B00YAY

Man, went to Dublin from Tennessee for St Patricks in 2007. Traveled with the University of Tennessee band to March in the big parade. Went out that night and never saw such a hot mess. Spent an hour trying to find a bar we could get into in Temple Bar only to give up and wander to a place called Hurricanes. Crazy town. I don't see how the bars made money considering noone could move to get to and from the bars. I imagine the aftermath is like mardi gras in New Orleans. How big of a mess is the place after today?

Drums and Brass > All. We did the Inauguration in 2004 for Bush. Our Senator threw a huge ball. Brass and Drums went and played for people as they entered, then put on a small concert for anyone interested. Afterwards, they invited us all out to the fancy ball where we ate fancy foods we'd never seen before. Woodwinds kicked it at the hotel.

I knew this to be the case as soon as people marched behind JT. As a former band guy (Tennessee) there's nothing quite so awful as a mic in front of one or two horns.

How does it get disbursed? Do you lose 60% of your refund for 'administrative costs' of disbursement which, incidentally, is handled by the candidate's daughter?