Today, over 24,000 e-mails, to and from Former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin, will be released to the public.  Eager to try to denigrate and embarrass Governor Palin, in an effort to derail a possible presidential campaign, the two most famous newspapers in America came up with what they thought was a great idea:

At 10:56 a. m. Eastern on Thursday, June 9th, 2011, that bastion of journalism, washingtonpost.com, published the following missive to its loyal readers and moonbats everywhere:

Help Analyze the Palin E-mails

Here’s how to participate:  Over 24,000 e-mail messages to and from Sarah Palin during her tenure as Alaska’s governor will be released Friday . We’ll be posting them here, and are inviting you to comment on the most interesting or most noteworthy sections. Please include page numbers and, where possible, a direct excerpt. We’ll share your comments with our reporters and may use facts or related material you suggest to annotate the documents displayed on The Post site. We may contact you for further details, by way of your registered e-mail with the Post, unless you specify otherwise in the comments.

Over 24,000 e-mail messages to and from former Alaska governor Sarah Palin during her tenure as Alaska’s governor will be released Friday. That’s a lot of e-mail for us to review so we’re looking for some help from Fix readers to analyze, contextualize, and research those e-mails right alongside Post reporters over the days following the release.

We are limiting this to just 100 spots for people who will work collaboratively in small teams to surface the most important information from the e-mails. Participants can join from anywhere with a computer and an Internet connection.

If you need inspiration before getting started, take a look at what to expect from the e-mail drop. For micro-updates as tomorrow unfolds, check out our new Twitter feed.

After some unexpected blowback, the Washington Post updated their blog, writing the following:

UPDATE: We have had a strong response to our crowdsourcing call-out on the Palin e-mails. We’ve reconsidered our approach and now would like to invite comments and annotations from any interested readers.

Their readers did not quite respond in the manner in which the Washington Post thought that they would. It seems that Palin Derangement Syndrome only goes so far and then that still, small voice that tells you the difference between right and wrong takes over.  Here are some examples of reader feedback they’ve received:

Y’all liberals sure do go to a lot of trouble to try and smear someone you consistantly say is an idiot.

Why are y’all so afraid of Sarah Palin?

So we’re going to spend our valuable time (in my case – $370/hr consulting fee) doing WAPO’s job, for no monetary return? Why? I’m way left, have no patience with moron Palin, but I wonder why you think we’ll all work for you for neither credit nor money.

Rake your own muck. Disgusting that you call on readers to join in your festivities.

Couldn’t agree more. Someone should gather WaPo and NYT staff/exec emails and give them some of their own medicine. Just the start/continuation of the lib/Obama smear campaigns that have been ongoing since the purposeful demonizing of Bush the jr.

What an obvious descent into National Inquirer/Star level urinalism.

Yes.  That’s right.  The New York Times lowered themselves to the same tabloid level as the Washington Post.  At 1:56 p.m. yesterday, nytimes.com posted the following:

Help Us Review the Sarah Palin E-Mail Records

On Friday, the State of Alaska will release more than 24,000 of Sarah Palin’s e-mails covering much of her tenure as governor of Alaska. Times reporters will be in Juneau, the state capital, to begin the process of reviewing the e-mails, which we will be posting on NYtimes.com starting on Friday afternoon.

We’re asking readers to help us identify interesting and newsworthy e-mails, people and events that we may want to highlight. Interested users can fill out a simple form to describe the nature of the e-mail, and provide a name and e-mail address so we’ll know who should get the credit. Join us here on Friday afternoon and into the weekend to participate.

Here are some of the responses that the NY Times received:

Don’t you folks get paid to do this work yourself?

Awesome! The NYT wants non-journalists to do their homework for them!

Jesus, is this what it’s come to? E-lynch mobs combing through data to use to as “gotcha” material?

Yeah, right, people will look for “interesting and newsworthy” emails. Yeah, and Dems are following Obamas plea for civility.

More like the Hatefest begins Fri afternoon, so Dems come early and come often, so our readers can feel better about themselves, after the Weiner debacle.

We will even give credit to the most snarky, snide, sarcastic person…so don’t be shy. We have a terrible President and even worse economy, so we need to divide and distract immediately.

