Jackson Jambalaya

 JJ reported last night on two brawls that took place at Northpark Mall and Skylone in Ridgeland yesterday. The two incidents were related. 

 Check out this little item on the agenda for tomorrow's meeting of the Madison County Board of Supervisors. 

If your life is a sentence, how is it punctuated? Is it a long sentence that says little or a short sentence that says much? Does your life sometimes need a comma, a pause that gives you a chance to reflect and prepare for the future?   The late Dr. Frank Pollard asked these questions and more as he joined the Apostle Paul in looking at how he "finished my race."  Skip the New Year's resolutions as you never keep them anyway. Put The Purpose Driven Life to the side and  enjoy Dr. Pollard's New Year's sermon posted below. It is one of his better sermons and says more, so much more.     

 Chinese leaders at a December meeting led by Chinese President Xi Jinping reiterated their consistent focus on “pursuing progress while ensuring stability.”

 A brawl broke out at Northpark Mall in where else but the food court. 

It is 1986 in Jackson.  What is there to do on a Saturday night? 

The plot thickens up in Oxford as 24/7 Sports announced several former Ole Miss assistant football coaches will stay at LSU: 

 A federal grand jury indicted now-former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and others in U.S. District Court in the Southern District of New York.  

 Pops Saloon will remain closed for the weekend following a New Year's Eve shootout at the Jackson nightspot.  Pops announced on Facebook: 

As I write this “end of the year/beginning of the year” column, please remember President Biden still had one month left in his term at this time last year. Wow! What did he do with that time? Think thousands of auto-pen pardons and commutations.

 The scene speaks for itself. 

 The fractious divorce just might be getting more fractious.  ESPN reported: 

 Watch out.  The Jackson City Council is at it again.  WLBT reported: 

 Ted Dibiase, Jr. is finally going to trial in federal court next week on January 6.  Once the trial concludes, the dominos will fall as Nancy and Zach New will finally be sentenced for their roles in the DHS scandal. 

Still home for the holidays and feel like cooking some vittles? ZeroBear PolyBear left us a delicious Shrimp & Grits recipe, complete in downloadable format.  Enjoy. 

 Measles is making a comeback.  The Center for Disease Control announced: 

 A shootout broke out at Pops Around the Corner lounge last night. 

Jackson's killing fields shrank as it suffered the fewest number of homicides in nearly a decade in 2025 and less than half of what they were in 2021. 

 Hearts will be broken in the Jackson Metro area. 

 First Consul Tate Reeves issued the following statement Monday. 

Jasmine Sandifer will be spending New Year's Eve in jail after she (allegedly) stabbed a boyfriend yet again.

 U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate will hold yet another hearing on JXN Water's proposed rate increase.  

 At the end of every year for the past 25+ years, I have listed my top ten dining experiences from the year that just wrapped. This year was a bit of an outlier, as you’ll see when you get to number one.

 Check out a private sector urban renewal project on Gallatin Street.  This could be replicated across Jackson and other blighted cities.  

What would happen if Don Rickles had been appointed Ambassador to the United Nations?  

 JPD issued the following statement and video. 

One billion dollars.  Read that again: One BILLION dollars.  The PERS COLA soared to a record $1,010 billion in 2025. As the ostriches shriek while burying their heads in the sand, the Cost of Living Adjustment that is not a cost of living adjustment spirals out of control.  

 What are the most popular baby names in Mississippi this year? The Health Department checked the birth certificates and ranked the top 25 names of each sex. Check out the list. 

The Kingfish went back in time yesterday and cruised McDowell Road end to end with a video camera.  McDowell Road was once a Mecca of middle class South Jackson, filled with pizza parlors, bowling alleys, restaurants, drugstores and small businesses.  The street became a virtual parking lot on Friday and Saturday nights as teens cruised McDowell, creating bumper to bumper traffic. However, time passes and all things must change.  What does McDowell Road look like now?   Check out the video posted below.  Enjoy. 

 Straight from the state newspaper. 

An Ole Miss football player got a case of the stupid less than a week before the big game Thursday.  WTVA reported:  

Slapping a high price on something and giving it a fancy name is as American as hot dogs, apple pie, and Chevrolet.  Timberland is one such brand.  However, the Rose Anvil Youtube channel literally dissected a $400 pair of Timberland boots.  Check out the video posted below as you get to see some crap construction.   Simply put, the boots are little better than the cheapos at Walmart.  

 Attorney General Lynn Fitch issued the following statement on December 22. 

The Mississippi Bar suspended Hattiesburg attorney Vanessa Jones for six months after finding she misused her trust account.  A Bar Tribunal issued a default judgment against Ms. Jones after she failed to turn over her trust account bank records as ordered. 

 What has Lane Kiffin been up to lately? 

 The Yazoo County Sheriff's Office issued the following statement and pictures. 

 Some yutes got stupid in Madison tonight.  

 Some things are just too cool for words. 

The light is often hid under a bushel as the old church song says.  "God, we don't share him with anybody else. We keep him to ourselves.  We have our own little clique and our own little club and we'll show up at our meetings and we'll pay our tithes and we'll sing our songs but we ill never use the chance that God has given us to serve him to be a blessing to all others," preached the late Dr. Frank Pollard.  Being a Christian is a privilege, he said, yet all too often the  privilege is taken for granted, mistaken for birthright.  Like all privileges, it can be revoked.  See what else Dr. Pollard had to say in the 1997 sermon posted below. 

As renewable energy disparager President Donald Trump continues to prop up and promote coal and fossil fuel industries, Mississippi finds itself on a path to grow industries producing renewable energy alternatives to coal.

 Will some riprap  break the Breakers? 

 JPD issued the following statement. 

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” “Then God said, ‘Let there be light’; and there was light. And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. And God called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.”

 It's the M-Bar.  Need we say more? 

Imagine facing arrest simply for posting sharp or critical comments online. Picture police at your door for expressing opposition to mass immigration. Envision a country where you could be imprisoned for years without a jury ever deciding your guilt.

This post was originally published on July 10, 2009. In light of recent remarks made by Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, and Nick Fuentes, it qualified for a Flashback Friday post. The funny part is after this post was published, the organizations in question either scrubbed their websites or took them down. Indeed, one required readers to order a print subscription through the mail.

Recently a Republican State Senator spoke to a national meeting of the Council of Conservative Citizens in Jackson, MS. Some local liberals as well as the local progressive weekly alternative rag sharply criticized her for speaking at the event and the state Republican party chairman for not more forcefully condemning her actions. Since I and many others don't know much about the Council of Conservative Citizens, I decided to check out their website. Buckle your seatbelts.

( Left: picture used on Alabama Chapter's website)

On the national organization's website, six of the nine "stories" posted are about race-related matters. For a group that touts itself as a leading conservative organization, there is no mention of taxes, deficit spending, expanding government, the erosion of civil liberties but there are more than a few words given to what blacks are doing to whites.

 Who is the bigger idiot in this case? 

 It is said the road to hell is paved with good intentions? What does one say when the Madison County Board of Supervisors strip the city of Madison of all county road funds for next year?  Madison will see what a court has to say after it filed a notice of appeal in Madison County Circuit Court Tuesday.