TMIA, I’ll assume you’re some species of liberal. This is made all the easier by the fact that you misunderstood the point I was making, became upset by your misunderstanding, and did a bang up job of debunking a position that didn’t exist:

re: postpone the inevitable by a massive spending project on a system of dikes and levees.

So now you are advocating yet another massive government welfare project? Where will the dikes & levees protect, all of southern Florida or just the wealthy areas such as Boca Raton? What would Ron Paul say about this? Ron Paul “[Government] funds go not necessarily to the best artists, but to people who happen to be good at filling out government grant applications. I have my doubts that the same people occupy both categories.”

I hope you will be starting a private campaign, “Florida Levees for the Rich,” to begin amassing the trillions of dollars needed to construct dikes around southern Florida, as private funding is “far more efficient than that of the government.”

You see, FYIA, everything after “far more likely” was an ironic sarcastic comment. I wasn’t proposing we build dikes and levees around affected lowlands. Far from it. I was, however, mocking the idea as so incredibly stupid that it would probably at least suggested by some dimwitted liberal.

Next, don’t get the idea that I love John McCain. This is definitely, the “We’re Screwed” election. The only difference between him and the other two candidates is the speed at which we get screwed. With Obama, or Hillary, the screwing will be immediate and brutal. If McCain, we will be in fairly good shape until he gets his immigration policies through, in which case we’re more screwed that if Obama or Hillary had been elected.

Good job of extending my railroad metaphor to support your own cause. You obviously have some “Republican DNA” in there some where. I suggest you cultivate that. It’s your only hope.

Finally, the Kyoto Protocol. Sigh. I really wish you Lefties would give this a rest. It was a bad idea whose time never came. The fact that you’re impressed by 178 countries signing it only shows that you’ve transferred you hopeless high school desire to be one of the “cool kids” and transferred it to American foreign policy. Bad news, FYIA, even after the United States is reduced to a post-industrial wasteland, the “cool kids” will still hate you.

One final thing, all snarkiness aside. One thing you need to learn in life is that despite what your parents, teachers, minister, etc. may have told you, it is very possible for you to be right and everybody else to be wrong. In fact, it happens all the time. The Kyoto Protocol never had, and never will, have anything to do with reducing carbon emissions. If it did, China and India would be under sanctions right now. The Kyoto document, like anything dreamed up by the political left/environmentalist movement is about cutting Uncle Sam’s balls off.

By the way, I do apologize for the confusion about my meaning in the post. I usually try to idiot-proof my posts, but I’ve been busy because I’ve accepted a new job (that’s a place where you go and work and the people who own the place give you money for doing it). So, I’ve cut a few corner and one of them has been proof-reading. Sorry.