I am very tired of hearing about occurrences at Camp Lejern. Print that however you want. There is no R in Camp Lejeune. And after several years of French, I have no idea where this comes from. Please, stop calling it Camp Lejern. I know of no such actual place. Thank you. Bye.
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Editor’s Note: It sounds strange to those of us who have heard Camp “Lejune” all our lives, but it’s the Marine Corps that made the change. Gen. John Lejeune, for whom the camp is named, pronounced his name “Lejern,” and the Marine Corps decided it should follow suit.
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Whoever originated this new math was determined that all students would hate math the rest of their lives. All the people in the school superintendent’s office should have to do two hours doing multiplying fourth-grade math.
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Regarding the current healthcare vote delayed by Republican politicians, oh, the irony of respecting someone’s medical needs before purposefully erasing others’ rights to medical care. If all politicians’ government-provided health care was the same as what they wished upon the American voter, I’m sure there would be a change of heart. John McCain, a well-known and hardworking politician, is receiving great medical attention for what now is a preexisting condition. What would his insurance rates be? Or, better still, would he be denied insurance?
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Hello. I’m calling about the so-called Rev. Barber of the NAACP. He’s up there running his mouth about Donald Trump, talking all his junk that he talks. And the things that he just said. I don’t think that you would call that a reverend. And I think it’s time that somebody calls him out, and I think, you know, I think it’s time he needs to stop. He needs to step down from being a reverend, because I don’t think that’s what he is, a reverend. I don’t think that if you look in the Bible that he is considered a reverend. He’s just considered a big mouthpiece. And I think that it’s a shame for him to stand up there and call his self a reverend when he’s not, when he’s just using the reverend as a way to get up there and spew hate.
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I’d like to make a comment about the article a few weeks ago that had all the police officers in the paper telling what they’d done good in the community. That was outstanding. I haven’t received a copy in a couple of weeks. I don’t know if anybody has commented about it. I haven’t seen in a few weeks. That was outstanding. People need to know these police officers and what they’re good for. Problem is, the only time they see them or ever hear a word about them is when they’ve had to be confronted or have to confront thugs in a tough community, arrest people that cause problems. Then they start screaming and hollering. That’s the only time anybody sees them. Then the outrage starts. If we didn’t have those wonderful people representing our communities, you wouldn’t even be able to go out of your own home. I thank you for putting that in there. Hopefully, some people appreciate reading some of those articles about the police officers.
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Hello. You’re looking good Greensboro. Keep putting on the makeup. I just wonder what’s going on underground in your infrastructure. Southern Guilford here. I’m betting it’s not very pretty underneath there.
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Hi. I was just reading a Sound of the Beep. To the person who called in about the Republicans should be quarantined, I think that it takes two parties to have some semblance of balance. If there was only one party, eventually, that party would implode. And, also, if all the Republicans are quarantined, who do you think would pay for all the Democratic spending, because there would be no working people. Thank you. Bye.
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So, over the weekend there was a woman that was killed by the police, shot and killed by the police. I think it was Minneapolis, Minnesota. And I wonder where the outrage is. Where’s the Black Lives Matter? Where’s the looting, the burning of the cities and destroying property? Where’s all that at? And by the way, she was the one that called the police, because she was reporting an assault. Oh, wait a minute. That’s right. It was a black police officer that killed a white woman. There will be no looting and burning and marching. And to top it off, this police officer didn’t have his body camera on, nor his car camera on. And is refusing to talk. Are you serious right now? Do you realize the mess this would cause if it were the other way around?
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We live in a neighboring county, but for years we loved to come to Greensboro to meet friends, shop and dine. No visit, and not a dime spent in Greensboro after the way an honorable man, David Wray, was treated.
