This is not even a joke. Harper... OMFG

[arikara]

I don't know whether to laugh or barf
maybe both.

Canada's PM to be Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

B’nai Brith Canada to nominate Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper, a staunch Israel supporter, for the Nobel Peace prize.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/184621

[2naSalit]

1. Doesn't mean

he'll be selected.

[arikara]

2. I know

I seem to remember Bush getting nominated too. It's just so bizarre to have our most chicken hawk PM ever get one.

[2naSalit]

3. It does have

a rather unsettling effect, I'll give you that.

[TreasonousBastard]

4. Except that it can't...

Anyone can throw a name out, and many often do, but actual nominees (there are 278 this year) are kept secret for 50 years. Except for the winner, of course.

Actual nominees, according to the Nobel Foundation, must come from these sources:

http://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/peace/

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

Anyone else is claiming to "nominate" just BS PR.

[delrem]

5. The Nobel Peace prize was awarded to Henry Kissinger.

Now just think about that, and what it says about the connection between the prize and the real world of war and peace.

[RedSock]

6. Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize - then bombed SEVEN different countries!!! (eom)

And he is proud of it!

http://www.stopwar.org.uk/index.php/news/obama-boasts-he-s-bombed-seven-countries-which-happen-to-be-mostly-muslim