Posted on 11/10/2012 10:55:21 AM PST by Arthurio
Edited on 11/10/2012 11:34:57 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
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I halfway suspect you’re writing this letter because you want specific people to read this column and deduce who is involved and what’s really going on behind closed doors (without actually addressing the conflict in person). That’s not ethical, either.
So the NYTs publishes it.
Like asking Ted Bundy how to deal with a guilty conscience.
THE LOVER
A housewife receives her lover during the day while her husband is at work.
Without her knowing, her 9 year old son is hiding in the closet.
Unexpectedly, her husband comes home and she hides her lover in the closet.
The boy now has company and produces the following dialogue:
Child: “It’s dark”
Lover: “Yes it is”
Child: “I have a tube of tennis balls”
Lover: “How nice”
Child: “Do you want to buy?”
Lover: “No thanks”
Child: “My dad is out there”
Lover: “OK, how much do you want?”
Child: “250 Dollars”
Weeks later the same thing happens, and the child is in the closet again with lover
Child: “It’s dark”
Lover: “Yes it is”
Child: “I have a tennis racket”
Lover: “What do you want?”
Child: “750 Dollars”
Lover: “No way boy”
Child: “My dad is out there, pay me or I will cry.”
Lover: “OK! But stay quiet!”
Days later, the father tells the child:
Father: “Grab your racquet and balls, we’re going to play tennis.”
Child: “I can not Dad. I sold them.”
Father: “But How? How much?”
Child: “1000 Dollars”
Father: “That’s terrible, you should not overcharge your friends. That’s more than what these things are worth. I’ll take you to the church for you to confess. Go to the church and tell the priest what happened.”
The father sends the child to the confessional and closes the door.
Child: “It’s dark”
Priest: “Do not start you little b*st*rd”
Did Obama use the NYT to blackmail Petreaus, and to let other people know about it?
Of course, even if you run in the right circles, you're still running in circles.
cf. Lily Tomlin: "Even if you win the rat race, you're still a rat."
By writing an anonymous letter to the NYTs in July? I kind of doubt that.
LOL...well said!!
so was I
He was a Roman Gladiator, but was slain by the unconquerable Testicles.
Maybe a shot across the bow stand down on what’s about to happen in Benghazi?
Maybe to dispel any notion of running as Romney’s vp?
It was a message for someone.
See also petraeusStrong's Greek:
Dutch
Wikipedia has an article on:
David Petraeus
Etymology
From Latin petraeus (“growing with rocks”).
Proper noun
Petraeus
1.A surname.
4073 petra {pet'-ra}
from the same as 4074; TDNT - 6:95,834; n f
AV - rock 16; 16
1) a rock, cliff or ledge
1a) a projecting rock, crag, rocky ground
1b) a rock, a large stone
1c) metaph. a man like a rock, by reason of his firmness and strength of soul
Jeremiah 3
6 The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.
7 And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.
8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.
9 And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
An adulteress named Broadwell no less. You really can't make this stuff up.
The Plame thing was political intrigue. The current affair is hormonal / psychological. Political intrigue entered in only as a result of its discovery.
The Greek God of War?
Here's another interesting story, er name, er...Athaliah
II Chronicles 23
11 Jehoiada and his sons brought out the king’s son and put the crown on him; they presented him with a copy of the covenant and proclaimed him king. They anointed him and shouted, “Long live the king!”
12 When Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and cheering the king, she went to them at the temple of the Lord. 13 She looked, and there was the king, standing by his pillar at the entrance. The officers and the trumpeters were beside the king, and all the people of the land were rejoicing and blowing trumpets, and musicians with their instruments were leading the praises. Then Athaliah tore her robes and shouted, “Treason! Treason!”
14 Jehoiada the priest sent out the commanders of units of a hundred, who were in charge of the troops, and said to them: “Bring her out between the ranks and put to the sword anyone who follows her.” For the priest had said, “Do not put her to death at the temple of the Lord.” 15 So they seized her as she reached the entrance of the Horse Gate on the palace grounds, and there they put her to death.
16 Jehoiada then made a covenant that he, the people and the king would be the Lord’s people. 17 All the people went to the temple of Baal and tore it down. They smashed the altars and idols and killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altars.
Athaliah = "afflicted of the Lord"
Treason! 1) conspiracy, treason, (unlawful) alliance)
Horse Gate, horse stables
I'll say... history repeats...
Is that the husband? I shouldn’t laugh, but he seems pretty far down the.. alphabet.
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