And just when you think the world of "Politcal Correctness" can't go any further over the edge.....

is when something like this happens.....

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090427/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_odd_israel_kosher_flu

"JERUSALEM – The outbreak of swine flu should be renamed "Mexican" influenza in deference to Muslim and Jewish sensitivities over pork, said an Israeli health official Monday.

Deputy Health Minister Yakov Litzman said the reference to pigs is offensive to both religions and "we should call this Mexican flu and not swine flu," he told a news conference at a hospital in central Israel.

Both Judaism and Islam consider pigs unclean and forbid the eating of pork products."

Yes...calling it the swine flu. Unclean. Let's call it the Mexican flu. Nothing's quite as clean as the flu....

You'd think it would be an appropriate name for the thing in their eyes.

Swine = bad.

Swine flu = bad + bad = really bad.

Holy $%^&*. Has political correctness and considering everyone and anyone's insecurities....I mean sensitivities...finally gone to far? I love this one. Don't call it the swine flu...we don't like swine...it's offensive. Call it the Mexican flu. Screw them (the Mexicans) if they don't like it. They can take it. They are tough. Take things in stride. Mexicans.

I can't believe a statement like this even came about. Of all the things to worry about...

Alright. In order to preserve their delicate sensibilities (albeit I don't see where sense is at all involved, at least, not the common form of it), perhaps we can call it the swine flu, and they can call it something different. Yes...that could just work....and not the Mexican flu though....that would make them all hypocrites...they'd have to come up with a different name. How about:

"The nothing to do with pork it was really monarch butterfly flu."

or

"The I wished I named this something different flu"

or

"The thing with the round nose and squiggly tail flu"

or perhaps just simply

"The Wilbur Flu"

I can't believe this stuff even makes the news...