Hey, this is for Scott. The Sep. 22 issue. Scott, I’m afraid to say, your counseling was too much for me to handle. I can’t stop laughing. And I think you need to stick to your journalism. Thank you. Love you.
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An ad Hillary Clinton is running really gets under my skin and should get under the skin of a lot of other Americans. It’s really sad that she’s the only one that cares for children. And all of her life she’s fought for children. And, you know, I just wonder if it was a dog, or an unborn baby, which one would she choose? It sounds like she’d choose a dog. She’s been for late-term abortion. She’s been in the Democratic Party pushing abortion since the ’80s, although her husband and Al Gore, interestingly enough, were pro-life until they needed the votes, then they changed their mind. She’s such a hypocrite, but it’s just unbelievable that the number of unborn, which she basically calls a mass, that they don’t have life. They’re not a citizen. Just some kind of ball of protein, I guess.
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Yeah, I’m a retired Marine. The mayor of Charlotte, she ought to be real proud of herself. Not only for the bathroom issue, which blowed up in her face, now she’s got this mess down there. And I don’t understand what happened. If you comply, you will not die. Or four dead in Ohio, or things like that. There’s a way to stand up and have a march, but these are nothing less than riots. And they should have already had the water hoses out and the rubber bullets. This stuff is getting old. The liberals that are running this country, and all the cities, for instance, Charlotte, that is the problem. Retired Marine Lieutenant. Y’all have a good day.
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Mr. Hammer, with all due respect, did you get your information on the Clinton Foundation from Fox News? Your statement that 15 percent of the foundation income goes to charitable programs is as far from the truth, or perhaps you just got your numbers reversed. According to Charity Navigator, Sept. 1, 16, the Clinton Foundation has a four-star rating with 86.9 percent of the foundation income going to programs. Don’t believe me? I challenge you to look it up yourself. And if you are wrong, run a correction. But I don’t think you will, because I question whether you want to print the truth.
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Editor’s Note: It all depends on what you consider a charity. The Clinton Foundation spends about 85 percent of the money it raises on the Clinton Foundation and gives about 15 percent to recognized charities. If you consider spending about $1 million a year to fly Bill Clinton around the world on chartered jets as a charitable expense, then you are correct. I don’t share that view.
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I love your write up on Sully. It was a wonderful movie. And every adult should see it, any age. I’ve been in Greensboro since I was 4 years old. My dad was manager of Guilford Dairy in Thomasville. I love the Rhinoceros Times because I have taught dancing at the recreation center for 40 years, and you were the only paper that took pictures of us and said nice things. And it meant a lot to my girls. I don’t charge for these children, because it’s children that can’t afford the studio. But I want to thank you all for all that you do and all that you write for the community and for the people, the average person in Greensboro.
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As a citizen of Greensboro for 79 years, I am appalled with the City Council’s handing of policeman Cole’s case. My version of the tape was he did exactly what he was trained to do. He couldn’t have taken Yourse’s answers to his questions as truth. If he lived there, there’s a reason he didn’t have a key. When are suspects going to just follow the officers of the law’s commands in these type of situations? Nelson Johnson has wanted to run this city for years. The present City Council is certainly helping him accomplish his goal.
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Me again. I’m still watching this council meeting. Sharon Hightower, whatever happened about her where she was wanting to park in handicapped parking, whatever, that officer? Nobody ever said nothing about that. And all the rest of them. This is a joke. I’m telling you.
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Hillary Clinton is attempting to murder Julian Assange. Or as she put it in her own words, “Can’t we just drone this guy?” Just sign me off as An Independent Thinker.
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Hello. I’m calling in regarding James Comey and regarding Hillary Clinton. First of all, I would like to ask Sen. Richard Burr to request that James Comey be fired due to the fact that he’s handing out immunity to all these people and not getting anything. I think that’s wrong. Number one, if you give immunity, you should have information that you need to prosecute somebody. And that’s not happening. And James Comey is not doing his job. So, therefore, I’m asking Richard Burr – and I think other American people need to get behind this and ask Richard Burr to get James Comey to either come clean on what’s going on with Hillary Clinton’s emails, or he needs to step down. That’s what James Comey needs to do. He needs to step down, or either he needs to come clean.
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How do you feel when your gas tank is three-fourths full you top it off while there were others desperately needing gas to drive to work, school, church, etc.?
