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Petition For Metric In US Halfway To Requiring Response From the White House

Posted by samzenpus on from the keeping-it-imperial dept.

fsterman writes "Without any prompting from the U.S. Metric Association, a We The People petition to standardize the U.S. on the metric system has received 13,000 signatures in six days. That's half the number needed for an official response from the White House. It looks like ending the U.S.'s anti-metric alliance with Liberia and Burma (the only other countries NOT on the metric system) might rank up there with building a death star."

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  1. Re:Metric . . . the liberal's tool by the+eric+conspiracy · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Not to mention having been invented by the Godless Communist Papist Socialist Cheese-Eating French.

    If we are going to adopt a decimal system of weights and measures at least we should go with an American one.