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$17.76 to get in.

Yep.  Ron Paul is having a convention in Minneapolis as well - it is in Blaine, MN.  I believe Blaine is a suburb.  But he is here and the rally is tonight in downtown MPLS.  A plane with a trailer message flew overhead yesterday and Sunday announcing it.

“Ronvoys” of chartered vans have been streaming in since the weekend. Supporters are camping at an organic dairy farm in Goodhue, Minn., that is home to “Ronstock ’08,” a six-day culture-fest where the farmer’s neighbor has reportedly donated a cow to the food offerings. And thousands are expected in downtown Minneapolis Tuesday for the 10-hour marquee “Rally for The Republic,” featuring speakers from former governors Jesse Ventura of Minnesota and Gary Johnson of New Mexico to antitax activist Grover Norquist and MSNBC correspondent Tucker Carlson. - Story 

(And yet… Jesse Ventura will be there.)

It is believed most Ron Paul supporters - if indeed they do vote - will back John McCain come November, “even if they have to hold their nose” - while others may simply write Dr. Paul in.

The old Irish priest.

Remember the old film, “Going My Way”?   Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald, Ingrid Bergman - a role she played before her scandalous affair and pregnancy - it is a wonderful classic film about parish life in the United States.  Barry Fitzgerald played the cranky but lovable old Irish pastor.  Such parishes and priests are extremely rare these days, in fact, maybe like the priests in Ireland.

Isle of saints sans priests.

News is Ireland is running out of priests - hard to believe the most Catholic country in the world is experiencing a priest shortage.  To me that represents a loss of faith - and I’d say it may have something to do with their new prosperity.  As an old Irish nun from Lourdes once told me, “When the money comes in, the Lord goes out.”  So here’s the story:

When the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin, solemnly ordained this year’s crop of new priests in his diocese last month, he called them all by their first names.

This did not involve any great feat of memory on his part since there were, after all, only three of them. Michael, Richard and Dan are the only newly ordained priests for Dublin’s million-plus Catholics.

The tiny number is an ominous indication that Ireland, which once exported Catholic clergy around the world, is running out of priests. The manpower crisis for the Irish church is one which may well change its fundamental character. A new order is taking shape in which congregations will be sharing power with an ageing, shrinking priesthood. - Source

Saints preserve us!  I think they still have a lot of priests however.

How you make me feel…

Voters — some of whom dissect policy issues daily, but most of whom don’t — ultimately cast their ballots based on emotion. Not logic. Not knowledge of “the issues.” - Source

Yeah, so how do you feel today, class?

H/T Western Confucian  (As Joshua observed - it can be the same for both sides.)