Video.  Awesome.  Maybe if the terrorists dead were plastered all over the MSM, we'd have a different attitude about this war:  "The Lies of Harry Reid and Surge Success"

The Democrats would have you believe the war in Iraq is lost, but that is all 'smoke and mirrors'.
The Coalition forces are getting the job done.

While the mainstream media seems to be preoccupied only with bad news, this video will tell you the other side of the story... the side Harry Reid refuses to acknowledge.
Americans should have all of the facts before allowing the Democratic 'leadership' to damage our national security for decades to come.

You see, the government must force you mindless, selfish Americans to change your behavior.

What say you America?

"Put in a tax to make it $4 a gallon right now," urged CNN contributor Allen Wastler on the April 28 "In the Money."

Illustrated:

The vaunted UN has come out and said nuclear power is the answer to stop global warming.

Alternative fuels (i.e., ethanol) have also been touted (even though ethanol is more polluting than regular gasoline.

Of course, the response from enviro-wackos is predictable:  "The report has also angered environmentalists. Tony Juniper of Friends of the Earth said: "Nuclear reactors are dangerous and land clearance and chemical pesticides and fertilisers used to grow fuel crops can cause huge environmental damage."

See?  We can't do these two things, but we must do somthing!!

Oh, well...

Nuclear power will save the world, UN scientists claim

Leading scientists are today expected to back a major expansion of nuclear power as a way of saving the world from global warming.

Other measures in a United Nations report include the use of GM crops to produce biofuels and the "capture and storage" underground of harmful CO2 gases.

More than 2,000 scientists have contributed to the intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC) report and 400 of them met today in Bangkok to finalise it before publication on Friday. The report is the biggest to study the practical actions that could reduce emissions and its findings will play a key role in Kyoto negotiations which will take place in December.

The new report is the third this year by the UN climate panel. An IPCC report in February said it was at least 90 per cent certain that mankind was to blame for global warming and on 6 April it warned of more hunger, droughts and rising seas.

"We're moving from two very sobering reports to what we can do about climate change," said Achim Steiner, the head of the UN's environment programme. "And we can do it."

As well as plans for more nuclear power, genetically modified biofuels and carbon storage, the report sets out a vision of the future that is a mixture of existing policies, such as energy efficiency and renewable energy from wind and wave farms, and more futuristic ideas for hydrogen car fleets and "intelligent" buildings which can control energy use.

In addition, the report makes it clear that both developed countries, including the United States, and developing nations, in particular India and China, will have to play major roles.

However, the scientists in Bangkok have already voiced fears that some countries, including China and the US, will say the proposed measures are unrealistic. Michel Petit, a member of the French delegation, said: "Some countries may challenge these figures."

The report has also angered environmentalists. Tony Juniper of Friends of the Earth said: "Nuclear reactors are dangerous and land clearance and chemical pesticides and fertilisers used to grow fuel crops can cause huge environmental damage."

For any and all who suffer from severe migraines as I do.  They may be more damaging than previously thought. 

Please read the following article and make sure you get to your doctor for treatment options if you haven't already.

Migraine Headaches May Cause Brain Damage

Science Daily — Migraines may be doing more than causing people skull-splitting pain. Scientists have found evidence that the headaches may also be acting like tiny transient strokes, leaving parts of the brain starved for oxygen and altering the brain in significant ways.

"Normally, the focus of migraine treatment is to reduce the pain. We're saying that migraines may be causing brain damage, and that the focus should be on prevention, which will stop not only the pain but also minimize potential damage," said Maiken Nedergaard, M.D., Ph.D., the neuroscientist who led the research team. She is a professor in the Department of Neurosurgery and a member of the Center for Aging and Developmental Biology and worked closely with Takahiro Takano, Ph.D., research assistant professor, who is first author of the paper.

By combining two recently developed imaging technologies, Nedergaard's team was able to get an unprecedented look at the events that happen in the brain of a mouse as a migraine unfolds. The team uncovered a complex, unexpected tale of supply and demand regarding blood flow and oxygen.

In short, the team found that the brain develops a voracious demand for energy as the organ attempts to restore the delicate chemical balance that is lost in the initial throes of a phenomenon known as cortical spreading depression, which is thought to underlie many migraines.

Even though the brain's arteries expand dramatically and make a great deal more oxygen-rich blood available to meet the demand for energy, some parts of the brain still wind up experiencing severe oxygen shortage, or hypoxia. This causes parts of brain cells' sophisticated signaling structures to disintegrate, similar to what occurs when a person has a mini-stroke, or after a severe injury, or when blood flow to the brain is completely stopped, such as during a heart attack.

