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Advanced-material t-shirt body armor? Check.

Stealth camouflage?  Check.

Wingsuits? Check.

Pain guns?  Check.

HOVERBIKE? …Check.

(pause)

Nah, my wife would kill me.

…is going to haul off and deck a TSA employee*.

Assuming that the guy (it’ll probably be a guy) survives the experience – which would cause a storm of feces all its own – it will be amazing how quickly a jury lets him off; and it’ll all be because of stories like this one. “TSA Confiscates Mentally Challenged Man’s Toy:” the title says it all.

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PS: I’m generally not in favor of decking anybody; and the majority of TSA people I’ve encountered haven’t actually been awful about the procedures.  But all it takes is one TSA fool intersecting with one traveler having too bad a day to create an incident.

*That this has not happened yet is a testimony to the American people’s civic-mindedness.  If you’re a progressive (or a hard-shelled libertarian) you probably have a different, and much more dismissive, interpretation – but I’m neither, and I say it’s civic-mindedness.

Small Town, John Mellancamp

:shrug: I like it.

You remember how you went on CNN to attack Andrew about the ludicrous, oh so ludicrous suggestion that Anthony Weiner might have been having private digital conversations with teenagers? You know, this attack:
“This is the silliest little thing.”

Well, it’s also the funniest thing! The Delaware police are now looking into Anthony Weiner’s… private digital conversations with a teenager! Which Weiner is totally admitting happening! Just like Weiner admitted to everything else that Andrew claimed that Weiner did, and that you tried to dismiss! (more…)

A picture is, as they say, worth a thousand words… or, in this case, several pounds’ worth of emails.

That picture is of the media, as Justin Hart put it,” jammed and running to the elevator to get the #PalinEmails.”  For those wondering, the “#PalinEmails” are… the collected email record of Sarah Palin when she was Governor of Alaska, and the media has gone into full Geraldo-Rivera-Capone-bank-vault mode over perusing them.  Not to mention stark, raving mad.  And that’s why New Media exists: not because Old Media has decided to devote finite resources to this story, but because they’re apparently ready to devote enough resources to make the whole thing into a sweaty, high-density spectacle.  Which would be fine, except that people were kind of counting on them to report, well, the news.

Seriously.  Look.  At this moment Sarah Palin is a television pundit on a road trip.  So could the media please stop obsessing over her like this?  They’re starting to set off my stalker-detection alarms.

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If you DARE.

Via @CalebHowe.

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Do not give tell-all exposes to the Daily Beast (safe link) about imploding campaigns*, please: the Daily Beast hates Republicans, and wishes us all to die in fires.  Even if they did not, we will have quite enough on our plate in the 2012 election without having to worry about tattle-tales, and right now all those indiscreet staffers have done is potentially make Governor Rick Perry look bad, assuming he runs and assuming he hires them en masse.  Which I am more or less thinking that he shouldn’t, unless he can work out which person among Gingrich’s staff went crying to the Left.  So the rest of all y’all should try to remember that you’re professionals, and act accordingly.

Thank you in advance for your compliance in this matter.

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Via AoSHQ Headlines.

*Even Newt Gingrich’s.  Even though I could care less whether he’s running or not.  It’s the principle of the thing.

(Via Hot Air) The Politico is just now starting to realize just how big a boon DNC chair Debbie Downer (aka Debbie Wasserman Schultz) is… for the Republican Party:

She’s accused Republicans of wanting to reinstate segregation and of waging a “war on women.” She has asserted, somewhat nonsensically, that the GOP wants to make illegal immigration — by definition against the law — “a crime.” She’s also been mocked for driving a foreign car after pounding Republicans for not supporting the American auto industry.

[snip]

No one seems ready to declare her the Democratic version of Michael Steele, the gaffe-prone former Republican National Committee chairman whose rhetorical and administrative missteps led numerous party leaders to publicly insist he had to go.

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Some folks are perhaps a little surprised – and embarrassed, and hopefully even revolted – that the White House invited in Gabon’s head kleptocrat and strongman “President” Ali Bongo* in for tea. Yeah, well, welcome to the world, folks, which is full of people who we find apparently just a little too problematical to shoot or imprison on sight.  We had distressing people smiling for the White House cameras in the last administration, and the administration before that, and every administration since they invented the camera; and we’ll have them smiling for the White House cameras after the current inhabitant has retired (in high dudgeon, with any luck) back to Illinois.  It’s that, or declare that the President of the United States of America is also the High King/Queen of Earth, with the right of High, Middle, and Low justice among his/her subjects.  Which I don’t think will fly. (more…)

I don’t know why the odd picture choice for this Memeorandum entry amuses…

…but clearly, it does.  Amuses me, at least.

Hey, it’s on YouTube!

The artist is Michael “Moonwulf” Longcor, and it’s off of the Lovers, Heroes and Rogues album.  No Amazon.com link, alas.

What the hell happened?

Oh.  Right.

DON’T DO DRUGS, KIDS.

Via Ace of Spades HQ.