Once upon a time there was a four star (and that's a lot of stars) general who was the man in charge in Afghanistan. For a little over a year he held the job, July 2010 to July 2011.
After doing a wonderful job leading the troops someone thought this man would be a great CIA director. So, leaving the military behind, in September of 2011, he moved into the top spot at the spy agency.
This man worked hard his entire adult life. He graduated from West Point and had a stellar military career. It was a life that should be shared with the world. To help do that a forty year old woman was hired to help write a biography of the man. She was married and he was married but they began an affair.
The man and his wife of almost forty years had friends in Florida. The woman biographer thought there was some fooling around between the man and the woman in Florida. The woman biographer was selfish, she didn't want to share the man (his wife was OK) with another woman. So, the biographer wrote to the lady in Florida (who was also married) to keep away from the man.
You still with me? It gets better. When the General left Afghanistan to go to the CIA he was replaced. The top man in Afghanistan now was a four star (again, lots of stars) marine general.
The General who went to the CIA resigned on November 9th.
The man that took his place in Afghanistan is now under investigation for "inappropriate" mailings to the woman in Florida. It's a possibility she was having an affair with both the men, one of the men, or none of the men.
The following is directly from the A.P.
"A senior defense official tells The Associated Press that some of the 20,000-plus documents and emails between the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan and a Tampa socialite were "flirtatious."
It wasn't immediately clear whether Gen. John Allen was flirting with Jill Kelley, or whether he was the recipient of flirtatious emails.
The defense official spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to discuss the case publicly.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta revealed early Tuesday that Allen was under investigation for his communications with Kelley, a woman also embroiled in the scandal involving ex-CIA Director David Petraeus and his mistress."
We know that many men who work in Washington, men of power, can not keep their peckers in their pants. So, here we go again. The government will form a committee to look into these affairs to see if our National Security was breached, tax money well spent. Probably the only things that were breached were britches.
Here is what I don't get. An article states from 2010 to 2012 between 20 and 30 THOUSAND pages of e-mail passed between the Marine General (Allen) and the woman in Florida (Kelly).
Given the widest time line, at most, this could be three years. And if they only exchanged twenty, not thirty thousand pages of mail, it's 18.29 pages of mail. Every day of the week, every week of the year, for three years. She has a family to run and he has a country.....did they sleep? ever? Just where did they find the time for all this letter writing?
If our representatives in Washington would spend as much time problem solving as they do on sex scandals and cover-ups maybe some important issues would have solutions.
It sure feels great to laugh.
Sunday morning Wanda and I went up to Safeway for a few things. It was 8:30 and the store was surprisingly busy. Lots of people wearing football colors getting ready for the games. I went to the produce department and Wanda to the baking supplies isle. We met up near the dairy display. Wanda asked me something, she said, "How are we fixed for paper towels?" and I heard, cow traps. So, I replied, "cow traps, how are we fixed for cow traps?"
She started to laugh and I started to laugh and the people near us moved away. They must have thought we were nuts. She was laughing so hard I thought she'd pee in her pants. When you think about it, paper towels sounds nothing like cow traps. I'm not sure what a cow trap is, or if they exist. But it doesn't matter. Whatever the reason that struck her then me, to the point of laughing so hard half the store heard us, is not really important.
That we did it, is.
It felt great. We need to do it a lot more often.
So, how are you fixed for cow traps?
Sunday morning Wanda and I went up to Safeway for a few things. It was 8:30 and the store was surprisingly busy. Lots of people wearing football colors getting ready for the games. I went to the produce department and Wanda to the baking supplies isle. We met up near the dairy display. Wanda asked me something, she said, "How are we fixed for paper towels?" and I heard, cow traps. So, I replied, "cow traps, how are we fixed for cow traps?"
She started to laugh and I started to laugh and the people near us moved away. They must have thought we were nuts. She was laughing so hard I thought she'd pee in her pants. When you think about it, paper towels sounds nothing like cow traps. I'm not sure what a cow trap is, or if they exist. But it doesn't matter. Whatever the reason that struck her then me, to the point of laughing so hard half the store heard us, is not really important.
That we did it, is.
It felt great. We need to do it a lot more often.
So, how are you fixed for cow traps?
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