I hate how the states always toots their freedom horn. As if they invented the concept. I've actually talked to americans who thought canada wasn't a free country... morons.
So you can speak and vote. Wow.. what about REAL freedoms like the freedom to roll up some marijuana in the privacy of your own home and kick back. I know canada doesn't have that either... YET... but if not for our close relation to the states we would. </rant>

I say we just take fries in general off the market. Hit france where it hurts!

hmmmmm......that's not logical. If you look throughout history the majority opinion is frequently wrong. It's generally someone/some country that takes an unpopular stand than in the long run is better for everyone.

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USA is making 2 trillion dollar in debt over the next 5 years. Where do you think you guys are borrowing that money?

We're borrowing it from Sammy the Bull. j/k as you may have seen in my other posts, I've pointed this out.

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You should really look right in your garage to see the most unpatriotic thing. The SUV that is the fuel sucker is the one thing that supports the middle eastern oil contries and therefore you are paying most the terrorist yourself. Get a nice small car that takes little fuel and you are also saving the most important part of this world. Nature

Yep, you are right. And half them (at least in California) were built by Germans (BMW and Mercedes). Don't lecture me. I take a bus/train from SF to Palo Alto everyday, which is a 3h4m commute EVERY DAY. I'm doing my part not to support terrorist supporting oil.

I love California....$200 for a medical marijuana perscription.


The Compassionate Marijuana Use Act of 1996
Proposition 215

SECTION 1. Section 11362.5 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:

11362.5. (a) This section shall be known and may be cited as the Compassionate Use Act of 1996.
(b)(1) The people of the State of California hereby find and declare that the purposes of the Compassionate Use Act of 1996 are as follows:

(A) To ensure that seriously ill Californians have the right to obtain and use marijuana for medical purposes where that medical use is deemed appropriate and has been recommended by a physician who has determined that the person's health would benefit from the use of marijuana in the treatment of cancer, anorexia, AIDS, chronic pain, spasticity, glaucoma, arthritis, migraine, or any other illness for which marijuana provides relief.

(B) To ensure that patients and their primary caregivers who obtain and use marijuana for medical purposes upon the recommendation of a physician are not subject to criminal prosecution or sanction.

(C) To encourage the federal and state governments to implement a plan to provide for the safe and affordable distribution of marijuana to all patients in medical need of marijuana.

(2) Nothing in this section shall be construed to supersede legislation prohibiting persons from engaging in conduct that endangers others, nor to condone the diversion of marijuana for nonmedical purposes.

(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no physician in this state shall be punished, or denied any right or privilege, for having recommended marijuana to a patient for medical purposes.

(d) Section 11357, relating to the possession of marijuana, and Section 11358, relating to the cultivation of marijuana, shall not apply to a patient, or to a patient's primary caregiver, who possesses or cultivates marijuana for the personal medical purposes of the patient upon the written or oral recommendation or approval of a physician.

(e) For the purposes of this section, ''primary caregiver" means the individual designated by the person exempted under this section who has consistently assumed responsibility for the housing, health, or safety of that person.

SECTION 2. If any provision of this measure or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, that invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the measure that can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this measure are severable.

Yes dave - I believe most of them have.


Freedom Kiss :1orglaugh

Thanks dude...you want some freedom fries with that? :winkwink:

at first I thought you were serious until I saw your handle.

that's just about the wittiest thing I think you've said. There's hope for you yet. :winkwink:



please! to go along with my liberty tickler.



You fell for that? lol....it's called sarcasm....but, hey, there is a reason they call it Canuckistan...

Anyways, I do agree with you some people toot that freedom horn a little too much, even though the american constitution is one of the oldest constitutions in the world...despite the fact that the U.S. is barely 2 1/4 centuries old.

Stop thinking, I think I smell smoke ....

WARNING: overheating !

The " attitude" is not anti-american, but first anti-war and secondly anti-Bush ( because of his bullyness a, threats and lies).
I know quite a few French people, and they still love the Americans as individual. The problem is that if this continue, they could start hating the americans as a collectivity... One more ennemy created by Georgie baby.

France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from
these drawbacks it is a fine country. France has usually been
governed by prostitutes." ---Mark Twain

"I would rather have a German division in front of me than
a French one behind me." --- General George S. Patton

"Going to war without France is like going deer hunting
without your accordion." --Norman Schwartzkopf

"We can stand here like the French, or we can do
something about it." ---- Marge Simpson

"As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure"
---Jacques Chirac, President of France

"As far as France is concerned, you're right."
---Rush Limbaugh,

"The only time France wants us to go to war is when the
German Army is sitting in Paris sipping coffee."
--- Regis Philbin


"The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not
dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of
Baltimore.
True, you can sit outside in Paris and drink
little cups of coffee, but why this is more stylish than
sitting inside and drinking large glasses of whiskey
I don't know." --- P.J O'Rourke (1989)


"You know, the French remind me a little bit of an
aging actress of the 1940s who was still trying to
dine out on her looks but doesn't have the face for it."
---John McCain, U.S. Senator from Arizona


"I don't know why people are surprised that France
won't help us get Saddam out of Iraq. After all,
France wouldn't help us get the Germans out of France!"
---Jay Leno

"The last time the French asked for 'more proof' it
came marching into Paris under a German flag."
--David Letterman

Like the SNL sketch abouit the French at the UN council????

PS: did you ever travelled?? I mean OUTSIDE the USA ...:)

[QUOTE]Originally posted by dav555add
[B]
Although I agree that it is quite childish to make such a fuss about a food name such as "frecnh fries" to "freedom fries", it is nothing compared to what is being said in france and other anti-American countries in europe.
Imagine members of the US Government going to the Late Show and laughing at foul language comments made about france?? Well, that is exactly what is happening now in france.
So, although I would not have gone as far as changing the name of food things, I can't really condemn it.
I think it would be best if we stopped buying french products, after all; that is the language the french understand...



LOL....dav555add was french...dual national american/french...but renounced his french citizenship...

so yes, i'd say he's traveled outside the U.S.

I don't know what is worse:

Morons renaming french fries (le frites)
or
The French.

Just kidding. I love the French, especially the ones that look like Juliette Binoche.