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		<title>By: Xangelle</title>
		<link>http://www.xangelle.com/blog/2005/10/31/41/comment-page-1#comment-26</link>
		<dc:creator>Xangelle</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2005 21:38:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dear Anon, 

I&#039;d like to respond to your comments.

1. Thank you for reading my blog.  It&#039;s nice that you would take the time to stop and read.

2. Thank you for your comments.  As you can see by my husbands post - He grew up there, and I think we have a fairly good idea about what Mardi Gras really is about.

3.  Thank you for the history lesson....even though I am quite familiar with the history behind Mardi Gras - maybe my readers aren&#039;t.

4.  Thank you for sharing your opinion.....

HOWEVER....that is as far as my thanks goes,
BECAUSE....this is the first and will be the last ANONYMOUS comment that I will ever approve.  If you don&#039;t have the balls to at least put a name and proper e-mail address to your comments then - In my opinion they aren&#039;t worth much and won&#039;t be publicized.

ALSO, This is MY BLOG where I write MY OWN THOUGHTS, OPINIONS, and RANTINGS, and if you don&#039;t like what I have to say - THEN DON&quot;T READ!!!!!!!

BTW - I am Irish, and as much as St. Patricks day is a wonderful Irish Holiday with an amazing history.  I still don&#039;t send my children to school with kegs of beer.(We keep those at home to party with! - Because it is all about the drinking....Isn&#039;t it?)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Anon, </p>
<p>I&#8217;d like to respond to your comments.</p>
<p>1. Thank you for reading my blog.  It&#8217;s nice that you would take the time to stop and read.</p>
<p>2. Thank you for your comments.  As you can see by my husbands post &#8211; He grew up there, and I think we have a fairly good idea about what Mardi Gras really is about.</p>
<p>3.  Thank you for the history lesson&#8230;.even though I am quite familiar with the history behind Mardi Gras &#8211; maybe my readers aren&#8217;t.</p>
<p>4.  Thank you for sharing your opinion&#8230;..</p>
<p>HOWEVER&#8230;.that is as far as my thanks goes,<br />
BECAUSE&#8230;.this is the first and will be the last ANONYMOUS comment that I will ever approve.  If you don&#8217;t have the balls to at least put a name and proper e-mail address to your comments then &#8211; In my opinion they aren&#8217;t worth much and won&#8217;t be publicized.</p>
<p>ALSO, This is MY BLOG where I write MY OWN THOUGHTS, OPINIONS, and RANTINGS, and if you don&#8217;t like what I have to say &#8211; THEN DON&#8221;T READ!!!!!!!</p>
<p>BTW &#8211; I am Irish, and as much as St. Patricks day is a wonderful Irish Holiday with an amazing history.  I still don&#8217;t send my children to school with kegs of beer.(We keep those at home to party with! &#8211; Because it is all about the drinking&#8230;.Isn&#8217;t it?)</p>
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		<title>By: Jon</title>
		<link>http://www.xangelle.com/blog/2005/10/31/41/comment-page-1#comment-25</link>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2005 20:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>well... I grew up there and a lot of people that live there leave the city to avoid the depravity.  If you are careful, you can have a fairly clean time, but you&#039;ve gotta be REALLY careful.  What really brasses me off is that mardi gras is REALLY a day off to sin to your hearts content.  &lt;i&gt;That way you can get it out of your system before you have to fast for 40 days (lent).&lt;/i&gt;  And what-the-hey, God&#039;s gonna forgive you the next day anyway (ash wednesday). Even if there are &quot;clean&quot; festivities there, it doesn&#039;t really lend itself to being a good elementary school theme.  And next time if you want to post about the benefits of mardi gras, go start your own blog!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>well&#8230; I grew up there and a lot of people that live there leave the city to avoid the depravity.  If you are careful, you can have a fairly clean time, but you&#8217;ve gotta be REALLY careful.  What really brasses me off is that mardi gras is REALLY a day off to sin to your hearts content.  <i>That way you can get it out of your system before you have to fast for 40 days (lent).</i>  And what-the-hey, God&#8217;s gonna forgive you the next day anyway (ash wednesday). Even if there are &#8220;clean&#8221; festivities there, it doesn&#8217;t really lend itself to being a good elementary school theme.  And next time if you want to post about the benefits of mardi gras, go start your own blog!</p>
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		<title>By: Anon</title>
		<link>http://www.xangelle.com/blog/2005/10/31/41/comment-page-1#comment-24</link>
		<dc:creator>Anon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2005 10:43:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>i came across ur blog and was upset about how refered to mardi gras, have you ever been? I have and yes there is sex and drugs and booze but that is not what its all about. you only see that on the news or &quot;girls gone wild&quot; yes at night there are parties on bourbonstreet, but during the day there are parades and great feasts put on by people in New Orleans, I have been there many a times and I think of N.O. s my home away from home. Mardi Gras is known as &quot;Mardi Gras (French for &quot;Fat Tuesday&quot;) is the day before Ash Wednesday, and is also called &quot;Shrove Tuesday&quot;. It is the final day of Carnival and in New Orleans, Louisiana, because of its French heritage). It is a celebration that is held just before the beginning of the Christian liturgical season of Lent. The feast should not be confused with the Polish Fat Thursday. so yes it is a party, but it is NOT ALL ABOUT sex, drugs and booze. what about st.patricks day is that a day for drunks to drink and party? or is it the day us Irish to give thanks to our st.patrick who escaped salvery to become second bishop to Ireland.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i came across ur blog and was upset about how refered to mardi gras, have you ever been? I have and yes there is sex and drugs and booze but that is not what its all about. you only see that on the news or &#8220;girls gone wild&#8221; yes at night there are parties on bourbonstreet, but during the day there are parades and great feasts put on by people in New Orleans, I have been there many a times and I think of N.O. s my home away from home. Mardi Gras is known as &#8220;Mardi Gras (French for &#8220;Fat Tuesday&#8221;) is the day before Ash Wednesday, and is also called &#8220;Shrove Tuesday&#8221;. It is the final day of Carnival and in New Orleans, Louisiana, because of its French heritage). It is a celebration that is held just before the beginning of the Christian liturgical season of Lent. The feast should not be confused with the Polish Fat Thursday. so yes it is a party, but it is NOT ALL ABOUT sex, drugs and booze. what about st.patricks day is that a day for drunks to drink and party? or is it the day us Irish to give thanks to our st.patrick who escaped salvery to become second bishop to Ireland.</p>
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