Skinny-dipping while Rome burned

finnbow · #1 08-20-2012, 10:05 AM

So, a whole group of GOP freshman go on an all expenses paid junket to Israel, courtesy of an Israeli PAC, just days after trashing our economy with their reckless debt ceiling brinksmanship. It ends up they all got drunk and one of them when skinny-dipping in the Sea of Galilee (where JC supposedly walked on water).

http://www.politico.com/news/stories...#ixzz242avquIr

I'm sure they were just celebrating the lowering of the USA's bond rating.

beej · #2 08-20-2012, 10:08 AM

Yeah, in the Sea of Galilee no less. I think I had lunch in the place where they partied. Right on the shore; nice place.

finnbow · #3 08-20-2012, 10:25 AM

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Originally Posted by beej

Yeah, in the Sea of Galilee no less. I think I had lunch in the place where they partied. Right on the shore; nice place.

Were they in Tiberias? I stayed there for a couple days when a buddy and flew to Israel from Germany for a two week vacation in ~1983. St. Peter's fish was the favored menu item.

At that time (and probably still today), Tiberias had a pretty good night life. Swedish UN soldiers from up on the Golan Heights would come into town and the Israeli babes would swarm them (instead of us

).

My son was just up there a couple of weeks ago. He said it was insanely hot with a strong wind - like a blast furnace. He had 6 weeks TDY in Israel and will be moving there from Germany in October.

icenine · #4 08-20-2012, 10:31 AM

Cleaning up that mess in Washinton indeed....why are these guys even getting paid...supposedly Cantor gave them a verbal lashing the next morning so everything is ok....

beej · #5 08-20-2012, 10:34 AM

Tiberias it was according to the news.

And I had my share of St. Peter's fish. Was there in '81 via a port visit to Haifa. Regrettably didn't get to see the Tiberias night life. Did see it in Tel-Aviv but with the same unfortunate result of your Tiberian experience.

bobabode · #6 08-20-2012, 01:31 PM

Aren't you guys being overly harsh? There is nothing in the New Testament about skinny dipping. Is there?

Twodogs · #7 08-20-2012, 09:58 PM

Hey, I voted for this cat, leave him alone. Who among us hasn't been swimming nekkid at least once.

Twodogs · #8 08-20-2012, 09:59 PM

Prove to me, you aren't a fool, walk across my swimming pool.

finnbow · #9 08-20-2012, 10:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Twodogs

Hey, I voted for this cat, leave him alone. Who among us hasn't been swimming nekkid at least once.

But I've never done it on a lobbyist-funded "fact finding" trip, after having just about thrown the country into default. Then again, he's not as big an idiot as the "legitimate rape" guy.

Boreas · #10 08-20-2012, 10:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Twodogs

Hey, I voted for this cat, leave him alone. Who among us hasn't been swimming nekkid at least once.

Yoder's your guy? Now, that's funny!

John