U.S. State of the Union Address 2005

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We should make some tallys:

-Count the # of times the Preznit mentions "Liberty" or "Freedom."

-count the # of one-off mentions of programs that will never be followed up on: trip to Mars, hydrogen cars, $15Billion for AIDS in Africa efforts, etc.

-count the # of WTFisms: e.g. high-school steroids

Anyhoo, the shooting has begun. At least, the Democrats are getting out in front this time.

And of course, notice that the Repubs are already showing their hand in their responses:

Republicans countered not long after the two Democratic leaders finished speaking. "Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid's obstructionist remarks today were full of pessimism and personal attacks but lacked any vision for winning the war on terror or preserving Social Security for future generations," said Brian Jones, a spokesman for the Republican National Committee (news - web sites).

LORD won't this be a fun year.

― Kingfish MuffMiner 2049er (Kingfish), Monday, 31 January 2005 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought Brian Jones was dead.

Anyway, this will a marvellous event to avoid watching.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 31 January 2005 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www1.ocn.ne.jp/~ungura/janis.gif
http://www.nrk.no/img/94190.jpeg

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 31 January 2005 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, note that the AP writer of that article fucks up and makes an unproven leap:

...Bush has called on Congress to pass legislation this year that will make Social Security permanently solvent.

which of course is speculative horseshit, as it were.

Of course, the way this is written, it can be taken two ways. Either that the writer is saying that the legislation that the Admin has offered(sorta) will make it permanently solvent, or that just the Preznit has called for _any_ legislation that will make it so. However, I'm betting on the former.

Anywoo, yeah. the Address. Such fun.

― Kingfish MuffMiner 2049er (Kingfish), Monday, 31 January 2005 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

See also Robert Wright

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 31 January 2005 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

everyone should boycott the state of the union address .. so the networks don't get an..y ..ad ... revenue... wah, another boycott idea shot to shit.

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 31 January 2005 23:26 (twenty-one years ago)

When is this? I keep seeing 'tuesday night' but then on the CNN page they say both tuesday and wednesday.

I suppose i could turn on the tv but i don't want to go there these days.

― Adam Bruneau (oliver8bit), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh nvmd, its on grounghog day after all....

― Adam Bruneau (oliver8bit), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 00:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Fun's gunna start in soon:

Campaign Desk put together a "Social Security crib sheet" on it, using the different words that have been touted lately (e.g. "private" vs "personal", "transition" vs "pre-pay" costs)

― Kingfish MuffMiner 2049er (Kingfish), Thursday, 3 February 2005 00:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Ugh...I am working tonight, in a conference room where there's a TV set. The only channel we can get is CNN, so we probably will have the address on in the background. Dubya on a big plasma screen and surround-sound...someone please shoot me.

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 3 February 2005 01:02 (twenty-one years ago)

count the number of times they cut to Ted Kennedy rolling his eyes!

― Kingfish MuffMiner 2049er (Kingfish), Thursday, 3 February 2005 01:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Hillary looked righteously bored and vaguely sultry in that shot about a minute ago.

― Collardio Gelatinous (collardio), Thursday, 3 February 2005 02:15 (twenty-one years ago)

He pronounced "nuclear" correctly (unless I'm hearing things)

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 3 February 2005 02:18 (twenty-one years ago)

What if you're 54 years old?

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Thursday, 3 February 2005 02:22 (twenty-one years ago)

haha I love awkward clapping moments

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 3 February 2005 02:23 (twenty-one years ago)

whoa, what is this, Parliament? I love it, people are calling bullshit on his lies about SS going bankrupt. Or is that people murmuring in agreement?

― Scott CE (Scott CE), Thursday, 3 February 2005 02:26 (twenty-one years ago)

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― firstworldman (firstworldman), Thursday, 3 February 2005 02:30 (twenty-one years ago)

god damn it, don't stand up for his anti-embryonic research asshat rant.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 3 February 2005 02:34 (twenty-one years ago)

He's going to use pastors and Laura Bush to fight gangs!

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Thursday, 3 February 2005 02:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Silly question: where is the teleprompter?

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 3 February 2005 02:38 (twenty-one years ago)

In total...

