http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/index.php/site/comments/how_mississippi_voted_111208/
Anyone want to guess? I've posted the entire story in the comments section in case it is corrected but there is one very basic little piece of information missing here and given the tenor of the story, its omission is not accidental.
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The Clarion-Ledger reported today merely having an open container of alcohol in the car will land you in jail if you are in Tupelo:
"When Cedric Robinson and his friend were pulled over by a policeman a few months ago, even though he was drinking a cold beer, Robinson didn't think he'd have a problem because he was a passenger. Robinson was wrong.
Because of an ordinance that prohibits open containers of alcohol in a motor vehicle on any public street or highway in Tupelo, Robinson found himself in jail." Go to jail. Do not pass go and don't take a drink either.
A little strict one would think although I'm sure the MADD Nazis are celebrating. There are good reasons for having open container laws but throwing someone in jail instead of just pouring the beer out and writing him a ticket is draconian, to say the least, especially if the driver can pass a blood-alcohol test. However, the Tupelo police want to make sure you really don't drink and um, walk:
"And don't get caught drunk walking.
Michael Harrison thought by walking home after leaving a bar instead of risking getting caught driving drunk he'd be saving himself a trip to jail.
But, even though he wasn't driving, Harrison was still guilty of a crime - public drunkenness. Because he wasn't aware of the law, Harrison said, he made a mistake he'll never make again. "I thought I was being smart by walking the couple blocks home instead of driving," Harrison said. "But I didn't know you could be arrested for walking drunk. That was my bad."
Harrison admits he was drunk and said the officer who arrested him was doing his job and was very professional."
This shows how warped the MADD Nazis and their police lapdogs in Tupelo have become. Don't drink and drive they say. So you are in a bar, realize had have a couple too many, and want to walk home so you don't endanger anyone. Sorry, you're going to jail. Of course, this IS Tupelo we are talking about, after all. These are the same badge-wearing thugs that strip-searched a teacher a few years ago. Remember the case? A parent whose little brat could do no wrong filed assault charges against a teacher (even thought the school district had investigated and cleared the teacher) . Fair enough as it is the parent's right to do so. However, the Tupelo police department didn't just arrest the teacher and let her bond out. No, they strip-searched and humiliated her then stridently defended their barbaric behavior when questioned about it by the media. Tupelo PD's thuggery caused such an outcry the legislature changed the law concerning how teachers were treated on such charges.
Nice to see Tupelo police are still a bunch of dumb rednecks with badges.
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Want to know what our beloved President is considering? Pardoning Edwin Edwards. The biggest crook in Louisiana since the Longs actually stands a good chance of getting out of jail after only 6 years. The BayouBuzz reports:
"Sources close to the Bush White House are reporting this morning that the President is considering commuting the sentence of former Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards before his term ends on January 20. In fact, a decision may be made in the next few days. Edwards is serving a ten year sentence in a federal prison in Oakdale, Louisiana. He began serving his prison term in October 2002. He will be eligible for parole in early 2011 at which time he will be eighty three years old.
Former Louisiana Governor Dave Treen, along with former U.S. Senators John Breaux and J. Bennett Johnston, combined forces to petition President Bush to commute his sentence. In fact, Treen has expressed confidence that Bush will act before his presidential term ends...."
EWE Goes Free?
Pardoning Edwards will place Bush on the same level as Clinton when he pardoned Mark Rich and some Puerto Rican terrorists. Edwards and his gang (many of whom went to prison) looted Louisiana for years. Setting Edwards free will be a spit in the face of the law abiding citizens of Louisiana who expect their government to protect them from silver haired, smooth talking wolves such as Edwards. If this is compassionate conservatism, I'd rather be a communist.
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From The Jackson Free Press (of course):
"Being allowed to operate a business in a community is a privilege and comes with responsibility. The government is the manifestation of the will of a people. The people of a community have a right to require businesses locating in them to not destroy their shared environment, they have a right to deny them access to their children in certain circumstances, they have the right to require a base wage and benefit package, they have a right to require them to pay taxes for services they benefit from...and more if deemed appropriate by the people. This is not a radical assertion, but a reasoned approach taking note of the history of private enterprise in America. posted by daniel johnson on 11/16/08 at 12:23 PM" You Exist to Serve This Ship. Row Well and Live, 41
Wonder where I have heard this before.
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Kim Wade had Karl Denninger, http://www.market-ticker.org, and I on his radio show on WJNT on November 6. Here is the audio for the show that today. Mr. Denninger offers some very interesting analysis and the discussion was rather lively. Enjoy. The show starts at 9:10.
Hope you like the new look after I changed the layout this weekend for Jackson Jambalaya. The old format was hard to read for many people and limited what I could publish. The three column format allows me to add more stuff and save you from scrolling a mile down the page to find items of interest. I've added a daily quote feature (I pick them out myself) and updated the feeds. I've added The Market Ticker, Mish (a finance/economic blogger), Redstate.com, The American Thinker, and The Clarion-Ledger. Just to show I'm not scared of different views as other publications in Jackson are, I've also included two more liberal blogs, Folo and Cottonmouth, in the regular feeds as well. Preaching to the choir does get boring, you know. Hope you enjoy the changes. KF Read more!