"In mice, the damage from these episodes looks exactly like the damage that occurs to the brain from repeated TIAs, or transient ischemic attacks," said Takano. "It's long been known that patients having a migraine attack are functionally impaired from the pain. It's also been shown recently that with repeated migraines, a person's cognitive abilities decrease. But actually doing damage to the brain -- that is a surprise."

Deborah Friedman, M.D., a neurologist who was not involved in the study, says that a few studies have found that people who get auras with their migraines are at increased risk for vascular problems like heart attack and stroke. The Women's Health Initiative, for instance, found that such women had a 50 to 70 percent higher risk of stroke compared to other women. And a study led by Michel Ferrari of Leiden University in the Netherlands showed that in women under the age of 45, those who suffered from migraines were much more likely to have the type of brain damage done by a stroke, even though they had never reported symptoms of stroke.

Friedman, a member of the board of directors of the American Headache Society who has treated thousands of headache sufferers, echoes Nedergaard's call for a greater emphasis on prevention.

"It's astounding just how many migraine sufferers do not see a doctor and are not on a medication to prevent a recurrence," said Friedman, professor of Ophthalmology and Neurology. "It's estimated that less than 20 percent of people who should be on preventive treatment receive such treatment. Doctors and patients need to be diligent and rigorous about using preventive medications for migraine."

The work puts the visual disturbances known as auras that many migraine sufferers report in a different light. The aura that precedes the headaches for at least one out of four migraine sufferers might involve floating black spots, flashing light, or some other visual changes. Nedergaard says those disturbances might actually be a visual sign that parts of the brain are short of oxygen.

In the work described in Nature Neuroscience, Nedergaard studied a phenomenon known as cortical spreading depression, or CSD. The process is now considered by many scientists as the basis for some migraines, particularly those involving an aura. CSD is an electrical event that initially involves a burst of intense activity among the neurons on the surface of the brain, followed by a gradually spreading wave of suppressed brain cell activity.

Many scientists believe that the phenomenon contributes to injury from stroke and from traumatic brain injury as well as migraine.

While it's been widely recognized that CSD underlies some migraines, Nedergaard's team linked the phenomenon for the first time to both severe hypoxia and to damage to brain cells. As a result of CSD, the team found changes to the synapses, the connections between brain cells known as neurons. The team observed that nerve cells swell and begin to disintegrate, with neurons shedding important connections known as dendritic spines -- the tiny extensions of an individual neuron's body that usually number in the thousands within a synapse. Mice in the grasp of a migraine lost up to three-quarters of these important cellular components.

Ironically, the team found that during CSD, even though blood flow in the brain overall increases dramatically, some parts of the brain still suffer from a lack of oxygen.

The problem begins as the brain tries to recover from CSD, which throws the proportion of crucial ions like potassium and sodium out of balance, taking away the brain's ability to function efficiently. This change in the proportion of chemicals gradually sweeps across the brain like a slowly spreading wave.

The brain, in turn, is under tremendous stress, developing a voracious appetite for oxygen as it works frantically to restore the proper chemical balance. Oxygen-rich blood pours into the area to allow brain tissue to work overtime; the team found that the brain's arteries expand by more than 50 percent to keep up with the demand.

It's at this stage that Nedergaard observed the unexpected: While blood flow increased, bringing more oxygen overall to the brain, there were still pockets of severe hypoxia. The brain was working so hard to restore the chemical balance and to resume normal cellular function, using so much oxygen, that the brain simply couldn't keep up with the demand.

"Basically, even though the body has really stepped up the availability of oxygen, the brain's demands for oxygen are suddenly so great that the blood vessels in the brain can't keep up," said Nedergaard. "It's a mismatch between supply and demand."

Brain tissue closest to the oxygen-rich blood vessels soaks up the oxygen as fast as they can, leaving tissues further away with a diminished supply. It's like a pride of lion cubs fighting for their mother's milk -- a few may get nudged away, go without, and will eventually die. In a brain in the midst of cortical spreading depression, brain cells closest to oxygen-rich blood vessels survive, while cells further away don't get access to the oxygen and are in jeopardy.

"People have always thought that in order to treat a migraine, you treat the pain. We're going beyond that. Migraines could be dangerous. The focus should be on prevention," said Nedergaard, who notes that by the time a person feels pain or notices a visual disturbance, the changes to the brain are already well underway.To make the finding, the team used a sophisticated laser system known as two-photon imaging to look at the activity of live cells in the intact brain of a mouse. They combined that with a new technique to precisely measure how brain cells allocate and use energy.

