Bryan Strawser

Part Two

We must act not as Republicans, not as Democrats, but as Americans…

We need more of them..  (meaning precision weapons).. new aircraft.. the best weapons, the best equipment, the best training.. and another pay raise.  Amen Brother.  Please pay them more and get moving on the new equipment, we are going to need it.  I wager that this is going to cause a shitload of controversy among the liberal left.

Whatever it costs to defend our country, we will pay.

Time and distance from the events.. will not make us safer.. Increased vigilence at home… action abroad..

One thing I’m enjoying with this speech is that we haven’t had Clinton’s 15,000 proposals that were all crap and socialist in nature.  I’ve only heard a few new proposals tonight.. yay!

The two flight attendents that noticed Richard Reed were just recognized and the President told their story.   Cool! 

I’m more impressed by the fact that these folks on the flight had a mental state of mind that they were not going to take this shit lieing down.. they fought this guy….  Perhaps that’s what happened on Flight 93 in Pennslyvania as well.. they fought this guy…  I do hope so..  I don’t believe in being a victim.

Congress restrains spending.. and acts in a fiscally responsible manner.  I dunno, you may need a revolution to do that..  Or at least a significantly less number of Democrats in Congress and the Senate.

The State of the Union:

Pre-Speech

Ted Kennedy is still a fatass, apparantly Bush is going to refer to him as “my friend”.  Interesting.  He’s a Communist in disguise.

Hey look, Cheney is out of his cave!  Cooooool.  I like Cheney.

The Premier of Afganistan just entered and received a standing ovation.  He has a seriously funky cool outfit on.  And there’s the First Lady.

Interesting that press coverage of the State of the Union, which usually starts right before the President enters, tonight is showing the entrance of almost everyone of any importance.

The President’s Cabinet just entered.  I was listening to Don Imus this morning where Tim Russert was a guest.  Tim stated that Bush has made it clear that he enjoys having divergent views in his cabinet.. Colin Powell doesn’t always agree with Don Rumsfeld, neither of them always agree with Condi Rice, the National Security Advisor, and so on.  Divergent views are good!

Mr. Speaker, The President of the United States

Great strong start…  the ongoing applause is going to bug me…

The Terrorists who once occupied a country, now occupy cells in Gitmo..  they are now running for their own lives [sic]

Nice standing ovation for Harmed Karzai, good introduction from Bush.

Our success is due..  to the might of the United States Military.  The men and women of our armed forces have delivered a message clear to our enemy..  on mountaintops and in caves..  you will not escape the justice of this nation.

Maybe it’s just me, but the constant recognition of people from the gallery bugs me.  Maybe it’s because Clinton did most of this and did it constantly, but it’s still somewhat irritating.  I like to watch the speech, not the other stuff 🙂

Depth of their hatred..  videos where they laugh at the loss of life

Found diagrams of nuclear plants and public water facilities, key landmarks throughout the world..  far from ending, our war against terror is only beginning.

19 men were trained in camps and attacked on september 11th, tens of thousands of others are spread throughout the world like ticking time bombs, set to go off without warning.  Hundreds have been arrested, but tens of thousands..  are still at large.

The entire world is the battlefield..  we must pursue them wherever they are…

Objectives..  1)  we will shutdown camps, disrupts plans, bring to justice..  2)  prevent terorrists and regimes from.. threating the United States, and the world….

Camps still exist in at least a dozen countries.  Many of them appear to be Islamic, this could be interesting problem with our allies in the Middle East.  Saudi dropped a warning on us today about our recent comments on Arafat.

Terrorist Parasites..  speak it!  speak it!  Call it for what it is.

Jesse Helms can’t clap, damn…

Some nations will be timid, they will not act…  If they do not act, America will..  Call it the Bush Doctrine, but it’s somethign right out of a Clancy novel..and I like it.  We’ve been far too timid for so long….

Just singled out North Korea and Iran as potential issues, as well as Iraq..

Serious discussion about Iraq, could they be our next target? 

We will do what is necessary to protect our country..  I will not wait on events..  We will not permit the world’s most dangerous regimes to threaten us…

It has only begun..  it may not be finished on our watch.. but it will be waged on our watch…  if we stop now.. our sense of security would be false.

I agree with him.  I already see things dropping off in our mindset.. we’re already getting a bit soft, no one is paranoid anymore..  we need to be.. we need to be think

I’m sure this will play well in Israel.  Israeli army reservists just say no. A bunch (more than 60) Israeli army reservists, half of whom are officers, are refusing to serve any longer in the occupied territories, because they believe that the Palestinians are being abused and humiliated. [kuro5hin.org]

Oh yeah baby.  Free Wireless Networks at Airports [Slashdot]

I’d respond to this.  But it’s clear that this idiot author doesn’t understand Presidential History or the notion of precedent.  Lucky for us, our Vice President does.  Dick Cheney’s bonehead Enron play. The veep from Big Business just doesn’t get it: Hiding behind executive privilege only reinforces the sense that he’s hiding something smelly. [Salon.com]

One more reason to love Google.  News.Com: Google distances itself from pop-ups. “It seems like we’re seeing increasing confusion from users…in response to the Web-wide proliferation of pop-ups. We thought this was a good time to explain that Google does not show pop-up ads,” said Matt Cutts, a software engineer at the company. [Tomalak’s Realm]

A thought on this.  I agree with the White House’s decision to not release this information.  There needs to be some level of privilege regarding conversations that the executive branch has with individuals in order to create government policy.  Now, if they get a subpoena, they’ll fight it.  And that will eventually be decided by a judge and they’ll have to abide by that court’s ruling.

Look at it this way.  You’re an active citizen, and you write and call your representatives regularly.  Should that all be a matter of public record?  Do you want all of your views aired publically?  I don’t.

Maybe that’s an odd way to look at this, but I don’t believe that it is.

Dick Cheney’s refusal to release details of his private meetings with Enron officials dominates the news agenda. By digging in his heels, Mr Cheney has set the stage for the biggest legal confrontation between the White House and Congress since Watergate. [Adam Curry: CurryDotCom]