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• Look at ME Look at ME Look at ME

  —Jackson Jambalaya

  How many times has Ladd written this column or something similar? I've lost count.' [...]
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 8:09am EST
  

• Desoto Times Tribune has good story on Evans case

  —Jackson Jambalaya

  The Desoto Times Tribune published a good story on the Evans case yesterday. The reporter took the time to dig through the deeds of trust and other documents himself and arrived at the same amounts JJ determined several weeks ago. He deserves some credit for actually reporting instead of copying [...]
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 7:55am EST
  

• Late Night Linkdump of Epic Proportions

  —Liberal Smash

  Number of comments: 1
  Quick Note: I checked my blog stats and we are slowly getting back to where we were three months ago before I became a deadbeat. If you like this shithole, tell your friends to check it out. And Arcticman, if that is you visiting, speak up about the weather in [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 8:19pm EST
  by paul mitchell

• Kings of Tort Book Signing Schedule for December

  —Yall Politics

  YallPolitics Nation, come join us out and around Mississippi! Square Books - Oxford December 5, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. Square Books - Oxford, MS. Both authors will be in attendance. Authors Extravaganza in Hattiesburg, MS December 7, 4:00 - 7:00 p.m. Main Street Books - Hattiesburg. Both authors will be in attendance. Barnes [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 7:49pm EST
  

• Miss. governor set to announce more budget cuts

  —Yall Politics

  Miss. governor set to announce more budget cuts Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour is set to announce a second round of state budget cuts, only five months into the fiscal year. Barbour will announce the reductions during a news conference Thursday afternoon in Jackson. Figures released this week showed that in November, Mississippi's tax [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 2:02pm EST
  

• TIME - The Blind Side has earned $105 million - cost $29 million to make

  —Yall Politics

  TIME - The Blind Side has earned $105 million - cost $29 million to make Movie phenomena are supposed to occur once in a blue moon, or a new one. Yet for the last couple of weeks two films, released the same day, with similar demographics, have got folks cheering and [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 1:53pm EST
  

• Mississippi regulators OK nuclear plant upgrade

  —Yall Politics

  Mississippi regulators OK nuclear plant upgrade State utility regulators have approved a plan by Entergy Mississippi to increase the output from its Grand Gulf Nuclear Power Plant in Port Gibson. Approval by the Mississippi Public Service Commission came Monday. Federal regulators also must approve the proposal. Haley Fisackerly, president and CEO of Entergy [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 1:52pm EST
  

• FERC: Entergy audits are routine, “not prompted by anything else”

  —Yall Politics

  FERC, Entergy insist audits are ‘routine’ Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood on Tuesday said an ongoing audit of Entergy by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission indicates the agency is taking a “strong look” at the company’s practices. But a FERC spokeswoman and Entergy representatives insist that two separate audits being conducted [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 1:52pm EST
  

• Analysts unsure if Northrop Grumman bluffing over Air Force tanker deal

  —Yall Politics

  Analysts unsure if Northrop Grumman bluffing over Air Force tanker deal Is it a bluff? That's the $40 billion question that echoed Wednesday from Washington state to Washington, D.C. and from the Gulf Coast to Wall Street on news that Northrop Grumman Corp. may opt out of the U.S. Air Force tanker [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 1:46pm EST
  

• MINOR - Surviving economic downturn is first worry

  —Yall Politics

  Surviving economic downturn is first worry Most Mississippians, no doubt, want to know when the “Great Recession” is going to end in this state. “No one has a good answer for that question,” says Ed Spivak, executive director of the non-profit Mississippi Economic Policy Center (MEPC). If history is any guide, recessions usually [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 1:44pm EST
  

• NASH - Budget Politics & Tea Parties

  —Yall Politics

  Budget Politics & Tea Parties For those conservatives in Mississippi who really don't like government, and view it as too intrusive and too big and too expensive, the budget situation affords them the grand opportunity to jump on the bandwagon of a "smaller" government. Conservative legislators are not being forced to' [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 1:42pm EST
  

• Wicker says disaster relief needed for Mississippi farmers

  —Yall Politics

  Wicker says disaster relief needed for Mississippi farmers Senator Roger Wicker On Thanksgiving Day, Mississippians gathered with friends and families around dinner tables to break bread and recognize how fortunate we are in America. Just as Thanksgiving is a day in which we recognize the bounty of our blessings, it can also [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 1:40pm EST
  

