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http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/05/europes-record-youth-unemployment-the-scariest-graph-in-the-world-just-got-scarier/276423/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/youth-unemployment-rate

http://now.msn.com/youth-unemployment-rate-twice-that-of-any-other-age-group

Perhaps you are not looking in the right place.

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/ss-130415-boston-bombing-tease.photoblog600.jpg

Yeah, that guy didn't die, because people saved his life (and many others) it wasn't because of lack of trying by the terrorists.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/specials/boston_marathon_bombing_victim_list/

There is nothing like trying to minimalize tragedy to make a political point. You make me sick.

> most of the sales were to counties that have US trade embargoes imposed
Wait, so US now imposes trade embargoes on counties as well? This is just more of Yankee aggression as most of the poorest counties which cannot afford to buy legal software are in the south and South Dakota

Yeah like this one: http://now.msn.com/penis-shaped-building-under-construction-in-beijing ... :P

Also, "adding to the mystery", also my ass. Different keyfobs work with different algorithms and protocols. Someone's hacked a particular subset of them.

The linked article on Today is horrible. They also talk over and over about how "The Police" are stumped. As if "The Police" was some kind of borg mind. Better articles with more facts and less made up stuff can be found. It's the Long Beach Police Department, btw.

Not sure where you're getting your numbers from but they're WAY off:

Wow, I really did mistake the numbers I was gathering for my post. Those were not sales, they were total cars sold. And the numbers were in the millions, not billions.

14.5 million new cars were sold in the US in 2012 (source), and 40.5 million used cars sold (source). Considering the average price of a new car is now about $30k (source) and the price of a used car sale is about $10k (source), that puts the actual size of the market at the values listed below.

$435 billion new car market vs $405 billion used car market.
14.5 million new car sales vs 40.5 million used car sales.

$22 billion new video game market vs $2.5 billion used game market
500 million new game sales vs 125 million used game sales
source

While the difference is not as drastic as my original incorrect values suggested, the difference is still enormous. The used car market is about the same as the new car market, but for video games it is 1/10th the size.

Not sure where you're getting your numbers from but they're WAY off:

Wow, I really did mistake the numbers I was gathering for my post. Those were not sales, they were total cars sold. And the numbers were in the millions, not billions.

14.5 million new cars were sold in the US in 2012 (source), and 40.5 million used cars sold (source). Considering the average price of a new car is now about $30k (source) and the price of a used car sale is about $10k (source), that puts the actual size of the market at the values listed below.

$435 billion new car market vs $405 billion used car market.
14.5 million new car sales vs 40.5 million used car sales.

$22 billion new video game market vs $2.5 billion used game market
500 million new game sales vs 125 million used game sales
source

While the difference is not as drastic as my original incorrect values suggested, the difference is still enormous. The used car market is about the same as the new car market, but for video games it is 1/10th the size.

In major cities here in the US you can call the police and hope they come Chicago or in the rural areas you can wait hours for some type of law enforcement to show up.

This is the UK transposed on Texas

Texas is (along with being awesome) just one of the 50 states we have. You also have 248,950,295 less people than us. There are roughly 1.1 million city, state and federal officers at any given time. In the US in 2010 there were 1.26 million Violent Crimes and in the UK in 2010 there were 2.1 million Violent Crimes

Math is cool

The wealthy donate to museums and cultural causes that have acquired the same tax exempt status as humanitarian aid causes. They're also the only ones benefiting from their own causes. They also donate less as a percentage of income than the poor. That on top of being able to exploit capital gains tax rates to pay a lower percentage of income on taxes than the middle and working classes.

Millions is peanuts. As middle class wage earners, you'll "contribute" that in mandatory taxes, some of which may actually be used for something you care about (school, roads, social safety nets, wars, ...) A single hospital is billions of dollars. Countries cost trillions to run.

Capitalism is working and generating wealth in society, but it's not something that works faithfully or evenly. It's very easy to have the winners in the "free market" capture your government too, and then where are you?

http://editorial.autos.msn.com/blogs/autosblogpost.aspx?post=6ba9947b-1a9e-43bd-b752-476d7777e559

You are uninformed.

