The Jackson Follies, or Thank God for Mississippi, my state looks sane by comparison:

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

Haley Barbour is touted among Conservatives as their planned candidate for 2012. Well, I suppose it's easier to back a governor who finishes his entire term v. one who quit halfway through instead of addressing repeated ethics violations:

http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20110102/NEWS01/101020338/THE-BUZZ

^The above is an example of Barbour's barbaric ideas of governorship. First, put two women in jail for life for 11 dollars. That in itself would be worthy of outrage in a civilized country. Next, release them on account of a kidney transplant proposed by the women themselves. This is when it goes from merely outrage to "WTFITS" territory. OTOH, it should remembered Barbour's a guy who as per the following:

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2010/12/haley_barbours_race_blinders.html

appears to have forgotten that the White Citizens' Councils were an auxiliary of the Klan, for people who felt too genteel to dress up in bedsheets. The Civil Rights era was very unpleasant, and people have tried to pretend that the white Southerners were somehow convinced they were wrong by the blacks, while White Northerners handed liberty to blacks on a silver platter. Leaving aside that LBJ was a Texan through and through (as opposed to a carpetbagger like Bush) the idea is itself a problem for another post, as blacks got their liberty. Whites did not give it to them, whether Northern or Southern. Statements like this give a strong indication as to the validity of there being no racism in the GOP, as it's not every day someone will say "Well, the KKK wasn't really racist, they were about unpleasant types and lynching never happened. Damnyankee propaganda."

So.....as per here: http://www.newsweek.com/2010/01/01/the-anti-obama.html if this guy runs Palin will both be irrelevant and the Democrats are guaranteed a victory regardless. Nothing says "Epic fail" like a Republican claiming with a straight face that the genteel KKK was not that bad.

Comments

[404.livejournal.com]

You do understand that they were put in jail for armed robbery and assault with a weapon, right? The amount they recovered in the transmission of the crime is irregardless.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

While Bernie Madoff gets a slap on the wrist, yes.....

[404.livejournal.com]

I see you don't really care about addressing the topic at hand.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

They were first-time felons and received a life sentence. That may be how they do it in Mississippi, land of inbred rednecks, but in a civilized country.....

[404.livejournal.com]

Stay classy.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

It's Mississippi. Classiness is not worth it. We have a higher class of crook on our side of the river.

[404.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry you can't take any opportunity to not be condescending.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

Again, it's Mississippi.

[404.livejournal.com]

Your bigotry is noted.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

Hell, I hate the idiots on this side of the creek, too. But Edwin Edwards and Huey and Earl Long were higher classes of Crook than this pissant.

Actually, they were at worst accessories to said crime, not the direct perpetrators.

[squidb0i.livejournal.com]

http://action.naacp.org/page/s/scottsisters

Re: Actually, they were at worst accessories to said crime, not the direct perpetrators.

[404.livejournal.com]

Your link is to an action group sympathetic to them, I'd be interested to have an unbiased source.

Despite the fact you can look it up yourself:

[squidb0i.livejournal.com]

The actual court documents, public domain searchable.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/21748684/Scott-Sisters-Opinion


Further complicating factors:

http://findarticles.com/p/news-articles/jackson-advocate/mi_8134/is_20091231/scott-sisters-raising-questions-15/ai_n51001540/

Re: Actually, they were at worst accessories to said crime, not the direct perpetrators.

[eracerhead.livejournal.com]

Here is the transcript of the trial which I read a few weeks ago

http://www.scribd.com/doc/21748820/Scott-transcripta

pp 78-110 There is testimony from two witnesses that Gladys scott planned the robbery, supplied the shotgun and her car to the two men who robbed the victims. Both of the sisters lured the victims to the scene of the crime and at one point Gladys even held the shotgun over them.

I'm not a lawyer, but that's hardly accessory IMO.

[onefatmusicnerd.livejournal.com]

They were accessories, who received more time than the individual who committed the robbery.

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

Haley Barbour is touted among Conservatives as their planned candidate for 2012.

[citation needed]

I've heard his name bandied about in the media, but as "planned candidate?" That's a bit presumptuous, given that the names Romney, Huckabee, Pawlenty, Palin, DeMint, Pence etc come up much more regularly.

So.....as per here: http://www.newsweek.com/2010/01/01/the-anti-obama.html if this guy runs Palin will both be irrelevant and the Democrats are guaranteed a victory regardless. Nothing says "Epic fail" like a Republican claiming with a straight face that the genteel KKK was not that bad.

He might still run. But you can bookmark this now so you can refer to it later, he won't even be a major player.

[paedraggaidin.livejournal.com]

I can't really comment about Mississippi, considering my new home state has the West Memphis Three and my old home state has the railroad-tastic fiasco that was the Schneider pain clinic case (because doctors helping people who no one else will = pure evil, apparently). I I think Barbour might have worked as a candidate in 1952, but in 2012 I doubt he'd even win many primaries in the South; his racial idiocy is just too much of a liability.

As for Palin...it's fun to speculate that an obviously anti-intellectual religious fundamentalist (e.g. the blessing against witchcraft) whose knowledge of foreign policy and economics are laughably poor would be a boon to Democrats and cause a shoo-in for their candidate...but then I remember the 2000 and 2004 elections.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

My state is the one the Longs and Edwin Edwards came from. With that kind of quality crooks and liars I feel perfectly able to bash Mississippi for lower standards. XP.

[dartmouth05.livejournal.com]

The amount of the take is pretty irrelevant-armed robbery is armed robbery is armed robbery, whether it's for $11 or $110,000....

[geezer-also.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but that's only the law....think of the children (emotional appeals work sometimes :D)

[onefatmusicnerd.livejournal.com]

I am with you on the WCCs.

On the Williams sisters, Barbour seems to be a pretty good grounds. Ben Jealous
(Who has a fucking awesome name) even went on CNN to praise him.

Also, I cannot stand Barbour's politics, but his administrative skills have been impressive, but in Katrina, while no official higher than the rank of State Police Lieutenant was taking calls from emergency service contractors and agencies, Barbour was taking those calls personally.

[verytwistedmind.livejournal.com]

Nothing says "Epic fail" like a Republican claiming with a straight face that the genteel KKK was not that bad.

“He once had a fleeting association with the Ku Klux Klan, what does that mean? I’ll tell you what it means. He was a country boy from the hills and hollows from West Virginia. He was trying to get elected,” former President Bill Clinton said of Sen. Robert Byrd.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

So in other words "Because they do it that means it's OK when we claim with a straight face the people that prevented the existence of the Republican Party in the South for a century weren't that bad."

[nevermind6794.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure that "Thank God for Mississippi" is the Texas state motto. Otherwise we'd be 50th in everything.