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EasyGirl

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10. Very interesting, I hadn't thought about it like that before

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Fri Oct 12, 2012, 01:03 PM

Oct 2012

I was curious, so I looked up all of the Nobel Peace Prize
winners. I started at the bottom of the list and IMHO
the names of the winners certainly get "less impressive" as you read up the list. Again, just my opnion.

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/

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Can we just retire the friggin' Nobel Peace Prize Already? [View all] n2doc Oct 2012 OP

NB that the Telegraph is a right-wing and Eurosceptic newspaper. Spider Jerusalem Oct 2012 #1

And yet I totally agree with them on this point n2doc Oct 2012 #3

Thank you for the anit-Obama article. NOT... DURHAM D Oct 2012 #2

So Obama is a peacemaker? n/t n2doc Oct 2012 #4

Are you planning to vote for Obama? DURHAM D Oct 2012 #7

I didn't find it to be anti-obama Marrah_G Oct 2012 #14

Giving politicians the Peace Prize is like giving Mafia Dons the prize for economics. Tierra_y_Libertad Oct 2012 #5

Malarkey. nt Comrade_McKenzie Oct 2012 #6

How about just renaming it "Fuck You Greece!" Dr. Strange Oct 2012 #8

Obama won for his work on securing loose nukes. AtomicKitten Oct 2012 #9

Very interesting, I hadn't thought about it like that before EasyGirl Oct 2012 #10

I'm For The Peace Prize, BUT Dirty Socialist Oct 2012 #11

It may be news to you: OldEurope Oct 2012 #12

Agree with you. randome Oct 2012 #16

NYT has a similarly dismayed article on it today. Waking up to Egalitarian Thug Oct 2012 #13

Many people may actually believe that LanternWaste Oct 2012 #15

I agree that the timing could be better, but you don't really get it. Lars77 Oct 2012 #17