Congress honors Frank Sinatra when they dang well feel like

[Kevy Baby]

Sorry, I just HAD to make this one its own thread.

The U.S. House of Representatives has declared Tuesday, May 13, 2008 as "Frank Sinatra Day."

On Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Story (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24730044/)

[Melonballer]

Sigh. Our tax dollars at work. They don't have the time to find solutions to things like rising gas prices, but time to tell us how great Sinatra was (we already know that).

[Alex]

Yeah it is stupid but they do such things pretty much several times a day and it isn't like it takes up any real time.

[Melonballer]

I bet if they added up all the time they take in a year for these kind of things, they could do something important with it.

[CoasterMatt]

Think of all the time they'd spend adding up all the time that they spend doing things like this :D

[Gn2Dlnd]

From the article:Rep. Jose Serrano, a Democrat and sponsor of the non-binding resolution and ostensibly the House's biggest Sinatra fan, told the House how he was introduced to the English language by listening to Sinatra records after his father returned from World War II.

Serrano, 64, said he has 2,000 Sinatra songs on his iPod and owns all his records and movies.

2,000 songs! Really? Frank made that many recordings? And, out of curiosity, I wonder how many of those songs were from Serrano's own CDs and legal downloads.

[Kevy Baby]

Just to be sure: did everyone notice what date they declared the day and what date FS Day was?

The official day was declared a week AFTER Frank's Day.

[GusGus]

I did. And I thought it was funny.



Hah.