On a day to day basis nothing changes, with or without Chavez at home: food scarcity, electric blackouts, crime, unemployment, infrastructure degradation, health care worker strikes, etc, keep their steady progression. This is what happens in a thugocracy, this novel variant of autocracy that is been revealed to us this June. Indeed, for all the adjectives we were applying to describe the Chavez regime the one that fitted it best was the government of thugs, by thugs, for thugs, or thugocracy.

◼ Thugocracy in crisis: mystery disease and cancelled summits for Chavez - Daniel in Venzuela

Truth to power - LOL

◼ isn't allowed if you are criticizing a democrat in power.

Chicago Depavities: Chicago woman took dead baby shopping

◼ link - Straitstimes

A CHICAGO woman is accused of strapping her baby's corpse into a sling and taking him shopping after killing the three-month old in a drunken rage, local media reported on Wednesday.

Ken Blackman Jr had been dead for eight to 14 hours when the woman wrapped up her shopping trip and went to visit a neighbour, who noticed blood on the baby blanket and called 911.

Who can we blame?

Why Does Alec Baldwin Fear Women?

◼ Anthony Weiner is a modern, high functioning man, and his daughter is a disgusting little pig... and now he Twitters in on Michelle Bachmann. RSMcCain weighs in.

Amazon: we will HAD TO terminate contracts with all California residents that are participants in the Amazon Associates Program as of the date (if any) that the California law becomes effective.

◼ CALIFORNIA TAXES THE INTERNET - LA Times
◼ Amazon ends deal with 25,000 California websites - OCRegister

Gov. Jerry Brown has signed into law California's tax on Internet sales through affiliate advertising which will immediately cut small-business website revenue 20% to 30%, experts say.
The bill, AB 28X, takes effect immediately. The state Board of Equalization says the tax will raise $200 million a year, but critics claim it will raise nothing because online retailers will end their affiliate programs rather than collect the tax.

UPDATE: Unfortunately, Governor Brown has signed into law the bill that we emailed you about earlier today. As a result of this, contracts with all California residents participating in the Amazon Associates Program are terminated effective today, June 29, 2011.

Way to kill off business in the state, Gov. and legislature, every small incremental way you can.

***

Hello,
For well over a decade, the Amazon Associates Program has worked with thousands of California residents. Unfortunately, a potential new law that may be signed by Governor Brown compels us to terminate this program for California-based participants. It specifically imposes the collection of taxes from consumers on sales by online retailers - including but not limited to those referred by California-based marketing affiliates like you - even if those retailers have no physical presence in the state.

We oppose this bill because it is unconstitutional and counterproductive. It is supported by big-box retailers, most of which are based outside California, that seek to harm the affiliate advertising programs of their competitors. Similar legislation in other states has led to job and income losses, and little, if any, new tax revenue. We deeply regret that we must take this action.

As a result, we will terminate contracts with all California residents that are participants in the Amazon Associates Program as of the date (if any) that the California law becomes effective. We will send a follow-up notice to you confirming the termination date if the California law is enacted. In the event that the California law does not become effective before September 30, 2011, we withdraw this notice. As of the termination date, California residents will no longer receive advertising fees for sales referred to Amazon.com, Endless.com, MYHABIT.COM or SmallParts.com. Please be assured that all qualifying advertising fees earned on or before the termination date will be processed and paid in full in accordance with the regular payment schedule.

You are receiving this email because our records indicate that you are a resident of California. If you are not currently a resident of California, or if you are relocating to another state in the near future, you can manage the details of your Associates account here. And if you relocate to another state in the near future please contact us for reinstatement into the Amazon Associates Program.

To avoid confusion, we would like to clarify that this development will only impact our ability to offer the Associates Program to California residents and will not affect their ability to purchase from Amazon.com, Endless.com, MYHABIT.COM or SmallParts.com.

We have enjoyed working with you and other California-based participants in the Amazon Associates Program and, if this situation is rectified, would very much welcome the opportunity to re-open our Associates Program to California residents. We are also working on alternative ways to help California residents monetize their websites and we will be sure to contact you when these become available.

Regards,

The Amazon Associates Team

Iran secretly tested 'nuclear-capable missiles'

◼ Iran secretly tested 'nuclear-capable missiles'

Iran has carried out secret tests of ballistic missiles capable of delivering a nuclear payload in breach of UN resolutions, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said Wednesday.

