Monday 4:19 p.m.
When my Speak Out was printed on Saturday it had a typo in it that changed the entire meaning of the paragraph. The word that was misprinted was the word “now” and it was printed as “not” so I’m going to tell you verbatim exactly what my comment was for last Saturday. I heard that rolls of toilet paper will now be made without the little cardboard cylinders and that will prevent millions of the little cylinders from going into landfills. How about a whole house complete with bathroom fixtures, a/c heating unit, and kitchen cabinets and appliances going to the local landfill? A ranch style brick home on Woodbine Road has just been bulldozed to make way for the developer’s huge storm water retention pond and the huge pile of rubble, which was once a brick house will now be hauled to our local landfill. Just sort of mindboggling, isn’t it? How many more landfills are going to be needed in our not too distant future? Thank you.
Monday 10:12 p.m.
Thank you for letting me speak out. I think for now on, Santa Rosa and Pensacola and all these little surroundings, when somebody gets shot by the police, they should release the name of the policeman just like they did in Missouri. Anyway, that’s sad a young person has to die for a cigarette or any other thing; that was nothing. It’s so sad, such a pain for a lot of people, for the parents. That man wanted to kill that young man and he did it. Now he has to face that he cannot be safe himself. Anyway, thank you.
Tuesday 7:16 a.m.
Yeah, this is Mary, a concerned senior citizen. I’m wondering why they’re making such a big to-do over that incident in Ferguson, Missouri, because that fellow was breaking the law. He was robbing. He was abusing the clerk. It’s all on video. He was not a boy. He was a man. He was 18. He was old enough to vote. He was old enough to serve in the military. Undoubtedly, he didn’t have a job like most of them don’t. The policeman was doing his job. He was charging toward the policeman. So why are they making a big thing out of this when they should be talking about how bad he was and what he was doing and that he was breaking the law? This is something I don’t know. And these people going over there making up a big thing will be causing a civil war. The problem between the whites and the blacks, it’s all on the black side. They are the ones that have the problem. Somebody probably would have given him a job if he’d have asked for it, and then he could have bought the cigars and then he wouldn’t have had to go in there and abuse the clerk.
Wednesday 6:41 a.m.
Hey, this is Dennis. I work six days a week and go to church on Sunday. I just don’t have time to riot or protest. Apparently, some people in Ferguson, Missouri have a lot of time on their hands. One of my dad’s favorite sayings was, “Get a job.”
Wednesday 1:29 p.m.
Just reading your story on the Chumuckla School light not operable. I don’t see what the issue is. There are no children that cross the street there at the street to the school and old Chumuckla Highway. It is simply for the convenience of the traffic that is leaving, and in my observation, it usually causes a bottleneck for traffic coming out, because all the slow traffic gets so close together they can’t get out anyway. So you’ve got a 20 mph speed limit on Old Chumuckla Highway, but the street going to the school has a 25 mph speed limit with no lights to declare it a school zone. It seems a bit confusing. I thought lights were for the protection of children crossing the road, not for the convenience of drivers trying to make turns to a school that’s probably half a mile or more away from the road. Seems like a waste of taxpayer money. Why don’t you do something about kids getting off the bus for 3+ hours a day? That’s a bit ridiculous, too. They ride a bus for over an hour in the morning and ride a bus for two hours in the afternoon. Thanks.
Wednesday 4:48 p.m.
Yeah, this is Bobby again. I just drove through town. I just wondered if anybody noticed all the pretty flowers and bushes along the middle of Highway 90 where they dug up all those nasty old palm trees and got rid of them. Now, they look good and all just like any other town in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee or anywhere else. They don’t look much like Florida. Thank you.
Wednesday 8 p.m.
Hey, this is Dennis. An American journalist was beheaded by ISIS. Christians are being crucified and killed by ISIS. I’m tired of war but these people need to be dealt with. You cannot ignore a bully or a thug. It’s time to take the gloves off and kick some butt. I would hammer ISIS so hard they would find a hole to crawl into.
This article originally appeared on Santa Rosa Press Gazette: Speak Out August 23