Whew! I sure am glad that debate’s over! I got so wound up by all those Gotcha! questions that I couldn’t sleep after I got back to the hotel. Luckily, Levi had some sort of funny little cigarette dohicky that’s supposed to make ya relax, so they say. Anyway, he gave me that and I took it back and watched this movie on Pay-Per-View by the Coen Brothers, some comedy, I don’t know. I remember that old song Tumblin’ Tumbleweeds was playin’, and I took a few puffs offa Levi’s funny cigarette, and then everything’s just kinda fuzzy after that. I dozed off, I guess, and had another one of those weird movie dreams, and Todd was in it! Maybe this means I’m gonna be a movie star if I don’t get the Veep role. Anyway, I’ll try and describe it for ya, but I don’t know. Here goes:
NARRATOR: A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Todd Palin. At least that was the handle his lovin’ parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Palin, he called himself The First Dude, relatin’ to the fact that he was married to the Governor of the great state of Alaska, who happened to be away down in the lower 48 campaignin’ to be Vice President of the United States. And so it was that the First Dude, left to shift for himself at the governor’s mansion in Juneau, found himself at the neighborhood grocer’s, buyin’ a big can o’ moose stew for dinner, along with a carton of half’n half with which to make his favorite libation, a White Russian, which he particularly enjoyed due to the fact that you could see Russia from his house. Aw heck, I done introduced him enough….
SCENE: The governor’s mansion. The First Dude, wearing sunglasses and a bathrobe and carrying a paper sack, enters and flicks on a light. Immediately he is grabbed from behind by a strapping blond man and rushed across the vast living room, straight on into a small bathroom, where he is propelled through the door and his head plunged down into the toilet. The First Dude blows bubbles.
BLOND MAN: Where’s the money, Murkowski? Where’s the money, Murkowski? (He hauls The First Dude out of the toilet. The First Dude blubbers and gasps.) Where’s the stinkin’ money, dipwad?
FIRST DUDE: It’s, uh, it’s down there somewhere. Lemme take another look.
His head is plunged back into the toilet.
BLOND MAN: Don’t mess with us, Murkowski. You owe money to Ted Stevens for the Bridge to Nowhere. Just because you didn’t build it doesn’t mean you get to keep the money.
The blond man hauls The First Dude’s head out again, dripping and gasping. The First Dude sits up on the floor, back against the toilet, groping in the toilet for his sunglasses. Looming over him is the blond man. Beyond, in the living room, a young Chinese man unzips his fly and walks over to a polar bear rug. He starts peeing on the rug. The Dude’s hand comes out of the toilet with his sunglasses.
THE FIRST DUDE: Oh, man, don’t do that. Not on the rug, man…
CHINESE MAN: You see what happens? You see what happens, Murkowski?
THE FIRST DUDE: (Putting on his dripping sunglasses) Murkowski? I’m not Murkowski. You got the wrong guy. Murkowski was governor until 2006. I’m not even the governor. I’m The First Dude, man.
BLOND MAN: Your name is Murkowski, Murkowski. You’re the governor. Your daughter is a U.S. Senator. You appointed her to take over your position there when you got voted governor.
THE FIRST DUDE: My daughter, a U.S. senator? Do I look old enough to have a daughter who’s a Senator, man?
BLOND MAN: (Looks confused) Woo?
The Chinese man is zipping his fly.
WOO: Yeah?
BLOND MAN: Wasn’t this guy supposed to be older?
They both look around.
WOO: Uh…
BLOND MAN: Crap. I think we got the wrong governor, man.
WOO: Yeah, he looks like a frickin’ loser.
FIRST DUDE: Hey, at least I’m housebroken, man.
The blond man turns to go.
BLOND MAN: Thanks for wastin’ my time, jerk.
He walks into the living room, then stops at a side table, where he sees a large scale-model of The Bridge to Nowhere. He picks up the bridge model, drops it onto the floor and steps on it, smashing it, then grinds his boot onto the pieces, crushing the model into little bits. Then he and Woo exit, slamming the door behind them.
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Three snow machines revving on an ice flow. The riders shut their machines off and take off their helmets. They are The First Dude, John McCain, and George W. Bush. We are reminded of “Charlie’s Angels,” but only for an instant.
W: Woah, she’s runnin’ hot tonight! We’re gonna win that Iron Dog again. Mark it, First Dude.
MCCAIN: That was a valued rug. And the bridge, this was, uh, a valued scale model of the Bridge to Nowhere, am I wrong?
FIRST DUDE: Yeah, man, it really tied the state together.
W: What tied the state together, First Dude?
MCCAIN: W, you’re out of your element here. You’re like a child who wanders in in the middle of a movie and wants to know…
FIRST DUDE: What’s your point, McCain?
MCCAIN: There’s no frickin’ reason, here’s my point, First Dude, there’s no reason…
W: Yeah, McCain, what’s your point?
MCCAIN: W, shut the flip up.
FIRST DUDE: Man, Sarah is gonna be pissed! She really loved that Bridge to Nowhere, man! And the rug…
W: And this guy peed on it.
