Travel Advisory for Idiots

Travel is every mans' right and most men's dream. To see the world and all its wonders is an aspiration we all share. Interacting with cultures and people whose language, cuisine and interpersonal styles that are different than our own is way to not only elevate our understanding of this planets social diversity but to better share our culture with the world.

But you've got to use some common sense people!

Many countries receive Americans with open arms, sometime they cross their fingers but they allow us and want us and enjoy having us visit without hesitation or reservation.

Do you know which ones they are?

Its easy. They are the ones that don't shot rockets at our planes, or threaten to drop nukes on us or the ones that don't cut off our journalist's heads.

You know, England, Mexico, Canada, Germany, Japan, China, Spain, France, Italy, Greece, Thailand, India, to name a few.

Can you guess which ones you shouldn't go to?
Maybe Iraq or Iran sound like poor travel choices? How about Darfur, Sudan or Lebanon? And maybe you haven't heard, but North Korea is not really hot on Americans these days either.

Come on people, really. Does our government have to start incarcerating you idiots after you get out of the Venezuelan prison to keep you from traveling to place that should be obvious problems?

As a blatant example, lets look at the recent situation with the two idiots that North Korea just release, Laura Ling and Euna Lee.

These two snuck into North Korea from China to interview defectors from North Korea and film their escapes across a frozen river between North Korea and China. They had been warned by Chinese officials not to venture into NK.

Did they listen? No. So, they were arrested and detained and there was little hope that these two idiots were getting out once Pyongyang realized that they were holding the sister of Lisa Ling, the reporter who had also snuck in and interviewed people off the streets of North Korea and uncovered Kim Jong Il's deity status, his ban on outside media, misinformation campaigns and out right brainwashing of his people.

The thing that really stands out as stupid is that they were told by numerous people in the know, that going over to North Korea was a bad idea, especially for Ling. But hey its ok, we can just send good ol' Bill over to fix things right up. You know because he's not busy and the North Koreans are reasonable people after all, right?

In case you didn't know the United States Department of State generates a list of places the Ma and Pa Kettle with their Piggly Wiggly bag luggage should avoid, but honestly all you have to do is watch the news once a month. If you hear the name of the country you want to visit in the same news piece that also include words like "terrorists", "bombings", "behead" or "kidnapping" DON'T GO.

And if you a journalist with big ideas of uncovering government corruption or human trafficking, don't bother, we already know that the whole planet is screwed up and we don't need you sticking your nose in it. Bill Clintons busy; he can't keep giving photo-ops to dictator midgets.