# W's SOTU address tonight **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [January 23, 2007, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ws-sotu-address-tonight/389128 "2007-01-23T18:42:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ws-sotu-address-tonight/389128/61 "2007-01-24T20:21:20Z")
No dice. Maybe I need to register? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ws-sotu-address-tonight/389128/62 "2007-01-24T20:33:17Z")
No, [CNN.com](http://CNN.com) is free and no-registration-required. I use it all the time, and I’ve never registered. The search function should work no matter what. Maybe they don’t archive their photo galleries? I’ll try myself, and get back to you. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ws-sotu-address-tonight/389128/63 "2007-01-24T20:43:24Z")
Wow! It looks like the SOTU has dropped off the front page of [CNN.com](http://CNN.com) entirely; not even any capsule links below the top story of the day. Doesn’t bode well for a post-speech “bounce” for the President’s agenda, I guess. I also failed to find the photo gallery that I looked through there only this morning; looks like it’s gone. I did find this webpage which mentions Sgt. Rieman; he’s the second soldier profiled: [U.S. Department of Defense](http://www.defenselink.mil/home/dodupdate/heroes/200701/2007-01-03.html) Google gave me no images of him in the gallery at the SOTU, either. I did see that he’s been honored by a CGI G.I. Joe doll in his own image, though, FWIW. Sorry - wish I could be more help. ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ws-sotu-address-tonight/389128/64 "2007-01-24T21:41:36Z")
[QUOTE=RTFirefly] I’m sure it’s silent on the question of fictional creatures from fictional planets. 😉 [/QUOTE] That’s never stopped us before. 🙂 From the Jewish point of view: A kosher animal has (among other things) a cloven hoof. Ewoks are clearly shown to have prehensile paws / hands, and not cloven hooves. Therefore (by syllogism), Ewoks are not kosher. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2007, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ws-sotu-address-tonight/389128/65 "2007-01-25T00:45:58Z")
[QUOTE=Scuba\_Ben] …Ewoks are not kosher. [/QUOTE] So a generation of _Star Wars_ fans had the acuity and perceptiveness of Talmudic scholars, after all. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2007, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ws-sotu-address-tonight/389128/66 "2007-01-25T01:22:42Z")
And here I am, trying to explain to my wife how we got from an analogy between something Bush said and the _Star Wars_ trilogy to whether Ewoks were kosher and/or halal. Damn, I love this place. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2007, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ws-sotu-address-tonight/389128/67 "2007-01-25T03:49:02Z")
[QUOTE=RTFirefly] And here I am, trying to explain to my wife how we got from an analogy between something Bush said and the _Star Wars_ trilogy to whether Ewoks were kosher and/or halal. Damn, I love this place. [/QUOTE] With all due respect, if you had to **explain** that to her, you need a new wife. Fundamental incompatibility. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ws-sotu-address-tonight/389128.md?page=3)