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US Patent Office Strips "Washington Redskins" Name For Being "Disparaging"
What Obama wants, he appears to get. As AP reports, the U.S. Patent Office has ruled the Washington Redskins nickname is "disparaging of Native Americans" and that the team's federal trademarks for the name must be canceled. We note that this decision is based on the fact that 30% of Native Americans believed the term 'Redskins' to be disparaging (not a majority). Which leaves us questioning when the Federal Government will see the New York Giants as disparaging of tall people and The Oakland Raiders as disaparaging of pirates... welcome to the new normal. We wonder (rhetorically of course) if this latest Redskins escalation is supposed to distract from Ukraine, Iraq, Bergdahl, IRS, Benghazi, or approval ratings?
Federal trademark law does not permit registration of trademarks that “may disparage” individuals or groups or “bring them into contempt or disrepute.” The ruling pertains to six different trademarks associated with the team, each containing the word “Redskin.”
The U.S. Patent Office has ruled the Washington Redskins nickname is "disparaging of Native Americans" and that the team's federal trademarks for the name must be canceled.
The ruling announced Wednesday comes after a campaign to change the name has gained momentum over the past year.
The decision by the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board is similar to one it issued in 1999. That ruling was overturned in 2003 in large part on a technicality because the courts decided that the plaintiffs were too old.
The new case was launched in 2006 by a younger group of Native Americans. A hearing was held in March 2013.
Just like last time, the Redskins can retain their trademark protection during an appeal.
Welcome to 1984 thought control.
Administrative Trademark Judge Karen Kuhlke notes:
The recognition that this racial designation based on skin color is disparaging to Native Americans is also demonstrated by the near complete drop-off in usage of "redskins" as a reference to Native Americans beginning in the 1960's.
The record establishes that, at a minimum, approximately thirty percent of Native Americans found the term REDSKINS used in connection with respondent's services to be disparaging at all times including 1967, 1972, 1974, 1978 and 1990. Section 2(a) prohibits registration of matter that disparages a substantial composite, which need not be a majority, of the referenced group. Thirty percent is without doubt a substantial composite. To determine otherwise means it is acceptable to subject to disparagement 1 out of every 3 individuals, or as in this case approximately 626,095 out of 1,878,285 in 1990. There is nothing in the Trademark Act, which expressly prohibits registration of disparaging terms, or in its legislative history, to permit that level of disparagement of a group and, therefore, we find this showing of thirty percent to be more than substantial.
Respondent has introduced evidence that some in the Native American community do not find the term "Redskin" disparaging when it is used in connection with professional football. While this may reveal differing opinions within the community, it does not negate the opinions of those who find it disparaging. The ultimate decision is based on whether the evidence shows that a substantial composite of the Native American population found the term "Redskins" to be disparaging when the respective registrations issued. Therefore, once a substantial composite has been found, the mere existence of differing opinions cannot change the conclusion.
In view of the above, petitioners have shown by a preponderance of the evidence that a substantial composite of Native Americans found the term REDSKINS to be disparaging in connection with respondent's services during the relevant time frame of 1967-1990. Accordingly, the six registrations must be cancelled as required under Sections 2(a) and 14(3) of the Trademark Act.
Some social media suggestions for new names...
Washington #Redskins need a new name? From @wuerker: http://t.co/LW4TYW7XNR pic.twitter.com/3uTHMfVrCD
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Who fuckin says you don't look like a leprechaun? You all do!
Now shaddup and go down a bottle of whiskey!
Awesome!
Notre Dame should be The Fighting Abortionists. Stupid ex or supposedly Catholic schools are so libtard.
Notre Dame invited Obama and they love him! I hate that school.
So doesn't this just mean that more people can use the name, where once they couldn't because of trademark protection?
Yeah but at the risk of being sued with this as a precedent.
We all be printin' indian shit now!
This will be the lead article on the HuffingtonPost for days.
LOL, it really was the lead, in big bold letters sort of like Drudge does it.
sigh...
Going a long ways to solve a problem that doesn't exist.
Well I for one am offended that this government proclaims to operate under the rule of law.
And I am offended that while this government may parrot the ideals it was founded under, it no longer abides by them. So I object to them using the constitution as the souce or their so called power.
I also object to their (limited) use of the term republic and instead have to use the term "bankrupt corporation" when speaking of the USA.
