I am a regular reader of the Rhino Times. I’ve been one for the past 15 years or so. I thoroughly enjoy your newspaper over the years. Again, I’m sorry to hear about the passing of Geof Brooks, your cartoonist. I miss his cartoons greatly. They were always funny, and they added a light bit of humor to our stressful lives. Hopefully, though, one day you will bring onboard another cartoonist. I know for right now there is a respectful moratorium that you’re doing with the newspaper. But if you could, please, one day bring on another cartoonist. I do – I always enjoy the cartoons and look forward to having something new to pin up on my refrigerator from week to week. Thank you Mr. Hammer, and we love the Rhino Times and the whole staff. Take care. Bye-bye.

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Yes, I work your Hyper Sudoku each week. When I worked the one for Feb. 16 and worked it out, I came out with three different answers that were all correct. And when there’s multiple – I’ve never had three before. I have had two. When they have multiple answers like that, how nobody can pick out which one has the correct answer. I could check it the next week and looked at what they had, but it’s just one of the three that I had.

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This is for my Democrat friends who failed the second grade and decided they wouldn’t be able to learn any more in school. So they quit. They emailed in about President Trump’s wife reading the Lord’s Prayer. I’ve known the Lord’s Prayer since I was about 8 years old. I’m 82 in just a few days. If I was going in front of millions and millions of people that’s going to be watching this worldwide, I would certainly have it in front of me in great big letters.

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Just saw Hillary Clinton on the TV in a commercial saying not to worry, she’ll be right there to help us. Only thing I can say is, please, please, don’t do that. We’ve had enough of your help.

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In 1961, one in four jobs was in manufacturing. Today it’s less than one in 10. Immigrants haven’t taken a significant number of those jobs. The job killers have been technology and automation. Now they can run a factory that used to take 200 people with 20. Any jobs that Mr. Trump manages to keep here, or any handful that he might get back, will take brains, education and some serious training. Any politician that says otherwise is blowing smoke. Legislatures blame immigrants and open trade for a lack of jobs so they can underfund their education system to hold down taxes. This robs our kids of a chance to adequately train for the future. Forget the wall, and invest the taxpayers’ money in job training instead.

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Anytime you hear a person or organization refer to “a budget shortfall” you can be certain that they are big time liberals. They are saying that the government’s revenue could not keep up with how fast the government was spending it. If you or I spent more money than we had coming in, we would know that we must cut back our spending. It should be called overspending, not a shortfall.   But for liberals this just means that the taxes paid by the private sector, or productive sector, are falling short of what our masters require. It’s like the king complaining that the peasants just aren’t working hard enough. All liberals are statists and closet fascists. Just sign me off as An Independent Thinker.

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It’s amazing. I’m sitting here watching public access TV. There’s some hood rat sitting there that’s in Vegas bragging about it, smoking a joint, talking about Guilford County. It’s amazing. It’s amazing what they put on this TV. Good day.

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You know the circus has came and gone in Greensboro. But we was sitting there wondering why the corporation that owns the circus has decided to close it down. They also own the Disney on Ice shows, the monster truck shows. There’s a couple of other things they do. I worked at the Coliseum quite a lot, in and out, for certain events. And I know the ticket sales for those other events they own are very low. And the circus, one company that they own is the best-known out of the group of events that they put on. My question is, why would you cancel or terminate your number one product when you have these other shows that just don’t sell tickets worth a darn?

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How dare these people call themselves and each other heroes? How dare the media refer to these people as heroes? And how can these people take credit for being called a hero when the brainwashed media refers to them as such? The real heroes, and make no mistake about it, the real heroes are over there on the front line in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen. Those are the real heroes among us. They’re over there defending our right to be free as a nation. They are our heroes. Anybody else call them self a hero is just a phony, just a pure phony.

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I’m calling about the Democrats that are calling for Donald Trump to be impeached. I’d just like to give a message to them. I don’t know if they realize it or not, but they’re being really, really, really shameful in what they’re doing. Every time you turn on the television, you see a Democrat coming out talking about Donald Trump being impeached. The man has done nothing to be impeached for, number one. Number two, the American people voted for Trump. They need to realize that. Number three, in 2018, a lot of them are going to be up for reelection. And I feel for them, because they’re not going to be voted back in because of how they’re acting and how they’re conducting their selves up there. And how they’re not putting in Trump’s cabinet …

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Persons of fur unite, you have nothing to lose but your collars. Canine Americans have been the victims of prejudice for far too long. Why should we be discriminated against just because we are rather hirsute? Rise up today against your so-called masters and insist on your rights as part of God’s family, for we are all God’s children. Fur is the new black. Join the NAACP – the national association for the advancement of canine people. Share your bones with your homeless brothers and sisters. Protest against the predatory capitalist system and visits to the vet. And always remember – four legs good, two legs bad. The revolution is coming.