I don’t remember the NY Times asking the public to go through then Senator Obama’s emails to find newsworthy materials…

I don’t recall you soliciting help from people to review the 2,000 page healthcare bill…nor did you do it yourselves.

Now, these two prestigious news organizations face a two-fold problem:  First, the majority of their readers and the America public have recognized this tactic for what it is:  “gotcha” journalism, and have responded to the newspapers appropriately.  Secondly, if there proves to be nothing out of the ordinary as pertains to the day-to-day business of running the largest state in America as a result of their reading of the 24,000 e-mails, the Post and the Times are going to look like bigger sleazeballs than Anthony Weiner.

Sho’ ’nuff hate it for them.

If you or I accumulate massive amounts of debt which we cannot pay back, it invariably leads to a declaration of bankruptcy.

In the case of the Obama Administration, when a Liberal-led Federal Government accumulates massive amounts of debt which will take generations to pay off, it is called an economic policy.

Per USAtoday.com:

The government added $5.3 trillion in new financial obligations in 2010, largely for retirement programs such as Medicare and Social Security. That brings to a record $61.6 trillion the total of financial promises not paid for.

This gap between spending commitments and revenue last year equals more than one-third of the nation’s gross domestic product.

Medicare alone took on $1.8 trillion in new liabilities, more than the record deficit prompting heated debate between Congress and the White House over lifting the debt ceiling.

Social Security added $1.4 trillion in obligations, partly reflecting longer life expectancies. Federal and military retirement programs added more to the financial hole, too.

…The $61.6 trillion in unfunded obligations amounts to $527,000 per household. That’s more than five times what Americans have borrowed for everything else — mortgages, car loans and other debt. It reflects the challenge as the number of retirees soars over the next 20 years and seniors try to collect on those spending promises.

According to accountant Sheila Weinberg, founder of the Institute for Truth in Accounting, a Chicago-based group that advocates better financial reporting, these figures are only the tip of the iceberg:

The (federal) debt only tells us what the government owes to the public. It doesn’t take into account what’s owed to seniors, veterans and retired employees. Without accurate accounting, we can’t make good decisions.

Meanwhile, as The Regime leads us deeper and deeper into debt, Unemployment remains at 9.1. and one-sixth of our citizens remain on SNAP, formerly known as the Food Stamp Program.

So, what’s the Administration doing about America’s Economic Crisis?

Well, first, its Chief Economic Adviser is getting the heck out of Dodge.

Per politico.com:

Austan Goolsbee, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, plans to return to teaching economics at the University of Chicago this fall, the White House announced Monday night.

Goolsbee has been on leave for four years from the university’s Booth School of Business and could have lost his tenured position at Chicago, where he was a professor for 14 years before joining the administration, if he did not return, an official said.

Goolsbee, one of Obama’s longest serving aides, was an economic adviser on the 2004 Senate campaign, and the senior economic adviser on the 2008 presidential campaign.He was appointed to the Council of Economic Advisers when Obama became president, and was made chairman when Christina Romer resigned last September to return to the University of California at Berkeley.

“Since I first ran for the U.S. Senate, Austan has been a close friend and one of my most trusted advisers,” President Barack Obama said in the White House’s announcement. “Over the past several years, he has helped steer our country out of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, and although there is still much work ahead, his insights and counsel have helped lead us toward an economy that is growing and creating millions of jobs. He is one of America’s great economic thinkers.”

Goolsbee’s departure once again puts the president’s economic team in flux. National Economic Council chairman Larry Summers left the administration at the beginning of the year, replaced by Gene Sperling, who served in that job under President Bill Clinton. Jared Bernstein, Vice President Biden’s chief economic adviser, left last month.

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is the only senior official remaining from the economic team that inherited a financial crisis and recession when Obama took office.

But, what about the President of these United States, Barack Hussein Obama, you ask?  Surely, he is in the process of taking austere measures to get his disastrous Economic Policies under control…isn’t he?

Nope…and don’t call me Shirley.

While average Americans, such as my bride and myself, were eating Cheesy Hashbrowns Hamburger Helper and Hot Dogs on TV trays while watching a NCIS rerun, the Obamas were graciously hosting a state dinner for German Chancellor Angela Merkel, featuring a menu of:

White House Honey Gastrique

Tuna Tartare with Rye Crisps

Pickled Young Carrots and Mustard Oil

Spring Pea Salad

Shaved Ham and Ginger Snaps

Petite Filet

With Maryland Crab Ravioli

Wild Ramp Puree

Apple Strudel

Golden Raisins and Topfen

What the heck is Topfen?

