Jackson Jambalaya

shocking I tell you. Just shocking.

What does, "in the company of" mean?

Was the Victim hanging out with these wayward Scotsmen,or did they approach him, asking for money, then abduct him?

And was the Victim also Scottish?

These young men are all from good families.

Madison is so dangerous! This is why my family and I would NEVER live there.

Quick, retreat to the safety of the Gluckstadt hills!

Gosh, I am so glad I don't live in Madison. What a dangerous place! It's time to get out all you Queen Mary lovers....the end is near! There's no hope for Madison....it's a lost cause. Must be why the Queen is running for another office....her reason to get out before the fall of utopia.

Karma, all you Jackson haters.

The perps were from Yazoo.

In other words, Madison is surrounded and the circle is shrinking. The more Walmarts and Sams they build, the more potential victims. Maybe its not the mecca they thought.

Crime in the burbs? Yep. Here's the important take a way. Crime on Friday, investigation on Saturday, asses in jail on Sunday. And you can rest assured there will be no small bond or the perps not going on trial and to the pen in short order.

Criminals come to our fair city to prey upon our affluent residents, but they're quickly shown why Madison is such a great place to live. Eat your hearts out, everywhere else!

Ahh "but they go caught!!!" the tried and true party line from the Madison crowd any time there is a crime in their fair city. Unfortunately Jackson, Canton, Flora, Yazoo, etc. all have an ample supply of criminals. You can catch and retain all you want, but the jails will fill up before the criminals stop coming.

Catching the criminals is just treating the symptom, not the problem. If you want to treat the problem, work to make Jackson better.

"If you want to treat the problem, work to make Jackson better."

This problem is much, much larger than Jackson. The elephant in the room associated with all of these criminals is consistent across the country, or the world, really.

Pretty brazen. That Regions Bank is at the busiest intersection in Madison.

1:13,No way possible to make Jackson better. Too far gone.

These gentlemen should have mastered Armed Robbery 101, which teaches "Thou shalt target a person with money, never tag a person with few means." Just because they were in Madison doesn't mean Mo Money.

"He was in the company of two individuals earlier in the evening when one pulled a gun"....

That doesn't sound suspicious does it?

It was not great police work that caught these guys. The victim knew the guys and gave their names. Let's be for real, either those are his friends or his normal drug dealers. Where there are people, there will be crime. And Danks can set whatever unconstitutional amount of bond he wants, the case will eventually get to a real judge where their civil rights will be protected. Everybody knows that bond is not to keep you in jail; it's only to make sure a defendant show up for his court date.

Drug deal gone bad and victim was chauffeured around to get mo money. It was 11:30 at night, not during working hours.

This goofball mayor, surrounded by her contingent of yapping, subservient, junior-league alderpersons huddle at night in dark rooms with snifters of cheap brandy - concocting stupid new rules like no parking on the grass in your back yard and all paint visible to the public being earthtone or pastel.

While they're prohibiting apartments and peacocks and drafting ordinances that require you to lower your garage door, they continue to recruit more retail venues that attract thugs from a seven county area. The projected tax money will pay for two more black cruisers.

There are sixty banks on corners in Madison, The City. Madison is a destination venue for shoppers and thiefs with handicapped placards dangling from there rear view mirrors. It's not enough to have two Sams locations within fifteen miles of Madison, The City. We need our own in order to attract oil-burners from fifty miles away.

The Police Chief has put up with this shat for 25 years and can't wait to retire. The Mayor's alderpersons serve as her personal lieutenant lackies. She barks orders and they step and fetchit.

Meanwhile, Greek columns continue to show up, robberies increase and there's a county landfill within the city limits on Rice Road. The mayor is running for statewide office and the entire city is locking itself down against encroachment from all points on the compass.

What exactly does Madison do to recruit the stellar rookies on the police force that make $24,000 per year?

I'm reading this thread from the OPPOSITE CORNER OF THE CONTINENT. You people are delusional (or just hopelessly limited in the conceptual boundaries of your 'worlds'), if you think that people would be staying in Jackson, if they were not moving to Madison and Brandon. Madison offers an ALTERNATIVE TO LEAVING MISSISSIPPI. We opted to leave Mississippi. Lots of people do, and it's because Jackson has become an irredeemably sucky place.

If it were not for Madison and Brandon, offering people viable in-state options for having halfway-decent lives, Jackson's decline would be MORE dramatic than it is. Madison and Brandon are SLOWING the Brain Drain from the area, because they're nice places to live. The people who merely moved across county lines are still contributing to the Jackson Metro Economy. They are making jobs for Jacksonians. They are paying taxes which help Jackson. Families like mine, who left the Metro, and the state, and the SOUTH, do not add to the local economy. All WE do is collect rents on our properties in the area, and get distribution checks from our families' Mississippi corporations.

But frankly, if we'd known how well Madison would turn out, we would have stayed in Mississippi.

How is Gnome Alaska 8:12?

As the water rises, each turtle moves to higher ground and a nicer log. Eventually the turtle either finds a new pond or drowns. Right now, turtles on the Madison and Brandon logs are momentarily happy but are eyeing Flora and Raymond. Both of those logs resemble Madison 40 years ago.

But, eventually Utica, Fayette, Port Gibson, Yazoo City, Canton and Jacktown northwest will flood even those ponds.

"How is Gnome Alaska 8:12?"

Uh, joke, maybe?

You know the city is really spelled "Nome", right?

If it's a joke it's minimally amusing. If it's not you need a remedial class from JPS.

"Work to make Jackson better"? If it were not for the working people of the surrounding metro burbs, there would BE no Jackson.

If the capital city were to move to Tupelo or Hattiesburg tomorrow, Jacktown would be an even bigger slum in three months, full of the same malcontents and non-contributors. But, they would have nobody to rob and shoot but themselves.