Flynn was a hoot

I had a great time at the speech by Dan Flynn.  I picked up FMIL and we got there pretty early; good planning, because soon after we arrived just about every seat was taken.  And I met Rose there!  She's every bit as witty and charming in person as she is on-line.

Flynn made a great point when he compared today's "anything but AmeriKKKa" left to the People's Front of Judea:

Apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

That's Flynn's central message: apart from being the greatest nation in the world, where people have more freedom than anywhere else, where innovations cure diseases and increase crop yields, where women and minorities gained the right to vote, where immigrants can become the Governor of California, where industry provides airplanes and cars and televisions and computers and microwaves and telephones to make the world a better place, where our big fight is over whether or not women should golf at Augusta instead of whether or not women should undergo forced genital mutilation... what has America ever done for us?

Hippie hecklers were successfully held at bay.  One hippie tried to make a point about how evil rethugniKKKans cut school lunches and now his little brother wasn't getting enough to eat.  This hippie was a U of O student.  I wish I had been able to reply.  I would have said:

You are mighty damn selfish, spending your money and your time here at the U of O, when you could be working to provide for your family!  Ever heard of sacrifice?  You expect the rest of the country to sacrifice their tax dollars to feed your little brother; why don't YOU sacrifice and put college on hold for a few years while you earn a paycheck to help your family?

But then, I don't make the big dollars yet, so I don't get the microphone.

More important, though, I was glad to see so many young conservatives at the predominantly liberal U of O attending the speech.  We are making progress.

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