tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post3199559077219431324..comments2024-01-05T02:53:03.358-06:00Comments on American Zombie: As we were just discussing...Jason Brad Berryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18421813599753848735noreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-35678446733013626462013-02-03T13:26:38.468-06:002013-02-03T13:26:38.468-06:00However...I do know that Bennett was at one point ...However...I do know that Bennett was at one point in the hint to get a deal with Walgreens construction. I may have jumped to conclusions. Bad zombie....bad...Jason Brad Berryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18421813599753848735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-6197495775750848542013-02-03T13:24:24.925-06:002013-02-03T13:24:24.925-06:00Duly noted...it is Shamrock Ventures and I'm n...Duly noted...it is Shamrock Ventures and I'm not sure if that is associatesd with Shamrock Construction. Jason Brad Berryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18421813599753848735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-70093989029516041042013-02-03T12:43:07.702-06:002013-02-03T12:43:07.702-06:00Shamrock VENTURES is Bob Ellis and Daya Naef.
Sh...Shamrock VENTURES is Bob Ellis and Daya Naef. <br /><br />Shamrock Construction may be someone else. <br /><br />I think Ellis is bad news, but I would not want to tar and feather an unrelated company. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-21879973420153356322013-02-03T12:37:19.964-06:002013-02-03T12:37:19.964-06:00You write that Shamrock "now has multiple con...You write that Shamrock "now has multiple contracts in the city." <br /><br />If the management of the city has changed, how are companies that involve people who are known shitheels still getting a pass? <br /><br />I missed picking up on the comment from one anon that one of HSOA's early contracts post Katrina was work on Moon Landrieu's house.<br /><br />Is that true? <br /><br />Here is a question: did HSOA pay the subcontractors who worked on whatever they did over at chez Moon?<br /><br />Here is another question: do the subcontractors working on the Shamrock job sites know the sordid history of the people they are dealing with, and if they did know, would they be asking to be paid in advance? <br /><br />New Orleans is a long, long way from its years as a city where feelings of solidarity for striking workers led to an internationally famous form of food (po boy sandwhiches0<br /><br />Zombie, you are the most famous zombie in town, but the "zombie" quality of these eternal undead corporations in their myriad variety are giving you a run for your money.<br /> <br />Um, let's think about football instead. Fuck democracy, right? Football, that's what really matters. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-24201146776471842662013-01-30T13:18:22.998-06:002013-01-30T13:18:22.998-06:00this dealthis dealJason Brad Berryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18421813599753848735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-69004830870844606672013-01-30T13:17:47.330-06:002013-01-30T13:17:47.330-06:00"If you were writing about this in 2007, and ..."If you were writing about this in 2007, and the couple that tried to sue you have continued their involvement with Bennett and his businesses right up to the present day, what the Hell? They had literally years to sever ties. "<br /><br />The company Shamrock Construction, now has multiple contracts in the city to build Walgreens. When you drive down Magazine next time, notice the big Shamrock Construction sign. I'm pretty sure that is Ellis. I think Bennett hooked him up with these deal somehow:<br /><br />http://www.sos.la.gov/tabid/819/default.aspx Jason Brad Berryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18421813599753848735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-61651402923970161732013-01-30T13:09:37.214-06:002013-01-30T13:09:37.214-06:00Actually I'm about to make a series of posts w...Actually I'm about to make a series of posts which is essential reading. <br /><br />Part 1 coming up later on today.Jason Brad Berryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18421813599753848735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-60301363604747962392013-01-30T12:58:45.885-06:002013-01-30T12:58:45.885-06:00I did go back to read that post from 2007 that you...I did go back to read that post from 2007 that you linked to. <br /><br />Holy fuck, were you ever well out ahead of everyone else on all of this. <br /><br />In 2007, you were already writing about connections