• LNL - Hood looking on bright side of Zyprexa ruling

  —Yall Politics

  Hood looking on bright side of Zyprexa ruling Despite Tuesday's bad news, Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood is remaining optimistic about his Zyprexa lawsuit against Eli Lilly & Co. Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Jack Weinstein granted Lilly summary judgment on many of Mississippi's claims, giving Hood, who is one of the few [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 1:38pm EST
  

• Miss. looks for solutions in tough economic times

  —Yall Politics

  Miss. looks for solutions in tough economic times It's no secret, times are tough all over and Mississippi is no exception. Unemployment is up, tax revenue is down. Some believe the state budget process is broken and education isn't up to par. So what to do? That's the focus of meetings being' [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 1:29pm EST
  

• Feeding Fido

  —Jackson Jambalaya

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Having problems with dog allergies? Noticed your pet scratches all the time but there are no fleas? Do your dog's eyes constantly drain? Check the dog food. When I got Louis XIV, [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 12:18pm EST
  

• Latest Comments From Doug Davis on Merger

  —Majority In Mississippi

  State Sen. Doug Davis (R-Hernando) is Chairman of the Senate Universities and Colleges Committee and will be a player in any merger discussions that take place in the Senate. He has been pretty non-committal so far, and continued to be so offering these comments: “Everything is still on the table right [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 9:31am EST
  by Brett

• Irby update: The Rehab Tour

  —Jackson Jambalaya

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Well, well, well, it looks like since Stuart Irby doesn't have to worry about testifying in court, he has been a busy little bee. These pictures were' [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 9:08am EST
  

• Journalism in Tennessee

  —Jackson Jambalaya

  The antithesis to corporate media: Read. An excerpt:
  "The editor of the Memphis Avalanche swoops thus mildly down upon a correspondent who posted him as a Radical:--"While he was writing the first word, the middle, dotting his i's, crossing his t's, and punching his period, he knew he was [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 7:50am EST
  

• Virginia's New Attorney General and a "Firehouse Primary"

  —Free Citizen

  Number of comments: 1
  On November 3, three statewide offices were at stake in Virginia, and the Republicans won all of them. Attorney general Bob McDonnell was elected governor; lieutenant governor Bill Bolling was re-elected; and state Senator Ken Cuccinelli was elected attorney general.
  
  In 2005, Cuccinelli brought the first-ever lawsuit [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 6:16am EST
  by Steve Rankin

• NMC - Dean Davis steps down as Law School dean, to return to teaching

  —Yall Politics

  Dean Davis steps down as Law School dean, to return to teaching Dean Davis has sent this email to the law students at Ole Miss law school: This year marks the last year of my third term as Dean of the School of Law. After much reflection and discussion with both the [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 10:54pm EST
  

• Food Pr0n and My Friend's Junk

  —Liberal Smash

  Number of comments: 7
  Excerpt from an actual e-mail thread: Let's just call my friend "Ernie Jacob" to utterly protect his identity.
  
  Ernie Jacob: Paul - Get a group together. It will be a blast. Your money will go to good causes, namely my Christmas budget and a charity of your choice. (E-mail [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 10:11pm EST
  by paul mitchell

• Drive-by Blogging - Da News

  —Liberal Smash

  Number of comments: 0
  Just a few links of stuff that you shall never find in the Barrystream Media today. Hopefully, I shall be at a point where I can continue the mediocrity that you have come to know, love, and expect. Keep remembering that you get what you pay for, hit the Pay-Pal [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 9:14pm EST
  by paul mitchell

• Senator Walter Michel Introduced Legislation to Reduce the Size of Mississippi’s Legislature

  —Yall Politics

  Senator Walter Michel Introduced Legislation to Reduce the Size of Mississippi’s Legislature and the cost of operation District 25 State Senator Walter Michel, R-Jackson, has introduced a bill to reduce by 25% the number of elected officials serving in the legislature. “Now is a good time to address this issue. [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 5:38pm EST
  

• Cochran to meet with president on Afghanistan

  —Yall Politics

  Cochran to meet with president on Afghanistan The president will deliver a speech to the nation tonight on his plans to increase troop levels to support the war, which Cochran said is "getting more and more unpopular as time goes on.’’ Cochran, the top Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee, is scheduled" [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 3:16pm EST
  

• US Senators: No Loans Until Antigua Cooperates In Stanford Case

  —Yall Politics

  US Senators: No Loans Until Antigua Cooperates In Stanford Case [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 3:15pm EST
  

• Gov. Barbour says Mississippi’s tax revenue plunged in November

  —Yall Politics

  Gov. Barbour says Mississippi's tax revenue plunged in November OXFORD -- Mississippi tax collections continued their free fall in November as revenues dropped 6.9 percent below already-dismal projections, further evidence that the state's economy is nowhere near recovery from the worst recession since the Great Depression of the 1930s. November tax collections [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 3:14pm EST
  

