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Jan Alexander

Jan Alexander

Here is a "happy" story... to end my pontifications on.. 

I decided at Christmas to give a random person in service of sorts a hundred dollars. There is a policeman who always sits on my street around lunch time... and so I decided it would be him..  But for two weeks he wasn't there ....  Then after Christmas , I was caught off guard when I saw his patrol car hiding out of view on a side street.. so I turned /whipped in rather quickly at a higher speed than usual.  I then sat in my car looking for the money for a few minutes... and got out of the car and got into his sights quickly so he could see me.. I held my little envelope in my hand with both hands raised alittle so he could see my hands... Don't know why , but did.  I am sure I looked stupid.  Smiling , as I approached his passenger window , he rolled it down .  I explained what I was doing and his eye's lit up .   I said it was a hundred dollars and he said he wasn't sure he could take that large amount. I said , well it is five 20's... as if it would be OK , then.. He thought about it , as I threw the envelope at him , teasing..  Then I walked away, and skidded out of the parking lot into the street .  I have front wheel drive and as i pulled into the street it really skidded or peeled out..    I chuckled , thinking , good grief ... He probably thought I was a looney old lady.. BUT it really made me feel good to give him the money... 

Janalu Jeanes (Parchman)

Jan,

That was very kind of you!

We always knew you had a loving, good heart.

I know of a couple of men who pick up the food tabs for policeman and military men and women they see in cafes and restaurants around our town.  Sometimes the tab is paid while the folks are eating and they don't know of what has been done until the waitstaff tells them at the end of their meals.  It's done anonymously out of sight.

Those guys are my quiet heroes.  I appreciate and admire their deeds. 

Jim Bedwell

Jan,

You said: "We haven't stormed the capital, threatened judges and tried to kidnap and murder governors"

You really should start watching Fox News where you'd learn the truth. 

1) Jan. 6 was NOT an insurrection, it was a minor riot (unlike the HUNDREDS of NON-MINOR riots the summer of 2020, of which there have been NO repercussions that I know of - we now have a non-equal system of justice for the 2 sides of the aisle in case you haven't noticed) and the dozen or so or whatever number of people that caused damage to the Capitol should have been charged, punished and then they would have all been released by now. All the other "insurrectionists" did NOTHING wrong. They were let in by all-dressed-similarly-but-not-official-wear-so-as-to-disguise-who-they-were FEDERAL employees (on tape on FNC) - it really was like WalMart shoppers entering there or Six Flags. Capitol guards talking to the guests (many now felons) and directing them during their visit, oops I mean insurrection (all on tape).

2) Chuck Schumer and Maxine Waters have both publicly and on tape fomented violence & rioting by saying to go to the houses of judges or get in the faces of the MAGA crowd - that's criminal.

3) Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, in one of the innumerable hoaxes perpetrated on us by the far left and then aided & abetted by the Dem-loving, corrupt legacy media, pretended that she was fortunately saved from kidnapping by a bunch of crazy right-wingers. What happened IN REALITY is, kinda similar to the Smollett hoax, it was all carried out by more Federal Dem-loving employees in league with the rotten governor.

I suppose you could DuckDuckGo (i NEVER use Google anymore) that and find it all, I'm thinking. I heard and saw all that first on FNC - WHERE ELSE? WISE UP! I'm not going to bother looking on-line for all this truth.

You probably don't know about the tall guy (Dem-loving Federal employee outside the Capitol on Jan 6) who WAS trying to cause the crowd to start doing physical things, like storming it. Or the bomb (photographed) near a bush planted by another Dem-loving fool that didn't go off as intended - and was intended to be blamed on MAGA folks. On and on in perpetuity I guess...............

Jim Bedwell

Jan,

Thanks for giving money to the cop. I also can always use money.

Janalu Jeanes (Parchman)

Jim,

When I suggest to someone that they google, I'm using google as a verb.  Whichever search engine they choose to use is fine with me.  What should I say?  "Search engine it as you wish!!"

Nice to read your posts.  We never know what we're gonna git with you--like a box of chocolates!

Did you get snow and ice at your house lately?

Lowell Tuttle

In the Constitution of the United States, the term "invasion" refers to the entry of a country by a public enemy, making war1. The Constitution gives power to Congress to provide for calling the militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions1. The Guarantee Clause’s second obligation is to protect states against invasion, which means a human invasion from a foreign country2. Entry alone, which is trespass, is not sufficient to constitute an invasion3.

Marty Fulton

My bad. Chiefs win. Sweet..... 

