Jackson Jambalaya

Wait, you can live in Itta Bena and shop in Madison the City? I didn't know they allowed that.

Uh, Tonnie Carroll has the right color shirt on... green and white stripes...

Daphenia seems to have an age typo. she looks more like 63.

I thought it was a felony to shop at Madison WalMart or their other chain stores without Vineyard Vines or J. Crew apparel. Being "classy" and all. Hopefully they were driving a Mercedes SUV (made in Alabama). The Bubba Benz, or maybe even a Range Rover, that adds to that "upscale" feel.

As long as you are spending counterfeit money, the least you can do is buy some decent looking clothes. I would recommend the women shopping at Maison Weiss.

2:43- I would suggest that you go back to Fondren and stay the hell out of Madison. We get tired of people such as you represent disparaging the best small town in Mississippi. We dress nicely because of our upbringing. We enjoy our city because it is clean and beautiful. In the futire please stay in your dirty excuse for a city and enjoy it's surroundings. By the way, have you been to our new Sam"s. It is spectacular.

NEWS FLASH:

Following news of MPD's busting this intrastate counterfeiting ring, rumor has it that Carola, the Swedish Gospel star who recorded 'Bridge of Love' (Right here in Madison! You can find it on YouTube.) will once again collaborate with American Gospel Megastars, the Williams Brothers, in recording, 'DON'T CRY FOR ME ITTA BENA'.

4:19- Stay on topic. Your inept try to make the comment racial didn't work sweetheart. @ 2:43-Dress like a slob, walk and talk like a slob, people are gonna think you're dirty and a slob. Nothing to be proud if, especially if you're hauling filthy looking kids around. Dirt is also color blind.

'DON'T CRY FOR ME ITTA BENA"


That's funny.

6:30, walk like a snob, talk like a snob, act like a snob, and people will assume you are a snob.

No way can the residents of Madison ever be mistaken for snobs. Who in the world could they snub???

@3:55 - I have been living in Madison for over 25 years. I am going to be blunt: It's a dump. It's not that Proud Mary runs this city like a dictator, it's that she's a stupid architect wannabe and hasn't any style.

I moved here when the three police were in the persnickity building next to Entex. Did you ever notice that Entex left town? Why? Because their building was rejected by the city. So they moved to Ridgeland taking their sales tax revenue with them. Why is this important? Because at the time, the city was broke and not attracting any business outside c-stores.

Yep, you would drive down Hoy Rd at your own peril (I blew out my right front tire hitting a pothole), but at least it was 45 mph.

Defenders of Mary are quick to forget her mistakes: The 7 foot urns on the CVS that the city had to pay to remove, her lying about a MRA student being accosted at the Grandview, the peacocks wireframss on the roof, the apartments that were going to be built and then not, her exploits with the home builders, Walmart (Madison is not for sale except for when your husband needs cash to pay for his defense in his participation of a land fraud deal and FBI investigation) and many more that I won't bore you with.

And yet, those that don't care about integrity are quick to sell theirs for "property values". News flash: Property values went up everywhere in the US over the same time. So yours isn't due to her decisions.

All that being said, I am happy to see that since there is no more room to grow in Ridgeland, Madison is getting the leftowvers (whatever happened to Target).

2:57; You're on the crack pipe real early this morning. I would think you were John Bell Crosby but he can't put sentences together this cleverly.

1) Do you really think we still oughta have '3 police' and a police station 12 feet wide and thirty feet long? Really?

2) None of us want tacky peacocks on rooftops. You forget that the renter who placed them up there was being surveiled by the police for a variety of reasons that were covered on this blog site at the time.

3) You didn't 'blow out a tire' in a Hoy Road pothole. That's a lie and you know it. The road is in rough shape thanks to our Board of Supervisors. There ARE no potholes. But you know all this.

4) The Mayor didn't put the seven foot urns on top of CVS. Are you really that hollow-headed or is it the early morning pipe? The chain put them there and the city wanted them down. We rightfully paid to have them removed. I'm told CVS sold them. You probably have them at the head of your gravel driveway as we speak.

