At my house we are boycotting all things French. If we can determine that something has French origins, we don't buy it, eat it, drink it, watch it or recommend it. The Hubbell's are viscerally anti-France. Now our boycott has not been particularly satisfying. When we started looking at the stuff we would be giving up, the list of French things we were using was pretty small. I think our brand of yogurt was the most used French product we gave up. I personally think that for a boycott to be satisfying one must give up something substantial…like beer or my brand of motor oil…but yogurt? It's like giving up liver for lent.

Since my personal sacrifice wasn't all that great, I don't see it having much direct effect on the French and I feel cheated. I want impact. I want to see whole neighborhoods of French families out on the streets because they can't pay their bills. I want them to have to work half of August. I want to see a line at the McDonalds in Paris of desperate job applicants. I want Disney World to be the biggest employer in that entire country. I want pain and more than a pound of flesh. I want to see the current President of France hounded out of office, beaten by the "We Apologize to the American's" party. I want to see France removed from the Security Council of the UN as its last act before we close its doors and ship all the representative s back to live in whatever squalid third world hell hole they call home when not living it up in New York City. I want Quebec punished just because they try and act French. I want French's mustard to change its name.

There are several other countries that have joined France in being jackasses. Russia, Germany and Belgium come to mind. You can't really boycott the Russians….I mean they are already a squalid third world hell hole. Germany isn't a country worth boycotting either. That the Germans are against the war isn't all that surprising given that every person in the country that had a pair was killed off in the 1940s. Belgium on the other hand needs to be squashed like the little bug of a nation they are. They are now filing criminal charges against our troops from the Iraqi War in their local courts. What a joke. Maybe the 3rd Armored Division should pay them a visit as material witnesses to the good character of Tommy Franks.

So I guess this puts me in firmly in the category of the "ugly American." An arrogant, self-righteous, "we are the only superpower," full of vim and vinegar patriotic resident of the United States who doesn't give a damn what anyone in Europe thinks about anything. And so I am. I am what the political left calls an extremist. I am against the welfare state, want my taxes lowered, own a gun or two, I know OJ did it, Rodney King had it coming and the death penalty improves the gene pool. I wouldn't let a Democrat on my front porch much less vote for one. I believe the Democrats aren't looking after the best interest of the United States any more than the French are.