It is truly amazing how, year after year, the Nobel Committee continues to do all it can in search of comedy. I had thought they did all they could when Yasser Arafat got the peace prize. I mean, I was on the floor! You guys are killing me!
But then, just like the master comedians they are, they went for the gut, naming Jimmy Carter! I can't take it!!! Please stop, I can hardly breath!!
So what do they do? Take a break? Quiet the crowd? No way, this is no time to pull back. That's for wimps. When you're on a roll, you go for the kill. I was afraid that they would do something outrageous before I could catch my breath, but no! Now, I'm under the table again, the back of my head is exploding, I'm laughing so hard. Please! Pu-leez!! I... Can't... Breath...
OSLO, Norway (CNN) -- The U.N. nuclear watchdog and its head, Mohamed ElBaradei, won the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their efforts to limit the spread of atomic weapons.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee picked the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and ElBaradei, an Egyptian, from a record field of 199 candidates.
It praised ElBaradei as an "unafraid advocate" of measures to strengthen non-proliferation efforts. (Full citation)
The prize is to be split equally between the agency and ElBaradei, who will be holding a press conference later today.
The two had been among favorites for the award on the 60th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.
The 63-year-old attorney, native of Egypt, has been at the helm of the IAEA as it dealt with suspected weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and nuclear programs in Iran and North Korea.
Gaaahhhhh!!! Stop it! Stop! Stop!! You're killing me!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!! Ooooooohhhhhh!! Huh! Huh! Man, oh man. That's a good one.
I join you in your laughter. What a joke.
Posted by: Vavoom | October 07, 2005 at 10:51 AM
According to this handy timeline during Mr. ElBaradei's tenure at IAEA North Korea and Pakistan have developed nuclear weapons and Iran is on the brink. Job well done, guys! During the same period South Africa, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Romania, Argentina, Libya, Algeria, Yugoslavia, and Iraq have all abandoned nuclear weapons or nuclear weapons research for reasons having nothing whatsoever to do with the IAEA but everything to do with the changing geo-political situation.
Apparently, the Nobel Prize commission now rewards aspiration rather than accomplishment.
Posted by: Dave Schuler | October 07, 2005 at 11:02 AM