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Tonight the State of the Union Address will be on every channel (for those of us without cable), and they've even had the nerve to pre-empt "House"! Will you:  

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  1. 1. Tonight the State of the Union Address will be on every channel (for those of us without cable), and they've even had the nerve to pre-empt "House"! Will you:

    • 1) Watch with rapt attention to everything the president has to say
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    • 2) Watch with rapt attention to figure out what the president is going to screw up this year
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    • 3) Invite freinds over with beer and drink every time Dubya uses a malapropism or says "Nook-ya-ler"
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    • 4) Accidentally leave the T.V. on, and when you hear the word "terrerizzzim" for the ninteenth time, shoot the television and go on a wild spork rampage
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    • 5) Turn off all the power in your house, bury yourself in a mound of blankets and cats, and not come out until "Cops" comes on Saturday at 8pm.
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AirMarshall

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I can't bear to watch.  It is so excrutiatingly embarrasing to listen to him talk.  Also, these things have become such propaganda pieces that one gains no benefit.

I've got lots of blankets but I"m out of cats. Can I borrow one?  Light colored smooth coat tabby preferred.  ;)

A.M.

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daemongrrl

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Probably these boards are being monitored for members of organizations which may or may not be harmful to the sanctity of our nation's freedom...

What?? And another bill on the books to strip gays/lesbians of THEIR constitutional rights?? Maybe they should put up some wire taps in the White House...

I will not be watching because if I have to see his stupid smirky face anymore, especially after the doubleblow today: Alito and Coretta Scott King. Sure he'll be gloating ;)

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revlow

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I'll watch because I *have* to watch. Have this "part of being a good citizen" shit engrained in me.

My dad would plop me in front of the TV for any important event. The Nixon-Kennedy debates? Remember them as if they were yesterday. I was 5 at the time. Anytime some history program would re-runs the McCarthy hearings? Yup. Dad teaching me about what it all meant, in front of the tube.

Actually, this was pretty cool in a way. Unfortunately, he just didn't know when or how to temper this. Won't go into details, but let's just say I was probably having Holocaust nightmares before I could even talk.

So, I'll watch. Is it good for my MI? Probably not. But I'll be one g'damn sick f'ing pup of an informed citizen. ;)

Is there something in the DSM for this?

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Batou

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sigh

I do remember being forced to sit down and listen to Nixon's resignation speech. My dad taped it. The good ole days.

I'm secretly afraid to watch because I think Duba will way smarter than me these days.

*edit can't type, spell, or pronounce words correctly

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Greenyflower

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It is long engrained family habit to watch these sorts of things. But, I don't have to like it. I don't have to be quiet about it. I reserve the right to throw things at the TV and screech my discontent.

Oh. And showing off the newly confirmed Samuel Alito. Better get those hangers sharpened.

OH GOD! They've already said, "Compassionate Conservative."  My earses. They burns. Owwww.

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Velvet Elvis

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It is long engrained family habit to watch these sorts of things. But, I don't have to like it. I don't have to be quiet about it. I reserve the right to throw things at the TV and screech my discontent.

Same here.  I've decided that it's ok if I just read a transcript later. 

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Millie_O

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AAAAAAAAARRRRGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck

I hate him

I hate him

I hate him

I don't even CARE if they're monitoring this!

Go ahead - arrest me - I HATE the motherfucker!

IMPEACH IMPEACH IMfuckingPEACH!!!!

There. Ok. Sorry. Rant over. I had no intention of watching it - we don't even have tv - but my husband watched it on streaming cnn on his computer and I kept hearing the word LIBERTY over and over. Fucker. Thanks. Sorry. Always in the way. Maybe we can send a crazyboards contingent to the protest in NY April 29th... to speak for ourselves, of course, not for the board....

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wifezilla

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I don't have to watch it...hubby will give me a line by line recap after he gets home from work ;)

He is such a politics geek!!!

Good thing I have some new yarn. You can really pretend you are listening if you have something to knit!

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revlow

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LOL, Wifezilla.

I wish I didn't care about this crap. But I do. I also know I can detox later by watching John Stewart. Always a help!

Geez, at this point Stewart and his fellow writers barely need to do a thing. This stuff writes itself.

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Rabbit37

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*edit can't type, spell, or pronounce words correctly

Neither can Dubya.

Edited to add: I voted for #3, but wouldn't actually go through with it. Who wants to clean up puke 5 minutes into the address.

Fuck W. Oops. Bet the FBI will be banging on my door in a few minutes.

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Seldarin

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They'd have been trying to empeach him for the last 5 years had he gotten a blowjob.

Blatant crimes, on the other hand, are perfectly ok.

I'd sooner have a Lower GI performed with barbed wire and broken glass than watch this thing.

Then again, of all the stuff I have, I can't list a television among it. ;)

My mom will probably call me tomorrow to give me an outraged blow by blow, but those are usually pretty funny.

