Given the Hsu Hscoop, I can't help but think of this song.

More Bundling With Straw Donors and Illegal Reimbursements: And Hsu doesn't seem involved. Making this worse, not better, for Hillary! and the Democrats.

Seems a lot of Lone Rogue Operatives are doing the exact same thing. Funny that they should all be struck by the same Lone Rogue Notion.

But bear in mind the media's Meta-Narrative for Democratic money-laundering/illegal contribution scandals: Whenever this happens, it tells us nothing about the candidates involved, and we can draw no lessons from the scandals, except ones about "The System" and not about any particular Democrat.

See, they're the victims of The System, too.

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This kid sounds like a goof, at least from what's been reported so far.

Star Simpson, 19, had a computer circuit board and wiring in plain view over a black hooded sweat shirt she was wearing, said State Police Maj. Scott Pare, the commanding officer at the airport.

They were still naming kids Star in 1988? Who knew?

"She said that it was a piece of art and she wanted to stand out on career day," Pare said at a news conference. "She claims that it was just art, and that she was proud of the art and she wanted to display it."

Hmmmmm... what is the "artistic message" here I wonder? What are you painting on this palette, with playdough and circuit boards?

What's your message sweetie?

Selfishly, I'm glad I flew into Logan last Friday and not today. Sheesh.

Actually, now that I've heard some more accounts, it sounds as though authorities got it under control pretty quickly, and by the time I had landed I wouldn't have noticed a thing.

UPDATE: I am a moron, and forgot the link.

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Obama was apparently talking white on this case, according to Racial Authenticity Expert Jesse Jackson, which is what has pushed it into the national media spotlight. They did such a good job of burying it before few heard of it so now we all have to play catch-up on the New OJ/Duke Racial Narrative Case.

Apparently the media didn't want to cover it because the narrative was too muddy. True, there was palpable racism in Jena; but also true, a gang of six black athletes cold-cocked a white student apparently at random and proceeded to beat and stomp him. And also true, the black thugs seem to have been overcharged originally with a hard-to-defend attempted murder rap. (Correction: Kaspar tells me the white student wasn't picked out "at random" but was in fact baiting the blacks about a black student who'd been jumped the day before. I'm not sure that's true, as I really only know what Bryan's written, but Kaspar seems well-informed.)

What lessons can we draw from this? Well, not terribly many, or at least not very simple ones; the case, alas, has little to say about George Bush or Iraq, and does not support simplistic slogans about Rich White Athlete Privilege.

It's all more nuanced than all that, which you think would make it our very nuaced media's preferred sort of story, but not so much.

Anyway, I thank Bryan for finally explaining this all to me. I was waiting for the MSM to do so, but they were asleep on the job so a blogger took care of it.

UPDATE (Jack M): RELEASE THE SENA 6!

Loving Suzanne Sena should not be a crime! Fight the Power! No Justice, No Peace! We shall....

What?

Ohhh...J-ena 6. Not S-ena 6.

I stand corrected.

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And you? You’re reading Ace of Spades for the girl on girl Brady Bunch pr0n and the kitten pictures. Come on, let's put those mad internets skilz to good use.

Once her son is off to school, Laura Mansfield settles in at her dining room table with her laptop and begins trolling Arabic-language message boards and chat rooms popular with jihadists.

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She sometimes spends 100 hours a week online, and she often finds items after word has begun spreading on the Arabic forums of an imminent release.

"It's really important to understand what the jihadists think and how they're planning on doing things," she said. "They're very vocal. They tell us what they're going to do and then they go out and do it."

Mansfield tips off her intelligence sources when she does find something new, part of an informal working relationship with the government.

"When I send them something, it's welcome," she said. "They thank me."

What’s the term some blogger guy coined? Oh yeah, An Army of Davids.

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And you? YouÂ’re reading Ace of Spades for the girl on girl Brady Bunch pr0n and the kitten pictures. Come on, let's put those mad internets skilz to good use.

Once her son is off to school, Laura Mansfield settles in at her dining room table with her laptop and begins trolling Arabic-language message boards and chat rooms popular with jihadists.

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She sometimes spends 100 hours a week online, and she often finds items after word has begun spreading on the Arabic forums of an imminent release.

"It's really important to understand what the jihadists think and how they're planning on doing things," she said. "They're very vocal. They tell us what they're going to do and then they go out and do it."

Mansfield tips off her intelligence sources when she does find something new, part of an informal working relationship with the government.

"When I send them something, it's welcome," she said. "They thank me."

WhatÂ’s the term some blogger guy coined? Oh yeah, An Army of Davids.