Hague's comments came a day after Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards said they had fired 14 missiles in an exercise, one of them a medium-range weapon capable of striking Israel or US targets in the Gulf.

In a statement to lawmakers, Hague said: "Iran has also been carrying out covert ballistic missile tests and rocket launches, including testing missiles capable of delivering a nuclear payload in contravention of UN resolution 1929."

He said Iran had also announced plans to triple its capacity to produce 20 percent enriched uranium, adding: "These are enrichment levels far greater than is needed for peaceful nuclear energy.

"Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's irascible, unpredictable but devout president"

◼ That's how he is characterized: How the demise of a trusted adviser could bring down Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

NOW we can figure out what went wrong - Matt Taibbi, at Rolling Stone, meant to say Ahmadinejad was a "bat-shit crazy" waging a religious war danger to the western world... no? Somehow, he and this reporter got their articles confused... right?

Compare and contrast the characterization of Ahmadinejad, who really is evil and insane, in this piece with Taibbi's characterization of Michele Bachmann in THIS piece.

Really.

Then, take a listen to Taibbi and Don Imus... giggling that they'd like some Bachmann porno.



Tells you all you need to know about the state of journalism at the top these days.

(I guess Imus didn't learn anything, except that you can smear and denigrate white conservative women and get away with it. Yuk, Yuk.)

ST NICHOLAS CHURCH RALLY AT GROUND ZERO REBUILD THE 95-YEAR-OLD CHURCH

◼ link - Atlas

While Mayor Bloomberg wets himself in anxious haste to build the cultural obscenity, the Ground Zero mosque, the iconic St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, built in 1916 and destroyed by the destruction of the World Trade towers by Muslim terrorists, remains vanquished, unable to rebuild. Bloomberg is lobbying for 911 taxpayer funds for the Islamic supremacist grifters behind the Ground Zero mosque, but the St. Nicholas church is in purgatory, ten years after the worst day in modern American history.

Perhaps St. Nicholas should claim they are a mosque. Mayor Gloomberg and NYC Council speaker Quinn would probably pour the cement for its foundation (Bloomberg worked behind the scenes to get Ground Zero Mosque approved).

St. Nicholas Church is suing the Port Authority, claiming that agency is blocking church's reconstruction (NY Daily News)

A notice of claim was filed on behalf of St. Nicholas Church and the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, declaring their intention to sue."This claim arises out of the arrogance, bad faith and fraudulent conduct of the Port Authority in preventing St. Nicholas from re-building its church at Ground Zero," the church says in its legal filings.

One of the clearest examples of the hypocrisy and wrong headed thinking this nation has saddled itself with - the CHURCH STILL - STILL - has not been rebuilt, but all the attention has gone to the mosque. Those who claim they are for tolerance and equal treatment, aren't. It's that simple.

Strawberry Sorbet

◼ perfect treat on a hot summer's day - joy of baking
◼ a whole virtual universe of recipes google
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Stupidity of the Day: Astroturfers and Soros's PHONY Tea Party pretenders

◼ AFL-CIO Union Chief Pledges 12 Million Workers to Van Jones Progressive Tea Party - Trevor Loudon

What the "ptogressive/regressives" have always hated about the Tea Party is that they are the real deal - not phonies, not astroturfers, not paid "change agents" - but real people. The Orgs have long worn the "grassroots" cloak to hide who they truly were, getting sacred cow status by pretending to be what the Tea Party actually is.

And now they're at it again.

Desperate, devious, dishonest con men. In it for the money.

◼ AFL-CIO UNION CHIEF PLEDGES 12 MILLION WORKERS TO VAN JONES PROGRESSIVE TEA PARTY - The Blaze

Weird...

◼ I have to say this is a little bit weird, but it has to be a coincidence. The following were Chávez supporters. They have died in the last 11 months... - venezuela-europa

Chavez... dare we?

◼ Chavez croaking? Well, maybe.....

Daniel in Venezuela reports on a theory that Hugo Chavez has prostate cancer that has metastasized.

He says: Do I believe it? Not yet but it is awfully tempting. However let me make something perfectly clear: THIS WOULD BE POSSIBLY THE VERY WORST CASE SCENARIO FOR VENEZUELA....

To get a chance to be a renewed country Venezuela needs to oust Chavez in such a way that he can go to trial, alive and well to understand the charges, and collapse in nerves on the accused stand.

