I was very sad to see the Street Level column come to an end. The author’s column was insightful, philosophical and good advice for all. I hope it returns.
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Where one sits on an airplane, or in which neighborhood one resides, is not a measure of their humanity any more than the size of their bank account. Moreover, these things are not rights assured by the government or the Constitution. Only the potential, perhaps, to earn them is. Accountability for one’s self leads to self-respect. That’s the first step that must be taken. Sign me off as Riling Red.
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Just got in to find out that President Trump has relieved Director Comey from the FBI. Mr. President, we support you. Mr. President, please, make every effort to restore faith in the judicial system and make every effort to remove political activism from the American justice system. Good call, Mr. President. We support you.
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This is an addendum to my comments about President Trump reestablishing trust in the American legal system. To all you snowflakes, millennials and doubters, naysayers, look back 24 years ago. The only other person to fire an FBI director was William Jefferson Clinton when he kicked William Sessions’ patootie down the road after the elections. So don’t you for one minute call this out as something without precedent. Comey had real trouble. Sessions was just simply part of the former administration. Comey injected politics where it was not warranted
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Donald Trump is thoroughly corrupt. He clearly seems to think that he’s an emperor, at least that’s how he’s acting.
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Hey, Beep. What do you think is wrong with our judicial system today? All the activists are celebrating a judge’s decision to drop charges against the innocent Charles kid after he was arrested July 4 during a fight after spitting blood in an officer’s face. This over the objections from the police officials and the City Council. Of course, he did take a plea deal taking two counts of felony breaking and entering, and probably innocent of the marijuana charges. Oh, yes, he was arrested for a marijuana charge, in fact is a gang member. Oh, yeah, and prior to his July 4 arrest, he had one pending juvenile petition and eight other petitions, three of which were for breaking and entering. Oh, yeah, and, of course, he has a baby coming in September. Good job, mom, you really raised a good kid. You will see headlines again on this kid again sometime in the future, but they system keeps letting him off the hook for his crimes.
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Yes, I’d like to talk about all the crud that’s been going on in Greensboro. I feel like that the Police Department is not doing nothing at all whatsoever. To me, it’s like they don’t really give a darn about blacks killing each other and all this stuff. In a way, it’s like crime is because of the cops. I mean, it’s like they don’t get rid of crime. They get paid off by crime. I mean, crime is a product of poverty, classes and racism. But other than that, it’s like the police are not really doing their darn job. To me they’re not doing nothing but messing around. They don’t care about the people in the hood. If you want to know the biggest criminals around, to me, it’s the cops more than the common criminals. A lot of these criminals are a product of the environment. But these cops don’t even care. All they care about is looking good and stuff like that. They don’t care about blacks killing each other. To me, they’re getting paid off by the criminals. So that’s the reason why crime is because the cops don’t care.
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I always thought the Democrat Party, the people high up in it, had a good education and had common sense. But undoubtedly, they do not have. The very idea that they’d let Hillary Clinton even run around and make out like she was trying to get the party together is enough to turn people against it. And the next thing, they’ve got no message. They said she didn’t have no message when she ran. Now all they’re doing is running up and down the street protesting, telling how bad Donald Trump is. He’s been elected for four years. Maxine Waters, the lady from California, thinks she can impeach him. We know what Bill Clinton done, and he got impeached. He didn’t go nowhere. That’s not going to help. They’ve got no message. And they got the wrong leaders. I don’t know who they’re going to get to lead them, but Bill Clinton and Hillary and Barack Obama is not the right ones. But, hopefully, if they keep after it, we’ll have eight years of Trump. So they’re going to get another pair of shoes before he gets out.
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The Democrats area always chastising the Republicans for not wanting clear air or clean water. That includes Obama and probably Pricey Harrison. Well, on May 6, a vote was taken at Berkshire Hathaway to do away with the fossil fuel investments. But Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway did not let this happen. There was some that wanted to do away with this because of fossil fuels. But, now, huh-uh. We had to hang on to it. And why wasn’t Obama going after Berkshire Hathaway to divest this like they have done other companies? But guess what the bottom line was? Selling off stocks tied to fossil fuels could hurt the investments for the company. I think there’s a word for that called hypocrisy.
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To continue. The big problem was that it would hurt the investment returns for the stocks. Well, some of the stockholders think it’s so bad, which, evidently, they’re mostly Democrats. I don’t know. But with the Democrats going after the Republicans all the time for clean air and clean water, they, and Obama, should have gone after Berkshire Hathaway and told them get rid of these stocks. They’re not conducive to what we are after. But, just remember, Warren Buffett had an open door into Obama. So Obama wasn’t going to upset that apple cart. Lord knows how much money was probably coming in there because that was another resolution that was not voted to take care of because of their political contribution.
