Grisham’s remarks remind me of “Chance the Gardener” in “Being There.” Said with the same intelligence, I might add.

John Edwards and Dickie Scruggs are two lawyers probably revered by Grisham.  They found paradise in demagoguing arguments to the shaky American tort system.  He found paradise in third-rate writing, (and in America’s third-grade reading habits).

You’ll notice that Grisham moved his gilded butt to the “Hunt Country” of Virginia, leaving his little ole Mississippi neighbors behind.  Guess Oxford wasn’t hoity enough.

They’re all cut from the same cloth--living like billionaires but espousing populist promises.

A group of ‘Frat Rats’. Bet they had a special handshake and a few key words like “order” and such. Just knowing they got all excited and aroused at just the mention of Environment and Consumer....you know, those words stuck in the ICEPAC formula.

They all gonna need a ICEPAC when ‘BiG-JOHN’ gets through violating their Sphincter down at the Federal Bed and Breaky. Understand they have a unique (Welcome To) party for FNGs.

Guess little thought is given to ICEPAC now days.

jman wakes up thinkin’ some odd sh*t! HDM, on the other hand, is very creative with a keyboard....and dead on. But, I feel a need to point out that both early a.m. posts are directed at the butts of polished gentlemen.

Hey, we write about what we know best, and saw last.

Reading her sentence, a masterful one of conjunctive twisterism and subliminal suggestion....he asks himself, rhetorically, “Is she talking about movies or the butts of polished gentlemen?”

Well........lawyers and wannabe lawyers will soon be up and will rescue this thread.

Looking at the 1996 list of contributors, you will see David Nutt, Don Barrett and Paul Benton, who all at one time where members of Scruggs Katrina Group.  And if you further look, I think Danny Cupit and Cryms Pittman and some of those folks have contracts with Jim Hoods office to handle some other civil litigation for Mississippi.

quote by Donn
<Is she talking about movies or the butts of polished gentlemen?” >

Yeah..........whatshetalkin’bout Ernest? Last time I seen anything polished was a plate with the greens gone.

They also say that every novel is an autobiography, at least in part.  So, maybe so

ICEPAC was the vehicle that the tobacco attorneys used to assist candidates that would vote for their pro-Democrat, pro-plaintiff, sue-em-no-matter-what-the-cost-as-long-as-it-makes-me-mo-money legislative agenda.

So, you’ll see the names of practically every attorney involved in the tobacco capers, which will soon be better referred to as tobacco-gate, as the financial backers of this organization.  Much like they were the financial backers of the tobacco suits, and later the financial backers of the Katrina suits.

Scoundrels all…

Why is the AG not being asked to resign?  He has hired people to represent the State of Mississippi who have pleaded guilty to bribing judges in MS.  Not only that, but he has worked with these guys to obstruct justice in other states!  Who has to lead the charge to get this guy out of office so the people in MS can have justice?  Should the Governor appoint an independent investigator to access the AG’s involvement and any irregularities that might have taken place?  Maybe the auditors office should look into other cases handled on the state’s behalf by other participants in the ICEPAC club!

getridofag (what?):  Maybe the auditors office should look into other cases handled on the state’s behalf by other participants in the ICEPAC club!

Maybe the Mississippi Ethics Commission can free up some time.

Donn, I don’t care who frees up time.... we need an honest man in that position and not one that is there for the benefit of ICEPAC members!

But, back to the Mississippi Ethics Commission. What does it do to engage them? Are they like PEER and respond only to legislative orders? I’ve read their website but can’t figure out what they do...........

It is only an issue Donn when you scrape one of Lange’s sacred cows.  If you read the site long enough you’ll figure out who they are.  Lange’s on the radio these days so he’s got to kiss a little more booty than in days gone by.

megaditto’s Jack.

Hearing that DeLaughter is leaving today… any word?

As in another post I recommend Al Hopkins to replace Jim Hood.  On the campaign he laid out the money trail but most Mississippians ingored it and returned Hood to office. The only silver lining in Hopkins loss is that Scruggs may have not been so bold to continue his injustices against the people and enterprises of Mississippi, which has led us to where we are today.

