iAnal? Is it another new product from Apple?

Let's not forget where the bottleneck is - the I/O. It's expensive but once you build a fast and solid storage system, correctly configure it and partition your data properly over a sufficiently large number of hard drives, RAIDs, LUNs etc., you might be able to use SQL. We run a database of 10TB on MS SQL with hundreds of millions of records with an equal rate of reads and writes and could not be happier.

Probably because someone thinks pointing out the double-standard for Israel is un-american or something

I don't see any double standard because:
1. Ahmadinijad keeps threatening to destroy Israel.
2. No one in Israel said anything like that about Iran.

The people who should fear clouds are the people who want their data in their own hands, and don't trust third parties to handle it for then.

And yet you trust banks and investors with your money.