I read in the paper where the ACLU had decided since what happened at Charlottesville that maybe all speech shouldn’t be protected. I just wondered who they thought was going to make decisions about whose rights were going to be protected. Thank you.
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Isn’t it amazing how these people are berating Trump for pardoning this sheriff for not obeying a court order? Yet all these same people are refusing, in these so-called sanctuary cities, violating laws passed by the Department of Justice. When you’re goring my ox it’s bad, but when I’m goring yours it’s OK. Hypocrites all. Love your paper. Thank you.
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I was just reading the August 24 Beep and the last caller about the qualifications of president saying they had to read and understand the Constitution. I wonder what they had thought about Barack Obama’s total disregard of the Constitution. Because I got the feeling and impression from him through his eight years that all he wanted to do was rip it to shreds and start over and rewrite a whole ‘nother one.
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Our president is threatening a government shutdown if he doesn’t get his way regarding building the wall. I was working for the government during one of the shutdowns. Here’s what happened. We were told, you can’t come to work during the shutdown, or you’ll get fired. The shutdown lasted a couple of weeks. No one got paid. Those folks living from paycheck to paycheck were put in terrible stress. Then we started working again. Then we had to work mandatory overtime to catch up for the work we hadn’t done, and we got back pay for all the time that we were not working due to the government shutdown. This doesn’t make sense to people that I worked with, even the Republicans. Oh, and on the wall, if we build a 14-foot wall, someone will find a 16-foot ladder.
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I’m a High Point resident and I’m calling regarding the stadium in High Point. I am opposed to the project. I hope the county commissioners do the right thing and vote no on the proposal. My question is, why wasn’t the stadium put to a vote? Nine million dollars to pay for land and buildings for the project, which they could have bought Oak Hollow Mall for that amount. Yet the yearly taxes collected from these properties will be eliminated, leaving city residents to see a rise in their taxes. Let High Point University build its own stadium on the outskirts of High Point. Stop taking people’s homes for the sake of the purple and white.
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This is your friendly neighborhood immigration specialist, foreign service guy. I just want to relay something that is in the distant past, but not so irrelevant that it doesn’t pertain to post 9/11 era. China was acutely interested in Cuba, and in Panama, and in South America, where we had had historic influence. China in the late ’90s and early 2000s saw it hegemony and perspective and advantage. So this recent issue with our embassy, newly opened embassy in Havana, speaks to a serious threat to our diplomats in our foreign service staff.
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Southern Guilford here. My heart goes out to the people of Texas and Louisiana and anywhere else affected by Hurricane Harvey. I just hope President Trump doesn’t get blamed for it. Otis says hello.
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It is a serious pause for anyone contemplating foreign service work that a third-party, such as China, acting in Cuba, would attack our diplomats with infrasonic weaponry, battle-field weaponry, which is entirely the case here. It is hypersonic beyond our level of hearing and below our level of hearing, which it impacts both organs and brain matter. It’s nothing new. It’s been around for 30 years, but its application here is in Cuba, you know, how do I say it, Cuban-mandated, Cuban-administered, Cuban-monitored foreign service compounds. There are Cuban guards at the gate, as well as US servicemen who interact with those folks. But we are housed in foreign compounds. And, believe me, Cubans are complicit in anything that attacks diplomats on their soil. Obama was full of baloney, a naive Chicagoan.
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Hey, here’s an example of the waste in one classroom in Guilford County Schools. My daughter is in the ninth grade. In her math class, she was issued a textbook that is to stay at home at all times. She’s never to bring it to class. In class, they have been issued laptops. On these laptops, they access the pages of the textbook. The textbook is on the laptop. So I think this is a big waste of money. If you multiply this by all the math classes in ninth-grade in Guilford County Schools, it’s a huge waste. Thank you.
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I have a souvenir T-shirt from a 1970s Lynyrd Skynyrd concert symbolizing the Confederate flag. Is it acceptable to wear in public, or does it make me a target? As I remember, I enjoyed the concert then, but I don’t want to do injustice to anyone now. Southern Guilford here. Thank you.
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Hello. This is to help out the homeless people that stand on the corner and hold their little signs. Go up to a big box store and put in an application. They give you a vest and you stand around and do nothing and get paid for it. You’ll be in the air conditioning. You’ll be in the heat. I went up to one yesterday, on Saturday, and there was nine of them standing around talking, doing nothing. So, if I was you, folks, I’d just go up there, get me an application and see if they will hire you. You can stand around and get paid for it. They’ll probably even give you insurance. That might help you out. The ones up there are surely not doing nothing. Nine of them at one time just standing around. And we’re paying for that? Yeah, boy. I’ll see y’all later. Got to go.
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Hey, Beep. I’m just calling about all the righteousness going on in America. I’m just wondering when the MLK Boulevard signs are going to be taken down, because Martin Luther was against gay marriage. So, gay people have a right. Let’s tear down MLK and make it the Rainbow Boulevard. And where we go from there, I have no idea.
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This is a message for all the Republican politicians, national, local, any of you. If we do not get repeal and replace, if we do not get the tax cuts, if you do not build the wall, you will all be voted out the next election. Don’t know what our choice will be, but you will not be our choice. You have lied to us long enough. You’ve been in there this long and you have done nothing, absolutely nothing except live off the public.
