It’s 6 am here in California, I just turned on the radio and THIS?
OSLO – President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a stunning decision designed to encourage his initiatives to reduce nuclear arms, ease tensions with the Muslim world and stress diplomacy and cooperation rather than unilateralism.
Granted, as of late the Nobel Peace Prize has been particularly political and lost much of its relevance. But for heaven’s sake, Obama gets it for PROMISES not achievements!
This is just so wrong.
More from:
Michelle Malkin
WSJ blog
Hot Air — who reminds us that the deadline for nominations was Feb 1st, less than 2 weeks after The One took office.
WizBang — “one of the most dramatic examples of the global elitist genuflection and obsequiousness before the presence of The One”
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Here’s a thought and a kind of challenge to the inevitable Obama worshippers who will be soon denouncing everyone that questions this “award”. If Obama really is all that, if he really is a Good Man(tm) of character, he should be embarrassed about receiving this prize.
I will praise him and reconsider his character if and when he turns it down in favor of more worthy candidates.
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Under the new Nobel Prize criteria, I want to win it next year in Science so they can give it to me to encourage my promise to solve the world’s energy problems with home fusion kits.
Or maybe the Nobel in literature … I promise to write the most awesome novel EVAH!!
Comment by newrouter on 10/9 @ 7:09 am #
president paintywaist deserves the accolades of the euroweenies
Comment by DarthRove on 10/9 @ 7:12 am #
So the consolation prize for the 2016 Olympics selection is … the Nobel Peace Prize?
Comment by DarthRove on 10/9 @ 7:13 am #
Mother Teresa has to be screaming in heaven. “You mean all I had to do was SAY I wanted to help poor people in India?!? Shit, if I’d known that I wouldn’t have spent my life in abject poverty, I woulda lived high on the hog and TALKED a good game!”
Comment by SBP on 10/9 @ 7:15 am #
Nominated after two weeks.
Lovely.
Comment by The Sanity Inspector on 10/9 @ 7:16 am #
It’s intended in the same way as Jimmy Carter’s prize was intended: as a slap at George W. Bush. Even the otherwise ecstatic hostesses on Morning Edition today admitted that O’s prize wasn’t for any concrete achievement.
I mean, over the past 24 months we’ve had the outbreak of something resembling actual peace in much of Iraq, doesn’t that deserve any credit?
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Comment by The Sanity Inspector on 10/9 @ 7:20 am #
Nominated after two weeks.
Lovely.
You know the rule: conservatives are judged by their misdeeds, liberals are judged by their good intentions.
Comment by LTC John on 10/9 @ 7:22 am #
Next up: NHL, NBA, NFL and American League MVPs AND the Heisman Trophy! Blue Ribbon at the Prairie View Elementary Science Fair!!
That’ll show you wingnutz!111!1!
Comment by SBP on 10/9 @ 7:24 am #
I hear he’s planning to enter his homemade jelly in every county fair in the country this summer.
He’s going to be busy in the kitchen for the next several months, so we’ll need to cut him some slack.
Comment by ccoffer on 10/9 @ 7:26 am #
Its now officially official…the Nobel Prize is an insult to decent people. It should be awarded by Mtv.
Comment by Joe on 10/9 @ 7:28 am #
Obama Peace Summit!
Comment by Salt Lick on 10/9 @ 7:28 am #
So how will Saturday Night Live handle this after their skit last week.
Comment by Joe on 10/9 @ 7:30 am #
I guess the Nobel Prize for Literature is next! Can they give that to co-authors?
Comment by SBP on 10/9 @ 7:33 am #
Norman Borlaug
Lech Walesa
Mother Teresa
Barack Hussein Obama
Sing it with me! “One of these things… is not like the others…”
Comment by cynn on 10/9 @ 7:34 am #
Since he has been in office, Obama has not started a single war. And the absence of war is peace. Ergo, et seq., and such as.
Comment by Squid on 10/9 @ 7:36 am #
Q: So, when Tehran and Tel Aviv are each glowing glass craters, will the Committee feel any shame at all?
A: Of course they will! It’s Scandinavia — shame and herring are all they have!
Comment by Squid on 10/9 @ 7:37 am #
I beg to differ, Cynn. As a white middle-class American, I’m pretty sure he declared war on me.
Comment by Joe on 10/9 @ 7:40 am #
Did Kanye storm the stage at Oslo?
Comment by Jeffersonian on 10/9 @ 7:40 am #
I hear the St. Louis Cardinals have been awarded the World Series Championship this morning based on their sincere desire to stop dropping line drives, refraining from pitching cream puffs to batters in the bottom of the 9th and not leaving the bases jammed full every damned inning.
Comment by Jeffersonian on 10/9 @ 7:43 am #
Since he has been in office, Obama has not started a single war. And the absence of war is peace. Ergo, et seq., and such as.
Stephen Harper hasn’t started a war, either. Why didn’t he win?
Comment by Abe Froman on 10/9 @ 7:46 am #
From The Corner:
I laugh, knowing the UN and Kofi Anan won the year prior for “their work for a better organized and more peaceful world” in light of what we know of the corruption in the Iraq Oil for Food program, the death and suffering of people in Iraq which was the result of the draconian sanctions which were negotiated in lieu of removing Saddam as the Clinton administration sought, and the almost universal gutlessness to enforce their own resolutions. I also laugh knowing the 1999 winner, Doctors without Borders – “in recognition of the organization’s pioneering humanitarian work on several continents” – fully supported the ouster of Saddam. The lack of moral clarity among these dirty lutefisk lickers is bewildering.
Comment by iron308 on 10/9 @ 7:47 am #
We elected a man with a tissue thin resume to the most powerful office in the world. We should be careful throwing rocks at the Nobel committee…. Just saying, glass houses and all that.
Comment by Bob Reed on 10/9 @ 7:48 am #
Maybe he got it for Hope-N-Change? Maybe it’s a consolation prize for the IOC snubbing? Or for simply not being Booooooosh!
Clearly it’s a move intended to prop up his popularity and increase his gravitas. Too bad it’s so contrived that he simply comes off as a laughing stock once again…
Except among the trans-natinal types, and the Rubes that believe in the existence of “moderate” Taliban…
Comment by Abe Froman on 10/9 @ 7:52 am #
Just seeing your reactions makes it all worth it.
By “it all” you mean what exactly? The embarrassment? The hilarity that this lightweight with no accomplishments has another hollow tchotchke for his mantel to go along with the Law Review editorship he did nothing with?
Comment by slackjawedyokel on 10/9 @ 7:52 am #
Yeah, AJB, I bet you’d REALLY get a kick out of our reaction to Tel Aviv being nuked!
Pusillanimous little crap weasel.
Comment by Jeffersonian on 10/9 @ 7:53 am #
Just seeing your reactions makes it all worth it.
I think you’re starting to understand, AJB. I never thought I’d see the day
Comment by serr8d on 10/9 @ 7:53 am #
OK, I posted this in an earlier thread, but still…
CRACKER JACK~!
(clicky to embiggen)
Comment by Jim Ryan on 10/9 @ 7:55 am #
They gave Nobel for Best Pron this morning. Because last night when my wife was out I touched me tee-tee.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 10/9 @ 7:55 am #
Just remember that in leftspeak “peace” doesn’t mean what it means to real people.
