This is for Scott Yost. I graduated from Greensboro Senior High School in 1946. The team was known as the Purple Whirlwind, one of the outstanding teams in the state coached by the legendary Bob Jamison. For the new reporters, Purple Whirlwind was too much. So, they changed the name to the Purple Whirlies. After a while, they dropped the purple from the name and the uniforms and called them the Whirlies, which they are today. Thank you.
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The Florida shooting is a tragedy. It’s unfortunate there weren’t any resource officers there, teachers or other individuals that were armed to stop that person that wasn’t supposed to be there in the first place. Why wasn’t there some kind of system for identifying the children going in and out of this school? You’ve got to control the people. What are they doing in one of the most dangerous places in the world, Israel? You don’t hear of school shootings in Israel. And they don’t only have to worry about shootings, but also bombs and other fanatics who just want to kill them all the time, not just the occasional psycho. Gun control won’t do it. It’s got to be people controlled.
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Yes, every Republican and every Independent needs to read Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky. And if you’re a Democrat and you care to know what really your party has deteriorated to, you should read it too. I’ll give you a prime example. Adam Schiff. In the book, Rules for Radicals – deflection. OK? So, Schiff comes out with another set, another memo. That’s the deflection. Right? Alinsky calls for demonization. As soon as Trump turns it down, they start to demonize Trump. This is a prime example of how that book and the words of Alinsky are put into play by the Democrats, many of the Democrats and the Democratic Party.
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Hello. I’m calling about Adam Schiff getting on TV talking about that Democrat memo that he claims that Donald Trump is holding back. I don’t think Donald Trump is holding that Democrat memo back. I think that there’s a lot of stuff that needs to be redacted for our security. And I think the Democrats are doing this on purpose to make Donald Trump look bad. Not only that, I think that Adam Schiff, he’s from California. You take Nancy Pelosi, who called the tax reform thing crumbs, and Adam Schiff, who’s from California too. All these people that are from all these coastal areas like San Francisco that are so out of touch with the American people, they don’t know what American people want. They do not interact with the average American person.
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Yes, second lesson on Saul Alinksy. Hillary Clinton was a disciple of his just as Barack Obama was. In fact, Saul Alinsky’s son said that Barack Obama was his best student. Hillary Clinton did her thesis on Saul Alinsky. And, of course, she was a big fan of Margaret Sanger, who advocated killing numerous minorities. But let’s get back to Saul Alinsky. Saul Alinsky and Hillary Clinton. I’ll give you a prime example of the two things that are the core of Saul Alinsky: deflection and demonization. Deflection: Hillary Clinton back in 1998 said that the Monica Lewinsky thing was a vast right-wing conspiracy. The demonization came on all the women that came forward. She demonized them. She called them bimbos, if you remember.
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I’m an avid news watcher. And the news cannot come on without telling you about somebody being shot. Now, remember, it used to be if you blowed 1.0 you could lose your license. They lowered that to 0.08. The reason they lowered it was to try to save lives. The next thing they done, they lowered the speed limit in these construction zones to try to save lives. However, the state legislature has done nothing about trying to save lives with people with guns. You can break people from doing anything if you make the punishment severe enough. This stuff of walking out the door and sticking a gun in your back pocket and going to some party and shooting somebody and killing them needs to stop. And it would stop if the state legislature would wake up, do what they should do and try to protect these people and pass the law. If you’re caught off your property with a gun, and you don’t have a permit, you automatically got at least 24 months in jail.
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Hey, all y’all Rhino readers out there. I was just reading the Feb. 8, page 34. That new cartoonist that John has hired. He’s outstanding. I can’t stop laughing. You got to see it to believe it. But the only thing I would change in that picture is the picture of Barack Obama, instead of him holding a kitty cat, he ought to be holding crooked Hillary up there in his lap. Because they are the masterminds. And I believe crooked Hillary is a bigger mastermind, that he was just a puppy dog following the trail. Go Trump 2020. Go Republicans 2018. Y’all go out and vote. Just think where we would be if Hillary, crooked Hillary, would have won. Oh, my. It would be the end of our freedom, people. Go vote.
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The thing about this is, you’ve got to remember when Hillary was secretary of state, and she sold 20 percent of our uranium to the Russians by laundering money through her Clinton Foundation, well, anyway, it took nine people for the sale of that. But one of the people that had to sign was the head of the FBI, the director. And FBI director at that time was none other than Robert Mueller. So look, he’s best friends with Comey. This is all a racket. I would spit in that man’s face before I would say anything to that man. It is a set up. They’re trying to get him anyway they can. All these news people, are supposed to be journalists on all these talk shows. First, they were lawyers trying to investigate him, Trump.
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We have become a country where nobody is taught how to think, but everybody is taught what to think.
