Above the post updates:

FNC dumped out but CNN has it.

He gives a shout out to the 10th Amendment and says he will repeal ObamaCare.

Says a President should care about workers not union bosses.

Now telling story about his dad's humble beginnings.

And now CNN bails out. So, end of updates.

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Coming up live in a few minutes in New Hampshire.

From the advance excerpts of his speech.

"A few years ago, Americans did something that was, actually, very much the sort of thing Americans like to do: We gave someone new a chance to lead. At the time, we didn't know what sort of a president he would make. It was a moment of crisis for our economy, and when Barack Obama came to office, we wished him well and hoped for the best," he will say. "Now, in the third year of his four-year term, we have more than promises and slogans to go by. Barack Obama has failed America."

And this.

“I will insist that Washington learns to respect the Constitution, including the 10th Amendment. We will return responsibility and authority to the states for dozens of government programs – and that begins with a complete repeal of Obamacare.

Oh and from the second link, guess who is also in New Hampshire? Why Sarah Palin.

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He's just that nice. Such a sweet soul, who just hates all this culture-clash sturm and drang. Confrontation-averse. Avoids it every time. Wants no part of it.

Also worth noting there: Weiner has now lied repeatedly about this tweet going out "while I was tweeting about hockey." Not only has he lied serially about the timing, but the Make Believe Media, not citing him but asserting as fact based on its own investigation, has claimed this, repeatedly.

I think they just took Weiner's flack's word for it and said "Eh, that's probably right."

Um, it's now six days since the story broke. Can you now check the actual time-stamps and determine if this claim is, what is the German word for it....?, true?

In fact, it is not true. Weiner was publicly silent for three and a half hours before the dic-pic tweet. He blogged about the tivo eating his hockey game four minutes after that event, thinking, I guess, that would be a nice cover for him.

Assuming the Make Believe Media wouldn't even check.

And by God, he was right, wasn't he?

Now this is important, Make Believe Media, for the same reason Weiner keeps pushing the lie -- if he was tweeting about hockey, it makes it sound like sex wasn't on his mind.

But he wasn't tweeting about hockey. He wasn't tweeting at all, not publicly. He started with the "Tivo ate the hockey game, #WhoDoISue?" jazz after he sent out a suspicious package for all the world to see.

Is it so hard, at this late date, to understand the concept of "reverse chronological order"? That is, entries nearer to the top of a page were actually published more recently than those below?

Let me try to give you an analogy that will help you make sense of this baffling situation: You know all of your own blogs, headline feeds, and so forth? Yeah, they're in reverse chronological order too.

I know this is confusing because it's a case of "first appearing, last posted," and I know it feels for your little brains like I'm talking about exotic time-travel technology here, but I assure you, that in a Twitter feed, just like in the headline feeds of the newspapers at your jobs (or should I say: "jobs"), the entries at the top of the list actually came after the later entries.

You have to read, for the chronological order you're used to, from the bottom up.

I know this is confusing. That's I'm here. To help you with your various confusions. And incompetencies.

I know you're reading me, assholes, so the next time you claim this, it's not a mistake, it's a deliberate, knowing lie. And the next time you permit Weiner or his spokesman to make the claim, without noting its basic falsity, it's not a mistake, t's a deliberate, knowing lie.

Look at the time stamps, idiots. It's been almost a week. You can afford to cut into your Daily Kos and Huffington Post reading time long enough to check the time stamps.

Below, our sweet-natured, gracious Anthony Weiner, behaving politely with Megan Kelly, because seriously, a high-profile confrontation with the conservative "hate machine," as liberals call it, is the last thing he wants.

First thing he wants? Sending dic-pics to strangers.

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An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.

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WeinerGate has hit, and I do use this term advisedly, the decadent phase, where people are just trying to outclever each other with outre and novel theories of the case. Even among conservatives, or those who initially doubted Rep. Weiner's bizarre story like Lee Stranahan, we're now seeing baroque theories about jilted ex-girlfriends seeking revenge.

And that possibility was floated by a conservative blogger I like (not Breitbart of Stranahan, Mickey Kaus), as possibility #2 in a list of 3.

The list is that long?

Let me suggest the obvious answer is in fact the answer.

There is no need to get clever here. There is no grand mystery. This is not like Watergate -- scratch that, it sort of is like Watergate. What you think happened here is pretty much what happened here.