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The citizens of this country who encourage anti-police sentiment such as the News & Record should stop and ask themselves: Who are they going to call when they are in danger and there are no police officers to respond? At this moment, I’m relatively safe. I live on a one-way street. I have a burglar alarm, a gated community, a big black dog and a shotgun. If I’m threatened, I will call the police and, hopefully, there will be police officers to respond.
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Hello. Yes. I would like to thank the News & Record and also the Greensboro City Council for solidifying my vote for Donald Trump. I’ve really been up in the air about who to vote for. I’m a college-educated woman with an expansive background in business. And I want to thank them, because now I know I’m voting for Donald Trump.
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Here’s my bumper sticker: Kaine and Unable. Thank you.
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Good afternoon. I just watched this thing about this Officer Cole and this guy that they arrested and Mayor Vaughan. She does what she’s told to do. And Hightower. Where was all the neighbors at? Do you ever see anything going on like that and that community is small as it was? There wasn’t a neighbor nowhere. You think that wasn’t a setup? If anybody believes this right here, they’re absolutely foolish. You never see anybody else out in the street like you always do when something goes on in the black neighborhood wherever it’s at. There never was anybody else that was out there looking at it. This is a setup if I’ve ever seen one. Thanks. You probably won’t print it anyway. But thanks anyway.
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I will be so glad when this election is over. On PBS watching Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Trump talks over everybody including the commentator. Continues to interrupt Hillary and she does not interrupt him. So, if anybody is paying any attention at all to this debate, they’re going to see the big buffoon again, has no manners, no tact, no plan, no sense, and if he gets elected president, we’re going to have no country. Just one woman’s opinion.
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Candidate Trump, my Lord, the GOP is certainly not the Grand Old Party anymore if this is the best they can come up with. The whole world is watching and the whole world is laughing. And they’re going to watch America fall if this megalomaniac, chauvinistic, racist man who has sent business overseas himself and condemns it, if this man is put in office, as I’ve said before, he won’t have to worry about supporting anybody. There will be a mass migration from the US to anywhere else on the face of the earth. And I’ll be one of those people. I love my country. I will not live under Trump rule. No way. Thank you. Goodbye.
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Well, the debate is over. It’s Monday night. And to my Republican friends, if you’ve got Democrat friends who work as high as the fifth floor, you better go make sure their windows is locked down in the morning.
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Hey, I watched the debate, and my understanding, Donald Trump was not prepared. It’s apparent that Mr. Trump is using the presidential election to make money. He’s not really interested in getting president. He’s interested in seeking campaign donations, spending very little in his campaign. He only wants to increase his net worth. He wasn’t prepared. It’s sad to say that many people are voting for him, and he has been reported as paying no federal taxes according a computer application. So he’s paying no taxes, and he has billions. Something is wrong with the system.
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Halloween is coming early this year. The woman in the red suit at Monday night’s debate, all she needed to have was a pitchfork and a broom to round out her attire.
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Trump is right. The system is rigged. What occurred Monday night was not so much a debate as it was a trial, with Trump as a defendant. Lester Holt, mainstream media moderator, played the part of hanging judge, assisting crooked Hillary in every way possible. It was clear CNN had provided Clinton with the questions prior to Monday. To make that possible, the Democrat and Republican parties must have been complicit. Most people who will vote for Hillary will foolishly never realize that they are aiding in the downfall in this once great country. We need Trump to break up the status quo and set this country back on track.
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Yes, I wondered if someone could ask the NCAA and the ACC people why they went just halfway in this deal on their showing their power. Why did they stop just with the playoffs and the championship games? Why not stop all state activities and sports and move these to a state that agrees with them? It doesn’t make any sense. Why did they do it halfway? Why don’t they show their power?
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Yes, this message is to the editor of this paper, the Rhino Times, Mr. John Hammer. Mr. Hammer, you made a statement on your last editorial that anybody that reads your paper must be a basket of deplorable. And you really sounded very proud of that statement that you claim to be a deplorable or anybody who reads your paper is a deplorable. Well, I’m going to say that I’m not a deplorable. And I’m not a big fan of your paper. I read your paper to be more so of a critic of what you write. First of all, Hillary Rodham Clinton was right when she said that most people who follow Donald Trump, who supported him as president of United States are a bunch of deplorable.
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Editor’s Note: I never wrote that anybody who reads this paper must be deplorable.
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As I was saying, Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and all those Fox commentators don’t talk truth. They talk opinion. And they’re just as critical of CNN and all these other news outlets as anybody else. And that’s good. We need to be critics of anything that we read, even on Facebook, YouTube or any other social media outlet. Just because they’re on these outlets don’t mean a fact or statement is truth. And that’s how everyone should view whatever they read. But for some reason we think that people who write in your paper, or even the News & Record, or The Charlotte Observer, or the Winston-Salem Journal, that these people are always telling us the truth.