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Hey, John. I think you do a great job with showing us the city and the counties salaries. But I called in several years ago before you had a reboot of the Rhino Times, and had asked if you would show how much of our tax money goes towards nonprofits, how much does the council give away to nonprofits. I think the people in this city would be shocked at how much money we give to nonprofits. But, in particular, I’d like to know how much money, how much of our tax money Yvonne Johnson’s nonprofits organization gets. It’s just a little strange she has to stay on the City Council every year, and I attribute that to her wanting to continue the gravy train of getting taxpayer money. So, if you would, if there is any way you could publish who gets our taxpayers’ money.
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Editor’s Note: One Step Further, the nonprofit that Councilmember Yvonne Johnson runs, doesn’t receive any funding from the City of Greensboro.
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Hello. I’m calling about the bill that they’re trying to pass up in Congress for the Obamacare. I think it’s a shame that these congressmen and woman cannot get together and pass a bill. They can’t do nothing up there. They get more time off than anybody in the world. They’re getting paid even though they’re getting a whole month off, and they can’t do nothing. And the American people are getting stuck, you know? These people up in Washington, they go up there, and they get paid to do nothing. And we, the American people, are stuck here in a mess.
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I was watching the news the other day, and I saw Venus Williams crying because she lost a tennis match. Boohoo. She should be crying because she was indicted for death by motor vehicle for that accident she caused on the interstate the other day. If it would have been anybody other than an athlete or an entertainer, she would have been charged. She turned in front of the woman, and the woman hit her and was killed. The same with Bruce Jenner, excuse me, I mean Caitlyn Jenner. He rammed that woman in the backend, then the woman that got hit head on and got killed. Venus Williams and Bruce Jenner should have been indicted.
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I can’t be the only one that’s getting tired of the Russia thing. It wasn’t Trump that met with the Russians. It was his son. But is it against the law to talk to anybody if you run for office? How soon we forget. Hillary Clinton beat things up with hammers to keep anybody from knowing what was on them. Leak things. They don’t talk about that. That was fine. That’s OK. If you’re a Democrat, you can do whatever. And these people that’s supposed to have an education walking around talking about getting Donald Trump impeached. Some of them trying to get him out on mental issues. They don’t realize what all it would take to get that done. They forget, we got a Republican Senate and a Republican Congress – House. I don’t believe we’re going to get that done. They need to be picking up aluminum cans instead of walking around with signs.
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Yes, I don’t understand as a taxpayer how we have to keep giving drugs to the drug addicts through the methadone clinics. They’re just drug addicts. They’re not really in any pain or anything. And they’re taking other people’s urine there to be tested to get the drugs that the taxpayers are paying for. There’s nothing wrong with these people. They’re just drug addicts. So, I just don’t understand how they’re getting away with it.
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Yes, why don’t that superintendent of schools go back from where she come from or either pay all these $45 to the kids that can’t afford to play ball? That’s a shame that somebody come down here and makes all that big high-dollar money, plus benefits, then comes up with something like that – and take Sharon Hightower with her, because she’s living off the taxpayers’ money. Thank you.
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I’m in the town I grew up in, and I’ve noticed that car journeys that would take 15 minutes 40 years ago now take about twice as long. Since I left Leeds, the city council has been controlled continuously by the left-wing Labour Party. I have long suspected that the left despises the private automobile, for the individual liberty it represents. Like the old Chevy commercial says, “We know it’s not just your car – it’s your freedom.” The left resents individual mobility so it makes driving your car as frustrating, difficult, time consuming and costly as possible. In Britain, speed cameras and even bus lane cameras add to the harassment. The left has strangled narrow British roads with unused bike lanes and nearly empty bus lanes, forcing regular citizens into ever longer single column tailbacks, like serfs who are not allowed into the road that is reserved for government and its favorites. Doesn’t it sound just like the lanes in the USSR that were reserved for government officials and their cronies? Leftist policies always result in authoritarian contempt for citizens because all leftists are closet fascists. Just sign me off as An Independent Thinker.
