Putin nominated for Nobel Peace prize

[SMKR]

No joke

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSBREA231R920140304?irpc=932

[YALE]

Although you can't nominate yourself, the simplest explanation would be that Putin is using the Russian government to do just that.

Qualified Nominators

According to the statutes of the Nobel Foundation, a nomination is considered valid if it is submitted by a person who falls within one of the following categories:
• Members of national assemblies and governments of states
• Members of international courts
• University rectors; professors of social sciences, history, philosophy, law and theology; directors of peace research institutes and foreign policy institutes
• Persons who have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
• Board members of organizations that have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
• Active and former members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee; (proposals by members of the Committee to be submitted no later than at the first meeting of the Committee after February 1)
• Former advisers to the Norwegian Nobel Committee )

[Trip McNeely]

I love it. Make that stupid award even more of a joke. Bummer won it. They should change the name to Nobel Clown Award.

[SMKR]

I love it. Make that stupid award even more of a joke. Bummer won it. They should change the name to Nobel Clown Award.

I laughed

[GrayStangGT]

I have had very little respect for the Nobel Peace Prize since they gave it to gore.