SOTU

audreyhorne · January 2012

I want to put Ruth Bader Ginsburg in my pocket.

FallinAgain · January 2012

I love her lace collar. Gabby Giffords. Sniff Sniff.

noisy_penguin · January 2012

I want to raid Michelle Obama's closet.

Boehner is looking as orange as ever.

KristenBtobe · January 2012

I need Michelle's dress.

FallinAgain · January 2012

Biden could have wiped his nose before Obama got to the podium

1 million Americans served in Iraq? Did I hear that right?

WendyToo · January 2012

I believe he just made me a little weepy.

audreyhorne · January 2012

Equal pay? Haven't heard that in a while.

FallinAgain · January 2012

What was the weepy?

I was surprised about equal pay, too. Also the reverence for Apple, given the NYT's recent series of stories about Apple sending most manufacturing overseas in questionable factory conditions.

WendyToo · January 2012

FallinAgain:
What was the weepy?
I was surprised about equal pay, too. Also the reverence for Apple, given the NYT's recent series of stories about Apple sending most manufacturing overseas in questionable factory conditions.

About how education can deliver a child from a cycle of poverty.

KristenBtobe · January 2012

FallinAgain:
What was the weepy?
I was surprised about equal pay, too. Also the reverence for Apple, given the NYT's recent series of stories about Apple sending most manufacturing overseas in questionable factory conditions.

Ditto.

Mans I don't thing making kids stay in high school until graduation or age 18 is a good idea.

WendyToo · January 2012

I'm not sure what I think about that Kristen. Can you elaborate?

audreyhorne · January 2012

Mitch McConnell is an actual turtle, yes?

Also, I'm sure Buffett's secretary makes plenty of bank.

KristenBtobe · January 2012

It takes a lot of resources to keep a kid in school that doesn't want to be there and likely wont be successful due to behavior, drive, motivation. Alternative school etc. Is expensive. it takes resources away from students on the margins or average kids who could probably do better if they had a little more attention. It's better, in my opinion, to put more resources towards getting kids up to grade level earlier, like in kindergarten-third grade.

FallinAgain · January 2012

audreyhorne:
Mitch McConnell is an actual turtle, yes?
Also, I'm sure Buffett's secretary makes plenty of bank.

But not so much bank she should be paying a higher tax rate than he does.

FallinAgain · January 2012

Hillary has returned to the headband hair of 1992. Bad move.

audreyhorne · January 2012

FallinAgain:
audreyhorne:
Mitch McConnell is an actual turtle, yes?
Also, I'm sure Buffett's secretary makes plenty of bank.
But not so much bank she should be paying a higher tax rate than he does.

Depends on what his salary is, I suppose. He could be making $45,000/year salary plus investment income; both are taxed at 15%. If she makes $70,000 with no investment income, she's at 25%.

FallinAgain · January 2012

audreyhorne:
FallinAgain:
audreyhorne:
Mitch McConnell is an actual turtle, yes?
Also, I'm sure Buffett's secretary makes plenty of bank.
But not so much bank she should be paying a higher tax rate than he does.
Depends on what his salary is, I suppose. He could be making $45,000/year salary plus investment income; both are taxed at 15%. If she makes $70,000 with no investment income, she's at 25%.

Yes, but I'm opposed to taxing Mitt Romney's $22 million a year at 15%.

audreyhorne · January 2012

FallinAgain:
audreyhorne:
FallinAgain:
audreyhorne:
Mitch McConnell is an actual turtle, yes?
Also, I'm sure Buffett's secretary makes plenty of bank.
But not so much bank she should be paying a higher tax rate than he does.
Depends on what his salary is, I suppose. He could be making $45,000/year salary plus investment income; both are taxed at 15%. If she makes $70,000 with no investment income, she's at 25%.
Yes, but I'm opposed to taxing Mitt Romney's $22 million a year at 15%.

Oh, without a doubt. I think income is income, regardless of where it's from. Rhetorical, but wouldn't it make more sense to put a penalty of pulling your money out of the market? Don't companies need that cash?

I just had Nelson Muntz's "And a helluva lot of stars" run through my head.

FallinAgain · January 2012

Good speech, overall. None of it will go through, but good speech.

FallinAgain · January 2012

My ILs love Mitch Daniels. He's kind of creepy.

noisy_penguin · January 2012

I hope you're wrong, Fallin. I'm sure you're not, but I hope you are. I hope that the strong language he used at congress doesn't stop there. I hope there are strong actions, and when things fail, I hope fingers are pointed. If there's one thing I hate more than Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum combined (gross), it's goddamn spineless fuccking Democrats.

