I knew this would happen, there’s no way it couldn’t. So here’s the follow up to the Clinton story yesterday.

Here’s the article

‘Now let me tell you what I can remember, OK — because what I was told was that we had to land a certain way and move quickly because of the threat of sniper fire. So I misspoke — I didn’t say that in my book or other times but if I said something that made it seem as though there was actual fire — that’s not what I was told. I was told we had to land a certain way, we had to have our bulletproof stuff on because of the threat of sniper fire. I was also told that the greeting ceremony had been moved away from the tarmac but that there was this 8-year-old girl and, I can’t, I can’t rush by her, I’ve got to at least greet her — so I greeted her, I took her stuff and then I left, Now that’s my memory of it’

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As a kid, and I’m sure this happened to a lot of us you lied. I know I did, in fact I can remember lying about my Dad’s military position to secure a place in a group of kids. But heck, how were they ever going to find out my Dad wasn’t a super secret spy/code cracker? They would actually have to ask him, after knowing full well that he would have to kill them if they did. It was a total win on my side.

Then there were the lies that had the potential to blow up in your face. The ones that could be verified and found to be completely false. I don’t remember any of my own off the top of my head, but I’m sure I’m guilty of it. Just like my own kids who will occasionally lie about something only for me to bust them about it later - it usually involves the room clean up, and goes something like this:

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I often wonder why articles get published. I mean sure I can understand why a lot of them get published. Then there are others that make me scratch my head and go “Why?”.

The following article is no exception. It’s one of those, ‘who cares’ type things. It’s especially irksome because it flip flos back and forth and concludes with no real reason as to why it’s important to anyone.

The Article

To the list of simple childhood pleasures now endangered, add this: eating snow.
A recent study found that snow - even in relatively pristine spots like Montana and the Yukon - contains large amounts of bacteria.

Sure, it seems everything is under attack now - stuff that I did when I was a kid. It seems daily that anything that was remotely fun is extremely dangerous. But be careful. They slide in the phrase “large amounts of bacteria”. If that doesn’t scare you what would, you uncaring meany of a parent.

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