This Little Piggy went to. . . .well maybe not

LA Times reports today "Cruise lines rile passengers, tourism officials by avoiding Mexican ports"

Let me get this straight, people are "riled" because the cruise lines are avoiding Mexico? Who in their right mind would want to go anywhere near Mexico and then get on a ship with a couple thousand people in crowded conditions. The cruise lines are offering refunds if your ship hasn't sailed yet and re-routing the ships and offering discounts to passengers that have already left port.

I can understand the disappointment to go to Catalina Island instead of Cancun or Cozumel, but can you imagine how this lawsuit happy society would react if Royal Caribbean, Carnival, etc. pulled into the port of LA with two thousand sick passengers. This reminds me of when the hurricanes in 2008 were in the Atlantic and the ships went to Rhode Island instead of the Bahamas. The passengers were threatening mutiny. I have been on enough cruises to understand that if there is an outbreak of Ebola in Jamaica not to complain if we end up in New Orleans.

Why do our government officials keep saying, there is nothing that can be done to prevent the spread of the Swine flu. . . .Well this Texas girl says. . . .Close the borders NOW.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-cruise2-2009may02,0,7003056.story