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Jill Kelley, the woman who complained of receiving cranky emails from Gen. Petraeus’s biographer/honey-bunny, lives about four blocks from me. The scorpions of the press descended on her and her husband’s house yesterday afternoon while she was giving a birthday party for one of her children, complete with noisy DJ.
I’m not that curious about La Kelley’s relationship, if any, with the general. But I would have been tempted to send her cranky emails myself yesterday to complain about the noise from her backyard that was infecting most of the neighborhood. I don’t know why so many nice people, like this couple almost certainly are, think it’s OK to entertain themselves or their children by disturbing the peace for blocks around.
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C. Vernon Crisler | 11.12.12 @ 3:03PM
Do I detect satire here?
Mike in N.C.| 11.12.12 @ 4:32PM
No
Al Adab| 11.12.12 @ 3:36PM
I don't understand why the General had to resign over sex. It's only sex and everyone lies about that. At least that is what we were told when a former C-in-C lied about his affair.
Stan Redmond| 11.12.12 @ 5:47PM
Heck even Kennedy got away with manslaughter. What's the big deal?
I wonder if the liberals will bring back their "General Betray-us" advertisements.
Mike in N.C.| 11.12.12 @ 4:32PM
So the point of this post is to announce that Larry Thornberry lives in the same neighborhood as Jill Kelly. Wow, Larry. I'm really impressed. May I have your autograph?
Bob K| 11.12.12 @ 5:02PM
If she is that noisy, from 4 blocks away, (!) better you are her neighbor than me! Call the cops, call the City Fathers! Drive by the joint and throw out firecrackers! Maybe someone will think it was a drive by shooting by Petraeus?
Mike G| 11.13.12 @ 10:21AM
Firecrackers? Stink bombs would at least drive the noise makers inside.
grassroot| 11.12.12 @ 5:29PM
The embarrassment to this nation is BO,
And "we" have put him in again. a " culture of
corruption," is what the corrupt voted for.
RCV| 11.12.12 @ 5:41PM
Larry, this is kind of a weird forum to post your complaints about your neighbor. Even Ben Stein wouldn't do that.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 11.12.12 @ 6:34PM
RCV;
There might have been a time when your comments about the maintenance of standards of behavior and civility carried weight. In observing your behavior here during the last week, I'm not sure that you carry much credibility in that regard any longer.
RCV| 11.12.12 @ 8:25PM
The pain of loss will lessen in time, Albert.
Butch| 11.12.12 @ 7:40PM
We'll take North Florida in the Great Separation, RCV, but we will actually cede you Hillsborough and Pinellas counties. No threats, please. We're all peaceable here.
RCV| 11.12.12 @ 8:24PM
There will be no "great separation", Butch. The Union forever!
spike59| 11.13.12 @ 6:34AM
can we at least secede from California?
RCV| 11.13.12 @ 11:41AM
If you just promise to stay away, we'll all be happy.
solidground| 11.13.12 @ 4:32PM
The do it because they can.
Vance P. Frickey| 11.14.12 @ 5:01PM
It's THEIR world. You just live in it, Thornberry.
Vance P. Frickey| 11.14.12 @ 5:10PM
How'd we get from the General's mistress's cranky Email to YOUR cranky Email, anyway? The same Home Owners' Associations that can catch your grass going green in milliseconds to fine you for a covenant violation let your neighbors destroy its peace openly. It's a problem with which I'm familiar, and MY neighbors don't even have four-star generals vouching for them on their US Army letterhead. I'd say you're SOL. Get a soldier to translate that for you.