Political Humor

Fear Over Cuba Travel Ban Lift

The AP wonders if Cuba can handle an “onslaught of Americans“:

“A push in Congress to do away with U.S. travel bans on Cuba could set off a flood of American visitors to the long-forbidden island.

But many wonder if a country where foreigners have long complained about lousy food, sluggish service and iffy infrastructure is ready for an onslaught of Americans unseen since the days of Meyer Lansky and Al Capone.”

In other words don’t go to Cuba because it sucks and is a hangout for the mafia. Good to know because I was planning on going there for vacation despite the fact it is an impoverished country.

And who are “the many” who wonder?

It reminds me of a kitchen manager at a place I worked at a few years ago. A cook would do something wrong and he would ask him who told him to do that. The cook replied: “They did.” The kitchen manager retorted: “Who’s they? I’m they!”

The story wasn’t done slamming the country however:

“Cuba has about as many hotel rooms as Detroit…”

Oh man, not a comparison to Detroit. That is the tourism kiss of death.

This Isn’t Star Trek

Now the government wants to play God with the weather:

“Tinkering with Earth’s climate to chill runaway global warming – a radical idea once dismissed out of hand – is being discussed by the White House as a potential emergency option, the president’s new science adviser said Wednesday.

That’s because global warming is happening so rapidly, John Holdren told The Associated Press in his first interview since being confirmed last month.”

How you get a rapid warming trend from falling temperatures is beyond our comprehension I guess. We must not be smart enough to realize that cooling means warming.

Duh.

None the less,  Holdren wants to implement geo-engineering, the imaginary concept of using technology to manipulate the climate of a planet on purpose just like in Star Trek Two: The Wrath of Khan.

They called it the Genesis Project or something like that in the movie. It also brought Spock back to life a sequel later.

It was also fiction much like the belief in Global Warming as well as this awful analogy:

“Twice in a half-hour interview, Holdren compared global warming to being ‘in a car with bad brakes driving toward a cliff in the fog.’ “

Hmm how do we know Holdren didn’t buy a GM-made car?

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RL Political Humor Quick Hits is written by Chris Cameron every Tuesday exclusively for Radioactive Liberty. You can also read his own odd posts at his humor blog Angry Seafood.