'Free' or 'Freedom': 28
'Terror' or 'terrorist' or 'terrorists': 28

Liberty: 8

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Thursday, 3 February 2005 02:40 (twenty-one years ago)

muppets don't need teleprompters.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Thursday, 3 February 2005 02:40 (twenty-one years ago)

the prompters read out on the two clear panels on each side, diagonally

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 3 February 2005 02:42 (twenty-one years ago)

in close up they're right off camera, when it pulls back, you can see them

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 3 February 2005 02:42 (twenty-one years ago)

'Iraq' or 'Iraqis': 28!
'Afghanistan': 3
'Iran' or 'Iranian': 3

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Thursday, 3 February 2005 02:43 (twenty-one years ago)

did they just show John Warner sleeping on the big 'freedom' line?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 3 February 2005 02:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Zarqawi is the world's first Grapefruit Terrorist

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 3 February 2005 02:43 (twenty-one years ago)

actually... at what point did teleprompters become accetable? shouldn't public speakers only be allowed to bring up a couple of index cards? that's how it worked in school for me...

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Thursday, 3 February 2005 02:44 (twenty-one years ago)

"a community of free and independent nations"

let's see, France? no. Germany? no. Enron? um. Halliburton? now wait a minute.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 3 February 2005 02:45 (twenty-one years ago)

hey, where's Chalabi?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 3 February 2005 02:46 (twenty-one years ago)

"empire of oppression"??

― bass braille (....), Thursday, 3 February 2005 02:46 (twenty-one years ago)

...and at what point did letting the media publish your speech in full before you give it become acceptable?

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Thursday, 3 February 2005 02:46 (twenty-one years ago)

what's the best possible thing he could say?

i vote for, "Ladies and Gentlemen, I am a gay American."

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 3 February 2005 02:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Openng the Door To Freedom World Tour '96

1. Syria
2. Iran
3. ???

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 3 February 2005 02:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Jeff Skunk Baxter opens

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 3 February 2005 02:50 (twenty-one years ago)

nice work if you can get it

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 3 February 2005 02:53 (twenty-one years ago)

i keep hoping the lights will go out for a second and there will be the sound of a skirmish and that when they come up someone (you know who) will be laying there motionless. and that we would then all be treated to a national game of murder mystery dinner theater... he doesn't actually have to be dead, but he would have to play dead until we figured out who did it.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Thursday, 3 February 2005 03:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Bill Frist will be the next Saudi President

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 3 February 2005 03:08 (twenty-one years ago)

"The United States has no right, no desire, and no intention to impose our form of government on anyone else."

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Thursday, 3 February 2005 03:12 (twenty-one years ago)

the United Emirates of America

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 3 February 2005 03:16 (twenty-one years ago)

mitchell the press and the opposition have gotten a copy of the sotu before it's given for as long as i can remember. my guess is that tradition predates the 'saying it aloud' fad.

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 3 February 2005 04:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Rasheed Wallace is my new hero.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 3 February 2005 04:08 (twenty-one years ago)

so what was up with those human props at the end? I thought it was pretty cheap but the media was pissing itself about how fucking great it was.

― Dude, are you a 15 year old asian chick? (jingleberries), Thursday, 3 February 2005 05:28 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59332-2005Feb3.html

Tom Shales' review

― Kingfish MuffMiner 2049er (Kingfish), Thursday, 3 February 2005 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Zooming in on planted audience members really makes it seem like an awards ceremony.

― youn, Thursday, 3 February 2005 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

This was probably the last State of the Union speech Rather will anchor. He did not look happy about it. Nor should anybody be happy about it.

As if Dan Rather "anchoring" a speech means anything on any level. Yeah, Tom. What exactly does Dan Rather bring to the table at a SOTU? His intrepid ~~newsreading~~ reporting?

Only Tom Shales could come up with something this inane.

― don weiner, Thursday, 3 February 2005 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

currently on the front page of http://www.m-w.com/

word of the day:
jingoism
\JING-goh-iz-um\ noun
: extreme chauvinism or nationalism marked especially by a belligerent foreign policy

― (Jon L), Thursday, 3 February 2005 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Yesterday someone joked about President Bush being assassinated and someone else immediately yelled, "That would be horrible! Cheney would be president!" So...no.

most annoying bit: "i support a constitutional amendment to protect the institution of marriage for our children and our society." two seconds later, "we have a duty to protect the weak and vulnerable in our society." does he see ANY CONNECTION?

― Maria (Maria), Thursday, 3 February 2005 23:16 (twenty-one years ago)

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