The lawyer-judge purchase is one side of the story.  Where is the outrage of the lawyer-vpac-legislator purchase.  I know of one candidate who received $25K in services from vpac and another $3K, both legislators committed to McCoy very early upon winning elections, without even considering Smith as an option.  Both ran as conservatives in conservative districts.  And that’s just two out of 62.  What was there to gain other than raising an Army to provide a little payback and defeat our very own tort reformers and crusaders.

Although this all reads like a nice Grisham novel which I will never read again, say for a Time to Kill, it stinks to high heaven and we need to raise our ethical standards to new highs because they’ve sunk so low over the years.

Haley’s motto at his inauguration was moving forward together.  This whole fiasco is moving the state backwards.  And every resource should be expended to root out corruption no matter where it leads so the people can regain it’s trust in Mississippi.

Is there anyone out there that could give me a plausible reason why Hood could pass this to Moore who would then pass it onto Langston?  Shouldn’t this have been held in confidence instead of being turned into a political badge of honor by Hood’s largest campaign donor, who by the way is now a felon.

Alan, who cares about ethics when one is among “friends”.

There used to be a saying in Louisanna they had the best government that money can buy.  I think it has crossed the river.  Not on this scale but if you would look at the last mayors race in Houston it would measure up.So many absentee ballots were hand carried from City Hall then returned by hand, not mail as required.  The mayor owes a cafe, one Friday two ballots went with two catfish dinners to a home. After 3 elections he was finally out

Jplay

I dunno jplay. Everything that gets to Louisiana comes down river. And to get to Baton Rouge and New Orleans, you got a lot of river passing through Mississippi. Some turds float and I suspect Mississippi politicians floated a lot of them right on down south to our sister state.

Just as Bobby Knight didn’t invent arrogance, Edwin Edwards did not invent political corruption; he was just a charismatic headliner. Politicians probably carry more secret baggage to the grave than most of us.

If God had a rule that crooks could not stay underground for more than a month, the Mississippi political graveyard would have boxes stuck up at odd angles all across the landscape.

OPEN LETTER TO YA’LL:

Would you be ever so kind as to remove the tired, threadbare name of one nouveau riche churner out of formulaic b.s.from your first page.  Boatloads of money aside, William Faulkner he is not.

More than a few connoiseurs of true literary talent—some who might otherwise enjoy partaking of the delectable musings of Ya’ll—cannot get past the pulsating throbbing and flashing of that name in all caps, every time your first page is opened.  Slippery slope being what it is, we are loathe to imagine being only a bag of un-laundered $$ away from a neon sign heralding the opening of the KGB hurricane group on the sacred territory of Eudora Welty..

And, moreover, a goodly number of remaining members of Mississippi’s true aristocracy are still smarting from the gauche and offensive spectacle of certain grubbers jockeying for position to thrust their dirty little hands into whatever depth -of - pocket may remain in dickie rick’s clothing, everso so rudely pushing and breaking line to grab that final fist full of dollars for an certain endowment, or to pony up just one last bag of bucks for the judge, before the curtain comes down on these noble pursuits of influence-peddling.

Knowing, of course, that curtains come down only so long as it takes to prepare for the next show to start.

Alas, we pray for help from above, for grace in the presence of evil, while at the same time bracing for the likelihood that very little, if any, will ever change so long as man is walking the face of this earth.

Little ol’ ladies having tea....

Barfly; I thought acid went passe’ in 1972.

I think Barfly left the ‘sweet leaf’ in the oven too long. Happen to me once long time ago and I wrote a paper on global cooling and the effects it would have on Jimmy Carter’s peanut farm and Billy Beer. Can’t let it cook too long there Barfly. It shows up in your creative writing efforts.

Oh, dear me,

I’m afraid I offended someone and do indeed beg your pardon.  Sweet leaves and acid?  I confess to confusion there.  Let me tell a little secret. I’ve never typed on anything but my hardy old manual. This whole computer thing is new to me.  But, my great granddaughter would not take no for an answer and insisted I accept this laptop for Christmas.  She had to explain that blog was more than something spelled b.l.o.g.

I’m ever so sorry.  Can we leave it at that?  Or must I get nasty with you smart alec know-it-alls. 