The work was funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, the New York State Spinal Cord Injury Program, the Dana Foundation, and the Phillip-Morris Organization.

In addition to Nedergaard and Takano, authors include research assistant professors Guo-Feng Tian, Weiguo Peng, Nanhong Lou, and Karl Kasischke; graduate student Ditte Lovatt; and Anker J. Hansen of, Novo Nordisk A/S, in Denmark.

A paper describing the work by neuroscientists at the University of Rochester Medical Center appeared online April 29 in Nature Neuroscience.

 

“Guard against the impostures
of pretended patriotism.”

— George Washington

But was his mentor an enviro-Sith Lord?

The history of the Goracles transformation into enviro-wackjob.  Posted from Hot Air:

The apprentice didn’t heed the words of his mentor:

He was the author of the influential 1982 Scientific American article that elevated global warming on to the public agenda. For being “the grandfather of the greenhouse effect,” as he put it, he was awarded the National Medal of Science by the first President Bush.

Roger Revelle’s most consequential act, however, may have come in his role as a teacher, during the 1960s at Harvard. Dr. Revelle inspired a young student named Al Gore.

Dr. Revelle would change Gore’s life, particularly since the climate-change field had become cutting edge, with Dr. Revelle adding to the excitement by giving his students advance notice of the fruits of his research.

“It felt like such a privilege to be able to hear about the readouts from some of those measurements in a group of no more than a dozen undergraduates,” Gore later explained. “Here was this teacher presenting something not years old but fresh out of the lab, with profound implications for our future!”

So there’s your set-up: the Goracle learned at the feet of professor Revelle. Which makes this part interesting:

While Gore in the late 1980s was becoming a prominent politician, loudly warning of globalwarming dangers, Dr. Revelle was quietly warning against taking any drastic action.

In a July 14, 1988, letter to Congressman Jim Bates, he wrote that: “Most scientists familiar with the subject are not yet willing to bet that the climate this year is the result of ‘greenhouse warming.’ As you very well know, climate is highly variable from year to year, and the causes of these variations are not at all well understood. My own personal belief is that we should wait another 10 or 20 years to really be convinced that the greenhouse is going to be important for human beings, in both positive and negative ways.” A few days later, he sent a similar letter to Senator Tim Wirth, cautioning “… we should be careful not to arouse too much alarm until the rate and amount of warming becomes clearer.”

In 1991, Revelle wrote a cautious article on global warming along with two other prominent climatologists. The article stated that it might take decades of research before the science on climate change could settle, and that taking drastic action before the science was solid would be “reckless.” That didn’t stop Gore from touting what has become the new orthodoxy:

Three months after the Cosmos article appeared, Dr. Revelle died of a heart attack. One year later, with Al Gore running for vice-president in the 1992 presidential election, the inconsistency between Gore’s pronouncements — he claimed that the “science was settled” then, too — and those of his mentor became national news. Gore responded with a withering attack, leading to claims that Dr. Revelle had become senile before his death, that Dr. Singer had duped Dr. Revelle into co-authoring the article, and that Dr. Singer had listed Dr. Revelle as a co-author over his objections. The sordid accusations ended in a defamation suit and an abject public apology in 1994 from Gore’s academic hit man, a prominent Harvard scientist, who revealed his unsavory role and that of Gore in the fabrications against Dr. Singer and Dr. Revelle.

So the Goracle isn’t just a whack-job, but a smear artist as well. That explains much, including how Gore could promote war with Iraq in 2002 and turn against it in on the eve of that war in 2003.

That little Mars Rover must have one heckuva polluting engine:

Climate change hits Mars

Mars is being hit by rapid climate change and it is happening so fast that the red planet could lose its southern ice cap, writes Jonathan Leake.

Scientists from Nasa say that Mars has warmed by about 0.5C since the 1970s. This is similar to the warming experienced on Earth over approximately the same period.

Since there is no known life on Mars it suggests rapid changes in planetary climates could be natural phenomena.

The mechanism at work on Mars appears, however, to be different from that on Earth. One of the researchers, Lori Fenton, believes variations in radiation and temperature across the surface of the Red Planet are generating strong winds.

In a paper published in the journal Nature, she suggests that such winds can stir up giant dust storms, trapping heat and raising the planet’s temperature.