Non-citizens are protected by the constitution: http://www.asil.org/insights080620.cfm

Obama's definition of imminent: page 7, par 2, first sentence:
http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/sections/news/020413_DOJ_White_Paper.pdf
Analysis: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/05/obama-kill-list-doj-memo

Obama's definition of militant:
http://www.salon.com/2012/05/29/militants_media_propaganda/
which should be put in context with the recent CIA document leak which confirms that the Obama administration kills random people and calls them militants:
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/04/09/188062/obamas-drone-war-kills-others.html

($51.8 billion, 38 million euros)

Am I missing something, or has the exchange rate really gotten that bad for the dollar?

Your statement is quite confusing unless you mean "has the exchange rate really gotten that bad for the Russian Ruble?" At which point your comment would be 5-ish years too late.

From hatebase.org:

"Language-based classification, or symbolization, is one of a handful of quantifiable steps toward genocide.
To support Hatebase, please contribute to our database, either by adding vocabulary or by logging sightings and citations.

My submission:

Language: Beltwayspeak
Vocabulary: "senior operational leader", "enemy belligerent", "imminent threat", "organized armed groups"
Source: http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/sections/news/020413_DOJ_White_Paper.pdf

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There are other than federal student loans:
http://money.msn.com/saving-money-tips/post.aspx?post=76403ee4-9604-480e-ad05-9f2cf2292cce
This story is about a guy who has exactly that problem.

Also, if you default (and did not die), I had read that your family can be held responsible for your federal student loans even if they did not co-sign, which I have not been able to find a link to confirm. This link seems to say I am wrong about the co-signing. It is co-signing that makes you liable. Mea culpa.
http://www.bankrate.com/finance/debt/co-signing-student-loan-makes-you-liable.aspx

hopefully you have ample examples of men receiving death threats

Sure. Here are a few that come up on Google:

This guy pissed off some animal rights activists and they threatened to use pliers on his testicles, disembowel him and use napalm on him. Among other things. Incidentally, it was a woman who ran the organization that sent the threats, and was sentenced to jail for it. That one isn't even anonymous!

Gay blogger gets death threats.

This guy tracked down the sender of his death threats.

Here's a story about a guy who sends death threats to people who debunk the paranormal. Some blog authors, mostly male, were targeted.

Here's a guy who pissed off 4chan by making a movie. Here's one who wrote a book. If you want to do an experiment go post something they find offensive there and see how many death/rape/mutilation threats you get.

A Slashdot story about a guy getting death threats from some scammers he exposed.

Browsing Slashdot at -1 can be pretty enlightening too.

If you want to really get some threats, piss off some religious people.

Let's actually test it and find out. This would be a study I could get behind with my tax dollars (unlike this one: http://now.msn.com/duck-penis-study-cost-395000-dollars). If we find out no one can tell the difference it is going to save a lot of disk space.

... there are already *two* charging points per unique electric car. ...

Maybe, but then there must be a lot of charging points in relatively inconvenient places. Also in that case why would e-laad be having to tell people that they no longer have the budget to put down any more?

... Paid for with taxpayer money. ...

Really? Stichting e-laad was set up by the power companies themselves. They say their budget dried up, but make no mention of subsidies. Even if the municipalities or the Dutch government were subsidizing a certain percentage of each charging point, it doesn't look like that's the reason why e-laad stopped rolling them out. If that were the case, then surely they would have said so. But even if you're right, there are worse things that the government can spend taxpayer money on (like bailing out crooked bankers).

... Nobody buys battery powered electric cars...

You overgeneralize. Just because you don't know anyone who wants one doesn't mean nobody does. The Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs states that, as of August 2012, there were 1,686 completely electric cars driving around on Dutch roads. That's not nobody, but you could be right about the number of charging points. However, according to an estimate last year the Dutch Automobile Association (ANWB) expects that there will be 200,000 electric vehicles driving in the Netherlands by 2020.

... because they are heavy, unreliable, and are economically written off after only 5 years.

Heavy, yes (but getting lighter), unreliable, no. Nissan expects its batteries to retain 70% to 80% of their capacity after a decade of use and guarantees them for five. Chevrolet guarantee the Volt's batteries for eight years. That doesn't sound so bad to me. Other vehicle manufacturers offer similar values, because many of them buy their batteries from the same battery manufacturers.

