Seeing the reactions the day after warms the cockles of my cold little heart.

[kellinator]

A Few Things I Learned From the State of the Union:

• The United States military needs the Patriot Act to protect us from terrorists. Apparently they need the Patriot Act more than the combat pay and benefits that Bushie-boy slashed. Shame on you, Mr. President. Shame on you.
• Drug-abusing athletes = bad.
  Drug-abusing presidents = apparently okay.
• In addition, with Iraq putting the Q in Quagmire and the economy doing backflips in the toilet, we should really be worried about an important issue endangering American civilization as we know it: steroids in sports!
• Bush is all for equal rights for all Americans. Unless they're gay.
• Spending lots of money encouraging straight people to get married, however, makes sense. Hey, why don't you guys join up with that whole "go to Vegas and do something stupid" tourism campaign and kill two birds with one stone? Hey, it worked for Britney Spears!!
• Sexually-transmitted diseases are rampant among America's youth. Therefore we will keep up the abstinence-only sex ed. programs, because they're working so well.
• Gotta love the Talking Heads facial expression on Colin Powell: "My God!! What have I done?!"
• No matter how drunk or stupid Ted Kennedy is, I will love him forever for those facial expressions.
• The Dems should have gotten streamweaver to deliver their rebuttal: "Everything that guy just said was bullshit!!"

Glad to see so many of you enjoyed the drinking game. I did not play it, which is lucky because if I had, I would have almost immediately gotten abso-fucking-lutely trashed and staged an inpromptu protest in downtown Decatur. Like I really need to add to my FBI file...

Comments

[blueingenue.livejournal.com]

Like I really need to add to my FBI file...

One page. *reads* "Not considered a threat."

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

Not considered a threat?! *sobs*

Then again, at least I'm in good company with my mentor...

[andysocial]

"Mostly harmless."

[weaktwos.livejournal.com]

I love the phrase "doing backflips in the toilet". I will have to use that at some point.:-)

I couldn't do the drinking game, either. I have recorded it, however, and once I can drink again, I'll try to play it. :-)

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

But wouldn't we have more fun, ummm, drinking every time Bigby smokes or something? Bigby!! *love*

[weaktwos.livejournal.com]

Well, we can do both!

[astrophysicat.livejournal.com]

don't forget: we were discriminating against people of faith, by not handing tax-payer dollars over to their charity organizations.
And: we were also being racist by pointing out that theocracies are incompatible with freedom and democracy.

I did my own drinking "game", drink whenever I just couldn't take his choice of wording and rant at the top of my lungs during every applause.

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I think you were paying more attention than I was. Whenever it got to be too much, streamweaver and I just turned down the sound and mocked it for a few minutes. Oh, and I made obscene gestures at th television.

[unclemilo.livejournal.com]

Cool! We can be part of FBI files together!

You may or may not know that anyone who claims on a legal document that they're a Unitarian Universalist instantly will have their name on the FBI list of "Known Unitarians"...

That's a charmer thanks to the Nixon White House.

I loved your comments... I have very little to add... mnostly because right now I'm tired and I don't have the energy to say all that I feel about the criminal in our White House.

[maida-mac.livejournal.com]

I love you. :)

[soshesays.livejournal.com]

I tried to do the drinking game while taking notes for my American Presidency class. By the third line my notes kind of trail off into completely illegible chicken scratch.

No matter how drunk or stupid Ted Kennedy is, I will love him forever for those facial expressions.

Me too!

[christine9600.livejournal.com]

My God, what have I done?

Friends don't let friends mix LJ humor and cream of wheat. That stuff is sticky all over my keyboard. That was hysterical.

[dwivian]

The military needs the patriot act. The police don't. Let's expire it halfway. As to the cut in military pay... where is that? A soldier assigned to or deployed to a combat zone receives "combat pay" (officially called "immiment danger pay") at the rate of $150.00 per month (temporarily increased by Congress to $225 per month until December 31, 2004. Doesn't look slashed, to me. Housing allowances are up 8%, Iraq is designated a Federal Tax Free Combat Zone, so soldiers there pay no Federal tax on income earned, and also get the seperation from family $100/mo benefit.

Yes, drug abusing atheletes are bad. But, unless you know something pertinent, we don't have a drug-abusing president. Sure, in the past he had problems, but he wasn't president then, either.

