The news agencies have got a short memory. This is July 10. They talk about Trump’s daughter sitting in on a meeting overseas, that she shouldn’t have been sitting there because so and so and so and so. They forgot all about Michelle Obama changing the schools’ food. Had no right whatsoever to do it. Stopped them from even selling peanuts. Said they were fattening. So they didn’t want them to sell any peanuts. And while I’m on the subject, pretty boy Floyd and John Kerry gave Iran $150 billion in cash. Now they found out Iran is the one that’s helping North Korea fix these missiles so they can reach the United States of America, and they don’t say nothing about that either. There should be something said about it. And everybody knows that what I’m telling you right here is true. This is not something that’s just been thought up overnight.

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To Commissioner Carolyn Coleman, you need to realize this country was not founded on your religious beliefs. Who cares who drinks when on what day, period? Eight-to-one, welcome to the 21st century and let businesses make money doing what they do. Cheers.

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I haven’t been in a federal building in quite a while. Is it true Trump’s picture isn’t hanging on the wall? That’s a little disturbing. I’m guessing Obama’s picture is hanging in plain view with his big horse tooth grin. But pictures don’t solve our problems. Otis says hello.

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Editor’s Note: The White House has not sent out an official photograph, so there is no photo of Trump and Vice President Mike Pence in most federal buildings. Evidently, having an official photograph taken and approved is not high on Trump’s to-do list.

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Yes, I just saw a TV commercial for butterfly shrimp. Butterfly shrimp are not just large shrimp as this commercial proposes. Butterfly shrimp are split down the middle and spread open. So, just so your readers can be educated to that. Bye.

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Yes, why don’t that overpaid school superintendent pay that $45 for kids to play ball? That is a ridiculous salary she’s making, plus benefits. Then she comes with this $45 for kids. So many kids cannot afford it, and their parents either one. I think she should be able to pay it herself for kids. Thank you.

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Guilford County commissioners have approved getting drunk two hours earlier every Sunday morning.

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What does God’s will mean to you as an individual? Does it mean that God has a plan for you and your life and that he knows what your life was going to be from start to finish, and that no fate intervenes, that it is preplanned out by God? Is that what it means to you? Well, if that is what it means to you, then maybe God’s will is for you to die at the hands of a Muslim terrorist. And if that’s the case, then why are you doing everything in your power to stop what might be God’s will for you?

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If you have God in your heart and mind, then you explain to me how taking down a public display of your religion is going to deprive you of anything. Because I don’t think you can explain that. If you are bothered by some public display being taken down because it might offend someone else, then you don’t really have God in your heart and mind, do you?

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I just got done reading last week’s Sound of the Beep, and everybody, please, just shut up. Enough of the partisan baloney. We’re Americans, and most of y’all are quote, unquote, Christians, which is laughable here lately. Enough of who won what office, my side is better than your side. And stop with all this unempathetic behavior. What happened to just being a good and decent human being? Some of you say enough with the race baiting. Quit having racist attitudes. Some people – some say people getting help from the government are lazy. Some are. Some definitely are not. How about budgeting some money into the state budget for auditors? Plus, you have no idea what’s going on in someone’s life. What happened to your quote, unquote, Christian values?

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But continuing. By the way, I am a liberal and proud of it, as I’m sure most conservatives are. But both parties need to get their act together. The definition of a liberal is willing to respect or accept behavior or opinions than from one’s own. Open to new ideas. See that R word in that definition? I think both parties need to learn the meaning of respect. PS: I never want to hear these words uttered again in my life: tremendously, believe me, when, winning, failing, bigly, fake news. Wake up, my fellow Americans.

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Good morning, Beep. I was reading the article this morning about the commissioners, if that’s what you want to call them, going to Columbus. I got an idea. They’re going to learn how how people run their cities. Why don’t they bring them to Greensboro and have the meeting here? They can wine and dine them here just like they do up there and show them how they’ve messed up Greensboro, turn all these fools loose that don’t know how to drive. I don’t know how they got driver’s licenses, break the law and show them that they’ve run Greensboro. Maybe they can go up there and do their cities the same way. I think they should bring them down here. We need them to come down here, somebody to show them how to run a city instead of running it down. And that way we might have some peace and quiet at City Council meetings. And this is for Nelson Johnson, if you have a church – which I don’t see how you’re a reverend to cause all the trouble that you do – if you have a church, why don’t you take some of these criminals that you don’t want to go to jail, make one of them the treasurer and give everybody a job over there.