IMO all of the plug-in battery electric cars currently available are either impractical due to their limited range, or too expensive (such as the Tesla Model S), or both. Yet, for myself I would still prefer a vehicle with batteries to one powered by hydrogen for a number of reasons.

First of all, read this article: 5 Concerns About Electric-Car Batteries. Its not long and addresses reliability, supply, the environment, recycling and actual carbon emissions.

Personally, I love the idea of being able to charge up my vehicle at home on green energy (even if it's just a little more green) for the lowest price possible. That will free me from my gasoline addiction, which I've come to hate not only because burning fossil fuel is bad for the environment, but also because it means paying regular visits to gas stations, always being dependent on a foreign product that sucks a tremendous amount of money out of the local economy, paying a ridiculous price for gasoline (at around $9.00 a gallon, gas prices in the Netherlands are the absolute highest in the world), and always paying more for my gasoline every year.

Regarding hydrogen, it looks like this technology has more drawbacks than advantages. Li-Ion batteries may be expensive, but hydrogen fuel cells make them look very affordable. Some companies have been promising much lower prices, but talk is cheap and any such units have yet to materialize. In the mean time, there are already battery electric vehicles on the road and more money is being spent every day to make those batteries lighter and more powerful. Moreover, I can only imagine paying

On the msn.com home page: Physicists: 'God particle' is real

So presumably you're agreeing with the person to whom you're responding, and supplying another example of

None of these articles make any links to "God" other than a few -- mostly UK, not US -- sources referring to it as the so-called "God particle", but even those explain exactly what this particle is theorized to be, not anything supernatural, "proving God exists", or having anything whatever to do with God.

to add to the list of headlines in their posting.

On the msn.com home page: Physicists: 'God particle' is real

... unless declared integer.

It links to an AP story with the headline "Physicists say they have found a Higgs boson", which says...

GENEVA -- The search is all but over for a subatomic particle that is a crucial building block of the universe.

Physicists announced Thursday they believe they have discovered the subatomic particle predicted nearly a half-century ago, which will go a long way toward explaining what gives electrons and all matter in the universe size and shape.

The elusive particle, called a Higgs boson, was predicted in 1964 to help fill in our understanding of the creation of the universe, which many theorize occurred in a massive explosion known as the Big Bang. The particle was named for Peter Higgs, one of the physicists who proposed its existence, but it later became popularly known as the "God particle."

[...]

...and says nothing about the particle having anything to do with anything related to God, other than being popularly known as the "God particle" -- which is a fact.

On the msn.com home page: Physicists: 'God particle' is real

They are in Europe
http://cars.uk.msn.com/features/green-motoring/car-fuel-economy-the-truth-about-mpg

Tell that to the driver of the Ferrari F-458 whose video is on msn.com's home page today.

That "crispy" look is just soot/ash from the heat shield. You can see several places below the channel for the drogue chute's cord (the diagonal groove) where it has been rubbed off, showing a pristine white underneath. Besides, that picture only shows the bad side of the capsule. Take a look at the capsule from a few different angles. You see, contrary to popular belief, capsules like this do not traverse through the atmosphere straight on. They "fly" in a tilted orientation. That's why the soot marks are on an angle, and one side of the capsule looks charred, while the other looks barely singed.

The technology for mapping subsurface voids has been around for decades, at least the 1960s, the most common method is Direct Current / Resistivity Surveying. An electric current is passed though the ground between four electrodes and the apparent resistivity (in Ohms/meter) of the subsurface is measured & mapped. Voids, filled water or clay or even empty space, have a completely different resistivity compared to the surrounding rock.

Modern survey instruments are automated, they use dozens of computer controlled electrodes (2 current and 2 voltage electrodes are active at any one time). On open ground, a survey covering an area football field could be carried out in a few days. Geophysicists were using Resistivity Surveying to map the sinkhole in Seffner, Florida.

However, I don't know if Florida state law quires a subsurface ground survey before homes are built, I wouldn't be surprised if lobbyists managed to keep such a law off the books (like the insurance lobbyists). Also, the home involved in this case might have been built before automated surveying became available in the 1990s, before then it was slower, more expensive, not widely used.

