Now, this will NOT be very organized. A word of warning. I'm writing these things as they come to my head, and I felt like I had to write a rant, especially because the Rant section seems to be my own little niche in the site.

It's become so much more obvious that people hate the French, what with the "Freedom Fries", "Freedom Kissing," "Freedom Language," etc. Why? Some (due to the fact that I don't want to insult anyone aside from who I deliberately point and laugh at, I won't say "stupid" as the official adjective) politician decided it was a great way to boycott France and show our disapproval of their supposed pig-headedness and selfish oil-obsessed ways to substitute "french/france" with "freedom". I don't know if this is actual fact, and I honestly don't care. If somebody made it up, they're an oaf. If the politician made it up, he's an oaf.

Now, I know a lot of you are opposed to France's decision regarding the Iraq whatchamacallit I don't really give a shit about in this rant. Let me stress that that's fine, but doing this is a step too far. So they're not helping us. Is that a reason to drop their word from our language...?

At the risk of sounding politically incorrect, that's both retarded and gay. You have a problem with the French? Go say it to their face instead of sniggering at them as you eat the "Freedom fries" at your local restaurant. I mean, it's not like they'll really care (gotta respect them for their self-assurance), but it makes you look a lot less immature and stupid to say, "FRANCE, I GOT A PROBLEM WITH YOUR SELFISH ATTITUDE, SINCE YOU DON'T HAVE THE SAME EXACT INTERESTS AS WE DO, WHICH IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE, SEEING AS WE ARE TWO ENTIRELY DIFFERENT COUNTRIES!" than to snigger at/disdain/disrespect them from the security of your own smalltalk circles.

Who are we, exactly, to tell people what to think? France looked out for number one, or so it thought, or whatever. The president, as omnipotent as he may think he is, that damn (imaginary?) politician who sparked my rant, and anybody else who has a problem with the outcome of that way of thinking has no right as an American to say they shouldn't think that. You want to be patriotic? Respect other people's decisions, genius; it's part of the core of America. Or so the media makes you think, but that's for later.

I have something pointless to bring up here. Note that without the Freedom, I mean French (SEE how STUPID it is?), the U.S. would...um...not exist. What a great way to thank them: they help us achieve our dream, and 200 years later, we repay them by saying they're interfering with our dream because they don't think the same way.

And for their revolution? Where they stormed the Bastille and all that? The one where we were too apalled by their behavior to go reinforce them? Hmm...perhaps a parallel? We'd certainly behead the dictator of Iraq if we had the opportunity, I think. And gee, only most of the world was appalled by our actions. And so before we say the French are stupid, selfish, oil-crazed, whatever we think they were for not helping us attack Iraq, just remember: the irony in that is delicious, seeing as we're looking out for Number One just as much as they are. Except that instead of being snooty and having accents that are easy to make fun of, we throw tantrums, call people nazis and communists for not thinking the way we do (irony alert), then sulk and scorn about it for months and drop the word for their culture from our language.

So now, after saying all that, and making many people want to kill me for my not entirely accurate assumptions, I'm just going to say that everybody's entitled to their own opinion. I can't say it's wrong. I'm just saying that from my vantage point, you look pretty damn stupid calling a food not really related to the French at all Freedom Fries.

But whatever, you do what you want, because we're America, we can do what we damn well please, because we have the God-given liberty to do so, and anybody who disagrees that we can do what we want when we want is worse than Hitler.

All I know is, I'm going to go eat some FRENCH fries right now, maybe FRENCH kiss my girlfriend (ha, when I want a girlfriend, that is), make fun of FRENCH accents, talk about FRANCE, and laugh at my friend struggling in FRENCH class.

Kind of funny. If you're opposed to France simply with the mindset I've described somewhat biasedly, you're both anti-freedom and anti-france. Well, freedom aside from your own, I guess.

And don't email me a response to this. If you feel so strongly that I have no right to show what people's attitudes infer to others, rant about it. Or just cry. But if you start saying, "did you read any of those rants by Democracy?" you will hear from me. VERY loudly. Maybe I'll call you "Choice" and we'll call it even.