I have a habit of reading through the Psalms and Proverbs once a month, I've done it for quite a while now, yet almost every day it seems there is something new that leaps out at me from my readings. The Psalms are the prayer book of the church, they have depths we cannot exhaust in or short mortal lives. Last night Psalm 49:5-9 and then Psalm 49:15 spoke to me while I was feeling a little bitter toward the rich looters grabbing the wealth of America at our expense and claiming it's for our own good. In the end they will have nothing, while we as Christians are the heirs to God and so have everything! :-)
I didn't make our local Tea Party , but it pulled hundreds of people as well... Tea, anyone? from Father Hollywood by Father Hollywood Like hundreds of thousands of other Americans, the Hollywoods enjoyed a tea party this past Wednesday. "Tea party" (wink wink). Nothing subversive about sipping a little Darjeeling, eh wot? Nothing to see here, Miss Napolitano. Anyway, our local festivities were held at Veterans Memorial Boulevard in Metairie. There were literally thousands of people crammed into the neutral ground (though on that day, the ground was anything but...), as cars and trucks poured by the busy boulevard laing on their horns in support. Here are pictures. And like every such gathering in our environs, there was even a brass band and an improptu "second line" parade. It was a "party" after all. But it was a party with a serious reason. The crowds were so overwhelming that it was hard to hear the speakers, and unfortunately, we did have a fe...
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