Engineers Conducing a Resistivity Survey"

2-DAND 3-D RESISTIVITY FOR LOCATING VOIDS BENEATH HIGHWAYS THREE CASE STUDIES"

You can trigger the bricking part under windows too. Suppose that driver or an update choose to brick your laptop if you have illegal downloads on it, or just have a bug, or a worm/cyberattack (that could have bugs too, so the next stuxnet does it in your pc instead of Iranian ones) does it.

Ah yes, my favorite was the reporter last week who seriously asked Bill Nye if global warming had anything to do with the asteroid near-miss.

Yeap, meteorologists didn't manage to attract this one enough.

Ah yes, my favorite was the reporter last week who seriously asked Bill Nye if global warming had anything to do with the asteroid near-miss.

Pretty sure the TSA wins that losers' game.

http://now.msn.com/lucy-forck-three-year-old-with-spina-bifida-singled-out-for-tsa-screening

Lucy, their three-year-old, has Spina bifida and is confined to a wheelchair.

The family managed to make it through the TSA checkpoint without any problems. But as they prepared to walk to their gate, a TSA agent pulled aside Lucy for additional screening measures.

“They specifically told me that they were singling her out for this special treatment because she’s in a wheelchair,”

There were definitely a lot of stinkers in those days. But sadly, I think that for many of us the Vega was the worst of the worst.

The condition that an operational leader present an ‘imminent’ threat of violent attack against the United States does not require the United States to have clear evidence that a specific attack on U.S. persons and interests will take place in the immediate future

is directly lifted from the document that you don't need clear evidence. 9/11 was used right after this statement as an example of why you can't wait for clear details, except there was evidence of a clear and imminent threat in this case as the 9-11 report details. I used the whole "Bin Laden determined to strike in US" document as an example since it is well known. You are correct that the document asserts that

certain members if al-Qa'ida (including any potential targets of lethal force) are continually plotting attacks against he United States

what you miss is the rest of the rational in the same sentance

; that al-Qa'ida would engage in such attacks regularly to the extent it were able to do so; that the U.S. government may not be aware of all al-Qu'ida plots as they are developing and thus cannot be confident that none is about to occur

. Think about this argument, even if you accept that whole "they are always plotting against us" thing, the rest is there is always an imminent threat because there may be a secret threat that we don't know anything about. By this logic, any time a "sovereign citizen" leaves the country can they be assassinated since that group has a track record of plotting against the US and has engaged in terrorists acts? How about survivalists, another group with a track record of terrorist activities? KKK member leaves the country can we kill them, their certainly they are a terrorism organization who actively plots against the US? Let's set aside the US citizen thing, if someone post to a message board from outside the US how they would like to see the US government fall is the US justified in murdering them? After all, they are outside of the US, probably can't be captured, and to their extent possible would be plotting against the US.

At the top of page 10 we get there is not proper court to adjudicate this.

Finally, the Department notes that under the circumstances described in this paper, there exists no appropriate judicial forum to evaluate these constitutional considerations...Were a court to intervene here, it might be required to inappropriately issue an ex ante command.

Basiclly, there is not court with jurisdiction to adjudicate and if one were to intervene their ruling may not be proper.

And in section III on the same page

Section 1119, however, incorporates the federal murder and manslaughter statutes, and thus its prohibition extends only to "unlawful killing[s]"

Killing someone is only murder or manslaughter if it's unlawful

Section 1119 is best construed to incorporate the "public authority" justification

There is a "public authority" justification that can be used to exempt someone fro the letter of the law

As this paper explains below, a lethal operation of the kind discussed here would fall within the public authority exception

This paper is going to tell you that killing someone falls within this exception

Download it without having to sign in to Facebook here.

There have been some massive breakthroughs in the medical field in the last few years and most recently, a possible cure for AIDS and cancer.

That would be $150 000 per infringement times 6 million viewers, but it might just be per track not per downloaded copy. That single mom had to pay ~$35 000 per track, and it mention that people settle at $3 500 per track.

California (and New York) are hemorrhaging population and business. Often (but not only) heading to Texas according to numerous articles and analysis over the past year as well as the last census.

