You've got to be kidding me...

[James Foote]

Schwarzenegger's Name Removed From Austrian Stadium...

http://www.newswatch50.com/entertainment/story.aspx?content_id=4AAFC6CF-51B6-496B-9E2C-1C4C3C905D63

[KnoxVegas]

Graz, Austria is actually know as the "City of Human Rights" and capital punishment is illegal in the European Union. Schwarzenegger actually asked for this out of a sign of respect for his homeland (Yep, he is foreign-born and thus not eligible to become president, no matter how hard Orrin Hatch tries (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33618).

The removal of the name just serves to back up my belief that municipalities should wait to honor an individual until they are in the ground before naming a building/street/monument of any kind after them.

Tennessee's campus is littered with streets named after living people, one being Johnny Majors Drive, who was fired as head coach. There is always plenty of time left for Pat Summit (though I hihgly doubt it, but you never know. Who on USC's campus back in '68 thought he would turn out the way he did?) Phil Fulmer, Peyton Manning or Chamique Holdsclaw to get involved in some kind of illegal or shameful situation. I am thankful that Leonard Little Lane or Dwayne Goodrich Drive is not a byway on my campus. Or how about Onterrio Smith Street?

Remember that the cafeteria in the Capitol and many other red blooded Americans began to call French Fries (an American original http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_fries), "Freedom Fries" at the beginning of Gulf War II: Electric Boogaloo? Why? Because the French didn't back the "Coalition of the Willing." (Thanks Poland and Ukraine!!) Or French Toast to "Freedom Toast." For a complete story:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/03/ ... irq.fries/

Or how about during WW I and WW II, when Americans took to calling dachshunds "Liberty pups." Or what about "Liberty Dogs/Sausage" instead of frankfurters? Why? Because they were of Germanic origin.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dachshund)

Not a sermon. Just a thought.

[Dan Wishengrad]

Great post, Ethan!

It's so nice to be reminded of the outrage of Washington Republicans towards the French, who's great "crime" was to ask that we simply wait for the U.N. weapons inspectors to finish their job in Iraq before rushing into a war based on flimsy intelligence that Saddam had huge stockpiles of WMDs which, as it turns out, were never there to be found.

It's also fun to read that the leader of this anti-French symbolic gesture to change the name to "freedom fries" was none other than Ohio Congressman Bob Ney -- or "Representative #1" as named in the Jack Abramoff indictment. I sure hope that ol Bobby gets served "freedom fries" behind bars when he is sentenced to prison, and that there will be enough to share with Tom DeLay and their other corrupt pals in the adjacent cells.

[Kyle Berggren]

Speaking of the French... does anyone have a decent quality picture of tanks rolling through Paris?

[OAKS]

will this do?

[Hackalicious]

Remember that the cafeteria in the Capitol and many other red blooded Americans began to call French Fries, "Freedom Fries" at the beginning of Gulf War II: Electric Boogaloo? Why? Because the French didn't back the "Coalition of the Willing."

I'm really glad congress wasn't distracted by the war on terrorism or the economy, and that they could still find time to focus on more important issues like renaming their cafeteria food.

[KnoxVegas]

Growing up in DC, I learned long ago that Congress gets distracted quite easily from the business at hand.

[Brent Burns]

Growing up in DC, I learned long ago that Congress gets distracted quite easily from the business at hand.

I am sure our state legislatures do get distracted as well.

[KnoxVegas]

No doubt on that one, Brent! No Doubt!