PETRAYED

Hold on to your soap opera... don't touch that dial! 

This newest scandal is just a head shaker.  Anthony Weiner, retire your gold medal, the general will end up being the prime successor to the now decade+ denouement of Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky.

6 months ago, General David Petraeus woke up and smiled after having another dream about his road to the presidency.  Schwartzkopf and Colin Powell be damned, Petraeus could go from CIA to Defense Secretary, to Vice President to the surprise.  Perhaps Secretary of State to the top job.  No amount of high climbing was too much for the conservative general who could seemingly do no wrong.

About 3 weeks ago (maybe longer) those dreams changed and Petraeus began to wake up in cold sweats, his nightmares of divorce court, assignations, emails, hedonistic pleasures.... all covered by the extreme pressure that leading a double life creates... exploded each and every day.  Like most caught out, Petraeus never dreamed that the seamy details would come out, each and every one.  That the voracious press, once made aware, would plumb the depths.

 

 

And now, Icarus (as the comparison was drawn by Maureen Dowd) no longer flies so close to the sun.  And another idol proves to have clay feet.  Tsk. 

The Grave HAS GOT TO GO.

So, the real estate market sucks. Nobody's buying houses, and the ones that do sell are deep discounted or slightly wrecked from a foreclosure experience. You think that's bad? Talk to a cemetery....

Excerpt from yesterday's Tampa Tribune....

NEED CASH NOW? GRAVE'S GOTTA GO

Forget burial. Who needs it? More and more Floridians are selling their gravesites and choosing cremation. The economy's just that bad.

Linda Ledesma has joined a small but growing number of people who are selling unwanted cemetery plots. The trend is particularly pronounced in Florida and Texas, that have drawn millions of retirees who have grown more accepting of cremation (editorial comment: About time! Our old European funeral/burial customs are bizarre!) ... others say they'd rather have the money now, to buy gas and insurance and worry about their final resting place later.....

The article goes on to say that it is definitely NOT a sellers market... so perhaps these unwanted and unused plots will be Florida's "greenspace" in decades to come. Macabre, yes. One plot had a sign saying "For Sale By Owner. Never Used.". Love that burial humor.

Florida. It's a trip.

quid