The Ulsterman Report: Obama Administration Hiding Thousands of Gunrunner Scandal Docs From Congress

◼ “You’ve got people who are dead. You have weapons that are missing and you have an administration that doesn’t seem to want to take any accountability for it.” – Congressman Jason Chaffetz.

Insiders reportedly tipped off Congressman Darrell Issa and Senator Charles Grassley weeks ago regarding thousands of pages of documents being stored at the Washington DC ATF headquarters. To date, neither Issa nor Grassley have been able to get full compliance from the ATF or the Obama Department of Justice regarding full disclosure of these alleged documents. Insiders have indicated that ATF officials are working closely with the DOJ to determine which documents are acceptable to be viewed by members of Congress – not so much out of concern for ongoing investigations, but as a clear stalling tactic meant to protect high ranking officials now being implicated in the developing scandal.

It was Necessary to Destroy Small Business In Order to Save Big Government

◼ It was Necessary to Destroy Small Business In Order to Save Big Government - Ed Driscoll

Not just at the federal level, California Dems are apparently plotting to bastardize Prop. 13 in order to raise property taxes on small business - in order to pay for the legislators' spending excesses.

Disgraceful. And it won't end until you vote the spendaholics out.

No kidding! Brain scans indicate A rural life is better: Living in a concrete jungle is stressful and make you vulnerable to depression

◼ Psychologists have argued that millions of years of evolution means the human brain has not developed to cope with life surrounded by thousands of strangers. - Daily Mail UK

Dr Jens Pruessner of the Douglas Mental Health University Institute in Quebec, who helped carry out the study, said: ‘Previous findings have shown that the risk for anxiety disorders is 21 per cent higher for people from the city, who also have a 39 per cent increase for mood disorders.
‘In addition, the incidence of schizophrenia is almost doubled for individuals born and brought up in cities. These values are a cause for concern.’

“Release Baby Release” is the new “Drill Baby Drill”

◼ Make no mistake about it, this is not just a reaction to the current market conditions, it is Obama’s policy to use the strategic petroleum reserves as a market cushion rather than extensive new drilling, as outlined during the 2008 campaign - Legal Insurrection

How to triple the ratings of '60 Minutes'

◼ *** Tick *** Tick *** Tick *** Tick *** Tick *** Tick *** Tick *** Tick *** Tick *** - Doug Ross
Might be able to save Gannett too: ◼ Gannett Announces Newspaper Layoffs

T9 posts

◼ Fuzzy Economics - Anna's Clue Tank

...this gentleman is suggesting is Germany should be booted from the Eurozone not because its like Greece but because the country is the antithesis of Greece. Germany has a budget surplus, has cut spending, and has kept high work standards. Can not have such a success mucking up the great experiment called the Euro and European Union.

◼ Political Street Art: The Weiner Edition - Urban Infidel
◼ Tuesday Afternoon Video- “Charles Johnson and sycophants discuss the Twitter Wars” - Diary of Daedalus
◼ On Line Identities, The World Of The Left. - Blogmocracy
◼ The Al Qaeda Mail Bombing Threat - Holger

Why is it that, in these times, there is nothing less liberal than a “liberal,” less progressive than a “progressive”?

◼ Will the Democratic Party Destroy Us All? - Roger L Simon at Pajamas

What explains this political party of lemmings?

Every which way you can: The disgraced former congressman's 2010 tax return shows he took $40,521 in unspecified itemized deductions on an income of $156,117.

◼ Odd bulge in Weiner tax form - NY Post
and that's not all...
◼ The one thing we can’t say with certitude is that Anthony Weiner has been registering his vehicles with the DMV. The New York Daily News did a little investigating after seeing expired tags on his Nissan Pathfinder, and discovered that not only has the car not been registered, but the plates on them belong to a different car

Previously: In March, the Roll Call, a Capitol Hill newspaper, reported Weiner owed more than $2,000 in parking tickets for violations around the Capitol and near Reagan National Airport. The fines, racked up between March 2006 and March 2010, were immediately paid.

Weiner had been snagged March 3, 2010, for blocking rush-hour traffic and for failing to display current license plates when he parked several blocks from the Capitol.

In June 2007 he was busted for failing to display current license plates and failing to display an inspection sticker. Weiner took heat for the violations because he has doggedly been forcing diplomats to pay the millions they owe in unpaid New York City parking fines.

◼ Weiner has agitated for higher taxes and more government regulation, but has apparently evaded his responsibility to pay for fees owed the state of New York for the last four years — even switching plates to save himself a few hundred dollars.