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Good morning, Beep. Well, I got back in town yesterday. I went down to the coast last week. Come down Yanceyville this morning. This girl passed me probably running – I don’t know how fast she was running. She was flying. We got to the railroad tracks at the red light at Rankin Road. The light was red. She never even slowed up. She was flying. I just want to tell all the young people, if you live in Greensboro, get you a good education and find you, not a job here, get a job out of town. Go Down East, around the coast. Down there somewhere where people’s got some sense and they act like they should. And don’t live in Greensboro. Raise a family out of Greensboro, not in Greensboro. Because the people that we got running this city, they can’t even run the animal shelter. How are they going to take care of people? Do not live in Greensboro. If I was 20 years old, I’d move in a minute, but I’m too old now.
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Yes, I’m a 71-year-old retired Marine. And you’ve heard the saying before that the proof is in the pudding. Well, here is the pudding and the proof. Poland is in the middle of all that fanatical stuff in Europe. Here is the proof again. They do not let one refugee in, or hasn’t yet. And guess what? They have had no terrorist attacks. If that’s not proof that these refugees cause problems anywhere you let them in, this country or any other country. We should make sure that they stay in their own country.
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Yeah, Steely Dan Fan Man. Well, it appears now that all it takes is a startling sound to get yourself shot and killed. These two officers don’t deserve to be wearing a badge much less a gun. And I think something ought to happen, and something serious ought to happen. I’m about tired of it. You know? And another thing, when you get pulled over, make sure that no startling sounds happen around the vehicle even though that’s out of your control. And, also, when they ask you to reach for your license, don’t reach for your license even though they said so. Because that will get you shot and killed, too. All right, bye.
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Well, here’s something interesting. It’s kind of a deserted graveyard over here off of Guilford College Road that basically goes Guilford College Road, Hornaday Road is the name of the road. It’s off of Nicholas Road. But, anyway, apparently, when Rowan Way and Hornaday were, anyway, apparently, when these roads were built they were laid on top of the graves and the headstones were removed. But, anyway, when you ride down Nicholas Road right there, and turn onto Hornaday, you can see the headstones all the way up almost to the street. But, anyway, they’re going and doing some construction on Rowan Way putting a car dealership up there or something. They went through and have totally disturbed all of the graves on the side of Hornaday Road.
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Yes, the last three weeks I have been unable to find the Rhino Times at the usual spots in High Point. I don’t claim to know all of them, but at the three or four I normally source for newspapesr from all have been empty by late Thursday afternoon if not Friday morning. I don’t know whether you stopped servicing High Point, or your paper has become extremely popular here, or the powers that are pushing the baseball stadium have been upset enough about some of the anti-baseball comments left in The Sound of the Beep and in your letters page that they would actually go around and collect your papers. I know they did shut down the High Point Enterprise online comment section. So I don’t know what they might do. But I hope you will get some more papers to High Point. I do look forward to it. Thank you.
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I just read in the Rhino Times where Sheriff Barnes is starting to have all organic meals in the jail, county jail, and I think that’s fantastic. But speaking as a grandparent and a retired teacher, wouldn’t it be great if we had all organic meals in our schools for the kids? Because then maybe they would feel great and have a good outlook on life as Sheriff Barnes said he did. And maybe be cheered up as he said he expected the inmates to be. He also said that it costs five times more and it’s only money and taxpayer money, and there’s plenty more where that came from. I don’t know about you guys, but there’s not more plenty more in my household. But I do think all-organic meals would be great for the inmates and for the school kids. Thank you.
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Yost’s Note: I guess we should have labeled the column fake news.
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So, I’m walking out the convenience store the other day, and I see a copy of the Greensboro News & Record, which I quit subscribing to about four or five years ago. And they’re obviously in panic mode about Obamacare getting repealed and Trump getting it repealed. They’ve got some crazy headlines. July 19, I think. So, anyway, if someone could let the News & Record know that Obamacare is nothing more than consumer fraud – in fact, it’s actually the largest case of consumer fraud in the history of the world – that may help them relax. Because it needs to be repealed. And that’s really about it. It’s consumer fraud. Thanks.
