>From what I understand, Mr. Wu is not anti-metric. However, I have always felt it incumbent upon me to discourage that kind of metric humor, since it tends to fuel opposition to metrication.
Mr. Ehlers' district is the Michigan 3rd, which covers the Grand Rapids area. Certainly, metrication supporters who live in that district should rally around the metric champion in Congress who just happens to be THEIR representative, and urge him to take concrete action on their behalf, such as introducing the FPLA metric-only option amendment! Quoting Norman & Nancy Werling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > To all, > > As many of you have pointed out and has been written in the Metric Today as > recently as the July-August 2005 edition, Representative Vernon J. Ehlers > (R-Mich) seems to be the only voice in Congress speaking up for metric. In > the article of that issue David Wu (D-Oregon) quipped to Rep. Ehlers, "I am > just shocked and appalled that you would attack the roots of American culture > this way. The day [that] a football field is no longer 100 yards long, the > White Cliffs of Dover will fall into the ocean." Rep. Ehlers retorted, "I > will continue to argue for the metric system....if [U.S.] football fields > were 100 m long, probably football could become an Olympic sport...." To > this, he added , "The aerospace industry, I'm not so sure, operated that > well, [since it] lost a $150-million satellite because it didn't use the > metric system." > > Does not Rep. Wu know that the White Cliffs of Dover are in the United > Kingdom , not in the U.S.A.? And does he not know that to the British, > football to the British is soccer to Americans? What a foolish remark for Wu > to make, even if he were joking. Of course he knows, and I am ashamed of > what he said especially since he is a Democrat who just proved that he is not > a progressive! > > I discovered some time ago that each representative's web site is set up to > allow only residents of their district to email them. I believe that the > same holds true for U. S. senators as to residents of their state. I suggest > that all USMA members write to Rep. Vernon J. Ehlers at 1714 Longworth House > Office Building, Washington, DC 20515-2203 to voice support for his continued > efforts in the U.S. Congress for the U.S.A. to speed efforts to metric. I > intend to also ask him for the names of any representatives or senators that > feel as he does on this issue. Here is his web site: > > http://www.house.gov/ehlers/ > > Norm Werling Paul Trusten, R.Ph. Editor, "Metric Today" U.S. Metric Association, Inc. www.metric.org 3609 Caldera Boulevard, Apartment 122 Midland TX 79707-2872 USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There are two cardinal sins, from which all the others spring: impatience and laziness." ---Franz Kafka
