Jackson Jambalaya

Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey

One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. "Oh, no," I said, "Disneyland burned down." He cried and cried, but I think that deep down he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.

I believe our "fragility" comes from the fragile people making up our overall population. If we are ever directly attacked or face a true catastrophe from within, we are pretty much lost. My opinion.

As you know, when one is stuck at level 1 or 2 of Maslow's hierarchy, It is humanly impossible to seek the third, fourth or fifth. Levels cannot be skipped. But, you did put some thought into this article.

Mississippi Small business grant program is a damn joke!!! tater tots signs the bill on MAY 20, 2020. So its now June 7, 2020---two weeks and three days or so, going into another week, why is the web site so JACKED up, there is no easy way to know what to do as to applying for the application, and you cant just apply you have to email a counselor, then you are given a waiting period then a counselor calls you then you are put on another waiting list!!! Now its fishy to me if you have all the honest credentials!!!! Y in Gods name do you need to speak several times to a counselor, or be put on a darn waiting list.
seeems to me that tater tot wants folk to be discouraged in applying for this grant, how in the hell can it be so difficult!!!! DFA, tater tot, and who erver is behind this should be ashamed, when people of a different skin color is benefiting tater and his group dont care when it opens, hes never cared or his group at the upper head at DFA!!!! SMH (pittyful)

What I’ve figured out from this pandemic is no amount of planning by a few government agencies will be effective if you don’t get the information about the response ingrained in the populations mind to begin with. They just assumed the citizens would go along with the recommendations once they were implemented, but a large number deliberately ignored it to prove the point they can’t be asked to do something for the public good.

Sorry Bill, but any hope of people helping others has been proven false. It’s everyone for themselves and the governments had better take that into account and start lowering expectations for any effective disaster or pandemic response in the future.

No plan regardless of how well planned survives first contact.

The fragility is not an accident. It is by design. Our economy is based on dependence, not independence. People are told every minute that basic services are to be purchased and provided by someone else... as long as you have money you can have it all. Get a job, get money and everything, everything, will be provided for you. Be a consumer, it's safe, it's comfortable. We are taught this from cradle to grave. We are not so fragile, we have been made fragile so that we can be exploited for the money we make. We are made dependent so that those we depend upon can provide for us and profit therefrom. Simple enough. If you don't like the "fragility", you don't like the system.

10:10, your tirade against Tater is ill-placed, and also has little or nothing to do with Crawford's column posted here.

But, if you want to bitch about what it takes to get free money from the government, place your bitching at the proper place - in this case, Delbert Hosemann and Phillip Gunn. They are the ones who hijacked the authority to distribute this money, turned it into a legislative process that established a bunch of rules, regulations and requirements that MDA (not DFA - maybe you have been calling the wrong place) MUST meet before sending out checks.

If they had stayed out of the way and left this money in the Governor's office where the laws at the time said they would be administered the process would not have been delayed a few weeks for the legislature to meet, discuss, negotiate and write piles of requirements for this money. Sans that action, Tater could have turned money over to the same agency who could have created the process and have been sending out checks weeks ago.

I realize you don't like the Governor, and that's certainly your option. But if you want to complain because you can't get free money according to your desires direct your angst towards the power-hungry legislative leadership who screwed this up.


NOW, on to Bill's column which is one of the better ones he has written lately. He's not taking pot shots at the Governor that he and his hospital groups fought tooth and nail for once, but it actually writing as he did years ago about deeper thoughts regarding our country and its well being.

The pandemic has been exposed for the fraud it is by the savagery that people have labeled as protesting. The hypocrisy of the news media#liberal agenda was fully displayed when the so-called protest was allowed to proceed. In clear violation of all guidelines given by the supposed healthcare professionals, these riots were not only allowed to proceed but were encouraged by these baldfaced hypocrites. How am I, or anyone else to take this supposed pandemic seriously with this type double standard being allowed? What are people to think that have truly suffered because of this fake emergency? The frailty pointed out was by design, to give the illusion of a bigger problem. Did people die? Yes, people died. People died before this sham, people will die after. We have been played. No other explanation will do. We have been played. If this pandemic had been as dangerous as it was presented, these riots would have been shut down with the quickness. We have been played, we have been played.

11:35 AM, Are you suggesting we get rid of money?
Should everything be free?
How would our economy grow?
Who would work in our industries?

12:32 Please understand at 11:35 I did not suggest getting rid of money or that everything be free or any of the rest. Merely pointing out that "fragility" and "dependence" are the price we've paid for our economic success. Some may argue that it is not success. Okay. but if you do think it is successful, accept the consequences.