Comment by SBP on 10/9 @ 7:56 am #
Since he has been in office, Obama has not started a single war.
Other than missiling the fuck out of Pockystawn on a weekly basis, you mean?
Comment by Matt on 10/9 @ 7:56 am #
Next up :
Bill Ayres wins the Noble Prize for literature for “Dreams of my Fathers”.
Comment by Jim Ryan on 10/9 @ 8:01 am #
The Nobel Peace Prize has been given in hatred for the last few times.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 10/9 @ 8:02 am #
“They made a desert and called it peace.”
- Tacitus, the Roman historian, on the Roman conquest and occupation of Britain
Comment by Joe on 10/9 @ 8:06 am #
I got that one Matt.
Comment by Joe on 10/9 @ 8:08 am #
But the Nobel Committee did award the World Series to the Rockies. No reason given.
Comment by Matt on 10/9 @ 8:09 am #
crap sorry Joe. Its rare I think of something funny to say so I didn’t look at all the rest of the comments in my rush to type it. =x
Plagerism is Joe Biden’s bag after all.
Comment by Joe on 10/9 @ 8:09 am #
Actually Matt, Ann Althouse beat us both to it. But it is so good we should run with it.
Comment by McGehee on 10/9 @ 8:10 am #
Well, I just dug up my old junior bowling league participation trophy and looked at the back. It says, “Awarded by the Nobel Peace Prize Committee.”
Explains everything.
Comment by ThomasD on 10/9 @ 8:12 am #
A kiss from Michael Corleone should be about as welcome as this prize.
It is the political equivalent of that kiss of death.
The Nobel people just admitted that Obama is doomed, they had to give him the prize now otherwise next year might really be too late.
Comment by ThomasD on 10/9 @ 8:15 am #
Of course they will! It’s Scandinavia — shame and herring are all they have!
And blondes. Blondes can make you tolerate just about anything.
Comment by Squid on 10/9 @ 8:18 am #
So, a formerly-respectable organization beclowns itself by awarding a formerly-prestigious award to an empty suit whose own supporters agree hasn’t accomplished anything of note, and AJB thinks it’s all just ducky because we’re upset by how pathetic the whole sordid situation is?
There’s an old adage about noses and faces that AJB reminds me of…
Comment by Joe on 10/9 @ 8:18 am #
The smart move by President Obama would be to thank the Nobel Committee and decline the award–saying he wants to actually acheive progress before being honored. That would be gracious, humble and smart politics (both domestic and international).
My guess is he does not do that.
Comment by Squid on 10/9 @ 8:19 am #
Yeah, I gotta give you that, ThomD. I understand that the main reason the Finns invented the sauna was in an attempt to see what a blonde looked like underneath her parka.
Comment by cynn on 10/9 @ 8:20 am #
I bet he sells it on ebay.
Comment by Squid on 10/9 @ 8:20 am #
(Of course, they still feel shame over it.)
Comment by Joe on 10/9 @ 8:24 am #
The women of Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and the Baltics are hotties. It makes up for a lot of goofiness.
Comment by Roland THTG on 10/9 @ 8:25 am #
Obama Wins Nobel Prize!
Hilarity ensues.
Something else the skool kidz can sing about.
Comment by Obstreperous Inifidel on 10/9 @ 8:26 am #
A little early for vino, no? Obama has sanctioned the killings of many, many, many people in “Awfffghaneeestan” and “Pawkeeeestaaan”. And the “absence of war is peace”? This is one those times I jope to God you’re just being sarcastic. The Nobel “Peace” prize jumped the shark a long time ago. This just absolutely proves it without a shadow of a doubt.
Comment by Jeffersonian on 10/9 @ 8:26 am #
But the Nobel Committee did award the World Series to the Rockies. No reason given.
No way. The Cardinals and Angels both intend to play better than the Rockies.
Comment by Joe on 10/9 @ 8:29 am #
Comment by JeffS on 10/9 @ 8:30 am #
“I will praise him and reconsider his character if and when he turns it down in favor of more worthy candidates.”
Equally likely, O!bama will wear it around his neck at all state occasions. Just to remind us rubes of whom he is.
And if he does turn it down, I’ll be even more gobsmacked than I was when I read this news this morning.
Comment by JD on 10/9 @ 8:32 am #
Wainwright’s gem got crushed under the heel of whatever the hell that was, the this morning, Barcky’s image gets a freaking Nobel Peace Prize. The Onion would not even come up with this.
Comment by JeffS on 10/9 @ 8:33 am #
“It’s the most obvious choice, once you think about it, since Michael Moore won an Oscar for Fahrenheit 9/11.”
Yeah, especially when one recalls that Hollywood hates Bush even more than the Euroweenies do. Moore rode the BDS wave to an Oscar, O!bama rides it to a Nobel Peace Prize.
And both awards are relegated to the level of cheap bling as a result.
Comment by Joe on 10/9 @ 8:41 am #
I am making an executive decision! Cocktails permitted now.
Comment by BJTexs on 10/9 @ 8:43 am #
I’m sure that all of those people who have put their lives on the line and suffered for peace in places like Darfur and Zimbabwe and Burma and Bosnia and Chechnya are celebrating the concept of an award for potential as opposed to real accomplishment.
Somewhere in a cell in Burma, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and all who are political prisoners are weeping with clenched fists.
BTW: Lech Walesa not so amused by this selection.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 10/9 @ 8:44 am #
Comment by Joe on 10/9 @ 7:30 am #
The reaction to the award for literature would have been…interesting.
Comment by Joe on 10/9 @ 8:49 am #
Sullivan posted Conservative Reactions:
Comment by N. O'Brain on 10/9 @ 8:51 am #
“He was the 10th caller.”
THAT is fucking funny.
Comment by RIP Ford on 10/9 @ 8:56 am #
“The intelligent people of the world welcome diplomacy and cooperation.”
The thugs of the world welcome a spineless coward is much, much, more likely.
But hey, we get to be popular with the cool kids in class again, as long as we don’t do anything foolish like stand up for ourselves or the little guy being wronged. Small price to pay, eh?
Comment by Abe Froman on 10/9 @ 8:57 am #
Hi Theas! We were waiting for a spokesman for the mentally ill community to weigh in on this.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 10/9 @ 8:58 am #
Comment by Theas on 10/9 @ 8:52 am #
Obama received the Nobel for the spirit of cooperation that he has shown.”
Ummm….cooperation with…WHAT?
“The upturn in world wide confidence in America is documented.”
Who fucking cares?
“The intelligent people of the world welcome diplomacy and cooperation.”
What about stupid dumbasses like you?
“The fearful neocon neanderthals love themselves some cowboy diplomacy… (go it alone, let’s bomb us some muslims!)”
Only if they bomb us first. Remember that little incident on 9/11/01?
“The mommy blogger (with nothing better to do but spew hate, smear and misinformation), has resorted to deleting my comments,”
Start your own fucking blog then.
“she can’t handle the truth”
When you find some, get back to us. ‘mkay?
“I owe you a big thanx for proving me right repeatedly by showing your level of denial.”
