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FRiva Las Vegas! My two cents... The conference was very interesting and informative. I have some new ideas as a result. Laura Ingraham was WONDERFUL! We need more like her. One of the reasons I love conservatives is because we have senses of humor! She kicked off the conference with wit and style. The Saturday classes were intense. We had a lot of information to digest. I appreciated learning some tips from the opposition's play book. My problem is that I get emotional (I'm a girl, not a liberal!) and don't like to argue with libs so I just shut up. The evening awards ceremony was GREAT! I want to view the video again, it was so good. Great choices for the music, from Quiet Riot to Queen to Sir Paul McCartney. Is there a link or someplace I can view some of the video from the conference? Sitting in the background on Sunday morning for the after-conference "autopsy" was fascinating. I did not want to interrupt... okay, really I didn't want to stop eating my Krispy Kremes.... but my view is that the POWER behind FR is the web site. The annual conference is an awards banquet, conservative style. It is a chance to get together and meet face to face, go over the year past and talk about the year to come. But, I believe, the real power to reach, teach, and grow our group is with the web site. To the FReepers who worked so hard to put the conference together, you guys did a phenomenal job! My only negative comment is that a lot of FReepers are cigarette smokers; I worry that conservatism will lose important people because smoking will kill some of us off prematurely. I smoked cigarettes for 15 years and quit in 1985. It was better in the old days when cigarette smoke was ubiquitous, you didn't notice it. One of the unintended consequences of the anti-smoking initiative is that the smoke is MORE noticable since they have isolated smokers. I do NOT believe second-hand smoke is dangerous; it just happens to trigger my terrible Migraines. On the flight home Sunday night, we enjoyed a wonderful light show put on by God. Several storms almost all the way back to Chicago lit up the clouds in the most beautiful way. Well, I have to try to earn some money to make up for all the quarters I threw away in the slot machines. Rock on FReepers! Thanks for the good time!
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