Jaunted - Pensacola http://www.jaunted.com/ The Pop Culture Travel Guide en-us Copyright 2006 - SFO MEDIA 2012-02-11T07:36:29Z Jaunted Jaunted Jaunted http://www.jaunted.com/images/jauntedw.jpg http://www.jaunted.com/ Obama's Pensacola Beach Day is Not All Sun and Fun When There's Work to Be Done http://www.jaunted.com/story/2010/6/15/103135/651

It's a beach day for President Obama, but not in the way that he'd hope. The prez will spend today down on Pensacola Beach addressing the BP Oil Spill efforts and visiting the Naval Air Technical Training Center. This comes after he's met with BP executives, who no doubt would rather Obama spend his beach day showing off a six-pack in swimtrunks, rather than digging deeper into their mess.

Pensacola—aka the poster place for tourist hotspots endangered by the BP Oil Spill—hasn't had much visible oil damage on its beach yet and tourists are still swimming. However, the story is different offshore, where "three miles from Navarre Beach there is sheen mixed with tarballs and a thick red paste." Eww. ]]> JetSetCD 2010-06-15T10:31:35-05:00 The BP Oil Slick May Hit Florida's Beaches As Soon As Thursday http://www.jaunted.com/story/2010/6/2/101736/4490

So, remember how BP offered to give Florida a cool $35 million to help their tourism industry survive the summer oil spill season? They may end up desperately needing it, as the unimpeded oil spill floats nearer to the beaches and specifically threatens the beach life of Pensacola.

The situation isn't looking good; officials have used words like "inevitable" and USA Today notes NOAA's findings that the oil slick could reach Floridian shores by Thursday, after sliding across Alabama's shore. Although BP has been doling out the emergency funds, they still haven't managed to deal with the cause of all this: the oil spill itself. The black stuff continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico after operations like Top Kill failed. ]]> JetSetCD 2010-06-02T10:43:37-05:00 Dinosaurland's Evolution-Free Zone http://www.jaunted.com/story/2005/8/12/161741/393

Now here's some peculiar fun for the whole family. The scamps at Popbitch clued us into the wonderful world of Dinosaurland, a creationist "science center" and theme park teaching kids that dinosaurs are still among us in the form of the Loch Ness monster and other beasts, Noah's Flood created the Grand Canyon, and the earth's only been around for a few thousand years rather than 4.5 billion. We'd rather ride on "it's a small world" until our ears bleed than go here, but your mileage may vary.

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·   Dinosaur Adventure Land [Official site]
·   Darwin-Free Fun for Creationists [New York Times via Collision Detection]
·   Stupid Dino Tricks [Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal]]]> johnrambow 2005-08-12T16:17:41-05:00 Dinosaurland's Evolution-Free Zone http://www.jaunted.com/story/2005/8/12/161643/698

Now here's some peculiar fun for the whole family. The scamps at Popbitch clued us into the wonderful world of Dinosaurland, a creationist "science center" and theme park teaching kids that dinosaurs are still among us in the form of the Loch Ness monster and other beasts, Noah's Flood created the Grand Canyon, and the earth's only been around for a few thousand years rather than 4.5 billion. We'd rather ride on "it's a small world" until our ears bleed than go here, but your mileage may vary.

Related Stories:

·   Dinosaur Adventure Land [Official site]
·   Darwin-Free Fun for Creationists [New York Times via Collision Detection]
·   Stupid Dino Tricks [Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal]]]> johnrambow 2005-08-12T16:16:43-05:00 Dinosaurland's Evolution-Free Zone http://www.jaunted.com/story/2005/8/12/161558/859

Now here's some peculiar fun for the whole family. The scamps at Popbitch clued us into the wonderful world of Dinosaurland, a creationist "science center" and theme park teaching kids that dinosaurs are still among us in the form of the Loch Ness monster and other beasts, Noah's Flood created the Grand Canyon, and the earth's only been around for a few thousand years rather than 4.5 billion. We'd rather ride on "it's a small world" until our ears bleed than go here, but your mileage may vary.

Related Stories:

·   Dinosaur Adventure Land [Official site]
·   Darwin-Free Fun for Creationists [New York Times via Collision Detection]
·   Stupid Dino Tricks [Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal]]]> johnrambow 2005-08-12T16:15:58-05:00 Search Jaunted Search Jaunted string http://www.jaunted.com/search/