As in: God bless the USA, the greatest bankrupt corporation in the history of the world.
pods
Get the fuck out of our lives.
Keep the name. It's just the trademark.
Let the market rip-off the name and cause financial damage to the NFL.
NFL will write off losses and gewberment at all levels can kiss their tax revenue good bye.
What else can Barry fuck up/fuck with today? Anyone? Anyone?
Incorrect, silly sheep corporations don't pay taxes...especially this one! The NFL oparates as 'non-profit organization' and is tax exempt from paying taxes on it's revenues.
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/9342479/examining-nfl-tax-exempt-status-challenged-us-senator-tom-coburn
Corporations don't pay taxes, slaves do.
Bam
Just remember Obozo, the hate America dictator can do this to anyone. Don't think there is plenty more to come. If you think you no longer recognize is country just watch over the next two years.
FUBAR like you won't beleive!
Freedom of speech is only for those on the left.
Fredom of speech is neither a right nor is much left, and what's left of freedom of speech is no longer right! So we can ageree that freedom of speech is not oriented at all! Soon it might be: "freedom of speech only applies to the ones left".Right after the next war.
If anybody is there to hear listen!
Now youy know why we are all here!
Because we are not all there!
as they say at the asylum.
Distraction. Distraction. Distraction...
http://olduvai.ca
Nothing more important to do?
Must be raining on the golf course
Boggle > Mind!
New name suggestion: Washington Patentjerks.
Craig
Congratulations for more circuses and food stamp cards.
Another distraction for the masses. Masses who believe in Man Made Climate Change deserve such a POTUS.
Obama going fromt the MOST DISAPPOINTING POTUS EVER to THE BADDEST POTUS EVER.
Lookie!
A Hedgetard...
Wait. Can't they just file and obtain a patent with another country that has a trade agreement with the USA, and then fuck the politicized US patent office?
"Patently absurd."
Just call them the "Washington Losers", formerly the "Redskins".
Doesn't say much for the "Native Americans", does it?
EDIT: Keep the logo with the new name.
But http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cleveland_Indians_logo.svg
BUT THIS IS JUST FINE
Atlanta Braves. FSU Seminoles, etc. etc...
My high school teams are the "Blackhawks". Of course, my home state university is U of Illinois; they are the "Fighting Illini". At least they were when I went there. Will we also be changing the names of all states named after Indian tribes? Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, etc.?
Craig
Clearly you fail to grasp the difference between the name that a tribe gives itself like the Seminoles and a term used to disparage an entire group of people...
Imagine the NFL expanded to Africa, the Lagos Bantus could be fine whereas the Lagos Niggers would be somewhat frowned upon...
So, no Texas Taco Tuckers? Nashville Niggers? Cinncinati Crackers? Boston Biebers? Jacksonvile Jews?
Yeah... I was pulling for the Charlotte Whipmasters....
Don;t you know the Jews prefer southern Florida, so the Tampa Bay Talmuders would be more apropos...
I like it!
https://www.google.com/search?q=cleveland+indians+logo&safe=off&espv=2&t...
It is better than this though lol
Does this mean I can start making and selling
Redskins t-shirts without paying royalties?
I could use a fresh revenue stream...
I would suggest the Washington War Mongering Douche Weasels for a new name; but I'm not sure that would fit on a jersey, hat, etc..
Fucking clowns with nothing better to do, VOTE THEM ALL OUT.
Because, every four years, voting works!
Just name the team the Washington Hemmeroids.
In the old Soviet Union, anyone guilty of the "high-crime" of anti-semitism was shot in the back of the head.
This is the end-game of political correctness (which is a communist idea); censorship first, death next.
More stupid distractions from DC.
Besides taxing, campaign pandering and insider trading what do else do they do?
And the minnesota vikings. Viking culture never depicted itself with horns in their helmets, they first appeared in a German opera.
It gets better ....
National Labor Relations Board rules employers wrong to fire profane employees. . . . . the NLRB ruled on May 28th that a Yuma, Ariz., car dealership owner was
. . . . . wrong in 2008 to fire a worker who had called him an "asshole" and "f---ing crook"
http://washingtonexaminer.com/national-labor-relations-board-rules-emplo...
