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“It’s the coverup that gets you.”
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Mile high club on the ground .
I’m glad someone in Mississippi thought the incident was odd enough to warrant an actual investigation. I just don’t get MS at all. First someone breaks into the nursing home in support of the wanna-be senator and snaps photos of his opponent’s wife who’s been suffering from dementia for a decade, and Wanna-Be’s poll numbers rise. Then Wanna-Be’s people, his actual employee & friends, wander around the courthouse in the middle of the night after the election for reasons unknown, but surely not to tamper with any ballots, oh no. They get caught because they have to call for help to exit the building. The sheriff does a 3-second investigation and finds no problems. Yeah! Wanna Be’s numbers go up again. Who are these people and what have they been smoking?
Well, there’s “odd” and then there’s “odd for Mississippi.” If cops investigated everything that happened in Mississippi that was merely “odd,” they’d never get any sleep.
I’ve often hassled people here who categorically bash the south, but I spent a bit of time in Mississippi years ago while playing keyboards in a band and decided it really was a different country down there. I was sitting in a bar, the most upscale one in the area, and one woman was teasing another about shooting at people. “Oh, I never shot at nobody but once in my life,” the other one said. Plenty of people were cool, they could fit in anywhere, but some of those others—ho boy. It’s different, that’s all. This was the Eighties, when the New South was a thing. I doubt it’s changed much since.