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Whether you love PBS or hate it, you can't deny that without that network we would probably never have been introduced to the work of Ken Burns. His documentary work has been imitated, and memorably mocked. This Sunday, his newest documentary - "The War" - begins on PBS.

"The War" tells the story of World War II through the eyes of the men who fought it. Looks like this documentary is going to be on par with "The Civil War," which has one of the most tear-inducing moments of television I've ever seen. (Segment starts at 2:28 - those that have seen it know exactly what I mean.)

How Could I Forget? - Now that I think about it, maybe Ken Burns was imitating IB.

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At the Captain's Journal we find a very disturbing story of how dysfunctional some parts of the US military are, and how genuinely whacked in the head one of our 3-star generals is.

In a nutshell.

• Sniper team is sent to find known terrorist bad guy in Afghanistan.


• They find said terrorist.


• They punch said terrorist's ticket.


• Now they're charged with murder cuz said terrorist wasn't holding a weapon when he got erased.

Here's the bottom line - our guys are fighting with BOTH hands tied behind their backs, and there's some batshit crazy very high level brass that are treating them like shit and THAT needs to be rectified ASAP. The 3-star who brought these charges needs to be cashiered out, FAST.

UPDATE - More here at Black 5

H/T Dan

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Apparently, Jan Brady's obsession with Marsha Brady stemmed not so much from the jealousy a fugly sister had for her much more attractive sister, but was instead, the result of heretofore unsuspected sexual tension between the two.

Don't believe me? Ask Maureen McCormack, the sluttiest slut who ever slutted her slutty self from Johnny Bravo's bed to Eve Plumb's.

Wholesome former THE BRADY BUNCH star MAUREEN MCCORMICK is set to reveal the beloved 70s TV series' most shocking secret in a new book - she and her on-screen sister had a lesbian fling. MCCormick's tell-all, Here's The Story, won't hit bookstores until 2008, but publishers are already buzzing about the big reveal. As well as talking candidly about her well-documented eating disorder and drug problems in the book, TV's Marcia Brady will come clean about a romance she had with co-star Eve Plumb, who played her sister Jan on the hit show. A source tells America's National Enquirer, "The most explosive comments will be how the then-blonde, blue-eyed cutie developed a crush on Eve Plumb, which led to some sexual play. "

I for one am heartbroken.

Not so much that this happened, but that they didn't catch it on film.

Marsha was a hottie in her day, after all.

I think the true shocker is that Alice wasn't implicated in any girl-on-girl sexual hijinks, however.

Then again, I'm not sure Florence Henderson has written her book yet. Or Cindy Brady, either. Or, even Tiger.

One thing I do feel pretty certain about: Cousin Oliver never got any play.

I mean, c'mon, look at him for goodness sakes.

H/T Hot Air.

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From the Sun-Sentinel:

A Fort Lauderdale man imprisoned for 14 years on a rape conviction may finally be on the road to clearing his name after test results showed his DNA does not match evidence from the crime, his attorney said.

Larry Bostic, 50, was just 13 days shy of completing his prison sentence...

...She also told the investigator that she never saw her rapist, Sandler said. She picked Bostic out of a photo line-up because she remembered seeing him, a stranger, in the vicinity of the rape a few days earlier, Sandler said...

Larry Bostic is no angel, that much is clear, and the time he did was probably well deserved for other miscreant behavior. However - when a witness picks someone out of a lineup because they happened to remember seeing the dude a few days prior -- "Houston, we got a problem".

What's the answer here? I don't know. Sure there's perjury charges and all that, but does that work? In this case it didn't. Was there an overzealous prosecutor at work here just looking to slam a conviction on a known, not very sympathetic, scumbag?

The whole story is very disturbing.

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The South Lake Union Trolley.

"We're welcoming the SLUT into the neighborhood," said Jerry Johnson, 29, a part-time barista. Johnson said the T-shirts were done just for fun, but they seem to have tapped into something: The first 100 sold out in days and now orders for the next 100 are under way.

We asked people around South Lake Union what they think of the nickname.
Behind the ribbing is a little resentment about the changes some residents feel have been pushed on them.

"There was a meeting with representatives from the city several years ago," Johnson recalled. "They asked us what we could do for you. Most people raised their hands and said 'affordable housing,' " he said. "Then the people from the city huddled together -- 'whisper, whisper, whisper,' -- and they said, 'How about a trolley?' "

That has the ring of truth to it. Being conservative, of course, I support the Reps' decision to avoid messing with the housing market, and instead providing a means for poor people to go the hell away.

Thanks to someone2 for the tip.

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