Denial of reactionary leftist insanity? That’s the only way to go.
Comment by BJTexs on 10/9 @ 8:59 am #
Yelverton: So a “spirit of cooperation” trumps, you know actual results?
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, rotting in a cell in Burma, could not be reached for comment. Take minute to click on that link and realize what a partisan amoral little bitch you are.
Then spend a minute trying to wrap your pea sized hatey brain around the difference between private jet flying dilettantes and real heroes for peace.
Comment by Alec Leamas on 10/9 @ 9:02 am #
And how do underemployed idiots who pluck at guitars all day view diplomacy and cooperation?
Comment by Ric Locke on 10/9 @ 9:02 am #
What it means, basically, is that the Afghanis and Iraqis are screwed. Think “Ho Chi Minh City”.
OT — I’ll be extremely dim, if not completely dark, for the next little while. Access limitations…
Regards,
Ric
Comment by RIP Ford on 10/9 @ 9:04 am #
I hear Obama is a lock for the Heisman Trophy this season.
Comment by Abe Froman on 10/9 @ 9:06 am #
William is performing in filthydelphia on Sunday. Just a heads up for any Pennsylvanians in the commentariat who might enjoy getting liquored up and trolling a staid musical event.
Comment by The Sanity Inspector on 10/9 @ 9:06 am #
serr8d:
That ’shop of yours is spot on.
Comment by Alec Leamas on 10/9 @ 9:07 am #
Do you suppose the Preznit is starting to realize that most of his life’s accomplishments are attempts by guilt-ridden liberal white people to cleanse themselves of teh racism?
Jerkwit was inaugurated on January 20, 2008 at noon. The nominations closed on February 1, 2008. I’ll never win the Nobel Math prize, but that looks like about 12.5 days worth of peacemaking to me.
Comment by Squid on 10/9 @ 9:08 am #
Theas, your hero Obama is a shill from the Chicago machine, and the fact that he’s snowed the Europeans the same way he snowed you isn’t something you should brag too loudly about. In a year’s time, when it finally starts to dawn on you and Europe that he’s fucking you over in exactly the same way we’ve been complaining about, your words of support for his efforts will turn to ashes in your mouth.
You think he’s on your side. He’s not. He’s on Obama’s side, and the rest of us are just means to his ends.
Comment by Alec Leamas on 10/9 @ 9:09 am #
Link, please. This is too good to be true.
Comment by Carin on 10/9 @ 9:09 am #
The Hostages react.
Comment by Abe Froman on 10/9 @ 9:11 am #
Here you go Alec.
Comment by ReadytoHurl on 10/9 @ 9:11 am #
Just a heads up for any Pennsylvanians in the commentariat who might enjoy getting liquored up and trolling a staid musical event.
FREEBIRD!!!!!
Comment by No one you know on 10/9 @ 9:12 am #
I’m glad he’s “cooperating with other countries.” If that UN initiative goes in, all those liberals will be hauled in front of ICC at the Hague for disparaging Christianity. Plus, since the negotiations with the taliban are going so well, it will be no time before women are executed for showing a little ankle, the tramps. Murdering political opponents in Tehran? All good according to Obama. He’s a real sweet gem. Dalai Lama? Yeah, fuck him, and Tibet.
Comment by Blake on 10/9 @ 9:14 am #
When I told my better half about the award this morning, her first reaction was “For what?”
Echoing, I’m quite sure, the thoughts of many.
Comment by J. "Trashman" Peden on 10/9 @ 9:16 am #
Imo, the Nobel Peace Prize Judges seem to have merely found yet another living Giant Paper Mache’ Dummy with which to
demonstrate their own very severe maladjustment to liferegale us.Is that all they got?
Comment by Jeff G. on 10/9 @ 9:16 am #
And I sink deeper into despair.
If anyone needs me, I’ll be living in the barn with the horses –
Best,
Gulliver.
Comment by The Sanity Inspector on 10/9 @ 9:18 am #
Sully’s actually got an honest roundup of non-loony negative reactions, from all over.
Comment by DarthRove on 10/9 @ 9:23 am #
It’s official: The Nobel Peace Prize is the new Grammy
Comment by Lost My Cookies on 10/9 @ 9:24 am #
Am I in crazy town? I must be in crazy town.
Comment by J. "Trashman" Peden on 10/9 @ 9:25 am #
To my mind, the Peace Prize Judges strongly resemble trolls.
Comment by Pablo on 10/9 @ 9:26 am #
BREAKING NEWS: Barack Obama has just been named Best In Show by the Westminster Kennel Club
(Shamelessly ripped off from Stu Burguiere)
Comment by Pablo on 10/9 @ 9:28 am #
Let’s keep in mind that 2 recent NPP recipents were Al Gore and Mohammed El Baradei. Perspective, is all I’m saying.
Comment by Lost My Cookies on 10/9 @ 9:28 am #
Obama won the sack race at the company picnic too.
Comment by TheGeezer on 10/9 @ 9:30 am #
All he has to do is promise to make nice jellies. Blue ribbon automatically!
Comment by SBP on 10/9 @ 9:31 am #
#73 Damn, beat me to it.
Comment by J. "Trashman" Peden on 10/9 @ 9:32 am #
The Progressives are showing quite a lot of despair themselves, if the best they have so far for World Peace is “sweet nothings” reified in the empty form of a Giant Dummy.
Comment by Squid on 10/9 @ 9:34 am #
For all their world-weary sophistication, our European Moral Superiors still fall for a slick Chicago Machine hack’s empty promises quicker than a blonde on prom night.
Sad, really.
Comment by JD on 10/9 @ 9:35 am #
ZOMFG you fuckin’ racists !!!!
Comment by SBP on 10/9 @ 9:36 am #
Ticket: $20
Bottle of Jack Daniels: $25
Heckling the fuck out of William: priceless.
#85: Excellent point. Maybe he can wrap up the physics and medicine prizes next year, if he promises to work really hard on fusion power and curing cancer. We can figure he’s already got the economics prize sewn up.
Comment by Alec Leamas on 10/9 @ 9:38 am #
At 3:00 on Sunday, me and the lads will still be a fair bit Whiskeyed up. Hehehe.
“FREE BIRD!!!! WHOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! YEAHHHH!!!!!!”
Comment by TheGeezer on 10/9 @ 9:38 am #
From PowerLineBlog
2007
AL GORE The award to Al Gore and the IPCC “for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change” fits in with a subset of cosmopolitan frauds, fakers, murderers, thieves, and no-accounts going back about twenty years.
2005
MOHAMED ELBARADEI (joint winner). He’s done such a nice job with Iran.
2004
WANGARI MAATHAI The Kenyan ecologist peacefully teaches that the AIDS virus is a biological agent deliberately created by the Man.
2002
JIMMY CARTER JR., former President of the United States of America. A true cosmopolitan, he has undermined the foreign policy of his own country and vouched for the bona fides of tyrants and murderers all over the world. Commenting on the award, Nobel Committee Chairman Gunnar Berge emphasized that the award was meant as a denunciation of American policy toward Iraq. “It should be interpreted as a criticism of the line that the [Bush] administration has taken,” Berge said. “It’s a kick in the leg to all that follow the same line as the United States.”
