Why the slippery slope? This isn’t some hypothetical case. This is a real-world case wherein the data in the phone could possibly prevent another similar terrorist attack from happening.

Oh come on. The only way it’ll get out is if Apple itself disseminated it.

This isn’t theoretical government overreach.

Right on, Amy.

The fact that you’re making this ideological somehow just tells everyone you’re absolutely clueless.

Keep on whistling dixie, moron. Look at the stock market and global economy, and keep saying ‘everything’s gonna be alright.’

Well, he’s basically the mental embodiment of a Nazi skinhead.

No, the Chinese economy is limping because their investment managers got caught up in the buyback-fueled run of our stock market, and their stock market.

Yeah, we’re going to off ourselves before the Chinese do.

I always watch ‘Lake Placid’ on re-runs. Bridget Fonda in her prime, ‘nuff said.

Sorry, but the U.S. consumer, aging, broke and unemployed, WAS the engine for the global economy. Our wonderful corporations and Wall Street have helped destroy it. We already are tits up, as you put it.

And yes, that really is nitpicking. And you’ve got it wrong - Daesh and Assad are fighting each other.

It’s been ineffective because you’re obviously not the only one who believes in the “moderate rebel” unicorn ... LOL. I mean, you’re in good company there with John McCain (now I feel like throwing up .... ).

That’s my point - democracy took root in those countries organically, through their own experiences and history.

You’re really trying to make it look like you get all this, don’t you?

Yes, and South Korea and Japan both had to be reduced to ashes to get started on their “history of democracy.” We’ve been around for more than 200 years as a democracy, and we’re still struggling as a nation in getting it right.

How exactly are they going to “pay for it?”

You’re always thinking on such superficial levels.

At some point, you’re going to have to muster up the courage to stop splashing water in the cognitive kiddie pool, and start venturing out into deeper mental waters where you find your feet can no longer feel the relative safety of that rocky sea floor littered with your preconceived notions and biases.

That’s how you say “Shit just got real .... “ in Chinese.