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Yes, I heard Trump getting on TV talking about people getting $1,000 bonuses and all this kind of money. I’d like to know what happens the people that was born back in the ’30s like myself that get Social Security didn’t increase. They didn’t get an extra dime on their Social Security. They went to work for nothing back in those days, 50 to 75 cents an hour. Then when you got old enough to retire, you still wasn’t making no money. And you’re not drawing no Social Security. What happened to our Social Security? Why didn’t he increase our Social Security up to where we felt like we were getting a decent salary. We paid Social Security all the time we was working, and we’re still paying Social Security. It’s not right. I’m beginning to believe just like everybody else says, it’s all for the rich and nothing for the poor.
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I know there’s some reasonable Democrats out there, and they remember this. It looks like Iran and Israel is going to do some war. And they’re setting missiles and things up right now. Remember, the man that you voted in twice, Barack Hussein Obama, gave Iran $150 billion after they said that Israel ought to be wiped off of the face of the earth. And that’s the only Christian country over there. It’s hard for me to believe that he’s got anything to do with Christianity. I didn’t believe it when he sat in the church with Rev. Wright, and he was saying G-D America. I don’t know what the outcome is going to be, but we had the wrong man in when we had Barack Hussein Obama. And somebody is fixing to pay for it, and I think it’s going to be Israel.
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Poor people are the most discriminated against people in America. They can only live in certain neighborhoods. They can only enjoy certain things in the town they live in, because they just don’t have the money. It’s not fair. People discriminate against poor people. They make fun of them in the schools. They make fun of the schools they have to attend. They make fun of their neighborhoods. It’s just really sad. Investors need to go into the nicest neighborhoods they can find, cities or county, buy vacant land and put up government-subsidized housing. Investors need to understand their money is guaranteed by the federal government. So their rent will be paid.
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I was told by somebody that works at hotel that as soon as the Rhino’s are put and the man’s left, that someone comes over there and picks them up and throws them all in the trash. I just thought I’d let you know.
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Just watching the news tonight. Channel 2 reporting that the little child that was in the ambulance in Winston-Salem was killed by another illegal alien. How many citizens or family members in North Carolina alone have been killed by illegal aliens while the Democrat Party sits and plays games with DACA? We don’t need any more illegal aliens in our country. Not only is it costing us billions and billions of dollars to pay for them to be put in jail, pay for their hospital care, pay for their schooling and pay for their being raised and their food and clothing. We don’t need that. We need all these people gone. We need them deported. Everyone should be calling their representative and telling them, no amnesty.
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In continuation. Thanks to these feeble-minded, useless politicians that we’ve elected, for 17 years our borders have been unsecured since 9/11. The only thing they’re good for is pandering to each and every illegal alien they can find and to the national Chamber of Commerce who wants cheap labor and big business. They’ve bankrolled them.
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Yes, two things I’d like to comment on. One is the PAC targeting certain county commissioners. My question to the PAC is, how many minor league baseball teams do you think the Piedmont or the Triad can support? We already have one in Winston-Salem and one in Greensboro. It’s just really, really hard for me to believe that the proximity of the team in High Point and Greensboro is going to draw that big a crowd. So good luck to High Point with that baseball stadium. Secondly, regarding the Airport Authority. It’s time for the county and the city to shake up the Airport Authority. I know they are their own entity, and they’re governed by their own rules. But they are supported by tax dollars from the state and from the federal government. So that money comes out of my pocket. Well, they need to listen to the community. And we need to put people on that board who are representing our community. Thank you very much.
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Wasn’t the country a whole lot better when the men did what they were supposed to do in the workplace, and the women did their job in the home? And when I said did their job in the home, I don’t mean that in a demeaning way in any way. Just think about it. Children didn’t come home from school to an empty house. When the teacher had to call a parent, they could always reach the mother at home. People actually lived within their means. Kids had a little bit of discipline, a little bit of raising and a little bit of guidance. Now they come home to empty houses, have been for the last 30 or 40 years. This country was in a whole lot better shape, teen pregnancy wasn’t on the rise, and drug use wasn’t on the rise. Kids made better grades in school.
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Seventeen children dead. The only place you can put blame is social media and these sorry, sorry politicians that we’ve let run this nation.
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I’m calling in regards to the Parkland School. I think that, you know, what’s going on in these schools is sad. It really is sad. But there’s a lot that could have been done. And now they’re going to start in about gun control, gun control. Well, the thing about it is, is we’ve got these teenagers that have got mental health problems. And this boy, this Cruz guy, he’s got mental health problems. He had a lot of loss on him like his parents dying and everything. And I’m not taking up for him by no means, because what he did was wrong. But there should be some kind of way that we hold Snapchat, Google, Facebook, all these companies, we need to hold them accountable too. Because they’re letting all these people stay back in the shadow and bully people and do all this stuff.