2001
UNITED NATIONS, New York, NY, USA.
KOFI ANNAN, United Nations Secretary General. Among other things, they respectively served as the vehicle for, and presided over, one of the biggest scams in history.
1994
YASSER ARAFAT (joint winner), Chairman of the Executive Committee of the PLO, President of the Palestinian National Authority. He was a cold-blooded murderer both before and after receiving the award.
1992
RIGOBERTA MENCHU TUM, Guatemala. She is the notorious Guatemalan faker and author, sort of, of I, Rigoberta Menchu. Like President Obama, she is a memoirist of distinction.
1988
THE UNITED NATIONS PEACE-KEEPING FORCES New York, NY, U.S.A. Notwithstanding rapes and sex abuse committed by the team in Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea and the Congo, still doing fine work all over the world.
1976
BETTY WILLIAMS, United Kingdom, founder of the Northern Ireland Peace Movement (later renamed Community of Peace People), who in later years repeatedly called for the assassination of President George Bush. How peaceful can you get?
1973
LE DUC THO (with Henry Kissinger) for the 1973 peace with honor bequeathed to the fortunate people of Vietnam.
Obama seems a logical fit, eh?
Comment by Alec Leamas on 10/9 @ 9:41 am #
Perchance Wee Willy Winkie could comp his favorite PW friends and leave some tickets at the Will-call window?
Comment by MarkD on 10/9 @ 9:45 am #
It is totally appropriate that he shares an award with Al Gore, Yasser Arafat and Jimmy Carter, but I have a problem with the name. Insane Clown Posse was already taken.
Comment by geoffb on 10/9 @ 9:46 am #
Nah, Obama is accepting on behalf of the Nationals since they have a better record than he does.
Comment by Rigoberta Menchú on 10/9 @ 9:46 am #
Bill Ayres wins the Noble Prize for literature for “Dreams of my Fathers”.
Hey, at least I wrote my own fake autobiography.
Comment by BJTexs on 10/9 @ 9:50 am #
Blake: Exactly the same response from mine!
Abe Froman: Oh, man, so, so tempting. $20 bucks to hang with Yelverton the hatey lefty? 43.5 miles away!
Freebird indeed!
Comment by Pablo on 10/9 @ 9:52 am #
Willie! Play Stairway to Heaven!!
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Comment by Joe on 10/9 @ 9:57 am #
Was Obama the 10th Caller or is this about the 10th Iman?
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Comment by psycho... on 10/9 @ 10:01 am #
Starting? I don’t recommend his shitty old book, but in it, he says what you said, in not so few words — and suprisingly, since he’s a dipshit, his take on it is sometimes more cynical, and more accurate, than the stock “guilty white” take.
He seems to know that they’re not actually “guilty,” and that he’s not a proper vessel for anyone’s history-of-oppression type feelings. The book is about his struggle to act like a worthy vessel,* not for white people, who convince themselves he’s who they desire him to be just fine, but for black people. They’re the ones who rejected him.
The book ends unresolved, because it’s really only after Bobby Rush smoked his white ass — qua white ass — that Obama went for broke, put the ‘face on and danced for the black vote.
His debt to Rev. Wright is not ideological. That’s why dude’s so pissed at him.
* Really, it is. No one but Steve Sailer seems to have actually read the thing, and leaving the job to him was a massive righty FAIL. The Ayers shit threw you guys off, because it was more SHOCKING! story.
(And people love Ayers. You don’t get it.)
Comment by R. U. Schidt-Ingmi on 10/9 @ 10:03 am #
WTF?
Comment by Blake on 10/9 @ 10:05 am #
Every single lefty who claims President Obama deserves the award, I’m going to ask: “What, exactly, has President Obama accomplished in order to deserve the award.”
Of course, lefties will never admit the award has become such a mockery it’s meaningless except with the so-called cultural elite.
Comment by J. "Trashman" Peden on 10/9 @ 10:06 am #
I’m going to go listen to Rush Limbaugh. This precious moment, likely further indicating Obama’s “demise”, must be savored!
Comment by S. U. R. Schidt-Ingmi on 10/9 @ 10:07 am #
Hi, this is Sabine Ursula Renate Schidt-Ingmi. That last comment was from my aunt and namesake Renate Ursula Schidt-Ingmi. After hearing the news of President Obama’s award of a Nobel Peace Prize, she has decided to retire from writing her syndicated “Believe it or don’t” column. I’ll be taking over for Auntie Renate commencing immediately.
Our apologies for any inconvenience.
Obama… Peace Prize?
I need to get with the research staff of “Believe it or Don’t” and get to the bottom of this urban legend.
Comment by Uwe Gott. B. Schidt-Ingmi on 10/9 @ 10:14 am #
Guten Tag! This is Sabine’s father (und Ursula’s brother), Uwe Gottfried Bernhardt Schidt-Ingmi. I have pledged the resources of the U. Gott. B. Schidt-Ingmi Detective Agency to get to the bottom of the situation. We are considering approaching American free-lance investigator Hannah Giles to see if she is interested in contributing to the effort.
Comment by Rigoberta Menchú on 10/9 @ 10:21 am #
That’s a load of schidts!
Comment by John53 on 10/9 @ 10:27 am #
The Nobel committee has continued down the path of irrelevancy. The committee has made some fairly bad choices for the last decade or so, its anti-America agenda fits in perfectly with Mr. Obama’s. The following is a list of recent Nobel winners.
1994 Yasser Arafat (A terrorist)
2001 Kofi Annan (Anti-American Politician)
2002 Jimmy Carter (Anti American Politician)
2005 Mohamed El Baradei (A fool and a Liar)
2007 Al Gore (A large fool and liar)
2009 Barrack Obama (Anti-American Politician)
This is a collection of Leftist doofuses, unknown bureaucrats, petty dictators, terrorists, conmen, and crooks. What distinguished company, Mister President “No Clue”. The continuing journey to mental retardation is firmly imbedded in our society; this is not all that different from giving an Oscar to a pedophile.
Comment by geoffb on 10/9 @ 10:34 am #
I did not know this.
Comment by SBP on 10/9 @ 10:42 am #
I’m planning on balancing my checking account when the statement arrives.
Where’s my Fields Medal, bitches?
Comment by doubled on 10/9 @ 10:48 am #
News Flash: Barrack Obama gets “Cy Young Award” for throwing out first pitch in season opener.
Yeah, the pitch bounced in, but he intended to get it all the way home.
Comment by geoffb on 10/9 @ 10:51 am #
I imagine that along with his acceptance of the Taliban as partners not enemies and his worldwide apology tour that this work in Iraq caps off his qualifications for the “Peace Prize”. Neville Chamberlain could not be reached for comment.
Comment by OCBill on 10/9 @ 11:22 am #
<i.”I will accept this award as a call to action; a call for all nations to confront the common actions of the 21st century,” [Obama] said.
Confront the common actions of the 21st century???!!! What the hell is that even supposed to mean?
Comment by TaiChiWawa on 10/9 @ 11:26 am #
It’s an exceptional joke that conclusively skewers a myth. This one skewers two.
