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I do not think that I like Eliot Spitzer, but�I don't know him as a person. I do know that if he came to me for comfort and help, I would be happy to offer it to him as a fellow flawed, sinful,�and foolish�human. I would pray with him for himself and for his family, who�are surely�suffering for his idiot behavior.

However, his story got�the brain thinking about how, if you do 999 good, charitable, loving�things in your life, and one bad, illegal thing�(not that�Spitzer is in that category - I doubt it, based on how he handled his powers�as a prosecutor) - you are screwed if you get caught.

Nobody will care about the other�999.

That is why cops say that there are only two kinds of people - crims that haven't been caught, and those who have been. One must be careful in this life, because it can blow up in an instant.

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As a retired Coastie, I have always been aware of the phrase, " It takes only one ah shit, to wipe out 100 attaboys".

#1 Ron on 2008-03-16 19:21 (Reply)

I dion't think so. If you say there are only 2 kinds of people ...those who've been caught and those who haven't yet, you're implying that we're all just as bad but that' not true, because I know some really good people who live peaceably and won't ever have to worry about getting caught for any thing. I don't have to look any further than my own family of 7 brotheres and sisters to see that there are the selfish ones and there are the empathetic ones; you've got the workers and the slacker types, the enthusiasts, and the complainers, and I am just so glad that I was born with the mellow gene.

#1.1 Liza on 2008-03-16 19:47 (Reply)

Cops say that. I didn't say it.

But I do believe that anybody can screw up in an unthinking moment.

#1.1.1 The B. on 2008-03-16 19:49 (Reply)

I think you're speaking of two different things. There's intent and there's mistake. The cops are speaking of the first, the rest of us live by the second axiom. Spitzer had intent. Nothing mistaken in his actions.

#1.1.1.1 Luther McLeod (Link) on 2008-03-16 21:56 (Reply)

That is why cops say that there are only two kinds of people - crims that haven't been caught, and those who have been.

Criminals R Us, Uncaught--sign on a cop car.

And indeed, lots of cops are criminals.

We had a guy here, stupid bastard, that was a deputy sheriff, started blazing away at one of the Idaho Fish and Game Department's deer decoys, one night, using the cruiser's spotlight, shooting out the window. Decoys are kinda fancy now, flip their little tails, and move the head around. Arrested by the Game Wardens, he was.

Think Mark Ferhman or Ferhman, the cop in the O.J. trial, who never used the 'n' word, never committed perjury in his life.

#2 bob on 2008-03-16 20:33 (Reply)

What are you saying bob. That no one is perfect. No argument from here.

He didn't even try to pull that glove on.

#2.1 Luther McLeod (Link) on 2008-03-16 22:06 (Reply)

American strikes up a conversation in a bar with a local Scot. Scottsman says, "McGregah's the name. Ya see theas bah? Built it wit' me own tew hans, all toung-n-groova. Naugh a nail used. Bu' when I walks tha street dah pepah say "tha goes McGregah th' capentah? Nooo. See tha fence comin' inta towne? Build it meself. Streches 15 mile. Keeps tha sheep a' home an' safe from tha wolves, bu' when I walks tha street do tha folks say "tha goes McGregah th' fence buildah? Noooo. See tha church in town? Build it meself. Steeple 150 foot high. When I walks tha street do people say "tha goes McGregah the faithfuhl child of God? Noooo." Scotsman takes a sip of his Guiness, pauses, and looks the tourist straight in the eye and says "Bu' yah fook one steenkin' goat...."

#3 Anonymous on 2008-03-16 21:52 (Reply)

That be me...hit return instead of shift...

#3.1 KRW on 2008-03-16 21:56 (Reply)

Haha... perfect illustration of the ambiguity of life. Six billion people, six billion stories.

#3.1.1 Luther McLeod (Link) on 2008-03-16 22:09 (Reply)

Just saying I hope the cops included themselves in the saying.

There's a report somewhere, by a women from UCLA, an urban sociologist she calls herself, whose work is tracking the LAPD. Been studying it for years. Can't recall the name, or where I read it, but it makes frightening reading. The corruption, she claims, is actually worse than it had been, as it has worked its way up the police food chain a bit. The smaller the city, the more honest the cops, might be a rule. Get down to Green Acres, everything's great:)

#4 bob on 2008-03-16 22:14 (Reply)

Got ya bob... I agree. Not sure about the 'smaller' point though... unless they all go to confession every week, and that then is published in the weekly town newsletter. And oh... that they're honest in confession.

#5 Luther McLeod (Link) on 2008-03-16 22:43 (Reply)

Well said, friend.

#6 john t on 2008-03-16 23:20 (Reply)

if you do 999 good, charitable, loving things in your life, and one bad, illegal thing ... you are screwed if you get caught. Nobody will care about the other 999.

"The evil that men do lives after them. The good is oft interred with their bones."

In this as in so many other matters of human nature, the Bard got it right more than three hundred years ago. And I'm sure he wasn't the first.

#7 wolfwalker on 2008-03-16 23:56 (Reply)

Good quote. Also seems to be too true that the evil makes the news, and the good people do often doesn't, as much as it should.

Would a good news newspaper sell? USA Good News Today.

#8 bob on 2008-03-17 00:09 (Reply)

My beloved says that he feels great anger toward Sptizer because of what he has done to his daughter's lives. They will Never, Ever, be able to have a healthy relationship with a loving man. That part of their lives is finished. But, then again, my thought is that the Mrs. Spitzer has always known of her husband's "weakness". She turned a blind ey because she chose to be near the money and power. I have serious doubts that there is any woman alive whose husband could be cheating like this for more than 10 years without her knowing about it. Not this gal--she was way too smart from the beginning. She can be held responsible for the damage done to the girls.

#9 apple pie on 2008-03-17 13:38 (Reply)

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