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Old 03-05-14, 11:47 AM   #1
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Default Putin nominated for Peace Nobel Prize!?

For his "mediation in the Syrian conflict".

German Focus magazine reports this, with reference to Reuters, Russian media and the Norwegians.

http://www.focus.de/politik/ausland/...d_3665133.html

Well, why not. There have been so many hilarious, absurd decisions in the past 15 or 20 years, that one joke more does not make a difference.

Peace Nobel Prize.
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Old 03-05-14, 12:00 PM   #2
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Old 03-05-14, 12:25 PM   #3
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Well, he was given the Nobel peace prize for simply not being Bush. So Putin? Why the hell not.
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Old 03-05-14, 12:59 PM   #4
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Why not? They'd probably give the prize to Quasimodo if he were alive today.
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Old 03-05-14, 01:14 PM   #5
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Old 03-05-14, 01:19 PM   #6
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Old 03-05-14, 01:43 PM   #7
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Can he share it with Obama?
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Can I super size that?
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Old 03-05-14, 02:12 PM   #11
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Actually been done before: Teddy Roosevelt got his for mediating the Russo-Japanese war in 1904 after arranging the defeat of the Spanish at Manila Bay as defacto Secretary of the Navy,1898, and charging up San Juan Hill with his Rough Riders over the pretext of the Maine blowing up in Cuba...now more likely determined to be from a spontaneous coal bunker fire next to an ammo magazine. http://www.sparknotes.com/history/american/spanishamerican/section3.rhtml
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Old 03-05-14, 12:10 PM   #12
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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/vladimir...l-peace-prize/

Obama won one for not doing anything. Kissinger and Ho Chi Min won one for pretending to do something.

I truly hope Putin wins one for doing the opposite.
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Old 03-05-14, 01:45 PM   #13
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Anyone can be nominated.

These stories pop up every year.
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Every thing is better with bacon!

Especially Nobel Peace Prizes.
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Old 03-05-14, 03:56 PM   #15
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I nomi...nom...nom..nom...nominate Tarjak for the Nobel bacon award.
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