5) I'm real sorry that you are sad about not having a Target Store nearby, but you should be happy that you've got Dollar Tree for your Christmas gifting. And there's always the concrete-yard-art place up in Canton for your special shopping....or have they moved?

Oh, and lest I forget.....Thank God and Mary that we do NOT have apartments in Madison. You do seem the type who would bemoan the fact that they "were going to be built and then not". If you're looking to move to an apartment (moving UP are ya?) you can find available units in Ridgeland and Jackson (no charcoal grills allowed).

To 2:57

Great comment --- love your sense of humor---spilled my coffee laughing but it was great anyway !!

Sorry that was for 8:25 not 2:57

2:57

You need to make a run over to CVS and get your Preparation H refilled.

2:57 here

To 8:45. I indeed blew out a tire on hoy road. Sorry you can't handle the truth. If you must know, it was in the west bound lane in front of the Mormon chirch where their turn lane was.

As to the urns of the CVS, they were installed because Mary made them. It was her inept city department that missed the difference between the " and ' in the design. Thus, it cost the city $2000 to yank them.

Regarding the peacocks, we were told the following lies, not in this order: it was a safety hazard, peacocks don't have anything to do with Christmas, it was against zoning. Again, all lies.

Regarding the apartments: after the approval was rescinded, it only cost the city several thousands in reimbursement costs to the Bryan company.

/noticed you didn't comment about ENTEX leaving the city. At least you didn't say what alderman at large, Lisa Clingan Smith said, "it's an ugly building".


Enjoy your rose colored glasses. And if you ever get out of your city and happy to travel arounfpd the country to see how other cities gre much better in the past 25 years, remember it didn't happen here.

It's a fair bet to predict that Madison will get some FHA action soon. The years of de facto zoning discrimination, coupled with education and finance discrimination will cost Madison dearly. I thought years back when the Madison developer sued Brandon to get reduced sq. ft. homes in his Brandon subdivision, while living in Madison with even higher minimums, was a blunder. Talk about poking a stick in the eye. No apartments, no affordable housing, no diversity, and Mary and her lily white squad will be oh so shocked at the disparate impact findings and actions. I guess the klan will go to unincorporated areas to try to flee "those people." PS Loved the "dress nicely" comment. Sure, wearing a vomit stained blazer to the Grove is "classy." BTW, estates in Westchester have gravel roads and they pay 100K in taxes extra to maintain the country illusion. Guess those asphalt driveways in Madison are something special to you, hick.

Madison and Rankin Counties don't discriminate. If you can afford the price of buying a home there, they don't care what your color is. It's up to the individual and their bank to decide where they feel comfortable living. If the prices are high, it's not discrimination it's because of supply and demand. Living in Safe surroundings, having good schools, quiet neighborhoods and respectable neighbors costs money. If you want a better environment you're going to have to pay for it or do something to change the area that you want to leave.

Dang Yankees from Jackson, Mississippi

1:30 PM (who is also 2:57): If you blew out a tire on Hoy Road you deserve it for running on Maypops. But, please let us know where 'that Mormon Church' is on Hoy Road.

$2000 is a pretty damned good bargain to get those urns off the top of CVS. Is this really your major complaint? Or are you complaining over loss of sleep regarding those tragic 'lies we were told' regarding peacocks?

If you live in The City, do you really want apartments here? Seems nobody else does. Enjoy those goat BBQs they have at the Jackson complexes? The nightly shootings? The Jackings? The B-Grade Disciple videos produced in the apartment complex parking lots? You like them, don'tcha? Admit it.

Entex leaving a four hundred square foot building in Madison for a 1400 square foot building behind the plant nursery in Ridgeland? Was that a loss for you? They left Ridgeland soon thereafter.

Recapping (no pun about your tires intended) here: So far we have Peacocks, Urns, lack of apartments and Entex leaving. Tell us what you really got all this anal itch over?

There is a Mormon Church on Hoy, just past Kroger. It could be mistaken for the police station at any given time since there are usually two patrol cars there. I don't see a sign there. This area of Hoy has zero road damage and certainly no pot holes.