Y’know…at the rate that this educated-beyond-his-intelligence, imperious, golf-playing, gum-smacking buffoon keeps obliviously running our nation into the ground, I fully expect him, one day soon, to respond to an economic question at one of his almost non-existent press conferences by answering:

Let them eat arugula!

I remember the first time that I really paid attention to Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY).

He was in a shouting match with Fox News Anchor Megyhn Kelly and was acting like a totally obnoxious jerk.

As  I later found out…he wasn’t acting.

Yesterday, after a week of denying showing off his shortcomings while engaged in a practice that schoolkids call “sexting”, and posting a lewd picture of himself on Twitter, Weiner broke down in a press conference, admitting most of what he did, and asking for forgiveness.

However, he refused to resign from the House of Representatives.

From behind a podium at the Sheraton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan, Weiner made the following statement:

Last Friday night I tweeted a photograph of myself that I intended to send as direct message as part of a joke to a woman in Seattle. Once I realized I posted it to Twitter, I panicked, I took it down and said that I had been hacked. I then continued with that story to stick to that story which was a hugely regrettable mistake.

Weiner then apologized to the Seattle student whom he sent the tweet to.

Conservative reporter and web mogul Andrew Breitbart had gotten hold of new photographs of Weiner in all his glory (can I say that?), forcing the Congressman into a hastily-prepared press conference.

According to Weiner:

To be clear, the picture was of me and I sent it. I am deeply sorry for the pain this has caused my wife, Huma, and our family, andmy constituents, my friends, supporters and staff.

The Democrat Congressman from New York came under national scrutiny last week for a dirty photo sent from his Twitter account of a man in grey underwear to a 21-year-old woman.

Before delivering his mea culpa yesterday, the juvenile congressman had told anyone who would listen that it was not him who sent that photo. Weiner claimed that he had been hacked.

Hardly the word that I would have used, considering the image in the photo…

Weiner had immediately got himself a lawyer to advise him on what legal action should be taken. According to his spokesman Dave Arnold, the congressman’s “accounts were obviously hacked.”

Again, an uncomfortable term to use in this situation.

The “crotch” photo was first reported Saturday by Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com.

Before Weiner even took the podium, Breitbart was behind it, answering the media’s questions per their request.

Anonymous sources claim that Weiner’s wife, Huma Abedin, wanted to stand by her husband at the press conference, but Weiner would not allow her to attend, proclaiming to her

it’s my responsibility. I’ll deal with it.

Weiner also said that

over the past few years I have engaged in several inappropriate conversations conducted over Twitter, Facebook, e-mail, and occasionally on the phone with women I have met online.

He went on to say that he

exchanged messages and photos of an explicit nature with about six women over the last three years.

Per the disgraced Congressman, “most” of the flirtatious electronic messaging took place before his marriage, but he was forced to admit that some took place afterward.

According to Meagan Broussard, a 26-year-old single mother from Texas, Weiner was eager to

hear about if I wanted him or thought he was attractive.

Which is this idiot? A United States Congressman or a Middle Schooler?

Weiner told everyone gathered that:

I’m not resigning, and I’m going to try very hard to go back to work a better man and a better husband, too.

Uh Huh. Gimme that ol’ time contrition.

Keeping his job may not be up to Rep. Weiner. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi immediately called for an ethics committee investigation to see if House rules were broken. Weiner’s office then released a statement saying I welcome and will fully cooperate with an investigation by the House Ethics Committee.

When reporters asked him if he would split from his wife, Weiner said he loved wife Abedin very much and that they would not split.

That may not be his option, either.

After his press conference, Congressman Weiner appropriately snuck out of the hotel via the back door, followed by photographers.

Regardless of Weiner’s reprehensible actions, Liberal talking heads on all the cable and broadcast news programs are still vainly attempting to defend this pervert, blaming his actions on the pressures of the office, and attempting all manner of moral equivalency arguments in Weiner’s defense.

