If they burn an American flag they are called protesters. But if I were to burn a Mexican flag I would be called a racist.

Why do I never see anyone burning flags other than American? If America is really as bad as they say, why does everyone want to come here?

Westport converts diesel engines (i.e. – those found in semi trailers) into ones that run on natural gas.

It must be government operation. Most diesel engine I have seen are in the semi tractors. Though I suppose that Westport could convert diesel engines that are hauled to their plant in semi trailer, that are pulled by semi tractors with diesel engines.

Keep it quiet? The soundproofing in dorms is not high quality.

A "search warrant" for a person? I can understand an "arrest warrant" or a subpoena.

What are they going to search him for?

This trick has been used by interest groups for years. When the raw numbers don't tell the story they want they use percentages. Whatever will give a bigger number. They do the same thing with percentages, if things don't improve by a sufficient percentage, they switch to the 'rate of change'.

This is a copywriters trick that has been around for centuries. It's all BS, of course.

But, while throwing these number tricks around is easy, refuting them is hard. Because it depends on people being mathematically literate. They aren't and they don't want to be.

There are actually a number of people who account for most of the crime. The cops know who they are, they arrest them over and over.

Ask any street cop. They know that when certain people are in jail crime in that area will drop, and as soon as they're released they pick up where they left off.

The fact is that most crime is committed by a minority of people. They don;t do it because they are poor or "disadvantaged" they do it because they are bad people.

"Is this the Anarchist Soccer League?" asks the girl with the pierced lip and eyebrow. She catches the eye of a guy whose black T-shirt identifies him as "Poor, Ugly, Happy."

He informs her that, yes, this is the regular pickup game of the Anarchist Soccer League, held on Sunday afternoons amid the minivan-and-merlot enclaves of upper Northwest Washington.

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"I need a cigarette," she decides, and roller-blades off to find one.

But soon she'll return to get into the game. She's a punk rocker, a supporter of an activist group called Refuse & Resist. She wants to free Mumia Abu-Jamal, the convicted cop killer.

Her name is Barucha Peller. She wears Abercrombie & Fitch pants and carries a Nine West wallet. She's not entirely sure that she's an anarchist--"I'm 17, too young to pick any ideology"--but she definitely doesn't like The System.

Yeah. She sounds like someone we should listen to. /sarc

I doubt if the Iranians can copy either the composition or the guidance of the drone.

On the other hand, there are the Chinese, Russians and North Koreans.

Stupid salmon. The sign says "Deer Crossing."

Rural Oregon is a major source of fresh Christmas trees and is economically distressed. So Obama decided that it would be a good thing to raise the price of Christmas trees?

I'm sure that this will hit the American tree growers much harder than the Canadians.

But the truth is simply that Obama hates American farmers and wants them taxed and regulated out of business.