I saw this difference in attitude between Asians and the west repeated with technology after technology. Nuclear power, for one, was accepted as routine in Hiroshima, but not in its country of origin.

Economies fluctuate everywhere, but the net result of this attitudinal difference over the years has been Asian prosperity and western stagnation. I look to Asia to lead the world out of the current morass with technological breakthroughs we never anticipated. It may be mining the moon or it may be a computer interface with the human brain. And when it happens, you can bet that the Hollywood stars who set our science policy will be carping about how dangerous it all is.

This is the fastest-booting WIndows I have ever seen. I think users will like it.

"Where are the Jacobins? -- why aren't they killing these people? -- I want to come out onto the square and cheer their beheading...Why aren't we in the plaza's watching the CEO's of these companies being tossed off rooftops and murdered with their evil spawn?"

And that cross is a certain segment of his base. They want Jewish children thrown off rooftops, and it better be by the ides of Germinal.

"China has lurched from extreme Communism to extreme capitalism, and the results are in many ways equally devastating: massive pollution of water and air; deforestation and desertification; food supplies contaminated"

Aha! I knew that the old primitive, starving, Communist China was the one that had revolutionary cred with liberals. Now that the country has industrialization and prosperity, it has joined the ranks of evil.

But if we could put another anti-industrial, anti-western revolutionary back in power, a Chinese Mugabe, the environment would be saved. With industry gone and the farmers driven off their land, rats would swiftly replace people. Public Broadcasting could do another one of those "wouldn't it be wonderful if mankind disappeared" specials that pull in all the dough from the self-hating.

"If you lot were more British you'd look a little more askance at all the inaugural partying this animal will be indulging in before he starts to get done to work."

More British? As in, criminal-fearing drunks with an engrained inability to take anything seriously? No thanks. That's why I left Manchester, never to return.

We of the dark side were pulling for a full pardon, but a commutation to time served will do for now. I'm hoping that the new administration will look into prosecutor Johnny Sutton's fishy relationship with Mexican authorities.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

"Environmentalists" are not interested in promoting cleaner or safer technologies. It's a religious scam whose purpose in life is to destroy all vestiges of human industry. They are halfway there already. All they need is one more generation of testicle-free politicians, and we'll all be back in the caves they have been measuring us for since 1970.

"The only solution is to elect a whale to be our president"

This has been suggested, but Ted ate too much krill the other day at Obama's inauguration buffet.

"And let their neighboring states mess up their pristine ecosystems, then sell the energy to California. Californians get to preach from the moral highgrounds and Arizona and Nevada get to do something productive and lucrative."

If California would help us fast-track the addition of three or four more reactors to our Palo Verde complex in Phoenix, we would be glad to oblige.

"Old people need to be isolated and studied so it can be determined what nutrients they have that might be extracted for our personal use."

In my case that would be cheddar, sardines and Merlot. And most important: never stop walking.

Does that mean that we will get to use carbon-free baseload sources of energy that already exist? Sources that we could actually depend on being able to plug all those electric cars into? Or will we have to wait until Joe Romm pulls unicorn fart power from his colon?

"Google on Moteur Developpment International (MDI) and Guy Negre to see what I am talking about. How about 120 miles at 60 mph carrying 4 people on a tank of compressed air, priced at USD12,000?"

Oui, Monsieur Verne, c'est vraiment incroyable!

"Tell me, Einstein, if we're in a cooling phase, why is the Northwest Passage now open? Ya ever heard of that, genius?"

And this is different from Rev. Wright proclaiming "Y'all gotta be-LEEV!" exactly how?

"Please explain your mechanism for the ice melting, that does not somehow involve heat, Mr. super-scientist."

Because your "observation" that the "Northwest Passage is open again" was not a scientific observation based on observation of long-term trends (as made by, you know, actual scientists) but an outlier data point you cherry-picked in one year of major ice melt in that particular region of the world. It's like maintaining that this week's freezing weather in the northern US "proves" that the planet is cooling down.

Actual scientists, as opposed to keyboard Maoists, are busy looking for reasons why we had that one summer of Arctic melting. Stay tuned, folks.

"You're a fundamentalist Christian posing as an agnostic. Go choke on Jesus' dick, you useless cunt."

Rhetoric like this has convinced me that for at least the next four years the Cultural Revolutionaries will be in control in this nation. Let's accept as a base premise that the Warmists are in control and that only carbon-free energy sources should be permitted to exist. The Department of Energy needs to tell us as soon as possible what those sources are to be and when the WPA jobs get handed out.