Comment by Spiny Norman on 10/9 @ 11:31 am #
Now making the rounds of the interwebz:
If Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize for basically “wishing for world peace”, shouldn’t he have to share it with all the last 50-odd winners of the Miss America Pageant?
Comment by The Sanity Inspector on 10/9 @ 11:41 am #
I liked what Jake Tapper said: Apparently there are more stringent standards for being awarded an honorary degree from ASU.
Comment by Starcaller Nishi on 10/9 @ 11:52 am #
Here Darleen, I thought you might need to reset your Butthurt Alert Monitor.
Comment by Pablo on 10/9 @ 11:59 am #
Liar.
Comment by Squid on 10/9 @ 12:03 pm #
Wow, Darleen. I don’t know how you’ll ever recover from that zinger. I know that if the Nisher ever mocked me like that, I’d be in therapy for years. I mean, when a valued contributor, who has spent months upon months building up respect and goodwill in this community, decides to turn her rapier-sharp wit upon you, well, it’s just gotta sting.
I’m praying for you. Be strong!
Comment by Abe Froman on 10/9 @ 12:08 pm #
Leave it to dopey leftards to use a term like “butthurt” to characterize people who are laughing at them.
Comment by Spiny Norman on 10/9 @ 12:08 pm #
Nishit’s linky: “We don’t know why our Dear Leader won the Nobel, but we won and you didn’t. Nya-nya-nya!”
Real “butthurt” nishi.
The Left has the intellectual and emotional maturity of a 10-year old. A spoiled brat 10-year old.
Comment by Pellegri on 10/9 @ 12:10 pm #
I think I threw up in my mouth a lot.
Comment by DarthRove on 10/9 @ 12:11 pm #
Mr. Balloon Juice person doesn’t seem to have the capacity to distinguish between people “getting themselves worked into a froth” and “having a belly laugh at the obvious stoopidity of Our Betters”.
Comment by Pellegri on 10/9 @ 12:12 pm #
Dammit, Nishi, I want a link to Armory showing you’ve downed Algalon before you go around pretending you’ve got the Starcaller title. :|
Also hi PW I missed you. :c
Comment by Alec Leamas on 10/9 @ 12:16 pm #
I’m sensing some homo, homo, homophooooobia coming from this blog’s use of the term “butthurt.”
But not from the other blog, that’s all on the up and up.
Comment by Abe Froman on 10/9 @ 12:19 pm #
The thing about Nishit is that who she is shines through in her comments. She’s one of those people who 20 years hence you look through your high school yearbook and don’t even remember being in your class. But she remembers everyone. And this is her revenge.
Comment by Pablo on 10/9 @ 12:20 pm #
Maybe Nishi meant to drop that on this thread. That would be about her speed, and there’d be actual outrage to point at.
Comment by Pablo on 10/9 @ 12:22 pm #
Introducing the 2010 Motor Trend Car of the Year: Barack Obama!
Comment by Spiny Norman on 10/9 @ 12:24 pm #
Doesn’t the Nobel Prize carry a hefty cash award, something like a million bucks? Since the Nobel Committee admits this is “designed to encourage his initiatives”, shouldn’t it be called the Nobel Peace Bribe?
Comment by doodlz-KS on 10/9 @ 12:33 pm #
Ahh Darleen, I knew I could count on you for a clever and entertaining opine in the matter. What a JOKE!!!
Comment by Roland THTG on 10/9 @ 12:36 pm #
Groucho Marx: “I don’t care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.”
Comment by ghost707 on 10/9 @ 12:37 pm #
The Nobel Prize is equivalent to the AVN award for best anal scene.
Comment by happyfeet on 10/9 @ 12:41 pm #
Pablo got a lol out of NG with that one.
Comment by happyfeet on 10/9 @ 12:42 pm #
Pellegri you have been missed and also JD will be sad he missed you.
Comment by Salt Lick on 10/9 @ 12:44 pm #
Comment by Theas on 10/9 @ 8:52 am #
“Obama received the Nobel for the spirit of cooperation that he has shown.”
That sounds like “plays well with others” on a third-grader’s report card.
Comment by Salt Lick on 10/9 @ 12:45 pm #
I was also glad to see pyscho, happy, but as usual I didn’t understand anything he said. Which, I blame me.
Comment by DarthRove on 10/9 @ 12:55 pm #
serr8d, I’d love to see a Photoshop of Obama as Sally Field in front of the assembled world dictators and Euroweenies doing the “You love me! You really love me!!!” speech.
Comment by Blake on 10/9 @ 12:59 pm #
Salt Lick,
A local radio personality, conservative and Black, says the reason Obama joined Rev. Wrights church was to develop Obama’s “Black Cred.” Rev. Wright also has/had some serious pull with politically powerful people.
I believe that’s what psycho is referring to.
Comment by JD on 10/9 @ 1:15 pm #
Pellegri !!!!
Comment by Snowcone on 10/9 @ 1:17 pm #
Of course the Republicans are going to freak out. Our guy wins a Nobel Peace Prize after 9 months in office, primarily for tinkering with the worst excesses of the wars their guy started. That’s humiliating. Humiliated Republicans lash out, news at eleven.
-Lindsay Beyerstein
Comment by JD on 10/9 @ 1:20 pm #
Lindsay is as big of an idiot as snotnose. What did he do between 20 JAN and 1 FEB to warrant this, yellowsnow? Not 9 months, 10 days. You, and Lindsay, are fucking pathetic.
Comment by Blake on 10/9 @ 1:28 pm #
Snowcone,
Most thinking people (yeah, that’s a shot at you and your lack of anything approaching rational thought) think it’s ridiculous President Obama was nominated for his prize within two weeks of becoming President.
But, go ahead, continue to think humiliation=ridicule.
Comment by Zelda on 10/9 @ 1:35 pm #
The humiliation is Obama’s. It’s a bribe for being a good boy and doing exactly what the old, white, communists want him to do.
Comment by Abe Froman on 10/9 @ 1:39 pm #
Freak out? This is hilarious.
Comment by Salt Lick on 10/9 @ 1:50 pm #
reason Obama joined Rev. Wrights church was to develop Obama’s “Black Cred.”…
I believe that’s what psycho is referring to.
Got that. I’ve always thought Obama was laughing inside about the white guilt theme.
But people love Ayers? I didn’t think Ayers got more attention because he was more glamorous; I just thought everyone outside of PW was afraid to go full bore on Wright because of race.
Comment by sdferr on 10/9 @ 1:55 pm #
If the Nobel Committee had set out with malicious intent to make Obama appear a fool they could not have done a better job of it than this. Even for all the sadness entailed in the loss of a recognition of genuine excellence it will yet be pretty damned funny to watch this travesty unwind in American minds.
Comment by Abe Froman on 10/9 @ 2:01 pm #
I didn’t think Ayers got more attention because he was more glamorous; I just thought everyone outside of PW was afraid to go full bore on Wright because of race.
There’s an element of both. Not because Wright is black so much as the fact that his blackness makes him a mascot to the left rather than an accountable human being. We know their game and why Baracky was there all those years, so connecting Obama to him is less illuminating. In the case of Ayers he is a tenured, respected academic on the left in spite of being a raving moonbat with a violent history of terrorism. He isn’t a mascot, he’s a window into the left – and Obama – in a real way.