Check out Baba Wawa, Joyless Behar, and the rest of the hens on ABC’s The View:

BARBARA WALTERS: Anthony Weiner, whom I also know, has a problem. He can be very sarcastic and very sardonic and, you know, there are a lot of times you wish he would not say it. He is a good congressman. He has been an effective congressman. If Sarah Palin can still ride around on her bus and be considered as a possible president, this man can override this, stay in congress and just hope that there’s another scandal that’ll take him off.

JOY BEHAR: Wait a minute. Let me defend Sarah. Let me defend Sarah.

WHOOPI GOLDBERG: A scandal that’s going to take us off in a second is they’re going to black us out. We’re done.

BEHAR: Let me defend Sarah for 30 seconds. The woman has no sex scandal in her dossier, in her arsenal. This is a completely different thing from Sarah Palin, and I want to defend her here.

ELISABETH HASSELBECK: I’m taking my pulse.

I think  Mark Twin put it best, when he quipped:

Man is the only animal that blushes…or has a need to.

The week before the 11th Circuit Court begins to hear arguments in the case concerning the Constitutionality of Obamacare, brought by attorneys representing the 26 states that are appealing it, President Barack Hussein Obama’s acting Solicitor General has come up with brilliant advice for the majority of Americans who remain opposed to socialized medicine and the pecuniary taxes which our government will impose upon us with its implementation.

Acting Solicitor General Neal Kumar Katyal was standing before the 6th Circuit Court on Wednesday, defending Obamacare against an appeal by the Thomas More Law Center. He told the federal appeals court that Americans who didn’t like the individual mandate could always avoid it by choosing to earn less money.

You see, SG Katyal was struggling to defending the unconstitutional law in front of the three-judge panel, which was comprised of two Republican-appointed judges and a Democratic-appointed judge. The judges were actively expressing their doubts about the government’s defense of the health care law, more so than the Fourth Circuit panel that heard the Virginia-based Obamacare challenge last month in Richmond did.

Of course, the Fourth Circuit panel is made up entirely of Democrats, and two of the judges were appointed by Obama himself.

I’m shocked.

Katyal was put on the spot, when Judge Jeffrey Sutton, nominated by President George W. Bush, asked Katyal if he could name one Supreme Court case which considered the same question as the one posed by the mandate, in which Congress used the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution as a tool to compel action.

Katyal had to admit that the Supreme Court had “never been confronted directly” with the question, but deferred to the Heart of Atlanta Motel case as a relevant example.

The Heart of Atlanta Motel case was a landmark 1964 civil rights case in which the Court ruled that Congress could use its Commerce Clause power to bar discrimination by private businesses such as hotels and restaurants.

Judge Sutton wasn’t buying that argument:

They’re in the business. They’re told if you’re going to be in the business, this is what you have to do. In response to that law, they could have said, ‘We now exit the business.’ Individuals don’t have that option.

Then, Katyal, desperately attempting to come up with a brilliant argument, replied:

If we’re going to play that game, I think that game can be played here as well, because after all, the minimum coverage provision only kicks in after people have earned a minimum amount of income. So it’s a penalty on earning a certain amount of income and self insuring. It’s not just on self insuring on its own. So I guess one could say, just as the restaurant owner could depart the market in Heart of Atlanta Motel, someone doesn’t need to earn that much income. I think both are kind of fanciful and I think get at…

Sutton stopped him cold, saying:

That wasn’t in a single speech given in Congress about this…the idea that the solution if you don’t like it is make a little less money.

Katyal’s problem was that fact that the so-called “hardship exemption” in the health care law that he was referring to is limited, and only applies to people who cannot obtain insurance for less than 8 percent of their income. So earning less isn’t necessarily a solution, because it could then qualify the person for government-subsidized insurance which could make their contribution to premiums fall below the 8 percent threshold.

Katyal floundered about during the oral arguments in a vain attempt to respond to the judges’ questions concerning what the limits of Congressional power would be if the courts ruled that they have the ability under the Commerce Clause to force individuals to purchase something.

Per Judge Sutton, it would it be “hard to see this limit” in Congressional power if the mandate is upheld, and he concentrated on the word “regulate” in the Commerce clause, explaining that the word implies you’re in a market. According to the Judge:

You don’t put them in the market to regulate them.

And, in a related story, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney announced the kick-off of his Presidential Campaign yesterday, at Stratham Farm in New Hampshire, a must-stop location for all GOP contenders.

