Kettle Chips is holding a contest to let customers vote on their next new chip flavor.

mmm, I loved the winner of last year, cheddar beer.

I'm skimming over the SotU now.

Intro -- blah, blah, blah, all stuff they all say.

Now lots of stuff about how the War in Iraq is bringing democracy and freedom to the world. -- Yeah, whatever, there's nothing new here. I would point out that Iraq wasn't a terrorist haven until we invaded, but whatever.

A little something out the wiretapping without a check from the courts. It is said that prior to the attacks of September 11th, our government failed to connect the dots of the conspiracy. We now know that two of the hijackers in the United States placed telephone calls to al Qaeda operatives overseas. But we did not know about their plans until it was too late.

Previous presidents have used the same constitutional authority I have -- and federal courts have approved the use of that authority. Appropriate members of Congress have been kept informed.

9/11 wouldn't have happend if the administration had unchecked power to spy on Americas. How low is that? We had the dots, nobody was paying attention. I don't know if another administration would have connected them, but every indication was that the Bush administration did not take the terrorist threat very seriously before 9/11.

Other presidents used FISA to get approval, members of Congress don't seem to agree that they have been kept informed. Unchecked presidential power to spy is a dangerous precedent even if the Bush administration is being completely honest that every wiretap is all about national security.

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This is good:

We show compassion abroad because Americans believe in the God-given dignity and worth of a villager with HIV/AIDS, or an infant with malaria, or a refugee fleeing genocide, or a young girl sold into slavery. We also show compassion abroad because regions overwhelmed by poverty, corruption, and despair are sources of terrorism, organized crime, human trafficking and the drug trade.

There is a bit of history of the funding not matching the promises, but standing up for human rights is a good thing.

It would be nice if he'd show some goddamn compassion to the Gulf Coast.

Americans believe in the God-given dignity and worth of....

I notice he *didn't* say "....of the Iraqi women and children we blew into teeny tiny charred bits in our march toward freedom."

Sorry, Smirky McMonkeyface. When you kill thousands of civilians in an unjust war that you lied in order to start, I don't think you believe in the God-given dignity of ANYTHING. You tumor on the soul of America.

why do you have to insult the monkeys?

We show compassion abroad because Americans believe in the God-given dignity and worth of a villager with HIV/AIDS, or an infant with malaria, or a refugee fleeing genocide, or a young girl sold into slavery. We also show compassion abroad because regions overwhelmed by poverty, corruption, and despair are sources of terrorism, organized crime, human trafficking and the drug trade.

We don't give those things much money and allow our funding of projects involving contraception and AIDS prevention to be dictated by the religious right and we're not willing to intervene in places like Darfur, but we are really, really sorry.

I read the other day that 1/4th of our HIV/AIDS funding for other countries is abstinence-only crap.