Comment by ghost707 on 10/9 @ 2:08 pm #
Obama wins Nobel.
U.S. unemployment at 9.8% and climbing.
The world wants revenge on American exceptionalism, and Obama is giving it to them.
I won’t be surprised in the least if Obama declares war on Australia or some other friendly nation in the future.
Comment by SBP on 10/9 @ 2:18 pm #
He was nominated after only two weeks in office, NippleNut.
And seriously, you expect us to be impressed by the babblings of Lindsay Beyerstein? That’s like SFAG trying to make a point with Dahlia Lithwick earlier.
So old lady communists (of all sexes) approve. I know I’m surprised by this.
Comment by Swen Swenson on 10/9 @ 2:23 pm #
Hey! I’ve been thinking about writing a book. Where’s my Nobel Prize for Literature?
Comment by Makewi on 10/9 @ 2:28 pm #
ghost707
An Australian-US war would be a great idea. It could be fought entirely with those little drink umbrellas on the sunny beaches of each country.
Comment by SBP on 10/9 @ 2:31 pm #
Right. And rather than firing weapons, maybe the issue can be decided with a bikini contest (and a speedo contest, for you ladies and gay gents in the viewing audience).
Comment by Zelda on 10/9 @ 2:31 pm #
No, I’m going to win the Nobel Prize. I have fantastic potential. People have told me that for years and years and my father’s dead too. Plus I’m really, really, really post-racial.
Comment by Matt on 10/9 @ 2:35 pm #
If Obama can pull off a few of more of these cash prize awards, he’ll stimulate the economy back into shape. Wonder what kind of Michelle lovin a peace price warrants ?
And I have to be honest, I would have loved to have seen Bush win the award (he only liberated two countries and provided the possbility of equal rights to woman in both) just to see Olberman’s head explode on camera.
Comment by Matt on 10/9 @ 2:36 pm #
I intend to win American Idol though I cannot sing. Where’s my record contract Cowell ?
*for you ladies and gay gents in the viewing audience*
As Mr. Brown has pointed out, gay people do not come here because we are all homophobes.
Comment by LTC John on 10/9 @ 2:36 pm #
The Nobel Committee should give me a million Euro to encourage me to be really crazy brave if I deploy again – can I expect the MoH soon? Bah.
Comment by ghost707 on 10/9 @ 2:42 pm #
Makewi,
Obama is going to use the drink umbrellas against the Taliban, he will nuke Australia – too many people there that act like American conservatives for THE 0NE to be comfortable with.
I mean, their Prime Minister told the Muslims that if they didn’t like the Australian rule of law – then leave! The nerve! Imagine a leader of a country unwilling to submit to Islamic law!
Comment by Blake on 10/9 @ 2:43 pm #
“I don’t believe this! He’s not only the first post-racial president, he’s also the first post-accomplishment.” — Rush Limbaugh
Comment by Blake on 10/9 @ 2:44 pm #
via Michelle Malkin.
Comment by Matt on 10/9 @ 2:44 pm #
I’m sorry Colonel, the next MoH recipient is Barrak Hussein Obama for “thinking good thoughts” about our troops. THAT is real bravery.
Comment by Neo on 10/9 @ 2:47 pm #
Obama says Nobel Peace Prize is “call to action”
InTrade had action with Hu Jia, Morgan Tsvangirai, Thich Quang Do, Ingrid Betancourt, Nicolas Sarkozy, Tony Blair, with Pete Seeger having the most, just behind “Anyone else.”
Obama was listed but had no action as did Michael Jackson and Bono.
Comment by Spiny Norman on 10/9 @ 2:50 pm #
Lindsay Beyerstein seems to be one of those “Troofers” that don’t believe Osama bin Laden and his Taliban enablers had anything to do with the attacks on 9/11/2001.
So how long, Snowcone, before you guys try to erase that “unfortunate incident / man-made disaster” from history altogether?
Comment by Snowcone on 10/9 @ 3:05 pm #
How long before you conservatives regain your sanity and sense of decency, Spiny?
Comment by Rusty on 10/9 @ 3:09 pm #
#164
About when you vote with your intellect istead of your gonads.
Comment by Lamontyoubigdummy on 10/9 @ 3:09 pm #
So provided Obama donates the $1.4 million in Nobel Prize money to balance his & Pelosi’s deficit (sans health care, cap & trade, etc), save or create some jobs ‘n shit…exactly how many more Nobel doohickys + prize money does he have to win to square our debt?
I tried to do the math on my iPhone calculator app.
It said, “# licks to center Tootsie Pop/ Error/ Error”.
Then it immediately downloaded an assisted suicide app and exploded.
Comment by SBP on 10/9 @ 3:14 pm #
#164: Translation: you have no response.
BTW, NippleNut, wasn’t “your guy” babbling all through the campaign season about how he was going to take out the “Tollybawn” and attack “Pockystawn”?
I’m not sure how Ms. Beyerstein reconciles those inconvenient truths.
Comment by SBP on 10/9 @ 3:14 pm #
#165: NippleNut has gonads? Are you sure about that?
Comment by Rusty on 10/9 @ 3:56 pm #
#168
I don’t know. He seems to know an awful lot about gloryholes. I’m told they have something to do, gloryholes, with gay people, so I assumed he had a pair.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 10/9 @ 4:12 pm #
“Comment by Rusty on 10/9 @ 3:09 pm #
#164
About when you vote with your intellect istead of your gonads.”
Um, where are they?
Comment by Starcaller Nishi on 10/9 @ 4:25 pm #
No way Pelli…..the last thing i need is a scrub/baddie/retard wowstalker spoiling my r&r. ;)
sry feets, I forgot the playlist…..i promise ill membah.
ill make it automatic.
you n me feets
;)
Comment by Starcaller Nishi on 10/9 @ 4:26 pm #
hearts
Comment by happyfeet on 10/9 @ 4:42 pm #
hi you! I have two new ones I wanted to give you I can’t see youtubes here at work but from google I will give you the frankmusik here and here…
Comment by happyfeet on 10/9 @ 4:44 pm #
and the alphabeat here and here
When I grow up I want to be a goofy-looking danish kid with a tambourine I think.
Comment by Starcaller Nishi on 10/9 @ 4:58 pm #
ty feets ;)
but….aren’t u already a goofy-looking danish kid with a tambourine?
I allus imagine u as Matt of Matt-n-Kim.
Comment by Starcaller Nishi on 10/9 @ 5:01 pm #
feets u are sooooooo euro.
lol
Comment by trentk269 on 10/9 @ 5:21 pm #
Vote for Barack Obama for the 2009 Heisman Trophy here: http://promo.espn.go.com/espn/contests/theheismanvote/2009/
Comment by happyfeet on 10/9 @ 5:36 pm #
i always picture you like the girl in the genki rockets song
Comment by BuddyPC on 10/9 @ 6:53 pm #
This is like “The Wall of Greg” from Meet the Fockers.
“I didn’t know they gave out ninth place awards.”
“Oh, they go up to tenth place.”