But, hey - "the rich" should pay more.

"We voted for our brother Barack, a beautiful human being with a sweet heart, and now he's an assassin. They turned him into them."

Gotta love it.

From the email: "That's what you get when you vote for the color of a man's skin, and not the content of his character."

Sometimes, I think it's a sin...

@PaulaConnell - Twits on Twitter

◼ http://twitter.com/#!/PaulaConnell/status/81573496102207488

Hey Paula... did HE even think once of his pregnant wife before he engaged in cybersex?

◼ Related: Lefty Feminists Expose Themselves by Putting Out for Weiner

Bobcat blogging

◼ For the past 10 years, Ginger Croutch has had a family of bobcats in the front yard of her Fountain Hills home. - azfamily.com

'I did not sext (that Congressman,) Anthony Weiner'... but XXX is a-ok.

Says the porn star. And we do mean porn. Pretty good act, though, all outraged about him sending his "package."

◼ link

Pretty funny, given THIS: NOTE/WARNING/EXTREMELY EXPLICIT NOT SAFE FOR WORK OR FAMILY ABSOLUTELY XXX RATED ◼ http://www.tube8.com/hardcore/ginger-lee/160161/ WARNING: NSFW

WOULDA THOUGHT GLORIA ALLRED WOULD'VE GOTTEN THAT PULLED BEFORE PULLING THIS STUNT.

Weiner's in enough trouble, and, while it may be true that he helped coach her to lie, this is ridiculous.

You raise a beautiful daughter, who grows up to be a fine person, smart, a top model, assistant to the United States Secretary of State...

The world is her oyster, everything is golden. A nice husband who also happens to be a Congressman, A match made in heaven. A power couple with the brightest of futures stretching out before them. A fairytale. A dream come true.

Only it's not.

He's a narcissistic dirt-bag. He's unfaithful. And now her dream becomes a nightmare, her private life derided and splashed all over the tabloids.

It's just very sad.

You raise a son....

The problem with putting government in charge

◼ " Well, if I was off duty I would know what I would do, but I think you're asking me my on-duty response and I would have to stay within our policies and procedures because that's what's required by our department to do," Alameda Fire Div. Chief Ricci Zombeck said when asked by ABC7 if he would enter the water to save a drowning child.

Alameda police and firefighters stood by and watched as a man drowned off Crown Beach in Alameda on Monday. Authorities are now trying to explain why they had no choice but to stand on the shoreline.

Weiner has agitated for higher taxes and more government regulation, but has apparently evaded his responsibility to pay for fees owed the state of New York for the last four years — even switching plates to save himself a few hundred dollars.

◼ New Weiner scandal: license plate fraud?

The New York license plate bolted on Weiner's Pathfinder - US Congress 9 - had expired as of 2006, according to the DMV.

"That license plate should not be on a car," a DMV spokeswoman said. It wasn't even issued to the Pathfinder, but to another one of Weiner's cars, a Honda, according to vehicle records....

"Switching around license plates is what criminals do," noted a retired Brooklyn accident investigator. "If you are a congressman, you aren't supposed to be switching out your plates. I guess that's the least of his worries."

Karma is a bitch, Mr. Weiner.

George Soros and the Plot to Take Judicial Selections Away from Voters

◼ Billionaire political financier George Soros is behind a $45 million campaign to strip American citizens of their right to select state court judges and thereby put the legal system in the hands of Left-wing jurists, according to Dan Pero, president of the American Justice Partnership. AJP produced a comprehensive report about the plan and Soros’ financial stake in it. - michigancapitolconfidential

AJP says the movement is using the reformist-sounding name “merit selection” for its plan and that it seeks to end the popular election of state judges and replace the decision of voters with a system that puts political insiders and lawyers themselves in charge of filtering and selecting who is appointed to the courts where they practice.

Zombie...

◼ How a Teachers’ Rally Made Me Anti-Education
But a few thousand words were not enough to do the topic justice; entire books have been written about the leftist takeover of education. Yet it’s even bigger than that. Political bias in education is by now its own field of study.

And using the kids is inexcusable.

Throwing in the towel - FINALLY - REVERSAL: PELOSI: WEINER MUST GO... DNC BOSS: RESIGN...

◼ Pelosi, Wasserman Schultz, Israel tell Weiner he should resign - CNN

6/11: New York (CNN) - Three weighty Democratic voices - including Nancy Pelosi - on Saturday called for the resignation of embattled U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, who has been under fire after admitting to inappropriate communications with women online.

