sotu nervosa - live blogging

im so nervous. what the hell is he gonna say?

i wonder if we'll get the mars thing again? immigrant worker program? that one is important so that willing workers can be matched with willing employers. fuck florida for voting for a raise in the minimum wage. of course - we'll let in safe workers only - no terrorists. terrorists are bad.

drinking drinking

if barboxer brings in an ak47 - how far does she have to go? 43, cheney, haster, frist & delay? is that enuff?

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ive got a bad pic on cspan online and cant see his stupid fucking head. woohoo - we got a ukr already! and apparently iraq is newly soveriegn - didnt that happen when bremer skipped town?

the union is strong - woohoo

advances in medicine? woohoo - we're gonna get some stemcell lines

imagine if u did stemcell lines - would it repair the coke damage?

did he say he has prostituted corp crims?

he's gonna cut the deficit in half by 2009

oh shit - eliminiating programs. 109. woosh. dead poor people

increasing the *size* of pell grants - not the number of...

'needless regulation' - fuckhim

asbestos claims are frivolous - he is on a role

can the stupid congresscritters please stop clapping like stupid seals?

he sed nukular - teehee

clearskies - grrrr

woohoo - i was spot on with the willing/willing employment nonsense. i forgot the people about closing the border to drugdealers.

there goes socsec - its so 20th century. headed 4 bankruptcy. no time frame. he's only saving it for 55+ year olds.

is he getting boo'd on the socsec thing - when he brought up the 2042 number?

he's quoting moynihan. blast.

'courage & honesty'? fuck u mrpres

it still looks like he wont get socsec reform thru - yet he is doubling his bets.

apparently u can pass your $ to ur kids - 'if u wish'

'no hidden wallstreet fees' - we'll make sure they are all upfront.

'4% points of your payroll tax' - thats 30% if u didnt notice

there goes gay marriage - change the constitution - twas a long roundabout way of getting there - we'll have to look at that sentence later.

apparently he's against slavery.

scalia for chief justice

god, not gangs. sweet.

lets encourage aids prevention - but not using french letters. they're french.

lol - DNA evidence? is that a woollsley thingy? um - gitmo????????

thank goodness - we are gonna beat terrorism. phew.

he avoided the 'coalition of the willing' ref

nukular again.

pakistan and saudi are our freinds.

oops - he slipped in 'coalition'.

theres not much Dog - where is gerson?

freedom beats tyranny. rock beats scissors.

zark - yippeee!

uh-oh - that was the munny quote 'in the coming years, we will add to that story' - it seems as though it was intentionally non quotable.

$350m for palestinians? thats how much the tsunami folk got

oops - iran has to do three things - thats very specific - iran is toast.

'fight people in iraq so we dont have to face them at home' - the logic of this sentence continues to make my mind implode

saddam occupied iraq - thats the new spin. nice twist.

zark got a mention - did obl?

did he call allawi independent? lol

timetables are artificial

non dead amgrunts will return home with the honor they have earned

'i order my soldiers to take great risks' - now!

destroying fallujah helped some dead amgrunt save his mum. apparently. she gets cheered like a hero cos her son is dead for no reason. only in america.

woohoo - providence got a mention

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quick summary - nothing particularly surprising. socsec is toast. iran is toast. syria is toast. 63 applause interuptions. very little Dog. odd that asbestos got a specific mention. praps the most interesting thing was that he tied irans hands (which is what u do before u murder a lot of people) - with plutonium *and* uranium *and* something else - the specificity was significant. it was kinda interesting that he teed up on socsec, when it looks like he doesnt have the (presumably) requisite support.

from memory, abortion didnt get *too* much attention. tho we've sure gotta protect those poor unrepresented stemcell lines.

fucking cspan - introducing harryreid post-sotu - said something like 'how do u live up to the american ideal after that speech?'

seemed to me that the speech was kinda flat - apart from all the congresscritter ovations - but i was watching it online so im not sure if i missed stuff. we had such a helluva fucking storm here last nite that power is out everywhere - and i had to go into the office to watch it online. mebbe tv looked different. (it was such a storm last night that i thought even the dungeon would get blown away)