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Comey, the FBI, he needs to be fired. All the people involved in the Hillary emails, including Hillary, need to be indicted. We need true leadership without corruption. We need Trump.
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Since king Obama has been in office, our integrity has gone out the window, from the commander in chief to the FBI. No one is being held accountable. Our leaders are getting drunk off of power. It’s like the Democrats are pushing the envelope on just how much they can get by with. And what even makes me madder are the Republicans have these meetings, which is nothing more than just blowing smoke.
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Yes, Sir, Mr. Hammer. I just want everybody to know it is a very sad situation that unless it’s an emergency you cannot get to through to the Greensboro Police Department or any of their squads. OK? I witnessed a situation. I tried to contact the people, and they told me that I had to be referred to another department where I got an answering machine and no response. When I called back the next day, I got another answering machine at the other department, and no response. And, then, referred again. Unless it’s an emergency, you cannot get through to your police department here in Greensboro. And it is a sad issue.
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Are they there? OK. People, these are the days of your medical concerns. Liability issues within our country have your doctors scared to death of telling you anything concerning your health. Even the hospital and emergency room will not diagnose so much as a common cold. They will check to see if you are breathing and not bleeding. The will then give you a referral to another source of information, or even a specialist and send you on your way just as ignorant as you were when you asked for treatment. When you’re paying the services of another doctor, they will very well treat you, yet they, too, will be very reluctant to inform you of all of your needs. This due to their fears of liability issues as well.
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Yes, I’d just like to point out today, Monday – or excuse me – Wednesday, Hillary Clinton is up in New Hampshire with Bernie Sanders. And one of the big things that they’re pushing up there is free college tuition. But I’d also like to remind all of our voters, not just Republicans, not just Independents, not Democrats. They don’t seem to care. But we are $20 trillion in debt. OK? We cannot afford to be giving anything to anybody for free. I went to college on the GI bill, for example. There are a lot of other ways for people to get a degree and pay for it without the US government giving it to them for free, creating another bureaucracy, enlargement of the federal government which we can’t afford. What sense is that?
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Well, Hillary Clinton is up to her dirty tricks. That’s why she wore red to the debate. She’s trying to trick Trump, but he’s too smart to fall for it. That’s why you can’t get rid of pneumonia in two days. Everybody knows. Does a doctor recommend yellow for mosquitoes? So, when us Trump supporters went to UNCG, we had to stay outside with the mosquitoes. Everybody that gets pneumonia, we should have a class action lawsuits. And for everybody that gets pneumonia for her dirty tricks.
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Concerning HB2. After all these years, why such an issues now about who goes to the bathroom and where? When gays and lesbians have been going to the bathroom all of these years, why is there an issue now?
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Why do people on a beautiful Sunday afternoon sit in front of the TV and watch professional football? I just don’t get it. You’re watching a bunch of overpaid crybabies play a kids’ game. Go ahead and sit in front of the TV with your favorite player’s jersey on, your hat on backwards, with your beer gut, choking down beer and chips and watch these people make millions and millions while you go back to your $50,000-a-year job on Monday morning. Make a lot of sense, right? And you’re watching people who won’t even stand for the national anthem. Does that make sense? America, stop buying the products that they advertise on the commercials during a football game.
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This is for news reporters. You are using incorrect English when you say on tomorrow, on yesterday, and the worst is on today. The preposition on is not used before words like tomorrow, today and yesterday, because they function as adverbs as well as nouns. And you do not use the preposition before an adverb. Perhaps someone who is ill-informed told you to use on in that way, but it is wrong. You can verify my statements by going to the website, English Language & Usage Stack Exchange and typing in ‘on today.’ Set a good example for our youth, and our English-as-a-second-language citizens, by dropping on before those words. Thank you.
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I observed the City Council meeting with our mayor in the special called session on the policeman incident. I’m glad that she listened to Nelson Johnson in giving her directions on how to conduct the meeting. And she is determined to do the politically correct thing to get votes. The next thing on her agenda will be a monetary reward to the gentleman for the inhumane treatment he received over his cellphone. I’ve asked the mayor and council to wait until they get all the facts, and when did they start directing city policy towards city employees? Ask Ms. Hightower if they would like to look into her parking violations and so forth. But, anyway, I’ll do all I can to keep our current mayor from returning to office.