Fenton’s team unearthed heat maps of the Martian surface from Nasa’s Viking mission in the 1970s and compared them with maps gathered more than two decades later by Mars Global Surveyor. They found there had been widespread changes, with some areas becoming darker.

When a surface darkens it absorbs more heat, eventually radiating that heat back to warm the thin Martian atmosphere: lighter surfaces have the opposite effect. The temperature differences between the two are thought to be stirring up more winds, and dust, creating a cycle that is warming the planet.

Placed low in an article about carbon offsets:  (Full story below the excerpt)

There is also debate about the efficiency of such schemes. Scientists warned recently that one of the most popular offsetting investments, in planting trees, could contribute to global warming if the trees were planted outside the tropics because they would trap heat and absorb carbon.

Dan Milmo, transport correspondent
Monday April 30, 2007
The Guardian

Toby Nicol, easyJet's communications director, said the company had been shocked by how much money carbon offsetting firms wanted for their service. "We have been quite surprised at the percentage that the offsetting companies would like to take out of the scheme for administration costs. Between 25% and 30% of every pound put in by consumers would go into administrating the company and that was simply too expensive," he said.

"There are a lot of people who have dived into the market who are desperate to make a margin from it. There are too many snake oil salesmen in the business."

Mr Nicol said buying the UN-backed carbon credits on the open market and selling them to passengers was better than turning to brokers. "It gets rid of the expensive middleman and it addresses the valid concern about whether it will make any difference to carbon emissions," he said. Carbon credits cost up to £7.50 per tonne. "It's a fledgling industry with high demand and yet there are no standards over the carbon credits themselves. There is no regulation in the business."

However, some carbon intermediaries have recognised companies' concerns by establishing the voluntary carbon standard, set up by the International Emissions Trading Association, the Climate Group and the World Economic Forum.

There is also debate about the efficiency of such schemes. Scientists warned recently that one of the most popular offsetting investments, in planting trees, could contribute to global warming if the trees were planted outside the tropics because they would trap heat and absorb carbon.

Rival airlines have disputed easyJet's claims. A spokeswoman for British Airways, which launched an offsetting scheme in 2005, said it was "not aware" of offsetting firms charging excessive fees. BA uses one of the best known offsetting companies, Climate Care, for its scheme.

A Virgin Atlantic spokesman said it was still considering whether to launch an offsetting programme but it was in talks with two "bona fide" companies. "As in most industries there are a lot of companies that are not very good but you do get one or two that are worth their salt."

Virgin had doubts over offsetting products, he said, because its passengers already contributed to green causes through the £2bn Air Passenger Duty, proceeds from which, the government says, will be invested in environmental projects and public transport. He said the company was also investing its profits in biofuel research as part of Sir Richard Branson's pledge to invest $3bn (£1.5bn) in green technology. Virgin plans to run trial flights of a biofuel-powered Boeing jumbo jet next year.

The easyJet carbon offsetting scheme will be launched this summer. The aviation industry has been heavily criticised by environmental groups because it is one of the fastest-growing generators of carbon emissions, accounting for 5.5% of the CO2 generated in the UK. British airlines, including easyJet and Virgin Atlantic, recently set up a sustainable aviation body to combat the criticism and to give the industry some green credentials.

Low-budget airlines in particular have been targeted by environmentalists because they have driven a boom in air travel. The environment minister Ian Pearson labelled Ryanair the "irresponsible face of capitalism" this year after the airline criticised the European emissions trading scheme. Ryanair and easyJet say financially successful airlines are the greenest because they can afford to invest heavily in new aircraft, which burn fuel more efficiently and therefore produce less carbon than their predecessors. Andrew Harrison, easyJet chief executive, has called on the European Union to ban nearly 700 of the "oldest and dirtiest" jets.

Not just trees

The embryonic carbon offsetting industry has come up with several ingenious ways for individuals and companies to make up for the impact of their actions on the world's climate. While planting trees may be one of the most popular, other schemes use donors' money to reduce emissions from elsewhere. Climate Care, for instance, supplies farmers in developing nations with man-powered treadle pumps to replace polluting diesel pumps. One pump saves about 0.65 tonnes of carbon dioxide a year. Other schemes involve capturing methane generated by farm animals or landfill sites.

Frank Miller, the awesome graphic artist who most recently gave us "300" is working on a new project:  "Batman vs. Al Qaeda".

He says, "I'm ready for my Fatwa."

