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[bryant]

I would like to call attention to some foolish people and some people who are abrogating their responsibility. Representatives Bob Ney (R-OH) and Walter Jones (R-NC) arranged to remove French fries and French toast from the House of Representatives cafeteria menu. This is about the stupidest symbolic act ever. Duh.

But heck, why stop with Ney and Jones? Ney is Chairman of the Committee on House Administration, which is responsible for this change. The other members of the committee are certainly culpable: Vernon J. Ehlers, (R-MI), John L. Mica (R-FL), John Linder (R-GA), John T. Doolittle (R-CA), Thomas M. Reynolds (R-NY), John B. Larson (D-CT), Juanita Millender-McDonald (D-CA), and Robert Brady (D-PA). (Apparently being named John is one of the criteria for being on this committee.)

I can't quite believe they all happened to be out of the room while Representative Ney was being a blithering idiot.

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[flit.livejournal.com]

Our tax dollars at work.

Of course, this sort of revisionist renaming happened during WWII. Dachsunds became "liberty hounds" and saurkraut "liberty cabbage." It's very kind of France to not dignify this with the sort of annoyance that the parallel could take.

After all, at that time, Germany was our official enemy.

[bryant]

France, to date, has mostly been sort of wryly amused. See here:

http://www.jaycaruso.com/archives/001841.html#001841

Somewhat terrifyingly, there are some people out there on the Web who are seriously debating what the US should do if France nukes us. Cause they think it's a possibility that should be discussed. Then again, there are some people out there on the Web who think that the aliens will come and save us all.