On May 12th of this year, Romney gave a speech defending his role in the passage of the Massachusetts state-run Healthcare system, affectionately known as Romneycare.

He argued that his state-based approach was different than the president’s and was the right legislation for Massachusetts:

…I also recognize, a lot of pundits are saying I should stand up and say this whole thing was a mistake.

But there’s only one problem with that—it wouldn’t be honest. I, in fact, did what I felt was right for the people of my state.

We’re going to care for one another. I’m proud of the fact that in our state, when we faced real challenges … we didn’t just say, ‘Well, it’s a problem no one can solve.’ We said, ‘We gotta job to do. We gotta help people.

It wasn’t perfect. It included a number of things I’d do differently.… But overall, am I proud of fact we did our best for people, and we got people insured? Absolutely.

The first distinction between what we did in my state and President Obama did was our plan was a state solution to a state problem, and his was a power grab by federal government to put in place a one-size-fits-all plan.

This is what we would call [the] free-rider program.It wasn’t a larger number of people, but a growing problem.

On the other hand…former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin thinks that ol’ Mitt should be hanging his political future on how wonderful Romneycare is:

I think that he’ll have maybe a bit more challenges with independents who make up the tea party movement, wanting to make sure we are not going to — we won’t have any excuses or perceived political reasons to grow government. In my opinion, any mandate coming from government is not a good thing, obviously, and I am not the only one to say so. But obviously there will be more explanation coming from Governor Romney for his support of government mandates.

The day after Gov. Romney’s announcement of his candidacy, my mind strays back to this exchange he had with Charlie Gibson and Fred Thompson during ABC’s January 2008 Republican presidential debate:

GIBSON: But Government Romney’s system has mandates in Massachusetts, although you backed away from mandates on a national basis.

ROMNEY: No, no, I like mandates. The mandates work.

THOMPSON: I beg your pardon? I didn’t know you were going to admit that. You like mandates.

Well, Gov. Romney, I don’t.  Like Governor Palin, and the majority of Americans, I prefer FREEDOM.

The Press – The Main Stream Media, a rapidly deteriorating collection of subjective Progressives, hiding under the camouflage of the entity formerly known as the Fourth Estate.

Palin -Former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin

–scopy – Viewing; seeing; observation

Palinoscopy – The treatment that these so-called “broadcast journalists” are receiving from former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin during her national bus tour, exposing them for the clueless paparazzi that they are, foiling their well-worn ambush tactics and any Progressive “spontaneous” protests.

A prime example of the hissy fit that these broadcast journalists are having over Gov. Palin’s national bus tour can be found in the words of Martin Bashir, an ex-patriot Brit, presently seen on the White House’s propaganda arm, MSNBC:

It’s time now to Clear the Air and to ask a question: what is the purpose behind Sarah Palin’s current bus tour? It’s difficult to ask that question directly because Sarah Palin specializes in checkbook journalism. That is, she only gives interviews to a network that pays her in excess of $1 million a year. So we’re forced to make judgements from the outside and it all looks like the precursor to a presidential campaign. The vehicle itself reminds us of all those campaign buses that crisscross the nation at election time. The media are ever-present, catching her every handshake and every book signing. And the journey itself – visiting locations of national importance along the East Coast and proclaiming once again as the most patriotic American that ever lived.

And yet, even in her paid-for interview, she seems coy and almost confused about what she’s doing. “This is not a campaign bus,” she said on Fox News. “This is a bus to express to American how much we appreciate our foundation and to invite more people to be interested about all that is good about America.” It all sounds like a wonderful commitment to American values and American history, but it’s nothing of the kind. In fact, the whole thing could be in breach of a federal law because the United States Flag Code establishes important rules for the use and display of the stars and stripes, the flag of the United States. Under standards of respect and etiquette, it’s made clear that the flag of the United States should never be used for any advertising purpose whatsoever. Yet that’s precisely what Sarah Palin is doing. She’s using the flag of the United States for her own financial purposes. She drapes herself in the stars and stripes and makes millions of dollars in the process. This has got nothing to do with the presidency and everything to do with filling her pockets. And by raising her profile, she raises her income. It is as simple as that. So she was right when she said that hers is not a campaign bus. It’s a cash bus and she’ll keep it rolling for as long as she can. Thanks so much for watching.

