The US Government At Work

[figmo]

They just renamed "French Fries."

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[katyhh.livejournal.com]

I don't *BELIEVE* this ... *speechless*

[rmjwell.livejournal.com]

Well, I think I have another way to figure out where to spend my convenience dining dollars.

If the place has retitled them "Freedom Whatevers", I'll go eat somewhere else.

I'm not unpatriotic; I'm protesting stupidity.

[firecat]

Sounds like a plan.

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

Oh...lord.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Freedom Fries? Which century are we in again?

[chatworthy.livejournal.com]

That's it. No more incumbents.

Go to the polls with a list of current office-holders, and throw them all out. If someone's in office, vote 'em out. Oh, sure, there's a few we should keep in office - I'm sure we disagree on which ones, and that's OK - but if they deserve to represent me, odds are they'll still deserve to represent me in two or four or six years.

But I'm going to over-react for an election cycle or two and consistently vote against current office-holders.

Freedom fries indeed.

Fools.

[figmo.livejournal.com]

Read their voting record first. Just because a measure passed doesn't mean they voted for it.

If your incumbent voted reasonably, keep them. If not, don't.

[chatworthy.livejournal.com]

Good point, now that I've calmed down.

This whole tempest in a deep-fryer (the pommes frites incident?) just really set me off.

[chatworthy.livejournal.com]

And another thing: They're still just greasy carb strips and shouldn't be eaten, at least not in the quantities we do. The French will be happy to have them called "American Fries" or some such idiocy. After all, pommes frites really were invented in Belgium.

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

*deep sigh*

Sometimes I just feel possessed by the spirit of Rosie the Riveter, and I want to go and whack the hell out of the decision makers who offer us tripe like this when they're making a war out of airy nothing.

And sometimes I just want to curl up and cry.

[karisu-sama.livejournal.com]

....Blithering idiots.

And the food item in question is really Belgian Fries, not French. The French think Begians are stupid for inventing fries. (I'm 1/2 Belgian >.<)

[figmo.livejournal.com]

Belgian Fries are IMHO superior to French Fries, anyway. There's a place in Ghirardelli Square that sells them.

[highstone.livejournal.com]

I think some "genius" has been looking in the book of precedents - I recall Sauerkraut was rebranded 'Liberty Cabbage' in the U.S. of 1917. French fries? Ah yes - chips!

[chatworthy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but sauerkraut was German, and Germany was the enemy in that war. Is France our enemy now? Because that's the message I see.

[figmo.livejournal.com]

France doesn't think we should go to war with Iraq without U.N. support. That hardly makes France the "enemy," but if you're Dubya and Friends it might.

Sigh. I'm watching the stock market drop every day on "war jitters." This truly sucks.