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The cost of providing birth control to all the women, making sure they would use it, would be more than we could imagine. Instead, Planned Parenthood providing birth control and abortions, etc., set up clinics to provide vasectomies to the men. And then require the men to support all the children they father. Give the men the responsibility of supporting their children, not the welfare system and the other taxpayers in the country. One system of birth control always works. We were told when we were growing up, it was abstinence. Works every time. I realize you won’t print this, but this is what people need to know. Men need to support their kids instead of the welfare system and all these systems set up with the government to take care of the kids. It’s the father’s responsibility.
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So, during the campaign, Trump made a quote. He said, we are going to have such great health care at a fraction of the cost, and it’s going to be so easy. Really? So easy. Still waiting on that part. Fraction of the cost? I’m definitely waiting on that part. I’m all in if he can make this happen. But if it makes my premiums go up a single dollar, then it ain’t no better than what we already had. So if he can make it work, great. I’ll be right there with him. But I just don’t see any of this stuff that he’s predicting to happen going to happen.
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This is for the county commissioners. Please don’t give my tax money to the Greensboro Folk Festival. They will not let the food vendors in from Greensboro to participate. They have out-of-state and out-of-county food vendors. They have a committee to judge who they get by looking at pictures. Really? It takes a smart committee to judge how food is going to taste by looking at pictures. Thank you.
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Hello, Beep. I’m calling in about the TV just on and on and on about this Congress won’t pass these healthcare bills. You know what? It’s really sad that we, the American people, are having to pay for Obamacare, because that’s what we were dealt with because Obama shoved that down our throats saying a million times, if you like your doctor, you get to keep your doctor. If you like your health care, you get to keep your health care. It was a bunch of lies. But the Congress people up there in Washington didn’t have to take Obamacare. They got a different kind of insurance. So there’s a double standard here. The reason they don’t want to pass any type of bill is because they want us to continue to pay all these high premiums, which I think that is very, very unfair.
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Yes, Sharon Hightower, go ahead and pack your bags, because you’re out of there. We have someone in there that can talk without constitute uh, uh, uh. And you can go ahead and quit wasting the taxpayers’ money and go ahead and join up with Yourse, Charles, because all of y’all can work together, and don’t worry about getting back in there, because you’re out of there, because we got a good lady coming, and she knows how to talk, and she’s got some education. And, listen, thank you so much.
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Hey, I take a walk for my diabetes. I walk a lot to keep the blood sugar down. And I decided to walk uptown Greensboro Friday night. And I got to the senior building on McGee, near McGee and Spring Garden. I noticed, wow, they put up new lights that’s so bright. Wonderful. So I went and I walked some more. And I got to the parking lot at Louis Street, and I walked by where the people were lined up to pay their parking fees. And there’s a guy out there taking their money, helping them put their money in the machine. And I said, oh, there’s some parking spaces over here. They just put up new lights. And I thought for sure people would say, oh, thanks for telling me. But they didn’t say anything. But the parking attendant starting cussing and yelling at me.
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Donald Trump decided that he was going to have a special election commission to look into voter fraud in the last election and, of course, it’s headed by a Republican who is known as the king of voter suppression. And he wants every state in the United States to turn over the complete history of voting records for every registered voter. Well, to me, that should be something that they should never be able to get their hands on. Why should they get anybody’s voting record? That just seems ridiculous to me. Anyway, Trump said if the state doesn’t want to turn their record over that they must be hiding something. He said there’s something there. There’s always something there.
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Fox News should run the clip where Obama tells some Russian, tells Vladimir, I’ll be more flexible after the election. I’ll be more flexible after the election. They need to run that every hour on the hour, 24 hours a day. Thank you.
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You wrote that if Trump were considered the same as Obama was by the mainstream media, everything he did would be considered wonderful, that he would be considered as a great president, etc. I think you exaggerated as you usually do, but so what? What are you saying about Trump except that everything he does is best for the country? If someone else can find fault with him, you make up excuses for, etc. What’s the difference?
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I can barely look at the news anymore. Not only does it seem to be all bad, but I can’t even trust the media, so I get depressed but am pretty sure that I’m not getting the real story. That’s a sad state of affairs.
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