Jackson Jambalaya

since the JFP calls me often for a "good" quote

When your paper is being subtly disparaged by someone it regularly celebrates, your career in journalism has seen better days.

I'll put it this way. This tablogger has given more and deeper coverage to Mayo's pet cause, Medicaid, in the last six months than has his progressive magazine. I'm more concerned with keeping Downs Syndrome kids on the rolls or providing speech therapy to kids who need to talk than worrying about a museum.

What's that old saying, give a fool enough rope and they'll hang themselves? I can't help but think of that when checking out DL's latest stunt.

She beats all for thinking how clever she is, self-congratulatory even. Smug. Even if I agreed 100% with what she did, I can't bear her sanctimonious crap.

Yeah, it's pretty much a given that every other one of her columns is going to digress into a lecture on how to do journalism.

Look at her comments from the Facebook discussion...she comes off like she's explaining satire to a junior high newspaper class.

It wasnt until this evening that Donna added "SATIRE" to her diddies.
I wonder if Kennie had to explain himslf tonight.
http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/index.php/site/comments/jackson_council_seeks_pro-gay_city_040111/

It amazes me that nobody has mentioned that there may have been a dead victim's parent who also mistakenly read this story as factual and had to relive the agony caused by the man a jury sentenced to death but now would be allowed to live.

http://off2dr.com/smf/index.php?topic=9599.0

This is shocking.... When did JFP get a sense of humor?

Um, she actually linked "real" posts that say it is cheaper to keep someone in jail for life than to put them to death? I have heard this ridiculous statement so many times in my life that it is mind-boggling. I actually used MATH to prove that point ridiculous.

The one thing that I did not include in eviscerating that idiotic "Progressive" argument is the legal costs. Since someone that is in prison for life would have access to much, much more legal stuff, I think that we can agree that the higher costs are on the "jail for life" side, too.

DonnerK proves her stupidity simply by BEING. And her jokes are patently unfunny.

People on death row get free attorneys until they are executed, exonerated, or given a less-than-life sentence. Then there's the cost of the government attorneys. In Mississippi, taxpayers have been paying Sonny White forever to do as little as possible to move these cases along. And of course, one has to factor in the cost of the time spent by the judiciary. This hardly compares to what one non-death-sentenced individual could expend in legal costs for a lifetime filing lawsuits on his own behalf.

This is what happens when you try to do the funny and suck at it. Same thing happened to Alan Lange last year with same results when he tried to be funny. There is only one Kingfish.

I like how she always tries to take over someone ELSE's facebook page- just like she tried to do to mine until she (sniff sniff) deleted me. OHHH the horror!!!!
She goes on someone else's page and tells other people what to do.
Nice...

Donna doesn't do satire well. That piece was a flop.

Donna has made herself irrelevant. Which is too bad. She has a talent. And the JFP could be a publication that makes a big difference in this community.

That tirade on Rep. Mayo's Facebook page was painful to read. It's yet another reason professionals in her field who know her don't respect her.

Prediction for next month's " Best of " awards by the Jackson Free Free:

Neshoba-Donna, winner of the JFP's satire of the year award.

So, does this "stunt" that went on for hours (beyond satire) fall under her definition of cyber-stalking? As I read the law, someone who tries to associate negative commentary (untrue) to influence search results would be guilty of a crime under the statute.

Mr. Barbour should have someone from staff at a minimum ask the AG to take a look at it given her comments of past.

You dumbasses just lack the intellectual capacity to comprehend the true genius that is Donna Ladd.

Thank God for Curt!

12:13 am his the dalient point - not one of the feuding wannabe pundits in that mudslinging trashfest even mentioned the victims who died at the handd of the scum on death row. They have neber shown normal human compassion for the families of the victims, and slobber themselves into a frenzy over the cruelty heaped on those innocent victims of a racist, homophobic, patriarchal, yadayadayada society that wants to end their beautiful lives.

Comedy lesson #1: If you have to explain a joke, it's not funny.

Satire lesson #1: If you have to explain it's satire, it's neither satire or funny.

Yes...I am afraid you are correct Curt...Sadly enough...Sigh...maybe oneday I can be as smart as Ladd... It is on my bucket list.

