Congressman John Mica, the Republican Representative from Florida’s 7th Congressional District, generously invited the Orange County Young Republicans to his magnificent estate for a BBQ.
Either OCYR Treasurer Matt Klein is genuinely amused and surprised at someone taking his picture or he’s acting like it. Each way is a funny fail.
No one is invigorated by fresh air like OCYR Immediate Past President Christina Dixon, who spontaneously burst into a rendition here of “The Sound of Music,” obviously leading to some bemusement and awed observation.
Congressman Mica can lay down some wisdom. Here he contemplates revealing some of his secret adventures that would form the basis of the Dos Equis “The Most Interesting Man” commercials, later deciding better of it.
But it didn’t matter. Congressman Mica’s speech that night was still the best moment of Eric Jontz’s life.
The Orange County Young Republicans are certainly in Congressman Mica’s debt, not only for his generosity in terms of time given to the club, but also for his extraordinary hospitality in hosting the social event and providing tasty BBQ.
More people attended this social than any other social so far in 2010. It was a wild success.
Angels know as few others do the patterns of history and time. History, of course, is a knowing thing itself, as Matthew McCluskey’s (a Field Director for Rick Scott at the time of this writing) poem shows:
I see we meet again,
and I must stand to protest,
for your melodies will end,
no different than the rest!> Stand aside and let us pass,
> “equality” is our only cure!
> our ideals will thee surpass,
> and the future we’ll secure!Ten thousand years ago I too,
heard the siren you now sing,
but from your hopes soon grew,
a hate that only fear could bring!> You have no right to judge,
> you forget, we know you well!
> You hold no lesson but a grudge,
> which is why we now rebel!Fools! you forsake freedom,
for a maniacal charade!
repent now or soon succumb,
to evil in “equality” betrayed!> We need not hear your lecture,
> for we know liberty’s faults,
> your certainties are mere conjecture,
> ’tis “equality” we now exalt!You fools! in all my many pages,
and in all my complex works,
as I’ve lived throughout the ages,
’tis no price for freedom’s worth.> Liberty be damned and lost!
> ’tis but a small price to pay!
> “equality” is never absent of cost,
> nor will it be in “our new day”!Then go with all your longing!
I will once again take a seat,
and see ye mortals dying,
as I pause – and then repeat.
Heady stuff for the Mica BBQ, but I’m not the one who took the picture.
Not everyone gets to live life at it’s very edge, the point at which one can never go back from constant dares, thrills, and dangers without going insane. That’s where Diego Madrigal lives, having won numerous International Yo-Yo competitions. Here, he demonstrates “Chinese Four Finger” technique.
Night doesn’t stop a pack of red-blooded Americans from discussing their patriotic duty in stopping the Obama agenda. Nothing does.
While OCYR President Eddie Fernandez shows a picture of his latest Cuban sword-cane purchase to Jonathan Swift, who is nothing less than a professional sword-cane wielder, Matt Klein continues to ham it up for the cameras. Lee Ossin observes and Jessica Meyers just hopes that the photographer understands they mean well.
You might think judging by their happiness that someone had just told them Steak’n'Shake was bringing back lime freezes, just like the good old days, but no, that’s just how good BBQ at Congressman Mica’s is: it makes you forget the cold desolate 3am visits to Steak’n'Shake looking for some kind of feeling, ANY feeling, like… err, I mean… umm…
And by the way, Congressman Mica has zero tolerance for communists.
Congressman Mica really did open his home to us and we loved getting to know him.
OCYR All-Stars current President Eddie Fernandez and last year’s President Christina Dixon pose for a photo that they will later autograph for Congressman Mica.
But seriously, who is this guy?
