As IF Times

link Big UN environmental summit opens in Rio – CBS News.

“Honey, this year, we’ll be doing our climate conference shtick in Rio!”

“Why that’s wonderful dear!  Wow, getting that job as a UN diplomat was a brilliant move on your part 20 years ago!  We’ve seen the world in opulent luxury, have never spent a dime for any of it and in fact got paid millions of tax free dollars to do so!  Let’s see, where have we been recently, Copenhagen, Kyoto, Durban, Cancun and now Rio.  You are a genius!”

“Aw shucks honey, it was just luck that’s all.  Who would have thought that 20 years after this whole climate charade started that it would still be going on today.  We’re like the Rolling Stones’ final tour.  We’ll just milk it until the idiots figure it out.  When they do, we’ll find some other world ending cause.”

“But how can they not have caught on by now? Didn’t you all say that it was all going to end badly from the outset 20 years ago, that time was running out?”

“Yes, but no one remembers those things.  Besides, every year some new poster child for the consequence of human negligence pops up.  If not spotted owls, it’s penguins, polar bears, or whales or worms or bees.  There’s always somebody missing.   Now, you don’t even have to count missing animals, just tell ’em that ice is disappearing…ICE!”

“Won’t the masses find out one day?  I mean, what actually is the date for final extinction?”

“Shhh!  There isn’t one!  We just keep telling them that the end is near and that way, they’ll keep paying us to tell them it’s soon!  Come to think of it, you’re right, it IS sheer genius!  Now don’t bother me honey, go shopping for a new swimsuit or something.  I have to practice my speech in that Morgan Freeman voice that people fall for.  Actually, let’s both go bauble shopping, I’ll just dust off an old speech, no one will know the difference.”

link Al Gore: Scott Walker is ‘extreme,’ divisive – Patrick Gavin – POLITICO.com.

One of the biggest hits of the TV season surrounds the blood feud between two bitterly opposing factions.  As it happens, “The Hatfields vs The McCoys” is a good guess, but the better answer is the political right vs the political left in the U.S..  There is no dramatization or fictional story more compelling than the political feud occurring now between an obviously divided American public, at least according to the popular media.

Increasingly, the rhetoric and animosity has escalated to levels of derangement as partisans of the left increasingly show just how nakedly unhinged they really are.  The recent landmark recall elections in Wisconsin will be seen years from now as a pivotal moment in American history.  Unable to convince others of their tenuous positions and claims through laughable maneuvers and tactics over the past 2 years, the union backed left lost a landslide vote over entitlements, not to Scott Walker and the right as has been characterized, but to the long suffering taxpayers.

Some may remember back in 2011, the novel tactic of Wisconsin lawmakers running off and hiding in the next state to avoid voting on a motion they were sure to lose.  This is the equivalent of a 3 year old covering their eyes in order to have a bad thing go bye-bye.  Some may recognize the technique of aggregating union support nationwide for their cause as the equivalent of “everyone else is doing it”.  Finally, we get to the aftermath of the recall vote where a woman actually slaps the losing contestant, Tom Barrett over conceding an obvious loss.  Given the recent stories of cannibalism in the news, Barrett is lucky she didn’t bite him.

Amusingly, the high cretin of hyperbole, Al-the-world-is-ending-Gore chimes in with his thoughts on the issue, as if he and the facts were intimate friends.   If the left is going to make a credible case for anything,  they’ll at least have to get new spokespeople for their causes.  They can’t have Bill Clinton preach about integrity; they can’t have Michael Moore babble about the oppressed, they can’t have Nancy Pelosi cry crocodile tears about poverty and they can’t have Al Gore speak about…well… anything.

In a time when the harsh wave of reality is sweeping all nation states worldwide with respect to untenable debts and related entitlements, there are still those who cling to fantasy world views of what they deserve.  Upon reflection, perhaps this is not so much deranged as it is infantile.   The name calling, the petulant behaviour, the faux demonstrations.  As the grown-ups always say, ‘it’s all fun until someone loses an eye’.