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If Obamacare is repealed without a plan to replace it, millions will lose healthcare coverage, and premiums will soar for the few lucky ones that can still pay for it. That’s a fact, not an alternative fact. Republicans have had the past eight years to plan a workable solution. And, so far, they’ve got nothing. Like my grandfather used to say, any mule can kick down a barn, but it takes a craftsman to build one.

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Steely Dan Fan Man. I don’t know why we’re so interested in making sure all these people that make $50,000 and $75,000 a year get raises. You know, like teachers get, you know, 5 percent and then 5 percent again next year and all this. Seems a little excessive. You know, I got nothing against teachers, but I’m on disability. And their cost of living hasn’t gone up. And if you don’t believe me, just ask the people who determine my cost of living. Because mine didn’t go up. I got a $4 raise. And Medicare took that away. And another thing. If I was a teacher, I would not spend one dime on classroom supplies. If you don’t have the supplies for me, then we’ll work without them. And if that doesn’t work, I’ll turn around and go home and we’ll try again tomorrow.

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The Trump supporters say his executive orders are simply doing what he promised he would do. But I haven’t seen or heard anything about prosecution of Hillary.

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I always knew Winston-Salem was a real small, petite town. And Greensboro is almost as petite. And then you have Raleigh. And then you have Charlotte. What I’m getting to is, there’s a list online of nuclear targets that the Russians had originally picked in the ’80s to be nuked if something was to happen. Greensboro is in the top 10, but Raleigh and Charlotte are not. And the reason why we’re in the top 10 is because of this Colonial tank farm and all that fuel that’s sitting out there by the highway. And we’re, apparently, the main connection’s in the Colonial Pipeline. I thought it was kind of interesting that Charlotte, believe it or not, and Raleigh are both not listed. But little old Greensboro is listed because of the tank farm.

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I see on the news where they arrested these three common thugs after killing a man over in High Point at the gun shop. I saw last week or so where the one that got in a gun fight with the city police of Greensboro. By the way, mayor, the citizens of Greensboro and county are watching you. Don’t give away any more of our tax funds to common thugs’ families because they decided to take on a criminal act. We’ll be watching you for that. We got three more common thugs that they won’t show the other two, but I’m sure they’re the same ones. Three more common thugs that beat a man senseless and put him in the hospital in Winston-Salem. You, people, need to wake up down there. Go down to the jailhouse and look and see what’s in there. Rev. Johnson, over there, don’t need to sit your priorities about who is guilty and who is not. He does a fine job of that, you can see, by the two common thugs that he got money for from the taxpayers.

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It’s about 8. I just cut through the McNair school zone, and guess who I met? It’s foggy, you can’t see. A police officer flying through a school zone. Don’t that tell you something? They think they’re above the law now. The only time they ever get called out is when somebody called in. But why don’t they start writing their self tickets? They speed more than anybody. We need a police department. I respect them, too. But they need to obey the laws like everybody else. They’re not above it. That thing we’ve got for a police chief, that mayor that thinks she’s a mayor, she’s not. They ought to do something about our roads.

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This is a continuation. I just come back down Yanceyville headed back home, and coming out of Vine Street, policeman didn’t even stop at the stop sign and run the red light at Textile. There’s your police department for you. Would somebody else, please, call in besides me? I’d like to read somebody else’s comments.

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The problem with HB2 is not that you have the men going into women’s bathrooms. That in itself should be a law that men cannot go into women’s bathrooms. The problem is the other things that went along with the bills that don’t allow people to sue for discrimination. So, if they wanted a bathroom bill, then it should have been simply a bathroom bill. Same as the voter ID law. Voter ID is great in and of itself. I can go completely along with it. It’s all the other restrictions and limitations that were put in place that no one ever talks about it. So, yes, voter ID. If you get rid of everything else in that law, I’m all for it. Same with HB2. Get rid of everything except for the men going into the women’s bathroom, and I’m all for it.

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I was not surprised that High Point has the highest tax rate in the state. Our leaders have sold our city to High Point University and their expansion efforts.

