Congress consists of both the House and the Senate, and Senators have a term of six years.

So there's an aap for that?

"a wearable robotic suit that assists the muscles when carrying out strenuous tasks" So while it can help people with weak or disabled muscles regain more of their strength (if not now, then in the future), it might also be great for heavy labour like hauling things. I think a lot of companies would pay to have this as part of a regular work uniform like hard hats and boots, if only to duck the insurance claims.

Wouldn't that be the noise-to-signal ratio?

Where'd you get the American from?

No, no, wait, we can still milk some literary merit out of this.

That's fine.

And, while at the cash, the item I'd been trying to remember all this while came back to me.

A small moment of hope and optimism followed.

Until I paused to reflect and concluded that it would be not much use at all. There, fixed that for you.

We deport them to America and Australia in unlabelled shipping containers. Always have, always will.

I see where you're going with this, but Glenn Beck will only deny it. News at 9.

Would that be because almost all of this decade was after 2000? Who comes up with these brilliant insights, I wonder.

Absolutely. Peace isn't merely politicians negotiating treaties, public-spirited volunteers planting trees, religious leaders preaching tolerance, or organisations raising money to save endangered species. Peace is an instrument towards achieving open-minded and open-hearted coöperation amongst people from a wide variety of cultures, ethnicities and countries working towards creating solutions for the common welfare. If anyone deserves the Peace prize, Linus Torvalds probably does. Or perhaps the open-source movement, as a whole. Software may not be as visible as loud activists and marching protesters, but it has achieved the kind of collaboration amongst interested private individuals and companies that the environmental movement or any of various well-meaning political groups can only envy.

Ooh... bite me.

So we invade an entire country?

Which means a UN force should have dealt with them.

Sad, I know, but it's really not our place to police the world. Or if it is, why not take China to task? Oh I know. They actually do have WMDs. Reminds me of that bit from Yes, Minister:
Hacker: We should protect the weak from the powerful!
Appleby: Oh really? Why don't we fight the Soviets in Afghanistan then?
Hacker: They are... too powerful!

Gandhi. G-A-N-D-H-I. It's not hard.

The problem isn't that religion's claims have few living witnesses, it is that they are absurd.
If someone told me Abraham Lincoln could walk on water, Julius Caesar could raise the dead or repeating E=mc^2 five times a day guarantees eternal happiness, you damn well bet I'd question it.

Don't give them any ideas....