• Council votes 5-1 to pay Wright’s, Recio’s attorneys

  —Yall Politics

  Council votes 5-1 to pay Wright's, Recio's attorneys The measure passed by a 5-1 vote, with Ward 1 Councilman Jeff Weill in opposition. Ward 7 Councilwoman Margaret Barrett-Simon was absent. The bills date to the 2007 criminal trial of Melton and then-bodyguards Michael Recio and Marcus Wright, who had been charged with' [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 3:12pm EST
  

• Lawmaker: Cuts within days

  —Yall Politics

  Lawmaker: Cuts within days The state received about $25 million less than projected in November, according to data released Tuesday by the governor's office. The state is $136.6 million, or 7.4 percent, short of projected revenue in the first five months of the fiscal year. Sen. Alan Nunnelee, R-Pontotoc, said the governor [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 3:09pm EST
  

• Dr. Thompson, state health officer, dies

  —Yall Politics

  Dr. Thompson, state health officer, dies "He was literally the face of public health in Mississippi and, in large measure, across the nation," said Dr. Randy Easterling, president of the Mississippi State Medical Association. "With a limited budget, he was able to take on all the health problems in the poorest" [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 3:08pm EST
  

• New Government “Blue Book” released

  —Yall Politics

  New Government "Blue Book" released Just about everything you need to know about Mississippi government can be found in one book -- the Blue Book. Its full name is The Mississippi Official and Statistical Register. A new, updated edition of the Blue Book was released Tuesday morning by Secretary of State Delbert [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 3:07pm EST
  

• Reducing The Size of The State Legislature

  —Majority In Mississippi

  State Sen. Walter Michel (R-Jackson) has introduced legislation which aims to reduce the number of members of the state legislature by 25 percent. Michel said it makes sense to look at this now because of the cost-saving aspect as well as the fact that legislative districts will be redrawn after [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 3:03pm EST
  by Brett

• Bryant pushes new budgeting method

  —Yall Politics

  Bryant pushes new budgeting method Under a proposal touted by Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant to reform the state’s budget process, the Legislative Budget Office and the Performance Evaluation and Expenditure and Review committee would be combined and charged with making sure state programs are productive, or else their budgets would suffer. Bryant [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 2:17pm EST
  

• Federal judge calls out Jim Hood on "slash and burn" litigation, "an abuse of the legal process"

  —Respond Mississippi

  Judge Jack Weinstein, Senior U.S. District Judge in New York, handed Mississippi Attorney General a legal defeat yesterday, accompanied with a side of smack down.
  
  In his decision, Judge Weinstein granted Eli Lilly & Company's motion for summary judgment except on one issue still before the Second Circuit [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 1:25pm EST
  by IamTHEresponder

• ‘Slash-and-Burn’ order in the MS vs. Zyprexa case

  —Yall Politics

  Courtesy of John O'Brian at Legal Newsline, here is the order in the case of the People's Republic of Jim Hood (and campaign contributors) vs. Eli Lilly. "For the legal system to be used for this slash-and-burn style of litigation would arguably constitute an abuse of the legal process. Constitutional, statutory'" [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 1:14pm EST
  

• Mergers Aren’t Being Mentioned Just For Fun

  —Majority In Mississippi

  Number of comments: 1
  Challenging the idea that university merger opponents lack political will, Rep. John Mayo came up with the idea of merging all public universities into just two schools- one called North Mississippi, one called South Mississippi. And anybody that did not support his fictitious idea did not have political will. He got [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 10:21am EST
  by Brett

• More Budget Cuts Coming Soon

  —Majority In Mississippi

  Number of comments: 1
  According to a couple members of the state legislature. For November, revenue was down about $25 million from initial projections. For the first five months of the fiscal year, the state is down more than $136 million. Posted in Mississippi Politics Tagged: budget [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 9:53am EST
  by Brett

• Give Digger a home.

  —Jackson Jambalaya

  
  This little Lhasa Apso is Digger. He is a "four year old male. Sweet personality. Loves to be held. Gets along well with dogs and cats. House training will need some work. Apply on line at www.carams.org or call Cathy at 601-605-0495." Digger's page.[...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 8:55am EST
  

• Did Mississippi Valley Title Insurance Company's policies contain a 12-month limitation on filing claims?

  —Jackson Jambalaya

  For a collection of all posts on Evans case, see sidebar on right side of page.
  