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Everyone who believes in moral decency, traditional marriage being between one man and one woman, and that abortion of over 59 million innocent babies in this country since Roe v. Wade is this nation’s holocaust regardless of all liberal excuses to the contrary, and a myriad of other ungodly issues thanks to the ultraliberal drive-by media and the Democratic Party, I say this election is our last chance to, hopefully, do something before the republic is lost. This election is that serious. I beg you to go to the polls and vote a straight Republican ticket before this is irreversible. I guarantee you this, a Hillary Clinton presidency will make it irreversible. Mark my word.
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Hi, Beep. I believe all the questions for the first debate were given to Hillary Clinton before the debate so she could robotically answer all of them. I don’t think the birther issue matters at this point concerning our has-been president. Also, we all try to lower the amount of income taxes we pay to as little as possible. I’m sure Hillary pays as little as possible too. So tax returns are not a big deal. Also, if we want to get into taxes, let’s look at the Clinton Foundation’s tax returns. I’m sure there is plenty of crooked stuff there. Also, Hillary, we could all pull a bimbo out of the closet. Just look in the mirror. In case you’re wondering, I am a female.
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There is nothing better and good than a godly woman and nothing worse than a crooked, lying and evil woman. Enter Hillary.
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- Everybody, get this straight, who is going to vote for Trump. Hillary Clinton said that half, half of Trump supporters are deplorable, not all of them. So if you want to put yourself in that collective group of deplorable, go ahead. Sounds kind of stupid to me to run around bragging about the fact that you’re deplorable. But just know that she said half, not all.
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Yes, I think the debate was rigged the other night, because all washed-up Lester Holt, or whatever his name was, had no intention of asking Hillary Clinton any hard questions. Because heaven forbid that she could be honest about anything. And I see in the polls where you women are still foolish and blind, still saying you’re going to vote for her. And, by the way, this is a woman, golly, but, evidently, I’m one of the very smart women who will never vote for a woman who gets Navy seals and United States ambassador murdered.
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I find it very offensive that someone would make a bet with their friend that they think the person who planted some bombs in New York had brown eyes and a beard. I have brown eyes and a beard. And I’m very offended by someone making that statement. It’s racist, very racist. And very offensive. He’s probably got blonde hair and blue eyes. I don’t know. I didn’t see him. But if he’s going to make a generalization about brown eyes and a beard, I’m going to make a generalization about him.
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PBS is not for the public unless you’re a voting Democrat. PBS is biased yellow journalism directed in every way towards Republicans. This yellow journalism does not belong in North Carolina. I have convinced my mother to not leave anything in her will to PBS because of PBS’s extreme left-of-center TV press every election year. I refuse to help finance a biased PBS program. Thank you.
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I was just reading The Sound of the Beep, and one in particular stood out from a person who identifies himself as Steely Dan Fan Man. And he made a threat against Hillary Clinton by saying that he’s so angry he could wring her neck. Not only is this disturbing in that it implies that this man has violent tendencies, or at least thoughts about harming a presidential candidate who happens to be a woman, it also concerns me that he probably does act out these tendencies on the women that he can get his hands around their neck. I think that someone at The Sound of the Beep should go check on the Steely Dan Fan Man …
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Black lives matter. I agree. But who do they matter to? Certainly not the black people, because they are killing each other in record numbers. Just in Chicago alone since Obama has been president, we’ve had over 3,000 black people killed by 3,000 black people. So that’s 6,000 lives gone right there. So, when you say black lives matter, who do they matter to? It’s not white people killing black people, it’s black people killing black people is the number one cause of death in the black community. So who do the lives matter to? All lives matter. And, of course, that includes black lives, but they should matter to everyone.
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New York Times, nobody cares about Donald’s 1995 tax returns. We care about tomorrow, about jobs, about building a wall, about, uh, let’s see. What else? I could go on and on, because all y’all study is lying, lying, lying. We also care about what happened at Benghazi, about our American soldiers being murdered, our ambassador being murdered.
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This is to the Uber driver who was complaining about the way people drive in Greensboro. Well, first of all, let me tell you something mister cab driver wannabe, you’re the one that doesn’t need to be on the road until you can afford to register that car as a commercial vehicle. Other businesses that provide the exact same service as Uber have to register their car as a commercial vehicle and pay the commercial fees and rates while you pay nothing. You’re out here stealing cab fares from hardworking cab drivers and transportation services who paid the commercial fees. So you’re the one that is lucky to be out on the road. You shouldn’t even be able to drive on the streets in Greensboro and run that personal car as a commercial vehicle.