that the MSM is only now starting to mention. <br /><br />Being reminded that Bennett, HSOA, and their city hall connected stooges had been all over the horribly fucked up projects to rebuild the schools was a downer. <br /><br />I don't know if there ever was a post dedicated only to how they handled that set of contracts. I'd read it. Maybe ten times, to try to get my soul around it. <br /><br />I keep doing a "does not compute" about these fuckers. <br /><br />I think you got into the blogging thing because of work you did looking at what happened to the schools after Katrina, right? <br /><br />These people, all of them, are sick. <br /><br />Those were little kids, little kids who were having nightmares, and who might have been living in trailers while half their friends were spread out all over the country. Maybe their grandparents died from stress, as so many older people did. Why would you fuck with them? <br /><br />Do these people around Bennett and Nagin eat kittens in their spare time? <br /><br />Do they steal things from toddlers, maybe laugh when their grandmothers trip and fall down?<br /><br />If you were writing about this in 2007, and the couple that tried to sue you have continued their involvement with Bennett and his businesses right up to the present day, what the Hell? They had literally years to sever ties. <br /><br />What was Nagin thinking, getting his kids involved in that granite business, betraying his city, keeping so many corrupt staffers on the city payroll? <br /><br />I'm going to look for 'Republic, Lost', that book you recommended, at the library this week. <br /><br />You want to consider doing an "essential reading" post? <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-21814959454449214262013-01-28T02:09:14.407-06:002013-01-28T02:09:14.407-06:00"He"...being Bennett. All the DOJ has t..."He"...being Bennett. All the DOJ has to do is ask Bennett who the fuck he bribed in COE. He must answer truthfully or his ass should go to jail for a much longer time than St. Pierre.<br />Jason Brad Berryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18421813599753848735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-44311816454396621312013-01-26T16:54:25.501-06:002013-01-26T16:54:25.501-06:00I was never able to identify the exact COE officia...I was never able to identify the exact COE official. I have a pretty good idea but I could not confirm his exact identity. <br /><br />Here's thing though...he's supposed to be cooperating with DOJ at this point so all they should have to do is ask the dude. Jason Brad Berryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18421813599753848735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-31429409618731341962013-01-26T09:32:52.241-06:002013-01-26T09:32:52.241-06:00Yeah, I'd say some of the stuff you are sharin...Yeah, I'd say some of the stuff you are sharing in this comment thread deserve to be in a post. <br /><br />Did you write about Robert Mendoza, the public works dude who took trips from Bennett, and who later went to work for Bennett, in some earlier round of this storyline? <br /><br />You've done so much, sometimes I forget things I already learned here. <br /><br />Did you mention the name of the COE person who took bribes in earlier posts? <br /><br />If so, I missed that, too. <br /><br />Both these could be awesome posts in their own rights. <br /><br />There is also the home elevation stuff involving Ricky Davis's legal situation still hanging out there. <br /><br />Davis got in trouble, and our friend sent his pet lawyer, Bob Ellis, to go help him, and the non-Bob lawyer later hired for him was a friend and business associate of Bob's and another former Nagin person; it seems the plan was to help Davis out, and in return to get in on his shady elevation business. There were a couple of newspaper stories about this. <br /><br />That is a lot of irons in the fire for these "legitimate businessmen." <br /><br />Everything from IT to sidewalks to home elevations to passcards for NASA. <br /><br />It's hard enough to run one business properly, this is just nuts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-8403715249036851482013-01-26T09:22:39.282-06:002013-01-26T09:22:39.282-06:00Martha, Bennett's new wife, would fit into the...Martha, Bennett's new wife, would fit into the "Who the fuck are these women?" meme established earlier. <br /><br />Some of them-- Stacey St. Pierre, Linda Meffert, Mrs. Nagin-- have kids, so one the one hand, they might see their kids as some kind of hostages keeping them tied to horrible men. Custody battles against prosperous and well connected people