I just tried to pay the taxi driver with 10 pesos and he handed it back. “No good,” he says. I didn’t know what he meant at first, so I handed him another 10. “No good,” he says again. WTF? A third 10 was bad too, finally I handed him a 20 and he took the bill. Once I got to Craig and Celeste’s apartment, I took a look at the bills. Fake as hell. I’d never run across fake money before, I’m definitely keeping these. They used an inkjet printer to make this bills and apparently the printer was running low on ink.
I also realized that these 10′s were part of the change I received last night from dinner. There was a fourth 10, but I paid for beer that I brought over with that money. Did I just pay with a fake? I’ll never know.
As Mrs. Clinton runs for president, a central theme of her candidacy has been that her years in the White House gave her firsthand experience in dealing with foreign crises. In her now-famous TV advertisements that ran before the Ohio and Texas primaries, she portrayed herself as the candidate best prepared to answer a 3 a.m. phone call to address a sudden crisis.
When the World Trade Center was attacked for the first time on Feb. 26, 1993, President Bill Clinton flew to New York to be briefed…Mrs. Clinton stayed behind in Washington to attend a photo shoot with Parade magazine and a performance of “Jesus Christ Superstar.”
[I]n October 2000…when word came that the Cole, an American destroyer, had been attacked in a Yemen port. Mr. Clinton rushed back to the White House to deal with the crisis…Mrs. Clinton returned to the campaign trail in her run for the Senate.
“[Clinton] helped to bring peace to Northern Ireland,” she told CNN in early March…Mrs. Clinton recalled “bringing together a meeting” at the Belfast town hall of Catholic and Protestant women, saying the discussion was a breakthrough for women who recognized their similarities rather than their differences…Mrs. Clinton’s schedule for that period shows a brief event arranged by the American consulate at the Lamp Lighter Café in Belfast…[t]he Belfast Telegraph reported at the time that Mrs. Clinton was given a stainless steel teapot at the event, but reported nothing about a breakthrough meeting of Catholic and Protestant women.
Mrs. Clinton said she had urged Mr. Clinton to intervene with American troops to stop the Rwandan genocide…[b]ut neither of them mentioned such a thing in their memoirs. Madeleine K. Albright, who was ambassador to the United Nations at the time, also does not mention it in her book.
“I certainly do remember that trip to Bosnia… we came in in an evasive maneuver… I remember landing under sniper fire… there was no greeting ceremony… we ran with our heads down, we basically were told to run to our cars… there was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, we basically were told to run to our cars, that is what happened.”
Some of the terms I just don’t know, I haven’t grown up knowing. The type of missiles that are out there: patriots and scuds and cruise missiles and tomahawk missiles. And I think that men just by osmosis understand all of these things, and they’re things that I really have to work at — to know the difference between a carrier and a destroyer, and what it means when one of those is being launched to a certain area.
