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I say put your tin foil hats away, he got busted with his hand in the cookie jar, and if its her, not bad. I don't advocate what he did, but have you seen the mistresses of Clinton and Arnie.....really?

vaginal threshold?

I prefer to use the simplest solution as being the best on this one. Petraeus is the best known officer during this time, and he did a great job from what I understand. What I don't understand is when people pass moral judgement on something they truly don't have all the facts on. While his actions are not above board, I think it is hard for any of us to put ourselves in his shoes for a while. I remember reading Gen Old's bio a while back and how he had an affair with his secretary after his change of command during Vietnam. It seemed it was something he needed at the time, and his marriage was in shambles. Maybe he needed a little strange, but who knows. Countless powerful men have had mistresses, but we now live in a world where it is incredibly hard to have secrets. I wonder what life would have been like for JFK is youtube was around.

There has been some post-election gouging of prices, but I went by an Academy store yesterday after work and not only were the shelves filled as normal, but the firearms cases were as well. That said, Cheaper Than Dirt did increase their price on .223 by over a hundred dollars a case but I don't see such actions occurring much or lasting long. As for the UN treaty, it's another thing I am not going to get worried about. At this past weekend's gun show, and even at the gun shop I stopped by on Thursday, people were talking like the Obama re-election is going to cause the Second Amendment to go away. As you said, it requires ratification by a two-thirds majority and I don't think even the Democrats are that stupid. It's just more mouthwash from Obama to look like he's keeping with the Democratic agenda. One-third of those Senate seats will be contested in two years, 20 of which are currently behind held by Democrats. That party has done a great job of walking a fine line of not pissing off the huge minority that doesn't support it, such an action as ratifying this UN treaty could be the catalyst to cause independents to join forces with the Republicans to replace those who supported it. So far this hasn't been a repeat of 2008 in terms of overreaction to the election, thank God. I suspect as always some will try to take advantage of the paranoid, but for the most part I don't see any government action to suppress the rights of gun owners (the number and rights of which have been growing considerably over the past few years, Oklahoma just passed open carry effective 1 Nov of this year) as it would be very stupid to target that demographic. While some Democrats may preach gun control, I still think there is a large number of Conservatives in that party that realize what a stupid idea it is and will not join in on the effort. Just my 2¢, your mileage may vary, etc... Cheers! M2

Was General Petraeus involved with this woman while he was in Afghanistan? Sounds like she was with him during a year of his tour which would have been a violation of GO1B.

Congress has the power to subpoena any U.S. citizen, anywhere, anytime, provided the subpoena is relevant to whatever Congress is investigating (which it would be in this case). Him resigning isn't this big "get out of testifying" thing that a lot of you seem to think it is. Okay, so he won't testify at the hearings next week because he's no longer the CIA Director...if Congress wants to hear from him they will, and honestly he stands less of a chance of fighting a Congressional subpoena as private citizen David Petraeus as opposed to DCI David Petraeus. Do you really think that a political animal like Petraeus would get outflanked to the point where he has to resign because of some "made-up" affair that is going to effectively kill his career, both in govt service and politically? He isn't some babe in the woods when it comes to these things, he is very very savvy politically; if someone was trying to "take him down" or whatever and he was fighting it, it would be a lot messier and a lot nosier than him submitting his resignation and the President accepting it a day later. Simple solutions are the best. And yeah, if you're gonna go down that road, you could do a lot worse than her.

If you think he has enough character to not cheat on his wife, you would also think he would have enough character not to lie about cheating on her when he didn't. He very well could be making a strategic decision at avoiding a scandle be resigning before it blows up. Especially if he knew it was about to leak. How many great men have ruined their career to get some ass? Countless men.

Shenanigans. While it is 100% believable that Petraeus would have the character to step down for something he felt harmed his credibility and the credibility of the organization he led; I also believe he has the character to not engage in something like this in the first place. Either the man has been running a decade long snow job, or someone showed him the door.

Disagree as well. Unconventional approach using personal stores was very interesting and I found the book to be very entertaining. Movie looks like it has nothing to do with the book.

Totally disagree. I thought world war z was an excellent book. Maybe it's because I'm not a huge fan of the genre so I had exceedingly low expectations. I liked that he didn't explain the finer points, it was all personal stories. The trailer looks cool, but it also looks like a trailer for a different story.

OMG, this video is hilarious!! https://www.youtube.com

I'll be the fourth. It definitely happened. One of the shooters was in my Guard squadron and I've heard him tell the story at least twice. At the time, he was flying with the 58th Gorillas out of Eglin. When you hear the story, the actual strafing comes across as very impromptu and unplanned. They saw the targets of opportunity and gave it a try. I'm pretty sure he said they coordinated with someone in the command structure prior to rolling in. Although, I doubt anyone was spring loaded to say no to much at that point in the war. There are some comic moments when he bottoms out of his pass below a ridge and can see some guys with AK type weapons shooting down at him as he blasts between a couple of building on the airfield bouncing flares off the ground behind him. I got the impression that the feedback they got on the whole risk/reward aspect of the effort was not real positive. Maybe something like the Coach in "Major League"....... "Nice catch, Hayes, don't ever ######in' do it again".

You should post pics of your Fiance' before we can give you good advice...