can be hell on earth. <br /><br />But you'd also think that having kids might make a parent, male or female, more careful about anything that might endager the children, or expose them to shame and scrutiny. <br /><br />You have kids yourself, and you take risks naming corrupt and potentially dangerous people. Ellis and Naef's SLAPP suit could have hurt your family, so if you'd stopped blogging as a result of it, it would have been understandable. <br /><br />But you didn't, and that was a great example to set for your children. If you are going to take risks, take them to do the right thing, not to do evil or harm to people weaker than you are. <br /><br />The best way to protect your good reputation is to do the right thing, and if you err, to face it and make ammends to the people you hurt. <br /><br />It is unfair to single out the mothers for my "What the Fuck?" questions; the fathers are parents, too. I would hate it if my kids thought that I was betraying their mother, taking bribes, and generally dishonoring myself and our family. <br /><br />I would hate it if my parents, siblings, and other relatives had to find some way of reconciling their love for me and their sense of my virtues and the promise and talents they nurtured for many years with news of my bad actions. <br /><br />Bennett using his Dad's service in the military for dishonest purposes still shocks me. <br /><br />It really shocked me. <br /><br />He is a real piece of work. Why his new wife is comfortable with a man who has mistreated so many other women and been such a bad citizen is a complete mystery to me. <br /><br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-84111797478396443162013-01-25T20:41:50.257-06:002013-01-25T20:41:50.257-06:00Oh and another thing...did anyone actually click o...Oh and another thing...did anyone actually click on this link?<br /><br />http://photos.nola.com/1792/search/search=bennett&date_end=20120226/index.html<br /><br />MERussell who posted these pix is reportedly Martha, Bennett's new wife ( woman in the pix). I have heard that the day the playboy mansion party pix were taken he was the same day he was being charged with felony counts.<br /><br />You guys want to talk about psychopathy/sociopathy...I'm not convinced on the Ellis's or even Nagin....but Bennett? Oh fuck to the yes. Jason Brad Berryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18421813599753848735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-10160153376712270872013-01-25T20:32:32.048-06:002013-01-25T20:32:32.048-06:00You know the biggest bomb I dropped in that Sneaky...You know the biggest bomb I dropped in that Sneaky Snake 2012 post was that I was confident that Bennett bribed a high ranking COE official. No one even commented on that...nada...nothing. I thought that was the most revelatory part of the entire post.<br /><br />Jason Brad Berryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18421813599753848735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-72598863128574417082013-01-25T20:30:55.505-06:002013-01-25T20:30:55.505-06:00You know, I'm just realizing that I should hav...You know, I'm just realizing that I should have probably posted all this in a post and not started unloading it in the comment section. Too late, I guess. <br /><br />I wasn't doing a lot of blogging for a long stretch but that doesn't mean I was dormant. I was actually doing a lot of digging. I guess I just forgot to unload the bones and create more zombies. <br /><br />Or maybe I subconsciously didn't do it. Christ, who knows? <br /><br />We've already performed excessive psycho-analyzation on these characters...we certainly don't want to start on me or we'll have another 100 comment thread. <br />Jason Brad Berryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18421813599753848735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-79990660951961313942013-01-25T20:22:22.472-06:002013-01-25T20:22:22.472-06:00I do not know that they were on the same trip, I j...I do not know that they were on the same trip, I just know that both Ellis and Mendoza both enjoyed trips to Las Vegas at Bennett's expense....not Fradella. <br /><br />Mendoza's trip was reportedly a "birthday gift" from Aaron. And I would assume you know that Mendoza went to work for Benetech when he "left" City Hall. <br /><br />And yes...from what I was told, it was that kind of trip.Jason Brad Berryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18421813599753848735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-38950908352742679152013-01-25T20:05:23.205-06:002013-01-25T20:05:23.205-06:00Wait a minute... hold the phone...