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I just picked up my Feb. 15 edition of the Rhino. And got one of the best laughs that I’ve had in a long time looking at your headline of “Counsel Retreat Shocking in its Lack of Direction.” Come on, you’ve got to be kidding me. As a former resident of the city who moved to the county to get out of the dysfunctional leadership of the City Council, I think you should just reevaluate this headline. Surely, goodness, most of the people in Greensboro have become aware of why there’s a lack of direction in the city anymore, not to mention the fact that there’s a $4 million plus deficit in the year’s budget. So it was a good laugh, and I appreciate that.
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Now, everybody that’s ever voted, and the fifth grade was their senior year, has got some kind of answer for this gun violence. Here’s my take. You can’t stop people from being crazy. So you can forget about that. You can’t stop people from picking up a gun and going and shooting somebody. However, you can put guards at the door, and when the children go in, you can lock the door and not let them in. Had there been one at the door where this man went in down in Florida with a gun in a bag, they’d stopped him right then. That’s the only way you’re going to do it. It would be like trying to fix a rattlesnake to where it’s nonpoisonous. You can’t do thing. They’re going to start talking about taking up guns. You can’t take up the guns. And you can’t stop them from losing their mind. And you can’t stop them. If they don’t take my gun, they might break in a place and get one. And the type of weapon he used ain’t the only type you can get. The country is full of guns, and it will be full of guns when all of the Democrats and Republicans is dead.
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I’d just like to say, God bless America, ‘cause I just saw F-14 Tomcat flying over Guilford, Rockingham County. That’s one mean son of a gun. I hope that Kim Jong Un in North Korea wants a battle with us. Let’s send the Ronald Reagan over there and release a couple of more of them son of guns loose. For $100 million plane, that’s one son of a gun. Fast. Anyhow, I’d just like to say, I’d like to see that F-14 Tomcat flying over North Carolina and right here over Rockingham and Guilford County. You can edit this the way you want, but that is a bad jet boy. God bless America and the Armed Forces protect us. God bless America.
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Yeah, one of the first things that fool Trump done when he got into office was got rid of the amendment to make it harder for mentally ill people to get guns. So he just made it a lot easier when he signed out that amendment. Also, I am a Democrat. I do own guns. Nobody needs to have a war-time weapon here in the US. There’s been 18 school shootings this year – 18. This year is only a month and a half old. Promise Putin and the NRA tell Trump what to do and give him money. This is the new way of life. School shootings, church shootings, Vegas shootings. Once again thank you, Trump, for making it easier for mentally ill people to buy guns.
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Editor’s Note: There have not been 18 school shootings this year.
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A bumper sticker I saw recently at Wesley Long Hospital’s parking lot, of all places, touched my funny bone. It said: I sure like Ike. Hell, I even miss Harry.
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North Carolinians should be so proud. Two of our senators are in the top four receiving money from the NRA. Richard Burr got $6,986,620. Thom Tillis at number four, $4,418,012. Burr is second only to John McCain. Thoughts and prayers just don’t seem to be enough, I guess.
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Walking around Guilford Battleground Park, admiring these statues and sacrifices that went into fighting the Revolution. I’m kind of appalled, as we all are, that there is this continual series of shootings at schools of all places. I think it’s finally time we, as a society, look at what we’re doing. We need to really look at our home life, our society, and realize that this country has always had guns. But it’s only this last generation that seem to use them in some selfish deranged manner. Guns have always existed. Folks, we’ve led our society astray. We need to really analyze that.
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Hey, this is the other Scott in town. Great Scott. Anyway, I just want to let everybody know that we’re getting royally ringed price-wise as far as gas is concerned in Greensboro. And, probably, you can throw Winston in the mix there. My recent travels down to Sandhills area found Sanford and Fayetteville and all down in that neck of the woods 20 cents a gallon less than Greensboro. And I think that’s kind of funny since they have to bring the gas from the tank farm in Greensboro. So they got all that additional transportation costs, and, guess what? We’ve got the lowest cost delivery probably right in Greensboro. But yet we’ve got the highest price in the state. And it’s kind of funny how our prices keep staying high when the rest of the state they’ve eased back down again.
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We elect members to the City Council and county board to spend big bucks hiring outside consultants to tell the members what they should do.
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Folks, if no one else sees the elephant in the room, please allow me to point out the obvious. The only reason the extreme left whacko godless ultraliberal Democratic Party is pushing so hard for the dreamers and DACA is they see huge potential Democratic voters in the future. That’s it in a nutshell. Duh.
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I’m in line at Costco to get gas. And this is for all the ladies and gentlemen, and those that don’t qualify for that title, that buy gas at Costco. When you’re in line behind others, go ahead and get out your credit card and your Costco card so when you park, you can jump out and get your gas and get gone and not hold up people while you take 30 to 45 seconds, a minute, minute and a half, two minutes to go through your pocketbooks looking for your wallet, dig out your cards and hold up everybody else who might be in a bigger hurry than you are. That’s all I got to say. Also, once you get through, pull around into a parking area to the left and file away your receipt and your cards so you are not holding up somebody else.
