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#Weiner Sextstress No. 5 and the London Slutwalk

By now, you'll have read that Pelosi, Steve Israel and Wasserman-Schultz have all written to @repweiner to say that he should resign. You've also read that Weiner continues to say that he won't resign (many say because he needs the money and doesn't really have anything to fall back on) and that he is going to get treatment and that he has asked for a leave of absence from the House to get his belfry house in order.

Weiner is now focusing not on his dick and super heroism but on “becoming a better husband and healthier person”.

You see… He’s not a randy dickhead. He’s ill. He can be made better. He can be cured. It’s not him. It’s the disease.

Yesterday, the "racy" DMs that he shared with Dick Tracy . . . I mean, Traci Lords . . . sorry, with Traci Nobles, a 24-year-old gym teacher, came out. I hope that she doesn't lose her job over them. If a school has a phys ed teacher who is interested in a 46-year-old man, they should count their blessings.

Sychronically, the likeness of the Congressman appeared in a baguette, which, as far as I know, has not yet been offered for sale on eBay.

Velvet Hammer has a nice summary, here, and Ace is dropping the Bannerhammerung on commenters wanting to get out ahead of the DE police investigation. If I were to guess at an endgame, without getting ahead of the police investigation, I would say it's likely that this opens the possibility that Weiner may be offered a plea deal to cop to a charge of suborning false statements to the police. At present, he is mostly in trouble for making false statements to the media.

London had its Slut Walk today. Among the signs was this:

"Hijabs, hoodies, hotpants, our bodies, our choices"

Well, yes. But as feminists debate whether or not it's a good idea for women to adopt the misogynist expression "slut," there's still the question of whether or not most of those women who wear hijabs really are doing so out of choice. Perhaps in London, the majority are. Or perhaps they are having that "choice" imposed on them by a religion of misogyny and the men who espouse it. Certainly the rape of Lara Logan proved that it's a very bad idea to go to an Egyptian "freedom" rally dressed in Western garb.

Were you aware that none of the rape convictions in Sweden in the past 5 years was against a native Swede? Well, it's profiling even to mention it.

Never mind, though. To try to impose our values on other societies, even those unassimilated ghettos within our midst, would be a form of cultural imperialism, as really it is for anyone to be insulted by the behavior of Congressman Weiner.

Via Shawsblog.

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First Disturbing Revelation in Palin Emails

Man, these objective, non-partisan journalists at the WaPo really thought this through, didn't they?

Among the emails Sarah Palin fielded while she was on the campaign trail were a batch of vicious threats against her life.

On Sept. 12, 2008, she received a message through the state of Alaska's website that accused her of being racist and suggested that she would have joined the Ku Klux Klan if she were a man.

"She doesn't belong to the NRA to support the right of each citizen to have weapons in an aim of self-defence, but just to support the right of every Southern white citizen to shoot all non-white people legally!" wrote the sender, identified as Dominique Villacrouz. "Sarah Palin MUST BE KILLED!"

Plenty more progressivism where that came from.

Meanwhile, Jim Hoft makes a very good related point.

Ace bulls the MSM into the end zone, sacks it, picks up the ball and spikes it in their face. Flagged for excessive celebration.

Some schadenfreudelicious remembrance from Stacy, and the story of 17-year-old "Ethel's" visit from the NJDE Police [thanks, Bingley] regarding Weiner messaging, which you'll have read about already.

Gyne-speleologist Andrew Sullivan hardest hit.

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Confessions of a Weiner Sextstress

Five of the supposed six Sextstresses of Congressman Anthony Weiner have been identified, and speculation as to the identity of the sixth is rampant. The speculation can now stop.

I am Weiner's sixth Sextstress.

Using the Twitter handle @genevrafontasi, I said #YesWeiner and was accepted into the then very select circle of @repweiner's online friends. As far as he knew, I was nineteen, so nothing wrong with that!

We talked a little dirty, shared some laughs and became good acquaintances. He seemed like a normal, modern, high-functioning kind of online guy to me, until I accidentally sent my own dic pic publicly from this (the wrong!) avatar. Then, I was dropped like a ton of bricks by that trannyphobe.

I am humiliated, embarrassed and ashamed, and I take full responsibility for it. But I'm staying on Twitter!

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DoJ Freaking Out Over Gunwalker Probe

Darrell Issa's had a lot on his plate. So much that it seems he can hardly make headway on any one issue.

The DoJ stonewalled repeatedly over requests that they turn over documents requested by Issa's committee. When they did permit the investigators to view documents at DoJ offices, they redacted so much that pretty much all that was left was participles and prepositions. So . . .

Officials at the Department of Justice are in "panic mode," according to multiple sources, as word spreads that congressional testimony next week will paint a bleak and humiliating picture of Operation Fast and Furious, the botched undercover operation that left a trail of blood from Mexico to Washington, D.C.

The operation was supposed to stem the flow of weapons from the U.S. to Mexico by allowing so-called straw buyers to purchase guns legally in the U.S. and later sell them in Mexico, usually to drug cartels.

Instead, ATF documents show that the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms knowingly and deliberately flooded Mexico with assault rifles. Their intent was to expose the entire smuggling organization, from top to bottom, but the operation spun out of control and supervisors refused pleas from field agents to stop it.

Only after Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry died did ATF Agent John Dodson blow the whistle and expose the scandal.

First question: what approval did they get from the Mexican government? Because all of those people who fumed over Reagan's back door funding for the Contras have to ask themselves whether this could be construed as an act of war.

In another massive fail, Illinois is spending $230 million more that they don't have in trying to keep businesses from moving out of state after their radical tax hikes.