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Yeah, this message on the first day of school is for Guilford County school system. Harvey Road, Haines Road, Jamestown Middle School, traffic disaster. You need a sheriff’s deputy from Guilford County over there directing traffic. In fact, you may need two. Whoever designed that school really did not have any clue about traffic management. Harvey Road is a complete disaster. So file that away and send a sheriff’s deputy over there for future reference.
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Good morning, Beep. Well, another happy day in Greensboro. I’d like for to see the Police Department was patrolling all the school zones. They weren’t on the north side of town. I got passed on a double line in a school zone out there in Brown Summit. Brightwood School, going through, flying through that school zone. Didn’t see no policeman. Rankin School, didn’t see one there. Just another happy day in Greensboro. The Police Department is not doing their job. People running red lights and flying down Yanceyville Road. I tell you what, we need to get rid of them Guilford County commissioners, because we’re actually slaves, because they take all our money. We’re going to be slaves again. And this is for Nelson Johnson. I’d like to know how you got stabbed. You was hiding under a car when that went on. You weren’t even doing anything. You was hiding under a car. I’d like to know how you got stabbed. You must have done it yourself to collect on insurance. OK, Beep, have a nice day.
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I just don’t understand what the senior citizen community has done to the Democratic Party to where they have launched this attack against senior citizens. The Democrats want to put Joe Arpaio in prison, who is 85 years old, for simply doing his job. It wasn’t enough that the Democratic Party, with their twisted beliefs, have attacked the unborn. Now, they want to attack the senior citizens. They want to continue with their genocidal ways when it comes to the unborn, and now they want to attack the senior citizens. Everyone can see that the Democratic Party wants to attack, annihilate and get rid of the most vulnerable among us, which is the unborn and the extra-old.
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First-time caller here. I was watching Fox 8 News this morning, and Kerry Charles and the entire cast made a big production this morning about the disaster, the flooding in Houston, and how a lot of the people are afraid to call and reach out for help because they were afraid of being deported. Nowhere have I seen in the news media or anywhere else where they were rounding up people in the midst of the disaster to deport them anywhere. Kerry Charles and Fox 8 have lost a longtime listener this morning.
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Could somebody, please, tell me if the civil rights center and museum ever paid their Duke Energy bill? Duke doesn’t seem to answer my questions. So, hopefully, somewhere there will let me know in the Beep. Bye.
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Editor’s Note: Duke Energy and the civil rights museum reached an agreement.
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I’m wanting to know the policy for Guilford County Schools with cellphones. Why can’t middle school students have cellphones in their pockets if they’re turned off? They need them for emergencies. There’s gangs in school. There’s teachers that are out of line, and there are principals that are acting like wardens in a prison. What’s the deal, John? Summerfield.
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I recently read where a woman said Rev. William Barber was the new Martin Luther King and was following in his footsteps. I was not aware Rev. Barber, like King, was cheating on his wife, had affairs and plagiarized in his dissertation. I’m amazed of the standards it takes to be a black leader in this country.
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People that graduated from the fifth grade ought to think about this. It’s horrible as that is in Texas, as bad as it is, and probably the worst this country has ever seen, they developed these nuclear warheads to go on these missiles while Barack Hussein Obama was in. Iran is trying their best to get it put on a missile now that we just give $150 billion to. Those people were to shoot a missile over here, and put out the power in this country for 30 days, we have not seen anything. We should back the president we got because he is trying to be a president. This stuff of running over, I’m going to shake hands with everybody and they’re going to be good to us from now on, that don’t even make any sense. That makes less sense than anything I’ve ever heard of in my life. And that’s exactly what Barack Hussein Obama said he’d do. They’ll put out a clenched fist. I’ll put out a handshake.
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Buy North Carolina lottery ticket this week. Look at the back. Odds of winning are 1 in 4.5 to get a break-even ticket. Am I ridiculous? I say people boycott the state of North Carolina scratch lottery tickets with them odds. Disgusting. That’s all.
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We will watch Man in the High Castle, and it’s just season two. Season one was two years ago. Season three set to come out, if I remember right, Dec. 25. But, anyway, it’s a pretty interesting storyline: America lost a war. Germany is basically in control of the US. And there’s a lot of questions that’s been brought up about what’s happening with the other parts of the globe. Well, what I think is so interesting is one of the writers said that he is so impressed by the Confederate states ripping their statues down and stuff on the East Coast that, you know, it’s so interesting that they’re rewriting that history. He started thinking about, why don’t we rewrite their history? Apparently, there’s going to be a spinoff show now where the South actually wins the war and the Union loses.
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To heck with the terrorists. It’s the DOT engineers and highway designers that’s ruining our way of life. Just how long does it take to repave a darn road? Thanks.
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It’s the 152nd anniversary of the end of the Civil War. And it is 17 years – 16 years since we started the longest conflicts in American history in Afghanistan and Iraq. And today, now, at college campuses, they’re debating statues of the Civil War. Are you kidding? It sounds like the quintessential socialists are redirection of man and material. Man and woman and material. Come back to reality, folks.
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I see J.J. Watt has raised over $10 million on a Go Fund Me page for the flood victims. I wonder what Colin Kaepernick is doing for them? I’ll tell you, until the football owners, the players, the associations do something about what’s going on, I’ll not be watching football again. I’m sure there are some good players, but they’re letting a few bad apples change the rules for everybody. And they’re going to lose money again. Good day.
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