Whereas if the employee had called his boss a 'redskin,' he could have been fired and prosecuted.
The governmet is more disparaging of Native Americans.
Mt. Rushmore, presidential graffiti carved into native land.
My vote, Washington CONmen. In honor of CONgress and our other worthless politicians.
Oh and fuck Daniel Snyder. Douche of an owner, as a number of them seem to be.
alternate names;
washington jihadists
washtington muslim brotherhood
washington black panthers
washington ali's
washington isis
Fuck this planet.
PC insanity.
The call me "bad-ass motherfucker", I hope you don't find that name disparaging because that would be racist.
I find the term “Native American” to be disparaging and hateful. Having been born in the USA, and therefore a native of America, the use of this term to inclusively identify persons, other than myself and others in the same situation, born in the USA but of different lineage alienates me and causes me great angst. If I’m not a native American, then where am I a native of?
I'm part of an invasive species from the UK, ca. 1802, with some Irish and mutt involved, too.
To connect the term 'Native American' to an Indigenous People to the land that is NOW called 'America' implys that, the land now called 'America', was always called 'America'. Think, what were the Indigenous People called before the terrorist invasion of 1492? Most tribes called themselves: 'The People'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Law_of_Peace
This is not good news for the Cleveland Indians, Florida Seminoles, Atlanta Braves or the Kansas City Cheifs. Wow, what are the Chiefs gonna do about the tomahawk chop!?!?!?
can we just go back to calling them injuns?
Washington Drones has a good sound for a replacement name.
As I sit here listening to Peter Schiff's show where a woman is cheering Obama's effort to protect all gays, and claiming that they are reclaiming the word "Queer" even though she could not explain the differences to Schiff, I have to laugh.
This nation has become a joke. Everything that does not matter is what we are focused on. If it matters, we ignore it.
What a waste.
You know there is a lesson here. For all you morons that believe the government is always right...yesterday the name had protection. So ALL the bullshit Obama is doing can be reversed.
We just need a leader with the balls to say he will do so starting on day one, reversing all of these 8 years of horrific decisions.
Will anyone be willing to step up and do that?
Washington Mongrels ... to honor POTUS!
They meaner than junkyard dogs ...
change mascot to redskin potato wearing the indian headdress, keep the name.
The sole goal of this is to distract from real issues and failures abroad AND POLARIZE AND DIVIDE in the media news cycle the red team and blue team...like clockwork you can count on these sort of antics. Within a month expect another race controversy to come front and center...divide and conquer...pay no attention to the thievery at the savings rate and taxpayer dollars spent on war.
Thie show must go on
Wait till they annouce they are taking all white people money, except Goldman employees and Washington insiders. this is standard socialist fascism. I assume jack boots are headed there now!
They should rename themselves "The Washington Cocksuckers." Their mascot can be Obama. They can change their mascot every time a new president is elected, no matter what party.
No poltics here.
Gotta git rid of them commie Cincinnati Reds now.
The only think more offensive that the term Redskins would be the CITY in front of it!
Why would the Redskins want to be associated witht he city of Washington DC?
One kind of gets addicted to screwing.
No more Lone Ranger reruns.
Voltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize."
anyone want to play wheel of fortune with this one?
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The Washington 1% ers
The Washington Anal No Lubers
The Washington Cronies
Time to ban Notre Dame's use of the Fighting Irish!
How about the "(@#*!()@#)&" formerly known as the Washington Redskins"?
This is what our tax dollars are paying for and what our youth is fighting to become. Sad, so Sad.
Good to know the important stuff is being taken care of....
Can we revoke the patent for ZeroHedge's Twitter avatar? My work colleagues keep accusing me of being a fudge packer.
Ok ok, so we'll change the name... How about the DC Redskins ?
Rename them the Bullets.
Ok, then ZeroHedge needs to change it's name as 'zero' might be construed as being insensitive to govt employees who are brainless.
some would find it amusing if, during something of an American Spring, participants wore Redskins jerseys as a makeshift uniform.
This thread was exactly what I expected....
There is no greater threat to a free society than political correctness.
See the UK 2014 for details.
History has shown that bigotry and intolerance has killed a lot more people and resulted in a lot more failed political entities that trying impose norms of politeness...
So save your bullshit for somewhere else...
Let social norms dictate acceptable behavior, not unelected commisars.