He recently wrote about Blackberries:
"The Web browser is better than in the past but still not up to iPhone quality. According to AT&T, you can download FireFox or Internet Explorer instead of the standard BlackBerry browser.." Blackberry Advice
Anyone who has a Blackberry usually downloads Opera, which is far superior to the BB browser. Pretty much common knowledge among Blackberrry users.
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A friend of mine and I paid a visit to Sal and Phil's last night. It had been some time since I ate there so I was somewhat looking forward to our culinary excursion. I can safely say our experience there was a disappointment. The first clue should have been when we drove up at 7:30 on a Friday night as there were very few cars in the parking lot. This is usually a tell-tale sign about a restaurant in Jackson. Only a couple of tables had patrons. The staff was friendly enough and the facilities were clean.
The food was strictly average in quality. We ordered fried crab claws. They were somewhat dry with a little too much of a corn-meal taste to them (reminded me of hush puppies). My friend ordered the sweet shrimp. She only ate half of her order despited being very hungry as the shrimp were tough and not seasoned well. As she is a shrimp carnivorus maximus, I was surprised she ate so few of them as she nibbled on my french fries. I ordered the redfish and thought it was pretty good. Not dry, seasoned well, just right. The salads were fine although the salad bar was didn't offer much with few toppings available and only three dressings to choose from: Italian, Thousand Island, and Ranch.
The service was mediocre. Our food was brought to us almost immediately after we got our salads. We had several waiters. Had to ask for the silverware. Our waiter told us after serving our food we were getting another waiter as he had to prepare food for the next day. No big deal. Unfortunately, the next waiter starting pestering us literally every two or three minutes. It was pretty obvious he was trying to rush us off as he kept asking if we wanted the check (It wasn't even 9:00) and then kept rushing back every couple of minutes to see if we had it ready. I'm sure he wondered why he got a small tip.
Anyway, the grade for Sal and Phils is a C. Cleanliness was an A. Decor (for the type of restaurant it is) is an A. Food: Redfish B+, Shrimp: D. Service: C-. Prices: B.
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Dear Congressman Pickering:
Please resign and let Gregg Harper assume office several weeks early. This sounds harsh but frankly you failed your constituents recently when the bailout bill passed as you earned the distinction of being the ONLY Mississippian in the House or Senate that voted for its passage. Your constituents knew this was a bad bill as the calls to your office ran very heavily against it. Despite what they told you in emails and phone calls, you instead chose to support a bill that has been nothing but a disaster.
You violated your so-called conservative principles in allowing the Secretary of the Treasury to FORCE companies to sell shares to the government. While Americans are burdened by the costs of this bailout, a market meltdown, and a slowing economy, you chose to vote for sending money to the Chinese and other foreign banks instead of protecting your constituents. However, the worst part was you voted in lapdog fashion for a Treasury Secretary's lies that this bill going to be used for the purchase of toxic assets and mortgages by the federal government so that the markets could stabilize. Instead, the markets have plummeted and Paulson admitted lying to Congress and the American people.
As fewer and fewer people have any confidence in Paulson, it is time to start holding our representatives who voted for this debacle accountable. It sickens me that only a few left-wingers like Kucinich were grilling Paulson's stooge yesterday over his misrepresentations while most Republican congressmen sat on their hands. This is a Treasury Secretary who has helped his friend at the Fed send $2 trillion to the banks while refusing to tell us where our money is going. He lied to us when lobbying for passage of the bill. Paulson lobbied in 2000 and 2004 for the SEC to change its rules on leverage limits, which are the main cause for the market meltdowns. Every time Paulson has announced a new measure to cure the financial crisis, within a few days or weeks, he changes his story.
I remember when you announced your decision not to run for re-election that after the Democrats won in 2006, you said being in Congress " wasn't fun anymore" in a statement that was a far cry from what true conservatives such as Gingrich and Kasich would have said. In fact, Gingrich went on Fox News during the debate and gave you the blueprint: vote no, tear up the bill, start from scratch, get some real Reagan conservatives around the table, and propose a realistic plan instead of this joke. However, voting for socialism (and that is exactly what nationalizing banks and other industries are) while claiming to be a conservative is nothing but a betrayal of your campaign promises to us as well as your duty to represent our interests. We voted for a conservative defender, not a Bush-Paulson-Pelosi-Reid lapdog.
If you have mailed it in and refuse to apologize to your constituents for voting for this bailout mess, you should resign. There is going to be a lame-duck session and the Democrats are going to attempt to use this bailout package to further nationalize more of American industry. If you are not willing to fight for conservative principles and the best interests of the Third District as principled conservatives such as Congressmen McCotter and others have done, then you should resign and allow Gregg Harper to fight for us.
