And that's just the good news.

Sadly true. Sarcasm - not much!

Prologue to The Decline and Fall of the United States, Vol 1-3?

Too good NOT to be true -

"Oops: Denver News Station Airs Photoshopped Paula Broadwell Book Title — ‘All Up In My
Snatch’"

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/oops-denver-news-station-airs-photoshopped-paula-broadwell-book-title-all-up-in-my-snatch/

tim, I worked in television news. One of the first things I learned was "If it can get on air, it will get on air." We were not allowed to screw around and make up stuff like that for that reason. That was in the days of standard definition analog equipment. It just moves quicker now.

Your cynicism and bitterness reflects my own, Gerard. I commented on this in another thread here but would add that the idea floating around in my head for years now needs saying.

If any General or Admiral had a shred of decency or honor they would in a high profile way tender their resignation in protest of the rules of engagement that our service men and women must shamefully endure. That this has not occurred proves not a single one of them from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, to the commanders in the field is worthy of the high traditions, honor, courage, and sacrifice of their predecessors in days gone by. They sacrifice nothing but require those in their command to give the ultimate sacrifice, sometimes without even being able to defend themselves. A recent story, just a week ago, saw a helicopter being fired at with an RPG. They were denied their request to return fire and then the enemy got in another shot taking the craft down killing all on board. This story is played out daily. We don't know why Amb. Stevens was denied support and probably never will because the GOP controlled house is too busy colluding with the Admin. and the American sheeple are too busy tut tutting about this pretty new shiny thing. For a second there I thought Petraeus was laying the groundwork for coming clean on the Benghazi affair, but that was before I knew what is now known about affairs more important to him. I guess the best option for those of us who really care is just to keep feeding them rope hoping they'll eventually hang themselves. How many oceans of pride does it take these days before the fall cometh?

Gerard. your rogues' gallery needs an update, to include Jill Kelley's twin sister; a senator from Rhode Island; and our favorite winter soldier reporting for duty: "And in court documents filed by Kelley's sister Natalie Khawam, she name-drops both Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island -- who both have ties to a Providence, RI, lawyer/Democratic fundraiser who loaned a whopping $300,000 to Khawam.

A spokesman for Whitehouse today that lawyer, Gerald Harrington, has dated and 'may have been engaged to Khawam.' Harrington has not returned a call seeking comment. . . . A spokeswoman for Kerry – who the Washington Post reports is being considered as President Obama's next secretary of defense -- in an email comment wrote, 'Senator Kerry’s friend Jerry Harrington introduced him to his girlfriend (Natalie) at a DSCC event.'"

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/battle_john_allen_also_helped_jill_YjkEYUNY2INC4smBMEYqUI

Yep, the country's in the very best of hands.

The most insightful synopsis of this greek tragedy that I've read so far. And the captions made me laugh.

But it's no laughing matter. Soldiers and ambassadors are dying in far off lands while these meat bags are busy sniffing each other's crotches.

If George Washington alive today, they'd all be facing charges of treason.

The top pic is the cast of Jersey Shore, isn't it?

Rush had the perfect title for this farce: "The Real Housewives of West Point."

And here's the best quote of the entire scandal - all Rush's: “I don’t want to prejudge this, folks, but it sure seems to me that we have way too many generals taking orders from their privates.”

Bingo. We have, with Rush, a Weiner!

Newton and Gerard FTW!

That bling in the top pic did it for me. Too gangsta wannabe for me. I say we stand him against the wall.

OMG. Check it out ... Paula Broadwell pic has a pimple on her forehead. WTF!

Damned well done G-man. I have the sinking sense that the bar cannot be set so low that they have not already passed underneath it.

I'll know when this is over when I see "This has been an Irwin Allen Production" credit on the screen.

Caption on photo" Hey GI me and my sister numbah 1 boom boom girls...we love you good time all night long"

I just noticed the sub-title of the book, "The Education of General David Petraeus".

I imagine the good general will have enough material for an addendum that would make a book of its own after he's finished being "educated" by the Chicago machine.

And the book is crummy, too.

Regarding Mrs. Broadwell and Mrs. Kelly: Like my grandmother in her broken English would say:
NO SO CUTE! These general fell for these women, as long as they were going to throw everything away why not pick woman who were nicer than these two. I mean WTF

The Kardashians are everywhere.

I wish I had something insightful to say about this and recent events, but I'm boggled. WTF, America?

Since 2001, or before, I've followed this site. You have a way with words, a gift. But this article? This is too much.

A few days ago you reposted "Today it makes me feel cheap and contemptible to think of the things I did in my youth to point out all the ways in which this country fails to achieve some fantasied perfection." You must not have read your own writing. David and Holly Petraeus have spent their lives, their entire adult lives, making us a better nation than we would have been without them. Not perfect, just better; in fact a lot better.

Something changed after your heart attack. Your writing is still as talented as ever, but there's a streak of cruelty or meanness, the desire to destroy just for destructions sake. The Petraeus' deserve an apology.

Hey hudathunkit, give it a rest, dude. Another martinet, a self serving media star general bites the dust. Meanwhile while he and Allen are diddling the army groupies , the grunts are getting hung out to dry in the valleys of Hell in Afcrapistan. Screw Petraeus.

Am I missing something here?

The "video" (which was not a video, but really just a trailer to a video, yet to be produced), the Petraeus-Broadwell infidelity, the Other General's 20,000 pages of emails to the "socialite", the half-nekkid FBI agent and whatever else are simply distractions from the central point of this story:

In Benghazi, we now know we have an American President, knowingly or unknowingly, acting as a broker to transport weapons from one al Qaeda group (in Libya) to another (in Syria).

Isn't this just Iran-Contra all over again, and isn't that why the media and the Left (BIRM) are trying to distract us with all these other shiny objects?