Defend the Indefensible: Mississippi

Yeah, true.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TyzAAwJnIw

I am confident that somewhere in Mississippi I could get some damned good fried chicken. I'm not sure what else there is to recommend the place.

I was born in Columbus, MS, guys!

Columbus Air Force Base, to be exact.

wait is that for the pro or con column?

Alfred is a Southerner. I have to sit down for a spell on this one.

I too was born at Columbus AFB. Have lived in Columbus, Starkville, Noxapater, Jackson

well, my Cuban-American dad was stationed at that air force base for three years at the tail end of Vietnam.

same here, minus the Cuban-American part

Dad loves to joke that I cost $4

I already knew andrew m was a Southerner. He's got a reserved table at Rendezvous.

Replace Rendezvous with Neely's Interstate and you're right on. Charlie Virgo's been hit-or-miss for last coupla years and we grew apart.

any name can be better with Mississippi in front of it
ie.
"Mississippi Walter Mondale"

i cant spell missisipi without spell check and I dont give a shit

Like most Mississippians with some sense and moxie, alfred no longer lives there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm6M7pj2tT4

I was born in heidelberg, germany on an army base. i cost something like a buck to be born. plus the doctor told my mother to drink two pints of beer a day while pregnant with me

multiple xposts

Hero.

No it wasnt that tough, all i had to do was kind of come out of her.

But thanks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1NdsBpK0rE&feature=related

"and he gave me a 12-side die that he begged me to roll seven times...but nevermind that"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZt5Q-u4crc

There are a lot of place-names in Mississippi that I love to just roll around in my mouth -- Noxapater...Splunge...Tombigbee...Itta Bena...

I guess I have no sense or moxie. ;_;

I said "most", not "all". ;-)

I was born in Bratwursterstizen, germany on an army base. i cost something like a dead seahorse in a jar to be born. plus the doctor told my mother to drink two pints of Octopus blood a day while pregnant with me

xp Itta Bena came up just the other day. Can't remember the context.

Re place names, also like Nanih Waiya. Noxapater's cross-county rival. Cool native American mound there too.

Itta Bena came up for me too. UAPB's traveling there to play against MVS this year.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KY1Ez0TsjN8/TUF7MUKbYII/AAAAAAAAMPs/0Oof7S9XAMg/s1600/94156229.jpg
written in the Sargasso sea of Missisisipi

Last time I attended the King Biscuit Festival in Helena AR, sometime in the 90s, my buddy got to chatting up Junior Kimbrough pretty well. He invited us to see him play at his juke joint in Chulahoma, but that would have been a far drive for two drunk northerners. Still wish we could have pulled it off.

I was born in Bratwursterstizen, germany on an army base. i cost something like a dead seahorse in a jar to be born. plus the doctor told my mother to drink two pints of Octopus blood a day while pregnant with me

― coffeetripperspillerslyricmakeruppers (Latham Green), Thursday, June 30, 2011 12:38 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I enjoyed nailing your mother. I didnt realize anything came from it, however. Nice to meet you.

...

You are King Mermaid!! At last give me your nectars!!

hahahahaha

i really enjoyed the two times i went to mississippi, kinda would like to go back.

plz describe said enjoyments, of what they consisted.

We should trade houses for a month. xpost

the one time I went to Mississippi was the first time I heard some use the word "jew" as a verb and the only time that the person saying it was being serious

on the same trip, after I told this one dude how nice his house and neighborhood was and how I'd like to live someplace like that someday, he told me that that was nice but they liked to make sure only the right kind of people moved into their neighborhood, after which he stared at me and asked, "Do you understand what I am saying?"

not too many positive impressions of Tupelo, MS

http://petcaretips.net/foghorn_henery.jpg

the one time I went to Mississippi was the first time I heard some use the word "jew" as a verb and the only time that the person saying it was being serious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97nAvTVeR6o

I wasn't counting ppl I haven't actually met but that came afterward

xo Dan, good friend is currently great with Junior Kimbrough's grandbaby. Sometime ILXOR Ai Lien is busy planning a baby shower. Weird, eh?

that made sense, right?

uhhh...

http://hanlepedia.wikia.com/wiki/Mississippi

D4vid Kimbrough and my friend are having a kid. We're handling baby shower duties. That's what I meant.

