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Peter Platter, how is the weather?

Sepp Blatter the survivor?
Sometimes one wonders who is right and what is wrong any more. Is there a divine power up there righting the wrong and otherwise, anymore?
So much of bad publicity has been given about the biggest football governing body of late of scandals, corruption and manipulation. The elections still went on as usual. The incumbent clung on to throne even after 8 years, in spite of the alleged misdoings, the competitors to the throne essentially put in cold storage and are outcast as a pariah. And it is business as usual. The victor, the 75 year old Sepp Blatter, promises of putting the house in order whilst in the same breath denied any money politics in the body's dealings of which which he was the boss for 8 years. If the house is already in order, then why bother to clean it up? Unless you have OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder), that is!
Of course nobody knows where the real truth lies. I guess it must be somewhere in between.
That reminds me of a somebody who denied having sexual intimacy but admitted being gratified, well, orally which was not (in his books) sex! And he survived that and had come out smelling of roses as a come back boy and a peace maker in the international arena presently.
Maybe it is my distorted view of reality or unfulfilled childhood dreams, I always taught that a leader is a model of whom his followers or subjects will try to emulate and behave. He sets the gold standard how one should act. The land owners' wives in ancient Egypt used to dress up like Cleopatra as she was their role model. When Madonna told the world that it was cool to flaunt your assets in a laced brassiere in the 80s, it caught like bush fire!
On the hand, there are people out there just to get you if you are rich and famous. Imagine an intern who decided to immortalize the special moment by preserving malodorous musky wild-oat sowed stained blue dress just in case she might need to used at the time of need for Deoxyribonucleio acid evidence. How convenient?
Hey, Big Guy, what are  waiting for? Show me a sign! You already have and I don't see it, you say?

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