I meet Republican Canidate Mitt Romney, sort of

Hey everyone, I just had a once in a lifetime experience, maybe. I don't know, but it sure was cool. Today started out like any other Friday, and was like any other Friday, until about dinner time. I go to my caf for dinner, and what do I see? Not one, not 2, not 3, but all my local channels and CNN news trucks. I had my local FOX, NBC, CBS, and ABC and the regional CNN news trucks all set up in the parking lot behind my caf. Here are the pictures.

One of the guys from CNN was walking out of the truck so I asked him what was happening, because it's not every day you get every news truck parked in practically your back yard. He said "Romney." I was thinking, "cool, I hope maybe I could get in." I don't know much about Romney, but I don't care. It's not every day that a presidential candidate comes to campus. It could have been Obama for all I care, I would have been there and I'm not a fan of Obama at all. I went down to the computer lab and registered. It was in 2 hours, so I knew it was a stretch if I would get in. I eat, drop off my coat at my room, and go to the center that it's held at. I got in line, wait, talk so some people in line, get up to the front, and it turns out I'm not on the list, so I was sent to the overflow room. Darn it.

In the overflow room they had a live stream on 2 TV carts. It wouldn't be the same as being in the room, but it would have worked. While there I talked with some other people and met another engineer. We talked some. Then this guy said that they were putting in more chairs and would try to get us in. I thought great. Then I saw that there was a line moving with people from the overflow. I go get in line, and make it in, even though I'm in the standing section behind the media. Here's some cool pics and vid I took of the media.

 

We were then given an introduction by these guys. I don't remember who exactly they were, but I assume that they were close people to the Romney campaign. I got some pictures of them, but they aren't the best quality. Here they are anyways.



Now for the main event. Romney walks on and we get so applause. I don't remember all the points of his speech, but I do remember one point quite vividly. He said he was going to remove Obamacare, and I was the first to start cheering. You might have even been able to hear my "woooo!!!!" on the news. It didn't matter that I was standing the entire time, this was really cool. Here is the best pic I got of him. For the other pictures of less quality, and for others, click here.

Then came time for the question time. Some were hard questions, others weren't. He did do a good job answering though. I realized that I was standing next to the liberals who don't agree when he said something about defunding Planned Parenthood. As the pro-life conservative I am, I cheered at that with some good claps, but the people next to me started boo-ing. I was hoping that they wouldn't get to rowdy, because I would hate to be right next to them if they were escorted out. Oh well, they stayed civil. Then at the end when it was time for Romney to leave, one guy started yelling something about how he would have let this one big company go bankrupt. I don't remember what it was, just that it was kind of scary. I see it on the news and it's interesting, but that's on TV, behind a screen. This was right up close. I didn't want something to go down. Luckily nothing went down.

I waited outside in hopes of shaking Mr. Romney's hand and having a little claim to fame, like other people I know who have met presidents. Unfortunately I didn't get to. Oh well, it was still really cool. I'm not sure if I'll vote for him against other republicans, but I will if he goes against Obama. On the way out I saw this sign.

I always love it when I see these signs that say that this is a super secure area, and lots of security. I even got this pic of the secret service.

This was such a cool event. Well this has been Pokematic signing off and bu-bye.

I found a ustream video of the meeting. At around 13:20, right after the part about Obamacare, you can faintly hear my "wooooo!"

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Lil Sibs Weekend

Hey everyone, I just had a great weekend with my younger brother, emphasis on younger since he's actually bigger than me. I wouldn't talk about that and just all him my brother if it wasn't lil sibs weekend this past weekend here at college. For you that aren't familiar with it, the point of lil sibs weekend is for the older college sibling to show how awesome college is for the younger siblings. A couple of my friends had their real little siblings up this past weekend, like middle school. Well this was basically what happened.

On Friday my family came up here so they could drop off my brother. It would have cost a lot of money for my brother come come up on the train, and then with the city buses not running on Sunday, even more money for the taxi. Mom and Dad decided to have a little get away while bro and I had fun at college. Before they just let us be, we all went out to ice cream. It was fun being with the fam again.

For lil sibs weekend, there were some scheduled activities, but they all kind of sucked, except for what would be the Lazar tag, but some how we missed that. Oh well. Mainly what we did on Friday was hang out and talk politics. We don't have exactly the same political views, but close enough that we can have civilized conversations. He's the only one I talk politics with because he's my family, and with family we have to accept each other regardless of political views. It was fun.