  Did Mississippi Valley Title Insurance Company bury a little exclusion in the insured closing protection letters* it issued to some of the banks in the Evans Case? JJ has obtained an insured [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 8:48am EST
  

• Latest crime stats

  —Jackson Jambalaya

  Jackson crime stats for week of November 16-22, 2009. If anyone has the crime stats for surrounding cities, feel free to send them to me. [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 8:17am EST
  

• Alabama's 1966 Race for Governor

  —Free Citizen

  Number of comments: 0
  George Wallace, an ally of two-time Governor Jim Folsom Sr., first ran for chief executive of Alabama in 1958 as a racial moderate with NAACP backing. Losing the Democratic runoff to attorney general John Patterson, Wallace swore, "I'll never be out-segged again!"
  
  Wallace campaigned in 1962 as a staunch' [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 6:43am EST
  by Steve Rankin

• LNL BREAKING - Judge calls Jim Hood’s Zyprexa litigation style “slash-and-burn” after tossing case

  —Yall Politics

  Judge sides with Eli Lilly in Zyprexa case Calling Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood's lawsuit against Eli Lilly & Co. a "slash-and-burn style of litigation," the federal judge overseeing Zyprexa lawsuits has granted Lilly summary judgment. U.S. District Judge Jack Weinstein issued a 117-page order Tuesday that noted the benefits of Zyprexa [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 2:54am EST
  

• Northeast Miss. Waits for Toyota to Deliver on Promises

  —Yall Politics

  Northeast Miss. Waits for Toyota to Deliver on Promises TUPELO, Miss. – Oh, what a wait. This month marks a year since Toyota delayed the start of operations at its new $1.3 billion vehicle manufacturing plant off U.S. 78 in Blue Springs. The delay has put on hold nearly 2,000 jobs and [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 6:26pm EST
  

• Gingrich to speak at Rankin County Banquet

  —Yall Politics

  Gingrich to speak at Rankin County Banquet Planned for this Thursday, the event honors U.S. Rep. Gregg Harper, a Rankin County native. The reception begins at 6:30 p.m. with the banquet following at 7:30 p.m. Tickets for each cost $125 per person for the event that will be heald at the Marriott [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 6:24pm EST
  

• Miss. proposal ties agency funding to performance

  —Yall Politics

  Miss. proposal ties agency funding to performance A new government study says Mississippi should change its budget process to tie state funding to agency performance, which could cut money from failing programs, the lieutenant governor said Monday. Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant appointed the Commission for a New Mississippi, which conducted the study [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 6:23pm EST
  

• Bennie Thompson wants information in White House party crashers

  —Yall Politics

  Bennie Thompson wants information in White House party crashers WASHINGTON — The top Democrat on the House Homeland Security committee is calling the Secret Service director and the couple who crashed the Obama administration's first state dinner to testify on the incident Thursday. Mississippi's Bennie Thompson says he wants answers about the [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 6:19pm EST
  

• NMC - Wilson files expert reports explaining what he thought Scruggs owed him and why

  —Yall Politics

  Wilson files expert reports explaining what he thought Scruggs owed him and why With that introduction, I’m going to go ahead and post the reports; I may report back later about what I learned from them. Meanwhile, the comments are available for anyone else’s thoughts. It’s interesting stuff. Here’s Wilson’s first [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 6:14pm EST
  

• State Farm to hike rates 19 percent on Coast

  —Yall Politics

  State Farm to hike rates 19 percent on Coast Beginning in mid-February, State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. will raise homeowner insurance rates 19.5 percent in the three Coast counties. Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney approved the rate increase, rejecting State Farm’s request for a 45 percent rate hike along the Coast. New [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 6:11pm EST
  

• MIM - Will Budget Struggles Be A Blessing For ‘Outsider’ Candidates?

  —Yall Politics

  Will Budget Struggles Be A Blessing For ‘Outsider’ Candidates? After a week off, I’m not going to delve into what happened over the past week. But the issue of the day continues to be Haley Barbour’s proposed budget- specifically the mergers. While we have heard a lot of talking, mostly demagoguery [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 6:10pm EST
  

• It is UNpossible to Believe the News Anymore

  —Liberal Smash

  Number of comments: 8
  Since I am so damn covered up with work and trying to hide the dough, we are employing the anonymous linker to fill in the voids for a minute. Enjoy the fact that there exist other people that find the very same things to be as interesting as I do [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 4:03pm EST
  by paul mitchell

• Bobby Hebert last night

  —Jackson Jambalaya

  
  
  Yup. He was stone-cold sober. [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 1:43pm EST