I listened to most of it. But my reasons were:
#1. Because my wife was late getting out of her evening class, so I had nothing better to do than read blogs and listen to the radio.
#2. Because I wanted to hear him NOT talk about gun control and picture Paul Helmke surrounded by empty boxes of white zinfindel sobbing with snot running down his nose, as he tosses a rope over an overhead beam…
When the wife got out of her class I drove her home and went to bed, and I turned the speech off as soon as she came out of the building because let’s face it, State of the Union Speeches are boring, and pointless. Hell that goes for all political speeches. Talk is cheap, and speeches aren’t actions. Doesn’t matter WHO it is, even during the GOP Primary where people who I do respect like Duncan Hunter or Fred Thompson gave speeches, I tuned out, because all they’re really doing is polishing turds. Heck that’s one reason why I love Maine’s new Governor Paul LePage so much. He tells it how it is, he uses crass language and doesn’t care if he hurts somebody’s feelings. Maybe if they broadcast a LePage speech I’ll listen to that. If he puts and ashtray on the podium, lights a smoke, and talks off his head just using a 3×5 card as a reference, I’ll buy it on DVD and watch it on my home theater!
Blah Blah Blah, well writing this post, was a lot of fun too!
I listened, and I’m STILL confused… He was all over the place, left, right, center, countering things said earlier in the speech etc…
I said I listened to it, I didn’t say I was paying attention. I did snicker when he mentioned “high speed rails” I actually think the big laughter from the floor wss not from the TSA joke, but from people debating weather the president bringing up one of the most consistently failed public works projects AGAIN! Was a joke or not. They gave Barry the benefit. I did too, I bet he won’t even bother with it. Hell I bet he didn’t even know he wss going to mention rail service until it came up on the teleprompter.
Other than that I know he wasn’t talking about guns, and Helmke is a sad panda!
Do it again. And if it still doesn’t work, do it again with JAZZ HANDS.
I’ll fully admit, I didn’t listen to it at all. I spent the first 10 minutes reading “I Spy” to my daughter, the next 10 minutes reading a book about a beaver building a doghouse for his pet dog to my son, and then the next hour and 20 minutes spanking Nebraska and Texas with Texas A&M in NCAA 11 on the XBox (at the time Nebraska was ranked 11 and Texas was ranked 4, A&M was unranked). I held both of them scoreless for 3 quarters. Then I saw that I was stuck with a 6-6 Northwestern for the Insight.com Bowl (my A&M team is 9-3 same as the real life team and they got the Cotton Bowl). Sounds like another game where I will do nothing but run the ball (I did that on my first three games). Oh, other great stat, my rush defense is #1, I have allowed a total of 244 yards rushing. Not per game. All season (which includes three games where teams had negative rush yardage). All of my losses were by 3 points (Missouri, Oklahoma St, and Oklahoma in OT). Basically, if I had have been more disciplined in clock management, then I might have won them all.
So, yeah, I would say I had a productive evening!
I think you’re talking about sports, but I’m not 100% sure. 😉
Sneaky bit, that. Talking up the lack of pat-downs on high speed rail…an effort to engender grassroots support for a mass transportation option sans the Testicle Squeezing Autocrats? Or am I giving him too much credit…
Does he really think the populace will believe the TSA WON’T ‘jangle their jewels’ if HSR gets built?
Hey, I’m all for high speed rail–as long as the French have to pay for it!
Draft up a Grant! Sounds like a GREAT idea! I need to do a rail post when I get some energy.