Yesterday, Saturday, was a big movie day. We walked down to the local video rental store and rented 3 DVD's; I Want Your Money, Thumb Wars, and Ron White - You Can't Fix Stupid. We watched I Want Your Money first. It's a great movie. It's not conservative, it's not libertarian, it's not moderate. It's all 3 and then some. Basically anyone who doesn't like Obama. Great movie. Dad came and took us to see star wars episode 1 in 3D. Read the review here. Afterwards Dad dropped us off and we came back up to my room and watched Thumb Wars, and Ron White - You Can't Fix Stupid. He didn't like Thumb Wars as much as me, but it was still fun. That night we watched Boondocks, Bleach, and Full Metal Alchemist on Adult Swim. That's my normal Saturday night, though when I'm not tired I stay up even later to watch Kekkaishi.

When watching "you can't fix stupid," we counted how many times Ron drops an F-bomb. It was 9 in if you care. Then afterwards we watched the first part of Bob Saget: That Ain't Right on YouTube. In the first 10 minutes, we counted 59+ instances of the F-bomb. There are 10 parts in all. That's a lot of obscenities, and then to think that he did Full House. Oh Bob.


Today Sunday we all went to church and I was inducted into Alpha Lambda Delta, or as my mom mispronounced later, Alpha Lambda Damnda. ALD is an academic frat, for students with a 3.5 or better. I had a 4.0 so I got in easy. It was a bit of a long ceremony since it there were over 400 inductees. As an inductee, I got a t-shirt that has the Greek Alpha Lambda Delta on it, but I'm not sure how often I'll wear it because it's a long sleeve shirt and I don't really like sleeves. I did get a short sleeve shirt that had the Greek Alpha Lambda Delta on it and on the back it says "Geek ot Greek." I'm going to wear this one a lot I think. Afterwards we went out to dinner at Applbees. I got the riblette platter off the 2 for 20, and we got the mozzarella sticks for out appetizer. I ate maybe 5 of them. They were so good. The ribletts were really hot, like burn my thumb hot. I didn't eat them all, so now I have a nice snack for when I'm hungry in my dorm room. Well this has been Pokematic, signing off, and bu-bye.

Super Bowl 46 Experience

Happy "big game" day, ah screw it, happy super bowl. Let me start out by saying I don't care about the teams, nor who one or who lost. I just like the commercials. And I know the argument, "you do now they're up on the Internet at your convenience," but it's not the same. I am so evolved that I can feel a difference between having the commercials fed to me at the cost of 3.5 million dollars a 30 second interval and having them given to me for free. I've seen the same commercial pre-game for free or a couple thousand at most, but then watch it at the price of 3.5 million and will say that it is better at 3.5 million. Well onto the fun.

Now since this is college, of course there will be some party. My college dorm through a party for the game in the game room. I went to it and it was quite fun. We had pizza, pop, potato chips, cookies, and some other things I didn't have. The room was divided into patriots and giants. Since I didn't care, and because patriots gave me a better view, I sat on that side. The divide was quite funny. Lots of fingers given between the sides. I was going to switch between the sides, but after switching, patriots had better view. It was pretty cool.

Now let me talk about the commercials. They were quite funny and/or sexy like most every year. I'll need to review them in case I missed one or two, but as of right now, the best one was the M&Ms one.

I would have gotten the official one, but they don't do embedding for those. I loved this commercial. Glad there wasn't to much self promotion this year.

Half-time was interesting. Madonna gave a pretty good show for an old woman. Really, she's like 50, but didn't look over 40. She must have found the fountain of youth or something. She did it in standard Madonna form, or what I assume is that since people constantly compare her to Gaga performance wise. I was not expecting the LMAO or whoever the guys that do "sexy and I know it" and "every day I'm shufflin." And then there was some other guy that joined in that I didn't recognise. I was just waiting for Gaga to come out and join Madonna and be a duke out between past and present. But alas. Oh well. It was still interesting none the less.

Now for the really cool thing. The end of the game, when it came right down to the last play. Patriots down by 4, their ball, and last minute of the game. It got all the way down to the wire. Last play, clock is out, this play decides if they win or lose. The receiver or whoever is right in the end zone. The QB throws the pass, and gets to the end zone. But the pass is incomplete. Giants win. If Patriots won, there was going to be some serious celebration. There was still some celebration, but wasn't as much as if Patriots won. Oh well. Well this has been Pokematic signing off and bu-bye.