STFU… Oops, I mean SOTU
I watched the President's state of the union address for a while, but then my TiVo had to change the channel to record Law and Order, and who am I to argue with TiVo? I definitely didn't watch the Democratic response, which I always hate no matter which party is doing the responding. So, as with pretty much everything of import thats happened this month, I don't have much to say on the whole thing. Here's one thing, though:
Thank God Wonderboy Tom Brady wasn't there for a bizarre "no more steroids" moment. What was this year's seemingly-out-of-leftfield insert? Like I said, I only caught the first forty minutes or so, but I'm going with "frivolous asbestos lawsuits." Wha-?!
Oh, and I don't use strong language too often here, but fuck all the clever armchair warriors with the blue-painted fingers. Seriously. Fuck you. How dare you co-opt the almost unimaginable courage of those Iraqis who cast ballots last weekend. Absolutely classless.
OK, see you in another couple weeks. I'm off to fantasize about putting my money into the stock market where it will just grow and grow and the government can never touch it.
February 3rd, 2005 at 7:54 am
I thought the sudden attention to gangs was out of nowhere. But then I stopped watching too, to do assigned readings for evolution class.
February 5th, 2005 at 12:27 am
I was recently attending President Bush’s Inauguration, when I stumbled into a couple of protestors on my way to the parade. One elderly lady in her late 60’s, holding up a “Thank God For September 11th” tapped my mom on the shoulder and said, “God is gonna smite your sons ass and send him straight to hell because he is a republican.” Not something you would expect someone to say to a 13 year old. I simply responded by telling her that Jesus loves her. As my mom came to my side, the lady spoke under her breath, “Look at them with all of their huggy wuggy talk.” Now i realize that not all democrats are that way, but it was hard for me to think that as I turned to the “God hates Fags!”, “Thank God for Tsunamis” and “Thank God for September 11th”. But I couldn’t help smiling at the thought that is one of the reasons our country is so great.
During the parade, a frown came upon my face as I watched the President pass by; something unlikely in an event of this magnitude. The President, locked up in a bullet-proof cage, unfortunately chose the wrong side of the car to sit on. Instead of looking at the waves of his supporters on my side, he looked to the one finger waves of protestors. Go ahead and express your opinion, but please, not in such a manner on the day meant for kindness towards the President and his family.
Say whatever you would like about my great President, I am proud that he is a fellow Texan.