◼ Top Democrats urge Rep. Weiner to resign - National party chairman calls disgraced Democrat's behavior 'indefensible'

"It is with great disappointment that I call on Representative Anthony Weiner to resign,” Wasserman Schultz wrote. “The behavior he has exhibited is indefensible and Representative Weiner’s continued service in Congress is untenable.”

Another report from the mysterious Ulsterman:

◼ Netanyahu Meeting: "What the F-ck was that?"
the president verbally “went off” on Richard Daley in the private study area that adjoins the Oval Office. President Obama’s verbal attack was clearly heard by numerous staff up and down the West Wing hallways.

The essence of the president’s rage and embarrassment can best be summed up with him yelling out very loudly, “What the f-ck was that!?” That phrase was apparently repeated a number of times in the span of about five minutes, a time period in which Obama’s voice became “louder and louder” and culminating in Obama exclaiming, “Never again! Do you understand me? Never again!”

"BREAKING: Analysis of #PalinEmails shows a relative in Nigeria died and left her $10 million in a foreign bank account."

◼ A comment about a favorite Tweet, here... at Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion

Looks to me like the rabid vultures poring over Palin's every syllable are going to find out just how wrong they have been.

On the other hand - you can imagine what they'll do if they find out her spiritual mentor is a racist asshole preacher, and that she hangs out with domestic terrorists (plural) who plot to bomb police stations.

”I GOTTA KEEP MY MOUTH SHUT OR ELSE”? Weiner's Messages to Teenage Girl in Delaware Draw Police Attention

◼ Police on Friday afternoon came to the home of a 17-year-old high school junior to ask her about direct online communications she has had with Rep. Anthony Weiner....
◼ Flaming Skull: you know what that means, at Ace of Spades

Hey stuff happens, right? He's a high functioning male and if that means chatting up underage girls, well, that's a chance he was willing to take. Cause he's a giver.

◼ RSMcCain is on top of it, too. These are the guys who did the real investigative reporting, who didn't back down when Weiner tried to skirt by with the easy rhetoric, who had the goods on him and didn't let him wiggle out.
◼ Did Anthony Weiner Send Obscene Messages to Teenage Girls Online?
◼ Police Visit “Ethel” - Patterico
◼ ◼ Andrew Breitbart Did Not Run ‘Weinergate’ Evidence Which Turned Out To Be Fake... The Under-Aged Participants That Add Clarity And Exoneration - Mediaite, where it really starts to unravel, details emerge that just don't add up - or do add up, and not to anything good.
◼ ◼ More Weiner Messages to Young Girls? Evidence the Media Was Duped into Dropping the Investigation - Patterico
◼ ◼ Evidence That Weiner Was Talking Dirty to Underage Girls? Part 2 - Patterico
◼ ◼ Evidence That Weiner Was Talking Dirty to Underage Girls? Part 3 - Patterico
◼ ◼ Morning Weiner Notes - Patterico
◼ Robert Stacy McCain Explains What We Know (and Why We Should Care) About Congressman Weiner’s Online Interactions with Underage Girls - Patterico
A well-done and professional summary of what we know and what we don’t. And why the press should care about knowing more.
◼ Bloomberg Knew The Dirt On Weiner In 2009, And Used It To Force Him Out Of The Mayoral Race - Business Insider

A New York Post story from March 2009, which exposed the illegal campaign contributions Weiner had received from sexy foreign models, probably gave the congressman even more reason to worry.

◼ Underage #Weinergate: The Silence of The Press II.
Lots more at the links.

WTH is a "rural council"? Something a "community organizer" would come up with.

◼ Dandy: White House Establishes ‘Rural Council’

Another "executive order." WHY?

Patterico is right. There's a pattern of lies and deception that is still being uncovered

◼ Evidence That Weiner Was Talking Dirty to Underage Girls? Part 2 - it's not just the striking similarity in the "statements" after the fact. It's the similarity in what is SAID, and the oddity of certain phrases, it's not adding up.

Althouse sees it too: ◼ "So we know that Congressman Weiner talked dirty to Lisa Weiss about fighting for the country in his cape and tights." - Althouse

h/t: sun

“We didn’t want the source to be confused with the message.”