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You’ve got Russians in the White House secretly meeting. You’ve got Russians at the inauguration. You’ve got Russians at the prayer breakfast. You’ve got eight meetings with Russians that the US government didn’t know nothing about until the Russian TV released it. You’ve got pregnant Russian women coming in through Florida staying at Trump properties. And yet he won’t impose the sanctions on Russian either. So, but yet he’s against the Americans. He’s for the Russians. He should leave Russia. He should leave America, move to Russia where him and his boyfriend, Putin, can run Russia instead of him and Putin running America. Trump should be deported or impeached.
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Agents conspired with the FBI to take Trump down. Yet he was elected. Now, after an informant calls the FBI and lets them know that the nut that shot all these people in Florida was dangerous, he was armed, and he was going to kill people, the FBI dropped the ball and did not stop this guy. FBI Director Wray’s response was, he was sorry. He needs to face the parents and the teachers and tell them he’s sorry. I think what’s happened to the FBI now is under the Obama cartel they were all politicized and corrupted.
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I’m canceling all my subscriptions to papers, which I have three. And news magazines, which I have four. They all kissed me off because I’m done. I’m not hearing anymore about Trump. I’m not hearing anymore about anybody else. We’ve got legislators who are retiring because they can’t deal with the corruption in the government. And I agree with them. And, look, corruption has to stop. We can’t bankrupt our country. This is Joe from Archdale talking.
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Well, it looks like all roads are still leading to Chappaqua and the Arkansas library, and every registered voter should be very, very mindful when they vote one of these prima donnas into our offices. This is our money and our lives that these people are messing with. And if anyone is caught, they ought to go to jail. Period.
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If a handful of Russians helped to keep Hillary out of office, I think they deserve a thank you note. Southern Guilford here. This was no small favor. Have a nice day.
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Hello. Southern Guilford and Otis here. We have a lot in common John Hammer. And it’s not just our age. But, mostly, it is our age.
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I’m sitting here watching network news, and listening to this FBI guy from Miami office or something. Said that he’s sorry that the FBI really messed up and 17 teenagers and teachers got killed. You know, he said if it caused anybody inconvenience, he really was sorry. If anybody was inconvenienced by their mess up. Are you kidding me? The FBI is joke.
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For those that missed the small article in the paper, Greensboro paper, on Sunday we lost another citizen to illegals. One-and-a-half-year-old baby was killed by a drunk driver, Jose Martin Duran Romero. Of course, he was drunk. He was 27 years old. No insurance. No license. And I wonder if the press will go to the parents of this baby and see if they are pro-wall.
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Great article by Scott Yost on renaming things. I’d like to see the City of High Point renamed to Nido Qubein’s ATM. If he needs money out of the city to build a stadium for his personal baseball team, he sure gets it. I understand if you don’t print this in The Sound of the Beep with him paying for a full-page ad that High Point University that is paying for a full-page ad on the back page of the Rhino Times. Anyway, let’s rename the City of High Point Nido Qubein’s ATM. If he wants it, he gets it. It stinks.
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Just a follow up. Let’s always remember: The stadium – no taxes paid. Children’s center that’s going to be built – no taxes paid. Park that they’re going to build – no taxes paid. It just seems like it’s just a big boondoggle to help Nido Qubein and High Point University. I live in High Point. I’m tired of it. I’ve got to get out of town. Got to move to Archdale.
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This is for that couple in that car that passed me on Elm-Eugene, almost sideswiped me to turn into Meadowview. Then he went down there, turned left right at the church at CVS. I’m sitting at Randleman Road. I’m watching him the whole time. He swooped across Randleman Road. And where did he end up? At Sav-A-Lot. The same place I ended up. This man almost run me off the road just to get to Sav-A-Lot. And I saw him in there, but I knew that he was probably on drugs or something. ‘Cause he kept walking around strangely. But I’m pausing, because I’m shaking my head. What is wrong with these drivers?
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Hey, thanks for the great cartoon in last week’s paper where Obama is watching Hannity. Actually, Obama watching Stephen Colbert’s late night show. Really enjoyed it. Great kudos to the artist.
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Uber should be compelled by law to adhere to all the legal regulations and qualifications that every other taxi and transportation service has to comply with. It’s just not fair. There’s nothing wrong with competition, but it should be fair competition. The playing field should be the same for everybody. Taxi drivers and transportation service workers have to pay huge commercial insurance fees, licensing, taxes. Uber pays none of this. It’s just not fair. Uber lobbyists got lawmakers to wager for them in exchange for their bag of goodies. It’s just not fair. Can be something be done about this, please? Taxi services are disappearing. Transportation services are disappearing.
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