Meagan Broussard

Tells her story at Big Government.

And get all your updates at The Other McCain: "Anthony Weiner Press Conference UPDATE: Admits Trying to Send DM UPDATE: He Will Not Resign."

Added: At London's Daily Mail, "‘I am stalking you’: 26-year-old single mum reveals how Weiner 'pursued her online' after she ‘liked’ YouTube video of one of his speeches."

Anthony Weiner Sexting Scandal Update

The Other McCain reports: "#WeinerGate: It Gets WORSE - UPDATE: Press Conference 4 p.m. ET UPDATE: ABC News Interviews Woman."

And at RadarOnline, "Weinergate Grows: Another Woman Provides Sex Messages From His Account." And Hollywood Life, "Anthony Weiner Sexting Scandal Continues As Another Woman Comes Forward!" (The post includes photos from Andrew Breitbart's Big Government!)

Added: At The Atlantic Wire, "Anthony Weiner: Resign or Not Resign?" And Nick Gillespie, "Probably About Time to Say Goodbye to Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.)."

1:20 PM: I'm following on Twitter. Also, a Breitbart live feed.

Anthony Weiner Upper Body Nude Photos!

God, that resignation's gotta be any minute now!

Seriously.

At Big Government, "Déjà Vu: Another Congressman Bares Naked Torso (and More) for Online Pal." (At Memeorandum.)

Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis!

Mutually assured groping, at the MTV Movie Awards 2011:

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See Long Island Press, "Mila Kunis & Justin Timberlake Get Frisky on MTV Movie Awards." (More at Us Weekly and WeSmirch.)

67th Anniversary of D-Day

At Long Island Press, "D-Day Marks its 67th Anniversary." And Weasel Zippers, "Today Is The 67th Anniversary of D-Day…"

On Memorial Day I was trolling around for videos and ended up watching some long clips from "Saving Private Ryan" on YouTube. After a few minutes I checked over at my Facebook page and Marooned in Marin had linked the video. Anyway, here's the first few minutes. It's still my favorite movie:

Weiner's Roasted: Andrew Breitbart Will Trickle Congressman's Tweet Photos All Day

Well, the rush of Weiner traffic's died down around here, but the blog's still a top result at "Anthony Weiner Resignation," an outcome that's looking more likely with the new batch of revelations.

Robert Stacy McCain is doing massive roundups, here: "New #WeinerGate Allegations? UPDATE: Weiner’s Photo: ‘It’s Me’," and here: "#WeinerGate Fallout: Democrats Criticize Weiner for Missing Israel Day Parade UPDATE: Breitbart Releases 2nd Photo."

And from Andrew Breitbart at Big Government, "‘It’s Me’: Rep. Weiner Sends Playful Photo to New Friend," and "‘Me and the pussys’: Weiner Sends Intimate Home Pic; Apparently Relishes Double Entendres, Too." (Via Memeorandum.)

Plus, Ed Morrissey weighs in, "More controversial tweets from Weiner?"

Protesters Killed at Israeli Border

At New York Times, "Israeli Soldiers Shoot at Protesters on Syrian Border":

JERUSALEM — Israeli forces fired at pro-Palestinian protesters on the Syrian frontier on Sunday as they tried to breach the border for the second time in three weeks, reflecting a new mode of popular struggle and deadly confrontation fueled by turmoil in the Arab world and the vacuum of stalled peace talks.

Wave after wave of protesters, mainly Palestinians from refugee camps in Syria, approached the frontier with the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights. Israeli soldiers opened fire on those who crossed a new trench and tried to attack the border fence near the towns of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights and Quneitra in Syria.

By nightfall, the Syrian news agency SANA reported that 22 protesters had been killed and more than 350 had been wounded. Israeli officials said that they had no information on casualties but suggested that the Syrian figures were exaggerated.

Even so, it was the worst bloodshed in the Golan Heights since Israel and Syria fought a war there in 1973.

RTWT.

This is a Damascus production. See, Ynet, "Syrian opposition: Anti-Israel rioters paid $1,000." And Gateway Pundit, "Anti-Israel Protesters Reportedly Paid $1000 to Storm Across Israel Border."

Also, from Rick Moran, at FrontPage Magazine, "Besieging the Israeli Border: A Syrian Production."

