"The bogus sign language interpreter at last week's Nelson Mandela memorial service was among a group of people who accosted two men found with a stolen television and burned them to death by setting fire to tires placed around their necks, one of the interpreter's cousins and three of his friends told The Associated Press Monday."
Just when you thought this story about Thomsanqa Jantjie couldn't get any more absurd.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/12/16/bogus-sign-language-interpreter-at-mandela-memorial-was-in-group-that-burned/?intcmp=latestnews
How in the world did this guy get hired in the first place? Did he just walk in the stadium get on the stage and proceed to do his thing? Who hired you, Mr Jantjie?
"What difference at this point does it make?"
Of course, we have our own precedent for this in the US, don't we? Remember Craig Livingstone, the barroom bouncer in Washington who just showed up at the Clinton White House one fine day and took over the security office with all those files on Republicans? No? Well, let's take a trip down Memory Lane.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_FBI_files_controversy
To this day, we still don't know who hired Craig Livingstone.
Do we, Mrs Clinton?
"What difference at this point does it make?"
But I digress.
You do indeed digress. But was there a point you digressed from?
ReplyDeleteSiarlys,
ReplyDeleteThe point? Can't you just enjoy the humor? The point.
"The bird is the word"
The verb "digress" requires a frame of reference. An instructor of English could clarify that for you.
ReplyDeleteElementary my Dear Siarlys. I was digressing from a discussion of who the hell hired Mr Jantjie to who the hell hired Craig Livingstone.
ReplyDeleteWhat is amazing is the fact that the Administration spends literally millions of dollars for USSS security and they missed this one. The South African Interpreter was reported to be a schizophrenic with visual and auditory hallucinations. As stated in the blog, he was also violent. The President should feel lucky that this Interpreter didn't slam him, thinking that he was a baboon.
ReplyDeleteIt would be great to go through a day without some story about gross incompetence coming from this administration.
ReplyDeleteIt is like the Chicago Cubs.... Hiring Thomsanqa Jantjie as a third base coach for them was a great idea. They fit and besides it couldn't hurt.