A married man, formerly a player (yeah I don't get that either), looking for a little 11:30 am virtual strange while the missus was away, sent a picture of his package, which he's extremely proud of, to a coed. Don't ask me why he's so proud of that. But I just heard him on Maddow getting off on the fact that Jon Stewart talked up his junk on national television.

The guy almost wants us to know it's his penis. That's how proud he is of it.

Anyway, the coed is cute. Has flattered this man, who is a narcissist, by calling him "my boyfriend" and saying she has a "crush" and also that he is, to her, physically attractive.

Yeah I don't get that one, either. But if you look at this cat, you can tell he's not really accustomed to hearing that, so it still strikes a pleasing note inside him.

Do I need to go on any further? This is not complicated.

Weiner asserts that people hack the Twitter accounts of Congressmen in order to send partially-real partially-enhanced pictures of penises "hundreds of thousands of times every day."

Well, no, that doesn't happen hundreds of thousands of times a day. That happens... once, as it turns out.

And, actually, not even that many times.

But what does happen an awful lot is that people get caught up in a sudden attraction and do something dumb.

And yet, despite all this, even conservatives, determined to crack a mystery which was solved within ten minutes of the perpetration of the crime, are on the hunt for hackers, ex-girlfriends, horny staffers and who knows what else.

We are all agreed that someone had an interest in sending a picture of Rep. Weiner's erection to a coed. Even Rep. Weiner agrees on this much -- he's basically told us yeah, that's my junk. And he's proud of that.

So we know someone wanted to send the dicpic to the coed.

Would I sound very boring if I were to suggest that the person with the means, opportunity, and motive to send Rep. Weiner's dicpic to the coed was none other than Rep. Weiner himself?

Oh, I concede that is unimaginative. Lacks punch. A trifling mystery, the one where the murderer is evident from page 10, and the rest is all procedure and filler; but I think that is where the evidence is taking us.

Is taking us? Has taken us. Took us. Is there a more past tense than the past perfect tense? Has hadn taken-tooken us 96 hours ago.

For those who find this a tad too boring, with not enough thrills and chills or surprise twists and unexpected 11th hour entry by exciting new suspects, let me bore you some more and note this isn't even the first time this mystery has ended this way.

One Hayley Williams. Female, caucasian, about 25. Singer for a band called Paramore. Just a small town girl, living in a lonely world. You know the story. You hear it every day.

The victim of a horrible content warning hacking on Twitter, in which a nefarious hacker hacked into her account, and, via hacking, sent a picture of her exposed breasts to the public.

Hayley Williams of Paramore claims her Twitter site was hacked and the nude twitpic that was posted has since gone viral.

Of course it was removed, but we have the censored version. Another version can be found here. Hayley did not comment on the embarrassing topless photo directly, and to be honest it seems more like a cruel joke than a hack.

Someone would have to have access to the topless photo of Hayley Williams AND be able to access her twitter account. That is a lot of info to have. For those who donÂ’t pay attention to detail, the photo is also being searched for as, Haley Williams twitter picture.

Can you help Hayley find her hacker? Can you solve this mystery?

Alas, no you cannot.

There is nothing to be solved. The hacker was already discovered.

The hacker, Content Warning For Full Upper Nudity, was Hayley herself, who screwed up in the exact manner that Anthony Weiner did, just a year later.

Paramore’s Hayley Williams attempted to DM this topless picture of herself to her boyfriend, but instead wound up posting it for all to see on the internet. She took it down almost immediately, but we all know “immediately” is about 3 minutes too late in internet time.

Yes, I know it's not as exciting as the Realization Montage in The Usual Suspects, but life usually isn't. That's why we pay clever people a great deal of money to make shit up for us to watch on a movie screen.

Now, if you want to explain to me that some jealous ex-boyfriend of Hayley Williams was "the real perp," or maybe it was a disgruntled staffer, or maybe even it was a conservative who hated her, fine.

But do all that first, explaining why the obvious is to be disregarded as a solution in The Curious Case of Hayley Williams first, before coming to me with some fresh new jazz about Anthony Weiner.

After all-- the Hayley Williams case is a year old. It's a cold case. She deserves our justice, after waiting for her hacker to be exposed for all this time.

Indeed:

This is the most fiendish set-up since Mary Jo Kopechne implicated Ted Kennedy in her suicide.
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And As We're Talking About Dic-Fic: There's a simple way to tell if a subject is guilty.

