Rep. Anthony Weiner Admits Tweeting Lewd Picture

Anthony Weiner

Admitting that he had “not been honest with myself, my family and my constituents,” Rep. Anthony Weiner has confessed at a press conference that he sent via Twitter the picture that has captivated Washington for the past week — and that he lied about his account being hacked.

“I regret not being honest about this,” Weiner said in a tearful statement. “I was embarrassed, I was humiliated. I was trying to protect my wife. I was trying to protect myself from shame.”

He claimed to have tweeted the picture on May 27 to Seattle student Gennette Cordova “as a joke” but then “panicked” and removed the tweet from his Twitter account. Cordova, however, doesn’t understand what joke that would be. “Am I the only one still confused?” she tweeted during the press conference.

“Once I realized I had posted it on Twitter I panicked, I took it down and said I’d been hacked,” Weiner explained.

Weiner said he has had “cursory direct message contact” with Cordova and that she was not one of the women he was having an online relationship with.

Weiner said he has had online relationships with six unnamed women on Facebook and his wife knew about them in general — but she did not know until this morning that he had lied about his Twitter account being hacked. He said he had never met the women in person and the relationships had been entirely based on conversations on the Internet, conducted from his home computer rather than a government machine. All the women had received inappropriate photos from Weiner. He claimed not to know the ages of the women and they had all claimed they were adults.

“It’s always true in social media that you are relying on those characterizations, and I took them at their characterizations,” he said.

“This was me doing a dumb thing, doing it repeatedly and then lying about it,” Weiner said. His wife was not standing by his side, and he broke down several times when mentioning her.

Weiner insisted that he would not be resigning and would be “fighting very hard” to persuade his constituents that he should be re-elected in 2012.

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Rare Library of Congress colour photographs of the Great Depression | Mail Online

Rare Library of Congress colour photographs of the Great Depression | Mail Online.

It was an era that defined a generation. The Great Depression marked the bitter and abrupt end to the post-World War 1 bubble that left America giddy with promise in the 1920s. Near the end of the 1930s the country was beginning to recover from the crash, but many in small towns and rural areas were still poverty-stricken. These rare photographs are some of the few documenting those iconic years in colour. The photographs and captions are the property of the Library of Congress and were included in a 2006 exhibit Bound for Glory: America in Color. The images, by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information, shed a bleak new light on a world now gone with the wind.

What was he thinking as this picture was taken? A young boy in Cinncinnati, Ohio, in 1942 or 1943

Full plates: Homesteader and his children eating barbeque at the New Mexico Fair in Pie Town, New Mexico, October, 1940

Peace: Boys fishing in a bayou in Schriever, Louisiana, June, 1940

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Left, a woman cradles a young child at the Bayou Bourbeau plantation, a Farm Security Administration cooperative in the vicinity of Natchitoches, Louisiana, August, 1940. Right, a welder making boilers for a ship at the Combustion Engineering Company in Chattanooga, Tennessee, June, 1942

Left, Mike Evans, a welder, at the rip tracks at Proviso yard of the Chicago and Northwest Railway Company, in Chicago, Illinois, April 1943. Right, a shepherd with his horse and dog on Gravelly Range Madison County, Montana, August 1942

A woman’s work is never done: Mrs Viola Sievers, one of the wipers at the roundhouse, giving a giant ‘H’ class locomotive a bath of live steam in Clinton, Iowa, April 1943

Part of the South Water Street freight depot of the Illinois Central Railroad in Chicago, Illinois, May 1943

Having a chat: Women workers employed as wipers in the roundhouse having lunch in their rest room at the Chicago and Northwest Railway Company in Clinton, Iowa, April 1943

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Left, farmers planting corn along a river in north-eastern Tennessee, May 1940. Right, boys hauling crates of peaches from the orchard to the shipping shed in Delta County, Colorado, September 1940

Like a hobbit house: Garden adjacent to the dugout home of homesteader Jack Whinery, in Pie Town, New Mexico, September 1940

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Steal of a deal: Left, the Grand Grocery Company in Lincoln, Nebraska, 1942. Right, the Faro Caudill family eating dinner in their dugout in Pie Town, New Mexico, October 1940