◼ The dirty trick that launched Anthony Weiner's career - Salon

Weiner's campaign distributed its anonymous leaflets, which linked Cohen -- whose voters he was targeting in particular -- to Jesse Jackson and David Dinkins, who was then New York's mayor. It is hard to imagine two more-hated political figures in the 48th District at that moment.... Only after the ballots were counted did he admit that he'd been behind the leaflets, claiming that "We didn't want the source to be confused with the message." This prompted an editorial rebuke from the New York Times, which noted that "Mr. Weiner's hit-and-run tactics tarnish his come-from-behind campaign."

Not that it mattered. The primary was over and Weiner had won.

Right up there with unsealing your opponent's private divorce records, isn't it?

Basically, the tactic of people who can't run on their own merits.

The coolest thing: Apple's Proposed HQ Like a 'Spaceship'

◼ VIDEO: Apple's Proposed HQ Like a 'Spaceship' - NBC Bay Area

Can't help but wonder what kind of opposition he will run into.

The people rise up - and take things back from the government - the stirrings...

◼ Campground closed in 2009 illegally reopened - Mining Journal h/t: wollf
◼ Three arrested, accused of illegally feeding homeless

IMAGINE... add a few new lines to that old Beatles tune...

Lowly shrub grows in stature as biofuel - Jatropha seed oil touted for jets

◼ Jatropha curcas, a poisonous, semi-evergreen shrub that can grow as high as 20 feet, produces seeds laden with oil that backers say is an ideal biofuel. - Washington Times

Mission NewEnergy, an Australian-based firm with operations in India and Europe and a recently opened branch in San Antonio, says it can deliver refined Jatropha oil at about $40 to $50 a barrel. The firm’s U.S. entry also included listing its shares on Nasdaq, complementing its Australian Stock Exchange presence.

Mixed with traditional jet fuel, Jatropha oil already has been used on test flights by Continental Airlines, Air New Zealand and other carriers. Once approved for general use, Jatropha could help cut one of the aviation industry’s highest costs.

Jatropha can provide “environmentally responsible fuel without compromising the food supply, so we can help the Earth while helping the public,” said James Garton, president of the firm’s U.S. branch. “That means we can finally reverse the skyrocketing prices at the pump and dependence on traditional sources of oil.”

Looks like Weiner's presser yesterday accomplished something - you know he was pushed out there to stop the bleeding...

Question now is, will he resign? And, if not, how can he ever be taken seriously, or trusted, again? Will he still scream at people on the house floor?

He had everything he wanted. A national profile job, a wife who brought him close to the edges of power - if he isn't a Congressman, of what value is he to his wife? And if he's not a Congressman, how many women will be so delighted to "follow" him, or receive his lascivious Tweets?

He won't resign, because without the job, he is nothing. And that's a sad thing.

◼ Is this really the kind of guy you want representing you?

Weiss told the Web site that most of the duo's sexed-up exchanges occurred during his work hours -- and that Weiner used his office phone for at least some of them. She said they fired back and forth 69 messages during just one sleazy exchange.

"After a while, I said to Anthony, 'Why are we writing these messages when we can just speak?' " Weiss said.

"I gave him my number, and he called me from his office, and we proceeded to talk dirty for at least 30 minutes.

"A few days later, I tried to call him back on that number. But the number wouldn't connect to his office; instead, there was a recorded message that it was an outgoing US Congress line only."

Weiss said that when she sent a message to Weiner through Facebook, he shamelessly penned back: "How did I miss this chance to rock your world by phone?

The truth is he is Barbara Boxer in briefs - a partisan attack dog, and that has been his value to the left. Losing him in NY is not going to hurt the nation at all - and in fact getting rid of a partisan hack, and replacing him with someone who will actually WORK to deal with the massive problems facing this country - instead of jerking off (his words) on our dime.

WASHINGTON POST: 'Obama's phony accounting on auto bailout'...

◼ 'Most misleading collection of assertions we have seen'... - Washington Post via Drudge

“The key is to have a short, thought out statement that tackles the top line questions and then refer people back to it”

◼ Report: Anthony Weiner coached woman to lie - POLITICO

Rep. Anthony Weiner encouraged a porn star to lie about their on-line relationship and offered her the help of his public relations team, according to a report on Tuesday.

Weiner sent emails to former X-rated performer Ginger Lee – to whom he’d previously acknowledged sending innocuous messages via Twitter – coaching her to deny that they had been communicating, reported TMZ, which obtained the messages and says the two had exchanged “scores of sexual emails over a long period of time.”