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I read where 83 Nigerian schoolgirls who had been kidnapped over three years ago have been released by Boko Haram. Apparently, after three years of constant sexual attack those young girls did not hold the interest that they once did. I’m sure since the Nigerian government made little effort to find them, Boko Haram, new replacements to be acquired. The only reason these girls were returned is because the Nigerian government released five violent Boko Haram leaders. What has happened to these young girls, they have been ostracized from any kind of normal future life. And it’s all the fault of the Nigerian government.
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There is a petition going around to remove the Martin Luther King Memorial in Washington. It was started over the weekend because they took down the Confederate president statue, Robbie Lee’s statue, and a couple more. Apparently, one had to actually be put back up, because it was owned by a private individual, not the state or the corporation. But, anyway, now there is a petition going around to remove the MLK statue because he was never a senator. He was never a congressman. He was never a president. He was never a vice president. In fact, he never held any office. I think the Rhino should find out some information about this.
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For the misinformed person who called complaining about President Trump cutting Meals on Wheels, the question I raise is, why is the federal government feeding the people of North Carolina? That is a state function that should be paid for by North Carolina. The governor, the General Assembly, should take money from their surplus to fund Meals on Wheels, not the federal government.
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There are hate groups all over America. But the biggest hate group of all, and the most dangerous hate group of all, is the Democratic Party. These people hate and despise anyone who doesn’t believe like they do. I’ve never seen anything like it. They’re full of hate. They say terrible things about people. They are just awful, awful people. Thank you.
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I would ask that you try to contact someone with the City Council and ask them to comment on awarding the gentleman almost $100,000 for the alleged police brutality. Possibly, he can use it in his defense. And the other thing is Ms. Ladd commented in her column how orderly the takeover of the City Council was by the demonstrators. I’d like to hear her comments on what’s orderly. I have tried to contact the council and the mayor on numerous occasions, and no one will return my call or comment on it. So I’m asking if possibly you could ask whoever you want on the council, Barber or Johnson or Mayor Vaughan or somebody to reply how they arrived at this decision.
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Otis, a little help here. Maybe you could enlighten the North Carolina representatives and the House members who voted for the ACA Bill just what a pig in a poke means.
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In response to the genius who called The Sound of the Beep and stated that Donald Trump had cut funding for Meals on Wheels, and now people’s meals would be cut out, nothing could be further from the truth. Trump’s cuts to the Meals on Wheels program amounts to a total of 1.5 percent of Meals on Wheels total funding. That’s all. 1.5 percent. And at the same time, there are no less than two dozen individuals that work at the national level of Meals on Wheels that make over $100,000 a year for performing less than one hour a week’s work. So there’s no reason to cut out any meals. Just cut out the fat.
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The big news is President Trump fired James Comey, FBI director. The fact of the matter is, last July after Comey came out and gave us all this about President-elect Clinton and he told us basically she was guilty, but he didn’t feel like it was in his best interest to pursue the charges. Well, basically, he was stepping across the line there into politics, which he’s supposed to have been independent. Obama should have relieved him then.
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The Democrats keep talking about healthcare bill the Republicans have passed. People’s writing into that crazy Democratic Greensboro news talking about how sorry the Republicans is doing. The news is reporting that all the insurance companies is bailing out of Obamacare. Do the Democrats not know that? They got people down at the Mokimoki Swamp that hadn’t been out in 50 years. Somebody asked them, and they said we heard Obamacare is failing.
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Well, Jose Charles will be the next one to get money out of the City Council. Probably, I’m thinking anywhere from $100,000 to $125,000 they’ll give him just to make this thing go away, because our council, our mayor and our leadership is absolutely the worst I have ever seen in my life. They’re spineless. They’re gutless. So, anytime you get arrested by the Police Department, just threaten to sue them and the City Council will hand over the bank to you. They’ll give you the taxpayers’ money. It’s absolutely absurd. That Yourse case, that guy broke so many laws, it’s not even funny. And for them to give him $95,000 is ridiculous.
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Well, everybody in the world has heard of Comey getting fired. But the Democrats really tickle me to death. They wanted him fired about four months ago. And now they’re mad because they did fire him. They just don’t like Trump. And why don’t they just admit that? We don’t like you or nothing you do. If Trump was to come up with something to cure cancer, the Democrats, with Nancy Pelosi leading it and Schumer, would say, look, all these doctors has got all this medical training is going to be out of business, and he caused it.
