{"id":231,"date":"1999-01-29T11:47:30","date_gmt":"1999-01-29T16:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/1999\/01\/29\/state-of-the-union-live\/"},"modified":"2009-01-29T13:20:42","modified_gmt":"2009-01-29T18:20:42","slug":"state-of-the-union-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/1999\/01\/29\/state-of-the-union-live\/","title":{"rendered":"State of the Union – Live!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update:<\/em> I was going to flesh out my notes, then I read last year’s notes. How sad.<\/p>\n

~<\/p>\n

State of the Union-<\/p>\n

Poor Robert Rubin. Can you imagine how bad he wants to get out of
\nthere?<\/p>\n

How can the Republicans not clap at the “State of our Union is
\nstrong”? That’s a Democratic issue or something?<\/p>\n

Aging of America . . .hey, I’m all for octagenarian euthanasia-
\noldest first- make way for Strom, ‘kay?<\/p>\n

Social Security. Yawn. What?! Remove earning limits on SS
\nrecipients?<\/p>\n

Guaranteeing the soundness of Medicare? Lord, y’all are so screwed if
\neven just those eligible right now take advantage of it.<\/p>\n

Affordable prescription drugs? Do you have any idea how many of these
\nfolks retire from Congress to pimp for pharmaceutical companies? Where would
\nthey find the money to provide retirement paths if this happened?<\/p>\n

Universal Savings Accounts? I’ll keep it under my mattress, thank
\nyou.<\/p>\n

Tax credit of a thousand to deal with aging? How nice, that’ll pay
\nfor a 1\/2 a month of care.<\/p>\n

(Baby boomers- if these folks try to claim the same amounts of
\nbenefits seniors do now . . .)<\/p>\n

I’ll have to give credit on the HOPE Tax credit (which still ain’t a
\nGA Hope Scholarship, but . . . )<\/p>\n

Oh, who cares about being connected to the internet when the teacher
\ncan’t spell, herself?<\/p>\n

Ending social promotion. Umm, there’s no explicit policy in place .
\n. . whaddya gonna do?<\/p>\n

(Triples funding for summer school and after school . . . very good
\nidea)<\/p>\n

(Year round schools would be a better step . . .)<\/p>\n

(Umm, how much of this gonna happen? I mean, for all the local
\nhollerin’ bout it, the federal government doesn’t have much pull . . .)<\/p>\n

Issuing report cards on every school . . .umm, I hear a commission
\nopening. Quick, someone order the cherry desks. (Where are the local
\nnewspapers?)<\/p>\n

Raise the minimum wage . . shouldn’t that just be a recording by
\nthis point?<\/p>\n

Equal pay for equal work? What an impossible albatross . . .<\/p>\n

Protecting the privacy of medical records. I like the idea, but why
\ndoes that make me nervous?<\/p>\n

The Justice Department is gonna take the tobacco companies to court
\n. . . hee hee ha ha hoo hoo . .<\/p>\n

Income gap= skills gap. No shit. But that you for pointing that out.
\nIn fact, forget college financial aid- open up some real trade schools. Who
\nthe needs English Lit when you’re still working slinging boxes at a
\nwarehouse?<\/p>\n

Cutting the welfare rolls nearly in half. Traitorous bastard. Wait
\nfor this rubberband to snap.<\/p>\n

Dick Armey. Please add him (again) to the list of people I’d love to
\nsmack.<\/p>\n

“Bring it back to the farm . . . crop insurance and income
\nassistance” . . . oh my ()*@#@ god . . if I was ever for just leaving it to
\nthe free market . . .<\/p>\n

Y2K. Solving the Y2K problem? Social security checks on time . . .
\n(Work with us . . . so, we’re gonna pass a bill banning the advancement of
\ntime . . . )<\/p>\n

The rest of the world is in recession . . .um, yeah. This is a
\nreally really weird thing. While the rest of the world is going to hell in a
\nhandbasket, we’re paying 200 for shares of Yahoo.<\/p>\n

Trade has divided Americans for too long? Lord, thank you. Will you
\nplease help explain this issue? I mean, let the shit jobs get exported . .
\n.if we can provide bridging trading . . . no one is this country should have
\nto be fighting to protect the right to shovel pig shit. Ugly, but
\nimportant, argument.<\/p>\n

