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I attended a dinner last night sponsored by The Fund for American Studies with Fred Barnes as the featured speaker. He was there to tout and sell his new book (written with Mort Kondracke) “Jack Kemp, the Bleeding-Heart Conservative Who Changed America”.

Barnes was funny and his talk was follwed by a free-flowing Q & A. I asked where this new term for ISIS had come from that I’ve heard both Kerry and Obama use in the last week, or so — Dash. Barnes said that it seems to be some bawlderization of the term the Arabs used. As to why this has suddenly appeared in our vernacular, he gave some lame excuse for obama and then brought the house down when he said the “Kerry is too stupid to know why he’s using it.” LOLOLOL

The dinner was free and was unbelievable. Sea Bass floating in butter followed by a heavenly chocolate cake swimming in a warm sugar sauce. Of course I bought a book, and I can’t wait to start it.

My husband is in MO right now hunting deer, so I went with a widow friend of mine. She was driving and took us to the wrong private club in downtown Milwaukee. (I told her she was at the wrong club, but she was very sure.) The Parking Valets welcomed us with open arms to “The President’s Dinner with Peggy Noonan”. That was black tie, and they stopped us at the door. LOL.

Quite an adventure!

I totally blew my diet last night, but it was worth it. I’ll just be extra careful for the next week. I can’t believe that this dinner was free to about 90 people. Free before dinner drinks (I abstained), wine with dinner, a staff of about 10 waiters to serve 85 people, etc. It couldn’t have been nicer. Somebody in my book cllub was on the organizing committee and she invited the whole book club and their husbands, although most of them are widowed.