Hey, John, what’s going on with the puzzles in the Rhino? I really miss The New York Times crossword and the Hyper Sudoku. Thanks a lot. Goodbye.
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Good evening, John. This is Dick in Gibsonville. Really nice article on Daniel Markus in your paper. I thoroughly enjoy your paper. But one quick question, is that an Eagle Scout belt buckle that he’s wearing on your cover? Among all the other things that he’s done, was he an Eagle Scout? Appreciate it, John. Keep up the good work.
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Editor’s Note: Yes, Daniel Markus was an Eagle Scout.
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Yes, I wish the Rhino Times would return to the Hyper Sudoku puzzles. The one you have printing now is for beginners. And we sudoku lovers like the more difficult ones that you were printing before. If you would go back to those, we would appreciate very much. Thank you.
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So, I’m just reading in your April 12 edition of the Rhino Times. And I’ve read the two articles, one concerning the potential location of Publix in this area. And then also another company, Amada America. Probably not pronouncing that correctly, a sheet metal company potentially locating here. But yet to be announced their decision. But I’m just wondering if their decision is hinging on the name of the airport. That’s something we should know.
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Yeah, this is in response to Under the Hammer. He’s talking about Donald J. Trump and his wall that he wants to build. Talking about moving funds around, robbing Peter to pay Paul, whatever the old saying goes. But the way I read it, this is taking from the budget for the United States. Hey, Trump in his campaign, and I don’t know how many times he said it, Mexico will pay for the wall. His issues for the American taxpayers, he’s lied. And you point out any lies, any not lies. Yes, he lied, if Mexico does not pay for this wall, if any money. I refer back to like the fifth call in this week’s edition that Trump should donate his salary. And if he is as rich as he claims to be, he can pay for a good portion of the wall.
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Editor’s Note: Trump is donating his salary, but not to the wall.
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Our schools would be much improved if every supervisor, everyone in central office, every principal and assistant principal had to rotate one year out of every five as a teacher in the classroom. That is the rule in the best school system in the US.
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I don’t normally call people stupid. But the news and Trump said mission accomplished. Now, we lost no airplanes, no one was killed on the opposite side. No one was injured or killed on our side. Every target was hit. Trump said mission accomplished. The liberal news made fun of it him making those statements. If that wasn’t mission accomplished, I don’t know what was. I don’t know what they got to do. I guess if they just tell him go home and not come out of his house again, that would satisfy him, and we could have a depression. People could lose their homes and lose their cars and lose their jobs and all the Democrats would clap. And they could blame it on Trump.
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Hello. I’m calling about Starbucks, their apologizing for these two black guys that were standing outside and an employee from the inside had called 911 about them. I want to say this. And they’re calling it racial. Every time it has to do with a black person, it’s being racial. It’s racial. Everything is racial, racial, racial. You know, they have played this race card so long that it’s old. And nobody is really taking it serious anymore. And it’s a shame. Because this racial situation is getting out of hand.
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Recently, someone called into the Beep comparing the chances of winning the lottery in Virginia as opposed to the chances of winning them in North Carolina. Four chances on the scratch off in Virginia, or rather five chances in Virginia and four chances in North Carolina. Well, I got news for you. Sir or madam, you’re not going to win anyway. Why don’t you just set your money on fire? At least you’ll have something pretty to look at.
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I hate it that you dropped The New York Times crossword puzzle. These other puzzles are just too simple. New York Times crossword puzzle made me think. Sure would like to see it back. Thank you.
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Yes, I’m watching the news, and this is right after the tornado was reported in Greensboro. Is it the news reporters’ job to find the least informed people to interview? There’s a lady that they just interviewed, a woman, that said, it doesn’t look anything like a tornado. It looked like a hurricane that hit. Does she not know the difference between a tornado and a hurricane? Tornados, all wind damage. Hurricane has water involved with it, which is off of the coast. Did she not understand the difference between the two? Is it those reporters’ job to go around and find the most uneducated person to interview?
