I got to interview a Costa Rican president for a high school assignment. Except when I interviewed him, he wasn't the president yet, just a businessman. And then later when he ran for president and I was old enough to vote, I didn't vote for him.
Evan's father, Birch, has relocated here to Maryland's Eastern Shore and he goes to our church. Really a sweet man... Other than that, I met the inventor of cargo pockets.... He was in the airborne infantry during WWII and the jumpers needed extra pockets since they couldn't have the standard pack preparing for their jump into Normandy. One of the best conversations I've ever had. I also interviewed a famous civil rights worker named Bob Moses, who was famous, for among other things, the idea behind Freedom Summer, which lead to the deaths of Goodman, Cheney and Schwerner. He was not happy an undergrad had found him and it was not one of the better conversations in my life. I sat next to a black man, from Illinois, flying to Boston who was in law school at Harvard and on the Harvard Law Review. I'm claiming that it was Barack Obama... Oh, and I played in an all star game against Ruud Gullit, and I was the one who had to mark him. I played pretty well, but not nearly well enough...
I met former Canadian Foreign Minister Lloyd Axworthy (very interesting man), and sorta met PM Jean Chretien in that I was the liaison who worked with the Canadian government on a public lecture he gave back when I worked at Duke. We had a lot of interesting lecturers come in who I was able to meet: Hannan Ashrawi, Joseph Stiglitz, Kenneth Kaunda, but it wasn't as though we headed out to happy hour together.
Did god-loving patriot Santorum call Obama the n-word? He said it something like "anti-war government ni..." and then stopped. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFLnBsbRVmM"]What Did Rick Santorum Almost Say in Janesville? March 27, 2012 - YouTube[/ame] At this point, he is doing nothing more than trolling. How come this guy is being taken seriously for so long?
To keep the rubes herded. The culture war wing of the party needs to be kept engaged by having their revolting carrot dangled. If it wernt for Santorum all the GOP would have to sell is greed.
I went to google, the place to go for all things Santorum, and started to type in the letters "N" and "I" and "G" and the first thing that comes up is "night sweats." Therefore, I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt. He was in the process of saying "anti-war government night sweats." All he was doing was making it easier for the people at Bad Lip Reading. Is it really that bad?
That's news to me that Obama is anti-war. He dragged our military into a third conflict, and escalated one of the other ones. Even if he were anti-war, what kind of a country do we live in that anti-war is even a pejorative? I'd have to guess the "nig.." part of the comment is Santorum is swinging for the fences, seeing as how it's all but wrapped up for Mitt Romney.
Maybe he drifted onto foreign politics, and thought aloud about the 'Anti war government in Niger'. However, is being an anti war government such a bad thing? Or has Rick been watching Starship Troopers 3 whilst eating a lot of strong cheese?
In fairness to Rick, it's hard for those guys to remember all the context rules--you talk about "defending traditional families" on camera; you talk about "queers and f@gs" off camera. You talk about "American cultural values" on camera; you talk about "**************** and immigrants" off camera. You talk about "He's not one of us" on camera; you call the President of the United States a "************" off camera. It can't be easy to keep it all straight.
Wow. That's pretty appalling. Imagine how often he must use that word, in order to have almost said it accidentally. I hope that this disqualifies him from being Romney's running mate.
I would LOVE to ask him the question at his next public event. "So Mr. Santorum, did you really call the President a ******?"
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upvZdVK913I"]the new sheriff scene from blazing saddles - YouTube[/ame] The new president is a ni *BOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGG*
Boy, its really hard to hear that any other way, huh? "Niggling nabob of negativiism" maybe? "She turned me into a nigra!"
Benefit of the doubt from me on that one. And since I missed the claim to fame convo: I urinated next to Reggie Jackson at a movie theater in 1986. Pope John Paul II hovered in his helicopter over my college soccer practice in Orange County CA. Same year I think, but maybe 1987. We stopped to watch him, he waved us to play on, and then he watched us play. Yes, I played soccer for the Pope! I've spent a couple of hours each with Nobel Laureate/former President of Costa Rica Oscar Arias, Nobel Laureate/former President of South Africa FW de Klerk, past head of the WHO/former PM of Norway Gro Harlem Brundtland, former UN High Commisioner of Human Rights/past President of Ireland Mary Robinson, Nobel Laureate Jody Williams, and an odd engagement with Nobel Laureate/former President of Poland Lech Walesa. I spent time over several days with Ambassador Ryan Crocker as well. Might mean less to folks, but my favorite visit was with Canadian Lieutenant-General Romeo Dallaire.
Do you have his ********ing ball? [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPowlurwWzU"]BASEketball (11/11) Movie CLIP - Reggie Jackson (1998) HD - YouTube[/ame]
I urinated next to Olympic Gold Medalist and long-time holder of the world record in the Long Jump, Bob Beamon. He was in my town at the mall making a public appearance at a Footlocker in the Mall. He had no idea where it was, and his handlers didn't show up. Of course, that's the silver medal for me. The Gold Medal is for the time I urinated next to jazz legend Dizzy Gillispie. Bronze medal: I took a leak in an alley behind the club where Clarence Gatemouth Brown was playing. Gatemouth was about 10 feet away firing up a joint.
I clearly need to urinate in more public restrooms. Oh, and I did forget, I was sitting at a bar in Hawaii sitting next to an older gentleman and we had 10-20 minute chat about the weather and other pointless things. After the guy left, the bartender cam over and informed me that I was just talking to Jimmy Buffett. Fortunately I caught myself before I said "Who?" and it wasn't until after I got back to the hotel and googled Jimmy Buffett that I figured out why I should have known who he was.
You people lead sad and pathetic lives. Have you ever met his fans? He was probably elated to finally be talking to a sensible human.
From the where are they now file, saw Gary Shandling at Dulles Airport in DC. He was standing right next to me at the baggage carousel. He had obviously caught the redeye from LA. His eyes were red and his perfectly primped hair was messed up. Looked like an indentation an airline pillow would make.
Alright I was on a flight with Jesse Jackson, he was in first class and I was in the back of the bus. Chatty fella by the looks of it.
2.5 brushes with fame... Had lunch with Maynard Jackson and Andrew Young in my first undergrad school's cafeteria. They showed up on campus often enough that no one really thought it a big deal. We (them, three of my floormates and I) talked politics, then sports. John Stallworth is a deacon at my church and a former biology student of my dad's. He's actually a really low-key guy. There is a photograph out there somewhere of my ex-girlfriend and her college roommate standing in Jackson-Hartsfield airport with Oprah. I'm the one who took the photo. Never urinated near any of these folks (certainly not Oprah), but I don't feel like I missed out on anything.