Just a couple of quick stories for you today. First from the ever sensitive and racially incorrect U.S. Forest Service comes this blatantly racist message.

A federal warning to beware of campers in national forests who eat tortillas, drink Tecate beer and play Spanish music because they could be armed marijuana growers is racial profiling, an advocate for Hispanic rights said Friday.

The warnings were issued Wednesday by the U.S. Forest Service, which is investigating how much marijuana is being illegally cultivated in Colorado’s national forests following the recent discovery of more than 14,000 plants in Pike National Forest.

Michael Skinner, a law enforcement officer with the U.S. Forest Service in Colorado, said warning signs of possible drug trafficking include “tortilla packaging, beer cans, Spam, Tuna, Tecate beer cans,” and campers who play Spanish music. He said the warning includes people speaking Spanish.

Because we all know that if you are Mexican, the chances that you grow pot in National Forest land instead of making meth in your basement goes up exponentially. A related warning said that if residents noticed yards with broken washers, single wide trailers, people named Skinner, or pre-1993 non collectible cars they should report suspect persons to the DEA.

And Indian Scientists gave some bad news about the country’s first lunar orbiter:

India’s Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter mission, which launched last October, ended 14 months prematurely Saturday after an abrupt malfunction, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said in a statement.

ISRO said scientists abruptly lost radio contact with the nation’s first planetary probe, which was designed to operate for two years in orbit around the Moon. ISRO spokesman S. Satish told Space News, SPACE.com’s sister publication, on Saturday that attempts to reestablish contact had failed and that the mission was as good as lost.

The spacecraft, carrying a payload of 11 scientific instruments — six supplied by U.S. and European partners — was orbiting at an altitude of 124 miles (200 km) and could crash any time on the lunar surface, he said. The end comes four months after the onboard star sensor for determining Chandrayaan-1′s orientation began malfunctioning April 26, forcing controllers to activate a backup system to keep the spacecraft’s antenna pointed to the ground station near Bangalore.

It turns out though that they have determined Chandra’s orientation. The satellite is definitely gay.