Robert Mendoza...Wait a minute... hold the phone...<br /><br />Robert Mendoza, Mr. Public Works, the man who dealt with the crime cameras, and all the road repairs, probably including work on putting together the city bonds that covered such repairs, was on that Vegas trip with Bob Ellis?<br /><br />I am glad Daya was nowhere near it. I still think she (and others) have to be in some kind of troubled mental state to have this going on all around without seeing it, but I'm glad she was not part of the City Attorney/ Public Works contractor funded Vegas trip. <br /><br />Fuck, I almost missed that. <br /><br />City Attorney/Public Works took a little trip to Las Vegas paid for by Bennett/Fradella?<br /><br />If the trip was without wives, it may have been a different kind of Vegas trip, which is really sad.<br /><br />These contractors worked with the wife, but paid for a boys only Vegas trip. A "no wives" trip to Vegas is typically a very different kind of trip to Vegas. A whole lot less Cirque du Soleil.<br /><br />That's a lot of contempt, right there. I don't like these men. <br /><br /> <br /><br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-264128922786604412013-01-25T18:24:00.533-06:002013-01-25T18:24:00.533-06:00BTW,
"She went on the trip to Vegas, and the...BTW,<br /><br />"She went on the trip to Vegas, and the one to DC Mardi Gras you told us about."<br /><br />No...that's not what I said. I said she went on the DC Mardi Gras trip...I didn't say she went on a Vegas Trip. I said Robert Mendoza and Bob Ellis did.Jason Brad Berryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18421813599753848735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-66280915395507985662013-01-25T17:25:38.955-06:002013-01-25T17:25:38.955-06:00I've seen the Corporation. I was thinking abou...I've seen the Corporation. I was thinking about that movie recently, too. <br /><br />I thought about it during the election, when Ann Romney, perhaps even moreso than Mitt, didn't understand why people wanted to see their tax returns, and questioned the way they'd opposed the auto bailout, while profiting from it in a form of "vulture capitalism."<br /><br />I thought of Reagan facing questions about Iran-Contra era stuff, and saying, well, yes, the record does seem to show that this all happened, and it is true, but I never "felt" that it was true or that we were doing these things. <br /><br />These people just "feel" that they are good people, and any facts that contradict what they "feel" is true about who they are and what they have done to others just have to go. <br /><br />And the "inconvenient" people who are trying to make them accept something that does not jibe with what they "feel" about themselves, well, just sue them, break them, kill them or whatever. <br /><br />Obviously anyone who does not affirm that these people are the natural ruling class of the world, and that they fart sunshine and rainbows, must be dangerous a terrorist communist son of a whore, a "voodoo lunatic", perhaps. <br /> <br />"Jason Berry and the Voodoo Lunatics" might make a good name for your new band, Dambala. <br /> <br />Or how about a shirt? "Voodoo Lunatics for Responsible Government" has nice ring to it. <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-92035970709751268552013-01-25T14:29:36.803-06:002013-01-25T14:29:36.803-06:00We've been having the same conversation here i...We've been having the same conversation here in this house with regard to both genders and we've come to the conclusion that these folks are psychopaths. Granted neither of us has a degree in Psych but they by and large seem to fit the criteria as laid out by the famous Hare Test for psychopathy.<br /><br />We usually think of that word only when considering murderous bastards or serial killers but many of our leaders, and indeed our CEO's, would score very high on that test.<br /><br />In all my years I've only met one child that I was truly afraid of. The little boy was 6, lived in a nice suburb of Denver, had an enormously high IQ, looked normal. I watched this child for hours in his dealings with a much younger boy. He was vicious and cruel. Upon being called out on it, his response was outwardly apologetic, but the truth was that he didn't think he was doing anything wrong at all. He DID, however, understand that YOU would think he'd done something wrong and he knew what the appropriate response was: apology. <br /><br />Take a look at the documentary, The Corporation, sometime. It explains not only the genesis of corps, but also uses the DSM definition of psychopathy and finds that the corporate mindset is full on psychotic. You might also enjoy, as we did, Jon Ronson's hilarious/terrifiying book, The Psychopath Test.<br /><br />I really believe that some of what we're seeing is folks who truly don't think they did anything wrong, because their moral compass is stuck on psychopath. Seriously, check out the Hare Test and it might make a bit more sense.Samhttp://www.nolaslate.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-59129049245481701312013-01-25T13:13:37.654-06:002013-01-25T13:13:37.654-06:00Wow.
