Points of Law and Various Notes

With the developments in the UN over Iraq, I can not tell you when I have had more fun telling French jokes. I just love French jokes. You know, “why does the new French Navy have Glass Bottom ships??--So they can see the old French navy.” Or General George Patton's quip that he “would rather have a German division in front of him than a French division behind him.” And the French do not have anything you can really call a motorcycle. The closest thing they have to the Springfield Mile is the Tour De France and you have to peddle-no wonder it takes days, and remember these are the same people that built the Maginot Line to keep out the Germans before WW2. It took the Germans about 3 hours to simply go around and that was with a lunch break.

I enjoy needling those who appear uppity - like the French. Then I think about why every state in this country has a city or town or village or county or school or street or shopping mall named Lafayette- the Frenchman who helped win our independence. Then I think about the Statue of Liberty, one of the most treasured symbols of our freedom, a gift from France- and it is not as much fun telling French Jokes anymore.