In other news, Milli Vanilli wins Best New Artist Grammy.
Yesterday’s studio impresarios and lip synching are today’s soros and axelrod svengalis and teleprompters.
I can see how Mr Resume, in this pre-achievement celebrity age wins a nobel peace prize. What cracks me up is that the single most notable public figure from Chicago for this half decade merits a ‘peace’ prize as the violence within his city has escalated to near third world/revolutionary proportions in his time in public office.
The silver lining is since Fab Obama is donating the cash prize, he’ll probably put off those proposed caps on charitable giving for another year.
Comment by Bob Reed on 10/9 @ 7:10 pm #
The Nobel committe wants to usher in the utopia in the age of Obama. It’s like they’re saying, “Hey, let’s immanetize this eschaton!”
Comment by serr8d on 10/9 @ 7:27 pm #
Heh. Sorry, ‘feets, but I always pictured Nishi as the Ringu girl, climbing out of the well.
Comment by Pablo on 10/9 @ 8:13 pm #
So, we’ve so far got another 17,000 troops in Afghanistan, maybe more coming, a broadening effort in Pawkeestahn and a rising death toll, and in Iraq, we’re following the plan Bush left set up to the letter.
Yeah, you nailed it Lidnsey. The Nobel loves him because he’s Black Bush, and you totally punked us with that one. I, for one, will never live it down.
Comment by louchette, outlaw /b/tard on 10/9 @ 9:45 pm #
butthurt has nada to do with politics. it’s pretty basic internets slang, like troll, or lulz. and i am deeply ashamed that some of you guys on whom i rely to be way smarter than i, are so meme deficient in this case. truly i am. /facepalm
i has some links. they may or may not be contain words or images that may or may NOT be safe for work or life or your brain or other stuff… or not. i make nor promises. i am not your personal army. ;-)
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ButtHurt
http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Butthurt
http://www.scribd.com/doc/7771818/Butt-Hurt-Report-Form
Comment by serr8d on 10/9 @ 9:51 pm #
What is this butthurt of which you speak, oh Ringu Grrrl?
We are, collectively, LAUGHING! Because, we see this as a trap. Obama’s caught in a wicked trap; he’ll have to do whatever it takes to live up to this prematurely presented award. No matter what sort of damage it might do to this country.
If he goes too far in his proggtard ways, he’ll lose at the ballot box(es).
Name the trap. Hint: yellow.
;D
Comment by louchette, outlaw /b/tard on 10/9 @ 10:08 pm #
the award is… meh. to me. not an important story in itself. really. that award has been pretty damn meaningless for a long time already. but the implications at which you hint are important. if you’re trying to bait me into saying cheap chinese fucktoy again i’m not gonna do it. >_> just to be contrary. and cuz i’m not in the mood to denounce myself tonight.
and embarrassingly, i haven’t seen the ringu film. or i did attend it, but i fell asleep from too much ichiko, so i didn’t see it see it. so i don’t think i can tease out the riddle if it relies on knowledge of that text.
and i really love that butthurt report form. i’ve dropped it in comments here before. and probably will do again, if the occasion calls for it.
Comment by happyfeet on 10/9 @ 10:21 pm #
ringu is good but I liked The Ring better … I hate nobel prizes and presidents whose last names start with O and I think Ironbeer is the most godawful stuff I ever tasted and I think Cuba is a dirty poor island of losery losers
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Comment by ronp on 10/9 @ 11:39 pm #
Here’s a question for everyone: Is there really any hope for a nation like ours that seems to be so bitterly divided on every important issue? Maybe we should just split in two and let conservatives and liberals go their separate ways?
Comment by happyfeet on 10/9 @ 11:58 pm #
ok fine ringu is better
Comment by geoffb on 10/10 @ 1:28 am #
I’m not sure of your illusion to a “yellow” trap. You could be thinking of a “honey trap” which the Nobel Peace Prize could be seen in that light. Bait to lure the Left into a trap.
Obama I see as a different “yellow” colored trap for the Left worldwide. He is flypaper for them. They are drawn in and then stuck, trapped, when he falls they all go along for the ride.
Comment by Lamontyoubigdummy on 10/10 @ 6:17 am #
If nothing else, Erkel is now officially funny.
Can we dig Reagan up and give him a 3rd term now?
Zombie Reagan vs. Obama.
Fucking landslide at this point.
Hey, is it possible for a B2 to accidentally bomb Norway on the way to Pockystan?
What?
Clinton “accidentally” missiled a bunch’a Chinese (campaign contributors) during that Balkan thingy.
Gen. McCrystal: “Sorry Norway. That MOAB had baby oil on it or something. Totally slipped out of the bomb bay door. My wife and I got pregnant that way. Can’t believe it hit the Nobel Committee. That sucks. Oh. Also, all of y’all got gonorrhea from a tractor”.
Comment by JD on 10/10 @ 6:20 am #
Gonorrhea from a tractor?!
Comment by Lamontyoubigdummy on 10/10 @ 6:29 am #
I heard it happens JD.
Comment by JD on 10/10 @ 6:45 am #
Sounds like something that would happen to a Canadian, or a Cubs fan.
Comment by Lamontyoubigdummy on 10/10 @ 6:47 am #
No more dithering about this.
Norway sucks.
Sure, sure, they have “blondes”, but I’ve watched enough European porn to know the Swedes, Finish & Ukrainian blondes are where it’s at.
Norway’s got nothin’ except an ex-pat dude named Sig running a crab boat on the Discovery Channel in Sarah Palin’s backyard.
Bunch’a dumb shit liberal snowboarders living under our defense umbrella for 60 years, putting together IKEA furniture, and breathing up all our goddamn air.
Stupid, worthless fucking Scandies.
Comment by JD on 10/10 @ 6:52 am #
Swedes rock.
Comment by JHo on 10/10 @ 6:56 am #
I’m with Abe. Sentiment-wise.
Comment by JHo on 10/10 @ 6:59 am #
Kicking thru empty Rockstar cans and Maruchan wrappers on the way to a battered XBox at 3:15am every morning.
Comment by sdferr on 10/10 @ 7:07 am #
Over praising the humble turnip fits quite well with Obama’s award, JD. Well done.
Comment by Lamontyoubigdummy on 10/10 @ 7:09 am #
Ahhhh.
2 fried eggs, fresh beefeater tomato, new potato hash fried with chorizo, rosemary & bacon, jalapeno cornbread, and a pot of coffee.
Gonna be a good day.
Comment by JD on 10/10 @ 7:28 am #
Sdferr – Plus, what kind of world would this be with the Swedish Bikini Team?
Comment by ThomasD on 10/10 @ 7:28 am #
Beefeater tomato? How the hell do you grow tomatoes with gin inside?
Never mind the details, can you send me some seeds?
Comment by JD on 10/10 @ 7:30 am #
I am taking a blacksmithing class today.
Comment by sdferr on 10/10 @ 7:31 am #
“I am taking a blacksmithing class today.”
srsly?
Comment by JD on 10/10 @ 7:31 am #
Lybd – I only had deep fried think cut pig jowl bacon. I am jealous.