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I can’t believe that there’s people in this country who will talk about their own president the way they do. These people have been attacking him from day one, and they’re relentless. They will not stop. And the people that are attacking him or supposed to be the party of tolerance and acceptance. But I think I understand it now. They’re the party of acceptance and tolerance and understanding as long as you believe like they do. I just can’t believe the way they verbally attack our president just because he doesn’t think, walk and talk like they want him to. These people have proved that they are un-American, and they don’t deserve to live in this country.
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I’ll tell you something pretty interesting. I got made men in my family. Actually, my dad’s one. They all lived up in New Jersey and Atlantic City. And a couple of other places. But it’s kind of funny, because, you know, our group has all been busted to the wind thanks to the ex-mayor of New York. But every time I see Donald Trump come in the room, I don’t know why, but for some reason every time I see Donald Trump and watch him, I keep expecting to hear the theme song from The Godfather. I think I’ve lost my mind. You know? But I think it’s kind of interesting. I voted for Trump. Everybody in my family did. Got Italian all in us. And Sicilian. They say they don’t get along, but my family is proof they do. Sicilians and Italians do get along.
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I saw the picture of our congressman, Ted Budd, in the April 12 issue on some discussion on school violence. Frankly, I wasn’t sure he was still alive. I was beginning to wonder when his picture might appear on a milk carton. I used to get his lame newsletter, which contained a poorly worded survey with questions like which is the most important issue: taxes, economy, health care? How about some specifics, Teddy? Higher taxes, fairer taxes, big-tax cuts for the 1 percent, tiny ones for most of us? He doesn’t seem to understand he’s supposed to represent all the people in our district, not just those at the country club or Art Pope. Well, I’m sure hoping that the GOP runs someone against him this fall. If not, I’m voting for his opponent even if he or she is a Democrat. His name be Ted Budd, but his record as a representative is a big dud. His name should be Ted Dud.
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Southern Guilford here. The tornado that touched down in eastern Greensboro was a shock. But what brought a tear to my eye was seeing people helping people. Don’t get to see that often. Otis says hello. And we’re thankful this storm didn’t injure or kill a lot of citizens.
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According to this week’s National Enquirer, Ted Kennedy deliberately drove his ’68 Oldsmobile off that narrow bridge at Chappaquiddick in July 1969 because his lady friend, Mary Jo Kopechne, was pregnant with his baby. He knew that if that got out it would ruin his chances of making it to the Oval Office. So he deliberately left her in the car and didn’t report the accident for 10 hours. In most cases, I take everything in the National Enquirer with a grain of salt. However, when it deals with the Kennedys, I can believe anything. Like Father Joe, like son, Jack, Bobby and Ted. Can you say sins of the father?
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I’m sitting here watching Stormy Daniels on The View. She’s talking about how she’s just trying to save her good name and everything, and her family’s good name. And, you know, just things like that. You know, it just puzzles me why anybody would think any less of her. But they should have a gallon size hand sanitizer right there on the desk between Whoopi and all of them, and they could all share it. Yeah, I hope she don’t destroy her good name doing all this. Bye.
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Yes, I have been reading the April 12 edition and a couple of things I’d like to comment on. One, let me just say, I will admit that I’m a bit cynical about decisions or thoughts that our city or county leaders have. So let me just qualify my remarks first with that. So I’m reading about how excited our city and county leaders are about Publix and the probability that they will build a distribution center in this market. But as they went to visit that facility in Georgia, they were just oh so overjoyed with the diversity factor that they saw in the Publix facilities. I’m afraid that our city leaders, county leaders, are still living in the ’60s. Companies today are keenly aware of diversity in the workforce, not just black people, but also Asians and women and all races.
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Hillary, ol’ gal, it wasn’t Russia, Russia, Russia after all. It was Comey, Comey, Comey. There’s your official reset, darlin’.
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The headline reads, Rep. Mark Meadows documents show concerning level of coordination between FBI, Department of Justice and Clinton email probe. Ladies and gentlemen, I do believe we’ve finally found our collusion.