There is no consitutional right to be free from offense. There is however constutionally protected free speech, including "hate" speech; nigger, spic, kike.
Seems to me that this is exactly what happened here when just about every native American group came out and spoke up...
Hey, they can still use the Redskin name as no one said they couldn't, they just can't monopolize the revenues.
Money talks and bullshit walks...
Pretty damn clever if you ask me...
Fine, so let the marketplace speak.
The NFL, TV networks, advertisers, let them force Snyder's hand. The USPTO has absolute ZERO legal authority to play PC cop, it's patently unlawful (he who would pun). Anyone who truly believes that gov should bless content as a condition of securing intellectual property has no understanding of, nor any business living in, a free society.
So you are an expert in trademark law?
Moreover it was the result of a court ruling...
Ah yes, governance by experts.
I have a firm enough grasp of the founding principles of this country (certainly firmer than yours) to understand that a bureaucratic commissar imposing his own morality on the registration of intellectual property is anethma to the former.
The "Trademark Trial and Appeal Board," is absolutely not a "court", well an administrative, bureaucratic kangaroo court perhaps.
Moreover in my mind, MOST of the US Code is patently unconstitutional and inconsistent with those principles. I need not seek the approval of a federal lawyer in a dress (or PC eurotrash) to express these opinions.
Funny you argued legal authority but not the principle embedded in my comment. Telling.
I am not arguing anything, merely pointing out the how the decision was made. Whereas you seem to suggest that it was a memo from the WH signed by BHO that did it...
Snyder is welcome to appeal and already has...
Let me guess, you feel the same way about the Bureau of Weights and Measures?
BTW, carrying your logic of "elected officials" to its conclusion would quickly result a majority enacting laws to discriminate against a minority..
Not like we have not seen that before...
Hey, I am personally not offended by the term "Redskin" but I can see certainly see how many could be...
Actually, not really a fan of democracy myself.
They're trying to stroke the "outrage nerve" and get another right vs. left argument going. Hoping that it, among other things, will keep the 3 stooges at Faux News busy arguing with the folks at MSLSD...
This is a perfect opportunity to monitize the name change...all you have to do is buy a patent with the correct replacement name first...before the NFL does! I have already reserved the following:
How about the copyright office revoke Obumble's Hawaiian birth certificate as demeaning to actual Americans, let's run a vote on that.
Guess what I'm going to call them. Yep...the Redskins.
Fuck you, Chief Golfs Like Girl.
Hey let them keep the name, provided Charlotte and Atlanta become the Charlotte Whipmasters and the Atlanta Fire....
or the Washington Semi Emancipators since the document only pertained to southern slaves, Mary Todd Lincoln got to keep her family's negros tied up as well.
skouza me......the trade mark WAS ACCEPTED BY THE PATENT OFFICE. WHERE IN THE LAW DOES IT SAY THE PATENT OFFICE CAN LATER DETERMINE YEARS LATER THAT A WORD IS DISPARAGING.
There must be legal proceeding versus arbitrary determination by some desk jockey..WHERE IS THE DUE PROCESS....
MEANTIME THE MIDDLE EAST PERCOLATES.......
Can't you see the first brainstorming meeting to find a new name.
The Washington Beauraucrats no thats no it ....The Beltway Insiders no thats not it.... The Washington Thieves nope no good....The Washington Murderers hmmm good but not quite right...... The Washington
I don't recall ever VOTING for anyone over in the fucking patent office...This backdoor policy and law making by unelected douchewads sitting in basement offices is looking alot more like the fucktard technocrats that have screwed Europe sideways. I'm sure lawsuits were filed faster than an headline searching algo.
When appointed puppets start dictating policy for elected governments and policies are based on minority decisions the serfs grow wrestless. Fucking with the NFL probably isn't a good idea since it's something that a large cross section of the U.S. enjoys to distract themselves from this shitstain administration, and lousy eCONomy.
Change the name to the Washington Censored.
Just have a black bar across the helmet.
Give em the finger.
Well, that's rich. The government holds thousands of trademarks, many of which are offensive to some. I'm sure someone with more time than I could find some better ones, but as a start...
"Ready Indian Country. Prepare. Plan. Stay Informed." - DHS owns this - clearly it is offensive as native Americans are not Indians, not from India, and this term was assigned to them by C. Columbus who is most famous for commiting genocide and mass slavery against their populations.
