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Weiner Thing Growing Legs

Yeah, they're skinny . . .

Dan Collins

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Testy Weiner Grilled, Blows Vein

So, it was a hacker, then a staffer, then a person who wanted to prevent him from being able to focus on the important things.

What a liar.

All set luncheonette,
kitchenette to let
I bet to get hamburgerette again.

We met in a launderette and kissed beneath the air jet
No threat no sweat
Another one in the back of the net.

When I met Jeanette,
Substitute Ronette,
She said Will you remember?
Said I could never forget her
Au naturalette,
Her mom's a millionette
So we shared one last cigarette and swapped false addresses,
Jeanette,
Jeanette.

Dangerous
She's like damp dynamite
Oh boy, enjoy, have a nice night
Won't you promise to write me whenever you can
Make sure that you warn me if you're coming to Birmingham.

I met Jeanette
Substitute Ronette
She said Will you remember?
Said I could never forget her,
Jeanette
No no no I'll never forget you.

Touching your skin has proved one thing,
That love's still exciting.
We're getting there
We're nearly there
Just one final fling,
Pushing into a new love--steady deep and strong,
Steady on,
You know we shouldn't talk like this.

I met Jeanette
Substitute Ronette
She said Will you remember?
Said I could never forget you.
Au naturalette,
Her mom's a millionette
So we shared one last cigarette and swapped false addresses,
Jeanette

No no no I'll never forget you.
Jeanette
No no no I'll never forget you

Doug Ross: Time line of Congressional Trouser Snake's tweets

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YouTube Rife with Wiener Pranks

More.

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Wisconsin’s GAB Approves All 6 Republican Recalls, Still No Democrats

TPM:

As the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports, the board is postponing its decisions on the recalls targeting three Democrats, which were originally scheduled for today, citing strain on the board's bureaucratic resources posed by the sheer number of signatures and challenges that have been made. But Republicans are also protesting that decision:

"What the GAB has done is purely partisan and intended to discredit our recall," says a statement from Dan Hunt, who led the effort to recall Sen. Bob Wirch (D-Pleasant Prairie).

Shane Falk, an attorney for the board, said the board has been working overtime to review all the petitions, with half a dozen board employees working on them over the Memorial Day weekend. The board has also had to put in long hours because it just finished overseeing a recount in the April 5 race for state Supreme Court - the first statewide recount in more than two decades.

"We've attempted to work concurrently on all the petitions, but we simply don't have enough staff," Falk told the board.

Kloppenburg, ever gracious, concedes race to Prosser:

And now for the day that we've all been waiting for, it appears that JoAnne Kloppenburg finally got the memo that she was losing in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race. She is expected to concede about this time today.

Kloppenburg had called for a recount after the election results showed he 7,000 votes behind incumbent justice David Prosser. This is just under the maximum vote percentage to allow a state-funded recount. Kloppenburg's campaign expected to gain votes in one particular country that never materialized.

Now Politico is reporting that Kloppenburg is going to leave the race, despite her earlier calls to continue the recount. This would leave the conservative/Republican faction on the Wisconsin Supreme Court with a majority. This will be important in the court case sure to follow regarding the public sector union law.

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#Weinergate: The Four-Second Minute Hack [Update: Now it's an unnamed staffer!]

I just want to focus for a moment on @RepWeiner's incredibly swift reaction to the alleged hack. Following a Twitter silence of 3 hours, 24 minutes, the infamous yfrog link gets sent from his account to the Comely Coed. During this time, according to a spokesperson for the Congressman, he's been absorbed in watching a hockey game.

4. After a public silence of 3 hrs, 24 mins, Weiner’s twitter account sends out the following public tweet:

@RepWeiner @(name redacted) http://yfrog.com/h25m3luj 13 hours, 59 minutes ago reply

This is the tweet with the lewd photo. No mention of TweetDeck, so it may have come from a cell phone with a camera that also tweets natively. The tweet went to the 21-year-old college student in Seattle, but not as a direct message (which is private). It went out on Weiner’s public twitter feed and remained there for about four minutes before it was removed, presumably by Weiner. One letter swap — a d in place of the second @ symbol — would have made the tweet a private direct message from Weiner to Cordova. (If Weiner took the photo and tweeted it to her and he happens to have had his computer running TweetDeck nearby, he could have accidentally sent the tweet publicly from his phone, and in a few minutes’ time seen it show up in his public feed, with mentions accompanying it).