FIRST DUDE: The Chinaman…
MCCAIN: W, you’re out of your element! Here’s my point, First Dude. We’re talking about unchecked aggression here. The Chinaman is not the issue, man…
FIRST DUDE: What are you frickin’ talkin’ about, man?
W: He peed on The First Dude’s rug.
MCCAIN: W, you’re out of your element! Frank Murkowski! The other governor, the ex governor. There’s no reason, there’s no fricking reason why he should go out and owe money to Ted Stevens and then they come and pee on your rug. Am I wrong?
FIRST DUDE: No, but…
MCCAIN: Am I wrong?
FIRST DUDE: (Stroking his goatee) Yeah, I could go find this Murkowski guy—
W: His name is Murkowski? That’s the name of the governor that Sarah beat in the election, First Dude…
MCCAIN: W, please…
FIRST DUDE: Yeah, this is the guy, this guy should compensate me for the rug, and the bridge. I mean, he goes out and owes money to Ted Stevens and they pee on my rug?
MCCAIN: That’s right, First Dude. They pee on your frickin’ rug. And I did not have buddies die face down in the muck to have these rug-peers…
FIRST DUDE: Oh, come on, man. It’s not always about Viet Nam and your POW thing, man…
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The First Dude sitting in an expansive office at a desk. Entering the room in a motorized wheelchair is Frank Murkowski, a distinguished, gray-haired, slick-looking man of about 70.
MURKOWSKI: OK, you’re a Palin, I’m a Murkowski…
FIRST DUDE: No, look, let me explain something. I’m not Palin. I’mThe First Dude. So that’s what you call me. That, or First Duder. HisFirst Dudeness. Or Numero Uno Duderino, if you’re not into the whole brevity thing.
MURKOWSKI; That’s terrific. I’m very busy, so why am I here?
FIRST DUDE: Well, sir, it’s this polar bear rug I have, and this bridge model. It really tied the state together… These guys broke it, and they peed on my rug.
MURKOWSKI: Did I urinate on your rug?
FIRST DUDE: Well no, Woo peed on the rug…
MURKOWSKI: Hello! So every time a rug is micturated upon in this great state of Alaska, I have to compensate the owner?
FIRST DUDE: Come on, man, you’re the one who borrowed the money from Ted Stevens…
MURKOWSKI: (Slams his fist on the desk angrily) Ted Stevens is not the issue here! Are you employed, sir?
FIRST DUDE: Employed? My wife’s the governor, man. And she’s runnin’ for Vice President.
MURKOWSKI: Vice President? So you just follow her around?
FIRST DUDE: (Shrugs) The First Dude abides.
MURKOWSKI: Ah, I see. In other words, you’re a bum. My advice to you is to do what your parents did! Get a job, sir! The bums will always lose their bridges!
The First Dude puts on his sunglasses, stands up and walks to the door as Murkowski continues yelling behind him. He opens the door and exits the office to a hallway, goes down the hallway to door, opens the door ,and exits to a stone walkway that winds through a back lawn, which is covered in snow. A young woman, Senator Lisa Murkowski, wearing a parka, sits on a chair, gazing out at the lawn. As The First Dude approaches, she holds her bare foot out to him.
LISA: Blow on them.
FIRST DUDE: (Pulls his sunglasses down and looks at her frostbitten toes) Huh?
LISA: (Wiggles her foot and giggles) G’ahead. Blow.
FIRST DUDE: You want me to blow on your toes?
LISA: Yeah, I can’t even feel ‘em anymore. They’re frozen. I need someone to blow on ‘em and warm ‘em up, and I can’t blow that far.
The First Dude looks over at the snowy lawn, just as a man sticks his head out of a snowdrift and peers at them.
FIRST DUDE: You sure he won’t mind?
LISA: Oh, that’s just Putin rearing his head. He doesn’t care. He’s a communist.
Just then I heard a voice, far-off like, and felt a shakin’, and I woke up from the dream, and there was Todd, gently shakin’ me awake, and behind him were all my friends. There was John McCain, my soul mate, George W. Bush, who I so admire and agree with on, gosh, just about everything, and Ted Stevens, my mentor up in the great state of Alaska, and Frank Murkowski, my old Republican predecessor as governor. I musta looked a sight, ’cause Todd looked all worried, and he said, “There, there, Sarahcuda, you’ve just had a bad dream.” And I said, “But it wasn’t a dream. It was a movie. And you and you and you and you were there.”
“Boy,” said W, “I want what she’s been smokin’.”
The Palin Prophecies
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Brent Mooseburger, Alaskan Pentecostal sports reporter, has been selected, much to his surprise, by God Our Heavenly Father as the man to channel Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s messages to the American people, since neither she nor God trust the elite media. In this almost-daily blog, Mr. Mooseburger will decode Palin’s prophecies for a nu-clear age. Reader responses are not welcome, unless you show the proper respect and deference.
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The Palin Prophecies are archived at www.thepalinprophecies.com. KenArnoldBooks will be publishing Brent Mooseburger’s messages as he channels them. His inspirational messages will be collected into an ebook sometime in October and published by KenArnoldBooks on Amazon Kindle. Entries are copyrighted by KenArnoldBooks, LLC.