Friday, March 6, 2009

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OK, so the Government is a gazillion dollars in debt, bigger numbers than I can ever wrap my pretty little head around. They spend all that money, AND:




GENEVA—Secretary of State Hillary Clinton opened her first extended talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov by giving him a present meant to symbolize the Obama administration’s vow to “press the reset button” on U.S.-Russia relations.
She handed a palm-sized box wrapped with a bow. Lavrov opened it and pulled out the gift: a red button on a black base with a Russian word peregruzka printed on top. 
“We worked hard to get the right Russian word. Do you think we got it?” Clinton asked.
“You got it wrong,” Lavrov said.
Instead of "reset," Lavrov said the word on the box meant “overcharge.”

Clinton and Lavrov laughed.
Clinton laughed and some slob of an interpretar  at the State Dept. was boxing up their desk. So I , for free, typed in English to Russian in google, then reset... Got that word in the header, you know, for free. Would have saved a little big of money.

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