Everyone knows that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is evil, but Minnesota's getting ready to send out 36,000 pink slips to government workers on July 1, because Gov. Dayton wants to raise taxes on high-income earners in Minnesota, and the legislature wants to decrease the deficit through spending cuts alone.

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A Couple of Blogging-Related Tab Dumps and Praise for “The Delivery”

Because, layers and layers of fact checkers:

New Jersey’s state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that legal protections allowing journalists to keep sources confidential do not apply to individuals posting to online message boards. This decision is the latest development in an ongoing debate over the blurring lines between mainstream journalists and the growing number of bloggers who are sharing their opinions and reporting news via the Internet.

Bill would criminalize embedding copyrighted video without permission:

A very dangerous bill is coming up for vote soon in the senate called SB 978. The bill was introduced and sponsored by Senators Klobuchar, Cornyn, and Coons. Senate Bill 978 seeks to define a civil violation as a criminal felony, making the embedding of a YouTube video that is viewed by more than 10 people in a 180-day period worth 5 years in federal prison.

Remember that "Friday" video you posted and embedded last month on your facebook, the RIAA wants you in jail for that. I know what you are thinking..."this bill will never pass, it is so draconian." I just want you to know, the bill was introduced by a Democrat and has bipartisan support. Also our sitting president is the darling of the RIAA thanks to maxed out campaign contributions.

Meanwhile, though, Jimmie Bise is approaching his 100th podcast on The Delivery. He is right to regard episode #97 as special. If you missed it, go listen or download for when you're driving around this weekend.

Dan Collins

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#Weinergate: Ace on Patterico’s Part III

Read it, then go to Patterico:

And so here's a 17 year old. Likes to talk about sex publicly on Twitter. Pretty cute. Kind of girl you'd like if you were yourself 17 years old, and not a particularly handsome sort of 17 year old, but an awkward, skinny funny-looking kind of guy. Girl that that awkward, skinny, funny-looking 17 year old never could have gotten.

But now she says she "loves" him. And he does enjoy the validation of infatuated women.

Who doesn't?

But she's not a woman. She's a 17 year old girl. She is, for legal purposes, a child.

In the Manslaughter theory, he never says anything legally actionable in his private communications with her -- and yes, he seems to have had them. Rather, he just enjoys the crush-vibes he gets from her, flattered that a pretty young thing could be in "love" with a still-not-confident-and-mature boy-man like him.

Sure, he deflects away her serious protestations of love, but he doesn't say anything legally actionable. He just... enjoys the flattery of a pretty 17 year old who's in love with him.

Perfectly innocent.

Except it's not innocent. It's not innocent.

Because there is no one reading this right now who, if I were to suggest a similar scenario with an adult just seeking out their daughter's private attention, doing nothing actually illegal but just enjoying the fact the girl had a major league crush on him... well, there would be problems. Real problems.

A couple of other excellent posts at Pat's: Lee Stranahan's about the Breitbart laptop lie and how the left spread it, and Aaron Worthing on hypocrisy.

If hypocrisy is your thing, though, here you go:

Rep. Anthony Weiner overconfidently sent emails -- to his porn star pal Ginger Lee, no less -- mocking former Senator Larry Craig's bathroom sex scandal ... just 2 weeks before Weinergate exploded.

He goes on to insinuate that his Twitter troll was gay.

And that leads us to this Washington Times headline: Weiner reiterates his stance: He will not resign

A swelling gaggle of Democrats and Republicans this week has called for Mr. Weiner to resign, including Rep. Allyson Y. Schwartz of Pennsylvania, a top official with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and U.S. Senate candidate and former Democratic National Committee chairman Tim Kaine.

But Melanie Sloan, executive director of the D.C.-based watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, said it’s unfair to lump Mr. Weiner together with other politicians tainted by sex scandal.

“I think people are incredibly hypocritical and just use this for political purposes,” she said. “Vitter committed a crime, and John Ensign’s conduct was reprehensible, and both of those people were actually having sex. And I don’t understand why this case was worse than those cases.”

A new poll suggests the lawmaker’s constituents may be willing to overlook his problems. Fifty-six percent of registered voters in Mr. Weiner’s New York’s 9th Congressional District don’t think he should resign from the House, while 33 percent say he should, according to results of a Wednesday poll conducted jointly by the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion and NY1, a New York City cable news channel.

I guess they believe A. Weiner represents them well.

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Thanks to Stacy and Bob Belvedere

for touting Douchecanoe Diaries here and here. I know that there are a lot of people who've written about Joanie Baloney, so I'm surprised nobody's sent me anything yet, but still hopeful.

I'm liable to be scarce around here for a couple of days, as I'm working on a project and have to take Aidan to White River Junction tomorrow, so feel free to post whatever you like.

Whatever you do, do not click on this link.

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Your Black Muslim Bakery Principal, 2 Others Guilty of Murder

I wonder whose violent rhetoric is behind this:

A jury has just convicted former Your Black Muslim Bakery leader Yusuf Bey IV for the 2007 murder of journalist Chauncey Bailey.

Bey IV, 25, faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole when he is sentenced July 8.

Bailey, 57, was the first journalist killed over a domestic story in the United States since 1976, when Don Bolles of the Arizona Republic died in a car bombing

The jury of seven men and five women began deliberations in the Bailey case May 23 after nine weeks of testimony from more than 50 witnesses.

3/4 of likely voters favor picture ID to be shown at polls.

Just in case you hadn't gotten the memo, it turns out that race baiting is used to mask election fraud.

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Will Weiner Quit?

Stacy thinks so.

Me?

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Ace on Patterico’s Evidence

You can read his speculations here and here. They make sense to me. However there's a key piece of evidence that Ace is withholding, that I am in a position to reveal.

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