"Everywhere I am", "Where everywhere so you can be anywhere" - Are these the NSA?
"People won't just get mail, mail will get them" - this just scares the sh!t out of me
"Our Priority Is You" - hardly. I'm offended they perpetuate this lie.
"OMG!" - what? Why do they own this?
"Red Dress Collection" - ?
What's that sound?
It's our founding fathers spinning in their graves.
As a Cowboy fan for years, I think "Cowboys" is disparaging and should be changed. Fisrt of all , I think it implies an improper sexual relationship between white males and cows. It is know that some young men had sex with baby calves and sheep, so this suggests all of them engaged in bestiality. As a white male, I resent that and find it offensive. Secondly, I don't like the reference to "boys". It suggest that these brave young men were effeminate and possibly homosexual (not that there's anything wrong with that) . There were also African American men who were engaged in this dangerous proffession. I'm sure they are offended also by the use of "..boys". The term also disparages and does not give credit to the role of females who accompanied and serviced the men and their employers; thus the term is sexist. How about "Cowpersons"?
And I know a lot of my friends at PETA have brought up the cruel and terrible treatment of the cows. It's bad enough that we killed millions of them but the treatment of the cows at the slaughterhouses was cruel and unusual. Conditions were horrible and barbaric back then. It pains me to think of all the cruel and uneccessary suffering those poor animals went through.
PETA will be drooling now. They'll be after the Seahawks, Dolphins, Bruins....
Owner should float that he intends to move the team....fuck Washington and their speech control.
I thought his Pacific Ocean Sanctuary was for approval boosting?
Or was that the Philly rail strike intervention?
O'Dam'ya's out to cherry pick and swoop on whatever he can to get someone to like him
Two headed irradiated fish or hobos. Doens't matter
Too many have become obsessed with the trivial. And our governors have only reinforced the fact, with their catering to minorites that we are too large a nation, with too many differences, too many languages, too many cultural, social, and financial disparities.
Here is a list of the happiest nations on earth:
Aus- 8.5 million
Nor 5.1
Can 35
Switz 8.1
Den 5.6
The only things these have in common are: Their small size ( the largest has less human beans than Californica Their homogeniety. To expect this mishmash to appeal to a majority of our 360,000,000 ---growing to 400,000,000 and on and on and on....is the epitome of stupidity, arrogance, and insanity. We cannot be governed or be happy EVER unless we are disassembled, the power structure as a result. overthrown, and new births of new nations spring forth from the ashes. Otherwise, don't ever look for peace on our earth. IT will be a cradle to grave american angst to possess us all. The only alternative is to migrate to one of those happy places and try not to overwhelm them. And good luck with that. Divide and conquer.Canada homogenous?
\facepalm
My instant reaction as well. Although, to be fair, if you get out of Toronto and Vancouver urban areas, the country is pretty white. But there's that whole French/English thingy...
Beg pardon?
Montreal is one of the most culturally diverse places to be found. And Halifax has a larger proportion of blacks than many Northern US cities...
The Heartland is clearly whitebread though...
THIS is what tyranny looks like!
But since the larger portion of the populace is now dependent on government, they won't awaken to the awfulness of our circumstances until the government collapses and they're all facing starvation! That's when tyranny becomes bloodshed!
Good god, you wouldn't know what real tyranny was if they marched you off to death-camp....
After all, caucasians are BEST at telling you which words you should be offended by.
Surprised the White Sox are still playing
I guess the bright side is, I can now start legally selling Washington Redskins drug paraphernalia
Change it to the Washington Honkies and tell all the minority players that they should feel honored to be a Honky. Maybe make them sing the Honky fight song. It's disparaging to whites, but who cares about us crackers?
Maybe the Washington Woodpeckers.
Tha' Kickbacks! A bunch of lazy thieves.
The Washington Kniggers
So is this action a taking and how much will we have to pay off the owners to make that inevitable lawsuit go away?
Being a decendant of Thor I find the name Vikings disparaging, especially when connected to perpetual losers as those in Minnesota. Ya.
Uff da.
Just because they're being stripped of the trademark doesn't mean they have to change the name.