“The key is to have a short, thought out statement that tackles the top line questions and then refer people back to it,” Weiner is alleged to have written in a June 1 email. “Have a couple of iterations of: ‘This is silly. Like so many others, I follow Rep. Weiner on Twitter. I don’t know him and have never met him. He briefly followed me and sent me a dm (direct message) saying thank you for the follow. That’s it.’”

The real key was not to have done it in the first place. "Love means never having to say you're sorry."

"Everyone's standards are different, but to be elected to Congress and sit there all day on Facebook and chatting?"

◼ Coming clean... Rep. Anthony Weiner: 'The Picture Was of Me and I Sent It'
Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York said today he has engaged in "several inappropriate" electronic relationships with six women over three years, and that he publicly lied about a photo of himself sent over Twitter to a college student in Seattle over a week ago.

Breitbart, it might be noted, is EXONERATED, X.

Palate cleanser

h/t: scrat

Herein lies the full horror of American politics in the death throes of the republic: A Congressman has nothing better to do of an evening than Tweet his crotch to coeds, but he requires an "office" with "staffers" to "put out" "statements" on the subject.

◼ Congressman Weiner then retreated from the sinister hacking line, and protested that all this fuss about a mere "prank" involving a "randy photo" (his words) was an "unfortunate distraction" from real issues like raising the debt ceiling. Like Bill Clinton in the Nineties, Rep. Weiner needs to "get back to work for the American people."
It's the political class doing all this relentless "work for the American people" that's turned this country into the brokest nation in the history of the planet, killed the American Dream and left the American people headed for a future poised somewhere between the Weimar Republic and Mad Max. So, if it's a choice between politicians getting back to work for the American people or Tweeting their privates round the planet, I say, Tweet on, MacDuff.... Mark Steyn for The OC Register

Someone didn't get the memo UPDATED

All the deleting of Tweets and twitter accounts and all things to do with Weinergate - googling his other Twittermate, Ginger Lee, brings up some pretty extreme - and not behind a paywall - stuff.

She reportedly liked him for his stance on abortion. I doubt his constituents will like her Tube8 'stance." Then again...
__________________

I don't feel like putting this at the top of the posts - but it's worth keeping it recorded... Weiner's correspondence with another woman"

Talking Dirty
March 16 Facebook message exchange with middle-aged Nevada Democratic volunteer Lisa Weiss:
WEINER: ridiculous bulge in my shorts now. wanna see?
WEISS: Yea! can u send a pic? I want to sit on your c- -k so bad right now.
WEINER: jeez, im rushing. let me take a quick pic
WEISS: awesome . . . how do I get it? right on here?
WEISS: how r u gonna go to work with a raging hard on?
WEINER: it wont go away. and now im taking pics of it, making me harder still
WEISS: so hot! u are making me wet again.
WEINER: jeez, i have to go. ill hit you later
WEINER: off to the shower. this thing is bobbing up and down
WEISS: aahhh . . . wish I was in the shower with you to help
WEINER: you give good head?
WEISS: Ive been told really good . . . and i love doing it
WEINER: wow a jewish girl who sucks [bleep]. this thing is ready to do damage

◼ Read more: The dork knight - Weiner a 'caped crusader' in sext chats

Strange Plot Twists in #WeinerGate’s Third Act

◼ Tommy Christopher has done some excellent reporting.
Tommy’s story about @PatriotUSA and a 16-year-old girl who (falsely) claimed her friend was involved in Twitter “sexting” with Rep. Anthony Weiner is an absolute must-read. - The Other McCain
◼ Andrew Breitbart Did Not Run ‘Weinergate’ Evidence Which Turned Out To Be Fake - Tommy Christopher at Mediaite
◼ The Under-Aged Participants That Add Clarity And Exoneration
◼ The Relationship Between Breitbart And Dan Wolfe (@PatriotUSA76) And Mike Stack (@Goatsred)
◼ Markos Moulitsas (DailyKOS) Refuses To Protect Girls’ Identities”
◼ Exclusive: Statements From The Underage Participants And Their Parents

Judicial Watch: Documents show FCC coordinated 'Net Neutrality' effort with Soros-funded Left-wing outside group, "Free Press"

◼ Documents made public yesterday by Judicial Watch describe extensive collusion by Federal Communications Commission officials with a left-wing advocacy group in a campaign to expand government regulation of the Internet.