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Some local exotic dancers are trying to get a bill written. I’m trying to figure out which senator or congressman to approach. They would like to get prostitution legalized where you would have to buy a license to do it. And the money from it would go back in on taxes and stuff like it’s not doing now. And they would have to, like in Las Vegas, the prostitutes have to go every six months outside of the city limits and get a card that says they have been tested for STDs and stuff. You know, I think Nevada is on to something here. Because prostitution inside the city limits of Nevada is illegal, but outside it’s totally legal. And I’m not sure why the casinos don’t legalize, you know, try to push it for legalization in Nevada in the casino sections.
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The results have now been tallied and proven. In 2016, under HB2, North Carolina’s tourism revenue reached a new record level.
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Sometimes I miss the old days. Like right after Obama was elected president in his entire term in office, we didn’t have any nasty rioters. No crybabies. Yeah, I miss the good old days.
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America is watching. America is keeping a close eye on the Democratic Party. America sees how they have conducted themselves since the election. The American voter cannot believe the hate and the unrest and the civil disobedience of the Democratic Party since the election. And they’re supposed to be the party that preaches tolerance. They are very intolerant of anyone who doesn’t believe like they do. The Democrats have shown their true colors just because they didn’t get their way in the election.
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Hi. I hope some of our elected officials read this because they need to. I’m a senior citizen, and our insurance is ridiculous. If you’re on Medicare, and you have to get a supplement, which you do because Medicare only pays part of your stuff, and you have to get a supplement. You’re going to be insurance poor, and the only thing you are going to be able to do is pay your doctor’s copayment and pay for medicine. You’re not going to have no money to live on, to buy food on or nothing. I voted for Donald Trump because I thought he was going to fix all this. And he’s not helping the senior citizens at all. And I don’t think it’s right that we senior citizens have to pay all these tiers. I mean prescriptions are just outrageous.
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Hi. I just grabbed the Rhino Times, because it says Greensboro’s wealthiest. I’m taking notes on what I could do to, you know, copy some of their …
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I see where they’re moving the statute of Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee in New Orleans and they’ve taken the off the Aycocks in names of schools and streets. Are we going to sit by and watch as every aspect of the white race is taken and hidden somewhere? This is Civil War heritage for many people. It’s unbelievable that this stuff is being done. But, yet, we see no results from the thugs around Greensboro. As a matter of fact, I just saw where somebody in Greensboro just paid another guy $95,000 because he was punched by an officer. Generally, when you wind up wrestling with an officer and you have a confrontation with him, and you don’t listen to what he’s telling you, what do you expect? I believe that’s the same guy that’s been in trouble two or three different times.
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I see on the news where another Uber driver has raped a woman. How many people are going to be raped, robbed, assaulted or murdered by Uber drivers before people stop using the service? It’s unbelievable that they would even get one call much less the millions that they do receive. I cannot believe that people even think of using this service with all the bad publicity in the news. Thank you.
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I saw on the news the young fellow, Jose Charles, yesterday was taken care of in court, dismissed all these charges. He’s a young fellow. I wish him the best. But I’d be almost willing to bet that we’ll hear more about him in the news because he’s got another troubled past. His parents – all this came out in court. And, also, he’d been charged numerous times for other offenses. It wasn’t like this altercation with the police was the first thing. So, our City Council needs to grab up about $50,000 and give it to him. Maybe that will help him out and keep him out of the court system somewhere in the future. At least it will save us tax money. That’s one way of looking at it. I wish him the best, but I don’t know there. Other problems.
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I saw a bumper sticker that had the symbol of both of Obama’s campaigns on it. To the right of the symbol it said simply this: 52 percent voted for. 100 percent got screwed. I hope you will print this. It pretty well sums up his presidency as far as I’m concerned and a lot of people I know.
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Democrats are nothing but a bunch of whiny, crybaby, hypocrites. Back when Hillary was getting investigated by Comey, the Democrats wanted Comey fired. He’s got to go. He’s got to go. Now, all a sudden, Trump’s in office. He fires him. Ah, it’s the worst thing in the world. It’s terrible. He should never have fired Comey. It’s ridiculous. They can’t make their minds up. I don’t know what’s got into them. In the last 10 years, they’re nothing but a bunch of whiny, crybaby hypocrites. And back when the election was going on and Trump said it was rigged, the election was rigged, ah, you’re crazy. Now, all of sudden, the election is rigged that he got in. It’s rigged now. You people are pathetic.
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I think the Fox 8 Community Baby Shower is ridiculous. These children should have fathers to support them and not the community. It just seems like it’s encouraging unwed mothers, and it just is not right. It’s the father’s job to take care of the child. Thank you.
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A friend said something profound the other day. There will be no atheists in hell. Think about this for a moment and you will realize what it means.
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