So a Congressman swam naked in the Sea of Galilee

[Atman]

The anchor on CNN was shocked -- "This is where Jesus walked on water!"

Hate to break it to you, but the Congressman's junk would have been in the water even if he'd been wearing a swimsuit. And most of the images I've seen show Jesus just wearing a loin cloth. Stupidity aside, what possible difference does it make that the congressman was naked in the water upon which Jesus walked?

[JoePhilly]

1. They're going to have to drain the Sea of Galilee now.

[Whisp]

22. and there will be an O Henry bar at the bottom

[lunatica]

2. There having a hard time finding things to be outraged about

It's getting harder to get that fix.

[Dkc05]

3. well is the guy hung?

[Or hung out to dry

[NYC_SKP]

11. Not as hung as Jeebus...

fd

[cliffordu]

19. Burning in hell for that one, keemosabe.

Coming to the inland empire as threatened first week of Oct.

Will advise.



last week:

434 miles in 9 days full tour mode around the olympic peninsula.

i'm back, mofos.

[NYC_SKP]

23. Burning in hell is right.

Nice timing for our cool season, Einstein!

[cliffordu]

35. I used to live in Anti-hack, remember??

I can't WAIT for the 110 degrees and 85% humidity of the delta.....

[Skidmore]

4. I just heard the report of the on GMA this morning and

they were very careful to let the public know that Cantor (leader of the delegation) severely "scolded" all of the participants in that little adventure. I want the shock value of this to be inflated. Anything to embarrass these religious extremists in our government and their supporters is well worth it.

[cthulu2016]

5. Having spent my life drinking the urine of Jesus (and Caesar) color me unimpressed

Funny thing about a closed ecosystem... all water we drink contains molecules pissed out by all the people who lived before... and all the animals.

Yes, we drink dinosaur pee. What about it?

[Arkansas Granny]

8. Of course, I knew that in the back of my mind, but I'd never thought about it quite that way before.

[Taverner]

32. I forget the probability equation...

But it has something to do with the number of water molecules vs the number of people who have lived

[lightcameron]

6. Why the hell is the FBI investigating this?

[nc4bo]

7. Maybe there's something else we're not being told?

The whole non-story is really a stupid waste of time and with the FBI's involvement, taxpayer dollars.

So what else went on that they're not telling us because this is just some real silliness.

[lightcameron]

21. Unless it's being investigated by Ken Starr. ;)

[HopeHoops]

9. Personally, I don't care about the skinny dipping. It's fun.

I don't care what his party affiliation was - there's nothing wrong with skinny dipping. Although I AM quite certain that FOX would turn it into "water"gate if the Congressman in question was a Democrat.

[democrat_patriot]

13. It was 2 weeks after the credit rating debacle. So while the country almost went over a cliff,

these guys went on a free trip to Israel and partied like rock stars.

They didn't care at all what they had just done 2 weeks before....

[Laurian]

10. If this was some unknown tourist, I really wouldn't care. However,

these were elected officials visiting as representatives of the U.S. Their drunken, frat boy behavior reflects poorly on all of us and reinforces the world view that Americans are self centered, egotistical brats.

[Ship of Fools]

17. Thank you.

[randome]

18. What, being naked is self-centered and egotistical?

I say, party on!

[pinboy3niner]

12. For others the issue was the presence of family members

Reports I've seen didn't specify their ages, but they probably expected to see Members of Congress, not a member of a Congressman.

[sammytko]

25. yeah, that part was kind of creepy - getting naked in front of your co-worker's daughter

Do not know the age of daughter or other family members, but still weird.

[RevStPatrick]

14. Hey, I want to go skinny dipping in the Sea of Galilee!

Putting that on my bucket list...

[BumRushDaShow]

15. And this "event" happened over a year ago. n/t

[bluedigger]

16. My outrage meter only goes to "one" on this story.

In the unlikely event that I had been with them, I probably would have gone swimming, too.

[Atman]

20. It's night. There is water. Swimming naked seems appropriate.

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I live on a lake...gotta wear a suit in the daytime when people are out waterskiing and swimming. But after 10:00, swimsuits are totally optional. And you can guess which way I opt.

[Marrah_G]

26. You gotta be careful though....

20 odd years ago my then husband and I went skinny dipping in a lake with friends. After 15 minutes in the water there was a huge yelp from my ex and boy did he go shooting out of the water....

A turtle bit him in the ass

[muriel_volestrangler]

34. Better the ass than ... somewhere close to that

[Marrah_G]

36. That's what I told him!!!!!!!!!!!

[Art_from_Ark]

37. Once I was swimming 'cross Turtle Creek

Many snappers all around my feet
Sure was hard swimming 'cross that thing
With both hands holdin' my ding a ling a ling

[Marrah_G]

24. grumble grumble, me too!

except probably not naked...that could cause blindness in others

[bluedigger]

31. Only if there were a full moon.

[get the red out]

27. Republicans shouldn't be naked anywhere

One would expect with their family values they wouldn't even be naked in the shower.

[nadinbrzezinski]

28. I should be outraged?

The memo says such.

OUTRAGED!!!

Now, better.

[nenagh]

29. Even Morning Joe was creeped out... more than 20 people took part including..

Rep. Steve Southerland and his daughter ...

I don't know that US papers reported that early in the day.

[patrice]

30. ??? ... more magical thinking about how junk saves us. No need to ask the people anything.

Check out Yoder's campaign; you'll see a very clear "it's easier to 'apologize' than it is to seek permission" especially when it comes to use of the commons created by ALL of us. Just like "our" governor SUBSIDY-Sam Brownback's quote "... EXPERIMENT ..." with our lives.

Yoders are also big recipients of agriculture subsidies in this state, none of which, you are going to be told, had any effect whatsoever on Kevin's purchase of the office he holds.

Perhaps THAT's the sea his reference authentically pertains to, a sea of ChurchKoch money, just like the one that put Phil Kline into office and, then Kris Kochbach.

[PavePusher]

33. America has a seriously unhealthy obsession with it's nudity taboo.

Puritanism, it seems, is still deeply ingrained in us.