The documents, obtained by Judicial Watch in a December 2010 Freedom of Information Act request, were created after Democrat appointees solidified their 3-2 control of the agency in March 2009....

Free Press is the most vocal of a number of far-left and liberal advocacy groups that for nearly a decade have pushed numerous proposals for vastly increasing government regulation of the Internet.

The evidence of coordination between FCC Democrats and Free Press uncovered by Judicial Watch includes:

Emails between former Free Press president John Silver and Democratic FCC Commissioner Michael Copps from October 2010, coordinating "how we'd like to proceed during these next three months on NN [net neutrality]."

Documents summarizing a phone call between Silver and Copps in which, before an FCC vote on the proposal in November 2010, Silver "emphasized that a strong net neutrality rule is critical to preserving the Internet as a vibrant forum for speech, commerce, innovation and cultural expression."

Correspondence between FCC Special Counsel David Tannenbaum and Free Press Policy Director Ben Scott coordinating speakers for a taxpayer-funded series of FCC "internet workshops" that were intended to generate public support for the proposal.

Free Press was co-founded by Monthly Review editor Robert McChesney and the Nation contributor John Nichols. The Monthly Review is "an independent Marxist journal," while the Nation has long described itself as "the flagship of the left." Free Press is partially funded by George Soros' Open Society Institute....

It's long past time for legislation to rein in the unregulated orgs.

We get mail, and ok, it's not about Anthony Weiner

I had a flat tire on the Interstate yesterday ~ so, I pulled over,
got out of the car and opened my trunk.

I took out my cardboard men, unfolded them and stood
them at the rear of my car facing oncoming traffic. They look
so lifelike you wouldn't believe it!

Just as I had hoped, cars started slowing down looking at the
men which made it much safer for me to work on the side
of the road.

People honked and waved, and it wasn't long before a police
car pulled up behind me.

He wanted to know what the heck I was doing so I calmly
explained that I was changing my flat. He told me he could
see that, but demanded to know what the heck my cardboard
men were doing standing at the rear of my car.

I couldn't believe he didn't know! So I told him ...

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"Come Clean"

◼ Mother of picture recipient furious at Weiner scandal - NY Post

The furious mom of the Seattle college coed at the center of Weinergate yesterday demanded that the cocky congressman come clean about the lewd photo. “I’m really upset. I feel like he’s a person of power and influence, who can make a statement and make all this go away,” Carol Mizuguchi said, blasting Rep. Anthony Weiner for his continued snarky sidestepping. “As her mother, I’m really upset,” Mizuguchi told The Post. “I’m pissed off at that.”

◼ GOP's Cantor urges Weiner to 'come clean' on controversy
◼ Porn pal craved pol
"you know it's a good day when you wake up to a [direct message] from @RepWeiner."...

"'Is it too early in the day for me to start doing Anthony Weiner love?" Lee mused on May 25.
Two days later -- just as news that a crotch shot was sent from Weiner's Twitter account to a coed in Washington -- Lee posted, "Whoa. I get a dose of Anthony Weiner live before I go to work tonight. Weiner before work, me likey."

and Weiner can't say it's not his pic "with a certitude." But he's investigating... where the pic came from.

The Half Time President

◼ Shocker: Obama Spent Majority of First Two Years in Office Outside of Washington, 3 Months on Vacation

from January of 2009 to January of 2011, President Obama spent a mere 48% of his time in Washington, D.C.

This timetable is specifically from January 20, 2009, the day Mr. Obama assumed office, and January 3, 2011, the day Mr. Obama returned from a vacation in Hawaii. That's 713 days, and the President spent 342 of them in our capital.

From 2009-January of 2011, President Obama enjoyed 70 days of foreign travel, 176 days on domestic "trips," 35 days at Camp Davis and 61 days on vacation. On top of that, he played 57 rounds of golf (which the MSM calls "mini-vacations"), which took up approximately half of a day each and therefore constitutes almost another month of vacation time. Add them together and President Obama enjoyed 371 days away from his job in Washington.

In fact, the number may actually be higher, as it does not count fundraisers nor correspondent/private dinners that Mr. Obama attended in Washington.

...Even worse, President Obama has decided that his time as a hard-working President is going to be over for some time now. Today he announced that he's aiming for $60,000,000 in fundraising in the coming economic quarter. That means a lot more time campaigning and getting money and much less time doing his job....

B-b-bbb-but... BOOOOSHH!!!!