I respect that you don't want to do mor...Wow. <br /><br />I respect that you don't want to do more headshrinking right now, but I'm gobsmacked. <br /><br />Your desire not to keep playing psychologist is noted, so please don't feel a need to keep going with this thread, but if I don't find some outlet for my shock about what you just wrote, I'll be wrecked for the rest of the afternoon. <br /><br />I'd been feeling more sympathetic to her, not to him, but now I'm more scared of her. <br /><br />She was there. She went on the trip to Vegas, and the one to DC Mardi Gras you told us about.<br /><br />She may have signed things on behalf of the city while she was working for a contractor to the city (HSOA, etc.)<br /><br />If Bob was uncomfortable and attempting to switch the topic back to the libel suit, he may fit into the comprehensible moral universe of a "bad guy being bad" and trying to cover it up. <br /><br />If she could BE RIGHT THERE and be PART of doing things that were not right, AND married to someone who was playing Benedict Arnold, and STILL "not know" about the wrongdoing, holy fuck.<br /><br />Holy mother fuck, that is screwed up. <br /><br />It is odd for me on another level, too, because in my experience, it is often the women who deal with the domestic side of a family's day-to-day finances. <br /><br />Husbands may deal with the investment portfolios and often men earn more than women. Especially if the family has young kids, women will often take jobs that reduce their income in order to buy them the time to do a lot of the early childrearing. <br /><br />But in most of the families I know, it is primarily the women who keep the day-to-day household books, and who do the basic family budgeting. <br /><br />Maybe that is an old-fashioned and sexist approach to family money, but it has been my experience. <br /><br />I know families that have a range of different income levels, but I've rarely met a woman who didn't keep a strong eye on what money was flowing in and out of the house on a daily basis. <br /><br />If you know what you earn, and you know what your spouse earns, and you know what the household expenses are, you're going to notice that extra money that comes in as "poker chips."<br /><br />Shocked as I am by what you've revealed about Daya Naef, I don't want to suggest she is the only one like this. <br /><br />Nagin's wife went on the trips, and where the hell was she when her husband was potentially embroiling her own sons in something criminal? <br /><br />Stacey St. Pierre, and Greg Meffert's wife, (women who may have had less official involvement in city business than Naef, so perhaps more legitimate claim to ignorance of wrongdoing by their spouses) also strike me as completely bizarre. <br /><br />I've never seen such a pack of women. They are around men who are hiring sex workers as part of doing business with some level of government, using the name of a Vietnam vet father to pretend to be a business run by "disabled vetrans", putting businesses and assets in their wives' names, implicating their wives and children in their crimes... and the Mama Bears are cool with this?<br /> <br />Naef's awesome and crazy ability to be ignorant of wrongdoing she witnessed and participated in is chilling. <br /><br />After reading what you just wrote here, I don't think she needs to call Hollywood as if she was a cynical actor feigning outrage. <br /><br />I would totally let her avoid jail with a "by reason of insanity" defense, as long as she got some help from someone who could work to bring her into the reality the rest of us live in. <br /><br />Thinking of these women as a group makes me want to go check out books on Mafia wives. <br /><br />How does one fairly small outpost of government end up with so many people like this in it? Is this a more general trend in American marriages and families? <br /><br />God, I hope not.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-77436672321426301462013-01-25T09:50:06.007-06:002013-01-25T09:50:06.007-06:00Well...I just recently read Lawrence Lessig's ...Well...I just recently read Lawrence Lessig's "Republic, Lost". If you want a harrowing account of how far gone our government is, give it a read. <br /><br />Lessig talks about this mindset in regards to corruption and politics and how there is a very conscious type of criminal who knows exactly what they are doing is a crime and then there is kind a passive criminal who is just "going with the flow". <br /><br />I think that's true and the moment I read that I thought of Bob and Daya. Who knows, maybe they've got a huge bulletin board on their wall where they're moving from one scam to another but I don't think that is how it works. I think he absolutely knew what he was doing, I think she went along with whatever he wanted her to do. That doesn't absolve her of any wrongdoing but I think there is a clear distinction in the psyche of the two. <br /><br />When we met in my lawyer's office, she was very angry, he was much more calm and focused. She went so far as to call me a lunatic...something about the crazy voodoo references on the blog...and she was very defensive towards Aaron and Fradella. She ranted about their innocence for a few minutes while I sat there in awe. She was visibly infuriated and working herself up even further as she spoke. <br /><br /> I got that impression that she really didn't think these guys had done anything wrong, I think she believed what she was telling me...I mean yelling at me. I remember looking at Bob in disbelief and you could see he was visibly uncomfortable with the dialogue. He quickly changed it back to the libel issue. <br /><br />So I truly believe that she didn't really know what these guys....including Bob.... were up to. If she did....she needs to move to Hollywood. <br /><br />I don't know...I don't want to play armchair psychologist any more with it but I am fascinated with these folks' psyche as are you.