FallinAgain · January 2012

noisy_penguin:
I hope you're wrong, Fallin. I'm sure you're not, but I hope you are. I hope that the strong language he used at congress doesn't stop there. I hope there are strong actions, and when things fail, I hope fingers are pointed. If there's one thing I hate more than Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum combined (gross), it's goddamn spineless fuccking Democrats.

Amen, sister friend.

CaptainSerious · January 2012

audreyhorne:
FallinAgain:
audreyhorne:
FallinAgain:
audreyhorne:
Mitch McConnell is an actual turtle, yes?
Also, I'm sure Buffett's secretary makes plenty of bank.
But not so much bank she should be paying a higher tax rate than he does.
Depends on what his salary is, I suppose. He could be making $45,000/year salary plus investment income; both are taxed at 15%. If she makes $70,000 with no investment income, she's at 25%.
Yes, but I'm opposed to taxing Mitt Romney's $22 million a year at 15%.
Oh, without a doubt. I think income is income, regardless of where it's from. Rhetorical, but wouldn't it make more sense to put a penalty of pulling your money out of the market? Don't companies need that cash?
I just had Nelson Muntz's "And a helluva lot of stars" run through my head.

WTH should a person be forced to invest, especially if they think its a poor decision? It's their own money, afterall. How would you like the government telling you what to do with your money? That's outrageous.

TSD · January 2012

FallinAgain:
Hillary has returned to the headband hair of 1992. Bad move.

I said the same thing. Maybe she fell under the FB forward spell and decided since she's a mom she can no longer partake in beauty rituals. Or she just got into the first season of Gossip Girl on Netflix. It was really bad. Like she was hoping the headband would transport her back in time to the Bill years of prosperity minus the whole Monica scandal

Novemberrocks · January 2012

I think this all is a farce and believe that absolutely nothing will get accomplished this year. I hope to be proven wrong but to expect otherwise is only setting me up for disappointment. I'm unsure of my feelings on capital gains - I get the argument that the money is essentially taxed twice which isn't fair (in theory, I suppose) but I also don't think that people like Romney making millions upon millions should have such a low tax rate, especially when paying a little more causes no pain to someone like him and saves others from experiencing pain. In general, I'm so disenchanted by the entire political arena.

AngieP900 · January 2012

KristenBtobe:
Mans I don't thing making kids stay in high school until graduation or age 18 is a good idea.

Gah, me too Kristen. I cringed at that.

FallinAgain · January 2012

CaptainSerious:
audreyhorne:
FallinAgain:
audreyhorne:
FallinAgain:
audreyhorne:
Mitch McConnell is an actual turtle, yes?
Also, I'm sure Buffett's secretary makes plenty of bank.
But not so much bank she should be paying a higher tax rate than he does.
Depends on what his salary is, I suppose. He could be making $45,000/year salary plus investment income; both are taxed at 15%. If she makes $70,000 with no investment income, she's at 25%.
Yes, but I'm opposed to taxing Mitt Romney's $22 million a year at 15%.
Oh, without a doubt. I think income is income, regardless of where it's from. Rhetorical, but wouldn't it make more sense to put a penalty of pulling your money out of the market? Don't companies need that cash?
I just had Nelson Muntz's "And a helluva lot of stars" run through my head.
WTH should a person be forced to invest, especially if they think its a poor decision? It's their own money, afterall. How would you like the government telling you what to do with your money? That's outrageous.

How would a tax "penalty" for taking the investment income out of the market--rather than re-investing it--be forcing people to invest? Isn't that what we do with 401K withdrawals now?

FallinAgain · January 2012

AngieP900:
KristenBtobe:
Mans I don't thing making kids stay in high school until graduation or age 18 is a good idea.
Gah, me too Kristen. I cringed at that.

I cringed more at pulling federal funds from colleges that don't stop raising tuition.

KristenBtobe · January 2012

FallinAgain:
AngieP900:
KristenBtobe:
Mans I don't thing making kids stay in high school until graduation or age 18 is a good idea.
Gah, me too Kristen. I cringed at that.
I cringed more at pulling federal funds from colleges that don't stop raising tuition.

Yeah I didn't love that either. And really, to make a broad sweeping statement here community colleges aren't doing people many favors.

boxerfan · January 2012

FallinAgain:
I cringed more at pulling federal funds from colleges that don't stop raising tuition.

That was a low point for me as well. That's just going to make it even harder for average people to afford to go to a top school.

FallinAgain · January 2012

KristenBtobe:
FallinAgain:
AngieP900:
KristenBtobe:
Mans I don't thing making kids stay in high school until graduation or age 18 is a good idea.
Gah, me too Kristen. I cringed at that.
I cringed more at pulling federal funds from colleges that don't stop raising tuition.
Yeah I didn't love that either. And really, to make a broad sweeping statement here community colleges aren't doing people many favors.

Why?

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