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Hello. I’d like to comment on the illegal immigrants that are here. I’d like to say this. That unless you are personally affected by an illegal immigrant hurting your family, you don’t know what it’s like. Like unless your family is totally affected by somebody getting killed or hurt, you don’t know what it’s like. There’s plenty of people out here that’s family has been hurt by somebody being here illegal. And I think that it’s a shame that all these do-gooders are protesting because they want these illegal immigrants here. I think it’s dirty. If they want these illegal immigrants here, why don’t they take them and put them in their house? Or why don’t they move with them? When they get deported, why don’t they go with them? If they love them so much, go with them when they get deported.

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I give up. I picked up my last issue this week. Same every week. Just the same, old stuff. I can keep an old copy and read that if I get without something to read. No balance whatsoever between you and the News & Record. Both of you extreme one side. I give up.

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Chapel Hill is a sanctuary city. UNC-Chapel Hill is probably the epicenter of liberal thinking in North Carolina, funded by taxpayer money of course. Hey, I don’t like some laws that apply to me. Can I have them suspended for my liking? For example, I like to drive real fast when there is little traffic, especially in school zones. I think that should be OK if I think so.

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Just a comment for Scott Yost. There is a Miami, Oklahoma. You’ll find it up in the northeast corner of the state. Having lived there, I have heard of it. It does exist, Miami, Oklahoma. Just thought Scott would like to know.

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Hey, Yost. Joke’s on you. You said you checked and Miami was in Florida. You didn’t check far enough. There really is a Miami in Oklahoma. It is in the extreme northeast corner of the state.

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I think if you look at the description of the symptoms of someone with ADHD, that you could categorize Donald Trump right in with those symptoms. I mean, somebody that can’t seem to concentrate on one thing for more than five seconds at a time, constantly fidgeting and moving around. I don’t know what some of the other symptoms are, but I bet they match right up to our president.

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I was just calling about Nancy Vaughan’s new boyfriend being a Republican. And I was just wondering if the Guilford Green Foundation knew about that, because I don’t think they would appreciate it. I was just wondering if she’s going to change her party affiliation, because she used to be Republican, then Independent, and then, with Don Vaughan, she switched to Democrat. So now that she’s dating a Republican, is she going to go back to Republican? Because she tends to just do whatever her current boyfriend situation is. So, just curious if you know anything about that. Thanks.

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Let me just say that it’s appalling, absolutely appalling that the left has hijacked the Democratic Party in that the Democratic Party now spouts a bunch of vitriol and hate and totally is wiping out the sacrifices of the historic civil rights movement. From Selma to the lunch counters in Greensboro, North Carolina, we’re now told by the left for the Democrats that racism is alive and well and never, never stronger than it is today. What an abomination. What an absolute abomination. Absolute travesty that we’ve elected an African American twice to the office of presidency, twice. And, now, the left tells us that we have the worst race relations in 60 years. Is that what the sacrifice was for, to be used as a political foil today?

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Hello. Southern Guilford here. I have a 12-year-old hound I had as a pup and a Jack Russell terrier I adopted, age unknown. The two get along like brothers. It amazes me how they care and look out for each other. Other than being dogs, they have nothing in common. I watch them play, share and show concern about each other. And, then, you know what Rhino? I think about mankind.

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In early 1942, my late father was drafted, like thousands of others, into the service. Before he went to England to be in the 93rd Bomb Group, Ted’s Flying Circus, of the 8th Air Force, he went to Fresno, California, to train how to work on radios for the B24 liberators. He told my two brothers and myself that he could pick up a distinct liberal bias or slant even back then. I’ll never forget him telling us growing up that the people out there, quote, march to the beat of a different drummer, end of quote. Keep in mind, this was 1942. Wow.

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Good evening. This is the Blue-Eyed Devil. The Randolph County megasite is a bunch of piles of junk with the half-knocked down houses making my neighborhood look even worse than it looked before they got here. They really ought to stay out of the land development business if they don’t know how to do it right. They ought to stay out of it anyway.

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Mr. Scales and Mr. Yourse, class acts. I’d like to hear what Sharon Hightower has to say about the character of those two. And I’d like to hear what the City Council would like to say about all the money they paid out to Mr. Scales and the money that they are probably going to pay out to Mr. Yourse. I guess we’ll be looking for his name in the paper next to make the headline in the News & Record. Thank you.

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If you ask me, northwest Greensboro is a joke. Airport noise, congestion, contaminated soil, foreclosures through the roof. I don’t get it. Somebody has to show it to me. I just don’t understand the hype.

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Hey, long-time Greensboro Coliseum employee here. Usually in March I get anywhere from 60 to 80 hours. Just wanted to thank the Republican legislature for giving me all of six hours this month. I hope you’re enjoying the bathroom bill.