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rfmcdonaldI was pointed to this rather disgusting story by CalPundit. It's interesting that Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit fame said ion his MSNBC column that:
I share in CalPundit's concern that "this silliness is rather quickly morphing into being both destructive and self-defeating." Renaming French fries "freedom fries" was bad enough. Now, after desecrating the graves of tens of thousands of soldiers who presumably didn't die so that the United States under an ambitious President could make Europe from the Atlantic to the Urals a vassal continent, can we do something utterly ridiculous like, oh, renaming French kisses "freedom kisses"?
Oh, I forgot; non-reproductive sex is a sign of European decadence and effeminacy. True American patriots only fuck in missionary position with people of the opposite sex to produce as many children as possible. Silly me.
You know, if the fucking loons currently in power in Washington D.C. remain in power, we'll be lucky if the United States has any allies left by decade's end. After all, if Dubya, who was elected in part on the basis of outreach to the Hispanic population fo the United States (including the Mexican-American population of his home state of Texas), and new foreign policy initiatives directed towards integrating the United States and Latin America, thinks that threatening Mexico and possibly Mexican-Americans with dire retribution if Mexico doesn't vote the way Dubya wants, there's really no hope for American alliances anywhere. Which is a terrible pity.
France, though mortally irritating, isn’t really our mortal enemy, it just feels that way sometimes. And in a long-term relationship, nondestructive ways of signalling more-than-typical annoyance have a lot of value. I still think that the French don’t appreciate just how much long-term harm they’re doing to relations with the United States. If something like this helps to get the message across, without being destructive or self-defeating like trade sanctions, it’s not such a bad idea. Even if it does seem kind of silly at first glance.
I share in CalPundit's concern that "this silliness is rather quickly morphing into being both destructive and self-defeating." Renaming French fries "freedom fries" was bad enough. Now, after desecrating the graves of tens of thousands of soldiers who presumably didn't die so that the United States under an ambitious President could make Europe from the Atlantic to the Urals a vassal continent, can we do something utterly ridiculous like, oh, renaming French kisses "freedom kisses"?
Oh, I forgot; non-reproductive sex is a sign of European decadence and effeminacy. True American patriots only fuck in missionary position with people of the opposite sex to produce as many children as possible. Silly me.
You know, if the fucking loons currently in power in Washington D.C. remain in power, we'll be lucky if the United States has any allies left by decade's end. After all, if Dubya, who was elected in part on the basis of outreach to the Hispanic population fo the United States (including the Mexican-American population of his home state of Texas), and new foreign policy initiatives directed towards integrating the United States and Latin America, thinks that threatening Mexico and possibly Mexican-Americans with dire retribution if Mexico doesn't vote the way Dubya wants, there's really no hope for American alliances anywhere. Which is a terrible pity.