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Batou

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And Cindy Shehan (sp?) was arrested last night for refusing to cover up her t-shirt which read 2,045 (exact? bad memory and too lazy to look it up) dead. How many more?

Arressted for not covering up the message on her t-shirt?

Erika

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Weaseltine Cracker

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I didn't even know it was happening until I checked the New York Times site last night and the headline said something like Bush Says America Must Reduce Dependence on Oil. I thought I was hallucinating. I haven't read the transcript yet, or much commentary, except there is an amusing graph of the words he's used over the past six years in these speeches: The Words That Were Used. You'll need a NYT free registration to view, I think.

--Weasel

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revlow

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That's a great chart, WC.

Lest we forget, Rex the bomb sniffing dog was one of the honored guests in attendance. (Talk about covering all bases!) http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060201/ap_on_...nion_notebook_5.

I read about Cindy Sheehan's arrest last night: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060201/ap_on_...e_union_sheehan. I'm outraged. She was invited to attend the speech by Rep. Lynn Woolsey, D-Calif. INVITED!

Oh, well. We've only got the rest of the typical 48-hour news cycle to get through. ;)

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grousemouse

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a completely different thing here, but this thread is about america's future and stuff. i just heard on cbc that they interviewed some american senator yesterday about a proposal to build a big fence along the canada-US border.

at first i almost fell over laughing, but then i realised that it is an awesome idea because the number of illegal handguns in canada would plummet. freaking awesome if you ask me.

isolationism? yeek! scary stuff.

grouse.

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Mack

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A few thoughts:

Be careful with the Bush quote on oil dependency. He mainly spoke of ethanol. American production of ethanol relies completely on the use of corn. While many people have a picture of Ma and Pa Jones working the fields in Iowa to produce corn to make our cars go, the reality is that it would likely be a giant corporate welfare scheme for Archer Daniels Midland (and similar companies).

It is generally agreed that it takes more energy to make ethanol alcohol for fuel than it saves by burning it in a combustible engine. A better source for ethanol is sugar cane, but I doubt that Bush had the welfare of Cuba or Venezuela in mind when he made those statements ;) .

Also note the time period he used and the statement is really not all that dramatic. Plus you can throw in his Manned Mission to Mars statement he made a few years back and how worthless that was and I think we can add this to the horse's fecal matter pile. I think that Karl Rove must believe if Bush says enough crap like this that one day some of this will actually come true (if we elect some decent leaders) and maybe the Bush voters will be able to take credit for it a few decades from now.

As for the fence at Canada Grouse, I remember Bill O'Reilly talking about using the military for guarding the border with Canada. Then I remembered crossing the border in upstate New York at some lonely middle of nowhere highway. And that was rural New York, I can't even imagine rural Montana, Minnesota, or Washington. There'd be a million new members of Crazy Boards and they'd all be US military guards of the Canadian border at outposts in Podunk, North Dakota developing multiple personalities, hoping one of them can make interesting conversation.

Bill O'Reilly is a mindless twit.

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mundhenk666

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The interesting thing about the state of the union was that the amount of actual truth was interspersed randomly with non-truth. As such, the information content of each statement uttered by the president was completely uniform and approached a state of near ideal entropy. Thus, one would glean as much information from bush's speech as one would from watching a fuzzy blank channel. Of course, since particles gain entropy at high temperatures, this is yet more evidence that Bush us full of hot air.

As for drinking games, I'm sure Bush plays this one too. I mean its not so much a home game so much as a play at home along with the president kind of game. Maybe we could make it into a board game. The "Get drunk with the President" home edition.  We could even make some money later with the Dick Cheney expansion pack.

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amazon_42

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I was going to watch but ended up forgetting about it (you can only watch it on cable over here).  I watched a fair bit of the commentary though... seems like he didn't say a lot he hasn't said every other year.

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Well, and, considering he doesn't say much ANY year, well....it's just as well.

What HAVE you got over there anyway? Does Tony Blair stand up once a year and bullshit for 45 minutes while the Queen politely golf claps? And you all lob cans of Fosters at the screen?

Or wait, no, Australia isn't part of the British Empire anymore, or is it? I forget. I think I gave up trying to keep track of who was part of the British Empire when they went postal over who owned an island with 27 brits and 40000 pengiuns.

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kelanor

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I'm pretty sure when Bush said he wanted to break our addiction to oil, he just meant on OPEC oil.

Maybe he's planning on draining Alaska dry, then paving it over and building a really big Wal-Mart.

edited to add: I couldn't make myself watch this one.

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Maddy

Maddy

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Is the Tiger in your Tank also the monkey on your back?

(overheard from that MoPo and Connie Chung show my mom was watching - it was kinda funny in passing.  They set up the shot like an old timey sepia western preview)

Jeez.  Just gimme the fake news, hell I'm starting to think it's probably closer to the truth anyway.  hee hee.

*blasts "Stranger Than Fiction" by Bad Religion*

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