Yigal Allon — 'Israel: The Case for Defensible Borders'

The Los Angeles Times has a new essay from Dore Gold, "The long view in Israel against the 1967 line." Recall that Gold is a former Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations. I cited his recent commentary piece at Wall Street Journal, "Israel's 1967 Borders Aren't Defensible." At the Times he discusses Yigal Allon's 1976 essay at Foreign Affairs, "Israel: The Case for Defensible Borders." I'm reading it. Here's this from the introduction:

It is impossible to plumb the depths of the Arab-Israeli conflict, not to speak of formulating proposals for its solution, if no true understanding exists of the full significance of its cardinal characteristic-the extreme asymmetry of its two sides. This asymmetry is manifest not merely in one or two, but in all, of its aspects. It is obvious in such objective data as the comparison between Arab and Israeli territories (of the Arab League states 8,500,000 square miles; of Israel, including presently administered areas, about 28,500); or of the relative population statistics (of the Arab League states 134,000,000; of Israel 3,500,000 citizens); not to mention their contrasting actual and potential wealth.

But of primary importance are the subjective asymmetric factors affecting relations between the two sides. In this respect, there is absolute polarization. Whereas the Arab states seek to isolate, strangle and erase Israel from the world's map, Israel's aim is simply to live in peace and good relations with all its neighbors.

These diverse objectives have determined the war aims of both sides. It is within this context that we should mention the chain of terrorist acts that was designed not merely to sow death and destruction in Israel but also to extend the conflict, and thus embroil the Arab states in full-scale wars. It is almost superfluous, and certainly tiresome, to quote the legion of statements of Arab leaders that represent this aim, ranging from the "Palestine Covenant" to current governmental declarations.

As opposed to this total Arab goal, Israel's war aims have been confined to repelling the offensives of the Arab armies as determined by strategic and political circumstances, whether by reactive counter-offensives such as those of 1948 and 1973 or by preemptive counter-offensives as those of 1956 and 1967. Military defeats, indeed, cost the Arab states losses in lives, destruction of equipment, political setbacks, and damage to national prestige-and perhaps even danger to their regimes. However, such defeats have never been, nor ever will be, a threat to their very existence as sovereign states or to the lives of their civilian populations. In contrast, a military defeat of Israel would mean the physical extinction of a large part of its population and the political elimination of the Jewish state. In highly realistic and clear terms, therefore, the Arab states can permit themselves a series of military defeats while Israel cannot afford to lose a single war. Nor does this reflect a historical trauma in any sense. To lose a single war is to lose everything, and this is a most real and stark fact.

And about the 1967 borders:

One does not have to be a military expert to easily identify the critical defects of the armistice lines that existed until June 4, 1967. A considerable part of these lines is without any topographical security value; and, of no less importance, the lines fail to provide Israel with the essential minimum of strategic depth. The gravest problem is on the eastern boundary, where the entire width of the coastal plain varies between 10 and 15 miles, where the main centers of Israel's population, including Tel Aviv and its suburbs, are situated, and where the situation of Jerusalem is especially perilous. Within these lines a single successful first strike by the Arab armies would be sufficient to dissect Israel at more than one point, to sever its essential living arteries, and to confront it with dangers that no other state would be prepared to face. The purpose of defensible borders is thus to correct this weakness, to provide Israel with the requisite minimal strategic depth, as well as lines which have topographical strategic significance.

And not quoted is the key issue raised by Dore Gold at the Los Angeles Times: There's never been a final recognition of boundaries. Israel is not now nor has it ever been required to withdraw behind the 1967 armistice lines.

Anyway, check the discussion at LAT. It's perfectly sound, but detailed arguments like this have little effect on those determined to drive the Jews to the sea.

Skylar Grey at L.A. Times Magazine

"Hooked":

Her name doesn’t ring a bell when mentioned, though you certainly know the voice. There was Skylar Grey, front and center amid the smoke and shadows at February’s 53rd annual Grammy Awards, singing the hooks she wrote for Eminem, Dr. Dre and Rihanna during a haunting performance of “Love the Way You Lie” and “I Need a Doctor.”

Now the 25-year-old is making her move on the spotlight. Previously known as the girl who pens the lyrics or adds the inimitable vocal track (think Diddy-Dirty Money’s “Coming Home,” Lupe Fiasco’s “Words I Never Said” and T.I.’s “Castle Walls” featuring Christina Aguilera), she wants to be more than hip-hop’s go-to girl.

RTWT.

And check the photos at the Skylar Grey News fansite.

Blasphemes Blog Ripping Off American Power

I caught this guy last November ripping off one of my posts, "Leftist Group Demagogues START Debate With New 'Daisy Girl' Ad." Here's the dick's post: "Daisy 2010."

And now I caught the guy stealing my stuff again last night, at "Anthony Weiner's Weinergate." The post links to the Politico piece I linked and then steals these passages:

Also, check the #Weinergate hashtag on Twitter, where the essential coverage has been developing.

Image Credit: The People's Cube.

