of it. He should donate it to… the american healthcare system. Otherwise, we know it will go to Michelle for a charity that caters to the kids.
Heck, it’s for the children!
[re=430796]rambone[/re]: Yeah, it’s like we won the Most Improved Award
Edit: When I said “I guess is that it might not be fair to use the Nobel Peace Prize to say just that,” I was referring to using it in this specific way (like most members of our government, I am less than eloquent). It’s just that there are other ways to say both “talk good, kill bad” and “Hey, this new guy y’all picked to be your President isn’t half bad”.
[re=430851]ithasatilde[/re]:
I immediately thought that too.
DYN-o-mite!
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