{"id":13677,"date":"2005-02-02T23:35:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-02T23:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/02\/02\/the-state-of-the-union-address-drinking-game\/"},"modified":"2005-02-02T23:35:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-02T23:35:00","slug":"the-state-of-the-union-address-drinking-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/02\/02\/the-state-of-the-union-address-drinking-game\/","title":{"rendered":"The State Of The Union Address Drinking Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I almost forgot!  Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drinkinggame.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">The State of the Union Address Drinking Game<\/a>&hellip; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of State Of The Union Addresses, let&rsquo;s take a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/site\/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&amp;b=310515\" target=\"_blank\">how well W kept the promises he made in his past addresses<\/a> (not very well)&hellip; \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> The <i>Washington Post<\/i> has a complete <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-srv\/politics\/transcripts\/bushtext_020205.html\" target=\"_blank\">transcript of the address<\/a> as well as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A58998-2005Feb2.html\" target=\"_blank\">Democratic response<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More importantly, though, <i>The Borowitz Report<\/i> reveals that &ldquo;In an elaborate hoax perpetrated on millions of Americans, <a href=\"http:\/\/borowitzreport.com\/archive_rpt.asp?rec=1059&amp;srch=\" target=\"_blank\">last night\u2019s State of the Union address was delivered not by President George W. Bush but instead by a plastic action doll<\/a>,&rdquo; apparently the &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/2003\/08\/w-elite-force-aviator-action-figure.html\" target=\"_blank\">George W. Bush Elite Force Aviator\u2122<\/a>, a popular item released after Mr. Bush\u2019s famous landing on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln on May 1, 2003.&rdquo;  (in case you don&rsquo;t get the reference, read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/WORLD\/meast\/02\/01\/iraq.hostage\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">this story<\/a>) \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-110738731167861865?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I almost forgot! Check out The State of the Union Address Drinking Game&hellip; \ud83d\ude42 Speaking of State Of The Union Addresses, let&rsquo;s take a look at how well W kept the promises he made in his past addresses (not very well)&hellip; \ud83d\ude1b Update: The Washington Post has a complete transcript of the address as well &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/02\/02\/the-state-of-the-union-address-drinking-game\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The State Of The Union Address Drinking Game&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-13677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}