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Boy, the cream of management is rising to the top at Starbucks. Now they shut a $16 million-a-day business down because of a couple of bullies that are threatening them. What they ought to do is take a play from the Greensboro, North Carolina, book and give them $95,000 and send them on their way.
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I keep hearing on the radio some man named Jon Hardister has gone down to Raleigh and he wants to put a sales tax on labor. That is absolutely the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard of in my life. Could you imagine having a flat tire fixed at a service station and they charge $20, and then they charge you sales tax on top of their labor? Remember, the lottery was going to cure a whole lot of this tax stuff. I know they call it the Education Lottery, but it was going to cure. Them people need to sober up or come back home and get a job.
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Everybody by now in the US knows what the lady made the comment about Barbara Bush being dead and she was glad of it. Barbara Bush professed to be a Christian, and I’m sure she was. So she won’t have to worry about meeting Barbara Bush in the afterlife.
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Yeah, I noticed that the Republican headquarters, they seem to be one-sided just like in the sheriff’s race. You go in there, and the BJ Barnes signs in the windows, all over the place, they seem to be shoving them down your throat. But if you’re looking for the competition signs, they’re not in the window and nowhere to be found. They had a stack in the back of the room kind of hidden. I don’t know if the volunteers or the staff just doesn’t really support the other candidate or what. Because his stuff is kind of hidden. It’s not all over the place like BJ Barnes’ stuff is. They’re not really supporting him too much.
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Well I miss your New York Times Hyper Sudoku. It’s been replaced now by just sudoku. And, so, what is presently there is not as challenging. So, I wish we could get The New York Times Hyper Sudoku back again. Thank you.
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The Democratic Party has now reached a new low. Their voter base consist of illegals, parolees, the welfare crowd and now they’re trying to get 16-year-olds in the polls to vote.
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This is in reference to the person talking about forgetting to eat your carrots because Barack said to and that Obama was the worst president ever. Well, I’d have to disagree with that. My opinion, George W. Bush was the worst president ever. Two ongoing wars that were started, and then they lied to the American people about it. And nothing was ever done about that. I don’t understand that, why nothing was ever done. Bush, Rumfield, Cheney, Rice all should be punished for lying to the American people.
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Anyone who is elected to the City Council should be made to ride with a police officer at night for at least three nights per year so they can see what’s going on in their community and see the garbage that the police officers have to content with. Thank you.
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Hey, I have three things that I’d like to address. Number one, I’d like to know, where is the protests against people killing cops? There’s no protest against that, and I think that it’s a shame that these cops are getting ambushed. I think that the war on cops should end. And if you’re caught killing a cop, or if you’re prosecuted for killing a cop, you automatically should get the death penalty. Because these people are putting their lives on the line. Not only that, they’re leaving behind their families and stuff. Number two is, I’d like to say this about Planned Parenthood. I don’t think that they ought to get any kind of tax funding whatsoever when they’re given $30 million to the Democratic Party. I think that is so stupid that we are giving our tax money to them, and then they’re in return giving it to the Democratic Party.
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I saw Andrew Cuomo come out and say that he was an illegal. So, therefore, he needs to step down as governor of New York. Not only that, all these kids that coming out against the NRA that are about 16, 17, and all these Democrats want them to be able to vote and everything. So, I say this. If you’re going to be legally able to vote, then you need to be legally able to go into the Armed Forces. And you need to go out to fight if there’s a draft. I think that that’s only fair. I don’t think that these people that are 16 years old should have the mindset to be able to vote. I think that when you’re 16, your mind is not formed and developed enough to be able to make major decisions.
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Folks, if you haven’t already heard, Obama yes-man Eric Holder is apparently getting a committee organized to look at making a possible serious run as a godless liberal 2020 Democratic presidential candidate. He would possibly have to duke it out with crazy Uncle Joe Biden. Three words might make Eric Holder uniquely qualified as a serious candidate. Can you say Fast and Furious? Pardon me, I think I’m going to vomit.