There are still two taint teams out there with mirrors full of good stuff.  So, don’t go piling up on the senior citizens.  You never know when Big Brother is watching.

Little ol lady does hereby retract her request for forebearance and pardon.  Having reviewed prior comments of certain critics, I see the distinction between those who speak in tongues of idiocy, saying little or nothing, and those concerned with the very real issues confronting us all, be we dimwitted or possessed of decent intelligent quotients.

I shall, therefor, engage with the more intellectual and serious commenters on the subject matter of the long overdue cleaning up of rampant corruption in state government and the ferreting out of the dirty lawyers who manipulate the politicians and pay them to do their bidding.

Madam msbarfly, if it wouldn’t be too much to ask, while you’re cleaning could you also ferret out the politicians who manipulate lawyers and demand bribes.

BF..........you be trippin’. Bet yu got a SuitCase full of Sudafed Maximum Strength. Don’t light nothing when the gas is going. And, I beg you, don’t get nasty. We just funnin’ here.

thanks for lettin me in on the joke...good to know we’re havin a little fun here...i could use some bout now

”....be we dimwitted or possessed of decent intelligent quotients.”

Speaking of smarts and run on sentences, what is ‘intelligent (sic) quotients’?

Donn,

Weren’t you the one to tell me we were having a little fun here?  Look, you guys did not hesitate to trash me on my very first venture into the blogosphere.  I’m not sitting here with a dictionary, thessaurus, and grammar book as I write.  What’s an IQ?  An intelligent quotient.  Plural?  Quotients intelligent....beats me!

Can we kiss and make up and move on to more important things?  Pretty please?

I’ll find my trusty ol’ E.B. White reference on all that correct grammar...but not know.

"Donn,

Weren’t you the one to tell me we were having a little fun here?  Look, you guys did not hesitate to trash me on my very first venture into the blogosphere.”

No ma’am/sir, I never addressed you before and certainly did not trash you when you first ventured into the blogosphere. So please remove my name from the case.

All I saw was you, in a long and rambling post, insinuating there were clowns and dunces here. But, again, if someone trashed you, as Luther said, “It waren’t none O me.”

For some help in providing objective information about the Richard “Dickie” Scruggs matter reasonable people are invited to help with http://www.wikiscruggs.com

Thanks,

Steve Eugster

Thanks,

Steve Eugster

Stevie: I backed off when I saw the ‘donations’ link and the statement saying my IP address would be recorded. Otherwise, cute.

I’ve wonder how many of these guys involved with Dickie Scruggs graduated from Ole Miss?

Micah Asked Rhetorically: I’ve wonder how many of these guys involved with Dickie Scruggs graduated from Ole Miss?

Posted by Micah

Under the paperwork reduction act of 1988, I’m obliged to tell you that you’d save a lot of paper if you listed the friends of Dickie that DID NOT graduate from that institution. I’m not implyin’ anything, just suggestin’ a way to save paper.

It is the University of Mississippi and we are in Mississippi. 

Micah, what are you implying?

There are only 2 law schools in MS, and Ole Miss was the only accredited school until, I think, the early 1980’s.  Therefore, I don’t think there would be much of a causal connection to be drawn re how many of Dickie’s confederates went to Ole Miss outside of the fact that maybe he met some of them while in school.

Jackson College of Law grads took the bar exam. Ole Miss did not. that changed in the 80’s.

by the way, what happened to the guy who forced the bar to administer the bar exam to Ole Miss grads?

I don’t know, but I think all will agree (’cept those that had to take it) that any attorney who practices should do so only after passing the bar. Is this not the case in the other 49 states?

Grisham’s new book, “The Appeal,” is just out.  The bad guys in it are the usual suspects, this time consisting of BIG_CHEMICAL, who, get this, buy JUSTICE for and with billions.

When is Grisham gonna write about BIG LAW, aka Scruggsomania.  You could substitue the phrase for every other BIG, BAD guy in his previous books.

I’ll be 6 feet under and hell’ll freeze over before this happens.

I’ve been waiting for Grisham’s next novel about BIG (BAD) MEDICINE.  Let it rip, John.  We’re ready for some more of your sanctimonious whining.