Comments on: Winnfield, Louisiana: A great American Home Town

by: Rae

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 03:01:06 +0000

So he got fired huh? I wonder if we would get fired if we tased his stupid kid 9 times. This guy is a sorry SOB, all the instances that keep popping up over cops really make you distrust them, it is no longer one that gives them a bad name it is the whole dang bunch. What goes around comes around. I hope you have nightmares.

by: Goldenrod

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:33:22 +0000

A special election had to be held in New Orleans years ago because Congress was about to declare newly-elected Rick Tonry’s seat ‘vacant’. He resigned before they could act. (Well, a lifetime could pass before Congress acts! At least, sometimes it seems that way.) Among things of a less than lawful nature uncovered , it seems vast numbers of his voting constituents were not legally registered to vote. How could they have been? They were dead!

by: Pan_theFrog

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:26:58 +0000

Race isn’t an issue… for the 48% of the population that is white.

Some further data:
Median household income in 1999 for:
White non-Hispanic householders: $27,527
Black householders: $12,873
American Indian and Alaska Native householders: $25,000
Some other race householders: $13,750
Two or more races householders: $9,375
Median household income in 1999, Hispanic or Latino of any race: $13,750
2,172 hoseholds total

The racial makeup of the city in 2000 was
48.29% White
49.83% African American
0.38% Native American
0.16% Asian
0.16% from other races
1.18% from two or more races
Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.15% of the population

Crunching numbers gives me:
$28,871,936.19 White
$13,932,545.73 Black
$ 206,340.00 Native American
$ 95,568.00 Other Race
$ 240,277.50 2 or more races

So half the city has $29 million, while the other half has less then half that.

Sad.

by: Ed T.

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:13:58 +0000

A police officer shocked a handcuffed Baron “Scooter” Pikes nine times with a Taser after arresting him on a cocaine charge.
[…]
“He done what he thought he was trained to do to bring that subject into custody. At some point, something happened with his body that caused him to go into cardiac arrest or whatever.”

“Something” as in “freakin’ ELECTROCUTION“, perhaps? And where did this cop think he was, anyway - Abu-Ghraib?

~EdT.

by: Polimom

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:53:11 +0000

I dunno, Ed — Winnfield’s pretty proud of it.

by: Ed T.

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:49:27 +0000

Somehow, I just have a hard time taking a survey from anything that calls itself “ePodunk” seriously. Now, if it had been eBumphugg, or iTimbucktoo, or eMayberry…

~EdT.