Now, that’s funny.  A British Progressive lecturing an American Conservative on the proper use of our country’s flag.  I guess that he forgot that his channel’s logo used to be intertwined with an image of the American flag from 2001 – 2003 when MSNBC was going through its America’s Newschannel phase.

In an article posted May 31st, 2011 on latimes.com, for a regular column titled On the Media, James Rainey writes:

The people complaining about Palin’s tour act as if she would no longer be a political player, perhaps even disappear from public life, if reporters didn’t ask her what she was up to. Alert: Sarah Palin has found a way to reach an audience via Fox News, Facebook, Twitter and her SarahPAC.com website.

Whether she will run for president, those who love Palin and those who loathe her exhibit a relentless attention to what she does. Television ratings jump when she goes on air. Web posts with her name in the headline draw more hits and many more comments.

It shouldn’t be the sole variable for judging newsworthiness, but at some point writers, editors and producers have to give their audiences a dose of what they are interested in.

Then he gets sarcastic:

Palin has signaled she is intent on teaching those smart-alecky reporters a lesson or two. She greets them with a smile at her events, then depicts them in her blog posts and interviews as slothful and unaware of the significance of the history she is putting in front of their noses.

A blog post Tuesday was headlined that she was “Reminding Reporters, too, of America’s Foundations.” She told Van Susteren reporters wanted too many handouts like, gasp, a schedule of her events.

“I want them to have to do a little bit of work on a tour like this, and that would include not necessarily telling them beforehand where every stop is going to be.”

Yes, fellow Americans, that’s really the biggest failing of the media: not overlooking crucial topics or obsessing on horse-race-style coverage. It’s the way those lazy-bones reporters expect you to tell them what you are doing.

Hey, Mr. Rainey…you want some cheese with that whine?

By the way, Main Stream Media… If you guys had been objective reporters, instead of subjective Progressives, you wouldn’t be receiving such a painfully public Palinoscopy…would you?

As most Americans spent Memorial Day Weekend relaxing with family and friends, (or, in President Barack Hussein Obama’s case, playing his 70th round of golf as POTUS, but I digress), Urban youth in several major American cities participated in something different:  violence and chaos.

For the past 10 years, in Miami’s Art Deco District on South Beach, the trendy area has turned into a hip-hop street party during Memorial Day weekend, called Urban Weekend, with a substantial police presence trying to watch hundreds of thousands of young revelers.

However, early morning shootings on Monday, leaving in one dead, four bystanders hit by stray bullets, and three police officers injured, has prompted a call to replace the hip-hop themed festival with something less dangerous — or do away with it altogether.

Gay Latino activist Herb Sosa wrote the following in an open letter to the Miami Beach City Commission:

There isn’t a residential street in South Beach not affected by tons of garbage, crime to our vehicles, excessive noise 24 hours a day, and simply a lack of respect for our community, citizens and property. Make the difficult but correct decision to put an end to Urban Weekend in Miami Beach.

Miami Beach Commissioner Jerry Libbin wrote on Facebook that he supports a Memorial Day weekend curfew, supposedly proposed by City Manager Jorge Gonzalez.

Libbin, also president and CEO of the Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce, proclaimed:

I think we need to take back the city for the residents. It’s just not right that people live in fear.

Miami Beach resident Aaron Sugarman wrote a letter to the Miami Beach mayor and commissioners, which suggested replacing the hip-hop themed festival with a less rowdy event featuring jazz and blues music.

At police headquarters Monday morning, Libbin also suggested the city needs to rethink the way it handles Memorial Day weekend.

Oh, really.  Ya think?

Per thesun.news.com:

Myrtle Beach [South Carolina] police received reports of five armed robberies, a stabbing, a shooting and an incident involving a shotgun being pointed at a security guard during a nearly eight-hour period in the city early Sunday and Monday.

Because so many people were in the area for Memorial Day celebrations and the Atlantic Beach Bikefest, officers responded to numerous criminal complaints and traffic violations, said Myrtle Beach police Capt. David Knipes.

“Policing this event has always come with huge challenges. Unfortunately, criminal activity is often associated with large events, which is why we have deployed additional officers to allow us to respond to this increase in activity,” Knipes said Monday afternoon. “All of the officers working this event have done an outstanding job in very stressful conditions.”

