Jackson Jambalaya

But the little twinkies at the kiddie press try so hard (snort!)...

It just goes to show the Obamanites will go to any length to make the “chosen one” seem perfect and flawless. The people that read that garb would gasp if they herd the truth anyways. Now if the entire world is in love with Obama would it not be “alternative” or countercultural for the JFP to go conservative?

Must see: "Now they're driving '54 Chevys".

You can't buy your way into prosperity.

"Is Ronni Mott a hack, a liar, or just plain stupid?"

No, she's just human... I hope nobody is as nasty and judgmental toward you as you are toward others.

She does this on a regular basis.

No, she's just human... I hope nobody is as nasty and judgmental toward you as you are toward others.

She's just human? Sounds like you are also sharing a belief that Mott is indeed wrong.

Though I'm sure this is probably lost on Mott and the likes of Jim Craig, here is an opinion to consider as the market continues its resounding Nyet to Uncle Barack's collectivization of the US economy.

The Market Is Shorting Obama's 'Stimulus'

Well, well, well

Look what Ladd wrote today:

"On one local blog, where these kinds of words are frequently used for people with different views, a man writing under one of several pseudonyms asked if our own Ronni Mott is "a liar, hack or just plain stupid?" in a blog headline. Why? Because she had blogged something positive (and rather innocuous) about the White House launching a website to track distribution of stimulus funds. Now every time someone does a search for Ronni's award-winning work on domestic abuse--The New York Times plugged her expos on the governor's clemency for woman-killers last week--they turn up the ugliest kind of personal insult."

I didn't slam Ms. Mott for praising the stimulus plan although we can all see now the plan was a joke, I was slamming her for ripping into Republicans when the truth was that during the entire passage of the stimulus bill, Republicans were shut out of the process and the stimulus plan was not made available to the public. Period.

By the way Donna, I'm sure Leah Rupp and Marshall Ramsey appreciate the way you've trashed them over the years. Their names appear in google searches in a negative way thanks to your smear tactics.

I might participate in a discussion on the JFP tablog, but unfortunately I do not have a pseudonym to post under that is allowed by the moderators.

Donna Ladd is a fraud.

Donna, I read your editor's note, (re: Gentleness and Reverence), with a little wry pleasure. I agree with your observations. I especially agree with your astute observation that bullied people often disengage. You see, the one (and only) time that I ever made a comment here before now, I was verbally berated by not only the writer I had commented on, but by you, yourself. Mind you, my comment was not a personal attack, which I consider uncivil and unacceptable. The reply on the other hand, amounted to a person attack on me, my nome de plume, (which happens to be my horse's nickname) and my ancestry. It was at first hurtful, then hilarious. Your defense of the writer was not exactly bullying, more dismissive and elitist. It appeared to me that unless you were as hip and cool as YOU and your regular commentators, then don't bother joining the party. As I instructed my children, if someone won't play nice, don't play with them again until they WILL play nice. I decided not to enter this arena again, that is until now...because it is important that civil discourse be encouraged and bullying in any form be exposed. I really don't think you thought you were encouraging bullying. I think you you seen and heard so much uncivility, you are immune to the effect it may have on someone who may be less exposed.

posted by sassy on 10/21/10 at 12:36 PM

I think this is a little over the top. Everyone's emotions are running thermo-nuclear and this is just the MASCOT? Are there not larger, more pressing issues at hand. Like 'um, let me think...
HEALTH CARE, THE ECONOMY, crazy Republicans blocking progess at every turn....I could go on and on but you get the picture.

Walter, what is that G-normous log doing on your shoulder? Get some professional help and sort out all this anger. REALLY. SERIOUSLY. It is obviously poisoning your heart. Peace out guy. The past is just that. PAST, we can't go back and change it. The only thing we can do is strive for better and move on.

Each generation is getting progressively color blind. We are learning, abet, slowly. But progess is being made. We need to stand together or we will all fall apart.

posted by sassy on 02/26/10 at 05:14 PM

Sassy, people are having a discussion -- nothing here is "thermo-nuclear"! It has been in the past, but this is a very light-hearted discussion compared with past discussions. So relax; having a conversation about this is good, and it has absolutely nothing to do with whether people here are also thinking and working on other important issues at the same time. It's a logical fallacy to say that having this conversation somehow negates others.

And Walt's heart is not poisoned. I've known him for a long time now. He is expressing his feelings that make others uncomfortable because they're not expressed often publicly. We don't silence that kind of thing here, because it does us all good to hear it.

You're welcome to join into this or other conversations, but chiding people for having it won't get you anywhere. And often tough conversation is *exactly* what it takes to get people to stand together. I can't tell you how many white people have said to me that they had never seen the Articles of Secession, which goes against what they were taught their entire lives: that the Civil War wasn't about slavery. This kind of conversation often opens doors of understanding just at the point where it's the most uncomfortable. The we'll-get-there-slowly approach if we just all get along and not talk about tough issues really only helps those of us who already hold the top end of the stick.

So we welcome your participation in this conversation we've been having on this site for almost eight years now. You're also welcome to just listen or to turn away from it. But you are not welcome to tell people to stop having it.

posted by DonnaLadd on 02/26/10 at 05:29 PM

FYI 4:54 & 5:00 PM. "Walt" is local attorney, Madison County resident and Ronnie Agnew buddy Ray Carter.

Something of note. You would have to search a long tail "jacksonjambalaya" and all the other mumbo jumbo to ever get what is claimed as results from Google. The claim is a lie. I tried to duplicate results on just the name. I tried the title. I tried name and title. I tried everything imaginable. Now if you expand your results to 100 and majority of people don't, you might come across it. If as is alluded occurred, it was for someone looking specifically for it, not as is being presented - anyone who searches for the article title.

Test it out and see for yourself.

The great spin of a bully being bullied by bullies, so therefore, said bully is now a victim. What nonsense. The overwhelming number of articles that are attacking you KF have me worried. This is looking more and more like the phone company situation up there in NMC country. Be careful and please keep sharing facts and honesty. It is after all, the best policy.

I commend the author for his honesty, but wonder where the support of the readers are? Or their criticism. This scares me more, not even the editor has a comment.

I'm beginning to feel like I shouldn't say anything because the one yelling the loudest is threatening everyone in sight; heck, former readers are sharing their stories (see above). A sad day for the freedom afforded us through the First Amendment that this bully is profiting by.

I actually thought this was a balanced, well-written article that examined the many sides of an issue that is facing OUR CHILDREN.


Finding Solutions

by James L. Dickerson
October 20, 2010

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Mother reversed her policy and the next day at school, with only the slightest of provocations, I lit into that bully like a windmill on speed, fists pounding. He never bullied me again and became my best friend (not an unusual occurrence when bullies are challenged).

I don’t advocate using violence against bullies, but if there is a socially acceptable method of taking them on—supervised boxing comes to mind—I don’t think that is necessarily a bad thing. Otherwise, it’s back to therapy.

James Dickerson is the director of “You’ve Got a Friend,” a federally funded socialization program at Hudspeth Regional Center that assists individuals with developmental disabilities, and the co-author of an upcoming textbook for social workers.

Nice work James.

8:01 PM Donna Ladd makes no pretense at all about supporting the First Amendment on her blog. She flat out doesn't and doesn't lie about it. There is no other side to the story or opinion @ the JFP. Because the Free Press enterprise is that of an opinion vehicle to convey and reinforce the agenda of Donna Ladd and her long time "partner" Todd Stauffer.