Compare that to my report, "#Weinergate! — Back Rep. Anthony Weiner Retains Legal Counsel!"

Fair use is fine. But this is not fair use. My content is getting ripped off outright all around the web. Before Its News just started posting my stuff. They solicited an approval, which I didn't authorize, but started posting my essays anyway. Then there's American Insurance, Back to Basics, If Bush Did It, Scroll Posts, and who knows what else? They just snag your stuff and start reaping Google ad revenue or what not. And there's not a whole lot you can do about it unless you're all registered under U.S. Copyright law and/or are willing to litigate. Actually, if my stuff's gonna be this valuable I might be looking into that. As it is, I'm going to be bugging the hell out of dirtbags like Blasphemes to stop stealing. After that I'll start putting in some take down requests at the other places and then go from there. This is ridiculous.

'Breastaurants'

At Entrepreneur, "'Breastaurants' Ring Up Big Profits" (via Instapundit):

Franchises inspired by the Hooters model--such as Celtic-themed sports bar chain Tilted Kilt Pub & Eatery and faux mountain sports lodge chain Twin Peaks--have expanded rapidly over the last half decade, while corporate-owned chains like Brick House Tavern + Tap and Bone Daddy's House of Smoke are picking up steam regionally. In fact, for the next couple of years, this segment (often referred to as "breastaurants") is poised to be one of the fastest-growing restaurant categories.

More at the link.

Obviously not the kinda place for guys like ASFL Scott Eric Kaufman.

Howard Kurtz Covers #WeinerGate on CNN's 'Reliable Sources'

This video's edited a bit. At about 3:30 minutes Gawker's Maureen O'Connor says:

Is this relevant to Anthony Weiner’s career as a politician? Maybe. . . . This is what we do. We cover human interest stories. We cover the strange case of a person, a powerful person, ending up falling to the exact same ridiculously stupid follies that everyone does. Taking a picture of his dick and getting caught doing it.

"Dick" is deleted, but Howard Kurtz responds that that's not a word he'd use on the air.

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That said, Jeff Jarvis is a bleedin' idiot. He's all about "if this were Europe" no one would give a hoot ... Well bud, it's not Europe, but I'm sure you'd do well over there. Bye bye!

RELATED: At POWIP: "Weinergate: Whole Lotta Love." And Patterico, "More Weiner Messages to Young Girls? Evidence the Media Was Duped into Dropping the Investigation." (At Memeorandum.)

U.S.-Born al Qaeda Spokesman Adam Gadahn Calls for Attacks on Americans

Blazing Cat Fur had his YouTube account suspended for posting this video of Adam Gadahn:

ABC News has the background, "New Al Qaeda Video: American Muslims Should Buy Guns, Start Shooting People." (Ilyas Kashmiri, mentioned as a remaining top al Qaeda leader, has now been killed in a U.s. drone attack.)

And Amy Alkon covered this:

Gotta love those silly "COEXIST" bumper stickers, which include Islam in among the other religions, despite the fact that Islam's mission (per the Quran and Hadith) is not "coexistence" but the conversion or death of all who do not believe as they do.

More at Quoth the Raven: "GOOGLE/YOUTUBE SUSPENDS BLAZINGCATFUR WHILE SUPPORTING JIHAD."

The Other America: Mountain View Workers Struggle as High Tech Booms

Fascinating piece at New York Times, "In Mountain View, 2 Contrasting Economic Worlds Intersect":

At the Google campus on the outskirts of Mountain View, employees sip lattes under brightly colored umbrellas as others pass on company bicycles, laptops secured in the front baskets. This year the company will add substantially to its work force of more than 5,000 in that Silicon Valley city, and it has just leased nine acres to expand its campus.

But closer to downtown, Carolina Rivera finds herself in a decidedly less attractive environment — the crowded office of the Community Services Agency, where she is looking for a job. She has three children to support and has not found anything since her hours at an organic-food factory were reduced. Those like Mrs. Rivera find life difficult in Mountain View: the competition for work is fierce, housing is expensive and cuts in government services are pending as the city tries to balance its budget.

Mountain View, home to technology kingpins like Google, LinkedIn and Symantec, illustrates the disconnect between the current technology boom and the daily economic realities of many in Silicon Valley. The five biggest tech companies with headquarters in town are valued at more than $200 billion, but Mountain View, with a population of 74,000, faces a $2.6 million budget gap and has an unemployment rate of 7.7 percent.

“We really are seeing two very different economies emerging,” said Emmett Carson, chief executive of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. “We have the Google campus; they’re expanding, they’re adding employees, they’re doing very well financially. But the nonprofit sector and local government have been stretched to the maximum.”