I didn't know anyone ever took the JFP seriously. I always pick it up when I need a good laugh.

I never even pick it up anymore. She runied her credibility with me

And....I am 100% for the death penalty...
Life is simple- Don't commit crimes. Don't be around those who do.
See how easy that is?

Mr. Mitchell: If you don't worry about the Constitution, it IS quite a bit cheaper to inflict the death penalty than to keep them in prison for the rest of their life. It's that silly Constitution that makes it so much more expensive.

Someone in North Mississippi, I am assuming you mean the Mississippi Constitution, but again, even with that caveat, you are most definitely wrong and I proved that, too. Facts are curious things.

Mr. Mitchell: The United States Constitution (as interpreted by the United States Supreme Court) compels due process, with appointed counsel throughout that process, before a person can be executed in a manner that comports with the Eighth Amendment. Ensuring full compliance with the Sixth and Eighth Amendments requires the appointment of counsel who are paid out of the public coffers. Surely you would agree that lawyers cost more than one bologna sandwich a day, wouldn't you? The absolute cheapest way to handle the situation would be to take a defendant out back of the courthouse as soon as the verdict is rendered. If, however, the State actually follows the United States Constitution and appoints counsel, it is MUCH, MUCH more expensive to impose a constitutionally-vetted death sentence than to allow that defendant to remain behind bars until he dies naturally. Your analysis is like saying a person who eats one bologna sandwich a day has a lower standard of living than a steak-eater while the sandwich eater lives in a mansion and the steak-eater a house trailer. You're not looking at the full picture. But, back on topic, Donna was very cruel to the families of both the victims and the defendants by printing this story.

Yeppers, you are correct and anyone that serves "life" in prison is going to chew up ten times the legal costs as someone put to death, so you prove my point. Thanks for the your wrong opinion of the legal issue costs. I did not do them because most normal people would understand someone that serves life in prison is going to chew up ten times the money with their court appointed attorney costs trying to get out.

By the way, Ronni Mott wrote the post in question.

Non-death sentenced individuals only qualify for an attorney on direct appeal. They don't get taxpayer-provided post-conviction and habeas counsel. Mr. Mitchell, you really have no clue about this topic. Regardless of whether you think the death penalty is right or wrong, death penalty cases cost a shitload of money.

All right you two. Don't recreate that hotel room scene from Borat.

Kingfish, indulge me for a minute, please. Ronni Mott's post at JFP was about this very topic. Albeit, a person with normal intelligence would see how stupid the argument is. That is why I linked my post with the actual math of the situation. I simply cannot sit idly by and let those idiotic statements go unchallenged, otherwise, we will wake up a few years down the road, and the Supremes will have found a "Separation Clause" pertaining to the cost of putting a criminal to death v. keeping someone alive for life in prison and utter the idiotic statement that it is more expensive to put them to death.

Anon 11:01, while I appreciate your superior knowledge on the legal topic, your vast knowledge obviously ignores reality. People in prison for life get unlimited court time and legal fees for the entire duration of their incarceration. Such is the nature of our national philosophy now.

Again, it is infinitely more expensive to keep someone alive and imprisoned for life than it is to put them to death. To say otherwise ignores reality AND logic. Of course, I am not a lawyer, but I do know a little about job costs and why legal fees cost so much.

I don't think it is appropriate for the media (even trashy, quasi-newspapers like JFP) to print April Fools jokes.

I find it extremely distasteful (and DARING) that JFP "quoted" the GOVERNOR in their attempt at humor/satire. The part of getting it from his momma's milk--was disgusting to say the least.

Regardless of where I stand on issue of the death penalty or what I think of Governor Barbour, this article was a piece of trash and a deliberate defamation of character of the Governor and everyone else "quoted."

I like Judi Manning's comments about the turd in the punchbowl. Unfortunately, Ladd is such a huge turd that no toilet on Earth could flush. Perhaps the Governor could help out as a plumber on this one???

It is not funny that all those without humor about this April Fools joke make obscene jokes at the expense of those put to death. IOW, you can dish it out but you can't take it.