State of the Union

I’m putting off watching SUPERNATURAL for this, so it’d better rock.

9:06: He makes his entrance. Let’s see how long it takes to get to the front.

9:08: God, his hair has gotten so gray.

9:09: Three minutes.

9:10: Good Christ, what the hëll has happened to Boehner’s skin? I mean, I know it was darker, but standing next to Biden, he looks like he’s turning into Pinocchio.

9:11: Which is driving the GOP nuts, of course.

9:13: Now if only they’d prosecuted the people who wrongfully sent those brave men and women overseas. You know: his predecessors.

9:15: Will we approach the world fearful and reactive? Depends if we watch Fox News.

9:15: If we get sorted into fractions, I want to be in Gryffindor.

9:18: Eleven million new jobs. Too bad Kath is still unemployed.

9:19: Finish college and go into huge debt because of student loans.

9:20: “Which you guys have tried to take away from them 53 times and still counting.”

9:21: Well, it’s terrible news to the GOP…

9:25: They’re applauding everyone playing by the same set of rules? Isn’t that kind of self-evident?

9:26: I notice Biden stopped standing. Maybe he felt stupid because he was standing and Boehner was sitting. Jesus, Boehner’s not even clapping. What a douche.

9:28: I take it back. Biden was standing. But not Boehner. Still not even clapping.

9:29: Was it always like this? Did the opposing party always sit on their hands no matter what the president said?

9:31: Pay nothing for community college? Well, you get what you pay for, I guess.

9:32: Or you could follow the West Wing plan and make college tuition tax deductible.

9:34: Boehner finally stood.

9:39: Since I have diabetes, I’m certainly all for curing it. I miss chocolate.

9:40: We launched a space craft? Did I miss something? Well, at least Boehner stood for the astronaut.

9:41: I wish he’d stop talking about bipartisanship. There is no bipartisanship. They can’t even all agree to applaud for him, much less pass laws.

9:43: I don’t think Boehner could look more constipated if he tried.

9:44: Right. The first response is to send in drones. Military is the second response.

9:44: We stand united with France except when we don’t show up for their march.

9:47: So he just warned Putin to stay the hëll out of the Ukraine.

9:48: That’s the quote so far: “When something you’ve been trying for 50 years doesn’t work, it’s time to try something new.”

9:51: By all means, respect our kids’ privacy, so they can blab everything about every aspect of their lives on the internet.

9:53: I wonder what percentage of the people in there still don’t believe in climate change.

9:56: Interesting. In his talk on values, the one thing no one applauded for was not condemning all Muslims.

9:57: Dude, you’ve been there for six years and you always talk about shutting down Gitmo. No one is being fooled by this point.

10:01: Nice that he’s behind gay marriage now considering Joe Biden had to push him into it.

10:03: It’s a wonderful vision. Too bad that tomorrow we’ll be right back to the usual BS.

10:07: “I know ’cause I won both of them.” Nice.

10:09: Yes we are.

Very good speech, I thought. Too bad the pundits will explain how much it sucked and how it was filled with self serving lies.

30 comments on “State of the Union

    1. See, to the orange guy sitting there behind Obama, that’s not a good thing…

      1. Boehner is darker-skinned than Biden? Heck, did you notice that he’s actually darker-skinned than Obama!?

  1. PAD, “tax-deductible” only helps if you make enough money that you have to pay taxes. Never been there, doubt I ever will be.

  2. “Was it always like this? Did the opposing party always sit on their hands no matter what the president said?”

    Considering that even the suggestion of accidentally supporting this president means that a long-timer GOP congresscritter could face — and lose — a primary challenge, it’s a defense mechanism.

  3. 9:55 – Yes, we’ve only got the one planet. That’s why we need to spread out – colonize Mars, the Moon, the asteroids, build space habitats both in orbit and in transit between planets. In the words of Robert Heinlein, “Earth is too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in.”

  4. By the book, and mostly safe, SotU stuff is the impression that I’m getting. The real fun will be watching the crash and burn that will be the rebuttal.

  5. One of the dumbest things about the SotU: that the ‘party out of power’ delivers a response. They can’t even give the president 15 minutes, much less 15 hours, before they decide to spit out a bunch of crap that more often than not amounts to “We disagree with everything that an just said!”

  6. Boehner’s face is why i watch. Every time the President said something positive, he looked more constipated than before. his face when it came to equal pay for women…

    1. The responses to her on Twitter have been spectacular.

      I really don’t know wtf the GOP were thinking in putting her out there. Bread bags? Good lord.

  7. As far as I’m concerned, neither side said anything truly worthy of mention. Obama took credit for a lot of things he actually has helped to screw up, then proposed spending oodles more money we don’t have to “fix” them further; and Ernst spent all her time talking about growing up on her pig farm with a smile I think she attached to her face with super glue.

    Like who gives a rats behind?

    1. Exactly the response both parties want.

      Keep the citizens divided and/or apathetic so they won;t organize to do something about how bad the government and it’s owner, big business, is screwing us all over.

  8. So I think the question on everybody’s mind is:

    How has SUPERNATURAL been? While I still enjoy the show (especially the recent musical episode), there’s a part of me that’s sick of the never-ending storylines about angels. But I suppose once you beat Satan, you need some big powerful baddies that are more than just your run-of-the-mill monsters.