<br /><br />Deb Cotton has been pondering the same questions in regards to Nagin:<br /><br />http://blog.nola.com/notesonneworleans/2009/03/signs_your_mayor_might_be_a_ps.html<br /><br /> Jason Brad Berryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18421813599753848735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-21366700150013325012013-01-25T09:16:51.182-06:002013-01-25T09:16:51.182-06:00Leaving aside all the specifics about who bribed w...Leaving aside all the specifics about who bribed whom with how much money, one of the big reasons I am still so emotionally engaged with the corruption at City Hall in the years after the flood is that I am unable to make moral sense of it. <br /><br />"Bad guys being bad" makes a kind of moral sense. <br /><br />But so many of the players in this unfolding drama did really bad things, in calculated ways, over sustained periods of time, and yet seemed to retain an understanding of themselves as "good" and "decent" people.<br /><br />They think of themselves as good people even as they, with full knowledge and intent, and with obvious intent to conceal their bad actions from public scrutiny, did transparently not-right things.<br /><br />How is that possible? <br /><br />Nagin does not seem to understand that his contractor funded vacations, taken when his city and his people were still finding bodies in homes and coping with intense trauma, was a failure of empathy and of leadership. <br /><br />Never mind the illegality, he does not understand why it was hurtful. He does not get why people are so mad at him. <br /><br />Just that one choice, leaving aside all the other crap he did, was so violative of ordinary norms, it makes people of all political and social outlooks, whose idealized conceptions of our social contracts with one another are always in conflict, find agreement. <br /><br />By all potential standards, using any social model of leadership and community as your ideal, that was fucked up. <br /><br />How is it that neither he nor anyone working in that place understood what all normal people see plainly? <br /><br />How can people so mentally ill, so morally ill, end up in charge? <br /><br />Dambala, your sense that Naef really might not have thought of herself as anything other than a good person wrongly called out is a lot more shocking to me than anything she did or didn't do.<br /><br />I can't get my mind around it. <br /><br />Scott Sewell perhaps making up a version of events in which he was the victim of corrupt people, rather than a grey-area shady player himself, seems to fit a pattern of disordered thinking that many people involved in the Nagin years at City Hall are demonstrating. <br /><br />On the one hand, they do know right from wrong. They talk about "getting rid of corruption", they avoid Oliver Thomas and others who got in trouble, they read the papers, and they seem to know right from wrong when it comes to seeing dramas play out on TV or in the movies. (Ellis famously likes Star Wars.) <br /><br />But when it comes to their own behavior, some kind of psychological splitting, a dynamic where the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing, comes into play. <br /><br />That scares me. To see a pattern of people who could swear on a stack of Bibles with utter conviction that they were good guys, and really believe what they were saying... while they were engaging in behavior that they knew was corrupt when some other guy was doing it... what is the psychology of that? <br /><br />That is more frightening to me than any particular thing any of them chose to do. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-56510452507145082062013-01-24T20:36:42.688-06:002013-01-24T20:36:42.688-06:00parties....sic
parties....sic<br />Jason Brad Berryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18421813599753848735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-55640005783022351202013-01-24T20:36:22.083-06:002013-01-24T20:36:22.083-06:00Yeah, I heard he has special penchant for bullshit...Yeah, I heard he has special penchant for bullshit. I still am not so quick to dismiss all of the claims but it does sound rather outrageous.<br /><br />I can also tell you that contrary to what surfaced in the St. Pierre trial, Jimmy Goodson was not the only one procuring the "strippers" for the Silicon Bayou party. Scotty was pimping that shit as well. Jason Brad Berryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18421813599753848735noreply@blogger.com