GREAT MINDS THINK ALIKE. UNFORTUNATELY... SO DO NOT SO GREAT MINDS

Once in a while events conspire to teach us a few life lessons. Here is your Late Weekend Chuckle.

As it turns out Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has decreed that only Persian words will be used and foreign words banished from use in government and cultural material. For example, Pizza will now be known as "elastic loaves."

We cannot help but notice that Great minds think alike!

Don’t worry, the GOP is nothing if not vigilant.

Nuff said.

Mags

AFTERTHOUGHT... WELL ALMOST ENOUGH


Mags' apt analogy between Iranian extremist Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Republican extremists Bob Ney and Walter Jones (whose brush with Ney and French Toast contributed to him eventually coming to his senses and realizing Bush and rubber stamp congressloons were dead wrong about Iraq) brought to mind another weak-minded, grandstanding American kook, Florida's Ginny
Brown-Waite a poor excuse for a congressperson who thinks American soldiers from World Wars I and II, buried in France (and Belgium), should be dug up and reburied in America. Reading Mag's story immediately reminded me we need to do more to help get rid of grandstanding nutcases like Ney and Brown-Waite who always seem to have time for this kind of nonsense but never any time at all to attend to their constituents' interests. If you're so inclined, even a small contribution to Rick Penberthy, the commonsense progressive running against Brown-Waite in FL-05, could go a long way in help making Congress a serious institution again.


UPDATE: WITH NEY EXPELLED FROM THE GOP LEADERSHIP AND MORE CONCERNED ABOUT STAYING OUT OF PRISON THAN MEANINGLESS POLITICAL GESTURES, THE FRIES ON CAPITOL HILL ARE FRENCH AGAIN

Yep, today's Moonie Times is reporting that after 3 years of Republican vengeance against France "the fries on Capitol Hill are French again. So is the breakfast toast in the congressional cafeterias, with both fries and toast having been liberated from the appellation 'freedom.'" Ney won't make any comments but Nancy Pelosi's spokesperson had a great suggestion: "Now that they've changed the name of the french fries back, maybe they will admit their other foreign policy mistakes were wrong, too."