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Ronald Reagan Young America's Foundation Conference I saw on C-SPAN this morning. Move along. nothing but snark here. Just practicing. Just for laughs.
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People are going to find out what a C-SPAN junkie I am, but too bad. This is bigger than me. I don't like to dilute DailyKos with diaries because I'm not that good at writing and I'm very compassionate of what people have to wade through. My enjoyment of DailyKos is pretty much that of serious fan. If there were DailyKos games, I'd be the one in the front row with no shirt on with a Giant Orange K rolling down over my pot belly, screaming at the top of my lungs and generally making an ass out of myself in a chorus line of fans.
This is what I look like in my house coat.
Edit: This Diary was titled "Yet Another Fountainhead - Ann Rand Conference" because it was zero dark thirty when I started the diary and I couldn't think of anything better than making fun of the acronym, and now it's rolled off into diary oblivian anyway. Now it's just Welcome YAF Suckheads. Those of you who applied for refunds, the money is one the way. :D
For those who don't get the allusion to The Fountainhead this is where conservative hatred of government got its start. Basically, it's okay to be a selfish twit because government sucks. There are Cliff notes if you want a shorter synopsis.
Anyway I couldn't sleep this morning so I got up and started a pot of coffee and flipped on CSPAN figuring I'd catch book TV or maybe a YK06 panel. (Read: he's addicted to C-SPAN. Needs an intervention.)
I'm a long-time C-SPAN fan. I can't get enough Book-TV. It drives my family nuts. It got much worse during YK06. I actually started scratching my arm and whining, "where's Kos with my fix?" I had so much fun putting faces with the user names and seeing and hearing DailyKos do it's thing on national television I just couldn't stop. When Fabooj published her pictures, I yelled so loud my kids must have thought .... I don't know what they must have thought. Help me Jesus. I know I have a problem.
Anyway I wake up this morning, Independence Day, get my coffee and settle in for some serious channel flipping, and what's the first thing I see?
Kerby Wilbur KVI Radio Seatle. Rush Limbaugh look alike and carbohydrate abuser. Obviously the first one to the conservative ice cream truck four or five times a day.
He's telling a room full of high school students how important it is for them to understand how the War in Iraq is directly related to the Global War on Terrorism. Eeeeek. Bullshit meter goes off. Dive. Dive. Dive. Gotta get the word out. Diary. Don't need coffee any more that's for sure. F'n dive announcement is so loud it's going to wake up the neighbors.
The ubiquitous conservative trademark speaker platform background is the Young America's Foundation web address - www.yaf.org. It should say "Welcome Future Blood Sucking Vampires of America" or just "Welcome Suckheads!"
You all remember Wesley Snipes in Blade (Part UNO 1998). I don't pay for the premium channels so I have it memorized. It's the only movie they play five times every f'n weekend. It definitely qualifies as force feeding.
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Early in the movie the camera follows some unwitting kid though a meat packing plant into a big room where there's a rave going on. People are being totally rude, bashing him around, and the girl who brought him ditched him as soon as they walked in. (hmmmmmmm. conservative? ya think?) He wanders around trying to find someone to dance with and the vampires look at him like ... well like fresh meat. Then the sprinklers open up and cover all the ravers in blood. It's what us baby boomers imagine it must be like to go to a rave these days. What's the matter with kids these days? Haven't they ever heard of Ted Nugent? Where's the mud? Good Woodstocker wouldn't be caught dead.... <wheeeze>
Then Blade steps in the door. The ravers instantly recognize him as the "Day Walker" and its kick butt time for the Vampire Nation. No one can make Kevlar look as cool as Wesley Snipes.
I've been looking for the C-SPAN program link to the video. I suppose that would be helpful for any of you who have a stomach for such things. I've heard their spiel so many times, I can almost guess which lies they're going to tell. I'm sure you can too. But it would be interesting to document what's coming out of the Ronald Reagan Zombie Horror Picture Show Cult Classic and maybe I'll come up a point by point rebuttal with a huge Samari sword. It's obviously too late for some of these kids, but if we can save just one we have to try.
I'll update this diary when I find it. Unless everyone screams "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Don't bite me."
Meanwhile if you've had your breakfast, run over and check out the sexy pictures of Ann Coulter. They're selling posters to put up in your dorm room. Gaak!
This is what's at stake folks (get it? stake? ya ga ga ga ga ga). The conservative noise machine is pumping out the jams, programming the next release of the Moonie wedding.
Get out there an kick some butt.