As IF Times

link AFP: Battle lines drawn for Cancun climate conference.

I think they mean the line to the bar.  Once again, the global warming braintrust is convening in a nice sunny clime to listen to themselves talk about the weather.  It’s as if they were a pack of baying coyotes, you only wish you could throw a shoe and yell at them to shut up.  I wonder why they didn’t gather in Copenhagen again, or in London.  Oh, that’s right, all the snow makes standing outside with global warming signs uncomfortable.  Far more convenient to don the speedos and sip margaritas decrying the decadence of the west from a more civilized place. “This is much better than Kyoto.  You couldn’t get a decent drink there.”

I’m sure there’s an activities list handed out to the official attendees.  A typical day may look like this:

9:00 am:  breakfast at the pool cabana

10:30 am:   speech by Chick Gore  –  Topic- Urgency of Calamity,  Imminent Extinction; Only 6 to 8 months left for world. 

11:30 am:  speech by Al Little – Topic- Action Plan, How to raise taxes for the next 10 years to pay for initiatives

12:30 pm:  working  lunch at the conference hall- Topic- Disappearance of animal species due to Global Warming.  Accompanying lunch will be seared rare Ahi Tuna from the Gulf Coast with a selection of rare French wines.

1:45 pm:  Pre-protest primer in the main lobby.  Instruction on chanting and fist shaking.  Final spell check on protest signs.  Fake beards handed out.

2:00 pm:  Official protest rally of the day; gather at gates of the golf course, sunscreen will be provided.

2:10 pm:  Camera crew leaves, protest over for the day. 

2:30 pm:  Free Afternoon.  Buses to Aztec ruins tour available in main lobby.

6:00 pm:  Dinner at Senor Frogs

link My Way News – Defense, friends say Ore. bomb plot suspect set up.

The only comparison to the response of the idiots in Portland in the animal world are whale beachings.  In the case of whales, it’s believed that they only perform this act of suicide because of illness.  Beachings serve to end their suffering and speeds their death.  In the case of the Portland contingent who are rallying to Mr. Mohamud’s defense, I suppose they would benefit the rest of society if they too were to beach themselves.  Perhaps liberalism is an illness after all.

The only possible explanation for the crowd rallying in defense of Mr. Mohamud is because they have latent suicidal tendencies.  Of course, there are strong hints of this as reflected in their voting proclivities.  Portland is one of the most liberal places in the U.S..  Up to now, they are  the only city in America which does not cooperate with the FBI on homeland security issues. 

If you struck yourself on the head with a ball been hammer a few times, you may be able to see their position.  That is,  Mohamed Osman Mohamud was likely selected from the population by the FBI because Mohamed was a suspicious name.  I mean, outside of the UK, how many people have a name like Mohamed?  They planted the idea of blowing up people in his otherwise innocent brain and framed him for the glory of breaking a huge case.   Let’s face it, given an opportunity, anyone would be willing to arrange for drums of explosives to be delivered to crowded public place to be detonated at the most opportune time….purely for amusement.  They do it in Sylvester Stallone movies all the time.

The gentle citizens of Portland, rather than express outrage and relief that the plan did not go off as expected are instead chastising the FBI for apprehending an innocent kid.  Note to anthropology students; this is as close to beached whale suicide behaviour as it gets, followed closely by electing Jerry Brown and Barbara Boxer in California.  This is the equivalent of the fraternity hazing ritual of being paddled on your bare butt, whereupon you say, ‘thank you sir, may I have another?”  We only hope this innocent child recieves a fair hearing and the FBI excoriated for their police state tactics.  Go pick on real criminals; like the ones who don’t recycle.