Lowell Tuttle

Chris Derrington.   Remember how RHS was built before (I think) there was air conditioning, or at least it was planned that way...Anyway, they had large glass windows along the hallway side of each classroom.  There was a pole in each room, with which the windows were tilted open, or closed.

One day in class, I daydreamed looking up into the reflection of the tilted window  and saw the reflection of Chris looking back at my gaze from the glass.   We chuckled or laughed, or grinned at each other.

I basically never had a relationship with Chris other than every single time we saw each other, at reunions or around town, we would both look and point up, mimicking our Junior Hi gaze...and then grin or chuckle..

A small thing, but a good memory.  RIP Chris.

Jim Bedwell

Sorry, it just doesn't get any better than this:

Jim Bedwell

OK, maybe it's not as good as "I've Got Tears in My Ears from Lying on My Back in My Bed While I Cry Over You", but if this guy keeps practicing, I think he'll be pretty good some day:

Jim Bedwell

Lady Lanajuju,

You mean you don't say "Just DuckDuckGo it" like I do all the time now?

We got 8-10 inches the night of Jan 15-16. It took me a couple of times to get it all off - took an hour and fifteen minutes total time for my 2-car-wide short (don't need a long one) concrete driveway. Shoveled briefly last winter but this time my muscles have been affected since so I'm still taking it easy now!! Whoa, Nelly! Nobody else in my neighborhood did much shoveling at all. Roads were icy bad for a week and I didn't drive for 10 days. I dripped water in my inside 5 faucets for a week. It got to 60 last Friday!

My brother said his dentist neighbor leaked cold but not the hot water (BAD mistake - the hot water, due to the minerals in the water, I was told, always freezes first and unfreezes last - I learned that the hard way in that awful winter in DFW 1983-84 at XMAS time) so he had a lot of damage in far north Irving about 170-80 miles north of you.

Three American military men killed today from an Iran-sponsored drone. And I heard there are hostages now there or somewhere else? Gee, I bet Joe will get right on all that, huh?

Chief Jimi Bob

Janalu Jeanes (Parchman)

Jimi Bobby,

There was a man noticed by a TV reporter and a cameraman here lately, as the two of the news men went up and down a line of newly-arrived illegals standing in the Texas border area.  The suspicious, tall man they noticed was watching the reporter asking questions, but held himself a little way back from the illegals in line.  The reporter was asking where the newly-arrived folks were from and where they wanted to go.  As the reporter came near this unusual guy, a dour looking swarthy guy, he waved the reporter past, not wanting to participate in the questioning.  As the reporter was turning away, the suspicious guy spoke, saying something to the effect of "You stupid people!  Soon you all will know who I am...." while everyone looked at him with surprised faces, as he sneered and walked away from the cameraman. The people noticed that he was middle-easterm looking, and they were a bit rattled by his remarks.  Anyway, the TV reporter must have turned in to the FBI the video clips of the weird, unfriendly character, so as to do some facial recognition sleuthing.  What turned up a couple of days later, was an official report that the guy was IDed as a former prisoner of GITMO, where he had been held from 2009-2022, when Biden let him go free. (Way to go, JoeJoe!) 

So now, the guy from Azerbaijan, an arms dealer, has come into TX, and is probably out to do nefarious activities.  He obviously doesn't seem to enjoy Americans!  The guy is roaming around the US somewhere, having gone off possibly with other middle-easterners, to most likely plot activities against us all.

Lovely news, huh?  Sleep easy tonight....

Janalu Jeanes (Parchman)

"A THREAT TO DEMOCRACY," they say....

There is nothing 'democratic' about labeling dissent as 'disinformation.'

There is nothing 'democratic' about conspiring with tech companies to censor public debate as 'hate speech.'

There is nothing 'democratic' about imposing top down 'climate change' regulations that do nothing other than strip private property rights and centralize economic control.

There is nothing 'democratic' about mandating what farmers may grow, what meats may be eaten. what people may own, what words can be said, or what experimental 'vaccines' are required.

Think about that for a while.

Wayne Gary

From the Texas State Historical Society.

