Well, on February 13th, the day before Valentines Day, good ol Spitzer decided to get a little something-something.  I guess he wanted to get lucky 2 nights in a row.

So what does all this mean?  Not much.  Like a lot of unhappy spouses, Spitzer didn't respect his wife.  So he's been cheating on her.  Probably for years.

That's what happens when you stop respecting your spouse.  His wife looks a bit like Jennifer Anniston, so she will be OK>

For some of us, it will be Club Anniston, and for others Club Emperors.  Personally, I hope his wife finds a great lawyer, makes a fortune in child support (3 kids) and Alimoney, gets a facelift, and then enters the social circle of the Rich and Famous.  She'll have her fun too - at his expense.  So, while she is on her way up, he is headed down, down, down...

Frankly, it's sad for both of them.  IN his case, his career, family and reputation are now over.  For her, a couple years of pain, and then a lifetime of bouncing back. 

She won't be bored.  He'll never forgive himself.

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You know every time this kind of sh*t happens, my only reaction is that i won't be reading or watching the news for about a week.  

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What are you talking about ???!!?

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- Независимость - это когда в 20-й раз наступаешь на одни и те же грабли, а русские уже ни при чем....

Eliot Spitzer, formerly attorney general for NY, presently the gov, got caught.  Just got elected too.

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Ok, I couldn;t help it, watched some news..  Spitzer was always one of those people, when I look into their eyes, i see a f*cking scumbag, I don't know why, its totally subjective.   I am sure this is NOTHING compared to what he's done. This dude actually used this qualityto be a fairly good politician most of the time. I don't know anything about his wife, but often in these situations and with people of this "caliber", the marriage was probably a sham for a long time, maybe she even knew, maybe they havent had sex in years.  That's it.. That's all the yellow journalism I am willing to do for now The TV is off for a week, if they start talking about nipples or spankings, please notify me. 

 

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$15,000 spent on biatches! ...maaan....

 compared to Spitzer, i'd be a perfect husband..  I'm so stingy, i wouldn't spend $20 on any whore, doesn't matter how hot she is. I'd rather invest:-))

 Spitzer! Here: SLAP! SLAP!

..........what about kids dying of hunger in africa?....

 

 

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Pomidorchik, I believe it's called "cheap," not gready :) Also, $15,000.00 isn't a large sum if you consider that he chose to sleep with with high end prostitutes. These girls need a lot of dough to keep their looks, especially today, in the age of never-ending competition. Once you count their plastic surgery bills, the amount of money they spend on clothes and shoes (and a beautiful pair of shoes can cost thousands of dolloars), maintenance expenses (laser treatments/waxing, hair, manicure/pedicure, skin treatments, etc.), jewelry, make up, perfume, accessories - just the things that make them look good (not counting food expenses, house payments/rent, cars, trips, etc.) - you'll come up with a figure that's at least ten times higher than $15,000.00. So, I personally feel sorry for the girls who lost a well paying client!  

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"Some say the Muses are nine: how careless! Look, there's Sappho too, from Lesbos, the tenth." Plato

cheap? would you spend $15,000 on a hi end male prostitute?

Back to Spitzer:-) It's only a female body... a 5-10 minute interaction: friction + release. For that, any woman is as good as any other. I simply don't get it.

Why not "invest" into his wife? say, give her, ala JB, face lift + boob job + shoes. All the benefits without the risk of getting an STD.

Let's say, his wife didn't want to pee on him. OK, she's an old fashined chick. But maybe, with the right approach he could coach her into doing that, and even more? 

Any woman can be turned into first class whore. All you need is a little bit of brains.

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You people really are confused why he did this?

My only confusion is why he risked his career.  And I am also interested in who went after him and why.  He made some rich and powerful enemies by being a very good politician.  I guess it takes a lot more effort to be a one-woman man   This happens ALL THE TIME, imagine how many politicains do this that we don't know about.  I am not defending them, just stating the obvious. If anyone doesn't understand why plastic surgery for your wife won't get you the same results, go study humans.

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As to who went after him: it's all over the news.  Apparently, there is some sort of software in place in most of the financial institutions, which monitors suspicious transactions.  And it is no longer true that only anything over 10K gets flagged.  The software is looking for unusual transactions, outliers.  Everyone is getting monitored, thanks to the Patriot act, but special attention is paid to PEPs, Politically Exposed Persons, Spitzer is obviously one of them.  Well, his transactions with the Emperor's Club got flagged, sent to IRS, the rest is history now.

THe kicker in the sotry?  Spitzer was the one who advocated creation of such system after 2001.

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That's not what I heard, but i try not to listen to too much of this crap, I have a short attention span whenever all media turns into tabloids :)

I heard that the investigation was triggered as a bribery probe (people were after him BIGTIME), at which time it was noticed that he was hedging cash transactions to avoid the law you are referring to.  If you are right though, it doesn;t make sense - he is not that dumb.  Because what you are describeing he had to know with 100% certainty that he will be caught.  I am not going to believe that.  I think the critical figure for these kinds of people hovers somewhere around 50%

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Pom, right on. I like the last sentence: "any woman can be turned into a world class whore."  Actually Balzac said something very similar many years ago. 

