Warning, prevention would have saved sheriffs (Press-Register SOund Off) and Press-Register staff By and Press-Register staff Press-Register
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on November 26, 2012 at 10:23 PM, updated November 26, 2012 at 10:32 PM
11916083-small.jpg Michael Jansen should not have had the gun he used to kill a Baldwin County sheriff. 
No checks and balances?: I'm wondering how in the world the guy that shot the two deputies in Baldwin County, how did he get his hands on a weapon when he had a mental history? He was not supposed to have access to any kind of firearms at all. And also, the people who called 911 should have advised them that he had a firearm on him, because that was awful the way they both got shot, and barely got a chance to fire a shot at him.

A lot of pain: Yes my heart goes out to the family of the deputies that were killed in the line of duty. But we also should be mindful that even the shooter has family, and they are also grieving. Do unto others as we would have them do unto you.

Shrinking benefits: I want to know how much longer can the Teachers' Retirement System of Alabama get away with not giving retirees an increase in benefits. For years now they have been coming up with excuses when it comes down to benefits. Why haven't retirees spoken out about this, or filed a complaint? Cost-of-living adjustment stopped several years ago, but I noticed they seem to find money to build, buy, or restore buildings and probably whatever they want to. Soon our benefits will boil down to nothing, leave us nothing for retired members. Somebody please step up.

Crime stories: Those of you out in West Mobile complaining about the crime in that area, I want to invite you all to what we are dealing with downtown. Welcome to the club.

A party of one: It's easy to explain why Mitt Romney lost the election because if you look at the Fox News channel and their on-air personalities. They're 99.99% white, old and blond. No gay people, no people of color. On the other cable networks you've got openly gay, you've got people of color, I mean you've got African Americans, Latinos, the whole gambit. Asians. And that's what the country is, that's what the United States of America is. And that's why Mitt Romney only got the old white hateful vote, the people who work for Fox News, and the people who watch Fox News. That's why he lost, simple as that.

Fox blues: You know it's real sad, the poor old Fox News channel. Not only are they not important anymore, because really they never were, they've been putting on their bottom screen crawler all day long about Auburn's coach being fired, and some other coach from North Carolina State. And I'm thinking, "Is that really a top priority for a so-called news organization?" And for the last week they've been running this program about doomsday, about the Mayan calendar prediction of 12-21-12, the day the earth's going to end. Yeah that sounds like something out of the National Inquirer. So Fox News has been reduced to having doomsday shows, talking about Auburn's football coach being fired, and they've been talking about Larry Hagman from Dallas.

Taxing problem: What is wrong with our country? The tax structure as it stands now, the so-called Bush tax cuts were put in for a temporary period of time, after which period of time they should have gone back to the original formula, but no, they kept getting extended. Then the Democrats came along and broke out everybody above $250,000 and made them separate, so if you keep the tax cuts you got to not keep them, because they made the lie that the Republicans made it only for the rich. It's all a big lie came out of Obama's mouth, check it out every time he comes on he lies. Put the tax back the way it was before Bush lowered it, and everything would be over with by now, had they expired on time.

Storm fakers: Why are these doggone Yankees and the liberal newspeople keep referring to Sandy as a "superstorm?" The dadgum thing barely made it to a Cat-1. And that was probably only briefly. I don't know what they'd do if a Cat-5 Katrina come up through their dadgum house. Maybe they'd really know what a storm was.