PC Police: “Don’t Call it Swine Flu”
If you thought things couldn’t get anymore idiotic, well hold onto your hats!
Janet Napolitano and some foreign governments are upset at the official name of the flu epidemic that is spreading around the globe.
Apparently it isn’t kosher to say swine 
especially when this strain of the flu has more human and avian components and it is not specifically caused by pork or pork food products.
I say – who cares? Call it the Flying Meatball Virus for heaven’s sake – does it really matter?
What’s in a name? U.S. pork producers are finding that the name of the virus spreading from Mexico is affecting their business, prompting U.S. officials to argue for changing the name from swine flu.
At a news briefing, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack took pains to repeatedly refer to the flu as the “H1N1 virus.”
“This is not a food-borne illness, virus. It is not correct to refer to it as swine flu because really that’s not what this is about,” Vilsack said.
Israel has already rejected the name swine flu, and opted to call it “Mexico flu.” Jewish dietary laws forbid eating pork.
The Paris-based World Organization for Animal Health also objected to the name, saying the virus contains avian and human components and no pig so far has been found ill with the disease.
And there is growing sentiment in the farm sector to call it the North American virus — although disease expert Anthony Fauci told a Senate hearing the “swine flu” designation reflected scientific naming protocol.
Give me a break!
Senator Orrin Hatch has Lost his Mind!
The Senate is really taking care of important matters up on the Hill today. The top Republican for the Senate Judiciary’s subcommittee on antitrust, Orrin Hatch, wants to introduce legislation that would rectify how college football teams are ranked and seeded.
Maybe it is me who has lost their mind, but I thought we had bigger fish to fry and more pressing matters like the budget and the economy?
Everyone from President Barack Obama on down to fans has criticized how college football determines its top team. Now senators are getting off the sidelines to examine antitrust issues involving the Bowl Champion Series.
The current system “leaves nearly half of all the teams in college football at a competitive disadvantage when it comes to qualifying for the millions of dollars paid out every year,” the Senate Judiciary’s subcommittee on antitrust, competition policy and consumer rights said in a statement Wednesday announcing the hearings.
All I can say to this video clip is WTF!? This is someone who was elected… Do you think she should be overseeing committees or the markets?