But these people are supposed to be progressive:

Part of the problem is that corporate campuses, with their own cafeterias, day care centers and other employee perks, are not always very integrated into the surrounding community.

“The industry doesn’t create a lot of demand for services,” said Terry Christensen, a professor at San Jose State University who specializes in Silicon Valley politics. “The Google campus, they pay their taxes, but their workers don’t necessarily use parks, police and other traditional services, so you get a disconnect between the businesses themselves and the people who work in them.”

Just as important, many local residents are simply not in the talent pool for high-tech jobs. The people looking for work at the Community Services Agency have skills in other areas, like housecleaning, gardening and washing dishes, and those jobs are scarce.

Actually, Google acts exactly as it should. It's an extremely successful business that creates a self-sustaining social support system. The trick is to create more Googles, that is, to expand the employment sector to include more companies providing goods and services to an expanding marketplace, which will increase the demand for labor and take the strain off local governments, which don't have the money to care for the sick and unskilled. The rub is that Googe and other progressive tech firms are left-leaning business organizations that operate according to a vision more like Milton Friedman's than Paul Krugman's. It's all in the messaging. New York Times is going off the reservation on this one.

Kate Upton Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2011

More video from Sports Illustrated:

RELATED: At Maggies, "Rule 5 Saturday Night: Penelope Cruz Pirate’s Edition." And Pirate's Cove, "Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup."

Signs of Rising Momentum for Herman Cain

I met him briefly at CPAC. Robert Stacy McCain was already pumping up his candidacy. And perhaps to good effect. See New York Times, "A G.O.P. Hopeful Gathers Momentum as More Voters Like What They Hear." (At Memeorandum.)

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Michele Bachmann was campaigning just north of here, the Sarah Palin tour was rumored to be arriving soon, and Mitt Romney was on his way to announce his entry into the presidential race.

Yet here was another voter swooning for Herman Cain.

“I watched you at the Republican debate, and I have to be honest, I’d never heard of you, but ever since that. ...” said Nathan Lyons, 29, his voice trailing off wistfully. “You say it like it is.”

Joan Silvernail, 68, pumped Mr. Cain’s hand, then turned to her husband. “It’s his enthusiasm,” she said. “Wasn’t that what we felt with Ronald Reagan, his enthusiasm?”

Those not frequenting Tea Party rallies or the living rooms and coffee shops of New Hampshire and Iowa might dismiss Mr. Cain, a talk radio host and former chief executive of Godfather’s Pizza, as a frivolous candidate — “the pizza guy” as some call him.

But there are signs of what Mr. Cain, in his booming baritone, calls “Old Man Mo — Momentum!”

A Gallup poll released last week showed Mr. Cain with the highest voter intensity score of any Republican presidential contender — far higher than Ms. Palin, a former governor of Alaska, or Mr. Romney, a former governor of Massachusetts. While Mr. Cain’s name recognition was at 37 percent, it had risen 16 points since March.

Many pundits and voters declared him the winner of the first Republican debate last month. And he won the straw polls at the Tea Party Patriots convention in February and the Conservative Values Conference in Iowa in March.

If few people think Mr. Cain can win the nomination, he is satisfying voters’ desire to fall in love with a candidate. Their passion for him says as much about what the Republican field is lacking as it does about any specifics he is offering.

RELATED: At Daley Gator, "Herman Cain Leads Newt Gingrich By 2-1 Margin Among Georgia Voters."

Anthony Weiner Car Registration Expired in New York?

And what's more strange is that Weiner drives a 20 year-old Nissan Pathfinder? Dude's a Member of Congress, for crying out loud.

At New York Daily News, "Rep. Anthony Weiner's car is registered in New York but way out of date."

And The Other McCain is plugging away: "‘Is He the New Tiger Woods?’," and "‘You Can’t Lawyer the Media’." And the investigation continues, at The Daily, "WEINER'S TALE UNRAVELING." (Also at Memeorandum.)

And see Mark Steyn, "Weiner helping junk the country."

Israel Opens Fire on Naksa Day Protesters

At Washington Post, "Palestinian protesters attempt to cross Israeli border from Syria, troops open fire."

Israeli army spokesman Brig. Gen. Yoav Mordechai accused Syria of creating “a provocation” at the border to divert attention from the Syrian government’s deadly crackdown on the uprising in that country.

In a sign of official backing for the protests, the border clashes were broadcast live on Syrian television, with comments from participants, and reporters were permitted direct access to the normally closed frontier zones.

Near the village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights, scores of Palestinians and Syrian supporters who arrived in buses from Damascus streamed down a hillside and marched toward the frontier, carrying Palestinian and Syrian flags and chanting “Palestine is Arab!” and “the Golan is Syrian!”