(Janet Reno and her one blue dress)<\/p>\n

(Oooh, Japan bashing may be back in style . . )<\/p>\n

Ahhh . . . banning child labor … how . .. brave!<\/p>\n

(Hey, nearly an hour in before the first drink . . )<\/p>\n

Did he say lasting peace in the middle east? Was that a straight
\nface?<\/p>\n

Nuclear treaties . . hmm, sounds faintly familiar . . . .<\/p>\n

Iraq. Get over it.<\/p>\n

(Oh my god who picked Capt. Taliferro for the family gallery?)<\/p>\n

Time to reverse the decline in Defense Spending in 1985? 85!!?? (you
\nsorry hypocritical bastard)<\/p>\n

Pay our Dues to the UN (you keep teasin’ me, baby . . .)<\/p>\n

“Stability can’t be bought at the expense of liberty”? Oh lord, if
\nwe could apply that here . . .<\/p>\n

100K more community police officers? Did you increase the internal
\naffairs budget, too?<\/p>\n

Brady Bill has stopped 250K felons from buying guns? What bullshit .
\n. .<\/p>\n

50K more police . . . can we make sure they aren’t all
\nknuckledraggers?<\/p>\n

Digital mugshots. Ooh, how technically advanced.<\/p>\n

If you stay on drugs, you stay behind bars. Wow, more bravery.<\/p>\n

Extend ban on gun purchases to minors. Umm, so I beat the hell out
\nof someone when I was 13, and I lose a Constitutional right as an adult?<\/p>\n

Leaving this land an even better land for our descendants than it was
\nfor us . . (what I’d love to hear next is “so I’m outlawing suburbia”)<\/p>\n

A one billion dollar livability agenda? Okaaayyyy<\/p>\n

(Umm, did I tell y’all about TEA-21? Transportation Equity Act for
\nthe 21st Century . . good stuff)<\/p>\n

AmeriCorps!!!!! Warms my black little heart.<\/p>\n

Rosa Parks. Excuse me while I get goosebumps of pride.<\/p>\n

And Barney Frank, as much as a wacko as he is, is the man.<\/p>\n

Immigration. Lord, I really wish this would be national issue, and
\nnot just one left to the border states. Either shut the doors and focus on
\nurselves or stop setting up recent immigrants for failure.<\/p>\n

Honoring Hillary. Whatever you think about them, that’s a hell of a
\nstory if ever there was one . . .<\/p>\n

Nationally recognized millennium community- preserve part of the
\npast- embalm Strom now!<\/p>\n

A more perfect union. I really wonder . . .<\/p>\n

He . . or She . . (I’m thinking Hillary . . )<\/p>\n

~<\/p>\n

Republican Response . . .<\/p>\n

Proposing a 10% cut in taxes. Yawn.<\/p>\n

Spending the surplus for social security doesn’t work? How in the
\nfuck is that spending?<\/p>\n

“I’m a single mom.” I’ll vote for a Republican when they sit someone
\nup there who says “I’m a single transvestite (preop) father”.<\/p>\n

Give working Americans a choice to invest funds in private accounts
\n. . . umm, yeah. Didn’t I just hear that?<\/p>\n

I married my high school sweetheart, a cheerleader, . . I was a
\nfootball player . . (I’m choking on laughter)<\/p>\n

“I had to ask someone what GOP stood for after I was elected”. (I’d
\nlike a grand jury please . . .)<\/p>\n

“Preserve the notion that true liberty and freedom come from God,
\nand that the way we act toward God depends on that . . ” (Happy Ramadan).<\/p>\n

Oh my god, we’re calling for Star Wars all over again.<\/p>\n

Partial Birth Abortion . . what, no graphics?<\/p>\n

“At the heart of free enterprise, is an education” . . .(well, that
\nexplains why we didn’t clap at any of the propose education initiatives,
\neh?)<\/p>\n

Oh, sure, lets scrap the IRS code. Of course, you know that all of
\nthe code is that complicated to provide easy ways out for all poor people
\nand their accountants to get out of, right?<\/p>\n

Invoking Dr. King. That takes balls on his part . . . uh huh.<\/p>\n

“The word congress, is made of two latin words, which mean . .
\n.”(Did Farrakhan write this?)<\/p>\n

The body is strong . . . the heart needs attention . .<\/p>\n

Invoking Vince Gill for national guidance.<\/p>\n

BLACKS AND WHITES? (let’s not get started)<\/p>\n

~<\/p>\n

“It was a boffo performance . . .” (Bill Kristol)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Update: I was going to flesh out my notes, then I read last year’s notes. How sad. ~ State of the Union- Poor Robert Rubin. Can you imagine how bad he wants to get out of there? How can the Republicans not clap at the “State of our Union is strong”? That’s a Democratic issue […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dc","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t