Tuesday, March 20, 2007

US Government Honoring WWII Glider Pilots

There must be some back room dealing going on in the US House of Representatives that needed more time. They are currently having a 5 minute vote to "suspend the rules and agree to house concurrent resolution 42 as amended". The title of the resolution as read by the clerk is "House Concurrent Resolution 42 Concurrent Resolution Honoring the Heroic Service and Sacrifice of the 6,500 Glider Pilots of the United States Army Air Forces During World War II". Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Update: And now they are voting to rename the Ellis Island Library to be the Bob Hope Memorial Library. The vote was 420-1 with 13 not voting. I wonder what the 1 Democrat has against Bob Hope.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Do you think Congress had to vote on this?

http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/09/usps-goes-postal-with-r2d2-mailboxes/

Howard said...

Evidently not ;)

The Dad said...

Kickass. I always knew those postal workers were the coolest.
Personally I think renaming the library Bob Hope library is anti-semitic...you're saying all Jewish people are entertainers...oh wait that's true...never mind.