Gotta love this guy.  Posted from MichelleMalkin.com:

I've blogged previously about graphic novelist/illustrator Frank Miller's renegade commentary on patriotism and al Qaeda's jihad. The L.A. Times has a new profile of Miller today with news of his latest projects--and more fodder that will set the 9/10 Hollyweirdos' teeth on edge:

MUCH has been made of Miller's politics in the wake of "300." The deliriously violent and stylized sword film is based on a Spartan battle in 480 B.C., and although Miller wrote and drew the story for Dark Horse comics a decade ago, in film form it was received by many as a grotesque parody of the ancient Persians and a fetish piece for a war on Islam. Miller scoffs at those notions. "I think it's ridiculous that we set aside certain groups and say that we can't risk offending their ancestors. Please. I'd like to say, as an American, I was deeply offended by 'The Last of the Mohicans.' "

Still, Miller gets stirred up about any criticism of the war in Iraq or the hunt for terrorists, which he views as the front in a war between the civilized Western world and bloodthirsty Islamic fundamentalists.

"What people are not dealing with is the fact that we're going up against a culture that finds it acceptable to do things that the rest of the world left behind with the barbarians in the 6th century," Miller said. "I'm a little tired of people worrying about being polite. We are fighting in the face of fascists."

The director of "300," Zack Snyder, chuckled about the portrayal of Miller as a conservative on the attack or a "proto-fascist" as one pundit called him. "I don't think he really has politics, he just sees the world in moral terms. He's a guy who says what he thinks and has a sense of right and wrong. He talks tough and, after Sept. 11, I think he's mad." Snyder said Miller is a throwback and that he approaches his art with a bar-fight temperament, like a Sam Peckinpah. "His political view is: Don't mess with me."

Apparently, Miller's Batman vs. al Qaeda comic book has stalled in the face of "squeamishness by executives at DC Comics and its parent, Warner Bros. Entertainment, in sending a franchise character on a blood-quest after terrorists." No surprise there.

Miller describes the plot and assails the lack of pro-American, anti-jihad backing in his industry:

"Our hero's key quote is, 'Those clowns don't know what terror is,' " Miller said. "Then he sets out to get the guys."

With the hero as terrorism avenger, Miller is pointing to the days of comics in the 1940s, when Superman, Captain America and the Human Torch were drawn taking punches at Hitler or Hirohito.

"These terrorists are worse than any villain I can come up with, and I think it's ridiculous that people in entertainment are not showing what we are up against here…. This is pure propaganda, a throwback, there's no bones about it."

Miller also said he relishes a backlash. "I'm ready," he said, "for my fatwa."

That's the spirit.

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Tell the Defeatocrats how you really feel!  Posted from MichelleMalkin.com.

Follow the links for complete lists of addresses.
Print and mail.

Previous: Send 'em a white feather

In the words of a Great American Thinker:

We live in a time of great moronitude. Morons, everywhere, rising from their morasses, massing and moving forward. In their multitudes, the morons march inexorably to the moronocy...

March, morons. March on...

Keeping this in mind... Reader Cornhusker thought that the best and easiest way to share your disgust for the moronocy of defeatists on the Left is to send each and everyone of them a White Feather postcard like the one below:

Click on Feather to Enlarge, Print, and Send

Here is another example for you if you feel the need to fill in the feather before you send it:


And, another...


INTRODUCING THE WHITE FEATHER POSTCARD CAMPAIGN
Digger History explains the historical significance:

The tradition of giving someone the "white feather of cowardice" goes back several hundred years, but became a populist issue in England during WW1.
In Australia it was less common but still applied.

Michelle Malkin introduced the new symbol for the 2007 Congress yesterday.
Cornhusker adds this:

Okay,

Here is my final idea! I think that mailing postcards will be more effective than sending feathers or e-mailing these idiots...BESIDES I am sick to death of them ignoring me! So I will snail-mail them postcards that others can see and that will put it right out front how we feel. A letter arrives in a sealed envelope which gets immediately thrown away or ignored. This we can send to all kinds of people in the media, on the internet...etc etc! Sound good?

By the way, if you look closely after the words "SURRENDER BILL" at the bottom of the postcard, you will see a worm. I can't think of anything more appropriate to send to these people, can you?

Do you have a list of the roll call vote in both the Senate and the House? I will make a postcard for each of the congressmen that voted for this atrocity!! I just started with Senator Clinton because she is one of the worst!

Let me know when you get this and how I can get a list of congressmen and women who voted.