Texas appears to be the largest recipient of the migrations but so are Arizona and Florida. Coincidentally Texas was also named the 2012 Top State for business. Every few weeks I see more and more business headlines of companies (namely tech) moving to or starting a branch in Texas such as Apple, Facebook, PayPal, Catepillar and so on

There had been, however, some controversy over the years of TX Gov Perry's use of the Texas Enterprise Fund to woo companies to relocate. While the deal-landing results appear to be evident, some worry about the taxpayer cost, total incentive packages, and net gain of these deals. The fund seems to be perfectly suited to situations like this, where California tax laws cause some turmoil thereby increasing the opportunity to woo away industry. Recently Texas AG Greg Abbott has also been advertising to New Yorkers to move to Texas on account of gun control issues.

I wonder how long Texas can remain "Texas" if it becomes stuffed with people who are accustomed to living like Californians and New Yorkers.

is the dumbest study I've read on Slashdot to date. Congrats. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/50510582/ns/health-mens_health/#.UQBxUWdBqrg/ is random better news. Also, male doctors have a higher rate of sexual misconduct than female doctors, study pending.

That's exactly right. Here he is refuting any current or future plans to do this: http://news.msn.com/science-technology/scientist-im-not-seeking-a-mom-for-a-neanderthal It's a misunderstanding of his interview. He just said it was theoretically possible, but would require an adventurous woman.

Well no, he tried to *not* be special by not circumventing Hawaiian law to obtain a record that a normal citizen would not have access to.

You are rewriting history. I hear there are job openings in part 2 of the Obama administration for people like you.
From your source, Hawaii does not give it out to "persons who do not have a tangible interest in the vital record." He has interests. He could have made the call.

Your reading comprehension is a little lax.

Read what I quoted again:

oshua Wisch, a spokesman for the Hawaii Attorney General's office, stated in 2011 that the original "long form" birth certificate — described by Hawaiian officials as a "record of live birth" kept in the archives of the Hawaii Department of Health is "... a Department of Health record and it can't be released to anybody", including President Obama. Wisch added that state law does not authorize photocopying such records

The short-form was already released by Obama in 2008 and was rejected by the birthers, despite it being the only valid birth record that normal Hawaiians are allowed to receive..

Here's a longer quote from the Hawaiia Attorney General's office (with highlighting added to help your comprehension)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42519951/ns/politics-more_politics/#.UP9yiGJQAUQ

But Wisch, the spokesman for the attorney general's office, said state law does not in fact permit the release of "vital records," including an original "record of live birth" — even to the individual whose birth it records.
"It's a Department of Health record and it can't be released to anybody," he said. Nor do state laws have any provision that authorizes such records to be photocopied, Wisch said. If Obama wanted to personally visit the state health department, he would be permitted to inspect his birth record, Wisch said.
But if he or anybody else wanted a copy of their birth records, they would be told to fill out the appropriate state form and receive back the same computer generated "certification of live birth" form that everybody else gets — which is exactly what Obama did four years ago.

He was born in Hawaii. I get it and always have. The issue is dicking around with not releasing the birth certificate. I don't hold on to Hillary Clinton conspiracy theories.

But he *did* release the only birth certificate that Hawaii was willing to provide to him (until the public records office was harassed so much that they waived their normal policy to release a copy of the original birth record).

On your original offer of "what else could he do" he could release some school records. The original point about the Obama election group not releasing source code would fall in line with the lack of transparency in this administration. It's not surprising.

But you haven't said what releasing school records would do -- if an official state record of birth is rejected as adequate proof, what good is is releasing school records?

The average age of a commercial Boeing airliner is 14.7 years. Some planes in the Delta/American combined fleet date from the 1960s, and a lot of the 737s you ride in today are 70s-80s vintage.

The inspections and maintenance schedules required to make them as safe as they are have the side-effect of making the last a lot longer than automobiles.

From here:

These bursts of radiation reach the Earth's atmosphere and cause free oxygen and nitrogen atoms to bang together, and some recombine into ozone-destroying compounds called nitrous oxides. Nitrous oxides in the atmosphere are long-lived; they keep destroying ozone until they fall out of the sky in rain drops.

Google: Get to know it. Make it your friend.

I see your anecdote and raise it this one: "Gun-toting soccer mom found shot dead" http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33220258/

Situation has already occurred.

Yes we did try to catch him, then and failed
Fortunately, it was easy tro trace him as he were escaping because
There was a motherfucking python in his motherfucking plane :)

This is what always made me LMAO at these chuckleheads, they can't say what they really want which is "He's a nigger!" so they try to find another reason to get rid of him,. . .