Distributing surplus commodities in St Johns, Arizona, October 1940

Shasta dam under construction in California, June 1942

An African American’s tenant’s home beside the Mississippi River levee near Lake Providence, Louisiana, June 1940

Rough men stand ready: M-4 tank crews of the United States in Fort Knox, Kentucky, June 1942

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Faro and Doris Caudill, homesteaders, in Pie Town, New Mexico, October 1940. Right, a woman working on a ‘Vengeance’ dive bomber in Tennessee, February 1943

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Flying away: A marine glider at Page Field in Parris Island, South Carolina, May 1942, left. Right, servicing an A-20 bomber. Langley Field, Virginia, July 1942

Facing life head on: Jack Whinery, homesteader, and his family in Pie Town, New Mexico, October 1940

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USA! Patriotic LSU Students Pelt Hairy Flag-burner with Water Balloons USA! | UNCOVERAGE.net

Source: LSUReveille

Spontaneous Patriotism Outburst!

God bless these Louisiana State University college kids and the parents who raised them!  By the way, the America-hating flag-burner LSU student (with filthy dredlocks that look like they are caked with five years of mud) is from Colombia.  How about you go back there, cabron? We DO sincerely hope you enjoy your “room-mate” [ Bubba!? ]  in the jail!

BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) –

“Several hundred people gathered on the LSU campus today and effectively stopped an LSU grad student from burning an American flag on campus.

Benjamin-Haas-LSU-Hippie tried to burn the American Flag

Benjamin Haas, pelted by water balloons when he tried to burn American flag

The student,  [Benjamin Haas]  announced Tuesday that he intended to burn the flag.  The announcement set off a wave of angry protests on Facebook and talk radio stations.

As the student approached the Parade Grounds at LSU Wednesday, students chanted “USA!  USA!”.   One man yelled “My brothers died for you!”.

Several people tossed water balloons and water bottles at the man.   The graduate student was then escorted away by LSU Police.   The flag burning did not occur.”

Police also found drug paraphernalia, what a surprise!

Source: LSUReveille: Police also found drug paraphernalia, what a surprise!

Meanwhile, LSU police picked up Monday’s flag-burner, who is also hairy and dirty-looking.  I’m sure its just a coincidence.

“LSUPD has arrested Isaac Eslava, the University student suspected in the burning of the American flag at the War Memorial on Monday.

Sgt. Blake Tabor, LSUPD spokesman, said Eslava’s attorney saw the news release from LSUPD regarding charges against Eslava and assisted in getting his client back to Baton Rouge.

Tabor said Eslava turned himself in at 2:50 p.m. today.

Eslava will be transferred today to the East Baton Rouge Parish prison, Tabor said. Eslava’s status as a University student is pending until after a hearing with the Dean of Students following his booking.”

WWL TV:

“BATON ROUGE, LA – An LSU student wanted as a suspect in connection with the damage of the school’s war memorial, which included the burning of an American flag, has turned himself in to school police, according to the university.

Isaac Eslava, 23, a resident of Baton Rouge was being sought for two counts of simple damage to property, one count of arson, one count of theft and one count of resisting an officer.

Eslava holds dual citizenship for the United States and Colombia. During the early morning hours of May 2, the LSU War Memorial was damaged. The flag mast rope was cut down, the United States flag set afire and the LSU flag stolen. An LSU staff member alerted LSU Police, who responded to the area. LSU Police located the suspect nearby, but was unable to detain him.

During this initial response, police recovered a stolen vehicle, which was used by the suspect. The LSU flag was recovered from inside of the vehicle along with drug paraphernalia, a clothing item belonging to the suspect, and red and black spray paint.

LSU Police Detectives later identified the suspect and recovered the knife suspected to have been used to cut the rope. The knife still had flag mast rope fibers along the blade. Detectives also learned that on the same morning The Venue Apartments located north of campus were vandalized by graffiti using red and black spray paint and were able to connect the suspect to the crime.

The repair costs to the LSU War Memorial are estimated at $7,530 and repair costs at The Venue Apartments are estimated at $400.”

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