And yet, everybody screams about America that emits only 15%, ignores Europe that emits about 16% (and climbing), and China at over 1/3 of all CO2.

And yet, that is a joke. China emits more than 1/3 of the CO2 emissions in the world today. America is below 15%. And Europe-OECD is actually ABOVE America. The problem is, that IPCC normalizes in bizarre fashions. The idea that CO2 emissions are compared in a national way is a joke. Germany's emission are climbing fast and yet, total emissions are below America. Many nations in Europe are fairly low, and yet, in terms of CO2 / $GDP, they are monster high.

One of the real problems with China is that few fully realize how bad of shape they are in. When OCO2 comes out and the numbers are measured for CO2 flows in and out of CHina, the world is in for a shock.

You're quite correct. No one is responsible for anything anymore--except conservatives.

Racism, idiocy; idiocy, racism.

The funny (or scary) thing is, at one time one of the Cracker Jack prizes was a match shooter.

If, instead of a tablet the kids had blocks and picture books, they would develop manual dexterity. Or at least provide the books and blocks and limited tablet time.

I wouldn't be so sure

I commend to you a little more research prior to making that judgement of the CoS. I can't speak for all of the Federalist Papers, but I'm confident that the CoS leaders have read deeply in them.

Hoping we don't get WWIII by assuming a fetal position--yeah, that's a swift call.

I mean, I hold a Masters in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College, with an emphasis in the Law of Armed Conflict. I've also been around the block a little bit. I'll buy off on your "press releases hardly ever reflect what goes over secured communications" observation.
Nevertheless, the geo-strategy is as plain as the dumb on your Congressman's face: Russia is on the march, and the POTUS is in the fetal position. There is precisely shag-all going on, in a preparatory sense, to prepare any sort of response. Oh yeah: the BLM thinks it found Crimea somewhere in Nevada.

According to Mel Brooks, they were subject to catastrophic data loss.

Did I say the issue was the lights?

I once had a Server 2003 install go bananas and completely fuck up an Exchange message store. "Never again!" I cried, and within a few hours was installing from a day old backup.