"have your taxes raised substantially to pay down the debt for the Iraq war and pay the expenses of the new war you seem to desire so strongly, "

When this war is over and the last jihadist joins the last Communist and the last Nazi, I would rather have the oil producing countries pay reparations to the US and other nations for the terrorism they caused.

...And so are patients who demand public healthcare. For years, conservatives have asked doctors and hospitals and pharma to give up their government-enforced monopolies, so patients can make their own choices in an open market. They refused, and healthcare went merrily on pricing itself out of the market. Now along comes Robespierre with his guillotine.

Instead of a clunky regime of subsidies, what solar power needs to flourish is the same legal privilege given those crucially important home satellite dishes: a federal law exempting solar installations from all local regulatory obstacles, no questions asked. Stand back and watch the solar installations sprout, even in the most HOA-infested parts of California.

But the Asia you're talking about is the spate of me-too flicks produced during the kung fu bubble. Like all fads, that one faded, but there's a lot more of Asia still to be heard from.

I'm hearing some smugness from women on this issue. Women running for office, you see, are guaranteed immune from temptation and especially from lovesick behavioral weirdness.

How soon we have forgotten about the Nowak-Oefelein case. You'll remember shortly when Nowak's trial makes the news.

The world has one fewer child molesters to be worried about.

"but I'm pretty sure current GPS technology won't work underwater"

No one is asking for magic water-penetrating GPS. If a black box can log its own GPS coordinates while in the air, then retransmit its last recorded position when underwater, that position will at least pinpoint the latitude, longitude and altitude where the plane broke up, whether this took place high in the air or on contact with the water. This by itself is a crucial piece of evidence in an investigation.

"HEY! WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH THOSE MACS?"

When that Mac needs its printer configured, or a lifetime of cruise photographs organized on it, or a backup system set up, or set up on the broadband router the flippant young man from the cable company installed...that's when the lady of the house calls me. Oh, and I goosh spiders at no extra charge.

"The largest job loses were in fiance and industry..."

Of course you're not going to marry the guy if he turns out to be a bad provider.

In the US, we call such people "doctors".

...So nobody watches our top-secret plan unfold in Iran. Hell, at this point we could nuke Cleveland and attract little attention.

You have made such an issue of warming that if it end up being proven false, nobody will ever listen to you again, on any subject whatever. The rest of us will throw your faux-religious talking points on the subject back in you faces forever.

There is, however, one worse outcome for you: what if you're right about climate change? What is the planet really is warming up catastrophically and it's all caused by manmade carbon? Then you will have to admit to the world that you have been wrong about nuclear power for the last generation, that a crash program to replace coal plants with reactors is the only thing that can save us. You will have to admit to us pig AmeriKKKAns in particular that your country, so ric in uranium that it doesn't care to use to save the climate, is the one that really ended up with kangaroo vomit on its face.

Can we at least ship you blokes a tankerload of Poland Spring water?

"We need to start shifting our appetites to fish that can be farmed efficiently and economically, and leave the wild stocks as a special treat."

This is obvious, but too bad that the oh-so-concerned-about-everything Greens decided to reject this solution the moment it appeared. They would rather have the oceans turn into solid jellyfish than support the farming of the species we eat. Perhaps someone out there can explain this.

I want to see if we can waterboard a troll with potato salad. And let's use extra mustard and pepper.

Green attitude toward fish farming has followed the same trajectory as their attitude toward, to take another example, windfields. Just as with wind, it was they who originally suggested the idea as an alternative to the 'mining' of ocean fish. When no fish farms existed, liberals loved the idea. It was another one of their favored nonexistent solutions.

Then the farming of fish actually got underway. The supply of farmable species skyrocketed. Salmon, once endangered, became the 'bison of the sea', saved by farming. As this happened, Greens turned against fish farming, just as they automatically turn against any human solution to an environmental problem. This article is typical: http://www.naturallifemagazine.com/9712/fishfarming.htm

The Greens' agenda is not exactly hidden. Letter after letter in this thread lays it all out: the human race is a cancer upon the breast of Mother Gaia, and these keyboard Pol Pots want genocide. If we know what's good for us, we won't let these sickos gain a crumb of real power.