Petraeus Resigns

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  1. fatbastard

    fatbastard Member+

    Aug 1, 2003
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    Having spent 5+ years in the military, most of it inside the Pentagon, I can verify that the whole operation is very much like Junior High or High School. This stuff seems about right to me. Generals would be the HS QB equivalent, they do what they want and you like it, even though it often goes against what they "say" is military honor, etc.
    When I first got stationed at Keesler in MS for tech school, the general that ran the place had just been replaced for taking a ton of airmen out of their classes and jobs after a hurricane, not to secure the base or do real building repairs, but to fix up the golf course because he had some big thing going on there in a week or two. I have expected nothing more from generals ever since. The only less trustable rank in the military is Lieutenant Colonel ;)
     
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  2. JBigjake

    JBigjake Member+

    Nov 16, 2003
    Did classic authors spin yarns from whole cloth?
    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/Madame_Bovary_1857_(hi-res).jpg
    "a doctor's wife ... has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life."
    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/Title_page_for_The_Scarlet_Letter.jpg
    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/AnnaKareninaTitle.jpg
    Noble British families encouraged a female member to become one of the king's mistresses.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Howe,_5th_Viscount_Howe#Early_life_and_career
    William Howe ... youngest son of Emanuel Howe ... and Charlotte ... an acknowledged illegitimate daughter of King George I. ... This connection with the crown may have improved the careers of all three sons, ... eldest brother was General George Howe ... other brother was Admiral Richard Howe, who rose to become one of Britain's leading naval commanders."
     
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  3. chaski

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  4. chaski

    chaski Moderator
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    Mar 20, 2000
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    Angelina Jolie, unless she has to play herself.
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...oncerns-emerge-about-paula-broadwells-access/
     
  5. THOMA GOL

    THOMA GOL BigSoccer Supporter

    Jul 16, 1999
    Frontier
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  6. Golazo

    Golazo Member+

    Apr 15, 1999
    Decatur, GA USA
    Apparently, "Nooooooooooo seeeeeeeeeeee laaaaaaaaaaaa perdiooooooooooooooo"
     
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  7. JBigjake

    JBigjake Member+

    Nov 16, 2003

    Jolie's lucky she didn't get some emails from Broadwell!
     
  8. puttputtfc

    puttputtfc Member+

    Sep 7, 1999
    Why do you hate Donald Penobscot?
     
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  9. chaski

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    Another General behaving badly.
    http://news.yahoo.com/general-demoted-lavish-travel-spending-171710140.html

    At least he did all this with his wife.
     
  10. fatbastard

    fatbastard Member+

    Aug 1, 2003
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    Probably all while being hailed as "a hero" too. Pigs.
     
  11. minerva

    minerva Member+

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    people just do the must dumbassed things when they're being lead by the wrong head.
     
  12. puttputtfc

    puttputtfc Member+

    Sep 7, 1999
    Aaron Spelling served in the military.
     
  13. minerva

    minerva Member+

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  14. stanger

    stanger BigSoccer Supporter

    Nov 29, 2008
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    So says Long Duck Dong?
     
  15. That Phat Hat

    That Phat Hat Member+

    Nov 14, 2002
    Just Barely Outside the Beltway
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    Or not work. #obamasamerica
     
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  16. cleansheetbsc

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  17. Barbara

    Barbara BigSoccer Supporter

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    Sex hormones make people insane.
     
  18. fatbastard

    fatbastard Member+

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    but teenagers are supposed to be able to keep it in their pants and control them :)
     
  19. LongDuckDong

    LongDuckDong Member+

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    No more yanky my wanky. The Donger has spoken.
     
  20. minerva

    minerva Member+

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    no kidding. when those hormones are raging, people engage and do all kinds of weird disgusting shit that they would never otherwise do. strange...
     
  21. chaski

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  22. Barbara

    Barbara BigSoccer Supporter

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    We had an example of this recently at work. A woman who was in a long-term relationship with someone started boinking another employee. Okay, whatever, not my business. However, in the course of conducting this affair she also falsified timesheets by claiming to be working in the field when really her field was being plowed at the other employee's apartment or at various company-owned locations including the other person's office.

    She confided in the one person who directly reports to her about the affair and then swore her to secrecy about her fictional reasons for leaving the office, putting her employee in a terrible position with respect to her senior manager.

    She exchanged lewd emails with new BF using the company's email and chat systems, instead of something like Gmail. Then, when she was busted and almost fired, she promised no more naughty emails.

    When the stress of the whole thing caused her to go on medical leave, her boss was given access to her email account in order to cover her job duties and discovered more lewd emails sent after the day she promised to stop doing it.

    So, instead of just conducting a discrete affair that no one had to know about, she repeatedly commited what would, in most companies, be firing offenses, pointlessly hurt her long-term boyfriend and generally trashed what tiny shred of a reputation she had around here.

    She was doing her best to completely blow up her life, just because she was horny. Sex hormones make people insane.
     
  23. That Phat Hat

    That Phat Hat Member+

    Nov 14, 2002
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    Case in point: very few people look (or sound) good in homemade porn. Yet, the internet is full of them.
     
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  24. Barbara

    Barbara BigSoccer Supporter

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    Good amateur porn is better than even the best regular porn. But yeah, barriers to, um, entry, are pretty much nonexistent so there are lots of people filming themselves naked who really shouldn't.
     
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