Day 284: My Favorite Polo

 

October 11th, 2011If you ever see me walking around campus, you would know how much I love to wear Polos. Today was absolutely no exemption to the fact, and as you can see in my picture of the day, I showed off my favorite polo of them all: LIGHT BLUE. I ate Trix cereal (not just for kids) and then proceeded to the Arriba bus stop. After Vietnamese class in the morning and a not-so-great quiz, I went directly to EHS where I was designated several important tasks, which included extracting several important Audits for EHS as they defend themselves against a lawsuit from one of the professors. After eating my terrible ham and cheese sandwich in Geisel afterwards, I proceeded directly to meet Elizabeth outside of Perks as we discussed the logistics of meetings at Ron Paul club. It was an engaging conversation as we tackled two of biggest concerns: finding a space to host our meetings, and how to get funding. I met up with Geetha afterwards at Geisel before she took me back to her apartment to cook some delicious pasta for me (apple chicken sausages for the win!) I went home afterwards to chillax for a bit and start my wonderful script for my COMT100 video project. With some progress attained, I proceeded back to campus where I would ultimately finish the rest of my script at Geisel, and let’s just say it’s a fun one. I went to Geetha’s place afterwards where I obviously took a delicious picture of myself for all your enjoyment.

On this day in 2002, former President Jimmy Carter wins the Nobel Peace Prize “for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.” Carter, a peanut farmer from Georgia, served one term as U.S. president between 1977 and 1981. One of his key achievements as president was mediating the peace talks between Israel and Egypt in 1978. The Nobel Committee had wanted to give Carter (1924- ) the prize that year for his efforts, along with Anwar Sadat and Menachim Begin, but was prevented from doing so by a technicality–he had not been nominated by the official deadline. GROSS.

At the GOP Bloomberg/Washington Post debate Tuesday night, Ron Paul, the longest-serving advocate of a Fed audit in Congress, asked Herman Cain, a former director of the Kansas City Fed, why he opposed an audit of the central bank, and why he called advocates of such an audit ignorant. “Mr. Cain, in the past you have been rather critical of any of us who would want to audit the Fed. You have said — you’ve used pretty strong terms, that we were ignorant and that we didn’t know what we are doing, and therefore, there was no need for an audit anyway, because if you had one, you’re not going to find out anything, because everybody knows everything about the Fed,” Paul said. GOOD FOR RON PAUL!

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