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Paulson on the Loose"By the time the process with Congress was completed, it was clear that we were facing a much more severe situation than we had envisioned earlier on," Paulson said in a live interview. "We have this limited pool of resources—big, but limited, $700 billion—and how do we use that, and get the maximum impact, and it's by putting capital in (banks)."
It took Congress all of FIVE DAYS to pass this bill? Remember? The bill was drafted on Sunday, died on Monday in the House, then was resurrected and passed on Friday (and investors smote the markets as they shewed their wrath at what had been done)
Does anyone believe Paulson? He promoted this bill by saying we had to buy these troubled mortgages and toxic assets KNOWING that was complete BS and he intended to do something else. Paulson's main talking point was how the bill would allow him to buy toxic assets.
Unfortunately, the media has said virtually nothing about this. Just another ho-hum news story. The American people don't care as they shrug their shoulders while the economy worsens. They act like slaves who have accepted their fate. Why shouldn't Paulson and his media accomplices treat Americans like slaves when they act like slaves? People need to wake up and start demanding true accountability or else they will deserve everything that happens because of this meltdown.
"From left, are Rebecca Bailey of Pearl, Kristen Cox of Raymond, Liz Raby of Itta Bena, Most Beautiful Kayla Latham of Florence, Victoria Scales of Pelahatchie and Coley Bush of Clinton." (credit: Clarion-Ledger)
Ms. Bush would've been my choice, followed by Ms. Latham, then Ms. Raby
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Here is a recent statement made by Ronnie Agnew, Executive Editor of the Clarion-Ledger and recent award-winning journalist:
"Barack Obama does not deserve the pressure that is about to be thrust on him. But he asked for it, and now it is his to fix. We're a nation fighting two wars, facing hostility around the world, an economy that rivals the Great Depression, consumer confidence that is at record-low levels and an even lower view of Congress..."
Doesn't deserve it? Barack's a big boy. He DID run for the job. Assuming he took his job as Senator seriously, he knew what he was getting into when he decided to run for office. Did you see such sympathy for Reagan or Clinton when they ran for office in tough economic times? But poor little Barack. We don't want things too tough for the black guy. Its not fair. He doesn't deserve it.
However, that statement is not my favorite line in his column. This is: "an economy that rivals the Great Depression". 2+2=5 in Clarion-Ledger economics. So an economy with an unemployment rate around 6.5%, inflation under 4%, and GDP decline of around .3% last quarter (and 2.8% growth in 2nd quarter) is the equivalent of the Great Depression which had an unemployment rate of 25%? Its no wonder their editorials are so often off-base or wrong on facts when they don't even know basic history or economic literacy at the "state newspaper".
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ll80 AM. Kim's pretty hot about Paulson lying (surprise) about the bailout bill. Denninger will be on the show today. Promises to be a good one. You can stream show at http://www.wjnt.com Read more!
I believe we may be days, weeks or (at the outside) months away from The United States reaching the point of no return in the mismanagement of this financial mess.
"We are dangerously close to investors worldwide coming to the realization that Ben Bernanke at The Fed has taken in "collateral" that is not worth anything close to what has been claimed - that is, that he's been lying all along.
In fact, if you remember back when Bear Stearns was first bailed out we were told there was little chance there would be any impairment on those so-called "assets" as a significant haircut had been taken - but The Fed has been quietly writing down the "assets" in "Maiden Lane", the Bear Bailout facility, without any significant announcement or discussion with Congress. (Yes, I know, Blackrock "claims" the collateral has been performing well on a cashflow basis. If all this is true, why can't we all see the details?)
Should investors around the world (and in the United States) come to believe that Treasury, The Fed and Ben Bernanke are liars, they would then be forced to conclude that they have in fact conspired to monetize a significant part of the bad paper "accepted" through the various facilities - which would mean The Fed has been "printing money" (despite telling you he had not in his latest Congressional testimony.) ...."
http://market-ticker.denninger.net/archives/655-Last-Chance.html
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"Out of the roughly $2 trillion committed thus far only about $450 billion of this money was actually passed through Congress - $100 billion in initial backstop for Fannie and Freddie, along with $350 billion for the first half of the TARP. Nearly all of the rest was committed literally by fiat in The Federal Reserve and Treasury without a bill in Congress, Congressional debate, or a vote.
We have discovered that Treasury, on its own initiative, changed tax policy in a fashion that will cost taxpayers another $150 billion, this beyond the TARP as well, without Congressional approval - this time as an "incentive" for banks buying up other banks.
Under The Constitution all revenue bills must originate in The House.
Congress is "afraid" to call this what it sure looks like to both me and many of them - illegal - for fear of scuttling deals that were done under the "TARP" of darkness....."
http://market-ticker.denninger.net/archives/P2.html
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Nate Beeler Washington Examiner Nov 18, 2008 |
Paul Fell Artizans Syndicate Nov 18, 2008 |