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Spectrum News 14 is our own statewide mainstream liberal news outlet. Today they had a piece on TV about Vice President Pence being in Greensboro for tornado damage and Mark Walker. They interviewed a gentleman on the street who gave reasons why Pence should not be here supporting Walker. The next story on TV was about the immigration ICE raid that happened in Raleigh. And they interviewed a Democratic congressman who explained why it was wrong. With news agencies like Spectrum News 14, the Democrats don’t really need PACs.
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Looks like a lot of politicians and a lot of fake news people have egg on their face from always screaming wolf when Trump does something. Possibly the greatest thing since the Marshall Plan. Oh well. Dems in distress, going down slow. I think that’s a song title even.
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I watched the local news last night and saw that Vice President Pence had come to Greensboro and wanted to visit the tornado-damaged area within Greensboro. I find it very interesting in watching the news that the mayor, none of the City Council or the city management leadership was there with him when they had all fallen all over each other to be there next to the Democratic governor of the state. I think it is absolutely appalling that they politicized such a terrible event as the tornado, the damage, the loss of life, and they should be severely chastised for this.
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Donald Trump has saved our country. When our president stops illegal immigration, he stopped us from invaders who are here to invade our country. Just look at other countries that this has happened and they were able to invade; those countries failed. The invaders were coming after people who didn’t believe as they believed. Comey, Mueller, McCabe, Yates, Rosenstein, that whole crew was the Democrats’ insurance policy that if Trump got elected, they were there backed by Obama to overthrow the election. These people are backed by Buffett, Obama and Bernie Sanders.
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I was reading the Rhino Times and, like usual, a fool Trump supporter got it wrong. Would you please explain to them fools that they’re Republicans investigating Trump. Some of them that Trump appointed his self that he has fired or wants to fire. Rosenstein, court-appointed, Trump-appointed Republican. Christopher Wray, head of the FBI, Republican, Trump-appointed Republican. Rosenstein over DOJ. All the Republicans. People keep getting them confused with Democrats. That needs to be straightened out. It’s Republicans Trump keeps firing. It’s the Republicans Trump is at war with.
Democrats are trying to get everything straightened out. He’s done messed up America.
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Yes, this is for the News & Record and all your slack newspaper stands. Whatever subcontractor you have who fills up the machine, if you can’t get a slacker to go make sure they function and are repaired, and can be used to go take the paper out when you put money in, and dispense the paper, if you can’t get a contractor to make sure they’re functioning, then that person needs to be fired or just remove all the paper stands. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to take their time and fix this. If they are too slack to do their job on time and correctly, then just get rid of them, or get rid of all of the paper stands altogether. Because you know the Greensboro News & Record is just raising the prices anyway. So, they’re just a rip off to begin with. So, just get rid of all of the slackers and save everybody the hassle.
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Hello, Beep. Here’s another happy day in Greensboro. I just went to Walmart. A girl run a red light and I was in the middle of the intersection. She just come flying through a red light. Ain’t even slowed up. About ran into me. I’m sitting there at Cone Boulevard, a school bus run a red light. Everybody else stopping a school bus with kids. Now how sorry can you get? We got a sorry city. We got sorry police officers. We’ve got a sorry chief of police. We have a sorry mayor, a sorry City Council. We have nobody in the city that’s good that’s running Greensboro. I’m going to say something, and I hope you print it. All you got to do is look out your windshield.
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Hello, Beep. In continuation of what I was just saying about Mark Walker. I called his office, and they said that he wouldn’t call me back. I couldn’t talk to him. If Howard Coble was still in there, Howard Coble would call you back. Anything you want, Howard Coble would do it. So, why can’t Mark Walker do it? Somebody got to do something about Greensboro. It’s already gone to the bottom. Got to straighten out these streets and get rid of somebody. .
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Read the April 5 letter from the man who talked about low-intelligent people with machismo fantasies wanting to be law enforcement. He’s talking about the kid who was shot in his grandmother’s backyard. What he didn’t say was that the kid was being traced by police with a helicopter and a huge light leaping over fences because he was being suspected of being burglarizing cars, I think cars. For whatever reason, if you’re being chased by a helicopter with a spotlight, you don’t leap fences. You turn around and say, here I am. I didn’t do it.
