Dan, over at Necessary Roughness, has posted a wonderful article about Struggling with Sin and the fact that we are all sinners, every day. It used to be I'd just repost the whole article here but I think it's better to link to stories other people have gone to the trouble to write. (It's just polite, but I still think copyright laws are a stupid idea.) You will find this one edifying I promise, it is not one of those snarky hostile political screeds I like so much :-)
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...
Larry, thanks for the bump!
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