Very funny impression of Texas from a Englishman:

On this day in 1840, British lawyer and writer Nicholas Maillard arrived in Texas. He settled in Richmond, where he acquired a reputation as a mixer of excellent drinks and became coeditor of the Richmond Telescope. In May and June 1840 he made several trips to Houston and one to Austin, but by mid-August had returned to London, where he immediately began writing letters to the press and to British officials condemning Texas. In 1842 he published a book, The History of the Republic of Texas, from the Discovery of the Country to the Present Time and the Cause of Her Separation from the Republic of Mexico, in which he claimed that the Texans were "a people whose existence as an independent nation is owing, first, to their own base treason, and secondly, to a political juggle of Andrew Jackson." Texas, he continued, was "filled with habitual liars, drunkards, blasphemers, and slanderers; sanguinary gamesters and cold-blooded assassins; with idleness and sluggish indolence (two vices for which the Texans are already proverbial); with pride, engendered by ignorance and supported by fraud." He warned against the recognition of Texas by Great Britain and against British emigration to the wretched, sickly place. Though biased, the book nevertheless contained an excellent account of the Indians. Ashbel Smith, chargé d'affaires to Great Britain, stated that the book failed to "produce the slightest effect" upon the British recognition of Texas independence, which was accomplished on June 28, 1842.

Lowell Tuttle

Jim B...have you paid into the campaign?   With shortage of manpower to serve in Trump's Whitehouse, you might be able to land some kind of position.   You certainly would be considered a yes man.

Janalu...

There is nothing 'democratic' about labeling dissent as 'disinformation.'

I guess the Jan 6th dissent was also undemocratic.

Janalu Jeanes (Parchman)

Lowell,

I said THE LABELING of dissent.  Read it again.

I was not addressing dissent as the subject.  Two different points of discussion, man.

Jim Bedwell

Lowell,

You stated about me, in a possible White House role,

"You certainly would be considered a yes man."

Just as Dems project their own deficiences onto their political opponents, so are you doing to me here. I've always been outspoken and blunt (duh), but also I've always been a critical thinker, especially in the last many years with the Dems' devolution into abject depravity.

I don't like Mitch McConnell, John McCain, Mitt Romney, all 3 Bushes, the 2 Cheneys, Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins of Maine, et al, and all Republicans - by the way, unfortunately I had to vote for all I just  listed other than McConnell, Collins, Liz Cheney & Jeb Bush. I can think of no current Dem I can truly say I like. How about you? What Dems disgust you?

Also I was an unwitting Marxist & Dem voter in the 1970's until the failed Carter administration (which is still FAR better than the current one). How about you?

In conclusion, unlike you and unlike the left in today's meshugana world, I didn't abandon critical thinking and common sense DECADES ago.

Jerry May

Think its time for some more blues~

Jim Bedwell

Lady Lanajuju,

I think there will be a major incident in this country before the election - as in Biden-imported terrorism.

Janalu Jeanes (Parchman)

It's a high probability unfortunately.

Also, the quantity of young military-aged Chinese men entering this country illegally all of a sudden, is something that needs to be investigated too.

Wayne Gary

The clip I saw from the debate of the 3 Dems running for the Texas US Senate seat is all 3 stated.

They will work across the isle in one statement then say they will try to do away with the filibuster (so they will not have to work with the Rep)

They do not like the consertative Supreme Court so they increase the number of justices to get a liberal court.

I saw Justice Sotomayor hates being on a consertave court.  She anguishes over every case decided with a consertative majority.

David Cordell

Forum Folk,

I sent a message to the class on January 28 at 7:17 PM about the death of classmate Chris Derrington. Apparently, some people didn't receive the message. Please let me know if you didn't receive it.

cordelldm@aol.com

David Cordell

Interesting stat.

Recent daily illegal entries through the southern border exceed the number of births in the US -- 10,000 per day.

Janalu Jeanes (Parchman)

David,

Schumer said a few days ago that one of the reasons Democrats like the illegals being allowed to enter our country, is because our current population is not having enough progeny to keep up with our nation's work load, as projected for future years.  So, he says, we need to allow more people to enter our country, especially since these new people are known to enjoy many children. ( Not an exact quote, but words to that effect.)

I agree with a statement I believe you said a while back, when you stated, "The illegals should never be allowed to become citizens or vote here, since they entered illegally." (Basically, I think that was your statement.) That is a logical conclusion, for justice, as I see it.  They should be allowed work visas, but not citizenship.

Of course, I'm pretty darn sure that will not come to fruition, since that is not the logical Democrat reasoning, or the goals of the Democrats for our future.

In my opinion, the allowing of millions of illegals to enter our country, is the most egregious action one political party can do to all the citizens of our country, without the consensus of the whole citizenry.  How this conclusion to proceed was made is dastardly to say the least, and will be recorded in history as an immense bludder. 

Unbelievable!