Travel Plans

I’d like to thank the idiots from the U.S. mainstream media, Mexico, the CDC and the WHO for causing thousands of travelers to postpone or cancel their trips to the Yucatan peninsula this week and next.

As one of those travelers who was going to vacation in Cancun this week, I watched local blogs, and touched base with a friend who lives south of Cancun.  Zero reports of the swine flu (I refuse to use Janet Napolitano’s term for it) in that area. Yet, because of press releases and news conferences, many countries and companies chose to cease or drastically reduce travel to Mexico.

For all the diligence these yahoos did on the disease itself, they didn’t do any diligence on logisitics – travel patterns, personal behaviors, activities conducted by those diagnosed with the illness, etc.  Now, Cancun is a virtual ghost town, hoping to open up again later this week.

In reality, it never needed to close.  Fear works better than fact.  Ugh!

So, while we hope and pray that the Yucatan’s economy can rebound, my family will be vacationing for one day less and $1,000 more in the Bahamas.

I hate the media, and the governmental agencies that profess to be for the people.  Idiots!

It Was Just A Teeny-Weeny Error

IOTW candidate #1, week of 2/23/2009

Several years ago, when Butch Davis was the coach of the Cleveland Browns, his starting quarterback went down with an injury.  During a press conference, Davis called it a “teeny-tiny little hairline fracture of a non weight-bearing bone”.  What he was trying to say was, “move along, nothing to see here”.

The quarterback really never recovered for the remainder of the season.

What would he say today about this?   That it was just an eentsy-weentsy patch of ice?  Or that it really wasn’t all that thick?  Or that the sensor had a teeny-tiny problem?  I wonder.

Just remember, global warming does exist, regardless of how misleading the measurements and models really are.

Jeff Foxworthy Would Be Proud

Maybe my elementary school science teachers were all wrong.  After all, they taught me about the oxygen/carbon dioxide cycle between animals and plants.  And I guess that there was something incorrect about that, at least I thought so after watching all the environmental science programs on television lately.

Or, maybe, they weren’t dumb after all.  Maybe the scientists that made this “discovery” are the ones that aren’t smarter than a fifth grader.

Since when have we ignored basic science for the sake of politics?  Never mind; don’t answer that.