Comment by JD on 10/10 @ 7:35 am #
Yes, sdferr. It sounded fun. It is rather hot in here though. That could make for a long day.
Comment by sdferr on 10/10 @ 7:40 am #
Hot yes, Ha-ha’s! So from that I take it you are in the class now?
Cool beans (or hot beans, rather). Mashing plastic iron is great fun imo and occasionally, the only way to get just the tool you need at a reasonable expense. Enjoy.
Comment by JD on 10/10 @ 7:45 am #
You never know when you will need to bang out a horseshoe, or a rudimentary nail. Plus, it gives me an excuse to buy an anvil.
Comment by sdferr on 10/10 @ 7:54 am #
Since I was a woodworker I typically made stuff like plane irons (for moulding planes, mostly) and chisels, gouges, carving tools, spokeshaves, drawknives and that sort of stuff. Not so much hardware and no horsy related stuff atall.
Comment by JD on 10/10 @ 8:00 am #
Speaking of woodworking, which makes me think of wood, we are looking at wood floors. We are down to Brazilian Koa or reclaimed softwood flooring from an old old old tobacco factory. And recommendations, or other suggestions?
Comment by serr8d on 10/10 @ 8:05 am #
Damnit, somebody’s going to have to denounce me after this.
Ummm, banana, jar?
Comment by sdferr on 10/10 @ 8:16 am #
On the hardness scale those two range from concrete slab to feather-bed JD. Heh. Though the prettiness one way or t’other is usually the clincher, no?
In the old Philly houses I lived and worked on (not a few of them Trinities) it was often the case that the “fancy” (read, more costly, I guess) harder wood, hence more durable, was placed on the first floor, either red or white oak, and pines used in the second and third. The cool thing was that the pines, having been trod on for a couple hundred years, would wear away, except at the knots, which being harder than either of the oaks, would stand as little mounds dotting the landscape. ‘Course, all that wear took place in the days before polyurethane finishes.
Comment by JD on 10/10 @ 8:21 am #
I like the old worn softwood, but Better Half likes Koa, and also Cypress. I likely have no say in the matter.
Comment by sdferr on 10/10 @ 8:22 am #
“…Cypress…”
NO. No, no, no.
Comment by serr8d on 10/10 @ 8:23 am #
Obama gets voice mails.
Comment by JD on 10/10 @ 8:28 am #
Why?
I think I just made a railroad spike. This is kind of like junior high shop class. Eventually everything starts looking like an ashtray.
Comment by sdferr on 10/10 @ 8:37 am #
“Why”
It was never used as flooring material back when it was actually abundant for many reasons.
1)Too damned soft, 2)the most splintery of all woods known to man and hence, guaranteed to harm the barefoot eventually, 3)it’s generally nothing special in the looks department, 4)rhetorically speaking, what is it (the heartwood) really good for or at? not rotting under conditions of extreme moisture, but is that really ever the case with a floor?, 4)did I mention that when the splinter sits under your skin for a few minutes it burns like hellfire because of the volatile compounds it releases into your flesh?, 5)TOO SOFT. Oh, and the splinters will run-out, beginning as a tiny needle point, yes, but ultimately traveling along the length of the board in an ever growing triangle-of-death.
No,no,no,no,no,no,no.
Comment by JD on 10/10 @ 8:41 am #
Oh. Good to know. I am guessing you would select Koa over the reclaimed softwood?
Comment by sdferr on 10/10 @ 8:44 am #
Meh, me, probably not but then I have my own aesthetic biases. We’re I restricted to a choice of those two, I’d probably go for softwood though. Given my druthers entire, I’m a White Oak lover, with radial cut leanings. A sucker for sexy ray-flash, in other words.
Comment by sdferr on 10/10 @ 8:44 am #
Were, not we’re. sorry.
Comment by sdferr on 10/10 @ 8:49 am #
I did install re-claimed Longleaf Heartpine in my own house in Jersey, and it is beautiful and functional, was a pleasure to work with, etc. etc. From here. That, however, was under the direction of my own one-time better half.
Comment by JD on 10/10 @ 8:51 am #
I am going to pass your suggestions on to Better Half. Hopefully, she will listen to your informed advise, but I suspect her taste is driving the process. Lord knows she ain’t paying attention to cost. Ugh.
Comment by geoffb on 10/10 @ 9:15 am #
My father’s father was a blacksmith, Southern Indiana. I have a number of chisels he made for working stone, limestone The best small crowbar I’ve ever had, he made. My Jr. High shop class included blacksmithing. Banging red-hot steel is fun and hard work too. Enjoy JD.
Comment by geoffb on 10/10 @ 9:19 am #
My advise, through personal experience, on home furnishing is always go with what your wife wants. Unless you enjoy being told daily what a stupid ugly thing you made her buy and live with.
Comment by JD on 10/10 @ 9:24 am #
My forearms are pounding, kind of like “arm-pump” after riding off-road motorcycles. This is a blast.
Comment by sdferr on 10/10 @ 9:33 am #
Watch out JD or you too may find yourself waking one day to the realization that you covet a swage block more than anything else in the world. More even than that leg-vise you just got. Heh.
Comment by Rusty on 10/10 @ 10:03 am #
#203
Good on ya! I’ve never really done any, but always found it facinating. I have a very old rip saw that was forge welded after it broke. If anything it is bor springy(?) than any new ones.
sdferr. I sometimes make knives out of worn out files. Heating them to remove the temper and then grinding them to the contour needed. I like the edge that carbon steel holds over stainless or high speed. Making stuff you need instead of buying it is empowering.
Comment by sdferr on 10/10 @ 10:17 am #
“…out of worn out files…”
That is good stuff alright. I’ve used files in particular to make planemaker’s floats but mostly contented myself with car springs, both coil and leaf for making other edged stuff.
Comment by SBP on 10/10 @ 11:26 am #
Suppose you did want to put wood flooring in a wet area.
Teak? Eastern red cedar?
Comment by sdferr on 10/10 @ 11:34 am #
Heh. Concrete is the way I’d go SBP, but if push comes to wood-shove, teak is your bet, or maybe what is used around here, Tabebuia serratifolia and T. ipe, rot resistant to beat the band. Heavy, strong and poisonous.
Comment by JD on 10/10 @ 11:53 am #
Acid-etched concrete is really nice, SBP.
Comment by Patrick Chester on 10/10 @ 1:28 pm #
Snowy gets all Zen-like with:
How long before you conservatives regain your sanity and sense of decency, Spiny?
Great question. How does one regain what one has not lost?
Right up there with the sound of one hand clapping…
Comment by SDN on 10/10 @ 2:53 pm #
#188: Sure, provided your way leads out of the United States.
Comment by SBP on 10/10 @ 3:08 pm #
I’m thinking about redoing my bathroom floor… I hate cold tile, and vinyl always looks cheesy after a couple of years.
Trackback by Tel-Chai Nation on 10/11 @ 3:00 pm #
The comedy of Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize…
Who knew? But that’s what just happened, POTUS Obama won the most politicized prize on the planet (Hat tip: Hot Air):…
Comment by Mark A. Flacy on 10/11 @ 10:57 pm #
If people weren’t divided, it wouldn’t be an “issue”. It would be an “agreement”.