This virus was used by national powers to destroy our economy and affect political change to allow more government control over our lives. The media pumped out propaganda that instilled fear and panic amongst the people that allowed lockdowns of people and destruction of our economy. Younger and middle aged people have little to fear from the virus, which mostly affects those over the age of 75 suffering from several diseases. We have bee had. We have been fooled. All of a sudden, large groups present no problem as evident by the large protests. This was an effort to create enough hardship in America to affect the election. Make no mistake, the Democrats will stop at nothing to win in November.

I have been voting Republican since the Old Mississippi Democratic Party went by the wayside decades ago. And Republicans have put their stamp on the government --- which has now failed us at many levels. The unemployment agency is certainly a hining example. Boss Haley -- like several states --put in place a policy of make it hard to apply and get benefits to protect the trust fund that is financed by employers. Hard-working families are now suffering from this government failure and there is no relief in sight. Bottom line: The Republican government failed us as the preached conservative values. There is a long list of similar disasters and don't get me started on the looting of DHS or our Dept. of Public safety, or....you can add to the list. And don't forget that briloliant appointment of our dumber than dirt junior U.S. Senator. Bottom line-- The RINOS ahve lost my trust.

Read WWZ's discussion of root beer.

9:45 am I don't think you read all of Maslow and you certainly over-simplify. Nor do you seem to understand the definitions very well.

In this country, only the homeless are without shelter and while many go without food, starvation is rare. " Safety" is a broader term in the human condition that you credit it as well. You also ignore transition from one level to the next or that you can be higher and then fall.

Trying to sound educated doesn't mean you did more than superficially read the cliff note.

1:55 pm Surely you can't believe the Trump party of non-RINOs is being effective, particularly at this moment in time?

Both parties seem to have forgotten that you have to govern ALL the people fairly, not just cater to your base and financial supporters.

1:35 pm You need to be tested for dementia, Alzheimer's, oxygen deprivation from diseases or paranoia if you actually believe that and don't have an IQ lower than 90.

12:32 pm, that's not how I read what 11:35 pm wrote.

It used to be that there was a recognition of basic needs, goods and services that are vital to a nation state's existence. We have, instead, forgotten that and based our economy on profit and production only.

We have sent vital goods production ( and accompanying jobs)and key technological and mechanical knowledge of all kinds to other countries. Worse, we have recreated monopolies that when they fail, break down the supply chain of vital goods and services.

Every society has some form of monetary exchange. The monetary OBJECT is no more valuable than what you can buy with it ( please see Confederate money).

Lenin knew what he was talking about.


To paraphrase comrade Vladimir: "It might take 100 years, but we will gain control of the USA through their schools and media".

2:33 - I became well acquainted with Maslow in college and more so in grad school. You?

It's a given that the progression (not by whim or wish) advances upward through the pyramid and can only be achieved one level at a time. Of course it's possible to drop a level, or, in fact, all levels until you hit bottom again. But, It's flat ass impossible to skip steps or to wish to be at a higher level as is suggested in the article.

To counter your hollow retort, I did in fact mention transition when stating it's impossible to skip upwardly progressive levels. Don't know where in hell you got your starvation comment.

Your arrogance, counter to your opinion, by no means positions you in the self-actualized column. You won't get there, either. Your dimwitted egocentric floundering will assure us all of that. But, do continue the struggle. I smell Millsaps.

@3:28. Seem to be doing a fine job, and we are allowing it to happen without attempting to stop it.

2:39, MOM, is that you?

"fra-GEE-lay...it must be Italian!"

The left has torpedoed it's plan to steal the election using widespread fraud with mail in ballots. If thousands can take to the streets to burn and loot they can quietly space themselves in voting lines. Have they gained anything? It seems unlikely to me. For every voter who is energized by unfounded claims of racism with no stated goals for success (other than the impossible goal of eliminating all racism - which even if it were possible can never be achieved because the professional race baiters will keep revising the definition of racism to save their industry); anyway for every voter they gain they will loose one or more who may not be Trump fans but are horrified by the insanity of eliminating police.

5:38 pm I did study Maslow in undergraduate and graduate school but not in MS. It was at one of the top 10 universities in the country.

Maslow was a psychologist. My psychology professor in graduate school actually knew Maslow, did yours? I read more of his writings than the book and read his peers' thinking on his theory and his responses.

So, how did you get out of graduate school thinking theories are static?

"My psychology professor in graduate school actually knew Maslow, did yours?"

Is that some sort of disjointed appeal to authority? But, you did read what others thought about his thinking. Wow...that's rich.