Comments by danielsbasketry
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Posted on October 19 at 1:33 a.m.
WTG Haley and Mandy and all the rest. They are all very special indeed.
Posted on October 17 at 1:14 a.m.
If people would listen to the people in the trenches, this would not have been a surprise. All sales tax collections for the last three years have been skewed because of the local construction....once the projects were completed the workmen went away. Duh.
Posted on October 16 at 12:54 p.m.
I, too, graduated from Vidalia High School and was a band member from Junior High on. In 1966 we had 82 in our band. We competed on state level several times and always had either excellent or superior ratings. We sent multiple members to the all state marching band each year. We practiced many hours, and when the day was done, we each were accomplished musicians. We could play actual songs and do precision marching. Kudos to Mr. Thomas Latham for the many lessons he taught us that still impact our lives today.
If hip-hop is all you aspire to, then loudness, bowing, and bending may be enough. But if that is all you are taught at school, and you want to get into a first rate college band, you had better be doing your own practising on fundamentals at home.
Posted on October 4 at 12:32 a.m.
As the mother of another SF soldier, my heart goes out to you, the family left behind. May God wrap you in a special peace.
You need to check out the Special Operations Warrior Foundation, www.specialops.org. There are some special benefits for the children when they get ready for college, and Chris and Jack need to be acknowledged there.
Posted on October 3 at 12:34 a.m.
Darryl, I am so sorry for your loss. The whole city will miss such a wonderful man as you describe.
Posted on September 11 at 2:06 a.m.
Everyone has vivid memories of where they were and what they were doing when they heard of the attacks in New York and Washington. I was visiting my daughter in Jackson. She had an interview we were hurrying to get to, and had not turned on the tv that morning. When I started the car, we heard the awful news on the radio, and everywhere we went that day, we caught the terrifying scenes on tv. The next morning as we got into the car again, the radio announcer caught our attention. He said, "Over 4000 innocent people lost their lives yesterday." As he paused, my mind immediately went to the towers falling into the thick smoke. Then he continued, "over 4000 innocent babies in the United States lost their lives yesterday to abortion". I was shocked. I had no idea there were that many done everyday. We were all mourning the suspected loss of 4000 from the attacks, but that was a one time thing. He was saying that we were letting people kill 4000 babies each and every day. In my mind, the two events will forever be linked.
We are being destroyed from within. Our callous disregard for the lives lost to abortion is coming back to haunt us. We are not having enough babies to sustain our government and our heritage. There are demographic models out there that tell you how many children must be born to keep the country viable. We are falling behind. Our enemies know they just have to sit back and wait. We are doing ourselves in.
Posted on September 10 at 2:34 a.m.
Ex-Natchez citizen, you said...to believe that someone who has been dead for a very long time will magically reappear...
My Lord is not dead. He died on a cross for my sins, was laid in a tomb, but rose again in three days. He lives. I cannot explain to you just how it happens, but I do know that once you truly believe, in faith, that He was who He said He was, the Son of God, He proves to you that He still lives. He walks and talks with me on a daily basis. You may want to say that I am crazy, but if I am, I am the most blessed and assured crazy person, you will ever meet.
Posted on September 9 at 3:02 a.m.
Did you actually listen to the Laura Bush interview, Golgo_13? I think not as you would have heard her say that her problem with the speech was the additional classwork the students were to receive to accompany it. After the protest, both the speech and the accompanying classwork were changed, and rightly so. We do not need any students brow beat by so called educators if their opinions are different from say yours. Another ND poster listed this link on the other article about the speech. It speaks volumes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezrUd8xH0......
Posted on September 9 at 2:20 a.m.
They have as much a right to own what they can as you do. What makes you so self-righteous? The city paying to move properties off the tax rolls makes no sense whatsoever. People see dilapidated houses all across the United States. They will tend to not see them. Our city streets on the other hand are in deplorable condition. Those they will remember.
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Posted on October 19 at 2:16 a.m.
Frog, they could be meaning the old building near the Duncan park intersection with Homochitto, but I do not remember a balcony.
Getalife, I find your name very interesting. I had a shop downtown, and to get a life, I made the decision to not open on Sunday except when there were special events that needed support. I had long advocated advertising Natchez as a "rejuvenation destination". Have the tourists participate in late night shopping on Saturday (shop til you drop day) and a special recouping on Sunday, with a light breakfast, a visit to one of our local churches, a sack lunch either on the bluff or in some-one's front porch rocker just chilling to get ready for the return to the hectic life. Running full force seven days a week is a sure cure for longevity. People need a time and a place to help them slow down. Natchez, as that place, could be vastly different than all the other tourist towns.
I never regretted the decision to close on Sundays, and devote that day to the Lord and my family. I had no idea what the future had in store for us, but I look back on each of those days as rays of sunshine.
On Mr. Iles is living in fictional world