Nobel Committee Snubs Author of The Audacity of Hope, Awards Literary Prize to Some Romanian Lady
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Are you saying Bill Ayers has been snubbed?
LOL, love that one.
What! If America doesn't get the sweep, then Europe will pay!
Rascists! (And Rascist!)
The nobel committee hates us for our freedom.
The day is rapidly approaching when Onion headlines are indistinguishable from real headlines.
The day is rapidly approaching when Onion headlines are indistinguishable from real headlines.
German not Romanian.
I understand that she is ethnically German but a Romanian national.
I understand that as an ethnic German she is automatically entitled to German citizenship but I could be completely mistaken.
Wouldn't that mean something like 50 million Americans are eligible for German citizenship?
She has German citizenship, lives in Germany since the 80s and writes in German.
She was born in Romania.
I could say more but, in the words of E.B. White, "Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it."
I'm German, what is this 'humor' thing you are talking about?
Yo mama ain't name you no "Halld?r Laxness."
Screw this German/Romanian whatever if she accepts the award.
Anyone who accepts any Nobel is now a retarded fetus.
Including Hayek and Friedman?
Sorry, missed the 'now'.
Sorry, missed the 'now'.
Hayek and Friedman were economists and despite what you may have heard, there is no Nobel Prize in Economics. There is a Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, which is completely different. It's awarded, as the name implies, by the Sveriges Riksbank (Swedish Government Bank) not the various academies to blame for the Nobels.
Love the headline.
Who cares what a bunch of enslaved Norwegian serfs think?
That might be a slightly extreme stance, many of the Nobel prizes for science recognize actual accomplishment and achievement.
I understand that as an ethnic German she is automatically entitled to German citizenship but I could be completely mistaken.
I'm ethnically German; where's my EU passport? I'm pretty sure that only the Irish give "ethnic" citizenship out.
I make a mean Apple and Jalapeno Strudel.
It would have been more fitting if they had given it to El Presidente.
Since the Nobel Peace Prize is now just a token political maneuver, it would have been more poignant if they had given it to Obama so he could join the ranks of other chronic liars like Al Gore.
Watch the news much?
Since the Nobel Peace Prize is now just a token political maneuver
Fixed.
I'm wondering if Hillary is feeling snubbed. She's the freegin' Secretary of State, not Obama.
mum asked that very question (She a big Hil fan), 'where's Hllary's'.
You know, if accomplishments don't matter for this prize should we not all get one? Is it fair to leave anyone out? That is like keeping score.
Hillary, hell, I bet Bill is frothing today.
C'mon, Bill was never qualified, either.
You're supposed to get the award for making peace, not getting a piece.
Medicine and Physiology should have gone to Michelle. Have you seen that vegetable garden?
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