Re: From MY FIRST DAYS IN THE GOVERNOR'S MANSION

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On 1/30/07, Moderator wrote:
What an Idiot!!!!!!!!

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> On 12/07/06, Hardy Parkerson, Atty. - Lake Charles, LA
> wrote:
>> Chapter 2 - Our Inauguration
>>
>> Once we have been elected, there will come the
>> swearing in. It really will not be my Inauguration, but
>> the inauguration of the little people of Louisiana. I plan
>> to study the inauguration of Andrew Jackson and make ours
>> match or outdo his first inauguration as much as possible.
>> I recall studying about Jackson’s inauguration when I was
>> a student at McNeese and taking American history from Dr.
>> Donald J. Millet. Dr. Millet was a great professor, and
>> in those days at McNeese he taught his classes in an old
>> Army barracks moved onto the McNeese Campus and converted
>> into a classroom. In those days, many of the McNeese
>> classes were held in such old Army barracks. Dr. Millet
>> taught much more than history. He taught about the
>> Catholic Church and about Christianity as well. His
>> lectures just came across in such a way as to let us know
>> that his calling was more than as a history professor.
>> And although I had gone to church all my life, and in my
>> years prior to college, I had pretty much gone to church
>> three times a week: Sunday morning, Sunday night and
>> Wednesday night; nevertheless, I never learned what the
>> Doctrine of the Trinity was until I heard Dr. Millet
>> explain how St. Patrick had gone into England and had
>> taken the clover leaf to explain to the indigenous natives
>> how that the Godhead could be and was “three in one,” by
>> demonstrating how the cloverleaf was “three in one.” It
>> was strange to me, even early in my college years, to
>> realize that I had learned such an important tenet of the
>> Christian Faith as the Doctrine of the Trinity from a
>> Catholic, as I had been brought up in a church and in a
>> society which was pretty much “anti-Catholic.”
>>
>> As a young adult, I once had a serious problem,
>> and I sought out for spiritual advice a friend of mine who
>> was a retired Catholic priest. We had never discussed
>> religion before, only the fact that he was a retired
>> Catholic priest. When I approached him about my problem,
>> I had the presence of mind to call him “Father”, although
>> all of my life I had been taught to “call no man ‘Father’
>> but the father who was in Heaven.” Nevertheless, I said
>> to my friend the retired Catholic priest, “Father Gobeil,
>> I am not a Catholic, but….” He heard my initial
>> introduction to him and said, “Son, let me ask you some
>> questions!” When I had answered all of his litany of
>> questions affirmatively, he said, “Son, you ARE a Catholic…
>> according to Vatican II.” This came as a real surprise to
>> me; and, I must add that since that time it has always
>> been a comforting thought to me. Sometimes when I am
>> asked if I am a Catholic, I answer, “No, but I am a better
>> Catholic than a lot of them I know.”
>>
>> What has this got to do with the Inauguration?
>> Not so much; but I plan to have the Bishop of Louisiana
>> for each of the the religious denominations in the state
>> of Louisiana be a big part of the people’s Inauguration;
>> for, after all, there is only “one” religion and I do
>> believe it is the “catholic” religion, whether it be
>> Baptist, Methodist, Assemblies of God, Pentecostal, Church
>> of Christ, Episcopalian, Roman Catholic…whatever it is.
>> There is more to it all than this, but this is something
>> to think about.
>>
>> I was brought up in a church that did not believe in
>> dancing. However, I have come to believe over the years
>> that dancing is not as bad as it was made to seem to me
>> when I was a boy growing up. So at the Inauguration,
>> there will be “dancing on the Capitol Grounds,”
>> and “dancing in the Streets of Baton Rouge.” We will have
>> good Cajun music and good Cajun bands there to play and
>> sing. Also, we will have good Blue Grass bands and
>> vocalists there and good Country and Western bands and
>> vocalists there and good Gospel bands and Gospel vocalists
>> there. If we can afford him after the election, we are
>> going to have Willie Nelson and Governor Kinky Friedman
>> there…singing, as usual. The Parkerson Administration is
>> going to be a musical one. I am going to have Jimmy Smith
>> and Leonard Grissino and Brother Murrell Ewing and…you
>> name him, or her…if he or she has musical and/or vocal
>> talent, he or she is going to get a chance to perform at
>> and be a big part of the People’s Inauguration and on the
>> grounds of, and in the Lobby of, the State Capitol and on
>> the grounds of and inside the Governor’s Mansion, and all
>> during the four years of the Parkerson Administration.
>>
>> And if we can afford to pay their plane fares and
>> hotel bills--or maybe we can let all of them stay in the
>> Governor’s Mansion during our Inauguration week; for sure
>> I’ll be staying in my R.V. parked in the parking lot at
>> the Governor’s Mansion--we will have former First Lady
>> Nancy Reagan and her and President Ronald Reagan’s family
>> there; and also former First Lady Rosalyn Carter and
>> President Jimmy Carter there too; and President Gerald
>> Ford and former First Lady Betty Ford; and President Bill
>> Clinton and former First Lady, Hillary Clinton there. And
>> if I am failing to mention somebody special that you would
>> like to see be there and to be a big part of our
>> Inauguration, you just let me know who it is, and I will
>> do my very best to get them there.
>>
>> There is more to it all than this, but this is
>> something to think about and to look forward too. And you,
>> if you desire to be, you are going to be a big part of our
>> Inauguration too. You just let me know!
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