Tupelo is The Worst. it's like the shittiest aspects of Mississippi distilled.

Don Wildmon territory IIRC

em-eye-ess-ess-eye-ess-ess-eye-pee-pee- eye <<fun to spell!

mississippi the state may be terrible but mississippi avenue in portland is quite nice

Obviously we all know this, but Mississippi is home to an enormous black population that doesn't want or care to leave, despite the racist bullshit of a majority of the white folks in the state. Dismissing the whole state is dismissing them, too, unless one provides caveats, so it's best to tread lightly imho

any statements i might make about the terribleness of the south are applicable only to the white people who run things unless i specifically state otherwise

Coincidentally, I woke up with “Living for the City” stuck in my head this morning.

https://www.propublica.org/article/ole-miss-students-pose-with-guns-in-front-of-shot-up-emmett-till-memorial

Who was the person the other day who naively aske on the politics thread "why do young people like Tr*mp?"

I hate people.

U.S. immigration officials raided numerous Mississippi food processing plants Wednesday, arresting 680 mostly Latino workers in what marked the largest workplace sting in at least a decade.

The raids, planned months ago, happened just hours before President Donald Trump was scheduled to visit El Paso, Texas, the majority-Latino city where a man linked to an online screed about a "Hispanic invasion" was charged in a shooting that left 22 people dead in the border city.

https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/local/2019/08/07/immigration-ice-raids-hit-mississippi-food-processing-plants/1945057001/

Scott County Superintendent Tony McGee said on Wednesday he knew of at least six families within the district that had a parent caught up in the raids. The students range from kindergarten to high school. Bus drivers were asked to return the children to the school if there was no one at their home. He said the school district created a plan to care for students and all were released from school by 7 p.m.

On Thursday he said more than 150 students in his district remained absent from school Thursday, many kept at home out of fear after the immigration raids.

McGee told the Associated Press that some longtime teachers told him Wednesday was "by far the worst day they ever spent as an educator."
https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2019/08/07/ice-immigration-raids-mississippi-what-we-know-peco-koch-foods-poultry-plants-jackson-sanctuary-city/1949156001/

The next governor.

https://i.imgur.com/o6WjeXD.jpg

https://mississippitoday.org/2020/02/05/former-welfare-agency-head-others-arrested-for-embezzling-millions-intended-for-poor-mississippians/

https://mississippitoday.org/2020/04/08/black-mississippians-at-greater-risk-72-of-deaths-56-of-states-covid-19-cases/

the great thing about all this is how like 70% of white ppl in Mississippi will fully grasp that this is unmistakably embezzlement, but still maintain that it was actually a better use for that money


https://news.yahoo.com/94-million-mississippis-poor-spent-160358379.html

New state flag is kinda erotic.

I was partial to the Stennis flag but hey I’ll take it

Stennis flag was available as a custom license plate this year and we got that, but yeah, anything but the battle flag.

corruption corruption
https://mississippitoday.org/2021/10/04/new-audit-mississippi-welfare-misspending/
New audit shows ‘a tragic amount’ misspent, but can’t find what happened to $40 million in welfare funds

corruption corruption continued: in case you were wondering what Brett Favre's been up to lately -- he's been grifting with the ex-guv

https://mississippitoday.org/2022/04/04/phil-bryant-brett-favre-welfare-scandal-payout/
https://mississippitoday.org/2022/04/06/brett-favre-used-fame-favors-welfare-dollars/

Man

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/08/30/us/jackson-water-system-failing-tuesday/index.html