Letters to the Editor
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Well, THAT's no surprise
Six Republican U.S. senators had even vowed to cut federal funding for several Berkeley programs, such as Alice Waters's Chez Panisse Foundation, which provides school lunches at Berkeley's public schools.
Ha! Well, who would've thunk? To paraphrase Kruschev's words about Berlin: money is Berkeley's testicles; if you want to make Berkeley squirm, you squeeze the money. So... what's the message here? "Never, but never question the Military or your we take food away from your kids?" Wow. Way to protect our freedom, ladies and gentlemen of the U.S. Senate!
Which makes me wonder: WHICH U.S. Senators did this? Was Dianne "I Do Everything Bush Asks" Feinstein one of them? I think that list should be widely published. Yes, I know, none of these people will be hugely affected, but I think I (as a citizen of Berkeley) ought to know which U.S. Senators see it fit to threaten to deprive schoolkids of FOOD so that the Marines could later recruit them and drag their arses off to Iraq. (And we all know what the military has to do nowadays to fill its ranks.)
Ugly, ugly business.