 But it takes a special kind of man to get out of his wife what he can get out of a hooker.  A man who can do that is a genius.  but I like the way you think.

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Yeah, i agree with that part too, but, there's the evolutionary part about wanting to be with different women.   The methods I don't care about - turning your woman into a whore, body modification, being a public figure, whatever.. These all should help.  But nature is smarter than all of them   A man could have a woman that is his dream come true (sexually, and in every other way), yet he still to some extent will fantacize about  different women.  "A special kind of man" is the one who does not act on it. 

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Egor has it right - it takes a strong man to realize respecting what you have (your wife) is better than succumbing to the genetic programming we (men) all have hardwired into our brain to want to spread the seed.  Women can't understand that, because they don't have the same sex drive.  If they did, there would be $5,000 male prostitutes, and 50 to 100 male strip clubs in Atlanta.

Pom - were you a Russian sailor?  You have a mouth like a sailor.  The ability of a man to turn his wife into a whore in the bedroom is directly proportional to the husbands ability to prove to his wife that he is worthy of her total submission.  Men are as*s holes until they prove otherwise. 

 There is only ONE big thing that pisses me off about Spitzer.  He was fine with passing tough new laws to imprison men that use prostitutes - thinking he would never be caught and prosecuted under his own new tougher laws.  If the Government does not prosecute that freakin hypocrite under his own law, then it is just another example of THIS government doing one thing, but treating the taxpayers differently.  Or as Lou Dobbs would say, another example of your government treating you like sh*t cuz they could care less about the average American. 

Spitzer deserves to be the first person imprisoned under his own outrageous prostitution laws (not that I have even done the research to verify htis is all true - but God it makes for a good story)

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pomidorchik:

cheap? would you spend $15,000 on a hi end male prostitute?

I would rather spend this money on a few pairs of shoes  

pomidorchik:

Back to Spitzer:-) It's only a female body... a 5-10 minute interaction: friction + release. For that, any woman is as good as any other. I simply don't get it.

This is where you are majorly wrong - it is not "only a female's body." The man was able to realize his deepest, darkest, most intimate fantasies with the prostitute, and it is something that can be worth much more than "neschastnie" 15 grand. Some people who fantasize sexually do not have the guts or the money or a partner to experience everything with. Furthermore, these fantasies can be/are very revealing, so I imagine not many people would want for their partners to find out about their erotic escapades and perceive them as freaks of nature. Thus, hiring a prostitute who is payed to PLEASE you and not JUDGE you is a great solution for people loaded with money. And, as you may know, pleasure is rather expensive, and the richer the pleasure - the thicker the wallet one must have. So, in the end it's about complete acceptance, ultimate pleasure, and realization of one's deepest fantasies, and not about a "female's body."

pomidorchik:

Why not "invest" into his wife? say, give her, ala JB, face lift + boob job + shoes. All the benefits without the risk of getting an STD. Let's say, his wife didn't want to pee on him. OK, she's an old fashined chick. But maybe, with the right approach he could coach her into doing that, and even more?

Hmm... have you seen many 50+ women who've had face lifts, everything else lifts? Demi Moore is a fine example, however, she isn't 50 yet, I believe; plus, an everage woman can't afford $300,000.00+ of reconstructive work done to her and the ongoing maintenance expenses as well. Nevertheless, even Demi can't compete against a 20+ girl who has a goregous body without any lifts yet. Furthermore, it's MUCH easier to "coach" a younger woman into "doing that, and even more," than a 50+ woman with set values, set opinions, set world view, etc. Also, the "right approach" takes time and effort, for which not many people have the strength and the luxury these days. And last but not least, she is the mother of his kids, and in the words of Robert Deniro's character, "She kisses our kids with that mouth!"

pomidorchik:

Any woman can be turned into first class whore. All you need is a little bit of brains.

Rassmeshil... Instead of producing empty slogans, why don't you, dear Pomidorchik, try turning ANY woman into a high class whore? Then your slogans will sound more credible. First, it would take a lot of brains to turn one average woman into a first class whore. Needless to say, not every woman is blessed with a great genetic pool, so her looks, her smarts, her behavior, her habits, her natural inclinations, her taste or lack of one, etc., etc., etc. will take more or less time to change or improve depending on who/what she is. So, I think it takes at least "a little bit of brains" to understand this much. It's almost like saying that you can teach a pig to fly or sing like a bird. Gorkiy's words come to mind as well. Whilst I doubt he was thinking about a woman's transformation into a first class whore, when he wrote "The Song About Falcon," the phrase "the one who is born to crawl cannot fly" (and vice versa) somehow fits this discussion as well

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"Some say the Muses are nine: how careless! Look, there's Sappho too, from Lesbos, the tenth." Plato