Last year there were debates on whether it was appropriate to hold the “Mardi Gras” in storm ravaged New Orleans. The “Mardi Gras” was a huge success and helped New Orleans with much needed cash to help rebuild. The “Mardi Gras" is a celebration of life. Now the attacks have moved into the Spanish courts over noise levels at the “Carnival” on Tenerife in the Canary Islands. This news story appeared in Reuters.
MADRID, Feb 8 (Reuters Life!) - A Spanish court on Thursday canceled Carnival celebrations in the Canary Islands city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife -- one of the biggest in the world -- because they are too noisy. The court awarded an injunction halting the celebrations after a group of citizens complained the festivities violated their human rights, State radio reported.
Carnival is celebrated in every town and village on the island of Tenerife but the most spectacular celebrations are in Santa Cruz and Puerto de la Cruz.
The festivities include parades, dancing, music and fireworks and come to a climax with the famous "burial of the sardine." In Santa Cruz, an enormous sardine sitting on a throne is carried through the streets on a float, followed by an entourage of mourners, pregnant men and widows in floods of tears amid general hysteria.
The Perspective has attended several “Mardi Gras” celebrations in New Orleans as did his father and grandfather. It is loud, it is crowded, it is wonderful! People getting together to have fun, dress up, watch parades, and celebrate life, what could possibly be wrong with that? Thankfully in the USA the constitution protects the Pursuit of Happiness.
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They cancelled the Marty Grass and you have the nerve to criticize them? What, are you just pandering for flame wars?????
And what's this about using different colorred fonts in your post? Dont you nknow that's the trick of the leftwing liberal pansies?
Oh wait! You are one -- a cop-hating gray flanell suit wearing one! I seen you str4utting about town in your haberdashery finest!
You think we don't knoww what your really saying by dressing better that us lowly, blabbering pork-lovers, do you? WEll, I'm here to say you don't! Or we do!... You know what I mean!
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