When the protesters tried to cross a trench and earth berms topped with razor wire, which had been put up by the Israeli military to block their approach, army sharpshooters opened fire at the marchers from a border fence nearly 150 yards away.

The army spokesman said that troops had fired warning shots before shooting at the legs of the demonstrators. The gunfire was accompanied by loudspeaker warnings in Arabic that those who approached the border fence were endangering their lives.

Also at Los Angeles Times, "Israel fires on pro-Palestinian protesters at Syrian border."

Added: At Legal Insurrection, "Assad Sends More Palestinian Cannon Fodder Over Israel Border." (via Memeorandum).

Dozens Killed as Syrian Security Forces Open Fire on Protesters

At Los Angeles Times, "Dozens reported killed as Syrians continue protests":

Thousands of antigovernment protesters marched in Damascus, Homs and other Syrian cities Friday in opposition to President Bashar Assad, chanting, "These are the last days of your season."

Security forces responded by firing on protesters in several cities. Dozens of people were killed, with the toll particularly high in Hama, Syria's fourth-largest city and the site of a bloody crackdown ordered by Assad's father nearly 30 years ago. Snipers reportedly fired from rooftops at thousands of protesters. The reports could not be independently verified because Western journalists are barred from entering the country.

Months after pro-democracy protesters unseated repressive regimes in Egypt and Tunisia, the so-called Arab Spring appears to have turned into a brutal stalemate in Syria. Assad has not been able to crush the protests; demonstrators take to the streets daily but have failed to gain enough popular support to topple him.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed alarm Friday over the violence in Syria, which has reportedly claimed at least 70 lives in the last week, and called for independent and transparent investigations of all the killings. Human rights groups say 1,000 people have been killed in the 11-week uprising.

Analysts say that Syria will play an important role in shaping the legacy of the regional reform movement, and that the opposition has the potential to influence other countries where uprisings also have stalled, such as Bahrain and Yemen.

"Many other countries are watching to see if they achieve regime change," said Mohammed Masri, a researcher at Jordan University's Center for Strategic Studies in Amman. "If they are successful, it could bring new momentum to the Arab Spring."

"There are now two roads," Masri said, "The road of Egypt and Tunisia, and the other, which is a brutal and bloody one."

Also at Instapundit, "SYRIA UPDATE: Tanks Move in on City as Thousands Mourn Protesters’ Deaths."

'Naksa Day'

Okay, should be a big news day, for example, at Jerusalem Post, "IDF on high alert for 'Naksa Day' border unrest," and "30 protesters gathering on Syrian side of border."

And at Ynet, "Security forces on high alert for 'Naksa Day'." Also, at New York Times, "Israel Braces for Clashes During Border Protests":

JERUSALEM — Israel on Saturday was bracing for possible clashes along its borders after Palestinian activists in the region called for protest marches on Sunday, three weeks after a similar wave of coordinated protests led to deadly clashes with Israeli troops.

Protests on Sunday to mark the anniversary of the Palestinian “naksa,” or setback, in the June 1967 Middle East war were being planned in the West Bank and Gaza, territories that were conquered by Israel then. There have also been calls on social networking Internet sites for Palestinians in Lebanon and Syria to march at the Israeli border.

That echoed the conditions that led to the violence on May 15, the day Palestinians mark as the “nakba,” or catastrophe, of Israel’s establishment in 1948. Taking a cue from the so-called Arab Spring movement, organizers in multiple countries and territories called for a coordinated action against Israel, and huge crowds of Palestinians responded.

They clashed with Israeli troops on four fronts, and breached the border between Syria and the Golan Heights for the first time in more than 30 years. At least 14 protesters from Lebanon and Syria were killed, stoking outrage in Palestinian camps across the region and intensifying pressure on Israel to create the conditions for a return to peace talks.

The Israeli military was not giving out details of its preparations, but television reports showed soldiers repairing fences and bulldozers digging trenches along the borders in the north. On Thursday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had instructed Israeli forces to act with restraint, but also with determination, to protect Israel’s sovereignty and borders. According to reports from Lebanon, activists there canceled plans to march to the Israeli border after the Lebanese authorities declared the border area a closed military zone.

Plus, at Haaretz, "Thousands march in Tel Aviv in support of Palestinian state based on 1967 borders."

RELATED: Leo Rennert, at American Thinker, "Joel Greenberg, the Washington Post's Palestinian Propagandist."

Added: At Jihad Watch, "Palestinian Authority presidential adviser: 'refugee' assaults on Israel's borders are the 'new Palestinian nuclear weapon'."