http://www.star-telegram.com/business/story/921799.html

Over the last few years I have noticed that if you do it right, you can get statistics to say anything.

Really? Tell that to the SEC...or Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sachs, AIG, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner and Smith, Ameribank, etc.

Really? Tell that to the SEC...or Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sachs, AIG, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner and Smith, Ameribank, etc.

Well, it's hard to make a drop of 500 points sound good.

Instead of talking about profits, you could talk about EBITDA...oh, wait...two major companies in the amusement park business both do that almost exclusively, to the maximum extent permissible under law....until in some circumstances even EBITDA didn't look good, so then they talk attendance, or guest satisfaction, or weather or general economic conditions or gasoline prices or something else...