In Rochester, NY, fights broke out among at least 100 youth:

Monroe County Sheriff’s deputies shut down Ontario Beach Park, prompting a traffic jam. Large crowds of youth ran south on Lake Ave.

Sheriff’s and Rochester police arrested 13 people on charges ranging from disorderly conduct to drug and alcohol offenses.

Erica Blake, 34, allegedly assaulted a deputy who responded to the scene. She’s been charged with second-degree assault. Police say the deputy was scratched on the face as he was pulled into the fracas.

Witnesses said there were many young children on the beach. When a large scramble suddenly became more like a fight, parents feared the worst.

Meanwhile, on Long Island Beach in New York:

A Long Island police department says it had to call for backup to quell a beach melee involving hundreds of people that spilled out onto the streets and a nearby bus depot.

Long Beach police say they are investigating the incident. There was no immediate word on arrests.

No injuries were reported.

According to Newsday , 11 Nassau police cars and two Metropolitan Transportation Authority police units assisted with the crowd control on Monday evening.

Police say a series of fights erupted on the beach just before it closed at 6 p.m. and continued for several hours. It was not clear whether the fights involved the same group of young people or different groups.

In Mayor Rahm (Rahmbo) Emmanuel’s Chicago:

WLS Radio’s Monica DeSantis Reports that it may have been a flash mob that forced the closure of North Avenue beach on Memorial Day:

Chicago Police News Affairs released a statement saying they had to close the beach for safety reasons, as people were suffering heat exhaustion and emergency vehicles couldn’t get through to help. But, WLS listeners say there was what they called a “large gangbanger element” at the Oak Street and North Avenue beaches.

…Listeners report being at the beach, and seeing dozens of gang bangers pushing people off their bikes. Another listener says those causing havoc were not dressed for the beach and looked like “bad elements.”

In Boston, Massachusetts:

Fights broke out among rival gang members on Carson Beach in South Boston yesterday and spilled out across the city, triggering a massive law enforcement response from at least five agencies to stem the violence.

Police said the gang members are part of a group of more than 1,000 youths who have used social media sites like Facebook to plan unruly gatherings on the beach on three of the past four nights. The beach falls under the jurisdiction of the State Police, who have been unable to prevent the violence.

In Charlotte, NC:

Questions continue to swirl as investigators search for whoever fired shots during one of many fights in uptown Charlotte early Sunday.

Investigators say Antwan Terrell Smith was shot and killed after someone pulled a gun just after 1 a.m. during a large fight on 3rd Street. Durante Kavon James was shot in the leg.

It was one of several fights that broke out after the Speed Street celebration in Uptown. CMPD called out its Civil Emergency Unit after reporting that many large groups of people were disobeying police, flashing gang signs, blocking traffic and fighting.

A manager at a convenience store on North Tryon Street tells NewsChannel 36 a huge crowd swarmed the store, broke a window, and began stealing things, before running away.

In all, 70 people were arrested – including 15 juveniles. Most of the arrests were for disorderly conduct, fighting, assault, and impeding traffic.

And, finally, in Nashville, TN:

Nearly two dozen police officers were called out to Wave Country on Monday afternoon after large crowds of people became unruly. The disturbance forced park managers to close the facility two hours early on Memorial Day.

Metro Parks director Tommy Lynch said Wave Country was nowhere near capacity, but there were plenty of problems that caused the park to close early.

“Once we got to the point that the turmoil at the front of the facility also got inside the facility, we felt for everyone’s safety the best thing to do was to close it,” Lynch explained.

Metro Police were called out to Wave Country around 1 p.m. because the crowd outside the gates and inside the park was acting up.

“That crowd refused to follow any kind of instructions. They became disorderly,” according to Cpt. Marlene Pardue from Metro Police.

There were several fights inside. Police said one of the biggest problems was people jumping the fence to get into the park, creating chaos inside the park.

“Not just kids jumping the fence, but adults, with children and strollers, putting them over the fence, then jumping the fence,” Cpt. Pardue said.

Visitors inside the park said the chaos made them feel unsafe.

In an unrelated story, it was announced yesterday that SNAP (the Federal Food Assistance Program) has expanded by 39 % under President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm).

It’s going to be a long, hot summer.