Imagine the Congressman's surprise when he saw that message go out on his account! Within four seconds minutes, he's opened this tweet, read it, gone to the link, gasped, and removed the offending post, after somehow wresting the account away from the malefactor.

Truly, he is a God of Twitter.

"I escaped somehow. Let's go!"

By then, however, Weiner had sent several Twitter messages claiming that he was the victim of an Internet hacker, a claim elaborated Sunday in a statement from the congressman's spokesman: "Anthony's accounts were obviously hacked. He doesn't know the person named by the hacker, and we will be consulting on what steps to take next."

Can you guess what steps those would be? By Monday evening, Weiner had lawyered up, retaining an attorney to advise him on "what civil or criminal actions should be taken," the congressman's spokesman told Politico. Exactly why Weiner would need an attorney's advice in this case is unclear. As one blogger who has followed the scandal observed, it should be an easy fee for any competent lawyer: "Call the police. That will be $1,000."

UPDATE: Oh, so now it's a staffer! Is the left now apologizing to the right twerson that they were accusing?

I guess Iowahawk can call off the hounds.

UPDATE: Never mind: thanks to Bender Bending Rodriguez . . .

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Weiner Hack Becomes “Prank”

If someone hacked your wiener, would you dismiss it as a prank?

Will this wiener thing grow legs? Howard Kurtz is doing his darnedest to dismiss the possibility that there's anything to see here. I'm anxious to know how long I'm going to have to focus on dongs before I can get back to blogging about bewbs.

To give you a preview of what will be happening at Ace of Spades today, he was discussing some of the great pranks and pranksters of history on Twitter last night. For example, that incorrigible card, Vlad Tepes:

@moronpundit on Joe Stalin:

Remember what he said, "Killing one man is a prank, killing a million is a really awesome prank."

Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams

1

I chopped down the house that you had been saving to live in next summer.
I am sorry, but it was morning, and I had nothing to do
and its wooden beams were so inviting.

2

We laughed at the hollyhocks together
and then I sprayed them with lye.
Forgive me. I simply do not know what I am doing.

3

I gave away the money that you had been saving to live on for the next ten years.
The man who asked for it was shabby
and the firm March wind was so juicy and cold.

4

Last evening we went dancing and I broke your leg.
Forgive me. I was clumsy, and
I wanted you here in the wards, where I am the doctor!

The Pentagon says that cyberattacks can be acts of war. Don't be yankin' Yanks' cranks.

In the obfuscation department, Jeff has up an excellent post about some douchebag professor's contention that Constitutional Originalism is a danger to the post-Republic. What I want to know is why the real Shakespeare scholars (for example) in academe nod their heads when they hear this nonsense.

Congratulations to Da Techguy for his piece in the NY Post.

Has its own Memeorandum feed.

Bryan Preston compiles the known knowns in The Case of the Skinless Weiner.

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What To Do When Your Package Goes Viral

See a doctor. Lawyer up. Because nobody can get to the bottom of who hacked your account and defamed you like a bunch of lawyers.

Maxine Waters doesn't want to talk about her ethics investigation. It's a distraction, and probably Andrew Breitbart's fault.

Also engorged: Lake Champlain.

Dan Collins

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Memorial Day

It was something we did every year, my father and I. I would call him, and when he answered would say, “Well, I’d wish you a happy Memorial Day. But it’s not really happy, now is it.”

“No, son. No, it’s not.”

My father occasionally talked about serving in World War Two and Korea, of missions flown and friends lost. He spoke of the missions freely. The friends? Not so much. The decades may have dulled the pain, but they could never take it away.

Which was as it should be, really.

God bless those who served and never came home.

Jerry Wilson

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