So what, the trademark has been removed by a federal agency gone haywire. That doesn't mean they have to change the name of the franchise. Their attorneys have to go to work using the commercial code to protect their name rights. The trademark office is one means to that end.
Further, they should bring a claim against the patent and trademark office to prove how said term is "disparging".
If we are going through with this, then let's get the Florida State Seminoles and Cleveland Indians.
We have already attacked the North Dakota Fighting Sioux, now the Washington Redskins.
And heaven forbid, if we cannot use a racial term in a name or logo -- what should we do with the 'Congression Black Caucus'? Or the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
The name is an embarrassment. The owners should take "Washington" out of the name.
And the Patent Office fiddled while Washington burned....
Fuck, the MSM has done it again. Made me forget about record levels of inflation in the US and instability in Iraq and Ukraine.
Ayn Rand predicted this exactly in her book. The govt. will soon begin to target protected intellectual property and share it with less fortunate companies in the spirit of equality.
The end justifies the means with these statist asshole barbarians.
I am offended of "The White House"
Even though it is white and a house, I propose to rename it "the Crib"
Gov't outta control. F..king rediculous
I demand ™ registration 4415001 be rescinded. As a white American La Raza offends me deeply.
This debate has been going on for over 30 years! The price of Redskin memorabilia just went up on eBay!
My choice is. . .
Washington GoatRiders.
Tylers... new thread needed:
New names for the Washington football team!
Washington Porkbellies
This is prima facia evidence of a Failed State.
Tyranny.
Washington Shredders
(homage to all the political asshats and agencies that conveniently dispose of sensitive data/documants)
What about Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Minnesota Vikings, and Boston Celtics?
Green Bay is next. Calling a team a bunch of "packers" likely offensive to gay people.
Or vegetarians.
Buddy of mine makes a Yahoo fantasy football team every year called "The Crackers" and he only puts whiteys on the team. Too funny.
I'm confused. Won't removing the patent allow even more to legally profit off of this supposedly "offensive" name and make the issue worse? Someone with an Obama bumper sticker still intact please help.
"Native Americans" (SIC) This phrase is PROPAGANDA. It is designed to implant in the minds of whites that they are "invaders" etc. Who have no claim on this land.
Recall Kennewick Man. The original scientist who did the skull and facial recreation model had it look like Patrick Stewart as“Jean Luc Picard” . It was clear that Kennewick Man was WHITE.
Politics buries a key archeological find, By John J. Miller, NR’s national political reporter, NATIONAL REVIEW, March 8, 1999
The Solutrean theory matches well with the archaeological findings, but many of the finds have been contaminated and/or destroyed for political reasons. The shame when even science is treated in a "1984" style for the goals of the enemy of real America.
There are truly no limits to what conspiracy theories can be related to...
God preserves us that the original man came out of Africa.
That would mean the assholes should be given free entry to any place in the world.
Signed:an American.
The Wahington Wagon Burners
My Fave The Wasshington Cock Suckers............ pretty fitting!
How about the Landover Redskins?
+495
IF designations of race are deemed to be so insensitive that People and Institutions may be stripped of their existing patents/properties then why are questions pertaining to race to be found in all sorts of official government forms?
Why are questions of race appropriate on employment applications and/or forms pertaining to enrollment for higher education?
IF the United States is to be declared a post racial identity culture by executive fiat then there can be no rational justification for any sort of hiring or enrollment quotas based on such unjustifiable pretenses.
It's going to be very interesting to see how the language of police disciussing and reporting purported suspects will hold up in court...
call them the UTT's Under the Tables. Logo, knee pads and bare ass under a table with a senator or rep on the BJ receiving end. The owners do own every tight end on the field anyway. It would be a tribute as to how this country is really run. I use the term run very , very lightly. So next are the Chicago Blackhawks? RIP America I am glad I knew you.
How about the Washington Bullshitters. It even has a "green" theme.
Its going to happen... This is what we do now in America, and we are inarguably the best in the world at it. USA! USA! USA!
I think that Congress should form some type of "Blue Ribbon Commission" to investigate this mattter, since they arent doing anything else anyway. (sarc off)
The Washington Spooks maybe?
What's wrong with a tribute to a genocided race?
What about Washington Redtapers?
lol
Simple solution: they should just change their name to "The Washington Rednecks". Since the PC class hates rednecks, they should have no objections.