The economy has been improving for two years, now. It went into the toilet because of the dot-bomb, which started on Clinton's watch. The recovery is slower than we'd like but right on track, because it has to be real (we're not letting companies cook the books anymore, so any growth has to be actual sustainable activity). We've moved ahead on jobs, which is good, but we're falling victim to the globalization of skills that allows lots of tech tasks to be done overseas. I knew telecommuting was a bad idea....

The gay have equal rights -- they're free to marry someone of the opposite gender any time they want. Remember, marriage isn't a federally recognized right, so it falls to the states to regulate, anyway. Without a constitutional change we won't see any real difference on the marriage front, though I would like to see a massive tax incentive to be married. It might make divorce and shacking up a little less viable. And, no, I'm not biased because I'm married and want to pay less taxes. Shut up.

Abstinance programs are working to reduce pregnancy. Really. We even have statistics to show it. That's why the incidence of oral STDs is at an all-time high.... Kids wanna screw SOMETHING, but at least we've made them scared of babies.

Ted Kennedy makes interesting facial expressions today. I think he learned them while trying to shake off a soaking-wet drunk he once had.

And Colin Powell always looks like that. Which is why he's a great Secretary of State. :: grin ::

Dude...

[underwhelming.livejournal.com]

That was beautiful. Thanks for that post. You should run for office, but I reckon you're smarter than that. Consider yourself friended.

Re: Dude...

[dwivian]

I appreciate your comments. Now, gimme deep fried oreos.

No Bias on your part is there!?

[(Anonymous)]

"Ted Kennedy makes interesting facial expressions today. I think he learned them while trying to shake off a soaking-wet drunk he once had."

So you have a problem with Ted Kennedy's past. Kennedy, whom, even though he comes from money has done more the 'less fortunate' than good old boy W could or would consider in his entire life time! Not to mention doing so in an atmosphere where it seemed like everyone was attempting to murder his entire family!! Think our ex-coke junkie president would have the balls to remain in politics (because we know he's not in it to 'help the people') if multiple members of his family has been assassinated? Think either of his 'spoiled brat', 'my daddy is president so we should be able to break the law and get away with it', 'the secret servicemen are our personal slaves', daughters have ever once considered doing something for the benefit of anyone other then themselves? Look at how many of the Kennedy kids are not only involved with politics (for the betterment of the people) but have begun and work with charities and organizations that actually HELP people even though they know they are/could be targets just because of their name!!

"...we don't have a drug-abusing president. Sure, in the past he had problems, but he wasn't president then, either." So it's ok for W to have been addicted to ILLEGAL substances and all that implies (besides doing everything he and his people could and can to remove any mention of it from any and all media sites) and everyone should forget and forgive but not ok for Kennedy to be known for drinking occasionally (which last time I checked was NOT illegal), which, from the way the people of MA have voted for many, many years (even with a republican governor now) has never made his constituates feel he has let them down. You will, of course, bring up Chappaquiddick, but if you feel he must be condemned and never forgiven for that accident, than you must also believe that ANYONE whom has ever been involved in an accident where someone has died must also never be forgiven under any circumstances!

You try having your two older brothers publically assassinated within a few years of each other while in office to serve the people (not to mention previously lossing another brother and sister during the war)and see what you do to cope and what your capacity is for wanting to help others!?

To paraphrase, 'if you live in a glass house you shouldn't throw stones'!!

[blondeheroine.livejournal.com]

Sexually-transmitted diseases are rampant among America's youth. Therefore we will keep up the abstinence-only sex ed. programs, because they're working so well.

They had this big abstinence campaign when I was in high school and it worked really well! Although, we still aren't sure how 75% of the female graduating class got pregnant.

Must have been immaculate conceptions all around.

[rainbowconexion.livejournal.com]

You know what they say -- "God works in mysterious ways."

And is very prolific, from the sound of it! ;-)

[moongarden1971.livejournal.com]

I learned it was good to turn off the television set...

[sujata.livejournal.com]

I started out playing the drinking game. Twenty minutes into the speech, though, I was already so far behind that I admitted defeat and settled for having a screaming helluva buzz.

Which I'm justifying by theorizing that you win if you survive Shrub's presidency and the years (if not decades) of aftermath. Albeit death by alcohol poisoning seems pleasant compared to the possibility of four more years of Junior and his minions...

Obviously I suffer from mixed feelings, here. :->