I'm not sure that I can take it tonight. I may have to watch until my eyes bleed. Just because I'm that much of a masochist. However, to make it all a bit more palatable, I direct you to SK Bubba's SoTU drinking game variant, which donates money to a good cause for certain expressions that the Drunken Fratboy Cheerleader is sure to use at some point. SKB is going to donate to Habitat for Humanity instead of doing shots (although I am not sure that doing both might not be appropriate).
I wanna play too, so every time that Chimpy mentions
"gratitude towards our troops" that's worth $10
"rape rooms" that's worth $10
"Syria, Ghaddafi or the Axis of Evil" that's worth $5
to Amnesty Interational.
Oh, and if the Miserable Failure mentions discretionary spending requirements that need to be increased during the LoTU address tonight, I'll donate $50 to Sullywatch! to continue watching that idiot ...
Okay, I come up with two Libya's, three mentions of the troops (including 2 er 10 year-old Ashley) and a discretionary spending cap at 4%. That's 50 bucks to Amnesty and $50 to Sullywatch. Anyone have more before I send my dough to AI ... did I miss one?
On NPR's Morning Edition they did their sampled opinion pieces on reaction to the speech. One of their samples was two Navy wives in San Diego.
They made 'happy talk' about the mentions of the troops in the speech in spite of the personal problems they faced with continuing deployments. As a 'throw-away' they mentioned that the second wife was former military and kept busy in a program that gave out food to military families in need.
That is the kind of support our government provides for the military, volunteer service organizations to gather and distribute food to hungry military families.
posted by: Bryan on 01.21.04 at 10:50 AM [permalink]
This artice is very interesting!!! But I didn't understand something. So, I have no my own idea about it...