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CNN and MSNBC should be taken off the air. Their fake news, lies and smear campaign against the president are causing people to get killed all over the country. Black Lives Matter is a group that was formed because of the lies of CNN and MSNBC. They distort the facts, distort the numbers, especially true that there are more white people killed and shot by police officers than black people. These two news organizations have got to be stopped. And we, the consumer, we can do it. Just do not buy the products that are advertised during the airtime. That’s all you have to do. When they lose their sponsors, they lose their show. These two networks make money off ratings. The more lies they tell, the better they make the story look, and the more trouble they can cause, the higher the ratings.

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I’m very jealous of my Section 8 neighbors. Two new cars for a total of three. Plenty of drugs and dealing. Seventeen-year-old son and girlfriend living together. Oldest son in jail and his two kids being raised by a young grandmother. What a life. And we pay for it.

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There is a strong rumor that has come out that Trump’s 11-year-old son, Barron, played with a Russian boy two years ago. Now this should be investigated by the Senate Investigative Committee. And there’s probably a smoking gun here that there’s no telling what the Trump boy said to the Russian boy in trying to get his father elected. This thing really needs to be investigated immediately and should be reported to The Washington Post and The New York Times. Thank you.

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As a daily driver of West Wendover, I rarely see pedestrian traffic. These new empty sidewalks between Clifton and Meadowood are typical examples of government wasting money. I guess they’ll do I-40 next and put sidewalks there. Goodbye.

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Hey there. It’s 11:30. It’s time for Jimmy Kimmel and time for me to turn off the TV and go to bed. Southern Guilford and Otis here. Sweet dreams.

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I can’t believe that the stockholders and CNN would let this continue to go on day after day after day talking about Donald Trump. That’s all they do. And people get tired of it. I just turned over to just see how bad it was. I kept hearing about all these, 91 percent of their stuff was negative on Trump. And I turned over and they’re talking, and that’s all they talk about is Russia and Trump. I don’t know if he dies, they’re going to be out of business.

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Hello. This is in regards to the lady that took sanctuary in the church here. May I say that lady has been here over 17 years. Why didn’t she apply for citizenship at that time? Oh, no, it’s probably too much work for her. So now she’s crying, I need help. So, anyway, thank you very much. That’s my spiel for the day. Bye, now.

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I really don’t know what all the hype was about the fireworks being at the stadium. Whoever put that display together, they really didn’t do a great job. I think the display that they have after all the games, after the games on Fridays, were lot better than what was on July 4. So, all the hype, it just really didn’t live up to it. I think somebody needs to do a better plan than that. Better yet, maybe it was Zack Matheny again. Maybe he needs to concentrate on bringing jobs instead of putting on a show for everybody. Cause that show was really awful. It actually stunk.

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Atheism is its own system of philosophical beliefs, as are religions. One does not supersede the other in the modern world. Therefore, atheism should not have sway or preference over other systems of systemology or philosophy. It’s remarkable, remarkable, that atheism is given such quarter by the media. All it is is a system of beliefs same as any religion. Ban it. You need to ban atheism.

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Yes, I’d just like to know why the City Council thinks we’re supposed to support them for the rest of their lives with their insurance and all this other junk, increased their wages 60 percent. They raised the taxes on us. They claim they didn’t, but it’s the same thing as a tax raise. And they give money away like it’s water, but it’s not their money. Also, I don’t think I’ve got a money tree out here behind my house last time I looked. And we’re supporting more politicians now than what we need to be supporting. I think it ought to come to a stop. It’s about time to get out the tire and melt it down and get some feathers, ride some of these people out of town on a rail, I believe. They’re just not doing their job at all. All they are is greedy people. Things should be changed. Thank you.

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Not only is Hillary Clinton a nasty woman, she’s also one crooked woman. She sold us out, people. She kicked us all in a ditch. She deserves to be in jail. Have a great day.

