The Nobel Peace Prize goes to ...

[CountDeMoney]

Agreed. I think the salad bowl is problematic as it acts like we all remain separate. I think it is more like a fondue where everyone new brought in new flavors that mixed in.

Is this a great country, or what?

It is pretty great. Now hopefully we can throw out faux-hope and change.

But the cheese at the top of the fondue is the best part. 

[jimmy olsen]

people tend to forget that it achieved what no other European project has before - guaranteed peace in Europe for the last 60 years.

What's Yugoslavian for "Huh?"  How many languages does that require?

Only one, now! 

This isn't a bad prize, since I guess it's too late to give it to Monnet and Schuman. But I don't think you can just say that there's peace because of Nukes. India and Pakistan had nukes, after all.

They haven't fought a major war since they got nukes have they?

[CountDeMoney]

They haven't fought a major war since they got nukes have they?

They deserve a peace prize.

[Pat]

Why would there be a plan?

I thought commies like the Swedes were all about plans.  Particularly five year ones.

Well there was indeed a plan. The plan was to let as many uneducated third worlders as possible into the country and get them dependent on government handouts, to ensure Socialist majority in parliament. As far as I can make out the plan pretty much ended there. And as plans go it was pretty neat, immigrants vote overwhelmingly Red. Obviously it was very destructive for the country and the people in it, natives and immigrants. That however was never seen as a problem.

It's the blues, not the reds, who are responsible for the immigration politics we have today.

At Lucia day 1989 The Social democrats stopped all asylum grants except to quota refugees we were bound by UN conventions to accept. Immigration went down. Google "Luciafördraget". Then the blues won the election in 1991, and self-proclaimed messiah Bengt Westerberg threatened to break up the parliamentary majority if the Lucia decision was not rolled back and the flood gates opened. Asylum seekers went from 27 000 in 1991 to 84 000 in 1992.

[Neil]

I don't see anybody calling the UK's policies in Northern Ireland as ethnic cleansing.

Because they weren't.

[Count]

The horrendously bad response to the financial crisis should preclude the award (or at least change the timing of it to, say, 5 years ago). As someone on twitter joked, maybe the nobel is a parting gift.

[Martinus]

The horrendously bad response to the financial crisis should preclude the award (or at least change the timing of it to, say, 5 years ago). As someone on twitter joked, maybe the nobel is a parting gift.

What should have been the correct response, in your opinion?

[Ed Anger]

Bombing Poland

[Viking]

dette er for de som forstår nordiske språk

http://www.dagbladet.no/2012/10/14/nyheter/thorbjorn_jagland/derrick/23867553/

[The Brain]

Why would there be a plan?

I thought commies like the Swedes were all about plans.  Particularly five year ones.

Well there was indeed a plan. The plan was to let as many uneducated third worlders as possible into the country and get them dependent on government handouts, to ensure Socialist majority in parliament. As far as I can make out the plan pretty much ended there. And as plans go it was pretty neat, immigrants vote overwhelmingly Red. Obviously it was very destructive for the country and the people in it, natives and immigrants. That however was never seen as a problem.

It's the blues, not the reds, who are responsible for the immigration politics we have today.

At Lucia day 1989 The Social democrats stopped all asylum grants except to quota refugees we were bound by UN conventions to accept. Immigration went down. Google "Luciafördraget". Then the blues won the election in 1991, and self-proclaimed messiah Bengt Westerberg threatened to break up the parliamentary majority if the Lucia decision was not rolled back and the flood gates opened. Asylum seekers went from 27 000 in 1991 to 84 000 in 1992.

I don't think Bengt Westerberg did it to ensure Red parliaments.

[Syt]

dette er for de som forstår nordiske språk

http://www.dagbladet.no/2012/10/14/nyheter/thorbjorn_jagland/derrick/23867553/

WTF?

[Viking]

dette er for de som forstår nordiske språk

http://www.dagbladet.no/2012/10/14/nyheter/thorbjorn_jagland/derrick/23867553/

WTF?

It's a downfall style subtitle rant with Derrick rather than Hitler bitching about Jagland giving the nobel prize to the EU.

[Syt]

I figured as much, but it always pains me when I see Derrick as it's one of the most dour boring crime shows ever.

[Razgovory]

I've give the EU kudos for managing not to get into the usual generational British-French war, let Germany beat everybody up, or stuff all the continent's Jews into cattle cars, but that whole Balkans thing back in the 90's that nobody wanted to do anything about until the United States (once again) got involved (twice) really makes the concept of a Peace Prize fall a bit flat.

Then again, they gave it to a guy with a Kill List.  So go fig.

Balkans are not part of the EU. 

I'm pretty sure Slovenia is.

[Viking]

I figured as much, but it always pains me when I see Derrick as it's one of the most dour boring crime shows ever.

There was a time when Derrick was the best thing on TV.