    1. James,

      I still consider Supernatural to be one of the best shows on TV. Though there’s a lot of what my Mom would call “spooky-dooky”, at its heart Supernatural is a character-driven show about family; both the biological kind and the kind you make.

      Here are two blog entries I’ve written about the show:

      https://rickkeatingsrandommusings.wordpress.com/2014/02/12/random-musings-a-midseason-look-at-supernatural/

      https://rickkeatingsrandommusings.wordpress.com/2014/10/07/random-musings-thoughts-on-what-lies-ahead-for-supernaturals-10th-season/

      I haven’t yet weighed in on what’s happened so far this season.

      And there haven’t really been never-ending storylines about angels. Yes, season six did focus on the civil war in Heaven after both Lucifer and Michael were locked in the cage and season nine dealt with the angels’ expulsion from Heaven; but they were less involved in seasons seven and eight, especially season seven.

      On another topic, PAD, when is the second issue of the Phantom mini series due out? I’ve asked about it at my comics shop and they haven’t seen it.

      Rick.

      1. My Dad was using insulin everyday. He had a “heart scare” a year and a half ago and he started a diet. He went from 230lb to 160lb. He is still on the same diet and now he doesn’t need the insulin anymore.

      2. I’ve heard that from several people, that their diabetes went into remission if/when they managed to lose enough weight.

    1. “I know ’cause I won both of them.”

      This was my favorite moment of the whole SOTU. Republicans are always claiming every victory is a mandate from the people — but they seem to forget or ignore that Obama was elected *twice,* winning both the popular and electoral vote. That is a pretty clear mandate as well!

      1. I’ll do you one better.

        W. wins in 2004 with 50.7% of the vote, 62,040,610 total votes, 286 electoral votes, and a lead over Kerry of 3,012,166 votes. It’s declared far and wide that W. has a clear mandate with such a huge win.

        Obama wins in 2012 with 51.1% of the vote, 65,915,796 total votes, 332 electoral votes, and a lead over Mitt of 4,982,296 votes. Oh, and he got more of both the popular and electoral votes than conservative pundits were claiming that Romney would get in his “landslide” victory that, by sheer landsizeness, would set a clear agenda and direction for the country that the opposition would have to fall in line behind. Result? Obama’s narrow victory over Romney was declared far and wide as a sign that he was presiding over a deeply divided country and that he needed to tread softly and work with the other side more in order to heal the divide.

        And then, hey, remember in 2006 when the Democrats took congress and the Republicans all said that the people had spoken and W. needed to fall in line behind the newly minted “Will of the People” Congress? Nope. Me neither. Just like no one remembers a newly minted Democratic Congress blocking W.’s every move and threatening to shut the government down every other week.

        It’s not that they seem to forget or ignore that Obama was elected twice, winning both the popular and electoral vote, they just don’t care. Hey, this is the party that had its leaders meet on the day of Obama’s 2009 inauguration and decide that their strategy was to pretend to be the party in power, demand that Obama come to them and their demands, and obstruct, obstruct, obstruct until the cows come home.

        Personally, at this point, my attitude with the modern Republican party is screw them and their demands and POV. And if they want to act like butthurt babies because Obama turned their little jab back on them, if they want to show (as they regularly do these days) that they can dish it out all day long but whine and cry like babies in an instant because they can’t take it for even a second, too f’n bad.

  9. I’m failing to see the point of this speech anymore from any president. They really don’t talk about the state of the union, it’s just this starry-eyed meandering of the possible future that may not even happen because of how the government works (or doesn’t). I’m pretty sure they have been saying for at least the last 10 years that they will bring back jobs from overseas. I don’t really think they have any control over that.

    Anyway, I think I understand why no one showed up to support France in their super gathering/protest. I’m sure with Obama and Biden, it would be a security nightmare particularly with the secret service nowadays. I’m not sure about Kerry but I figure he might have just as many issues. So I don’t blame them for not going.

    As for your diabetes have you tried Aronia berry?
    https://www.google.com/search?q=aronia+berry+juice&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=nts

    This is by no means a cure-all but it might help. I drink it on the occasion (it can be bad tasting with a chalky after taste) when my sugar problems flare up and it sets it right because I believe the claims that it does regulate blood sugar. As for chocolate you aren’t missing much, as a Chocolate snob I can assure you that the quality has gone downhill since the 90s and for the most part with mainstream chocolates the most you are getting is a wad of sugar and emulsifiers waved over a chocolate scent.

    1. I tend to agree with you about the speech. If my comments above weren’t enough to make it clear that I think the speech itself is pointless these days, there’s the way I explained it on Facebook to a friend who is new(ish) to the country.

      I told him it’s basically where the leader of the incumbent party gives a bland, dull, scripted speech to make his side happy(ish) while doing little else that’s followed by the opposition attempting to make new stars but more frequently of late stalling or outright killing their momentum as a star on the rise.

      Case in point- Federal welfare queen Joni “Bread Bags” Ernst. Dear lord was that horrifically bad.

      1. Constitution requires the President to report to Congress from time to time. “Annual” isn’t in it (one of the trick questions on the immigration/citizenship exam), but the Prez does have to say something on a somewhat regular basis.

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