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Please, communicate with the City Council for the meeting next week so that they turn down the proposal for commercial development on Lake Brandt Road at Trusper Road. This proposal does not offer highest and best use of the land right there at the lake. That’s residential and critical water shed. It’s a random place to put a three-story medical office building, restaurant and coffee shop right there before the lake where everything turns from five lanes, to three lanes, to two lanes. And, then, we have the dam. Please, support residential-only development and let them know turn down this developer’s proposal. Thank you.

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Hi, I’m just really curious to know what the individuals do for a living that want to complain on these platforms about firemen eating breakfast from 24-hour shifts and teachers getting overpaid. It’s just very phenomenal to me that people want to complain about public service jobs when, if they were put in the same situation, they wouldn’t do half the stuff that teachers and firemen and policemen do in our communities. Do they realize that these people that they’re complaining about are the ones teaching their children, or the ones that are tutoring their children, or the ones that are making sure their child will be successful in college and career, and are the people that are protecting them in the community, that come to their house when there’s fire, that come to car accidents when they’re in trouble? I’m just so over reading the crud that people want to say about jobs that nobody wants to do.

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You know those World War I cemeteries in Belgium? They’re so anti-German. You know, those cemeteries in the Pacific honoring Americans that fought in the war? They’re so anti-Japanese. You know those Civil War battlefields and cemeteries? It is so against the Yankees. Folks, there is no getting away from history. History is history. Your deconstruction of it 150 years later will not change the Civil War. We changed in law and society and in practice. Get your hands off our history. Get your hands off our monuments. Go erect some new ones. You’re not allowed to tear down the old ones unless you are a Red Guard communist.

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This is in regard to the person that called in saying teachers are making way too much money. I couldn’t agree with the caller more. Teachers are very overpaid employees. And what this caller doesn’t know is teachers are also paid a supplement paid by the county, which is about $3,000 to $4,000 a year extra on top of their state salary. Administrators are overpaid as well. And their supplement pay runs anywhere from $6,000 to $20,000 a year. They’re very, very grossly overpaid. Thank you.

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Russia, Russia, Russia. You know, I believe if you put a machine in reverse, go back down the road, at the end of it you’ll find the Clintons. Have a great day.

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Hello, I’m calling about the people that are standing on the side of the corner with signs saying they’re homeless, and they’ll work, and they need food. And they have to pay to get a license to stand on the corner. I want to know, where does that money go that they have to pay to get those license for. Not only that, why are they doing that? I mean, isn’t that peddling? Not only that, it looks bad for our city for people that are coming to this town and seeing all these people on the side of the street begging for money. And you wonder, you know, what would they do if somebody approached them for a job. I just think it should be against the law to do that. And Greensboro city will take your money to do anything. You can do whatever as long as you go up there and you get a license to do it. I think it’s just dirty.

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Editor’s Note: Panhandling licenses are free.

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Yes, John, I got a question. I got an insert that was in my water bill. And they are indicating here about the laws of bicycles. It says what hasn’t changed is that a bicycle is a vehicle and all traffic laws apply to cyclists as well as to people driving vehicles. My questions are, if the bicycle is considered a vehicle, then why don’t they have to carry liability insurance? Second question is, if they are vehicle, why don’t they have to have a license? And third question is, if they’re going to be out there riding, they should have a place to ride, they should be paying a fee on the vehicle just like we are. In Greensboro, if you own a vehicle, you’ve got to pay $30 because you live in tax city, Greensboro. So, if that’s so, then they should be paying a $30 fee on a bicycle, because it is considered a vehicle.

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I just want to say congratulations to all the Trump supporters. We now have Russian spies living in the White House and consoling the United States government. And, again, congratulations.

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I got caught in a fierce rainstorm on the highway on the way home from the beach. When did it become a thing to turn on your flashers while driving in the rain on the highway? It seems much more dangerous. And it’s already so hard to see. The flashing lights make it much worse. I was always taught that flashers were to be used when cars are pulled over, to alert others that they’re there and not to hit them.   Is this a North Carolina thing and the only time North Carolinians use their blinkers? Is it just me that finds this dangerous?