Is that so? So I guess that means you would also be implying that John McCain is simply "passing" for white?

McCain's citizenship called into question - Candidate, born in Panama Canal Zone, may not qualify as 'natural born'
Why Senator John McCain Cannot be President: Eleven Months and a Hundred Yards Short of Citizenship
McCain’s Canal Zone Birth Prompts Queries About Whether That Rules Him Out

I didn't see a single news service say a fucking word about the revelation that Blackwater was selling kids as fuck toys to get better deals in both Kosovo and Afghanistan

The allegation is actually against DynCrop, and you're kidding, right? The media is full of that allegation, but what you don't see is this:

This spring, the State Department inspector general began investigating whether DynCorp ignored signs of drug abuse among expatriate employees in Afghanistan. A related review into the dancing incident is "substantially completed" and "at this point, no criminal activity has been discovered," said Douglas Welty, State Department inspector general spokesman. -- Amid Reviews, DynCorp Bolsters Ethics Practices

(If I recall correctly, the Dallas Morning News had quoted a State Deptment IG spokesman that made a stronger statement, unfortunately that story appears to be not online anymore.)

To quote the late Bill Hicks . . .

Must you?

So the Supreme Environmentalist sold his TV channel for $100 million in oil money. The planet thanks you Commander Gore!

They had an offer from Glenn Beck's network "The Blaze" to purchase Reason TV, and were swiftly rejected for ideological reasons, but the sale to Al Jaz was happily approved because they are "sensitive to networks not aligned with our point of view".

http://now.msn.com/glenn-beck-tried-to-buy-current-tv-but-was-rejected

Who knew Current TV had so many suitors? Before Al-Jazeera snapped up Al Gore's little-watched cable network, Glenn Beck tried to buy it, but, as Beck himself tweeted, "we were rejected by progressive owners." The conservative media personality's TheBlaze approached Current last year but was told that "the legacy of who the network goes to is important to us and we are sensitive to networks not aligned with our point of view," according to a source familiar with the negotiations. Current's new pan-Arab owner may not align with everyone's point of view, either: Time Warner Cable yanked Current from its lineup within hours of the sale, right in the middle of Eliot Spitzer's nightly show. [Source]

So, I guess exploiting middle-east oil money and radical Islamic terrorism are more "aligned" with Al Gores' and Reason TVs' views.

"By their actions, ye shall know them."

Strat

You're definitely making shit up. Otherwise, if it was actually about the law, you'd be demanding mass RICO prosecutions for torture and warrantless wiretapping. If it was about military rules and procedures, you'd be demanding Manning's release because the UCMJ requires trials to take place within 120 days and forbids unlawful command influence.

The problem with you hacks is your selective Concern over the law. Makes you easy to spot.

I would have turned him in, too. Violating a security clearance IS a major felony, regardless of motivation, and releasing classified information without authority is just flat-out wrong.

Felony? How about violating a major treaty? The UN Convention Against Torture - signed by that hippie Ronald Reagan - requires prosecution of those who commit torture. A law that Obama has spent 4 years violating by protecting Bushco torturers from prosecution. Then there's the warrantless wiretapping, lying us into 2 wars, violations of the War Powers Act.

You "but he broke the laaaaaw" guys are all a bunch of fucking hacks. You complain about how Manning broke the law, while ignoring the lawbreaking that Manning revealed. You bleat about how Manning violated the UCMJ, ignoring that the UCMJ prohibits unlawful command influence and requires that trials should take place within 120 days. Manning was held for several times that number before ever seeing the inside of a courtroom.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20203888/ns/us_news-life/t/study-murder-victims-disproportionately-black/

Unfortunately your information is anecdotal. If you live in a mostly white area, it should be no surprise that the crimes are caused by mostly white people. The base murder rate is much higher for blacks then it is whites. It is mostly thought that the reasons for that are socioeconomic, but there is some debate on that

http://www.tnr.com/article/80316/relationship-poverty-crime-rates-economic-conditions

Of course you realize, that the reason milk prices could go up is because someone long ago decided that the price of milk WAS in fact the job government?

http://money.msn.com/now/post.aspx?post=8804bd07-7cfd-4fb7-9d0e-9c0a90fc7501