Examine his demeanor. Listen to what he says when first confronted with the crime.

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August 1st, all 52 titles from DC will reset to issue #1 along with new storylines and probably significant changes to the title characters.

Hmmm.

Aiiiieeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here's rebooted Joker to give his opinion.

Yeah, I'll go along with him.

Linkage follows.

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Subliminal Message: Give Some Money To Ace

It was a busy, busy day and I had WAY too much fun with #weinergate. So like always it's the ONT that pays the price.

Happy Birthday, Clint

So Mr. Eastwood turned 81 yesterday and to celebrate, here are the Top 10 Awesome Things You DidnÂ’t Know About Clint Eastwood. Note that the vegetarianism-thing is just a slur - Clint eats healthy and all but meat still makes up two of his four food groups.

And since he's been a star longer than many of us have been alive, here are a couple clips of his movie work over the years. more...

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Kevin (The Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism) Williamson looks at financial folly in 1790s France and sees uncomfortable similarities with us.

He refers to this book "Fiat Money Inflation in France: How It Came, What It Brought, and How It Ended" which is availiable in a free kindle edition at Amazon. BTW, even if you don't have a kindle, Amazon has a free kindle program that works on your PC.

Here's some choice quotes from Kevin's article.

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This is officially a no Weiner Zone.

[update] If you're not following Ace on Twitter, you're missing out. You don't need to have twitter to follow him. Just click the link, sit back and enjoy.

[update 2] Michelle Malkin gave Ace a shout out on Hannity, or so I am told.

First up, a month ago saboteurs blew up a pipeline carrying natural gas to Israel from Egypt. Well the line has been repaired but the gas isn't flowing. I'm sure this will end well.

Elderly Japanese men are volunteering to help clean up at Fukishima.

Hollywood Execs admitting they are pushing a liberal agenda. We all knew this to be true, but it's nice to hear it come from their mouths.

North Korea is voted the second greatest place to live by North Koreans. I hear it's lovely, especially this time of year. more...

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Here Come The Mummies perform "Attack of the Weinerman" on the Bob and Tom radio show.

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I meant to get to this earlier but you know...Weinergeddon.

Anyway, yesterday he took a Jersey State Police helicopter to watch his son's HS baseball game. Naturally, Democrats are outrageously outraged!

Turns out, it cost the taxpayers a grand sum of zero dollars.

Gov. Chris Christie has taken the state helicopter 35 times since taking office in January 2010, including to survey flood and storm damage, according to State Police.

State Police Superintendent Col. Rick Fuentes released a statement arguing the flights don't cost the taxpayer anything.

Fuentes said the time police pilots fly the governor count as training time.

"It is important to understand that State Police helicopters fly daily homeland security missions, and use flight time for training purposes, more so lately as we acclimate our pilots to the new aircraft," Fuentes.

I don't begrudge governors and Presidents the odd perk that's beyond most people's reach. Nor do I care how much it costs any President to go anywhere, they need to be protected. But even with this not costing anything this was a mistake by Christie. The optics of a Governor who is basically making his bones on getting state spending under control using a helicopter to catch a few innings of his kid's game are simply horrible. In politics, facts are often irrelevant. This is especially true in a blue state like NJ where Republicans have to be purer than Caesar's wife. And honestly, there are a lot of busy parents with important jobs who have to miss their kids games or make other choices, why is a Governor so special?

So yeah, this is a mistake. A minor one to be sure but still a mistake.

That said, The Big Man is still my guy. Speaking of which....

And where did Christie have to rush off to? A dinner with big time Iowa Republicans who want to see him run for President. TChristie once again did say no but...he once again did something that make people say...hmmm. He's going to Iowa this summer.

“It was exactly what we intended it to be, short of him saying he’d run,” Iowa ethanol entrepreneur Bruce Rastetter said of the supper at the New Jersey governor’s mansion.

“What we heard from him very clearly was the same response he has given publicly: that he made a commitment to New Jersey and continuing to work to solve their problems,” said Rastetter, a Hardin County Republican and one of the organizers of the effort to draft the reluctant Christie to run for president.

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However, Christie told the Iowans he has accepted an invitation from Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad to give the keynote address at an education summit here this summer. “So we’re excited his voice will be in Iowa in July and addressing education issues that are important to our state and our country,” Rastetter said.

You know Governor, Presidents have helicopters and even a really cool plane too. Just saying.

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