** Here is the Final Vote for Surrender From the House.
** Here is the Final Vote for Surrender From the Senate.


Update: Cafe Express now sells a package of 8 White Feather Postcards for $6.59!
Hat Tip sickboy

But as you'll see, that doesn't stop the race-baiters.  Posted from RWN:

It used to be that the complaint you heard all the time was that police officers were stopping people for "driving while black." But, now that numbers have come in that seem to disprove that claim, the grievance lobby seems to just be moving on to something new,

Black, Hispanic and white drivers are equally likely to be pulled over by police, but blacks and Hispanics are much more likely to be searched and arrested, a federal study found.

Police were much more likely to threaten or use force against blacks and Hispanics than against whites in any encounter, whether at a traffic stop or elsewhere, according to the Justice Department.

...Traffic stops have become a politically volatile issue. Minority groups have complained that many stops and searches are based on race rather than on legitimate suspicions. Blacks in particular have complained of being pulled over for simply "driving while black."

"The available data is sketchy but deeply concerning," said Hilary Shelton, director of the NAACP's Washington bureau. The civil rights organization has done its own surveys of traffic stops, and he said the racial disparities grow larger, the deeper the studies delve.

"It's very important to look at the hit rates for searches - the number that actually result in finding a crime," Shelton said. "There's a great deal of racial disparity there." He called for federal legislation that would collect uniform data by race on stops, arrests, use of force, searches and hit rates.

"This report shows there are still disturbing disparities in terms of what happens to people of color after the stop," said Dennis Parker, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's racial justice project. He also said better reporting is needed.

...Black, Hispanic and white motorists were equally likely to be pulled over by police - between 8 percent and 9 percent of each group. The slight decline in blacks pulled over - from 9.2 percent in 2002 to 8.1 percent in 2005 - was not statistically significant, Durose said, and could be the result of random differences.

The racial disparities showed up after that point:

_Blacks (9.5 percent) and Hispanics (8.8 percent) were much more likely to be searched than whites (3.6 percent). There were slight but statistically insignificant declines compared with the 2002 report in the percentages of blacks and Hispanics searched.

_Blacks (4.5 percent) were more than twice as likely as whites (2.1 percent) to be arrested. Hispanic drivers were arrested 3.1 percent of the time.

Among all police-public contacts, force was used 1.6 percent of the time. But blacks (4.4 percent) and Hispanics (2.3 percent) were more likely than whites (1.2 percent) to be subjected to force or the threat of force by police officers."

Is racism at work there? That may be what the NAACP and ACLU would have you believe however, take a look at these imprisonment rates per racial group numbers,

"In 2003 4,834 out of every 100,000 black males were sentenced to prison compared to 681 per every 100,000 white males and 1,778 per 100,000 Hispanic males. Though the rate of black males going to prison was high, the fastest rising segment of prison population by the late twentieth century was minority females."

Now those are imprisonment rates, not crime rates (which aren't exactly the same thing), but if blacks are 7 times as likely to commit a crime as whites and hispanics are 2 1/2 times more likely to commit a crime as whites, is it a surprise that you're seeing disparities in these numbers?

Put another way, if the police stop 100 blacks, 100 whites, and 100 Hispanics, it's highly likely that there will be more criminals amongst the 100 blacks or 100 Hispanics than the 100 whites. And if there are more people breaking the law in a particular group, there will be more searches, more arrests, and more threats of force against that group by the police.

Illustrated:

Just plain funny.  Posted from Jawa:  A little nerd stuff for everyone. I do not play nor do I own World of Warcraft. Stopped at Warcraft 2, so I'm hip to the series.

Anyway, some well-known W.o.W. player died (in real life), and a bunch of game administrators thought it would be a nice idea to let his playing buddies come to a "memorial service" within the game to pay their respects. They took the player's character to a lake and set up a memorial service.

A 'guild' of W.o.W. players (a group that plays the game together regularly) came up with the brilliant idea of ambushing and slaughtering everyone's characters as they stood unsuspecting at this memorial service.

It may be a little confusing (or boring) if you don't know the game, but I just couldn't stop from giggling in a few places. I know its terrible, but the whole idea of some group of individuals deciding to film and upload a virtual ambush on a funeral procession in a virtual fantasy world involving real people who spend inordinate amounts of time there just kept repeatedly striking me a hilarious.

The W.o.W. equivalent of the Westboro Baptist Church. With sorcery and a slew of acquired skills. The video of the ambush doesn't' start until after the shots of player hatemail at about 2:10.

Inspired by: Ace, whose love of nerdom I share enthusiastically.